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Spring wheat in town of Flora a fair crop in spite of chinch 
bugs and drouth. Sept. 1, 1859, p. 137. Bureau Co. Much chinch- 
bug injury to wheat and some to corn. 
Pettys, Geo.—E ats and the Chinch Bug in the Fields. (Prairie 
Farmer, July 20, 1859, v. 20, p. 50.) 
Chinch bugs numerous in wheat. To protect corn sow imme¬ 
diately barley, other grain, or Hungarian, in five or six rows 
of corn next to wheat. This will detain the bugs until corn is 
out of their way. Cut a strip of wheat very green along the corn, 
set it off, and plow T deep as quickly as possible. Early fall plow¬ 
ing a good measure. 
Prairie Farmer, July 28, 1859, v. 20, p. 56. Editors’ memoranda. 
From exchanges and the reports of correspondents, editors 
judge that chinch-bug ravages are extended, and that while in 
most cases the insects appeared too late to affect wheat seriously 
they are doing alarming injury to corn. 
Prairie Farmer, Nov. 3, 1859, v. 20, p. 277. The Use of Quails. 
William Norton’s testimony, as given in the “Cincinnati Arti¬ 
san,’’ cited to prove the value of the quail as an insect destroyer. 
In the crop of one, among other species, one hundred chinch bugs 
were found that “still retained their individuality,” while there 
seemed to be hundreds more reduced to a mass. 
1860. 
Walsh, B. D.— [A Lecture on Insects.] (Prairie Farmer, Jan. 26, 
1860, v. 5, n. s., p. 55.) 
“The chinch bug could be destroyed by clean farming—by keep¬ 
ing all litter burned up clean, or placing it in a compost heap. 
Eain water is not relished by them.” 
Moortons, C. E,—Chinch Bugs on Wheat and Corn. (Prairie- 
Farmer, March 15, 1860, v. 5, n. s., p. 161.) 
Where a stalk of corn grows among grain, immediately about 
the stalk the grain is not injured by the bugs. When wheat is 
sown by the side of corn there is a strip not injured in the least [? ]; 
hence, the following remedy for chinch bugs in wheat: Prepare 
the ground in fall and sow as early as possible in spring. About 
June 1 run furrows through the wheat ten or fifteen feet apart 
and drill in corn. When the wheat begins to ripen the bugs 
will leave the wheat and go to the corn. To keep them from corn 
adjacent to wheat prepare and sow thick with corn a piece of land 
between the two crops of sufficient size to induce them to collect 
in it. When this is done throw dry straw among the corn and 
fire it. 
