Hi MAINE STATE COLLEGE. 



1. Watch the fields after haj'ing and if the bugs begin to work in 

 patches as shown by dead places in the grass then aX once spray the 

 living grass for a distance of ten feet where the bugs are feeding 

 along the edges of the patches with kerosene emulsion. 



2. Should the bugs appear over the whole or the greater part of 

 a field there is no hope of saving it but in order to destroy the bugs 

 the land should be plowed deep and rolled as soon as possible after 

 haying. 



3. So far as possible it would be well to burn grass lands. The 

 burning destroys some and the remainder are more exposed during 

 the winter to injury. After haying or early in the fall all rubbish 

 about the fences and border of the fields should be raked in heaps. 

 The bugs will seek the rubbish for winter quarters. The rubbish 

 should be burned late in the fall or very early in the spring. 



4. The chinch bug feeds only on plants of the grass family. 

 Fields badly infested could be planted to clover, buckwheat, beans, 

 potatoes, turnips, etc., and the bugs starved. Frequent rotation 

 of grass with the above crops would tend to keep them in check. 

 If by concerted action all of the infested field in the area could be 

 turned after haying the same season, it would go far toward 

 destroying the pest. Whatever method is adopted there should be 

 concerted action. The chinch bug does not travel very much and 

 the application of remedial measures and its suppression becomes 

 largely an individual matter. No farmer can lay the blame for its 

 presence and depredations upon the inactivity of a shiftless neighbor. 



