Prairie Farmer, Oct., 1850, v. 10, p. 320. The Chinch Bug. 
Editors recommend for trial mixing fall wheat, two quarts 
to the Bushel, with seed spring wheat. Latter, coming up first, 
“soon becomes tough,” while former is slower and more tender 
for bugs to work on. Similar method of sowing fall wheat advo¬ 
cated. ~ An informant had practiced it three years and considered it 
an infallible remedy. 
1851. 
Prairie Farmer, Feb., 1851, v. 11, p. 56. Season and Crops of 
1850. 
“In some half dozen counties of Northern Illinois, including 
Kane, DuPage, Will, and DeKalb, the wheat crop was attacked by 
the chinch bug in most extraordinary numbers,. and the greatest 
devastation was the result.” Corn crop injured in some places. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug., 1851, v. 11, p. 335. The Chinch Bug. 
Editorial note stating that the bug has within two or three 
previous years been injurious in Will, DeKalb, Kendall, Kane, 
DuPage and McHenry counties. Attacks wheat, oats, corn, and 
grass. Not reported in 1851. “The great amount of water has 
been favorable to their destruction.” 
Harris, T. W.—Chinch Bug (Rhyparochromus devastator). (Al¬ 
bany Cultivator, Dec., 1851, v. 8, No. 12, pp. 402, 403.) [Not 
seen.] 
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Harris, T. W.—(Insects Injurious to Vegetation, ed. 3, p. 198.) 
Gives a description of young and adult chinch bug from living 
specimens. Says, “It is a mistake that these insects are confined 
to states south ol 40 , for I have been favored with them by 
Prof. Lathrop, of Beloit College, Wis., and by Dr. LeBaron, of 
Geneva, Ill.” Appear in June on wheat and in all stages during 
the summer “on all kinds of grain, on corn, and on herds-grass. 
Some continue alive all winter in places of concealment. 
1854. 
Vawter, Wm.—S eason in Missouri. (Prairie Farmer, Sept., 1854, 
v. 14, p. 326.) 
Writing from Monroe Co., Mo., says, “The, chinch bug, in some 
•sections, destroyed the corn and wheat crops.” 
1855. 
Prairie Farmer, Jan. 3, 1855, v. 15, p. 36. The Chinch Bug. 
The “Warsaw Express” reports this pest as very plentiful in 
Hancock and McDonough counties the past season. Thinks that 
as the bugs have no power of locomotion except their legs, plow¬ 
ing, say, ten furrows around a field will keep them out. 
