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hatched, on some warm day fire the straw. If the rye doesn't burn, 

 sprinkle stubs with Spanish green. Three years of this procedure 

 will practically exterminate the bugs. 



Yan W., K. a. — To Destroy Chinch Bugs. (Farmers' Keview, 

 Jan. 18, 1888.) 



Advises destroying chinch bugs on corn and millet, after harvest, 

 with kerosene and fire. 



Forbes, S. A. — The Chinch Bug. (Freeport Journal, Feb. 15, 

 1888.) 



Reporter's abstract of paper read before Farmers' Institute at 

 Freeport. 



Statistical Report or the Illinois State Board of Agricult- 

 ure, May 1, 1888. Circular 139, pp. 16-24. Correspond- 

 ents' Remarks. 



Johnson, Marion, Massac, Richland, White, and Williamson 

 {Jo's. Chinch bugs reported as injuring winter wheat. 



Howard, L. O. — The Chinch Bug: A General Summary of its 

 History, Habits, Enemies, and of the Remedies and Pre- 

 ventives to be used against it. (Bull. No. 17, Div. Ent. U. 

 S. Dept. Agric, p. 48; Rept. [U. S.] Commiss. of Agrricult- 

 ure, 1887, pp. 51-88, Plates I., III.; Farmers' Review, 

 May 9, 16, 30, and June 6 and 13, 1888.) 



A complete review of the subject to meet the demand for in- 

 formation not now generally accessible. The well-known Missouri 

 Reports are quoted from at length, and other previous writings 

 laid under contribution, and the note books and records of the 

 Division of Entomology have been at the author's disposal. The 

 history of the insect is outlined, estimates of loss are given, and 

 1881 is mentioned as the year in which, at the "Chinch Bug Con- 

 vention" held at Windsor, Kan., it was decided to cease raising- 

 wheat. The interesting point in the season of 1887, is said to be 

 the occurrence of the chinch bugs in immense numbers in parts 

 of Virginia and the Carolinas for the first time in many years. 

 A report by the statistician of the U. S. Department of Agricult- 

 ure is presented, from which it appears that the chinch-bug 

 damage to corn, wheat, and oats in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas in 

 1887, exceeded $54,000,000, the total loss, including damage to bar- 

 ley, rye, and millet, being approximately stated at $60,000,000. 

 Insect indigenous oast of the Rocky Mountains, and found in 

 California in vcsry limited, not injurious, numbers. Outside of 

 Unit(.'d States, specimens are recorded from Canada, Cuba, and 

 Mexico. Wihl buckwiieat is added to the list of food |)lant8 on 

 the strengtli of t(;stimony from Nebraska by Mr. Lawrence 'Bru- 

 iier; mention is made of adult specimens' being found in culti 

 vated rice in Georgia in 1881; and upon the sand oats ( Uniol 

 paniciiUda) in Florida the insect is said to undergo its entire d 



