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Statistical Report Illinois State Board of Agriculture, 
Aug. 1, 1888. Circular No. 142, pp. 15-27. Correspondents’ 
Remarks. 
Alexander, Bond, Clark, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Piiiy, 
Pope, Pulaski, Washington, Wayne, and Williamson Co s. Corn 
more or less damaged. Clinton, Cranford, DuPage, Fayette, Ga la- 
tin, and Hamilton Co's. Corn adjacent to wheat more or less dam¬ 
aged. Edwards Co. Corn injured by drouth and chinch bugs. Jas¬ 
per Co. After wheat harvest, attacked oats, doing considerable dam- 
ao-e. Macoupin Co. Heavy rains have destroyed the chinch bugs, 
which have been working on corn since wheat harvest. Madison 
Co. Winter wheat was considerably damaged. Wabash Go. Corn 
on high land injured. 
Farmers’ Review, Aug. 1, 1888, v. 19, p. 490. Chinch Bugs there 
A farmer in Ohio writes that finding chinch bugs on his cofr 
about the first of July he applied kerosene emulsion three time* 
and escaped injury by them. Never heard of them there before 
Thinks they bred in wheat adjoining the corn. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug. 4, 1888, v. 60, p. 507. Weather and Cro] 
Notes. 
In the cliinch-bng region of Illinois the yield of wheat per acn 
is as unsatisfactory as its low grade. Complaints of injury ion 
chinch bugs and other insects more numerous and general tliai 
for many years. _ * 
From Edwards Co., Ill., a correspondent writes that clime, 
bugs have ruined a great deal of corn, and that meadows aie ger 
erally poor on account of drouth and bugs last year. 
Gillette, C. P.— A New Chinch-Bug Enemy. (Prairie Farmei 
Aug. 11, 1888.) 
A fungoid disease is destroying millions of chinch bug^s on th 
grounds of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, ihe iui 
gus belongs to the genus Entomophthora. 
Barnhill, J. B.—Chinch Bugs in Vermont. (Albion [Ill.] Journa 
Aug. 23, 1888. Reprinted from Louisville Ledger.) 
About twenty years ago these bugs began to infest farms ij 
this region and ruined a number of crops. Farmers stopped ran 
ing wheat, and in two or three years the bugs disappeared. 
Patrick, I. A.—The New Enemy of the Chinch Bug. (Prairi 
Farmer, Aug. 25, 1888, v. 60, p. 545.) . 
Writing from Iola, Clay Co., Ill., he says that about July j 
or 10 he observed among the chinch bugs the same disease r 
cently reported by C. P. Gillette. (See under Aug. 1L) 
all died, depositing no eggs. 
