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ciety concludes that salt as a manure has the property of hasten- 

 ing the maturing of all crops; that wheat on salted laud will 

 ripen six to ten days earlier than on unsalted land, all otlier con- 

 ditions being equal; and that it increases the yield from twenty- 

 five to fifty per cent." 



Farmers' Eeview. Farmers' Keview of the Season. 



May 10, 1883, p. 296. Coles, Putnam, and Schuyler Co's. Some 

 complaint of chinch bug. May 17, 1883, p. 312. Fayette Co. A 

 few chinch bugs. May 24, 1883, p. 328. Schuyler Co. Com- 

 plaint of chinch bug. Williamson Co. Chinch bugs by the mil- 

 lion. ^ 



Kansas.— May 24, 1883, p. 328. Wilson Co. Chinch bugs 

 present. 



Missouri. — May 10, 1883, p. 296. Bates and St. Genevieve 

 Co's. Complaint of chinch bugs. 



Nebraska.— May 10, 1883, p. 296. Saline Co. Chinch bugs 

 doing injury. 



Forbes, S. A. — Experiments on Chinch Bugs. (U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Div. Eni, Bull. No. 2, pp. 23-25. Bepublished in Western 

 Eural, June 23, 1883, and Eural New Yorker, Aug. 11, 

 18S3. Abstract in Cultivator and Country Gentleman, May 

 10, 1883, and in American Naturalist, v. 17, p. 862.) 

 Memoranda of eleven experiments made in July and August with . 

 kerosene emulsion in milk and soap suds, variously diluted, and 

 applied to chinch bugs on corn. Dilutions used ranged from three 

 to five per cent, of kerosene. As a rule, the stronger mixtures 

 killed about four fifths of the bugs upon a single application, and 

 this without damage to the corn. 



Prairie Farmer, May 12, 1883; Farmers' Review, Aug. 9, 1883, 

 p. 83. 



A Kansas farmer quoted as finding one hundred chinch bugs, 

 with other insects, in stomach of quail shot in corn field. 



Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 

 the Department of Agriculture June 1, 1883. Circular No. 

 100, pp. 42, 52. Correspondents' Remarks. 

 Crawford Co. Much complaint of chinch bugs. Madiso)i Co. 



At work on wheat. 



Western Rural, June 16, 1883. 



Correspondent from Davis Co. [Davis, Indiana Co.?] Peun., 

 writes: "Oats and grass look well, but we do not know what 

 eft'ect the chinch bugs will liavo on i\wm, for they are here in 

 abundance." 



Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 

 the Department of Agriculture July 1, 1883. Circular No. 

 102, pp. 28, 35. Correspondents' Remarks. 

 CiinJou Co. Corn prospects injured in some localities. Madison 



Co. Wheat yield rfMlnccd by TTcssinii \]y nnd chinch bug. 



