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Thomas, Cyrus. — Entomological Notes, No. 2. Winter Plowing 

 and Spading. — Chinch Bugs. (Western Eural, Nov. 6, 1875.) 



Exhorts farmers to report results of experiments for destruction 

 of insects. Knowledge of what will not do any good is next in 

 importance to a knowledge of that which will. Time now, he says, 

 to apply torch to whatever rubbish may afford chinch bugs win- 

 ter quarters. Knows no better practical preventive. Mentions 

 finding a few bugs that had survived the wet weather of the 

 summer, but had been destroyed by some insect enemy — probably 

 the spotted lady bug {Hippodamia maculata). 



Thomas, Cyrus.— Lime for Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, Nov. 

 6, 1875.) 



Thinks it probable that lime would be beneficial as a fertilizer, 

 assisting the plant to resist the attack of the bugs, but gives it as 

 his opinion that it will not destroy them unless administered in 

 such quanties as to kill the wheat. Urges concert of action in 

 burning them in their winter quarters. 



Glover, Townend. — Report of the Entomologist. ( Repoi t [ U. S. ] 

 Commiss. of Agriculture for 1874, p. 127.) 



In 1873 chinch bug heard of in only one county east of Alleghany 

 Mountains — Halifax, Virginia. In 1874 more or less destructive to 

 small grain, corn, and grass in various Atlantic Coast states and in West 

 Virginia and Kentucky. It was also reported from various counties 

 in Ohio and Indiana, and the drought favored their operations as 

 far north as Wisconsin. They were quite injurious in some parts 

 of Iowa, but their most fatal ravages were in Missouri, where they 

 were so numerous on some farms as to swarm into houses and 

 barns. They were particularly destructive to grass and 'grain, but 

 in some localities corn adjacent to wheat suffered, and in others 

 wheat on timber land measurably escaped. Kansas reports more 

 or less injury in twenty-seven counties. In Illinois, destructive 

 sweep still wider, embracing the following counties: Menard, 

 Sangamon, Perry, Effingham, Fayette, Jackson, Clay, Madison, 

 Clinton, St. Clair, Massac, White, Randolph, Cass, Pike, Logan, 

 Cumberland, Hancock, Macon, Marion, Pope, Mason, McHenry,. 

 Crawford, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery, Moultrie, Morgan, Rich- 

 land, Vermilion, Wasliington, Wayne, Piatt, Schuyler, Shelby, and 

 Edwards. In some of tht^se comities they appeareil early enough 

 to attack winter wheat before harvest and to nuike the wheat 

 stu])ble a point of attack upon tlu^ various s})ring-S()wn crops. 



MuHLEMAN, J. R. — Insect Life in Winter. (Trans. 111. State Hort. 

 Soc. 1874, p. 250.) 



Mi^ntion of trn|)|)ing chiiu;h bugs and otliej- insects under boards- 

 phiced in orchard tor that purpose. 



