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Minnesota.— July 1, 1865, p. 528. Wabasha Co. (June 19). 

 Crops look well, and farmers anticipate a heavy growth of straw, 

 if the chinch bug does not destroy it. July 8, 1865, p. 4. Rice 

 Co. (June 27). "The chinch bug is busy, but has, as yet, done 

 little damage." Aug. 5, 1865, p. 89. Goodhue Co. (July 24). 

 ■"Wet weather seems to have disposed of the chinch bugs that 

 last year appeared here in considerable numbers. 



Missouri. — July 29, 1865, p. 69. Clark Co. "Kains have stopped 

 the work of the chinch bugs. 



Wisconsin.— July 1, 1865, p. 528. Dane Co. A few chinch 

 bugs about. La Fayeife Co. "Here in full force, as usual. Not 

 doing much harm just now." July 15, 1865, p. 25. Editorial 

 mention of great damage to crops generally in 1864, by chinch 

 bug and drouth. July 29, 1865, p. 69. Columbia Co. Drouth 

 shortened the growth of spring wheat and gave chinch bugs a 

 strong hold. Fond du Lac Co. Some pieces of spring wheat half 

 ruined. July 1, 1865, p. 528. Editors say, "Though we hear of 

 chinch bugs everywhere, north, the extent of damage done by 

 them seems comparatively slight as yet," 



Country Gentleman. Kecord of the Times. 



July 6, 1865, v. 26, p. 20. Rock Island Co. (June 23). "We 

 are much alarmed by the ravages of the chinch bag." July 13, 



1865, p. 36. Dauby, Co. Wheat and barley injured 



somewhat. 



Wisconsin.— July 20, 1865, p. 52. Kenosha Co. (10). Some 

 spring wheat damaged. Aug. 3, 1865, p. 84. Dodge Co. (July 

 21). Some fields of spring wheat are nearly ruined. 



Norton, H. B.— Chinch-Bug Fence. (Prairie Farmer, Apr. 29, 

 1865, V. 15, n. s.. p. 327. Eeprinted in Valley Farmer, June 

 1, 1866 [See_ Pract. Ent., v. 1, p. 95]; also in Pract. Ent., 

 V. 1, p. 95, with note of commendation by Walsh.) 



Reports saving a hundred-acre corn field in Ogle Co., 111., in 

 April, 1865, by use of pine boards set edgewise and coated with 

 coal-tar. Pits were dug at intervals, into which the bugs fell, and 

 from which they were shoveled by the wagon-load at the rate of 

 thirty or forty bushels per day. 



Laughton, George R.— The Chinch Bug. (Prairie Farmer, June 

 17, 1865, V. 15, n. s., p. 483.) 



Saved one acre of w^heat from chinch bugs by sowing on it, 

 June 14, one bushel of salt. Three bushels of quick lime to the 

 acre without effect upon the bugs. 



Prairie Farmer, July 29, 1865, v. 16, n. s., p. 73. Trees a Pro- 

 tection against Insects. 



In view of the fact that chinch bugs and other insects are be- 

 coming almost intolerable jjests, the cultivation of belts and groves 



