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latter. This is hardly practicable ; it would be somewhat 

 expensive, as the millet would have to be drenched in order 

 to make the process effective. If straw were strewn over the 

 millet plants in sufficient quantity and then burned, the bugs 

 would undoubtedly perish. It will be noted that I do not 

 emphasize any of these methods of killing bugs on the millet. 

 As far as known it has not been tried, and hence we cannot 

 speak from experience ; but it will certainly be tried at the 

 Experiment Station farm next summer. I regard it as an 

 important point, for, having next year's interests in vieiu, the 

 farmer should not be content zvith merely saving his present corn 

 crop zuhen apparently such a good opportunity is at hand to kill 

 off the pest by the ivholesale. 



One farmer in Meeker county suggests putting straw along 

 the edge of the corn after the wheat is ripe, claiming that the 

 bugs will gather upon it and through it in large numbers when 

 they are moving to the corn and can be burned with the 

 straw. It is doubtful whether the straw will stop them. 



5. It would seem desirable, when wheat follows com, to 

 plow the corn land in the fall and not leave the corn stubble 

 and com shocks standing, excellent places for wintering 

 Chinch Bugs, until spring. 



6. Corn should be planted as far away as possible from 

 wheat or barley. 



In order to place all the information possible before the 

 wheat grower and corn raiser, I insert below the remedies 

 suggested in the Report for 1902 verbatim. In doing so I 

 desire to emphasize one or two points mentioned in the text. 



In the first place, in making a furrow about the corn field, 

 one should be sure to throw the furrow aivay from the corn. 

 Secondly, in the wet weather which prevailed last summer it 

 was practically impossible to keep a furrow dusty, hence the 

 means was not as effective as it might otherwise have been. 

 Tar is somewhat expensive, and some farmers who have used 

 it report lack of success. This may be due to the fact of its 

 not being renewed or not enough used. The first application 

 generally sinks into soil. 



Remedies and Means of Prevention (as given in Report for 

 1902) : 



