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Statistical Kepokt Illinois State Boaed of Agriculture, 

 Aug. 1, 1S88. Circular No. 142, pp. 15-27. Correspondents' 

 Remarks. 



Alexander, Bond, Clark, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perrij, 

 Pope, Pulaski, WashincjUm, Waijne, and Williamson Go's. Corn 

 more or less damaged. Clinfon, Crawford, DnPage, Fayeite, Galla- 

 iin, and Hamilion Co's. Corn adjacent to wheat more or less dam- 

 aged. Edtcards Co. Corn iDjured by drouth and chinch bugs. Jas- 

 per Co. After wheat harvest, attacked oats, doing considerable dam- 

 age. Macoupin Co. Heavy ^rains have destroyed the chinch bugs, 

 which have been workiug on* corn since wheat harvest. Madison 

 Co. Winter wheat was considerably damaged. Wabash Co. Corn 

 on high land injured. 



Farmers' Review^ Aug. ]., 1888, v. 19, p. 490. Chinch Bugs there. 



A farmer in Ohio writes that finding chinch bugs on his corn 

 about the first of July he applied kerosene emulsion three times 

 and escaped iujury by them. Never heard of them there before. 

 Thinks they bred in wheat adjoining the corn. 



Prairie Farmer, Aug. 4, 1888, v. 60, p. 507. Weather and Crop 

 Notes. 



In the chinch-bug region of Illinois the yield of wheat per acre 

 is as unsatisfactory as its low grade. Complaints of injury from 

 chinch bugs and other insects more numerous and general than 

 for many years. 



From Edwards Co., 111., a correspondent writes that chinch 

 bugs have ruined a great deal of corn, and that meadows are gen- 

 erally poor on account of drouth and bugs last year. 



Gillette, C. P.— A New Chinch-Bug Enemy. (Prairie Farmer, 

 Aug. 11, 1888.) 



A fungoid disease is destroying millions of chinch bugs on the 

 grounds of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. The fun- 

 gus belongs to the genus Entomophthora. 



Barnhill, J. B. — Chinch Bugs in Vermont. (Albion [Ilk] Journal, 

 Aug. 23, 1888. Reprinted from Louisville Ledger.) 



About twenty years ago these bugs began to infest farms in 

 this region and ruined a number of crops. Farmers stopped rais- 

 ing wheat, and in two or three years the bugs disappeared. 



Patrick, 1. A.— The New Enemy of the Chinch Bug. (Prairie 

 Farmer, Aug. 25, 1888, v. 60, p. 645.) 



Writing from lola. Clay Co., 111., he says that about July 8 

 or 10 h(! observed among the chinch bugs the same disease re- 

 cently reported by C. P. Gillette. (See under Aug. 11.) They 

 all died, depositing no eggs. 



