﻿OP THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 5^ 



corn, as it continuefl orowing and produced good sound ears of corn. — j. c. None. I 

 do not tliink there are ten farmers in the county that have ever seen your Report of 18G9^ 

 or any other year. I have never had one in my possession until the last one you sent 

 me. Through the kindness of our then Circuit Clerk, I had the privilege of reading 

 your Report for 1SG9 in his otHce. 1 never liad one to read and study as 1 would like to 

 have done and to refer to when I needed information from it. I was once in the clerk's 

 office where I saw a number of volumes of the Report. I asked the deputy Clerk if 

 they were intended for distribution ? He replied that the names of the persons whom 

 they were intended for were written on them by our Eepresentative. I looked over 

 them and found but one farmer's name, and he a former Representative and more poli- 

 tician than farmer. * * * — G. D. m'd. There have been no systematic eflbrts made ta 

 overcome its injuries. Right here comes a difficulty : the oiajority of farmers are more 

 disposed to growl at their enemies than to grapple with them ; it being much easier ta 

 wait than to work. I often wonder that such men as yourself and others, who are 

 doing so much to enlighten and benefit the farmers, do not become discouraged and 

 disheartened. Permit me to remark, however, that the better class of farmers do 

 appreciate their efioi'ts. The State Agricultural Report for 1809, or any other year, has 

 not been distributed in this county ; if there are any copies of such reports in the county 

 they must be in the hands of some judge or lawyer. I should be very glad to know 

 how to obtain such reports.— w. w. \v. No systematic efforts have ever been tried to 

 overcome its injuries, and your S» cond Report is but little known or distributed here. 

 A few copies of your Annual Report distributed in this county would do much good. — l.d. 

 4 — Owing to the drouth and the chinch bugs we have not one-tenth part of an 

 average crop of corn. It was the only crop seriously injured by them, though I heard 

 of some fields of wheat and oats entirely destroyed by them. — G. d. m'd. Spring 

 wheat and sorghum totally destroyed; corn, from one-third to one-half; oats, one- 

 quarter; Winter wheat, one-sixth.— w. w. w. The exact amount of damage done by 

 this insect can not be determined, but it will probably exceed $40l>,000 this year.— l. d. 



DeKalb County. 



3— Your reports are not known in this county.— ii. m. None. Your Report 



spoken of has not been distributed in this section among reading and thinking men. I 



have heard of a few copies in the hands of a few political favorites of that day. — G. e. s. 



No efforts have been made to counteract their ravages, and your Second Report is not 



. in the hands of but few, very few, of the farmers of this county.— w. t. w. 



4— Destroyed three-fourths of our corn crop.— h. m. Damage to all crops about 

 35 per cent, this year.— g. e. s The damage has not been nearly so oreat in the tim- 

 bered lands as compared with prairie lands.— w. t. w. 



Douglas County. 

 3— No efforts have been made. I have no idea to what extent your Second Report 

 was distributed among the farmers. — av. p. 



4—1 estimate the damage from this pest, all crops considered, at 35 per cent.— w. p. 



Franklin County. 



y_]Srone.— T. \y. p. I am not aware that any systematic efforts have been made to 

 overcome its injuries, except in sowing such varieties of wheat as ripen early. It has 

 been found that early maturing wheat is almost or entirely free from its ravages, I do 

 not think that your Second Report has been distributed among the faimers of this 

 locality. — s. m. 



4— Chinch bugs have damaged this county from 80 to 100.000 dollars for the year 

 1874.— F. w. p. I believe 10 per cent, would be inside tlie damnge done to all crops in 

 this county by the Chinch Bug this season. ~s. m. 



