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everyone to burn at that time. In the matter of summer treatment, 
the coal tar or crude oil could be ordered for a whole township at one 
time, resulting in a saving. Active preparation for the fight made 
by a large number before the time for the fight to begin will have a 
wholesome effect upon those who are lukewarm in their attitude 
toward it. 
summary. 
1. Organize by townships or school districts and counties. 
2. Set a time for burning in the fall. 
3. It it is not practicable to burn off all lands where there are weeds 
and rubbish, burn at least all lands where there are tufts of grass, 
and especially if they are in close proximity to cornfields. 
4. Before wheat harvest secure a good spray pump and at least a 
barrel of coal tar or No. 18 residuum asphaltum for every 80 rods of 
barrier to be erected about wheat fields, or two barrels of crude oil 
for the same amount of barrier. 
5. If the weather is dry at harvest time, erect a dust barrier around 
the infested field. Plow deep so as to cover completely all the stubble 
and trash, harrow and drag, then throw out a furrow near to the 
outside border, and start the log as soon as the bugs begin to migrate. 
6. If rain should come, fix up a tar or crude oil barrier around the 
infested field. 
7. Spray bugs that escape to the corn with kerosene emulsion or 
apply crude oil. 
8. Keep up the fight as long as the bugs keep coming from the field. 
Bibliography. 
Note. — The attention of those who are specially interested in the subject of insect dis- 
eases is called to Dr. S. A. Forbes's excellent bibliographies : Economic Bibliography of 
the Chinch Bug, published as an appendix to the Sixteenth Report of the State Entomol- 
ogist of Illinois, and as an Analytical List of American Articles (on Diseases of Insects) 
Consulted, 1824-1894, published in the Nineteenth Report of the State Entomologist of 
Illinois, 1896. 
1. Shimer, Henry. — Notes on Micropus (Lygceus) leucopterus Say ("The 
chinch bug"), with an account of the great epidemic disease of 1865 
among insects. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., May, 1867, v. 19, pp. 75-80; 
and Trans. Northern 111. Hort. Soc, 1867-68, pp. 97-101. ) 
2. Shimer, Henry. — Additional notes on the chinch bug. (Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., 1867, v. 19, p. 234.) 
3. Shimer, Henry. — Nature's method of controlling insects. (Trans. Nor. 111. 
Hort. Soc. 1867-68, p. 96.) 
4. Walsh and Riley. — The chinch bug. {Micropus leucopterus, Say.) (Ainer. 
Ent, May and June, 1869, v. 1, p. 177.) 
5. Shimer, Henry. — Entomological notes. (Trans. 111. State Hort. Soc, 1869, 
v. 3, n. s., pp. 275-281.) 
6. Riley, C. V. — The chinch bug. (Second Ann. Rept. State Ent. Mo., pp. 
24-25, 1870.) 
7. Le Baron, Wm- The chinch bug. (Third Rept. State Ent. 111., 1871, pp. 
142-156. Also Fifth Ann. Rept. Board of Trustees 111. Industrial Univ., 
1871-72, pp. 193-200.) 
