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Adair County. 



3— No systematic efforts have been made to overcome them. I know notliingof 

 your Second Report ; have never seen one.— e. m. c. m. Tlie only attempt to check them 

 •has been by plowing a lurrovv and drag'g'hia' a log in it. Tliey liave sometimes been pre- 

 vented from passinof from ^ram into corn by this means. I believe very few here have 

 seen the report to which you refer. — j. s. e. 



4 — I cannot arrive at anythino: like a correct report for this year. In some loca- 

 tions wliole fields of corn, especially late plantin":, oats and Sprinof wheat. The last 

 named «-rain we hold to be the nursery of the Cliinch Bug. — E. M. c. af. I believe tliat 

 20,000 dollars is a moderate estimate of the damage to crops in this county for the 

 present year. — j. s. e. 



Andrew Comity. 



3 — None have been made. — ,j. ii. s. No preventives found against them. — j. k. 

 None. Your reports do not get into the hands of many farmers. — b. h. t. None. I 

 have no knowledge of your report on that insect. — j. w. 



4— The corn crop has been damaged this year at least one-half — .j. ii. s. I should 

 estimate that the dainnge done this year by these bugs would amount to fully ($40,000) 

 forty thousand dollars. — u. h. t. About 33 per cent. — t. w. 



Atchison County. 



2 — The crop of this year principally injured b,y Chinch Bug is the corn crop, as 

 they made their appearance too late for small grain. — b. b. 



3 — No systematic effort lias been made to overcome its injuries; but very few 

 ■copies of your Second Keportwere distributed among the farmers of this county. — b. b. 



4 — The damage to the corn crop is fully one-third to one-half, and thej'are still, to 

 this date (December 24), alive in all protected places. — b. b. 



Barry County. 



1 — The Chinch Bug has never been known in the county or in this section of country 

 jjrior to the Summer of 1874. — s. m. w. It never was known in this county until this 

 i^ummer. — w. f. t. 



3 — No systematic effort has ever been made to overcome its ravages and injuries. 

 I do not know, neither can I learn, of your Second Keport being distributeil among the 

 farmers. — s m. w. Nothing has been done to overcome its injuries. 1 know nothing 

 .about your Second Report, but would like to see it — w f. t. 



4 — The wheat was not hurt to any great extent, as it was ready to harvest before 

 they made their appearance in any very great quantities. Corn — late corn — in some 

 localities was ruined. Hereabouts corn was not sgriousiy injured as it was large and 

 forward at the time of wheat harvest. Probably 10 per cent, would cover the whole 

 amount of damage done to all crops. ^- * * — s. m. w. The damage done in this 

 ■county was fully one-half of the crops of corn and sorghum, and the entire crop of 

 Hungarian grass and millet, which would amou.nt to many thousands of dollars. — w.f.t. 



Barton County. 

 3 — yes. Some have sown Hungarian grass between wheat and corn, for it seems 

 to be in the wheat-fields that the first crop is hatched. Some neighborhoods have not 

 «ovvn any wheat at all. Alter the first crop has hatched in the wheat, they pl»w around 

 the field or keep continually running a roller around it i-o as to crush them. This seems 

 ito keep them back lor a week or two. When they get large enough to tly, they leave 

 the wheat-fields and scatter in all directions, where they lay tiieir eggs and hatch out 

 the second crop, * * * — a. a. d. No. Said Report has been seen and known com- 

 paratively little. — J. J. B. No efforts h.ave been made to overcome its injuries. I do 



