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when heading, promised forty bushels; chinch bugs reduced it 
twenty. Corn also injured by them. Oct. 31, 1874, p. 352. Sc 
gamon Co. (21). Second brood of chinch bugs did much dama 
to corn. Nov. 14, 1874, p. 368. Plait Co. ' “Chinch bugs a 
grub worms more than plenty.” Nov. 21, 1874, p. 376. Faye 
and Macoupin Co's. (9). Corn severely injured. Nov. 28, i8 
p. 384. Cook Co. Hundreds of acres of wheat and thousands 
acres of corn destroyed. Macon Co. (17). Low, flat fields 
corn seem to withstand ravages of chinch bug the best. Oats a 
wheat crops fair where chinch bugs did not'take them, but so] 
pieces of wheat were entirely devoured. Dec. 12, 1874, p. 4< 
Boone Co. Chinch bugs abundaut. “Many fields of grain w i 
cut only for feed and litter.” Iroquois CF (Nov. 30). Corn a 
wheat injured by chinch bugs. 
Iowa.— Aug. 29, 1874, p, 280. Jefferson Co. Drought and chin 
bug. Wheat light; oats good; corn a good deal injured. 
Kansas.— May 23, 1874, p. 168. Labette Co. (May 11). “Chin 
bugs, which destroyed a great deal of wheat last year, are ve 
abundant this spring.” July 11, 1874, p. 224. Jefferson C 
Chinch bugs in myriads. Much wheat destroyed, that which 
cut being about half a crop. Oats and corn now infested. Su 
ner Co. Spring wheat not worth cutting. July 18, 1874, p. 21 
Labette Co. (June 25). Wheat scarcely hurt at all by chin 
bugs. Aug. 1, 1874, p. 248. Marion and Sumner Co's. (July 2( 
Spring wheat and corn injured in the former county; spring whe 
a little damaged in the latter. Aug. 8, 1874, p. 256. Wilson C 
Chinch bugs numerous. Aug. 29, 1874, p. 280. Douglas Co. (At 
17 ). Corn greatly reduced by chinch bugs, drouth, and gras 
hoppers. Wheat nearly an average crop. Sept. 12, 1874, p. 21 
Cranford Co. (Aug. 28). Half the wheat taken, and corn w 
scarcely average five bushels to the acre. Nov. 7, 1874, p. 3 1 
Marshall Co. “Dry weather, chinch bugs, and grasshoppe 
used up all the corn and vegetables.” Dec. 19, 1874, p. 4C 
Frankhn Co. (4). Corn crop almost a failure on account of tl 
grasshoppers, chinch bugs, and drouth. 
Missouri.— July 18, 1874, p. 232. Dade Co. (July 8). Whe 
considerably damaged, but corn has suffered severely. Some fiel< 
have ten to twenty acres entirely cleared. Aug. 15, 1874, p. 26 
Linn Co. (July 31). Corn damaged by bugs and drouth. Ait 
22, 1874, p. 272. St. Charles Co. (10). Corn, wheat, and oa 
good, although injured by chinch bugs. Sept, 12, 1874, p. 296. Ca\ 
Co. (Sept. 2). Corn cut short one half by chinch bug and di 
weather. Oct. 10, 1874, p. 328. Bides Co. (Sept. 21). Whea 
oats, and corn crops nearly failures on account of dry weathe 
chinch bugs, and grasshoppers. Carroll County. (Sept. 25 
“Chinch bugs more plenty than corn.” Nov. 7, 1874, p. 36 
Saline Co. (Oct, 22). “Chinch bugs and insects of all kirn 
seemed to vie with the hot dry weather in the destruction of crops, 
