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1863, p. 41. Rock Co. Weather dry and chinch bugs seriously 

 injuring the wheat. Aug. 22, 1863, p. 117. La Crosse Co. (12). 

 Spring wheat injured. 



Wilson, Wm. Duane. — Iowa Farmers' College, Crops, etc. ( Prairie 

 Farmer, July 4, 1863, v. 12, n. s., p. 4.) 

 Writing from Des Moines, says that owing to the lack of rain 

 and to chinch bugs the prospect for wheat is poor. 



F., L. F. — Jo Daviess County. Condition of Crops, Insect Foes, 

 Winter Wheat, etc. (Prairie Farmer, Aug. 22, 1863, v. 12, 

 n. s., p. 114.) 



Says wheat crop will range from five to thirty bushels per acre, 

 the unusual variation being due to the chinch bug. 



Illinois Fakmer, Aug., 1863, v. 8, p. 247. The Way to Prevent 

 the Ravages of the Chintz Bug. (Quotation from "Bureau 

 County Republican" with editorial comment. ) 



The writer of the quoted article thinks chinch bugs are due to 

 the poverty of the soil, as lice on cattle indicate half feeding. In 

 the field of a thrifty experimenting farmer he thought he saw 

 demonstration that heavy manuring and plowing in August saved 

 wheat from the chinch bugs and secured a good crop, since a 

 part of the same field plowed at the same time but not manured 

 bore poor wheat and little of it. Advises farmers to plow in 

 August or early September. The editor of the "Illinois Farmer" 

 grants that good culture is a remedy for the chinch bug, but em- 

 phasizes early sowing as a means of getting the crop out o£ the 

 insect's way. Thinks that in the field referred to, the manure may 

 have been put on the drier, better drained part, where the wheat, 

 of course, matured rapidly, and was deserted by the bugs in favor 

 of the greener, more succulent grain adjoining. Thinks that in a 

 wet season manure, by promoting heavy growth of straw, might 

 prove more disastrous to the crop than the chinch bugs, since be- 

 tween lodging and rust it must succumb entirely." Endorses 

 August plowing. Proper soil, early and thick seeding, and thorough 

 harrowing and rolling, he considers effectual against material chinch- 

 bug damage to spring wheat. 



GooDSiL, Curtis. — Crops in McHenry County. (Prairie Farmer, 

 Sept. 12, 1863, V. 12, n. s., p. 163.) 



Reports winter rye "injured by chinch bugs, and spring wheat 

 but half a crop." Says, "I observed portions of several fields 

 which had been manured, where chinch bugs did no damage, and a 

 heavy crop of good quality was the result." 



Fitch, Asa. — A BrieE Account of the most Important Injurious 

 Insects of the United States. (From Illustrated Annual of 

 Rural Affairs, j 



Among insects injurious to grain crops mentions the chinch 

 bug. [Not seen. See 1st Rept. State Ent., N. Y., p. 316.] 



