﻿64 SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



of the season, so they cannot increase before harvest, and by so doing-, we will get rid 

 of them in a few years. — j. l. m. 



4 — Abont 50 per cent. — c. j. c. Five hundred thousand dollars won't cover the 

 damage in Johnson county last Summer. The greatest damag^e was done by what i& 

 termed the second crop, depleting the corn before it matures. — j. m. m. I don't think 

 that the danuig-edone in this county this year would fall short of half a million of dol- 

 lars, from the fact that half the wheat and almost the entire crop of corn was destroyed 

 or badly injured. * * * — w. c. There is not a farmer that will make both ends meet 

 in all this county. Many will be bankrupt, and all this by one little insect called the 

 Chinch Bug. — Dr. D. Thousands of acres of corn were killed as dead as if burned — not a 

 stalk left. The> took three-fourths of the wheat crop, and about the same of the oats 

 In the southern part they took all the wheat and oats, and they took also nine-tenth* 

 of the corn. There is a diversity of opinion as to the amount of damage done by them, 

 varying from one and a halt to two millions of dollars for all crops. — j. l. m. 



Laclede County. 



3 — No systematic efforts have been made to overcome their injuries. They usually 

 make their first appearance in the wheatfields, but in every instance where the wheat 

 was sown sufficiently early to allow it to matire early, they have not done any serious 

 damage to it, but late sown wheat has prettj' generally been destroyed by them. * * * 

 The 2d brood made their appearance promiscuou^lyover the fields, and more especially 

 in meadows that were cut early enough to admit the young grass to start up, when they 

 soon kill it outri|^ht, both root and branch. * * * — l. r. r. 



A — It would be utterly impossible for me to give approximately anything lil^e a cor- 

 rect estimate of the damage done in the county by the chinch bugseitherin the present 

 or any previous year. It is ascertained that they will not depredate upon hemp, flax, 

 castor beans, navy or other kinds of beans. — l. r. r. 



Lafayette County, 



3 — No effort has been made to check it. I know of but one copy of your Report — 

 J. B. No systematic efforts have been made at their extermination. I do not think 

 your Report has been circulated or is much known. — j. e. g. 



4 — Hiive no idea of the damage done in this county. — j. b. It is conceded by every 

 one with whom I have conversed on the subject, that the drouth cut off at least one- 

 half irom an average crop, and the bug- certainly injured the remainder fully one-half. 

 * * * Wheat was of very fine quality, and a good yield, being only slightly injured by 

 the bug ; the very late sowing worse than early sowing, in this part of the county. The 

 damage to this county by the bug will not fall short of half a million dollars. — J. J. f. 

 Putting drouth and chinch bugs together, they came near causing an utter failure,, 

 there being only about one-fifth of a crop of the grains, and that fifth of inferior quality. 



— J. E. G. 



Lawi'ence County. 



4 — Cannot give the exact amount of damage done ; corn is about one-half a crop. 

 My opinion and that of many other farmers is that $100,000 will not cover the damage 

 done by the bugs. — w. l. g. (Other correspondents put the loss of sorghum and oats at 

 fifty per cent), 



Leiois County. 



3 — No .systematic eflbrts have been made. I have never seen your Report. 



4 — I should think that one-tenth would be a fiiir estimate, corn suffering the great- 

 est ; yet we raised a tine crop, superior to any we have had for several years. — w. b. d. 



Linn County, 

 8 — There have been no systematic efforts made to overcome the injuries of the bug 

 that I have any knowledge of. As to your Second Report, I have never seen it, and da 

 not think it is known among the farmers of our county. — a. m. 



