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Fitch, Asa.—A ddress on our most Pernicious Insects. (Trans 
N. Y. State Agric. Soc., 1859, v. 19, p. 590.) 
Say ®' tbe mid ? e > * he j?int worm, and the chinch bug, work on 
insects! Cr ° P ln Amenca t0 an extent unparalleled by European 
1861. 
Praieie Farmer, Feb. 21, 1861 v 7 n <3 iiq tt 
n At • i Ar uux > v - h R* s., p. no. Hungarian 
Grass vs. Chinch Bugs. ® 
A correspondent from Kankakee county thinks that a strip of 
. ungarian grass ten feet wide is a sure protection to corn adi'a- 
p en f t ? mf ested wheat. He sowed Hungarian, thick, about the 
hist of June, and although the bugs were very numerous and left 
the wheat at harvest, they did not get more than two feet into 
See ^ext^tem 11 ] ^ D ° ubtless com P leted development and took wing. 
Prairie Farmer, Man 21, 1861, v. 7, n. s., p. 182. Chinch Bugs 
vs. Hungarian Grass. b 
'o-,r^ c c f rresp0ncle ? t - says tl ] at when cbin ch bugs prevail, Hungarian 
g ass is as uncertain as wheat and barley and timothy and clover 
above ] aCr6S between corn and wlleat was all eaten up. [See item 
PEAIR and F BuS E ’ APdl 25 ’ 1861 ’ Y - “• S - IX 365 ' Hun Sarian 
oi A + v. C -°7 eS R° ndent mentioned above, under “Prairie Farmer” Feb 
f.I’ * 11 , s the experience given under date Mar. 21 may be due to 
enough' 1 mann6r ° f sowmg the Hungarian—too early and not thick 
Thomas^Ckujs.—E ntomological^Notes. No. 1. (Prairie Farmer, April 
l) A “ c d eDtal me .“ tion of the enormous increase of the chinch bug 
faWc, H ‘T® 14 rfi unno . tlced as a destructive insect, slovenly 
agriculture being held partly accountable for the fact. * 
Prairie Farmer. Becord of the Season. 
- Aug. 15, 1861, v. 8, n. s., p. 89. Peoria Co. Late-sown wheat 
taken by bugs Aug . 29 1861, p. 121. Whiteside Co. Chinch 
bugs and rust damaged wheat. 
Iowa. Aug. 15, 1861, v. 8, n. s., p. 89. Van Biiren Co. A 
i^e 1 first t r° ted ' hl f corn b ^ Paring boiling water over every hill 
1861 n 158 n St tr - he b ?F had fairly eutered - Sept. 12, 
w° iCC? eS ’P enry ’ Je ff ers °n> Louisa , Lucas , 
bn„ s an ’ d IP peU ° C0S ' Wheat cro P ln i ured very much by 
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