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are thick upon both sod corn and old corn. A neighbor lost sev¬ 
eral thousand strawberry plants on account of this pest f?]. Manv 
farmers are deterred from sowing wheat lest they lose their seed 
Offers to contribute one hundred dollars to a reward fora success- 
ful exterminator of the pest. Deep plowing, burning weeds and 
stubble, and ditches of water, useful remedial measures, but not 
universally applicable. 
Emery’s Journal of Agriculture, Sept. 30, 1858 v 
Patent Office Seeds. 
2, p. 216. 
. ‘ Edl ^ oi : s state that an “original package” of “Red Tuscany Wheat” 
imported and distributed by the Agricultural Department of the 
U. # S. Patent Office, on being opened in their office, was found 
ahve with chinch bugs [ Fitch’s plate cited in confirmation], the 
wheat being bored through by these active pests [evidently weevils]. 
Emery’s Journal of Agriculture and Prairie Farmer, Oct. 7 
mi 8 ,V r ’ \ Emer y’ s Jour.; v. 18, Prairie Farmer], p. 228. 
lhe Chinch Bug. 
A correspondent, writing from Rockford, says that the chinch 
bugs have been m that vicinity for eight hr nine years, doing 
mo 1 re ° r 1 1 ? s , s damage. Mentions some points concerning habits 
and life history of^ the pest, saying that eggs are not laid there 
befoie the middle of June [?]. Recommends clearing land of corn 
sta ks and rubbish; plowing under, deep, small grain stubble; 
and lolhng small gram as soon as sown and when four or five inches 
high Keeps them out of corn by leaving a vacant strip of twenty-five 
or thirty feet between it and small grain, which he sows to corn or 
ts about the middle of June. This affords a hiding place and 
fresh food until adjacent corn is out of the way. 
/ 
Hin kley H.-Items from Dr. Hinkley. (Prairie Farmer, Nov. 4, 
1858, v. 18, p. 291.) 
Heavy rain and frost have made the chinch bug scarce. 
Nichols, O. B.—Chinch Bug. A Plan to get rid of them. (Em- 
iq^q J ™d Agriculture and Prairie Farmer, Dec. 2 
1858, p. 354.) 
Has sowed twenty-two crops of wheat and oats in Clinton 
-ounty, and has never lost one by the chinch bug or been 
tamaged to the amount of twenty dollars. In the fall plows 
andei all weeds and grass that can be reached with the plow 
urns in sheep and cattle to eat out the fence corners’ growth 
< S er i W1 n h a fence corners where stock cannot be 
.ilowed. leeds all corn fodder and straw to stock, leaving nothing 
n he place for bugs to harbor in. Has never known them to 
'inter m timothy or any tame hay. 
