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Fitch, Asa. — Address on our most Pernicious Insects. (Trans. 

 N. Y. State Agric. Soc, 1859, v. 19, p. 590.) 



Says the midge, the joint worm, and the chinch bug, work on 

 the wheat crop in America to an extent unparalleled by European 

 insects. 



1861. 



Prairie Farmer, Feb. 21, 1861, v. 7, n. s., p. 118. Hungarian 

 Grass vs. Chinch Bugs. 



A correspondent from Kankakee county thinks that a strip of 

 Hungarian grass ten feet wide is a sure protection to corn adja- 

 cent to infested wheat. He sowed Hungarian, thick, about the 

 first of June, and although the bugs were very numerous and left 

 the wheat at harvest, they did not get more than two feet into 

 the Hungarian. [Doubtless completed development and took wing. 

 See next item.] 



Prairie Farmer, Mar. 21, 1861, v. 7, n. s., p. 182. Chinch Bugs 

 vs. Hungarian Grass. 



A correspondent says that when chinch bugs prevail, Hungarian 

 grass is as uncertain as wheat and barley and timothy and clover. 

 Twelve acres between corn and wheat was all eaten up. [See item 

 above. ] 



Prairie Farmer, April 25, 1861, v. 7, n. s., p. 365. Hungarian 

 and Bugs. 



A correspondent mentioned above, under "Prairie Farmer," Feb. 

 21, thinks the experience given under date Mar. 21 may be due to 

 time and manner of sowing the Hungarian — too early and not thick 

 enough. 



Thomas, Cyrus. — Entomological Notes. No. 1. (Prairie Farmer, April 

 25, 1861, V. 7, n. s., p. 268.) 



Incidental mention of the enormous increase of the chinch bug 

 since the time it was unnoticed as a destructive insect, slovenly 

 agriculture being held partly accountable for the fact. 



Prairie Farmer. Eecord of the Season. 



Aug. 15, 1861, V. 8, n. s., p. 89. Peoria Co. Late-sown wheat 

 taken by bugs. Aug. 29, 1861, p. 121. Whiteside Co. . Chinch 

 bugs and rust damaged wheat. 



Iowa. — Aug. 15, 1861, v. 8, n. s., p. 89. Van Bur en Co. A 

 farmer protected his corn by pouring boiling water over every hill 

 in the first row just as the bugs had fairly entered. Sept. 12, 

 1861,* p. 153. JDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Louisa, Lucas, 

 Monroe, and Wapello Co's. Wheat crop injured very much by 

 bugs and rust. 



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