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Minnesota. —July 1, 1865, p. 528. Wabasha Co. (June 19). 
Crops look well, and farmers anticipate a heavy growth of straw, 
if the chinch bug does not destroy it. July 8, 1865, p. 4. Rice 
Co. (June 27). “The chinch bug is busy, but has, as yet, done 
little damage.” Aug. 5, 1865, p. 89. Goodhue Co. (July 24). 
I “Wet weather seems to have disposed of the chinch bugs that 
last year appeared here in considerable numbers. 
Missouri. —July 29, 1865, p. 69. Clark Co. “Rains have stopped 
the work of the chinch bugs. 
Wisconsin. —July 1, 1865, p. 528. Dane Co. A few chinch 
bugs about. La Fayette Co. “Here in full force, as usual. Not 
doing much harm just now.” July 15, 1865, p. 25. Editorial 
mention of great damage to crops generally in 1864, by chinch 
bug and drouth. July 29, 1865, p. 69. Columbia Co. Drouth 
'shortened the growth of spring wheat and gave chinch bugs a 
•strong hold. Fond du Lac Co. Some pieces of spring wheat half 
ruined. July 1, 1865, p. 528. Editors say, “Though we hear of 
chinch bugs everywhere, north, the extent of damage done by 
them seems comparatively slight as yet,” 
Country Gentleman. Record of the Times. 
July 6, 1865, v. 26, p. 20. Rock Island Co. (June 23). “We 
are much alarmed by the ravages of the chinch bug.” July 13, 
1865, p. 36. Danby ,- Co. Wheat and barley injured 
somewhat. 
Wisconsin.—J uly 20, 1865, p. 52. Kenosha Co. (10). Some 
spring wheat damaged. Aug. 3, 1865, p. 84. Dodge Co. (July 
21). Some fields of spring wheat are nearly ruined. 
Norton, H. B.—Chinch-Bug Fence. (Prairie Farmer, Apr. 29, 
1865, v. 15, n. s.. p. 327. Reprinted in Valley Farmer, June 
1, 1866 [See Pract. Ent., v. 1, p. 95]; also in Pract. Ent., 
v. 1, p. 95, with note of commendation by Walsh.) 
Reports saving a hundred-acre corn field in Ogle Co., Ill., in 
April, 1865, by use of pine boards set edgewise and coated with 
coal-tar. Pits were dug at intervals, into which the bugs fell, and 
from which they were shoveled by the wagon-load at the rate of 
thirty or forty bushels per day. 
Laughton, George R.—The Chinch Bug. (Prairie Farmer, June 
17, 1865, v. 15, n. s., p. 483.) 
Saved one acre of wheat from chinch bugs by sowing on it, 
June 14, one bushel of salt. Three bushels of quick lime to the 
acre without effect upon the bugs. 
Prairie Farmer, July 29, 1865, v. 16, n. s., p. 73. Trees a Pro¬ 
tection against Insects. 
In view of the fact that chinch bugs and other insects are be¬ 
coming almost intolerable pests, the cultivation of belts and groves 
