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Forbes, S. A. — The Chinch Bus*. (Eobinsoii [111.] Argus, July 

 18, 188S; Indiana Farmer,^ Aug. 4, 1888, p. 9.) 



Eeporter's abstract of paper entitled "The Relations of AVheat 

 Culture to the Chinch Bug in Illinois," delivered at the mass 

 meeting of the farmers of Crawford county, noted above. 



Peairie Farmer, July 21, 1888. Harvest Notes. 



From Butler Co., Kansas: "No chinch bugs to do much dam- 

 age except where the rye fields are cut." 



Mahin, S. T. — Voracious Missouri Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, July 

 21, 1888, V. 60, p. 469.) 



Writing from Pettis county, says that the use of salt on millet, 

 corn, and sorghum, and the sowing of timothy with wheat, as 

 measures against the chinch bug, have failed this year in his 

 county. The bugs like timothy about as well as wheat, and do 

 not object to having their food salted. Much wheat plowed up 

 and planted to corn, but the corn was taken likewise; in some 

 cases a second planting. 



Prairie Farmer, July 28, 1888, v. 60, p. 479. 



"Chinch bugs are reported in immense numbers in the Miami 

 Valley, Ohio. Recent rains checked their ravages, but the pest 

 is now in oats and corn. * * * Have been no chinch bugs in 

 this vicinity since 1881." 



Prairie Farmer, July 28, 1888, v. 60, p. 487. Chinch Bugs in 

 Southern Illinois. 



Notice of the mass meeting in Crawford Co., 111., referred to 

 on previous page, with reprint of resolutions passed. Madison 

 county farmers, at a recent meeting, pledged themselves not to 

 sow wheat or rye, for two years, and to use every available 

 means to destroy the chinch bug. 



Weed, Clarence M, — The Chinch Bug in Ohio: Midsummer 

 Remedies. (Ohio A.2:ric. Experiment Station, Bull. No. 4, 

 2d series, July, 1888, pp. 53, 55. (Reprinted in part in 

 Prairie Farmer, July 28 and Sept. 1, 1888.) 



The chinch bug is injuriously abundant in certain counties of 

 Ohio, notably Franklin. As remedial measures the following are 

 recommended: the plowing of infested fields as soon as wheat is 

 cut, — for a rod or two along the borders (harrowed occasionally 

 to make the soil friable) if the field cannot be wholly plowed; the 

 burning of stubble in infested fields before the bugs leave, using 

 sometimes a light coating of straw to facilitate the operation; 

 coal-tar as a barrier to migration, applied frequently, having 

 holes for traps at intervals along the line; kerosene emulsion 

 applied when bugs have reached outer rows of corn (formula be- 

 ing given for preparation); and trapping in furrows. 



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