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100,000 would not be an over-estimate of the number that a sin- 

 gle quail might destroy in a .2:ood chinch-bug year — enough to 

 giYe 500,000,000 chinch bugs if allowed to reproduce at their 

 natural rate." 



Packard, A. S., Je. — Entomological Calendar. (Am. Naturalist, 

 June, 1868, v. 2, p. 221.) 



General assertion that the chinch bug appears in wheat fields in 

 June. 



Clarke, J. W. — Our Wisconsin Correspondence. (Cultivator and 

 Country Gentleman, July 23, 1868, v. 32, p. 61.) 



The chinch bug has spread rapidly, and is spotting the field 

 with dead wheat. 



J[ohnson], B. F. — Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 

 Country Gentleman, July 23, 3868, v. 32, p. 61.) 



Chinch bugs in corn, giving it a whitish appearance, called the 

 ^'scab." 



Prairie Farmer. Kecord of the Season. 



July 25, 1868, v. 39, pp. 26, 32. Champaign Co. Much spring 

 wheat already destroyed, especially the late-sown. Clinton Co. 

 Wheat almost a faijure; corn suffering. Douglas Co. Winter wheat 

 good; spring wheat badly injured; and corn likely to be. damaged. 

 Ejfjfingham Co. "Chinch bugs are plenty." Jackson Co. Some 

 fields of wheat nearly ruined. Aug. 15, 1868, p. 56. Clinion Co. 

 (1). Wheat, oats, and corn much injured. Young chinch bugs 

 hatching by the million. Sept. 5, 1868, p. 80. Edgar Co. Spring 

 wheat a failure; three fifths of it not harvested. Many attribute 

 the failure to drouth and chinch bugs. Eemembering the damage 

 done in this section in 1860, farmers are likely to abandon the 

 sowing of spring wheat and Hungarian. Corn promises well. 

 Shelby Co. Winter wheat good; but spring wheat a failure on ac- 

 count of chinch bugs and hot weather. Sept. 19, 1868, p. 96. Monroe 

 Co. (10). Much injury from chinch bugs and drouth. ^ Randolph Co. 

 (3). On account of successive drouths and the ravages of the chinch 

 bug, corn raising is nearly abandoned, and winter wheat is the 

 principal crop. Sept. 26, 18(38, p. 104. Clinton Co. A good deal 

 of the corn will be "light and chatty" on account of injury by the 

 chinch bug. Oct. 10, 1868, p. 120. Effingham Co. "The chinch 

 bug has V)een at work on our corn since the first of July." 



1869. 



Wal8H and Eiley. — The Chinch Bug. ( Micropus leucopterus, Say. ) 

 (Am. Ent., May and June, 1869, v. 1, pp. 169-177, 194-199.) 



An elaborate article treating of its past history, natural history, 

 natural checks uy)on multi])lication, (^tfoct of rains upon it, prophe- 

 cies concerning it, insects mistaken for it, damage done by it, find 

 remedies. Good synopsis of history in Illinois. Belicned to bo a 



