Uorghum. Young bugs have hatched within a week. Aug. 3, 1882, 
p. 602. Notwithstanding the previous rain and cool weather, 
phinch bugs are threatening corn and sorghum again, now that 
die weather is warm and dry. Aug. 17, 1882, p. 643. Broom- 
3orn in Champaign, Piatt , Douglas, and Coles Co's injured by 
ihinch bugs. 
Farmers’ Review, July 13, 1882, v. 9, p. 25. Iowa Crops. 
“Seven counties report the air filled with chinch bugs. In some 
3ases they have settled on the spring wheat fields, but no serious 
la mage is done.” 
[llinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 
the Department of Agriculture August 1, 1882. Circular 
No. 92, pp. 52-63. 
Correspondent s' Remarks .— Douglas, Johnson, Macoupin, Ver¬ 
milion, Wabash, and Williamson Co's. Corn suffering more or 
.ess from drouth and chinch bugs, and winter wheat injured in 
Macoupin county. 
Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Aug. 10, 1882, v. 47, p. 
622. Prom Central Nebraska. 
Lincoln, Neb., July 28. Wheat injured by rust and chinch 
lugs. 
Forbes, S. A.—The Chinch Bug in 1882. Field Notes. (Illinois 
Crop Reports. Consolidation of Reports returned to the 
Department of Agriculture Aug. 1, 1882. Circular No. 92, 
p. 77; Western Rural,-, 1882; Farmers’ Review, Oct, 
19, 1882; Review and extracts in Prairie Farmer for -, 
1882.) 
Appeared at usual time in extraordinary numbers in Central Illinois, 
>ut rains delayed deposition of eggs and prevented many from 
latching, so that young bugs were not seen until about the first 
>f July. Owing to their late development small grain was not ap¬ 
preciably damaged, and corn and similar crops have been little in¬ 
ured because there has been no concentrated attack. The bugs 
ire,, however, much more numerous than the damage sustained 
indicates, and every precaution should be taken against a serious 
>utbreak next season. Careful experiments seem to show that too 
nuch is hoped from the simple influence of wet weather upon 
hese insects. Bugs on corn drenched ten successive days were 
lot affected appreciably. Small brown ant, Lasius flavus \cdienus], 
attends young, transporting them in its mouth, and feeding on ex- 
idations from the corn and on the fluids excreted by the bugs. 
1 gonoderus comma preys upon them, chinch bugs making about 
wenty per cent, of food of specimens dissected. Internal bac- 
erium parasite again mentioned. Burning in winter quarters ad- 
ised. A weak emulsion of kerosene and soap suds, costing 
hree fourths of a cent a gallon, killed chinch bugs very readily. 
'Advantage can probably be taken of this fact to save many fields 
>f corn which vrould otherwise be destroyed by them.” 
