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Timothy may often be sowed in fall, to the best advantage, witb 

 winter wheat or rye, as repoited to me by Mr. John A. Kelly,* 

 of Cumberland county, in a letter dated June '25, 1887; and also- 

 more at length by Mr. E. E. Chester, of Champaign county. Mi*. 

 Chester's experience demonstrates so precisely the very great 

 value of this method as a protection to the wheat crop under the 

 most unfavorable circumstances possible, that I will report it in 

 full. 



A field of twenty-eight acres was sown to wheat in the fall of 

 1874, when the chinch hu^s were innumerable throughout all 

 this region— twenty acres with timothy and the remaining 

 eight without, timothy being sown on the latter in the spring. 

 This eight-acre plot, like the rest in every respect except that 

 mentioned, was overwhelmingly infested by the chinch bug, the 

 grain at harvest yielding only seven bushels per acre, while the 

 twenty acres, bearing a thrifty growth of fall timothy, remained 

 wholly unaffected except for a short distance adjoining the other 

 plot, and yielded an average of twenty bushels to the acre. The 

 latter wheat sold as ''No. 1," at one dollar per bushel, and the 

 former as "rejected," at sixty-five cents. 



Winter rye is sometimes sowed with spring wheat, for similar 

 reasons. 



Flax has also been sowed, with good result, on both spring and 

 winter wheat, being itself exempt from attack and serving to shade 

 the ground to a considerable extent. According to some observers, 

 it even repels the bugs. 



The sowing of buckwheat and flax in the outer row s of fields of 

 corn is likewise reported to have protected them from invasion. 



12. Strips of favorite food plants sowed as lures: millet or 

 Hungarian around wheat or corn; spring wheat around winter 

 wheat or oats; sorghum or Hungarian around corn or between 

 the outer rows. TJie object of this procedure is to induce the 

 adults escaping from wheat fields or emerging from their winter 

 quarters, to lay their eggs in these special strips, which are then 

 plow^ed up and planted to other crojjs, thus destroying the un-> 

 hatched eggs and the young. 



13. Sowing strips of favorite food plants near tJie tvrnter quar- 

 ters of ttie hugs. When woodlands and thickets contain numbers 

 of hibernating insects, these may be thus tempted to deposit their 

 eggs, which may then be destroyed early with the vegetation used 

 as a lure, the ground being afterwards replanted to some crop not 

 affected by the chinch bug. 



14. Soicing strips of plants not injured by chinch hugs, as 

 barriers to the migrcdion of the spring generation. These should 

 be interposed especially between fields of barley or wheat and 



•"I have accidentally discovered that by sowing timothy with the wheat in thefall, if I geta good 

 catch the bugs cannot breed, as the wheat starts first in spring and then the grass forms a dense 

 Bhade by the tenth of May. When the bugs deposit their eggs they cannot hatch on account of 

 too much shade." 



