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localized in a comparatively small area, "but within that space the 
pest is very abundant. The surface of the ground was literally 
swarming with "bugs of all stages of development. A small planting 
of corn in this area and a field of millet had already been ser- 
iously injured at the time our attention was called to the in- 
festation. 
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T. H. Parks (August 22): The chinch hug is moderately abund- 
ant. It has increased since last year. 
W. P. Flint (August 10): The weather of the summer thus far 
has been, on the whole, favorable to chinch bugs and they a.re in- 
creasing in abundance in the southern part of the State, with 
prospects of a considerable increase in damage next year. This 
also applies to the central Illinois a.rea. 
R. Hut son (August 24): Chinch bugs are moderately abundant in 
the lower tier of counties, of the lower peninsula. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (August): Chinch bugs were re- 
ported as doing damage to barley in Goodhue County in the south- 
eastern part of the State. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
H. C. Severin (August 20): The chinch bug is moderately abund- 
ant. Serious damage was escaped only because of the extreme 
drought and grasshoppers. 
L. Haseman (August 25): The second generation in corn is quite 
abundant but not attracting the farmers' attention at present. 
Rains helped. 
H. R. 3ryson (August 22): The chinch bug is very abundant in 
the southeastern part of the State. 
M. H. Swenlc (August 20): The chinch bug is moderately abund- 
ant in some southern counties. There has been no commercial 
damage. 
C. Benton (July): A considerable acreage of millet was ser- 
iously injured and some totally destroyed by the chinch bug dur- 
ing early July in Lincoln and Marshall Counties. The bugs were 
mostly in the last nynphal instar by July 15. They deserted millet 
fields by late July and scattered into corn. A small pop-corn 
patch near Fay act evi lie was destroyed and adjacent sorghum at- 
tacked by burs migrating from a ruined millet field. 
State Plant Board, Press Release (August 3): Chinch bugs were 
moderately abundant in one locality. They usually cause little 
injury in this State during seasons of abundant rainfall. 
