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0 ne or p of corn re Lao not Wort gathering; another piece was 
royed ; and one field of seven acres of wheat yielded fifteen bushels 
“Pecatonica, Oct. 18. The bugs are in corn nearly a mile from the 
D stubble. Twenty acres of corn two miles north of town quite 
spoiled by bugs coming out of rye. 
mae ¥ STEPHENSON. —Ridott, Oct. 19. Bugs passed from rye to corn, doing no 
very marked damage to either. On bottom-land found bugs on corn with 
no stubble near. Lena, Oct. 20. Bugs generally present, but little com- 
plaint of injury. One farmer reports bugs in wheat, going thence into corn 
d damaging it seriously. Warren, Oct. 20. Traces of chinch bugs only. 
Bs Kane Hampshire, Oct. 14. Chinch bugs appeared here two years ago; 
; heat year in greater numbers than the year before. This year, barley, 
_ wheat, and corn damaged. Wm. Warrington had three acres of wheat de- 
stroyed, and H. Gilkerson had fifteen acres of wheat injured and three 
acres of corn destroyed. A neighbor of his had three or four acres of spring 
wheat and two or three acres of corn destroyed. — 
- Dr Kats.—New Lebanon, June 2. “Abundant in wheat and barley.” 
¥ / Genoa, Oct. 15. Chinch bugs reported in wheat, Hungarian, and corn. They 
are also found in the vicinity of Sycamore. Shabbona, Oct. 20. Chinch bugs 
common in corn. Somewhat injurious. 
4 Oaite.—Davis Junction, Oct. 14. Traces of bugs all along the road from 
7 Riccio to Stillman’s Valley. Stillman’s Valley, Oct. 14. A few rows of corn 
next rye and spring wheat injured. Paine’s Point, Oct. 15. Bugs went from 
i Tye into corn; both damaged some. Barley injured also, one acre of corn 
destroyed, and seven acres badly damaged. Oregon, Oct. 15. Five acres of 
‘ corn east of town’ reported destroyed. Chana, Oct. 15. Bugs generally 
S steoved between here and Paine’s Point. Two or three acres of corn de- 
troyed by bugs coming from rye. Forreston, Oct. 15. Bugs were flying 
thickly about this time last year. Hibernated abundantly in woods. Rye, 
_ barley, spring wheat, and corn hurt about as badly last year as this. North 
Bot: town ten acres of rye was so badly damaged as to be plowed up. Five 
g acres of corn badly damaged; much rye, barley, and spring wheat cut before 
it ripened to save it from the bugs. Reports from Mt. Morris, Baileyville, 
and Rochelle show the bugs to be generally distributed over the county. 
es Wuitresipe.—Sterling, Oct. 21. Chinch bugs few, no important damage. 
Warning of possible danger impending. was widely distributed by 
_ me through the bulletins of the State Xgricultural Experiment Station 
f ‘ in February, 1892,* accompanied by a brief program of general defence. 
In the northern ‘part of the State, the presence of insect diseases, 
especially of the one known as the “white fungus” of the chinch bug, was 
repeatedly noticed by us in the fall of 1891 and the spring of 1892, but 
poly where local rains gave it an opportunity for development. In 
Southern IMlinois, however, nothing of the kind was found. Singularly 
in accord with these observations, the chinch bug in Northern Illinois 
_ multiplied less rapidly in 1892 than in the southern part of the State, 
- but from both sections numerous calls came to the office for assistance 
y and advice, usually in the form of requests for infected material with 
which to start “the chinch bug disease.” Although convinced by my 
previous observations of these diseases and by laboratory and field ex- 
periments, conducted by us but not yet reported, that there was under 
the circumstances existing, very little probability of a valuable outcome 
aa Eto these experiments, I did what I could to supply the spontaneous de- 
mand by making artificial cultures and sending out both spores and 
i fected insects. Every such sending was, however, accompanied with a 
- * The eae Na ee in Illinois, 1891-1892. Bull. Agr. Exper. Station No. 19 
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