progress of the incoming horde was practically arrested, and very 
few bugs were seen in the field the latter part of the season. The 
corn yielded about twenty bushels to the acre, which was more 
than the average for that neighborhood. 
A field of corn, adjoining this same wheat field on the south, in 
which no measures were taken to arrest and destroy the chinch- 
bugs as they came from the wheat, was ruined, excepting only a 
small part which was thought worth cutting for fodder. 
No. 10. Mr. H. H. Mayo, of Falmouth, in Jasper county, made 
a deep furrow in a well-pulverized strip of ground in corn. Wheat 
adjoining was cut about June 23, and the bugs entered the corn 
in great numbers. The furrow completely checked their advance 
for a time, and myriads of young were seen dead in the furrow 
from exposure to the extreme heat. A slight rain fell shortly after 
the wheat was cut, after which the furrow was not reconstructed, 
and the pests had free passageway into the corn. Over four acres 
were completely destroyed in a few days, and the attack spread 
throughout the twenty acres, from which less than half a crop was 
taken. 
No. 11. This is a barrier experiment made by Mr. Thos. B. Wil¬ 
son, Sr., of Greenup, in corn adjoining wheat. The wheat was cut 
June 25, and the chinch-bugs made rapid advance into the corn. 
The ground between every fifth row 7 from the edge, for a distance 
of twenty rods, was thoroughly pulverized and deeply furrowed 
June 26. The bugs collected in these furrows in great numbers, 
and were killed by dragging a log back and forth. This w r as kept 
up for eight days. The first fifteen rows w T ere entirely destroyed, 
owing to the fact that the insects accumulated here before the fur¬ 
row's were made. The corn in the remainder of the field was far 
better than the average in the county, and yielded fifty bushels to 
the acre. 
