8 BULLETIN NO. % ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVISION. 
After several days' halt we succeeded in securing the use of a team 
and driver with which to reach a point from which we could again 
reach settlement. We therefore abandoned our boat and started across 
the country. On arriving at Fort Walsh we replenished our provis- 
ions. From here we struck off across the country to the eastward, and 
after a tedious drive of ten days reached the end of the track on the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad. Here we took the cars, by which we reached 
Winnepeg, and subsequent!}" home. 
It will be seen from the above sketch of our trip that a considerable 
portion of the country which you had mapped out as being worthy of 
traversing previous to my starting was not reached. This was in part 
unavoidable, on account of the difficulty of obtaining means of trans- 
portation, and also on account of the limited amount of funds at my 
disposal. 
Throughout the country which we did examine, however, the surface 
characteristics were much as indicated in the large map published in the 
second report of the Commission, especially as to the burnable and non- 
burnable portions. 
In making this trip I was aided materially by the liberality and kind- 
ness of the following companies, corporations, and individuals : 
The Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company, for half- 
rate fares for myself and assistant ; the [Northern Pacific Railway Com- 
pany, free pass for self and assistant ; the Coulson Line of steamers, 
reduction in rates ; Colonel Chipman, commander at Fort Buford, for 
hospitalities and other favors ; United States Quartermaster Depart- 
ment, for transportation on steamer General Sherman ; Lieutenant Rob- 
inson, at Rocky Point, for hospitalities ; I. G. Baker & Co., at Fort 
McLeod, for favors. 
I must not forget also to mention the officials here in Washington, 
who kindly furnished me with letters of introduction. 
The report, as you will notice, is in the form of a diary for the first 
few pages, after which it takes the form of a narrative. 
Respectfully, yours, 
LAWRENCE BRUNER. 
Prof. C. V. Riley, 
United States Entomologist. 
Sioux City, Iowa, June 21, 1882. — Reported case of broom-corn and 
sugar-cane saving corn and vegetables from the attack of C. spretus 
(D. H. Talbot). One case of this kind noted by above-named gentle- 
man, and tried by another to whom he (Talbot) imparted the informa- 
tion, with like result. 
The manner in which the first case was arranged is as follows : On 
the north was first planted a strip of broom-corn ; next potatoes and 
vegetables, or only potatoes; next to the potatoes was a strip of sugar- 
cane and then vegetables, after which came corn. It is claimed that 
