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as the other small grains, only now and then a small area 
showing noticeable injury. Corn next to spring wheat, rye, or 
barley, suffered considerable damage, several rows next such fields 
often being almost wholly worthless. Fields at a distance from 
the small grains contained bugs in limited numbers scattered all 
through them, but were not commonly damaged noticeably. 
The situation in these northern counties in the summer and fall 
of 1891 is shown more specifically in the following brief abstracts 
of field notes and correspondence: 
McHenry. — Marengo , Oct. 35. Second year of appearance. Great dam¬ 
age to rye, oats, and corn; some rye and corn not harvested. Woodstock , 
Oct. 16. Abundant all over the county. Wheat, corn, and barley attacked; 
corn not much hurt. Damage greater than last year. 
Boone. — Belvidere, Oct. 15. Bugs reported five miles from town, where 
rye was being plowed up because of them. 
Winnebago. — Bockford, Oct. 17. Abundant all through this region. Rye 
not much harmed; barley severely attacked; wheat and corn attacked vari¬ 
ously. One crop of corn reported not worth gathering; another piece was 
half destroyed; and one field of seven acres of wheat yielded fifteen bushels 
gross. Pecatonica, Oct. 18. The bugs are in corn nearly a mile from the 
nearest stubble. Twenty acres of corn two miles north of town quite 
spoiled by bugs coming out of rye.', 
Stephenson. — Bidott , Oct. 39. Bugs passed from rye to corn, doing no 
very marked damage to either. On bottom-land found bugs on corn with 
no stubble near. Lena , Oct. 20. Bugs generally present, but little com¬ 
plaint of injury. One farmer reports bugs in wheat, going thence into 
corn and damaging it seriously. Warren , Oct. 20. Traces of chinch bugs 
only. 
Kane.— Hampshire , Oct. 14. Chinch bugs appeared here two years ago: 
last year in greater numbers than the year before. This year, barley, 
wheat, and corn damaged. Wm. Warrington had three acres of wheat de¬ 
stroyed, and H. Gilkerson had fifteen acres of wheat injured and three 
acres of corn destroyed. A neighbor of his had three or four acres of 
spring wheat and two or three acres of corn destroyed. 
DeKalb. — New Lebanon, June 2. “Abundant in wheat and barley.” Genoa , 
Oct. 15. Chinch bugs reported in wheat, Hungarian, and corn. They are 
also found in the vicinity of Sycamore. Shabbona, Oct. 20. Chinch bugs 
common in corn. Somewhat injurious. 
Ogle.— Davis Junction , Oct. 14. Traces of bugs all along the road from 
here to Stillman’s Valley. Stillman's Valley , Oct. 14. A few rows of corn 
next rye and spring wheat injured. Paine's Point , Oct. 15. Bugs went 
from rye into corn ; both damaged some. Barley injured also, one acre of 
corn destroyed, and seven acres badly damaged. Oregon , Oct. 15. Five 
acres of corn east of town reported destroyed. Ghana , Oct. 15. Bugs gen¬ 
erally diffused between here and Paine’s Point. Two or three acres of 
corn destroyed by bugs coming from rye. Forreston , Oct. 15. Bugs were 
flying thickly about this time last year. Hibernated abundantly in woods. 
Rye, barley, spring wheat, and corn hurt about as badly last year as this. 
North of town ten acres of rye was so badly damaged as to be plowed up. 
Five acres of corn badly damaged ; much rye, barley, and spring wheat cut 
before it ripened to save it from the bugs. Reports from Mt. Morris , 
Baileyville, and Bochelle show the bugs to be generally distributed over the 
county. 
Whiteside .—Sterling , Oct. 21. Chinch bugs few, no important damage. 
Warning of possible danger impending was widely distributed 
by me through the bulletins of the State Agricultural Experi- 
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