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Statistical Eeport Illinois State Board of Agriculture for. 

 June I, 1888. Circular No. 140, pp. 4, 12-30. 



Much damage to winter wheat by chinch bug is reported for 

 the southern and central portions of the State. 



Correspondents' Remarks. — Bond, Clay, Clinton, Marion, Moid- 

 trie. Pope, Bichland, and Shelby Go's. Chinch bugs doing seri- 

 ous damage to wheat; also to corn in Moultrie countj^ and to oats 

 in Shelby. 



Prairie Farmer, June 2, 1888. Salt for Chinch Bugs. 



A correspondent writing from La Crosse, Wis., says he has used 

 common barrel salt on corn and Hungarian grass with perfect 

 ^ success. H/e used about two bushels per acre when the bugs first 

 appeared on the crops, sowing it broadcast on the grass and 

 throwing a teaspoonful on each hill of corn. 



Indiana Farmer, June 2, 1888, v. 23, p. 9. Valuable Observa- 

 tions of an Old Farmer. 



"The chinch bug has quit breeding in the wheat since I began 

 sowing salt on the fields in April." 



Hallowell, J. K - A Plan for Fighting Chinch Bugs. (Farm- 

 ers' Keview, June 27, 1888.) 



Take two logs six inches in diameter by four feet in length 

 and place parallel, fastening them together with 2x6 cross pieces. 

 With a one-horse plow run a furrow around field; then place one 

 runner of this drag in furrow, hitch to, and, standing on same, 

 drive to end of furrow. Plow another furrow where the other 

 runner of drag leaves mark. Now run back and forth with drag 

 until the earth is well pulverized. If properly done at right time 

 of day, and before the bugs gain wings, you will destroy them by the 

 millions, the second furrow catching any that may cross the first. 



Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State Weather 

 Service for June, 1888. Weekly Weather Crop-Bulletins, 

 Crop Prospects, pp. 8-11. 



June 9. Rain has lessened the danger to wheat and corn from 

 chinch bugs, in the southern counties, but corn is seriously dam- 

 aged. June 16. Prospects for grain and grass in southern divi- 

 sion of State greatly reduced by drouth, army worm, cutworms, 

 and chinch bugs. June 23. Rains have largely reduced the num- 

 ber of chinch bugs. June 30. Wheat harvested in southern 

 counties generally inferior, owing to unfavorable season and in- 

 jury by chinch bug. 



Statistical Report Illinois State Board of Agriculture for 

 July 1, 1888. Circular No. 141, pp. 11-20. 



Correspondents' Remarks. — Alexander, Clinton, Hardin, Moul- 

 trie, Saline, and St. Clair Co's. Chinch bugs going from wheat 

 to corn. Bond, Clay, Franklin, Gallatin, Johnson, Mason Mas~ 



