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Henri) Co. Spring wet and cold; June wet and dry by turns; 

 July alternately wet and hot. Wheat, in consequence, so weak- 

 ened by rust and scab or spot, that chinch bugs and other insects,, 

 with blight and smut, will greatly reduce crop. Warren Co. 

 Has heard of but one piece of spring wheat not infested by the 

 chinch bug. A great deal will be uncut, being entirely taken by 

 bug and fly. The chinch bug appears in wheat on new ground, 

 never before cropped. Aug. 9, 1862, p. 89. Carroll Co. [July 30]. 

 Wheat damaged considerably in the past week or two. Aug. 16, 

 1862, p. 105. Mercer Co. Early- sown wheat fair where the chinch 

 bug did not destroy it. Sfark Co. Wheat was much injured, and 

 corn -attacked in some localities. 



Iowa. — July 5, 1862, p. 9. Van Buren Co. Most of the spring wheat 

 eaten up by chinch bugs. Aug. 2, 1862, p. 73. Jefferson Co. 

 Spring wheat destroyed. Van Buren Co. Chinch bugs mostly 

 destroyed in corn by heavy rains. Aug. 23, 1862, p. 121. Much 

 injured wheat in central part of State. Oct. 4, 1862, p. 217. 

 Fayette Co. Wheat light on account of chinch-bug ravages. 



Prairie Farmer, June 14, 1862, v. 9, n. s., p. 376. Wheat Pros- 

 pects. 



"We have before us reports from more than twenty counties in 

 this State and Iowa, giving alarming accounts of the ravages of 

 the Hessian fly and chinch bug. Many fields are being plowed 

 up and planted to other crops, and a large number of acres not 

 so treated will be left uncut." 



1863. 



Prairie Farmer, Feb. 28, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 135. Questions 

 and Answers. 



"We have been sadly afflicted the past year with chinch bugs. 

 * * * In cutting some hickories in my field I found these same 

 bugs thirty and forty feet up the trees, under the bark and in 

 the season cracks." 



Walsh, B. D.— Hessian Flies and Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer. 

 Mar. 28, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 196.) 



To a correspondent's question as to whether bugs found in 

 hickory bark thirty or forty feet up the trees were genuine chinch 

 bugs, he replies that they were probably an insect which resembles 

 that bug. Point cannot be determined without examination of 

 specimens. Mentions the usual hibernating places of the chinch 

 bug in Northern Illinois, but says he has occasionally found them 

 in moss \i\)on trees. 



Prairie Farmer, Apr. 11, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 226. The Chinch 

 Bug. 



Last year, finding that chinch bugs were likely to ruin his 

 wheat, Mr. Michael Hopps, of Lyonsville, Cook Co., remembering 



