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Corn half a crop; bugs, poor seed, and late spring. Logan Co. 

 Ground very dry and corn full of bu2:s. Oct. (), 1881. 

 Madison Co. Too dry and too many chinch bugs to sow 

 wheat. Nov. 17, 1881, p. 309. Hardin Co. Corn but two thirds 

 crop on account of drouth and chinch bugs. Macon Co. Corn 

 injured more by chinch bugs than by drouth. 



Indiana.— Aug. 18, 1881, p. 100. Ohio^ and PoseAj Co's. Chinch 

 bugs and dry weather. Corn cut short in latter county. 



Iowa. — June 2, 1881, v. 6, p. 340. Cerro Gordo Co. Unusual 

 number of chinch bugs in wheat. Hoivard Co. Chinch bugs 

 present. June 16, 1881, p. 372. Builer, Des Moines, and 

 Wayne Co's. Wheat infested. Fayette Co. Chinch bugs appear- 

 ing. June 23, 1881, p. 388. Floyd, Labette, Miami, and Re/pid)- 

 lic Co's. Injuring wheat. July 7, 1881, p. 420. Cliickasaiv, Har- 

 din, and Jejferson Co's. Dry weather and chinch bugs reported 

 injurious. July 14, 1881, p. 20. Appanoose, Butler, Dallas, 

 Fayette, Floyd, and Franldin Co's. More or less abundant and 

 injurious in wheat. July 21, 1881, p. 36. Delaware, Hardin, and 

 Keokuk Co's. Very destructive to spring wheat. July 28, 1881, 

 p. 52. Adair, Black Hawl\ and Cliickasaiv Co's. Chinch bugs 

 doing much damage. Benton Co. -Army worms and chinch bugs 

 in spring wheat. Aug. 4, 1881, p. 68. Butler, Cerro Gordo, 

 Floyd, Guthrie, Hamilton, Jefferson, Mahaska, Mitchell, Taylor, 

 Union, and Winneshiek Co's. Spring wheat much injured; almost 

 a failure in some localities. Aug. 11, 1881, p. 84. Appanoose Co. 

 Heavy damage to rye and wheat. Benton Co. Serious injury to 

 wheat. Aug. 18, 1881, p. 100. Clayton Co. Spring wheat a fail- 

 ure on account of chinch bugs and rust. Floyd Co. Spring 

 wheat badly injured by blight and chinch bugs. Aug. 25, 1881, 

 p. 116. Fayette Co. Spring wheat destroyed. 



Kansas.— June 2, 1881, v. 6. p. 340. Franklin and Neosho Go's. 

 At work; but heavy rains have stopped their breeding. Miami Co. 

 Much wheat plowed up on account of chinch bugs. Woodson Co. 

 Wheat damaged fifty per cent, by drouth and chinch bugs. June 23, 

 1881, p. 388. Elk Co. Winter wheat badly injured. June 30, 

 1881, p. 404. Jefferson and Labette Go's. Chinch bugs reported. 

 June 30, 1881, p. 409. Harvey Co. The ground is well soaked, 

 but chinch bug doing much damage notwithstanding. Half of the 

 wheat gone and issue of corn crop doubtful. July 7, 1881, p. 420. 

 Coffey, Clay, Harvey, Marshall, Neosho, Gsage, Repbulic, and 

 Woodson Go's. More or less serious damage to wheat by chinch 

 bugs' and drouth, sometimes amounting to loss of half the crop. 

 July 21, 1881, p. 36. Atchison Co. In corn. Chase, Ellis, Re^ 

 public, and Trego Go's. Winter wheat seriously damaged. July 

 28, 1881, pp. 52, 56. Atchison, Chautauqua, Crawford, and Ells- 

 worth Go's. Yield of winter wheat much reduced. Jefferson Co. 

 Com damaged by chinch bugs and dry weather. Jewell Go. 

 Winter wheat and some spring wheat a failure. Hundreds of 

 acres of corn destroyed by drouth and chinch bugs. Barton Go. 

 Chinch bugs and drouth have injured late-sown wheat at least 



