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Co. (8). Chinch bugs numerous. Have hilled a great deal of com 
already. Aug. 2, 1873, p. 248. Kane Co. Chinch bugs numerous, I 
and doing great damage to late-sown wheat. McHenry Co. 
(July 21). Many pieces of spring wheat are being injured. 
Union Co. Corn is being seriously injured. Aug. 9, 1873, p. 25b. 
Clay Co. (1). Many chinch bugs. Oct. 4, 1873, p. 320. Shelby 
Co. (Sept. 18). “Between the drouth, frost, and chinch bugs, our 
corn crop will be a small one.” Nov. 8, 1873, p, 360. Clay Co. 
(Oct. 20). “The country is full of chinch bugs. Early wheat in¬ 
jured by bugs and grasshoppers.” Gallatin Co. (Oct, 25), “Wheat 
that was put in with a drill, although damaged by the bug, was 
very nearly a full crop, while that sown broadcast was not, for 
two or three counties, one third of a crop.” Corn also consider¬ 
ably damaged by chinch bug. 
Iowa. July 5, 1873, p. 216. Scott Co. (June 17). A few chinch 
bugs, but they are not general, and spring wheat is growing 
luxuriantly. 
Kansas. May 3, 1873, p. 114. Crawford Co. (Apr. 19). “A few 
persevering farmers have sown spring wheat, as usual, but as this 
crop is invariably destroyed by the chinch bugs they are com¬ 
pelled to import seed every year.” July 5, 1873, p. 216. Labette 
Co. (June 23). “Last Thursday and Friday were days of de¬ 
struction in Labette and Cherokee counties. The wheat acreage 
was one third more than last year, but last Thursday and Friday 
more than that one third was destroyed by chinch bugs. Bank 
and early wheat are late—in many cases will not pay for harvest¬ 
ing. * * * All corn fields adjoining wheat fields are covered 
with chinch bugs.” July 12, 1873, p. 224. Neosha Co. (June 
25). “Wheat is about half a crop; oats look fine, and corn is 
good. Chinch bugs very bad.” July 26, 1873, p. 240. Butler Co. 
(14.) “Spring wheat all considerably injured.” Nov. 1, 1873, p. 
352. Labette Co. (Oct. 20). “An average crop of wheat, though 
much injured by the chinch bug.” 
Missouri. July 26, 1873, p. 240. Shelby Co. Wheat was in¬ 
jured considerably. Aug. 2, 1873, p. 248. Scotland Co. Some 
spring wheat nearly destroyed. Dec. 6, 1873, p. 392. St. Charles 
Co. (Nov. 20). “Corn, as a general thing, is a poor yield. Cause,' 
drought and chinch bugs.” 
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J[ohnson], B. F.— [Letters from Champaign Count}", Illinois, in 
Cultivator and Country Gentleman.] 
July 24, 1873, p. 468. “The chinch bug [July 16] is unheard 
of.” Aug. 14, 1873, p. 516. Bemarking on freedom of corn from 
insect enemies, states that chinch bugs do not enter corn fields 
till after small grain and meadows are exhausted. 
[LeBaron, Wm.] — Nebraska Grasshopper.—Twig'Pruners.— Chinch 
Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, Aug. 16, 1873, v. 44, p. 257.) 
QTo a correspondent from Cob Jen, who writes, “What can be 
done to stay the ravages of the chinch bugs? They are new- 
