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Show WAIL FROM SUFFERING KANSAS, ' ', ' . s ' , jt Holism to Spread Cntatoos Dlaaase Atuoaf th lu--Tli Kl Cams. . . V.. . - t ' Kansas CitV. May 13. A letter t . Secretary Mohler of the state board ot , " agricultnre, from (Chanceller Snow of . the stete universily of Kanses, coocern- - ' -1 's. f ing his coocluslpna regarding the pres ? ; ent wheaf pests,, is Just made public.. . Thehancellor says the present eprj; , ',i . J has been particularly unfavoraolo ta ' . ' the health of the chinch bugs, btlaiiU ,'; t . in twenty counties inihe Southern Jar ' ',Vf of the state '.chinch fcogs re in full' 1 force. The, bnga now in the fields arw . ,j . ihe remnants of last fall's brood. The females have been laying , their eggs, and the young will soon be hatohud. The egps are very susceptible to the , Y, ' inffnenco of climatie?eondilions, an4 if . ,i, j'i we should bav, heavy .rains between, a b y ' now and May 20th; tb .c.rop of youirg ( . 1 bugs will be much entinsliacUT-"-' p i ' Continuiiigf rnk rt(5orfesays VAotivej "measures must be enacted to keep theta v i nlown .Much hope is placed in tbO - , outaoino .of the workings of the nev t remedy, namely, tho attempt te sprea ( '..,,, artiticially i nontagieus disease arrwn , r . f- the bugs. xpnments early.; iu f. ..., spvlng in a ' Uhnrntorv.' indlrato t 1, , t A UrHtW ot-thrt cc.'iia'ilW Hl5" 'J ' .r-o O.ie'rillon ni tut- tiiHiers by eendtti))- f in large atimliersof ie, heitVyH'iiint,h ' , bugsMjaV be relied ontVj RtaHW'-will .'.' ' v pr,ered4f scatter Wf4 ui-1f.t , V inh.SH-eseucJtirtileJfetJJk received, but no awiousSpiwio sa! i4 s felt. ' ' ." '"' ' 1 J . 't, . Dispatches from points all over Kan- sas state that cold rains, which Chan- . , cellor Snow in bis repnr on the wheat pests said would rid the lielda of chinch bgus, fell yesterday. The atorm came , directly from the north, and the" ther mometer dropped to forty degrees. - |