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how much we were damaged by the Chinch Bug; they ate about two-thirds of our 

 crops clean. The farmers in this county are going- to have a hard time to get through 

 the winter. — e. w. m. They destroyed about one-third of the wheat crop, three-fifths 

 of the corn crop, one-half the oats and Hungarian, and one-half the sorglium. — w. s. 



Choritott County. 



3— There never has been any effort made to destro}' it, but I thinl< it is higli time 

 tliat we make an effort in tliat direction. I do not think there is a farmer in my neigh- 

 borhood that ever saw your Second Keport or ever knew anything about it. — r, f. 



4 — It is impossible for me to give anything like a correct estim.ite of the damages 

 done by this insect during the past season, because we had a protracted drouth which 

 commenced with the bugs and lasted through the entire growing season. Spring 

 wheat was totally destroyed, and none but the early Fall wheat escaped its ravages, and 

 I think there i^ scarcely a stalk of corn in all the western, northern and northeastern 

 portions of this county that has not suffered more or less from this pest; and owing to 

 the drouth and Chinch Bug combined, there was not five bushels of corn raised to the 

 acre, taking the county over.— r. k. 



Christian County. 

 4 — The bugs cut off our corn on an average about six to seven bushels to the acre. 



— R. r. L. 



Clark County. 



3— No systematic efforts to prevent their ravages. I think your reports are not 

 much known in Clark county. — n. p. h. No efforts have been made to overcome their 

 injuries. You have my thanks for your Sixth Annual Report. I have failed to get hold 

 of your former reports. — d. h. l. 



4 — Probably $20,000 or more. Many crops of Spring wheat and barley vvere en- 

 tirely destroyed, and corn near such fields was badly injured by the bugs after leaving 

 the small grain. They seemed also to breed in the corn in August and September, and 

 caused a great deal of corn to shrivel while in roasting ear. — b. p. h. 



Clay County. 



3 — No; neither systematic or spasmodic. 1 do not think your Report of 1869 is in 

 the hands of one farmer in fifty, and I doubt if one in a hundred has ever seen it. — d. 

 c. We do not think your Second Keport was known of in our county, except in our 

 immediate neigliborhood, where it was distributed by our Missouri Valley Horticultural 

 Society — j. c. e. 



4 — Corn was cut off' one-third, oats nearly as much ; wheat was damaged but little, 

 it was too earl}' for them. — g. t. o. Cannot give even a guess at the danmge. I know 

 some oat-fields yielding nothing, some wheat not over one-half crop, corn-fields the 

 same, and thus graduating up to no injury at all — d. c. 



Clinton County. 

 3 — None. However, a few farmers burned their wheat-fields instead of trying to 

 harvest them. — a. j. jfc. 



Cole County. 



3 — No systematic effort has been made, as far as I can say, to checkmate the rava- 

 ges of this pest. To what extent your Second Report has been distributed, 1 would say, 

 to the best of my belief, not very extensively ; nor do I believe such reports ever 

 will reach the class of men they are intended for unless other ways are devised to 

 distribute them more widely and with more certainty. — F. m. d. 



Cooper County. 

 3 — No systematic efforts h&ve been made. * * * Your Second Report I do not 

 think is distributed to any extent among the farmers of this county. I think the wheat 

 and corn crop injured to at least one-fourth their value. — w. r. b. 



