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Paemers' Eeview, July 21, 1881, v. 7, p. 41. The Chinch-Bug 

 Pest. 



Complaint concerning chinch-bug injuries to wheat more wide- 

 spread than for many years. Principal damage done on old lands. 

 Editor recommends fertilizers. Mentions a field exhausted by nearly 

 fifty years' cultivation, which was in part fertilized with barn- 

 yard manure and slight admixture of wood ashes and plaster. On 

 fertilized portion, wheat unusually thrifty and free from insects; 

 on unfertilized, thin and sickly, insects wholly destroying it before 

 harvest-time. "They never attacked the grain on the manured 

 land, though the pieces were only divided by the furrow up to 

 where manure had been applied." Proprietor said he had never 

 seen chinch bugs or Hessian fly in wheat where nitrogenous fer- 

 tilizers had been freely applied. Thinks insects are seldom 

 troublesome until soil has lost a large percentage of nitrogen and 

 phosphates. Considers these properties objectionable to the in- 

 sects. 



MosELY, Henry C. — From Central Illinois. (Farmers' Review, 

 Aug. 4, 1881, V. 7, p. 73.) 



Notes the mistake of a farmer who, after plowing under in spring 

 a piece of fall wheat devoured by the chinch bugs, planted the 

 land to corn and lost that. ' Better plan to have sowed buckwheat. 



Farmer and Fruit Grower, Aug. 17, 1881. Perry County Crops. 



For fifty years has not been such an utter failure of crops as 

 this season. Drouth and chinch bugs. 



Thomas, Cyrus. — Crop Destroyers: The Corn Worm, Chinch Bug, 

 and Army Worm. (Farmers' Review, Aug. 18, 1881.) 



Mention of verification of his chinch-bug predictions for 1881. 

 "Although our farmers have suffered severely by this verification, 

 it may be of value to them in the future, as it is additional evi- 

 dence of the correctness of my statement that chinch bugs will 

 only appear generally and in injurious numbers where two dry 

 years appear in succession, the latter being above the ordinary 

 temperature. If my warnings had been lieeded, and farmers had 

 relied upon oats instead of corn for stock provender, a very large 

 saving would have been the result." 



Prairie Farmer, Aug. 20, 1881. The Chinch Bug. 



Editorial not(! of present serious injuries in the West, with com- 

 piled account of history and life history of the chinch bug. 



Thomas, Cyrus.— Corn Worms, Chinch Bugs, Hc^ssian Fly. (Prai- 

 rie Farmer, Aug. 20, 1881. ) 



Reference to his advice to sow outs instead oi' corn, and the 

 benefit that might liave resulted if it had been regarded. After 

 tlie appearance of th(^ bugs, irrigation the only way of destroying 

 them without destroying the crop, — and that is very seldom prac- 

 tical jle. 



