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July 1, very bad condition; earth covered with mold and 
many dead insects enveloped in Aspergillus. All the contents re¬ 
moved and box thoroughly disinfected. Re-stocked with fresh 
earth, fresh food, and live bugs. Infected with a number of 
fungus-covered insects collected by Mr. Marten from fields in the 
vicinity of Odin (June 22) and Shattuc (June 23). July 2, fresh 
food added. July 3, food and an additional lot of bugs introduced. 
Box in good condition, but no muscardine fungus. July 4, fair 
condition, but little Sporotrichum. Food changed. July 5, about 
the same as yesterday, except that many anguillulids were seen. 
Fresh food and more live bugs added. Ju'y 6, a little 
Sporotrichum present, but not so abundant as in No. 70. Mold 
still growing on earth. Fresh food and live insects introduced. 
July 8, a few bugs dead with the fungus removed, but the yield 
was very poor. Two cicadas dead with this same white fungus, 
from same source a3 those used in No. 68, were broken up and 
distributed along the sides, and cultivated fungus on 8gar from 
experiment 11, was scattered over the surface of dirt through the 
middle of the box. July 10, a little Sporotrichum present. Box 
cleaned, fresh food supplied, and live bugs from reception box 
introduced. July 11, box overhauled and very little fungus seen. 
Fresh food introduced July 12, in fair condition; fresh food added. 
Anguillulids present in small numbers. Many bugs dead, but 
show no traces of the fungus on their bodies. Attempts to develop 
Sporotrichum on these bugs by placing them on damp sand proved 
failures. July 13, condition about the same as yesterday. July 
14, Sporotrichum scant. Box put in good condition. Fresh food 
supplied. July 16, only three or four fungus-covered bugs seen. 
Molds not so bad as formerly. Fresh food and live insects from 
reception boxes added. July 17, half a dozen fungus-covered bugs 
removed. Part of the food changed. Box in fair condition. July 
18, very little fungus seen. Fresh food and more live bugs intro¬ 
duced, and the amount of water used in moistening the box in¬ 
creased. July 19, four or five bugs with Sporotrichum. Enough 
live insects taken out to fill 187 pill boxes, which contained also 
cultivated Sporotrichum (from No. 2) for distribution. Box in 
good condition. July 20, but few fungus-covered bugs seen. Spoiled 
food removed. Little mold present. July 21, fungus about as 
yesterday. . Fresh food introduced. July 23, Sporotrichum not 
very plentiful. A few bugs dead with the disease found on and 
in the earth. One hundred and forty-four pill boxes filled with 
live insects and cultivated material from No. 2. More live bugs 
added. July 24, small number of bugs with Sporotrichum seen. 
July 25, box overhauled and food changed. July 26, w T hite fungus 
very scant. July 27, very little Sporotrichum seen. No anguil¬ 
lulids found in earth or on dead insects. The contents of No. 68, 
except sand, dead bugs, and a few live insects, were transferred to 
this box. July 28, few fungus-covered bugs seen. Food changed. 
July 30, Sporotrichum increasing, but not abundant. Aspergillus 
also increasing. Anguillulids present in small numbers. Mites 
numerous on earth, but not abundant on dead or live insects. 
