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event of a dry spring some injury is looked for in this snail area 
out not elsewhere. 
Kansas. Geo. A. Been .(March 29), ''The mild dry winter has "been very favor- 
able for chinch buj; hibernation, even those in poor winter quarters 
came- through in good shape, From present indications the infesta- 
tion will be mere' severe in the southeastern counties. Last Fall -a 
large number of counties were well organized for burai&bg campaigns, • 
but rain and snow interfered with most of this work, however, in some 
counties considerable burning was done. We are expecting considerable' 
injury over the entire eastern third of the State." 
Extension Bfews Letter, -(March 30).. "Bugs had left winter quarters p: : - 
or to March 18, and were in the wheat. Expect heavy infestation. Fii ■ 
tered well. " 
■J. Wi McCollofch, (April 8), "In Montgomery county chinch bug is on the 
increase. Migration of bugs from '.vinter quarters have 'taken place and 
the fields are alive with them. Mating is ,, taking "pi ace -arid eggs will 
soon be presents" 
Missouri. ■' A; F. Satterthwait (B. E. February 14), "St Louis County Farm Bureau 
reported that masses. of living chinch bugs were being found on corn 
stalks in the fields and that "the bugs -.vers running over the ground to'V 
growing wheat. On investigation the matter he-' found- chinch bugs pres-w..,- 
ent as reported, except not in massed The bugs were migrating from 
■corn fields where the corn had been shocked on the" ground and had scat- 
tered to the neighboring ivheat; fields*. L'ome bugs -.'eve found as much as 
half an inch below: the .surface, of the 'soil on the wheat. Bugs were 
present also under the sheaths in at'Ieast one field, and were present 
in the pithy portions.. of the corn stalks' remote from living vegetation," 
A. F. Satterthwait, (March 28). "Chinch bugs are .'to be found in prac- 
tically every wheat field in the river bottoms "about Gumbo and Chester- 
• field, Mo.." 
L. Haseman, (April 7). "'This pest passed- the mild winter in great abun- 
; dance in various types ; of shelter. ' In Scott County two weeks ago Mr. 
Burrill found chinch bugs abundant in dry '.sand "without protection -." c • 
fence, rows. They have also been reported abundant irr-' grass la: 
pest is nost abundant in , the east cetitxal-'a^d* southeastern counties 
the State, though it is also threatening In the central, west cen-''- 
and south western parts of the State. '-While the pest -wintered :r. ' 
ening numbers the recent two days of freezing weather will undoubted!? 
have its effect on this and other pests, ; . Winter burning of harboring 
places was handicapped by wet weather in the early part of the winter, 
but late in the winter very thorough burning work was carried out in 
'the south east and west central parts" .of- the. State." 
Oklahoma. C.E. Sanborn (March 39). "This pest is ...likely to be more serious than 
for several years past. The weather condition during the winter was 
exceedingly favorable- for hibernation. The bags are beginning to in- 
fest the small grains at this time, although they have not much more 
than started to disseminate from their hibernating quarters." 
