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Western Eueal, May 17, 1884. Insecticides. 



Editorial mention of Professor Forbes' s success in destroying 

 chinch bugs with kerosene emulsion, 



Kane, Kirk. — How to beat the Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, 

 June 21, 1884. Extract in The Issue, July 5, 1884.) 



Writing from Southern Illinois notes general immunity from 

 <?hinch-bug damage in 1874 and 1882 in wheat fields where timo- 

 thy had been sown the fall before, while others were destroyed. 

 Thinks the thick growth of timothy holds dampness nearly all day 

 and prevents the increase of the bugs. 



Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Keports returned to 

 the Department of Agriculture Aug. 1, 1884. Circular No. 

 116, p. 61. Correspondents' Kemarks. 



Hamilton Co. Chinch but^js have made their appearance again 

 in localities. 



Forbes, S. A.— Notes of the Year [1883]. ^ (Thirteenth Kept. 

 State Ent. 111., p. 9. Abstract in Cultivator and Country 

 Gentleman, Oct. 30, 1884.) 



Practically no damage by the chinch bug in 1883, but it is not 

 far below the danger line. 



Harrington, AV. H. — Exhibition of Insects. (Can. Ent. Nov., 

 1884, V. 16, p. 218.) 



Exhibited specimens of chinch bugs from Sydney, Cape Breton, 

 where he had found theai abundant. 



Illinois Crops for 1884. Circular [of the Department of Agri- 

 culture], No. 118, pp. 160, 166. Correspondents' Remarks. 



Clark Co. Corn, in localities, poor and chalfy, owing to chinch 

 bug and drouth. Marion Co. Yield of corn far short of that of 

 1888, owing to the chinch bug. 



PjRUNER, Lawrence. — Notes from Nebraska. (Eept. [U. S.] Corn- 

 miss. Agric, 1884, p. 399.) 



Great numbers of bugs appeared in grain fields in Cuming, 

 Burt, and Washington counties early in July, but heavy rains set 

 in soon after and the bugs disappeared. 



Forres, S. A. — The False Chinch Bug ( .Vys/^/s (/r's/r/^c/o?-, Kiley ). 

 (Thirteenth Eept. State Ent. 111. [1883], p. 105.) 



Distinction between chinch bug and false chinch bug noted. 



Mendeniiall, R. J. — Entomological Notes for the Season of 1883. 

 (Trans. Minn. State Hort. Soc, 1884, p. 140.) 



Chinch bug prosunKHl to liavc^ done considerable damage in 

 Minnesota, locally, in 1HS3. Habits of the insect noted, and the 

 standard rem(Mlies. Farmers said to sow Hungarian grass or mil- 

 h't with their small grain to divert the bugs from the latter; oi 

 fields are l)ordered with these forage crops, corn sometimes being 



