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8. Do these things, not singly and imperfectly, but thoroughly 
and by neighborhoods; by mutual consultation and organized co¬ 
operation; and there is excellent reason to believe that the chinch- 
bug outbreak now impending may be suppressed, or at least kept 
down, until a favorable change in the weather for a season or two 
shall make artificial measures unnecessary. 
It is important to repeat, as related to the possibility of local 
protection, that our observations of recent years show that the 
chinch bug does not ordinarily travel far, but that the damage in 
any region is done almost wholly by the bugs bred on that ground. 
FIELD EXPERIMENTS PROPOSED. 
I am painfully aware that many of the recommendations made 
in this paper rest upon no basis of accurate experiment, leading 
to precise, demonstrated results. I ardently hope that, if the chinch 
bug prevails another year, we may be in position to make such 
experiments in the field in different parts of the State, but to that 
end I have to ask the co-operation of the farmers interested. I 
consequently especially request correspondence with those who are 
disposed to afford us an opportunity for trial, upon their grounds, 
of the most important and promising measures against the chinch 
bug. Such experiments will be conducted personally by myself 
or my assistants; but for the privilege of making them we must 
look to others. 
It will be necessary, in most cases, that small selected plots of 
uniform character be placed at our disposal; that some of these 
be treated experimentally and others beside them left without such 
treatment, as a check upon the results; that the product of all be 
kept perfectly distinct, both at harvest and threshing; and that it 
be accurately measured and weighed. The subjects of special in¬ 
terest from this point of view are the following: (1) general and 
special fertilization; (2) the use of surplus seed; (3) the sowing 
of mixed seed—clover, flax, timothy, etc,, with the small grains, 
(4) the sowing of strips as lures to oviposition; (5) the planting 
of strips as barriers; (6) the use of coal tar as a barrier against 
migration; (7)the effect of burning over the winter quarters of 
the bugs; (8) the use of straw, corn stalks, etc., as lures to hi¬ 
bernation; (9) the effect of plowing under the outer rows of in¬ 
fested corn; (10) the application of insecticides or repellents 
especially gas lime. 
With positive and precise knowledge of the value of these 
measures under varying circumstances, an important advance will 
certainly have been made in our practical acquaintance with this 
arch-enemy of western agriculture. 
