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when heading, promised forty bushels; chinch bugs reduced it to 

 twenty. Corn also injured by them. Oct. 3i, 1874, p. 352. San- 

 gamon Co. (21). Second brood of chinch bugs did much damage 

 to corn. Nov. 14, 1874, p. 368. Plaft Co. ^ "Chinch bugs and 

 grub worms more than plenty." Nov. 21, 1874, p. 376. Faj/efte 

 and Macoupin Co's. (9). Corn severely injured. Nov. 28, 1874, 

 p. 384. Cook Co. Hundreds of acres of wheat and thousands of 

 acres of corn destroyed. Macon Co. (17). Low, flat fields of 

 corn seem to withstand ravages of chinch bug the best. Oats and 

 wheat crops fair where chinch bugs did not take them, but some 

 pieces of wheat were entirely devoured. Dec. 12, 1874, p. 400. 

 Boone Co. Chinch bugs abundant. "Many fields of grain were 

 cut only for feed and litter." Iroquois Co. (Nov. 30). Corn and 

 wheat injured by chinch bugs. 



Iowa. — Aug. 29, 1874, p, 280. Jefferson Co. Drought and chinch 

 bug. Wheat light; oats good; corn a good deal injured. 



Kansas.— May 23, 1874, p. 168. Lahette Co. (May 11). "Chinch 

 bugs, which destroyed a great deal of wheat last year, are very 

 abundant this spring." July 11, 1874, p. 224. Jefferson Co. 

 Chinch bugs in myriads. Much wheat destroyed, that which is 

 cut being about half a crop. Oats and corn now infested. Sum- 

 ner Co. Spring wheat not worth cutting. July 18, 1874, p. 232. 

 Laheite Co. (June 25). Wheat scarcely hurt at all by chinch 

 bugs. Aug. 1, 1874, p. 248. Marion and Sumner Co's. (July 20). 

 Spring wheat and corn injured in the former county; spring wheat 

 a little damaged in the latter. Aug. 8, 1874, p. 256. Wilson Co. 

 Chinch bugs numerous. Aug. 29, 1874, p. 280. Douglas Co. (Aa.< 

 17). Corn greatly reduced by chinch bugs, drouth, and gras 

 hoppers. Wheat nearly an average crop. Sept. 12, 1874, p. 296. 

 Crawford Co. (Aug. 28). Half the wheat' taken, and corn wi\ 

 scarcely average five bushels to the acre. Nov. 7, 1874, p. 36 

 Marshall Co. "Dry weather, chinch bugs, and grasshoppe 

 used up all the corn and vegetables." Dec. 19, 1874, p. 40 

 Franklin Co. (4). Corn crop almost a failure on account of 1h 

 grasshoppers, chinch bugs, and drouth. 



Missouri.— July 18, 1874, p. 232. Dade Co. (July 8). Whea 

 considerably damaged, but corn has sulfered severely. Some field 

 have ten to twenty acres entirely cleared. Aug. 15, 1874, p. 26- 

 Linn (Jo. (July 31). Corn damaged by bugs and drouth. Au^ 

 22, 1874, p. 272. St Charles Co. (10). Corn, wheat, and oa 

 good, although injured by chinch bugs. Sept. 12, 1874, p. 296. Cas 

 Co. (S(^i)t. 2). Corn cut short one half by chinch bug and dr 

 weather. Oct. 10, 1874, ]>. 32S. Bales Co. (Sept. 21). When 

 oats, and corn crops nearly failures on account of dry weathe 

 chinch bugs, and grassho[)pers. Carroll Con id j/. (Sept. 25 

 "(!liincli ])ugH more plenty than corn." Nov. 7, 1874, [). 3(> 

 Sidine Co. (Oct. 22). "Chinch bugs and insects of all kind 

 seemed to vie with the hot dry weather in the destruction of crops. 



