100 
Wheat nearly ruined; corn damaged. Montgomery Co. Corn am 
oats badly injured. Richland Co. Corn on high lands nearb 
ruined. 
Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State Weathei 
Service for August, 1887, pp. 9, 10. Condition of Crops 
Aug. 20. “There has not been for years such serious and gen 
eral complaint of the damage resulting to corn from chinch bugs.' 
Aug. 27. Excepting Pulaski, the counties of the southern par 
of the State report from less than one fourth to one hal 
an average crop of corn, owing to chinch bugs and drouth. 
Truesdell, J. A.—Preventive for the Chinch Bug. (Cultivato 1 
and Country Gentleman, Sept. 1, 1887, v. 52, p. 673.) 
To protect uninfested grain, drill in thickly, all round the field 
a strip of ordinary field corn a rod or two in width. If a good stam 
of corn is obtained by June 15, the protected field will not be in 
vaded. A heavy sowing of salt is a check. Burn the corn stubbl 
if there is any left. 
J[ohnson], B. F.—Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator am 
Country Gentleman, Sept. 1, 1887, v. 52, p. 690.) 
Concludes from Mr. Chamberlain’s observations that chinch bug 
cannot be controlled by any human means, but that the weathe 
alone can reduce their outbreaks. Liberal rainfall since 1881 hal 
restrained this pest in Central Illinois. Wheat generally replace* 
by oats on the bluff lands along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabasi, 
on account of the chinch bug. 
Farmers’ Beview, Sept. 14, 1887. Plan for a Crusade agains 
Destructive Insects. 
A Kansas farmer outlines the following procedure: Plow unde 
land this fall, and in spring plant only so much ground as can bi 
well manured and such crops as the chinch bug will not infest 
viz., red clover, flax, potatoes, and castor beans. Let residue o 
land remain fallow until about the time of the hatching of the 
first brood, then turn under all grass and weeds. If this plow 
ing does not destroy the young bugs it will do the land no harm 
Follow with harrow and drag, and crab grass for hay may be ex 
pected. 
Farmers’ Review, Sept. 14, 1887, v. 18, p. 588. ,'j 
Correspondent from Zumbra Falls, Minn., reports that chincl 
bug ravaged that section terribly the past season. Editors indorst 
Mr. Chamberlain’s recommendation of abandonment of wheat 
Hungarian, etc. “Farm for corn, cattle, dairy products, hogs, am 
colts.” 
Chamberlain, W. I.—The Drouth in Central Iowa. (Cultivator 
and Country Gentlemen, Sept. 15, 1887, v. 52, p. 708.) 
Corn cut prematurely on account of chinch-bug attack. Would liavt 
been very large but for this. 
