The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02
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Prof snow. OF the state Unlv=rsIty. Dts
covers Remedy For These Reats-EsssoAt
A late Issue of the Topeka Capital
says: With the close OF the present
season Prof Snow has gathered to-
gether his notes and summed mp the re-
suits of his experiments for the artificial
spreading Of a contagious disease among
ehineh bugs
In June, 1880, a letter was received
by Prof Snow from DR.. J. T. Curtiss,
of Dwight. Morris County, Kan, an
uOuncing that one of the diseases men
toned in the article was raging in vari
Gus fields in that region stating that IN
many places in fields of oats and
wheat the ground was fairly white
dead bugs were at once obtained
and experiments were begun in
the chronological laboratory of the
University. It was found that living
healthful bugs when placed in the same
jar with the dead bugs from Morris
County were siclzened and killed within
ten days A Lawrence newspaper re-
porter learning OF this fact published
the statement that any farmer troubled
by chinch-bugs, might easily destroy
them from their entire farm by sending
to Prof. Snow for some diseased bugs.
| This announcement was published all
over the country and in few days he
received applications from agricultural
/ experiment stations and farmers in nine
/ different States, praying for a few dis
seased and deeeased'' bugs with which to
/ inocuiate the destroying pests with a
| fatal disease. Some fifty packages were
sent out during the seasan of 1889, and
/ the results were in the main highly
/ favorable. 1t was Prof. Shows belief
that sick bugs would prove more ser
viceable in the dissemination of disease
than dead bugs. He accordingly sent
/ out a circular letter with each package,
/ instructing the receiver to place the
/ dead bugs in a jar for forty-eight hours
with from ten to twenty times as many
/ live bugs from the field. In this way
the disease would be communicated to
the live bugs in the jar. These sick
| bugs being deposited in different Por-
tiOns of the field of experiment would
! communicate the disease more thor
oughly while moving about among the
healthy bugs by which they would be
surrounded. This belief was eorrOb-
grated by the result. The disease was
successfully introduced from his labOra-
tory into the States of Missouri, Ne
braslka, Indiana, Ohio and Minnesota,
and into various counties of the State
of Kansas.
The next point 10 be attained was the
preservation of the disease through the
winter in order that it might be under
his GOAAtOA anu Oc aFnAAGO4G ADE use Ii
1890. To accomplish this result, fresh
healthy bugs were placed in the infec-
ton jar late in November, 1889 These
bugs contracted the disease and died in
the same way as in the earliest part of
the season. Prof. Snow was not able to
obtain fresh material for the purpose of
| testing the vitality of the disease germs
in the spring of 1890 until the month of
April, and then only limited supply of
live bugs could be secured. Thes bugs
were placed in the infection jars and
were supplied with young wheat plants.
In six days some of the bugs were dead,
and all appeared stupid. In ten days
all the bugs were dead. A week later
a new supply of healthy bugs was put
into the infection jar. They were sup
piled with growing wheat They ran
substantially the same course as the
first lot, and all were dead at the end of
the thirteenth day.
The chinch bugs seem to have been
very generally exterminated in Kansas
in 1889, and only three applications for
diseased bugs were received in 1890
up to the middles of July. On ac-
cunt of the limited amount of infec
ton material on hand Prof Snow re-
quired each applicant to send him a box
of live bugs, which he placed in the in
lection jars, returning in a few days q
| portion of the sick bugs to the sender
port the complete success of the exPer
! iment.
Letters are published from severa
parties who have experimental at the
suggestion of Prof. Snow, all giving
most fiattering reports of the success OF
the experiment and going to show thai
a remedy has at last been discovered
and that the chinch bugs can be ulti
mately exterminated. One writer de
clared that he experimental on a mile
field and was rewarded by finding
millions of dead bugs where he haC
applied the germs sent him. The let
tiers of other correspondents showed
equally satisfactory results.
The laboratory experiments have beer
continued through the season, and Prof
Snow is now endeavoring to repeat hi
success of last winter in carrying hi
infection safely over till next spring
He will be glad to receive bugs from
any one who can obtain them
The following is summary of thu
results of the field experiments in th'
season of 1890.
Number of boxes of diseased bugs
sent out, thirty-eght. Seven of thes'
lots were either not received, or received
and not used Reports were receives
from twenty-six of the thirty-one re
naming cases. OF these twenty-six re
ports, three were unfavorable, nineteei
favorable and four doubtful concerning
the success of the experiment. Thes'
doubtful cases are not to be looked upoI
as unfavorable, but more evidence i
needed to transfer them to the list o
favorable reports. These nineteen GU
of twenty-six reports, or T3 per cent
were decidedly favorable. The expert
ments viii be continued during the sea
son of 1891.
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