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Prairie Farmer. .Record of the Season. 
* 11 "i ... ^ . Coles Co. Little spring wheat 
™ as £ 1S re £ a rded as a harbor for the chinch bus. 
May 17, I860, p. M3. LaSalle Co. “No wheat sowed; chinch fly 
destroys it entirely.” June 7, 1860, p. 360. Iroquois Co. Chinch 
bugs are ruining one piece of writer’s wheat already. Never saw 
wheat and oats look _ better. June 28, 1860, p. 413. Cook Kan - 
mte aud DeKalb Co's. Chinch bugs present. July 5, 1860, p. 
lb. Kankakee Co. Numerous in spring grains. July 12, 1860* 
p. 25 Iroquois and Knox Co In wheat. July 19, 1860, p 41 
Marshall Co. Injuring small grain. Wheat crop light on account 
of chinch bugs and drouth. Aug. 30, 1860, p. 137. Marion Co. 
(Centraha). Doing great mischief to corn. 
. w 0 \- July 19, 1860, p. 41. Clark Co. Injuring small grain. 
Aug 23, 1860, p. 120. Burlington. Sorghum much damaged by 
drouth and chinch bugs. 
Prairie Farmer, April 12, 1860, v. 5, n. s., p. 228. Entomological 
A correspondent of the “Rockford Register” keeps chinch bugs 
out ot his corn by sowing, about June 1, a strip of Hungarian 
grass a rod wide between coni and all small grain. The bugs 
like it better than corn and will not leave it, yet do not damage 
it seriously for hay. Has had eight years’ experience with this 
measuie. To prevent ravages in wheat, sow t early in March so 
that the grain will get past the milky stage before the bug com¬ 
mences to work in great numbers. 
Prairie Farmer, Sept. 6, 1860, v. 6, n. s., p. 152. Questions and 
Answers. 
Clean farming best remedy for chinch bugs. Slaked lime may 
be mixed with old straw-stack bottoms when putting in compact 
neaps. Keep back yard tidy, stables clean, rails and fence boards 
picked up, and roadside free from weeds. If “strawy” manure is 
used, plow it under. Farmers must all adopt these precautions 
to have them effective. 
Andrews, C. N.—[Extract from lecture delivered before the Win¬ 
nebago Co. Agricultural Society in 1860.1 (Prairie Farmer, 
Oct. 25, 1860, v. 6, n. s., p. 259.) 
Relieves that the chinch bug commences its work in small cir¬ 
cumscribed patches, analogous to ant hills, and that by some top¬ 
ical application to these colonies the insects may be destroyed be¬ 
fore they multiply and scatter. Recommends camphor and cor- 
iosi\e sublimate; also a strong suds made with whale-oil soap. 
Prairie Farmer, Nov. 22, I860, v. 6, n. s., p. 322. Entomological 
Notes and Extracts. 
A correspondent says that only the female survives the winter. 
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