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Remedies and preventives 33 
Early recommendations, 33 — Preventives , 33 — Clean cultivation, 33 — Diver- 
sified farming, 33 — Rotation of crops, 34 — Early sowing and manuring, 
34 — Rolling, 34— Sowing an unattractive crop witli wheat, 35 — Direct 
ivinter remedies, 35 — Burning, 35 — Fall plowing and harrowing, 35 — Gas 
lime, 35 — Trapping, 36 — Trampling, '36— Direct summer remedies before mi- 
gration, 36 — Irrigation, 36 — Burning, 37 — Prevention of migration — direct 
remedies during and after migration, 38 — Ditching, 38 — Tarred boards or 
tar alone, 38 — Sowing .strips of plants distasteful to the bugs around the 
fields to be protected, 39 — Sowing strips of favored food around the fields 
to be protected, 39 — Hot water and soap-suds, 39 — Kerosene emulsion, 
39 — Professor Forbes’ experiments, 39 — The Hubbard formula, 40 — Major 
Tucker’s experiment, 40 — Professor Atkinson’s experiments, 40 — Pro- 
fessor Osborn’s experiments, 41 — Mr. Warren’s experiment, 42. 
Bogus Chinch bugs 42 
The False Chinch Bug, 42 — The Insidious Flower-bug, 43 — The Ash-gray 
Leaf-bug, 43 — The Flea-like Negro-bug, 43 — The Striped Flea-beetle, 43. 
Bibliographical list 44 
