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Show lit Itnnsaa Wheal I'esl. ICvsiAsf.'iTV, Meyll.-A. letter lo Heirtlary Mohlrr of llm Htatn board of agriculture-, Irom Chancellor Huow ol thorltat University of iCausis, concerning con-cerning Ids conclusion rrgitdlug tho resent wheat irats, li )mt nioiln jiubllc. Tliochaiicellursayt Iho I rrrviit iprlngbxi been arilcularly unfavorable unfavor-able to thu health ol chinch bugs, but still In twenty counties In the southern art of thu Hlato chluch bugs are In lull force, in the othir couutlss thu lct Is nil lo ntlineroua. Thu buga now In Ihe Held aro Ihu remnants of last fall's brood, rim femalra have been laying their eggs, nnd tboyouni; will soou bo batcbeit. iTIiu eggs am very susceplllilt tu the lull Jence of cllmatlu condltlou, and If wu shout I bavo heavy rains belwre n now and May Jtli, tho cropofouug bugs will bo much enimailed. Continuing, Ibo report lays: "Active measures must beeuatled lokeeii them down. Much lio-j Is placed III tlio outcome out-come of ttio workings of tbe near rviue-til, rviue-til, namely, thu attempt to spread artificially ar-tificially n coutaglous dlseoso among Ihn bugs. Kx.rlnieiiti rally In tho spring lu a laboratory, indicate Iho activity ac-tivity of lb contagion nnd If tbo cooperation co-operation of thu faruirri by tending In largu iiumbera of live, bealtby elilch bug! may be relied on, a station will bo prepared lo icatler In foe led bugs all over tboHtate." Heveral reiiorta showing tbo pretence of tho Hessian lly are received, but no serious apprehension li ferlt, lllk IIAIN3 C'AMC IJlspatclirs from wlnn all over Kau-its Kau-its Hlato that cold lain, which Chancellor Chan-cellor Huow In Ida report ou Hit. wheal peals laid would rid Ihorleidiof chinch bugs, fell today. The storm caiiio directly from tlio north, and tho thermometer ther-mometer dropiHtl lu forty degrees. |
