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4 — The damao-e this year to all crops has been 23 per cent. — j. w. Not so bad this- 

 year as in some other years.— j ii. b. They commenced later last Summer than usu- 

 ally, and worked later in the Fall. They did not damage AVinter wheat very much, but 

 cut the corn crop fully one-half short. — s. mcc. Spring wheat, in many places, entirely 

 destroyed ; cane damaged one-fourth, and corn, from chin(;h bugs and dry w<'ather,. 

 not half a crop. Many claim that the bugs did more damage than the dry weather. — c 

 F. F. They took half the corn crop, all the Spring wheat, half the young meadows 

 damaged. — w. r. 



Henry County. 



3 — [A.11 three of the correspondents unite in the statement that no systematic effort* 

 have been made, and that they have seen nothing of ray Second Report.] 



4 — The damage done by Chinch Bug and drouth cannot fall short of one million of 

 dollars. — D. c. m't. It would be a difficult matter to give an estimate of the damage 

 caused by them here this year, as no one escaped entirely and large fields of grain were 

 destroyed — j. e. t. They and the dry, hot weather ruined our corn almost entirely,. 

 and oats also, so that we have not seed of either, and the most of us think of quitting 

 small grain. * * * If we have another dry season like last year we are I'uined, for 

 there are plenty of people here now that have next to nothing to live on or to keep- 

 their stock with. — j. j. q. 



Hickory County. 



2 — Corn crops snfTered most from its ravages, although old bugs thatlived through 

 last Winter, and there were legions of them that did, commenced their work in destroy- 

 ing the young growing wheat in early Spring, and some fit-Ids of wheat were totally 

 destroyed by them before the wheat got in bloom, and by the time the corn was in silk 

 andtassel.it was covered alive with the little devils; and fields of corn that were near or 

 adjoining to wheat-fields, were killed dead by the time it was half leg high. The 

 weather being very hot and dry, they would destroy acres a day. I am of the opinion 

 that there were at least three if not four broods of the devils in the year, the last broods 

 came out in the latter part of September, and it does look to me as if the little fellows 

 had nearly all died oft" with cold, thirst and hunger, the sap being so completely driedi 

 up in the vegetation when they came out they could find nothing to feed on ; in the 

 fields one could see them by the millions crawling on the ground hunting something tO' 

 feed on ; one can see millions or legions of dead ones in the dry corn-stalks. I made 

 a close search for live ones the other day ; I onl}' found two alive. I am satisfied with 

 the same pains last Winter one could have found thousands of them alive. I give it as 

 my opinion that if they died oft" everywhere else in Missouri as they have here, they 

 will do but little damage next season. — w. l. s. 



3 — No effort has been made yet. Last Fall many farmers did not sow anj^ wheat on 

 account of the bugs. About your Second Annual Keport, there may be some in the 

 county, but I do not know of a single copy.— c. J. h. 



[The other answers are to the same effect.] 



4 — The damage this year is more than I am able to' estimate correctly; it is thou- 

 sands of dollars. — w. l. s. The damage this year is great, but I cannot give a correct 

 estimate. — j. av. d. To give an estimate of the damage done by chinch bugs would 

 be impossible for me to do. I think about one-fourth the wheat crop was destroyed, 

 and over four-fifths of the corn crop, and one-third of oats and young timothy, * * * 

 My idea Is, if we would plant no corn, or all early corn that would ripen before the 

 second crop of bugs would be hatched, there would be no bugs to Winter, and that 

 would run them out. c. j. h. 



Holt County. 

 3 — None. Your former reports have not circulated much beyond the officers of 

 our agricultural society, b. k. — No. I have the first man to find yet that ever heard 



