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Prairie Farmer, Oct., 1850, v. 10, p. 320. The Chinch Bug. 



Editors recommend for trial mixing fall wheat, two quarts 

 to the l)usliel, with seed sprins: wheat. Latter, coming up first, 

 ^'soou becomes tough," while former is slower and more tender 

 for bugs to work on. Similar method of sowing fall wdieat advo- 

 •cated. An informant had practiced it three years and considered it 

 an infallible remedy. 



1851. 



Prairie Farmer, Feb., 1851, v. 11, p. 56. Season and Crops of 

 1850. 



"In some half dozen counties of Northern Illinois, including 

 Kane, DuPage, Will, and DeKalb, the wheat crop was attacked by 

 the chinch bug in most extraordinary numbers, and the greatest 

 ■devastation was the result." Corn crop injured in some places. 



Prairie Farmer, Aug., 1851, v. 11, p. 335. The Chinch Bug. 



Editorial note stating that the bug has within two or three 

 previous years been injurious in Will, DeKalb, Kendall, Kane, 

 DuPage and McHenry counties. Attacks wheat, oats, corn, and 

 grass. Not reported in 1851. "The great amount of water has 

 been favorable to their destruction." 



Harris, T. W. — Chinch Bug {Rhyparodiromus devastator). (Al- 

 bany Cultivator, Dec, 1851, v. 8, No. 12, pp. 402, 403.) [Not 

 seen.] 



Harris, T. W. — (Insects Injurious to Vegetation, ed. 3, p. 198.) 



Gives a description of young and adult chinch bug from living 

 ■specimens. Says, "It is a mistake that these insects are confined 

 to states south ot 40°, for I have been favored with them by 

 Prof. Lathrop, of Beloit College, Wis., and by Dr. LeBaron, of 

 Geneva, 111." Appear in June on wheat and in all stages during 

 the summer "on all kinds of grain, on corn, and on herds-grass." 

 Some continue alive all winter in places of concealment. 



1854. 



Yawter, Wm. — Season in Missouri. (Prairie Farmer, Sept., 1854, 

 V. 14, p. 326.) 



Writing from Monroe Co., Mo., says, "The chinch bug, in some 

 sections, destroyed the corn and wheat crops." 



1855. 



Praijue Farmer, Jan. 3, 1855, v. 15, p. 30. The Chinch Bug. 



The "Warsaw Express" reports this pest as very ])lentiful in 

 Hancock and McDonough counties the past season. Thinks that 

 as the bugs havci no power of locomotion except their legs, j)low- 

 ing, say, ten furrows firound a field will keep them out. 



