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drouth and a few chinch bugs. Aug. 31, 1887. Clinton, Effing¬ 
ham, Madison, Pulaski, Washington, and Wayne Co's. Corn 
damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. 
Webster, F. M. —Insects affecting the Smaller Cereal Grains. 
(Eept. Ind. Agric. Dept., 1886, p. 183, plate Y., figures 4, 5.) 
Hibernates as an adult wherever it can find protection from the 
elements. Emerges from March to middle of May (according to 
locality) and deposits eggs,—each female about five hundred. The 
insects reach maturity in about two months, and then, pairing al¬ 
most immediately, deposit eggs for a- second brood. Their relative 
abundance depends on meteorological conditions, dry summers and 
winters of even temperature being favorable to them, and wet 
springs and summers and open winters unfavorable. Burning grass, 
leaves, and rubbish during winter or early spring best preventive 
measure. To check migration, plow furrow or use tarred boards on 
edge. 
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Hinman, D.—Destroying Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, June 11, 
1887.) 
‘‘Have fought chinch bugs in two ways. The first is to plow 
them under deeply with stirring plow. To insure all bugs being 
plowed under, a chain should be so attached to the plow and the 
singletree of the horse in the furrow that all weeds, etc., will be 
turned under. # The second way is by applying salt. Sowed it 
broadcast on a patch of Hungarian grass, at the rate of two bush¬ 
els to the acre. It stopped their work effectively. I tried the 
same remedy .in a corn field which they had just attacked, with 
like results. I believe salt will stop them if put on in time.” 
J[ohnson], B. F. —Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 
Country Gentleman, June 16. 1887, v. 52, p. 472.) 
7jC hampaign Co. June 9. “Deferring to the drouth now prevail¬ 
ing west, I learn from parties who recently returned from exten¬ 
sive tours through Central and Southern Kansas, that as far west 
from Kansas City as the great bend of the Arkansas line, about 
99° longitude, the wheat and oats are not worth twenty-five cents 
an acre,—due to drouth and chinch bugs; that corn is looking well, 
but ready to receive the bugs when wheat and oats give out; also 
that a considerable portion of Nebraska is suffering the same in¬ 
fliction.” 
Statistical Deport of the Illinois State Board of Agricult¬ 
ure for June, 1887. Circular 135, pp. 16-37. Corre¬ 
spondents’ Demarks. 
Clark, Clay, Crawford, Gallatin, Jackson, Jefferson, Union, 
Washington, Wayne, and White Co's. Winter wheat more or 
less injured by chinch bug, re-enforced in many localities by the 
Hessian flv. 
