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from $2 to $2.50 per hundred." Salt is also recommended for ex- 

 periment — 100 to 200 pounds to the acre. Lime sowed freely along 

 edges of corn fields adjacent to small grain may probably prevent 

 invasion at harvest. It is also stated that, as an experiment, sti'ips 

 of Hungarian grass will be sown in May and June "between the 

 outer rows of corn likely to be invaded, with the intention of 

 tempting the bugs to deposit their eggs on this, their favorite food 

 and breeding plant, and destroying the young of the second brood 

 as they hatch, by the free application of caustic lime." 



J[ohnson], B. F. — Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 

 Country Gentlemen, Apr. 21, 1887, v. 52, p. 318. ) 



Writes from Champaign Co., Apr. 12, that the present warm 

 and dry weather is favorable to the activity of the chinch bug. 

 Quotes State Entomologist to the effect that there is this year 

 little daifger of damage by the chinch bug in Central Illinois. 



Statistical Keport of the Illinois State Board of Agricult- 

 ure FOR May, 1887. Circular 134, pp. 14, 16. Corre- 

 spondents' Kemarks. 



Edwards, Jasper, and Jefferson Go's. More or less complaint 

 of chinch bugs in winter wheat. 



Farmers' Keview. Crop Reports. 



May 18, 1887. Madison Co. Corn and oats injured. William- 

 son Co. Chinch bugs injuring winter wheat. May 25, 1887. 

 Bond, Jasj)er, and Jefferson Go's. Winter wheat damaged by 

 chinch bugs. Mercer Co. But few chinch bugs. June 8, 1887. 

 Crawford, Fayette, Hardin, Madison, Marion, Perry, Wayne, 

 and White Go's. Winter wheat more or less damaged by chinch 

 bugs. June 22, 1887. Bond Co. "Chinch bugs numerous and af- 

 fecting crops more or less. Winter wheat, condition, 100 per 

 cent." Clark, Jackson, Richland, and Monroe Go's. Winter wheat 

 damaged. Jefferson Co. Some bugs in oats. July 6, 1887. 

 Effim/ham Co. Corn and oats injured by dry weather and bugs. 

 Madison Co. Chinch bugs killing corn and oats. Pulaski Co. 

 Corn damaged. Wayne Co. Wheat damaged. Washington Co. 

 Some chinch bugs. July 13, 1887. Johnson, Shelby, Marlon, and 

 Wayne Go's. Damage to corn by chinch bugs, and in some localities 

 by drouth also. Kendall and Knox Go's. Spring wheat damaged 

 by drouth and chinch bugs. July 20, 1887. Bond, Edtnards, Mor- 

 gan, Jefferson, and Jasper Go's. Corn and oats damaged by drouth 

 and chinch bugs. Montgoynery and Perry Go's. Corn damaged 

 })y drouth and bugs. Peoria Co. Some chinch bugs in spring 

 wheat. Pope Co. Some chinch bugs in oats. July 27, 1887. 

 Carroll Co. Sf^ring wheat damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. 

 Fayeite, Laiorence, and Macoupin Go's. Corn damaged by drouth 

 and chinch bugs. Franklin Go. Some damage to oats by bugs 

 and drouth. Johnson Go. Winter wheat and oats damaged by 

 bugs. Aug. 10, 1887. Perry and Shelby Go's. Corn damaged by 



