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drawing to an end of the period of immunity and the beginning of a 

 series of years of abundance and destruction. These somewhat por- 

 tentous reports have come from the farmers of Ohio, Indiana, IlHnois, 

 Kansas, and Texas. Strangely enough, the city man has not been 

 allowed to rest unmolested and reports of serious ravages by chinch 

 bugs on lawns have come from the widely separated points, Brookhn, 

 N, Y., and Palm Beach, Fla. It is because of these ominous reports 

 that this publication has been prepared at this time with the hope 

 not only of sounding a note of warning, but also, if possible, of impres- 

 sing upon the farmer the necessity of watclifulness and the prompt 

 application of preventive measures where the insect is found to occur 

 in any considerable numbers. The Bureau of Entomology has the 

 present summer (1909) been carrying out much experimental and 

 demonstrative work in the West, notably in Kansas. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, September 10, 1909. 



[Cir. 113] 



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