98 
lire. They crawled out and traveled into fresh corn and devoured 
still more; but at this time the most of them have wings and 
make, use of them/’ 
Prairie Farmer, July 30, 1887. [Chinch Bugs in Minnesota.] .! 
A correspondent from Goodhue Co., Minn., writes that “wheat is 
almost an entire failure on account of chinch bugs. Barley and 
oats will be about three fourths of a crop. The bugs are so 
numerous in some places that it is impossible to keep them out 
of houses and cisterns.” 
Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State W eather 
Service for July, 1887. W T eather Crop-Bulletins, pp. 13- 
15. Condition of Crops. 
June 11. Chinch bugs damaging corn in Clinton Co. June 
18. Continue to damage the crops in St. Claiv, . Washington, and 
other southern counties. June 25. In J\favion Co., damaging 
ripening oats. July 2. Corn being damaged severely in Madison, 
Effingham, and T Vayne to Randolph Co’s .; and this crop seems 
doomed in Clinton and Effingham Go’s. July 9. Great damage 
to corn in Shelby Co., and in the whole southern part of the 
State. 
Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Aug. 4, 1887, v. 52, p. 601. 
Headed off Chinch Bugs. I 
A correspondent protected corn by plowing furrow around field 
and setting up boards edgewise and wetting with kerosene. W hen 
corn is already damaged, plowing a furrow against the row and 
dressing with a hoe will check the bugs until foddei can 
grown. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug. 6, 1887. 
“Do not allow your cattle to eat much green. corn thickly in¬ 
fested by chinch bugs. A few years ago much injury to stock was 
reported from this cause.” [See foot-note p. 47.] 
Forbes, S. A.—Chinch Bugs in Illinois. (A letter to the Secretary 
of the State Department of Agriculture, Prairie Farmer, Aug. 
6, 1887.) 
Imminent danger of a chinch-bug outbreak in several counties 
of Northern Illinois next year, where, locally, wheat and corn have 
been damaged this season. Ravages .in Southern Illinois continue 
uninterrupted, and the weather conditions in Central Illinois arsj 
peculiarly favorable to the multiplication of the chinch bug. 
general outbreak throughout the State seems threatened. 
H., C. L.— From Southern Minnesota. (Cultivator and Country 
Gentleman, Aug. 11, 1887, v. 52, p. 618.) 
Freeborn Co., Minn., July 27. Harvest hastened by chinch bugs 
More or less damage also in several counties adjacent. Serious 
injury confined to eight or nine southeastern counties. lnjUjj| 
done in adjoining parts of Wisconsin and Iowa. Hot dry weathej 
of May favored hatching of eggs. If second brood is snnuai * 
favored, it will be unwise to sow much wdieat next spring, j?, 
