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sac, Wayne, White, and Williamson Co's. Chinch bugs in corn. 

 Effingham, Fayette, and Jasper Go's, Some complaint of chinch 

 bugs, but recent rains have checked ravages. Hamilton, Laiv- 

 rence, and Marion Co's. Chinch bugs in wheat and corn; not 

 much damage. Pope Co. Some complaint of chinch bugs. Shelby 

 Co. Corn adjacent to wheat and rye injured. Wabash Co. 

 Chinch bugs are worse than ever known before. 



Statistical Keport Illinois State Board of Agriculture, 

 July 1, 1888, Circular 141, p. 21. Chinch Bugs. 



At a mass meeting of the farmers of Crawford county, called to 

 consider methods of protecting their crops against the chinch bug, 

 after an address by Prof. Forbes on ''The Relations of Wheat 

 Culture to the Chinch Bug in Illinois," the following resolutions 

 were adopted: 



"^6N0/?ec?, That we, the farmers of Crawford county, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby 

 promise and agree with each other that we will not raise as crops on our lands in this county any 

 wheat, barley, or rye for the next three years; and that we will use our influence In our neighbor- 

 hoods, in every way practicable, to prevent the raising of these creps by others. 



"^eso/m?, That we will use every reasonable and safe opportunity to burn over, in fall or 

 spring, all headlands, thickets, and woodlands, and to destroy all waste and rubbish which can 

 afford a winter harborage to the chinch bug. 



^'■Jiesolrerl, That we intend to practice and earnestly recommend the heavy fertilization of all 

 -ground devoted to crops especially liable to injury by the chinch bug. 



'•'•Resolveci, That since it has now been proven that under existing conditions all the cultivated 

 grasses may be badly damaged by the chinch bug in spring and early summer, while clover is en- 

 tirely free from liability to such injury, we urgently advise the sowing of clover for forage Instead 

 of the grasses. 



Resolved, That we advise that especial attention be paid during the coming season to such 

 crops as the chinch bug does not attack. 



".ff^6o/?;crf. That we suggest, as a most promising and important experiment, the sowing of 

 plots of wheat or rye to be plowed up and killed late in May or early in June, and to be followed 

 with millet or Hungarian— this to be plowed up in turn when well stocked with the eggs and young 

 of the second brood of the chinch bug. 



"Measures were also taken to hold similar meetings in the dif- 

 ferent towns and districts of the county, with a view to making 

 the action general." , 



Farmers' Review, July 11, 1888. 



From Richland county, 111., a correspondent writes that the 

 chinch bugs were at work during the dry cold weather from the 

 first of March to the middle of May. Still at work in oats and 

 corn, though recent rains have checked them. 



Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State Weather 

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

 pp. 9-12. Crop Prospects. 



July 7. Chinch bugs are still operating on the wheat. July 14. 

 Complaints of damage to corn from chinch bugs are mainly from 

 southern counties. July 28. The complaints of injury to crop.s 

 from chinch bugs and other insects have not for many 

 years been so numerous or generally distributed as during present 

 season. In many of the southern counties farmers are holdinii 

 mass meetings to determine the most practical methods of destroy- 

 ing the chinch bug. 



