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THE C1I1XCI1 BUG. 
early as l s l">. in Illinois, Dr. William Le Baron, afterward- State 
entomologist, gave the food plant- of the chinch bug as follows: 
Fig. 5. Corn plant two feel tall infested with chinch bugs. (Author's Illustration.) 
"all kinds of grain, corn, and herd's-grass " (timothy). 
But t<> tlii- dav in [llinois, a- shown by the observations of Professor 
Prairie Farmer, I »ecember, L845, 
