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Wisconsin. —Aug. 29, 1861, p. 121. JRock Co. Much wheat has 
been ruined by chinch bugs. Sept. 12, 1861, p. 15b. 11 alworth 
Co. A late spring and June drouth delayed harvest and gave the 
chinch bugs a feast. 
Illinois Farmer, Aug. 1861, y. 6, p. 239. An Unofficial Look* 
among the Farms and Nurseries. 
The chinch bug ranked as a permanent enemy.. From wheat 
stubble proceeds to corn. Constant stirring of soil best known 
protection to corn. Hungarian grass apparently an attractive food 
plant. 
Walsh, B. D.—The Chinch Bug. (Insects Injurious to Vegeta¬ 
tion in Illinois, pp. 14-17. Also published in Trans. Ill. 
State Agric. Soc., 1859-60, v. 4, pp. 346-349.) 
Species said to be “inany-brooded, like the common house fly, and 
to hibernate on farms about fences. Well to burn along the fences 
in winter. Single bug may become parent of 50,000. Plowing 
wheat stubble as soon as crop is cut recommended. Four cocci- 
nellids said to prey upon it. Dry weather favorable and wet 
weather unfavorable to it. 
1862. 
Prairie Farmer, Feb. 1, 1862, v. 9, n. s., p. 68. 
Statement that chinch-bug ravages may be prevented by sow¬ 
ing wheat early. 
Huffman, G. B.—That Coffee in Effingham County. (Prairie 
Farmer, Feb. 1, 1862, v. 9, p. 65.) 
Incidental mention: “The army worms were gone * * * Amt 
the ground was covered with chinch bugs. They went into corn. 
Phelps, Wilson. —Rye with Wheat, for Chinch Bugs. (Prairie 
Farmer, April 19, 1862, v. 9, p. 241.) 
Reports that a friend saved his wheat from the chinch bugs by 
sowing rye with it. 
Prairie Farmer. Record of the Season. 
June 14, 1862, v. 9, n. s., p. 377. South Pass, Union Co. 
“The fly is injuring many [wheat] fields seriously, and in some in¬ 
stances the chinch bugs appear in the same fields.” July 5, 1862, 
p. 9. Christian Co. Some complaint of chinch bug in spring 
wheat. July 12, 1862, p. 25. Hancock Co. (Warsaw). Spring 
wheat will not be worth cutting* July 26,1862, pp. 52, 57. Macon Co. 
Large pieces of fall wheat were turned under because of chinch- 
bug attack and pat into corn (“which the chinch bug will take”), 
and other pieces have been plowed up for corn next year. 
* When cause of damage to crop is not specially mentioned, the chinch bug was’definitelv re¬ 
ported as the cause. 
