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are present to prod-ace material infestations in adjacent young 
•"heat if weather favorable to fly activity occurs during the 
Spring. The fact that growth of wheat has been delayed by 
continued drought and low .temperatures will make it somewhat 
more susceptible to in jury .than usual, 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucopterus Say) 
R, H« Pettit: The chinch bugs were not very troublesome in the 
southeastern part of the "State. In Monroe County, Hillsdale 
County, and Lenawee County, I believe, they were present in 
moderate numbers. 
Kentucky H. Garman: The chinch bug is not commonly troublesome here, 
but during periods of special abundance in States north of us 
it sometimes appears in our northern counties, 
Illinois W. P. Flint! Examinations of chinch bugs in hibernation have 
shown that the bugs are in good condition. There will probably 
he no general outbreaks over Illinois next year, but scattered 
areas of from a township to half a county will have some injtmy 
by this insect. Our survey of bugs in hibernation to date has 
shown such areas scattered throughout the central part of the 
State, and as far north as Grundy County. The numbers of bugs 
in hibernation would not indicate any serious trouble next spring, 
unless the weather is dry, and ^arm, and favorable to the bugs 
after they first come out of winter quarters. 
Iowa Carl J. Drake: The chinch bug situation is not serious and there 
will probably be no serious chinch bug outbreaks in the State. 
In the three southeastern counties, Appanoose, Davis, and Van 
Buren, we have received a few chinch bug reports but trie infesta- 
tion is light. Weather conditions during the last t in o years 
have controlled the chinch bugs in Iowa 
Missouri L. Haseman: A survey of Missouri indicates that the chinch bug 
is abundant and may cause an epidemic in a strip across the 
North-Central part of the State extending from 3ates to Buchanan 
Counties on the -.vest side to Marion and Pike Counties on the east 
side. A small localized outbreak may occur in Lawrence- and Greene 
Counties in the southwestern corner of the State. The northern * 
and southeastern part of the State did not seem seriously enough 
infested to cause alarm. 
Arkansas D-^ight Isely: The past year there was the most severe injury 
by the chinch bug in the eastern part of the State which has 
occurred for many years, I do net mean that this injury is 
comparable with severe injury which may occur in Illinois or Kansas, 
In the Bast-Central part of the State chinch bugs were present 
in practically all fields of corn luring June and July and in some 
instances Cornfields were killei. There was considerable complaint 
from the chinch bug in the rice section, and chinch bugs were 
reported by A. H. Prince, county agent, at Stuttgart as actually 
