﻿SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



ries. I have no idea to what extent your Second Keport was distributed or Ivnowii 

 among the farmers in this county, but think there were but few distributed.— o. ,t. r. 



4 — Caused a loss to our county in corn, as near as I am able to calculate, of 132,750 

 bushels at fifty cents per bushel, $66,875. There is no doubt but that the hot winds 

 during the second week in August and the drouth during the Summer had a serious 

 effect upon the corn crop, but nothing to be compared to the injury of the Chinch.— c. c 



Putnam County. 



3 — No effort has ever been made to stay their ravages. The report of whicli you 

 speak is probably oftener to be found among the books of professional men at the 

 county seat than among the farmers. — a. d. t. 



4 — The damage by Chinch Bug this year was not, comparativel3% great. It was con- 

 fined to late sown wheat and iate planted corn. — a. d. t. 



Ralls County. 

 3_]Sfothing is known here of your Eeport. There are not more than three or four 

 copies of that Agricultural Keport in the county of Ralls. — a. e. t. 



4_Injured crops 25 percent. Saw a man who lives in Sny bottom; says prairie 

 grass cut last year is so infested with chinch bugs the stock will not eat it, and some 

 mules that eat it have died. I have seen in the last ten days any quantity of them sticking 

 on the prairie fences and alive. Following your advice, I burnt some weeks ago 200 

 acres of rubbish on my prairie place, twenty-five miles from here, and hope I scorched 

 some of the rascals. They are worse on prairie than timber land. — a. e. t. 



Randolph County. 



3_Do not know of any systematic efforts to overcome its injuries. Have never 

 heard your Keport mentioned in connection with it ; do not know that any of the farmers 

 of our county have seen the Report. — w. Q. 



4_-Would estimate its damage, the present year, in this county, at $20,000.— w. q. 



Ray County. 



4_Corn, 50 per cent.; wheat, 25 per cent. * * . They did not injure the 



crops very much in this part of the county, but in the eastern and northern parts the 

 amount of damage is at least from $25,000 to to $50,000. Not one-fourth of a crop of 

 eorn was raised tiiere, and people will have to suffer. — j. m. b. 



Ripley Comity. 



3— No efforts made to overcome its injuries in any shape or form. Your Second Re- 

 port went into the hands of about one farmer out of every fifty. You may justly 

 suspect we know but little about it. — r. h. 



4 — The damage in my county I could not approximately say less than $40,000, all 

 crops considered. — b. h. 



St. Charles County. 



3_No systematic effort made. Some tried hot water, others coal oil, and stilJ 

 others tried to stop them by ditching across the field. Your Report of 1869 is dis- 

 tributed in the county to about the number of thirty, as near as 1 know. — c. w. 



4 — By information gathered, I can safely estimate the damage done by the bugs in 

 this county last year at $25,000, which is very low.— c. w. 



St. Clair County. 

 3_Various plans tried, but without much effect. The distribution of your Report 

 has been very limited in this county.— s. h. l. Although seemingly every effort has 

 been made to subdue them, they have come out victorious — complete masters of the 

 situation. Between them and the dry weather we have scarcely anything left to carry 

 us through Winter. Many have despaired and left in disgust, others will remain and 



