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stages (Eiley's), and characters of nine varieties as pointed out 

 by Fitch. Remedies, natural and artificial, considered at length, 

 with quotations from Fitch and Riley laying particular stress upon 

 drenching or irrigation as the best preventive measure where prac- 

 ticable. Statistical comparison of chinch-bug injuries to wheat 

 and corn in Northwestern States, showing that corn sustained the 

 greatest damage in the three great chinch-bug years, 1864, 1871, 

 and 1874. Clean and diversified farming best methods of prevent- 

 ing increase. Entire loss to nation in 1874 estimated at $100,000,- 

 000. "As the species seems to have a maximum of development 

 about every five years," the annual loss to the nation is probably 

 about $20,000,000. 



Wells, T. C. — Notes from [Manhattan] Kansas. (Am. Ent., Mar., 

 1880, V. 3, p. 77.) 



"Although we had a very wet season in 1878, and plenty of 

 rain in 1879, the chinch bug continues troublesome, injuring 

 spring wheat very materially, also millet, and where these are cut 

 going for the corn. Some fields of corn were very badly dam- 

 aged by them last season." 



American Entomologist, March, 1880, v. 3, p. 75. 



"Prof. Cyrus Thomas has expressed the opinion that if we have 

 a dry, early summer, the chinch bug will be very troublesome in 

 the West the present year." 



Pacific Rural Press, May 8, 1880. The Chinch Bug. 



Publishes query from Prof. Cyrus Thomas as to appearance of 

 chinch bug on Pacific coast, answering in the negative, and quot- 

 ing a paragraph from his recent article on the chinch bug (Bull. U. 

 S. Ent. Commission, No. 5). 



Prairie Farmer, May 29, 1880. Chinch Bugs. 



A letter from Ford Co., 111., states that chinch bugs are abun- 

 dant in small grain, and inquires if it should be plowed up to 

 save the corn. Editors give extracts from Thomas's bulletin on 

 the chinch bug. 



Prairie Farmer, July 17, 1880. [Answer to Correspondent.] 



"If barley, winter or spring, is chinch-bug proof, we are 

 not aware of it." 



Cary, S. L. — Chinch Bug in Iowa and Minnesota. (Am. Ent., 

 August, 1880, V. 3, p. 206.) 

 Writing July 1, says Northeastern Iowa and Southeastern Min- 

 nesota have been greatly infested with chincli bugs, which came 

 as early as April, and were flying in great numbers about the 

 10th of Juno. Thny commenced laying eggs, but a wet spring 

 and summer (h^sti'oycd most of them. 



