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Wisconsin. — June 9, 1881, p. 356. Broicn Co. Barley dam- 

 aged. Dane and Dodge Co's. Chinch bugs at work. June 23,. 

 1881, p. 388. Trempealeau Co. Numerous, but doing no damage 

 yet. July 7,, 1881, p. 420. Columhia Co. On spring wheat. No 

 injury yet. July 21, 1881, p. 36. Clark Co. Some chinch bugs. 

 Aug.- i, 1881, p. 68. Chippewa Co. Spring wheat more or less 

 injured by "insects." Clark and Pierce Co's. Chinch bugs re- 

 ported. Columbia, Crawford, Dodge, and Juneau Co's. Spring 

 wheat badly damaged. Dane, Dunn, Jackson, and Monroe Co's. 

 Spring wheat injured. Aug. 25, 1881, p. 116. Columbia Co. 

 Spring wheat injured by blight, rust, and chinch bugs. Dunn 

 Co. Spring wheat almost ruined by chinch bugs. Sept. 22, 

 1881, p. 180. Pepin Co. Chinch bugs damaged corn more than 

 the drouth. 



Praikie Farmer, June 5, 1881. The Chinch Bugs. 



Notice of appearance in Illinois, and methods of preventing mi- 

 grations quoted from Thomas: (1) Plowing narrow strip around 

 field, keeping soil well pulverized by harrowing and rolling, and 

 then plowing furrows in this dusty strip; (2) ditching, — care 

 being taken to have side next to field perpendicular. 



J[ohnson], B. F.— The Potato Beetle, the Chinch Bug, and the 

 Hessian Fly. (Home and Farm, June 15, 1881.) 



These insects have appeared in large numbers, as always after a 

 hot, dry season followed by a long, cold winter — cold doing them 

 no harm unless associated with moisture. Fight chinch bugs by 

 burning rubbish, and prevent migration by furrows filled with 

 straw, and fired; or sprinkle a solution of Paris green [?] on 

 outer rows of corn attacked. 



Farmers' Review, June 16, 1881, v. 6, p. 376. The AVheat Out- 

 look. 



Indiana. — AVinter wheat will not be much more than half a 

 crop, owing to hard winter, Hessian fly, and chinch bug. 



Minnesota.- — Hessian fly and "bug" have injured spring wheat in 

 some counties, but prospect good. 



Missouri. — Winter wheat has been badly damaged by drouth, 

 fly, and chinch bug. 



Farmers' Eeview, June 23, 1881, v. 6, p. 392. Illinois Corn. 

 Prospects of the growing Crop. 



In the "Southern Grand Division" of the State (41 counties) 

 there is much complaint of the corn crop's being injured by drouth, 

 chinch bugs, army worms, and cutworms. 



MosELY, Henry C— War against Insects. (Farmers' Review, 

 July 21, 1881, V. 7, p. 34. ) 



Mention of three farmers in Hancock county who prevented 

 chinch h)ugs' going from wheat and rye to corn hy use of coal-tar 

 in a furrow, with pits dug at intervals. 



