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Co. (8). Oliincli bugs niimerons. Have killed a great deal of com 

 already. x\ug. 2, 1873, p. 248. Kane Co. Chinch bugs numerous, 

 and doing great damage to late-sown wheat. McHenry Co. 

 (July 21). Many pieces of spring wheat are being injured. 

 Union Co. Corn is being seriously injured. Aug. 9, 1873, p. 256. 

 Claij Co. (1). Many chinch bugs. Oct. 4, 1873, p. 320. Shelby 

 Co. (Sept. 18). "Between the drouth, frost, and chinch bugs, our 

 43orn crop will be a small one." Nov. 8, 1873, p, 360. Clay Co. 

 (Oct. 20). "The country is full of chinch bugs. Early wheat in- 

 jured by bugs and grasshoppers." Gallatin Co. (Oct, 25). "Wheat 

 that was put in with a drill, although damaged by the bug, was 

 very nearly a full crop, while that sown broadcast was not, for 

 two or three counties, one third of a crop." Corn also consider- 

 ably damaged by chinch bug. 



Iowa. July 5, 1873, p. 216. Scott Co. (June 17). A few chinch 

 bugs, but they are not general, and spring wheat is growing 

 luxuriantly. 



Kansas. May 3, 1873, p. 144. Crawford Co. (Apr. 19). "A few 

 persevering farmers have sown spring wheat, as usual, but as this 

 -crop is invariably destroyed by the chinch bugs they are com- 

 pelled to import seed every year." July 5, 1873, p. 216. Labette 

 Co. (June 23). "Last Thursday and Friday were days of de- 

 struction in Labette and Cherokee counties. The wheat acreage 

 was one third more than last year, but last Thursday and Friday 

 more than that one third was destroyed by chinch bugs. Rank 

 and early wheat are late — in many cases will not pay for harvest- 

 ing. * * * AH corn fields adjoining wheat fields are covered 

 with chinch bugs." July 12, 1873, p.^ 224. Neosha Co. (June 

 25). "Wheat is about h^lf a crop; oats look fine, and corn is 

 good. Chinch bugs very bad." July 26, 1873, p. 240. Butler Co. 

 (14.) "Spring wheat all considerably injured." Nov. 1, 1873, p. 

 352. Labette Co. (Oct. 20). "An average crop of wheat, though 

 much injured by the chinch bug." 



Missouri. July 26, 1873, p. 240. Shelby Co. Wheat was in- 

 jured considerably. Aug. 2, 1873, p. 248. Scotland Co. Some 

 spring wheat nearly destroyed. Dec. 6, 1873, p. 392. St. diaries 

 Co. (Nov. 20). "Corn, as a general thing, is a poor yield. Cause, 

 drought and chinch bugs." 



J[ohnson], B. F. — [Letters from Champaign County, Illinois, in 

 Cultivator and Country Gentleman.] 

 July 24, 1873, p. 468. "The chinch bug [July 1()] is unheard 

 of." Aug. 14, 1873, p. 516. Remarking on freedom of corn from 

 insect encnnies, states that chinch bugs do not enter corn fields 

 till after small grain and meadows are exhausted. 



[LeBaiion, Wm.] — Nebraska Grasshopper. — TwigTruners. — Chinch 

 Bugs. (L'rairio Farmer, Aug. 16, 18Y3, v. '44, p. 257.) 



To a correspondent from Cobden, who writes, "What can be 

 done to stay the ravages of the chinch bugs? They are new- 



