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of all ages, and does not injure half-grown corn if the fluid is 
thoroughly and repeatedly shaken up. Or, as a safer application, 
an emulsion of kerosene may be made with a soap suds contain¬ 
ing one pound of soap to twenty gallons of wmter. Two gallons 
of kerosene oil should be boiled with a gallon of suds, and then, 
while hot, thoroughly churned or mixed with a syringe or hand-force 
pump until a permanent cream or butter is produced. This emulsion 
may be diluted wflth the soap suds at the rate of a gallon of the 
former to fifteen or twenty gallons of the latter. 
9. The application of repellent substances, to prevent the chinch 
bugs from laying their eggs upon the crops; a measure suggested 
only as worthy of experiment. A light coating of partly stale gas 
lime, not too freely applied to wheat in spring, or placed by the 
handful at the roots of corn at harvest, might possibly protect 
these crops. 
10. Finally, the artificial cultivation of the germs of the con¬ 
tagious diseases of the chinch bug, with a view to spreading these 
diseases at will by means of such artificial cultuies. This is a 
theoretical remedy only, and much additional study and experi¬ 
ment will be required to put it on a practical basis. 
SPECIAL PROCEDURE RECOMMENDED. 
For those parts of the State not already practically mastered by 
the chinch bug, especially for Northern and Western Illinois, I 
would earnestly recommend the following procedure for the com¬ 
ing fall and spring: 
1. Give up wdieat, rye, barley, Hungarian, and millet, for the 
coming year; or, 
2. If the just mentioned grains : are grown, sow with them 
timothy this fall, or clover next spring. 
3. Pick up boards, rails, and sticks along roadsides and around 
headlands this fall, and thoroughly burn over the borders of the 
fields and similar places, thickets, wmodlands, etc., late this tali it 
practicable, selecting for this dry days wdien rubbish will burn 
close to the ground. Such places as cannot be burned m tall 
should be fired early in spring. 
4. Fertilize ground to be used next year for small grain or 
corn, and apply to the surface next spriug quickly acting fertilizers, 
where crops become infested. 
5. Plant all the crops, except corn, at the earliest time per¬ 
missible. 
6. Search carefully for the bugs next spring in their. usual 
quarters, as a means of determining the possibility of serious injury; 
and, if this seems threatening, 
7. Raise extensively, another year, crops not affected by the 
chinch bug. 
