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farm of Mr. H. C. King, of the town of Hammond, St, Lawrence 

 county, may be examined. 



2. If the attack is detected, burn the dead grass and its surrounding 

 border of fifteen or twenty feet no: yet showing attack. This mav be 

 effectually done by first applying a covering of straw. A favoring 



ia lesira lie for the purpose. 



3. Plow the burned area (be::; still if the plowing extends bevond 

 this limit and embraces the entire meadow) in broad and deep farrows. 



ning the sod completely and flatly over, not permitting it to lie in 

 ridges. 



4. To insure the more effectual burying :: the insects that mav be 

 at present feeding upon, or preparing to pass the winter among," the 

 roots of the grasses, harrow the plowed surface slightly, and follow 

 with a heavy rolling. 



•: Where the meadows will not permit of plowing as above, gas-lime, 

 wherever it can be conveniently obtained from :ne gas-works at 



iborg, Wi tertown, etc., may be distributed over the ground, 

 the rate of 200 bushels to the acre. The gas-lime would also serve as 

 a valuable fertilizer. 



Of the above directions, the first four should be followed at once. 

 The application of gas-lime might be postponed until the month o: 

 November, before the setting in of winter, or to the early spring. I: 

 should be confined to the lead and infested portions of the meadows, 

 as in its fresh state it would kill the grass. In the winter, during 

 February, it may safely be distributed over the entire fields, where it 

 would probably serve the additional purpose of a preventive of a spring 

 attack. 



New attacks and more widespread distribution may be looked for 

 about the first :: June in the ensuing year. Directions for meeting 

 these, by other methods, will be given hereafter. 



It is hoped that every one interested will cheerfully comply with 

 the above directions, and Dot render necessary a resort to compulsory 

 legislation, which would undoubtedly call for a large increase of labor 

 and expenditure. The agricultural interests of the State of Xew York 

 may justly demand that, if possible to prevent it. the chinch-bug shall 

 not be allowed to gain a permanent footing as a grain and grass de- 

 :hin its borders. Its injuries in the State of Illinois, in a 

 s: ".rle year, were estimated at seventy-three millions of dollars — 

 almost five times the amount computed for the wheat-midge ravages in 

 New York, at the time of its greatest destructiveness. 



Officii of the State ENTOMOLOGIST, October 18, 1883. 



