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ern Iowa (July 28). Wheat, corn, sugar cane, and Hungarian 
are infested; the latter not yet injured. Delaware Co. (July 25). 
Some of the wheat is considerably damaged. Aug. 13, 1864, p. 
10. Decatur Co. (July 30). Wheat, oats, sorghum, and corn in¬ 
jured. Iowa Co. (Aug. 5). Wheat and sorghum much injured* 
Missouri. —June 11, 1864, p. 414. Lewis Co. (May 18). De¬ 
stroying a field of barley. Do not touch oats adjoining. All are 
adults. Earlier by a month than they have ever appeared before. 
July 23, 1864, p. 60. Caldwell Co. (4). Oats ruined by drouth 
and chinch bugs. Little wheat sown last fall, but that is gener¬ 
ally good. 
Nebraska. —June 25, 1864, p. 443. Otoe Co. (14). ‘‘Drouth and 
chinch bugs threaten entire ruin to wheat.” 
Wisconsin.— July 16, 1864, p. 37. La Fayette Co. Very numer¬ 
ous. Contrary to the general experience heretofore, depredations 
are most severe on new ground and in early-sown wheat. Now 
in oats and corn. Aug. 6, 1864, p. 85. Fond du Lac Co. (17). 
Wheat almost ruined. Aug. 20, 1864, p. 117. Dane Co. Have 
done more damage lately than the drouth. Aug. 27, 1864, p, 132. 
Dane Co. Some corn injured. Grant Co. Some wheat injured. 
Budd, Joseph L.—Chinch Bugs. The Best Wa} r to manage them. 
(Prairie Farmer, July 16, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 36.) 
States that chinch bugs have made wheat-growing precarious 
in the Cedar Talley [Iowa]. Advocates early sowing and thick 
seeding, plowing early in fall, and rolling the ground. Has by 
these means obtained fair crops when land worked in the old way 
yielded nothing. He adds, “Mr. S. G. Livermore, of this county 
[Benton], assures me that a certain plot of land, manured three 
years since, has produced good crops of wheat, not especially mo¬ 
lested by bugs, while adjoining wheat, sown at the same time 
with the same cultivation, was barely worth cutting.” 
Prairie Farmer, July 16, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 40. The Chinch 
Bug. 
Editorial on the chinch-bug situation. States that wheat, oats, and 
barley, in Northern Illinois and Wisconsin have been badly dam¬ 
aged, and fears are exx3ressed for corn and sorghum. Bugs first 
appear in spring wheat. Abandonment of that crop suggested. 
Prairie Farmer, July 23, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 52. Another Word 
about Chinch Bugs. How to use them. 
From Cedar Co., Iowa, “Agricola” writes that early fall plow¬ 
ing and early and thick sowing, as advocated by J. L. Budd [see 
above], are ineffectual as a chinch-bug remedy in his county. 
Advocates deep sowing and compact ground. Says, “Wheat sown 
in February, this season, in this vicinity, has been entirely de¬ 
stroyed by the bug.” 
