(p. 25). Yes, except, of course, the plowing up or burning 

 over, as recommended year in and year out by the learned 

 men of the Bureau of Entomology. 



The grain bug, hibernating as it does largely in shrubby 

 growth needed as a soil covering, can be effectively fought dur- 

 ing hibernation by encouraging the expanse of the poultry in- 

 dustry. "The hibernating adults . . . generally are found 

 directly underneath the material composing their hibernating 

 quarters or in loose material on the surface of the ground" 

 . . . (U. S. D. A. Bulletin, 779, p. 27). Thus poultry will 

 find them just where they look for other food, both animal and 

 vegetable. 



"The adults of the grain bug are very numerous locally 

 during the time of their emergence from hibernation in April 

 and May. In one instance 30 adults were found under a single 

 "cow chip" about 6 inches square ; and a total of 175 adults, 

 were found under the dead weeds along a 20-foot space of an, 

 irrigation ditch" '/'' '. . "A half grown chicken devoured 8 

 adults during a single day when placed in a large outdoor cage 

 with these insects. It has been commonly reported by farmers 

 that a diet of grain bugs often kills barnyard fowls, but these 

 reports have not been verified" (p. 32). 



Poultry are not expected to live on a diet of grain bugs, or 

 of range caterpillars when in the larval stage, or any other 

 one animal food, or a mixture of them, since that is clearly 

 contrary to their nature, but they normally want a mixed diet, 

 animal, vegetable and mineral. Cage a man without food, ex- 

 cept horseradish, and he will live longer if he leaves the horse- 



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