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ern Iowa (July 28). Wheat, corn, sugar cane, and Hungarian 

 are infested; the latter not yet injured. Delaware Co. (July 25). 

 Some of the wheat is considerably damaged. Aug. 13, 1864, p. 

 10. Decatur Co. (July 30). Wheat, oats, sorghum, and corn in- 

 jured. Iowa Co. (Aug. 5). Wheat and sorghum much injured* 



Missouri.— June 11, 1864, p. 414. Leivis Co.^ (May 18). De- 

 stroying a field of barley. Do not touch oats adjoining. All are 

 adults. Earlier by a month than they have ever appeared before. 

 July 23, 1864, p. 60. Caldwell Co. (4). Oats ruined by drouth 

 and chinch bugs. Little wheat sown last fall, but that is gener- 

 ally good. 



Nebraska.— June 25, 1864, p. 443. Otoe Co. (14). "Drouth and 

 chinch bugs threaten entire ruin to wheat." 



Wisconsin. — July 16, 186^1-, p. 37. La Fayette Co. Very numer- 

 ous. Contrary to the general experience heretofore, depredations 

 are most severe on new ground and in early-sown wheat. Now 

 in oats and corn. Aug. 6, 1864, p. 85. Fond du Lac Co. (17). 

 Wheat almost rained. Aug. 20, 1864, p. 117. Dane Co. Have 

 done more damage lately than the drouth. Aug. 27, 1864, p, 132. 

 Dane Co. Some corn injured. Grant Co. Some wheat injured. 



BuDD, Joseph L. — Chinch Bugs. The Best Way to manage them. 

 (Prairie Farmer, July 16, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 35.) 



States that chinch bugs have made wheat-growing precarious 

 in the Cedar Yalley [Iowa]. Advocates early sowing and thick 

 seeding, plowing early in fall, and rolling the ground. Has by 

 these means obtained fair crops when land worked in the old way 

 yielded nothing. He adds, "Mr. S. G. Livermore, of this county 

 [Benton], assures me that a certain plot of land, manured three 

 years since, has produced good crops of wheat, not especially mo- 

 lested by bugs, while adjoining wheat, sown at the same time 

 with the same cultivation, was barely worth cutting." 



Prairie Farmer, July 16, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 40. The Chinch 

 Bug. 



Editorial on the chinch-bug situation. States that wheat, oats, and 

 barley, in Northern Illinois and Wisconsin have been badly dam- 

 aged, and fears are expressed for corn and sorghum. Bugs first 

 appear in spring wheat. Abandonment of that crop suggested. 



Prairie Farmer, July 23, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 52. Another Word 

 about Chinch Bugs. How to use them. 



From Cedar Co., Iowa, "Agricola" writes that early fall plow- 

 ing and early and thick sowing, as advocated by J. L. Budd [see 

 aVjove], are ineffectual as a chinch-bug remedy in his county. 

 Advocates deep sowing and compact ground. Says, "Wheat sown 

 in February, this season, in this vicinity, has been entirely de- 

 stroyed by. the bug." 



