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Henry Co. Spring wet and cold; June wet and dry by turns; 
July alternately wet and hot. Wheat, in consequence, so weak¬ 
ened by rust and scab or spot, that chinch bugs and other insects, 
with blight and smut, will greatly reduce crop. Warren Col 
Has heard of but one piece of spring wheat not infested by the- 
chinch bug. A great deal will be uncut, being entirely taken by 
bug and fly. The chinch bug appears in wheat on new ground 
never before cropped. Aug. 9, 1862, p. 89. Carroll Co. [July 30]. 
Wheat damaged considerably in the past week or two. Aug. 16, 
1862, p. 105. Mercer Co. Early-sown wheat fair where the chinch 
bug did not destroy it. Stark Co. Wheat was much injured, and 
corn attacked in some localities. 
Iowa.— July 5,1862, p. 9. Van Buren Co. Most of the spring wheat 
eaten up by chinch bugs. Aug. 2, 1862, p. 73. Jefferson Co. 
Spring wheat destroyed. Van Buren Co. Chinch bugs mostly 
destroyed in corn by heavy rains. Aug. 23, 1862, p. 121. Much 
injured wheat in central part of State. Oct. 4, 1862, p, 217, 
Fayette Co. Wheat light on account of chinch-bug ravages. 
Prairie Farmer, June 14, 1862, v. 9, n. s., p. 376. Wheat Pros¬ 
pects. 
“We have before us reports from more than twenty counties in 
this State and Iowa, giving alarming accounts of the ravages of 
the Hessian fly and chinch bug. Many fields are being plowed 
up and planted to other crops, and a large number of acres not 
so treated will be left uncut.” 
1863. 
Prairie Farmer, Feb. 28, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 135. Questions 
and Answers. 
“We have been sadly afflicted the past year with chinch bugs. 
* * * . In cutting some hickories in my field I found these same- 
bugs thirty and forty feet up the trees, under the bark and in 
the season cracks.” 
M alsh, B. D.—Hessian Flies and Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer 
Mar. 28, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 196.) 
To a correspondent’s question as to whether bugs found in 
hickory bark thirty or forty feet up the trees were genuine chinch 
bugs, he replies that they were probably an insect which resembles 
that _ bug. Point cannot be determined without examination of 
specimens. Mentions the usual hibernating places of the chinch 
bug in Northern Illinois, but says he has occasion all v found them 
in moss upon trees. 
Prairie Farmer, Apr. 11, 1863, v. 11, n. s., p. 226. The Chinch 
Bug. 
Last year, finding that chinch bugs were likely to ruin his 
vheat, Mr. Michael Hopps, of Lyonsville, Cook Co., remembering 
