Excerpt from Eleventh Report of the State Entomologist: On the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois Dear Sir: In submitting the "Eleventh Report of the State Entomologist on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois," allow me to express my thanks to you and the Board for the encouragement I have always received from you in this work. I am happy to state with even more emphasis than at the time of submitting my previous report, that the demand for these works is still on the increase in our own State and elsewhere. The outside demand has in fact become so great, that I have been compelled to ask your Secretary to meet it, as far as possible, with copies bound with the Transactions of the Board, as the two hundred separate copies allowed me for distribution were wholly inadequate for this purpose. Although I have material on hand sufficient to make a report about the same size as that of last year, it has been thought best that I cut it down so that it shall not exceed, when printed, one hundred and twenty-five pages. In the preparation of this report I have been aided by Mr. D. W. Coquillett, who resides in the northern portion of the State, and was engaged in making observations for me in that section during the past season; also by Prof. French. As you are well aware, the predictions I made last year (1880) that the Chinch-bugs would probably appear in injurious numbers in 1881 unfortunately for our farmers has proved only too true. This fact tends strongly to confirm me in the belief that my deductions, drawn from a comparison of the weather records of our State and the adjoining sections, are substantially correct, and that the periodicity indicated in my last report is a climatic law of this portion of our country. Judging, therefore, by this apparent periodicity, and what has been ascertained in reference to the history, habits, and cause of increase of these pests (the Chinch-bugs), I have elsewhere ventured to predict with much confidence that they will do no material injury in 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.