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other states also applied for material, and a number of boxes 
were mailed to Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mon- 
tana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Okla- 
homa and Wisconsin. Generally speaking farmers waited too 
long in applying for the spores, and permitted the very suita- 
ble wet portion of spring to pass by without trying to introduce 
the disease. As long as no actual damage to the growing grain 
could be observed, farmers did not apply for assistance, and 
only when almost too late, or during dry weather, did they ask 
for spores. 
STATUS OF CHINCH-BUGS AT THE PRESENT TIME. 
The season of 1895 has been a very good one for farmers, and 
they have sustained but small losses by insects, very much 
smaller than is usually the case. In most counties the ground 
was kept in excellent condition by seasonable rains during 
spring and summer, and all plants soon became strong and re- 
mained healthy until a bountiful harvest repaid the diligent 
farmer and gardener for all his labors. These conditions pre- 
vailed in most of the counties, though the desired and much 
needed rain failed to come in some few, or failed to come in 
time. 
Wherever there was a sufficient amount of rain early in the 
season the chinch-bug disease appeared, and did such good ex- 
ecution that later, or when the small grains were harvested, no 
bugs were left to form the well-known armies that invade the 
corn-fields. This was almost invariably the case, so that, gen- 
erally speaking, these counties are practically free from this 
pest. Those regions, however, in which no sufficient amount 
of rain gladdened the thirsty soil, and in which the crops suf- 
fered severely on that account, still contain immense numbers of 
chinch bugs, though even there the disease killed off large 
numbers. As we had a very dry autumn the insects that escap- 
ed death from the disease are very likely ina healthy condition, 
and will doubtless survive the winter and be ready to multiply 
again in the spring. If, however, we should again have a 
rainy spring there is but little doubt that the disease will ap- 
pear again in all regions in which it left behind numerous 
spores. Moisture alone, even excessive moisture, will not 
always kill the eggs and young larve of the chinch-bugs, as 
