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Wheat nearly ruined; corn damaged. Monigomery Co. Corn and 

 oats badly injured. Richland Co. Corn on higli lands nearly 

 ruined. 



Monthly Weather Keyiew of the Illinois State Weather 

 Service for August, 1887, pp. 9, 10. Condition of Crops. 



Aug. 20. "There has not been for years such serious and gen- 

 eral complaint of the damage resulting to corn from chinch bugs." 

 Aug. 27. Excepting Pulaski, the counties of the southern part 

 of the State report from less than one fourth to one half 

 an average crop of corn, owing to chinch bugs and drouth. 



Truesdell, J. A. — Preventive for the Chinch Bug. (Cultivator 

 and Country Gentleman, Sept. 1, 1887, v. 52, p. 673.) 



To protect uninfested grain, drill in thickly, all round the field, 

 a strip of ordinary field corn a rod or two in width. If a good stand 

 of corn is obtained by June 15, the protected field will not be in- 

 vaded. A heavy sowing of salt is a check. Burn the corn stubble 

 if there is any left. 



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

 Country Gentleman, Sept. 1, 1887, v. 52, p. 690.) 



Concludes from Mr. Chamberlain's observations that chinch bugs 

 cannot be controlled by any human means, but that the weather 

 alone can reduce their outbreaks. Liberal rainfall since 1881 has 

 restrained this pest in Central Illinois. Wheat generally replaced 

 by oats on the bluff lands along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash 

 on account of the chinch bug. 



Farmers' Eeview, Sept. 14, 1887. Plan for a Crusade against 

 Destructive Insects. 



A Kansas farmer outlines the following procedure: Plow under 

 land this fall, and in spring plant only so much ground as can be 

 well manured and such crops as the chinch bug will not infest; 

 viz., red clover, flax, potatoes, and castor beans. Let residue of 

 land remain fallow until about the time of the hatching of the 

 first brood, then turn under all grass and weeds. If this plow- 

 ing does not destroy the young bugs it will do the land no harm. 

 Follow with harrow and drag, and crab grass for hay may be ex- 

 pected. 



Farmers' Review, Sept. 14, 1887, v. 18, p. 588. 



Correspondent from Zumbra Falls, Minn., reports that chinch 

 bug ravaged tliat section terribly the past season. Editors indorse 

 Mr. (JharaV)erlain'8 recommendation of abandonment of wheat, 

 Hungarian, etc. "Farm for corn, cattle, dairy products, hogs, and 

 colts." 



Chamberlain, W. I. — The Drouth in Central Iowa. (Cultivator 

 and Country Gentlemen, Soi)t. 15, 1887, v. 52, p. 708.) 



Corn cut pr(*matur(^ly on account of chinch-bug attack. Would iiavo 

 been very large but for this. 



