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J[ohnson], B. F. — [Letters from Champaign County, Illinois, in 

 Farmers' Review.] 



Aug. 25, 1881, V. 7, p. 121. "In case rain enough does not fall 

 between this time and October 15, the chinch bugs will be pretty 

 sure to take the new crop of wheat as soon as it is above the 

 ground, as they did in the fall of 1874 -* * -* I suggest that 

 rye be sown in the place of wheat, for the several reasons that it 

 is comparatively indifferent to a dry seed-bed, may be sown any 

 time in October, repels the chinch bug[?], and will not be injured 

 by any amount of cold and dry weather." Sept. 15, 18-1, p. 169. 

 Corn full of chinch bugs whether near small grain stubbles or re- 

 • mote. Recently saw them flying in swarms. Predicts injury to 

 fall wheat if sown rarly. [Also in Prairie Farmer, Sept. 17, 1881.] 

 Oct. 20, 1881, p. 249. Wheat doing well, the chinch bugs having 

 been greatly reduced in number; but corn was in poor condition 

 to stand two or three weeks of rain at high temperature, having 

 been dwarfed by late planting and drought and the sap-sucking 

 chinch bugs. 



Bush, J. G. — The F. R. Club. Morgan and Scott Counties. (Far- 

 mers' Review, Sept. 8, 1881, v! 7, p. 153.) 



With the general unfavorable weather and chinch bugs, it is a • 

 wonder that crops are so good as they are. 



French, G. H.- -Katydids vs. Chinch Bugs: (Prairie Farmer, 

 Sept. 17, 1881.) 



Quotes a respectable farmer as author ity that Katydids eat 

 chinch bugs. 



Riley, C. Y. — The Chinch Bug. (American Naturalist, October, 

 1881, V. 15, p. 820.) 



The connection between meteorological conditions and the in- 

 crease or decrease of the chinch bug, has long been recognized by 

 entomologists. Generalizing from chronological data on this point. 

 Prof. Thomas, a year ago, predicted that the insect would prob- 

 ably be bad in 1881. The recent chinch-bug convention at Wind- 

 er, Kansas — the first ever held in the United States — is evidence 

 L the disastrous character of its ravages in the West. A large 

 number of farmers were present and adopted a resolution to 

 •bandon the culture of wheat for a time. It would have been 

 <d\ for the farmers of that region if they had heeded the recom- 

 ifindation of Prof. Thomas that this year large areas of oats be 

 >wn. The chinch bug has been quite common in all parts of the 

 country the present season. In August it injured rice fields near 

 Savanna, Georgia; and in July was noticed in great numbers on 

 "sand-oats" and other grasses on the dunes of Fortress Monroe, 

 Virginia. 



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