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4— The corn crop was probably damaged 45 per cent, by the buo^s and 45 per cent. 

 by the droiuh. leavinof us about 10 per cent, of a o^ood crop. Our wheat beinor mostly 

 in the timber was not badly damao'nd. Inferior wheat crops on the prairie were com- 

 pletely destroyed. Good ones escaped with little damaofe. * * *— j. h. l. It would 

 be an impossibility to give any correct estimate of damage by its ravages, as the 

 Chinch Bus: and dry weather together have caused almost an entire failure in this 

 county.— w f j. The damage done by this single insect in our county the past season 

 is so great that I cannot give an estimate. — j. h. m. 



Boone County. 

 4--I cannot approximate the estimated damage in my county.— j. b. d. 



Buchanan County. 

 3— None that I know of. I have no idea that more than one-tenth of the people 

 in this county ever heard of the Report. — m. w. f. 



4— The estimated damage would reach several thousand dollars. Have no way 

 of making a correct estimate with me at the present time.— .m. w. f,. 



Butler County. 

 ,3_There has been no effort made for their destruction. I have no idea how for 

 your Report has been distributed.— a. p. None.— j. m. x. One-half the crops are 

 destroyed tiiis year. — j. m. a. 



Caldwell County. 



2— Corn was injured worst, wheat next, oats least ; Spring wheat ruined. I be- 

 lieve that the chinches killed new seeding of grass, especially when sowed on wheat or 

 oats ground.— c. l. g. 



3— None. Have never seen it, and cannot tell to what extent it has been distrib- 

 uted.— d. w. m. There are in this county 432 sections of land. I estimate one-eighth 

 of the land in the county was planted in wheat and corn, which at $2.00 damage per 

 acre, would give about $70,000. Add to this amount nearly as much more damage, 

 caused by farmers being obliged to sell their hogs and cattle without fattening, (and I 

 am satisfied this is the actual foct): I therelore estimate the whole damage done by 

 chinch bugs in Caldwell county at $125,000. I remember that one year in Wisconsin 

 they were so numerous that in their migration they fell into Lake Michigan, and 

 washed ashore in such quantities as to make a stench along the beach. If this shall be 

 of any use to you in your good work, I shall be amply rewarded.— c. l. g. 



Cape Girardeau County. 

 S—No remedies have been tried that seem to be effective.— r. ii. b. No, I think not. 

 Some farmers are talking about burning off tlie stubble-tields and burning the woods 

 lands, but they do not agree very well about it. I had a field of heavy wheat stubble 

 burned by accident the past Summer, in which there were a few bugs. I shall notice 

 the result next year. I have practiced Fall plowing since I have been farming, and I 

 rather think that it keeps the bugs in check. I have in mind one field that was in corn 

 three years ago, when the bugs first appeared ; it had been plowed the Fall before. My 

 neighbors' fields were troubled with bugs that year but this field was not. It was again 

 plowed in the Fall and put in oats in March following, and if there were any bugs in the 

 oats I did not discover them. The oats were taken off in July, the ground immedi- 

 ately plowed and sowed to Hungarian grass. The grass was taken off" the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, the ground immediately plowed, and first of October replowed and sowed to 

 wheat. A good crop of wheat wast taken off last June, the ground plowed in July and 

 again first of September and sowed to grass for meadow. It is now green all over the field, 

 and if that field has ever had any chinch bugs in it I have failed to find them. On the 

 opposite side of a lane lies another ffeld having about the same fertility (rich bottom) 



