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THE CHINCH BUG. 
and has seldom witnessed an injury to oats. Over the western country 
the major portion of the damage done is to fields of wheat, barley, rye, 
and corn, the outbreak generally originating in wheat or barley fields 
Fig. 5.— Corn plant two feet tall infested with chinch bugs (original). 
and the bugs migrating at harvest to the cornfields. (See fig. 5.) 
In Ohio this has been the case except in the eastern part of the State, 
where the timothy meadows are the most seriously infested, and 
