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Mi. Morris [Ogle Co.] Gazette: Chinch buss destroy!™ 
greater portion of spring wheat. -Also have a fine taste for green 
Bureau Advocate: Spring wheat in 
suffering very much from chinch bugs. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug., 1850, v. 10 , p.J245. 
“Sweeps -lean as 1 * ° f "h" 10 ]} bU i g ’ with p001 ' wood-out. 
„ram in invrhA ” # T7 enng the plants of ^heat or other 
fwo f u y i d *A F „ ire llad been proposed as a remedy and were 
“Habits a and 6 , ^°r e v applyi , ng lt editor thinks it would answer 
■Habits and peculiarities are but imperfectly understood.” 
W " J ' Teat 68 “ ^ C ° Untry - (Prairie Fanner, Sept., 1850, v. 10 , 
reported 8 ' depredations of chi “°h bugs less serious than have been 
Prairie Farmer, Sept., 1850, v. 10 , p. 278. The Wheat Crop. 
From Kane Co., July 13, “Practical Farmer” writes' “Sririno- 
»heat is materially injured, and in some instances totally' destroyed 
depredations of a new enemy in the 4 ape o/S 
‘ * * J prevent' thUw. “ 0t b "TT °, ver th e fields in' the fall 
pre\ent tiieir increase and development?” 
Jobinson, Solon.— (Prairie Farmer, Sept., 1850, v 10 p 279 ) 
otglaTZ^fthfte^ 17 thfe°krr ** “T"* 
han wheat. They are attacking the oats and corn. “° W bUgS 
jE Baron AVrLLiAM.-The Chinch Bug. (Prairie Farmer, Sept., 
Ins. N Y.; h> 288 , ? 8 e |) m by Flt0h in his 2d Rept ‘ 
"Writes from Geneva. Kane Oo Ancr pi 7 - 1 
i ii 1 s scarcely probable that any preventive or rpmorlr 
their devastations will ever be discovered’’ Hopes nature 
y have provided some parasitic insect for this species “whose 
human controT” Se6 “ t0 b ® S ° wholly removed from the reach 
