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lire. They crawled out and traveled into fresh corn and devoured 

 still more; but at this time the most of them have wings and 

 make use of them." 



Peaikie Farmer, July 30, 1887. [Chinch Bugs in Minnesota.] 



A correspondent from Goodhue Co., Minn., writes that "wheat is 

 almost an entire failure on account of chinch bugs. Barley and 

 oats will be about three fourths of a crop. The bugs are so 

 numerous in some places that it is impossible to keep them out 

 of houses and cisterns." 



Monthly Weather Eeyiew of the Illinois State Weather 

 ' Service for July, 1887. Weather Crop-Bulletins, pp. 13- 

 15. Condition of Crops. 



* June 11. Chinch bugs damaging corn in Clinton Co. June 

 18. Continue to damage the crops in St. Clair, Washington, and 

 other southern counties. June 25. In Marioyi Co., damaging 

 ripening oats. July 2. Corn being damaged severely in Madison, 

 Effingham, and Wayne to Randolph Co's.; and this crop seems 

 doomed in Clinton and Effingham Co's. July 9. Great damage 

 to corn in Shelby Co., and in the whole southern part of the 



State. 



Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Aug. 4, 1887, v. 52, p. 601. 

 Headed off Chinch Bugs. 



A correspondent protected corn by plowing furrow^ around field 

 and setting up boards edgewise and wetting with kerosene. AVhen 

 corn is already damaged, plowing a furrow against the row and 

 dressing with a hoe will check the bugs until fodder can be 

 grown. 



Prairie Farmer, Aug. 6, 1887. 



"Do not allow your cattle to eat much green corn thickly in- 

 fested by chinch bugs. A few years ago much injury to stock was 

 reported from this cause." [See foot-note p. 47.] 



Forbes, S. A. — Chinch Bugs in Illinois. (A letter to the Secretary 

 of the State Department of Agriculture, Prairie Farmer, Aug. 

 G, 1887.) 



Imminent danger of a chinch-bug outbreak in several counties 

 of Northern Illinois next year, where, locally, wheat and corn have 

 been damaged this season. Bavages in Southern Illinois continue 

 uninterrupted, and the weather conditions in Central Illinois are 

 peculiarly favorable to the multiplication of the chinch bug. A 

 general outbreak throughout the State seems threatened. 



H., C. L. — From Southern Minnesota. (Cultivator and Country 

 Gentleman, Aug. 11, 1887, v. 52, p. 018.) 



Freeborn Co., Minn., July 27. Harvest hastened by chinch bugs. 

 More or less damage also in several counties adjacent. Serious 

 injury confined to eiglit or nine southeastern counties. Injury 

 done in adjoining j)arts of Wisconsin and Iowa. Hot dry weather 

 of May favored hatching of eggs. If second brood is similarly 

 fav()i-('(l, ij will be iii'nviso to sow niucli wliont next spring. No 



