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from $2 to $2.50 per hundred.” Salt is also recommended for ex¬ 
periment—100 to 200 pounds to the acre. Lime sowed freely along 
edges of corn fields adjacent to small grain may probably prevent 
invasion at harvest. It is also stated that, as an experiment, strips 
of Hungarian grass will be sown in May and June “between the 
outer rows of corn likely to be invaded, with the intention of 
tempting the bugs to deposit their eggs on this, their favorite food 
and breeding plant, and destroying the young of the second brood 
as they hatch, by the free application of caustic lime.” 
J[ohnson], B. F.—Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 
Country Gentlemen, Apr. 21, 1887, v. 52, p. 318.) 
Writes from Champaign Co., Apr. 12, that the present warm 
and dry weather is favorable to the activity of the chinch bug. 
Quotes State Entomologist to the effect that there is this year 
little danger of damage by the chinch bug in Central Illinois. 
Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agricult¬ 
ure for May, 1887. Circular 134, pp. 14, 16. Corre¬ 
spondents’ Remarks. 
Edwards, Jasper , and Jefferson Co’s. More or less complaint 
of chinch bugs in winter wheat. 
Farmers’ Review. Crop Reports. 
May 18, 1887. Madison Co. Corn and oats injured. William¬ 
son Co. Chinch bugs injuring winter wheat. May 25, 1887. 
Bond , Jasper , and Jefferson Co’s. Winter wheat damaged by 
chinch bugs. Mercer Co. But few chinch bugs. June 8, 1887. 
Crawford, Fayette, Hardin, Madison, Marion, Perry, Wayne , 
and White Co’s. Winter wheat more or less damaged by chinch 
bugs. June 22, 1887. Bond Co. “Chinch bugs numerous and af¬ 
fecting crops more or less. Winter wheat, condition, 100 per 
cent. Clark, Jackson, Richland , and Monroe Co’s. Winter wheat 
damaged, Jefferson Co. Some bugs in oats. July 6, 1887. 
Effingham Co. Corn and oats injured by dry weather and bugs. 
Madison Co. Chinch bugs killing corn and oats. Pulaski Co. 
Corn damaged. Wayne Co. Wheat damaged. Washington Co. 
Some chinch bugs. July 13, 1887. Johnson, Shelby, Marion, and 
Wayne Co s. . Damage to corn by chinch bugs, and in some localities 
by drouth also. Kendall and Knox Co’s. Spring wheat damaged 
by drouth and chinch bugs. July 20, 1887. Bond, Edwards, Mor¬ 
gan, Jefferson, and Jasper (Jo’s. Corn and oats damaged by drouth 
and chinch bugs. Montgomery and Perry Co’s. Corn damaged 
by drouth and bugs. Peoria Co. Some chinch bugs in spring 
wheat. Pope Ccx Some chinch bugs in oats. July 27, 1887. 
Carroll Co. Spring wheat damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. 
Fayette, Lawrence, and Macoupin (Jo’s. Corn damaged by drouth 
and chinch bugs. Franklin Co. Some damage to oats by bugs 
md drouth. Johnson Co. "W inter wheat and oats damaged by 
bugs. Aug. 10, 1887. Perry and Shelby Co’s. Corn damaged by 
