The estimated loss to the crops in Iowa from chinch bugs last year was $20,000,000.

The mention of this pest for 1888 by the several counties in Iowa is as follows: Adair: in some places, no damage. Allamakee: numerous, no loss. Benton: working on rye, thick, no damage yet. Black Hawk: large numbers on small grain;, unless there should be heavy rains they will occasion loss. Bremer: numerous in some places. Clayton: a few in one township. Clinton: mere mention, no damage. Crawford: made their appearance; cold weather and spring rains destroyed them. Decatur: the wet and cold May destroyed them. Grundy: some on small grain. Guthrie: chinch bugs by million on winter wheat; plowed it under and planted to corn. Howard: in large numbers; apprehensions of loss. Jackson: plenty, and would prove destructive if season were dry. Jasper: are flying. Johnson: began to fly in swarms May moths not doing much damage; numerous on rye, thick on wheat and on some picces of oats. Louisa: - some in wheat. Lucas: abundant, but copious rains kept them from doing material damage. Madison: made their appearance in two townships. Marshall: same, no damage. Mitchell: numerous, but causing no alarm. Palo Alto: cold rain destroyed them. Plymouth: wheat destroyed by them. Polk: plentiful. Poweohiek; a great many in corn fields where wheat was turned under. Ringgold: made their appearance. Story: some, doing no harm, one township. Van Buren: in some localities.

Benton, cut worm on spring plowed timothy sod; very bad on sod corn; Boone, out worms damaged some fields of corn 15 per cent.; ravaged by out worms; grub worms numerous; Buchanan, cut worms on new timothy sod; corn destroyed by same pests; Butler, cut worms on corn; Carroll, oats badly injured by worms; damage by cut worms; Cedar, trouble with cut worms; Clarke, trouble with army worms on timothy. meadows; Clinton, cut worms caused some replanting; Dallas, grub and cut worms; cut worms very troublesome; Davis, wire worms never so bad on flat lands; worms destroying timothy beads; worms working on corn; Decatur, cut worms numerous and destructive; Delaware, cutworms unusually numerous and destructive; Des Moines, wire and cut worms made a loss; bad on sod ground; Fayette, cut worms on timothy sod; Franklin, cut worm .doing damage to corn on sod and manured spring plowing; Greene, corn greatly damaged by cut worms; Guthrie, loss from cut and grub worms; Hardin, cut worms bad in garden and corn fields; cut worms doing considerable damage; Henry, some trouble from cut and wire worms; corn on sod ground destroyed by wire worms; replanting necessary; cut worms and wire worms; birds and worms; Iowa, sod corn badly damaged by cut worms and ants; same; cut worms made replanting necessary; cut worms very bad; Jackson, cut worms very destructive; on sod ground; Jasper, cut worms injuring gardens and corn on sod ground; cut worms are thick, and doing damage to corn; cut worms unusually bad; Johnson, cut worms and the striped stock borer are doing much harm; some cut worms; but little corn replanted; cut worms never known to be so bad; Jones, cut worms destroyed corn on sod ground; much had to be replanted; Keokuk, cut worms destroyed first planting on sod ground; Lee, corn backward; ground full of wire worms; Linn, cut worms very destructive; same; Louisa, corn had to be replanted on account of wire worms; cut worms and little red ants; cut worms and wire worms played havoc with corn; out worms on sod ground planted to corn; Madison, out worms material damage on sod ground; Mahaska seven eighths of crop replanted on old ground; out worms on sod; Marshall, ten per cent. of the corn destroyed by squirrels and out worms, and other insects; Monroe, cut worms damaging corn; Muscatine, cut worms on sod ground; an enemy to the strawberry plant, is a small worm 5 of an inch long made its appearance; cut worms in immense numbers destroying whole fields of corn.