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sac, Wayne, White, and Williamson Co's. Chinch bngs in con 
Effingham, Fayette, and Jasper Co's. Some complaint of chine 
bugs, but recent rains have checked ravages. Hamilton, Lau 
rence, and Marion Co's. Chinch bugs in wheat and corn; nc 
much damage. Pope Co. Some complaint of chinch bugs. Shelb 
Co. Corn adjacent to wheat and rye injured. Wabash CV 
•Chinch bugs are worse than ever known before. 
Statistical Report Illinois State Board of Agriculturi 
July 1, 1888, Circular 141, p. 21. Chinch Bugs. 
At a mass meeting of the farmers of Crawford county, called t 
consider methods of protecting their crops against the chinch bu£ 
after an address by Prof. Forbes on “The Relations of Whea 
Culture to the Chinch Bug in Illinois,” the following resolution 
were adopted: 
“Resolved, That we, the farmers of Crawford comity, in mass meeting assembled, do hereb 
promise and agree with each other that we will not raise as crops on our lands in this county an 
wheat, barley, or rye for the next three years; and that we will use our influence in our neighbo 
hoods, in every way practicable, to prevent the raising of these crops by others. 
“Resolved, That we will use every reasonable and safe opportunity to burn over, in fall c 
-spring, all headlands, thickets, and woodlands, and to destroy all waste and rubbish which ca 
afford a winter harborage to the chinch bug. 
“ Resolved , That we intend to practice and earnestly recommend the heavy fertilization of a 
ground devoted to crops especially liable to injury by the chinch bug. 
“Resolved, That since it has now been proven that under existing conditions all the cultivate 
grasses may be badly damaged by the chinch bug in spring and early summer, while clover is ei 
tirely free from liability to such injury, we urgently advise the sowing of clover for forage instea 
of the grasses. 
“Resolved, That .we advise that especial attention be paid during the coming season to sue 
crops as the chinch bug does not attack. 
“ Resolved , That we suggest, as a most promising and important experiment, the sowing ( 
■plots of wheat or rye to be plowed up and killed late in May or early in June, and to be followe 
with millet or Hungarian—this to be plowed up in turn when well stocked with the eggs and youn 
of the second brood of the chinch bug. 
“Measures were also taken to hold similar meetings in the dif 
ferent towns and districts of the county, with a view to making 
the action general.” 
Farmers’ Review, July 11, 1888. 
From Richland county, Ill., a correspondent writes that tin 
-chinch bugs were at work during the dry cold w^eather from the 
first of March to the middle of May. Still at work in oats anc 
•corn, though recent rains have checked them. 
Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State Weathei 
Service for July, 1888. Weekly Weather Crop-Bulletins 
pp. 9-12. Crop Prospects. 
July 7. Chinch bugs are still operating on the wheat. July 14 
Complaints of damage to corn from chinch bugs are mainly frou 
southern counties. July 28. The complaints of injury to crops 
from chinch bugs and other insects have not for man} 
years been so numerous or generally distributed as during present 
season. In many of the southern counties farmers are holding 
mass meetings to determine the most practical methods of destroy¬ 
ing the chinch bug. 
