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sorghum. Young bugs have hatched within a week. Aug. 3, 1882, 

 p. 602. Notwithstanding the previous rain and cool weather, 

 chinch bugs are threatening corn and sorghum again, now that 

 the weather is warm and dry. Aug. 17, 1882, p. 643. Broom- 

 corn in Champaign, Piaff, Douglas, and Coles Co's injured by 

 chinch bugs. 



Farmeer' Eeview, July 13, 1882, v. 9, p. 25. Iowa Crops. 



"Seven counties report, the air filled with chinch bugs. In some 

 cases they have settled on the spring wheat fields, but no serious 

 damage is done." 



Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Eeports returned to 

 the Department of Agriculture August 1, 1882. Circular 

 No. 92, pp. 52-63. 



Correspondenis'' Bemarks. — Douglas, Johnson, Macoupin, Ver- 

 milion, Wabash, and Williamson Co's. Corn suffering more or 

 less from drouth and chinch bugs, and winter wheat injured in 

 Macoupin county. 



Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Aug. 10, 1882, v. 47, p. 

 622. From Central Nebraska. 



Lincoln, Neb., July 28. Wheat injured by rust and chinch 

 bugs. 



Forbes, 8. A.— The Chinch Bug in 1882. Field Notes. (Illinois 

 Crop Reports. Consolidation of Reports returned to the 

 Department of Agriculture Aug. ], 1882. Circular No. 92, 



p. 77; Western Eural, , 1882; Farmers' Review, Oct, 



19, 1882; Review and extracts in Prairie Farmer for , 



1882.) 



Appeared at usual time in extraordinary numbers in Central Illinois, 

 but rains delayed deposition of eggs and prevented many from 

 hatching, so that young bugs were not seen until about the first 

 of July. Owing to their late development small grain was not ap- 

 preciably damaged, and corn and similar crops have been little in- 

 jured because there has been no concentrated attack. The bugs 

 are, however, much more numerous than the damage sustained 

 indicates, and every precaution should be taken against a iserious 

 outbreak next season. Careful experiments see<;n to show that too 

 much is hoped from the simple influence of wet weather upon 

 these insects. Bugs on corn drenched ten successive days were 

 not affected appreciably. Small brown ant, Lasias flavus \^alienus\ 

 attends young, transporting them in its mouth, and feeding on ex- 

 udations from the corn and on the fluids excreted by the bugs. 

 Agonoderus comma preys upon them, chinch bugs making about 

 twenty per cent, of food of specimens dissected. Internal bac- 

 terium parasite again mentioned. Burning in winter quarters ad- 

 vised. A weak emulsion of kerosene and soap suds, costing- 

 three fourths of a cent a gallon, killed chinch bugs very readily. 

 "Advantage can probably be taken of this fact to save many fields 

 of corn which would otherwise be destroyed by them." 



