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ciety concludes that salt as a manure has the property of hasten¬ 
ing the maturing of all crops; that wheat on salted land will 
ripen six to ten days earlier than on unsalted land, all other con¬ 
ditions being equal; and that it increases the yield from twenty- 
five to fifty per cent.” 
Farmers’ Review. Farmers’ Review of the Season. 
May 10, 1883, p. 296. Coles, Putnam, and Schuyler Co's. Some 
complaint of chinch bug. May 17, 1883, p. 312. Fayette Co. A 
few chinch bugs. May 24, 1883, p. 328. Schuyler Co. Com¬ 
plaint of chinch bug. Williamson Co. Chinch bugs by the mil¬ 
lion. 
Kansas. —May 24, 1883, p. 328. Wilson Co. Chinch bugs 
present. 
Missouri. —May 10, 1S83, p. 296. Bates and St. Genevieve 
Co's. Complaint of chinch bugs. 
Nebraska. —May 10, 1883, p. 296. Saline Co. Chinch bugs 
doing injury. 
Forbes, S. A.—Experiments oh Chinch Bugs. (U. S. Dept. Agr., 
Div. Ent., Bull. No. 2, pp. 23-25. Republished in Western 
Rural, June 23, 1883, and Rural New Yorker, Aug. 11, 
1883. Abstract in Cultivator and Country Gentleman, May 
10, 1883, and in American Naturalist, v. 17, p. 862.) 
Memoranda of eleven experiments made in July and August with 
kerosene emulsion in milk and soap suds, variously diluted, and 
applied to chinch bugs on corn. Dilutions used ranged from three 
to five per cent, of kerosene. As a rule, the stronger mixtures 
killed about four fifths of the bugs upon a single application, and 
this without damage to the corn. 
Prairie Farmer, May 12, 1883; Farmers’ Review, Aug. 9, 1883, 
p. 83. 
A Kansas farmer quoted as finding one hundred chinch bugs, 
ravith other insects, in stomach of quail shot in corn field. 
se LLiNOis Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 
q the Department of Agriculture June 1, 1883. Circular No. 
100, pp. 42, 52. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Crawford Co. Much complaint of chinch bugs. Madison Co. 
At work on wheat. 
J Western Rural, June 16, 1883. 
Correspondent from Davis Co. [Davis, Indiana Co.?] Penn., 
writes: “Oats and grass look well, but we do not know what 
effect the chinch bugs will have .on them, for they are here in 
abundance.” 
Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 
the Department of Agriculture July 1, 1883. Circular No. 
102, pp. 28, 35. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Clinton Co. Corn prospects injured in some localities. Madison 
Co. Wheat yield reduced by Hessian fly and chinch bug. 
