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Prairie Farmer, July 23, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 56. 
Editorial note calling attention to proper spelling of the name, 
baid to be frequently spelled chintz, by exchanges. The rains in 
chinch-bug region will probably check the pest. 
Country Gentleman, July 28, 1864, v. 24, p. 65. 
Reprint of an item from the “Rockford Register,” which reports 
the successful use of boards set on a ridge made by plowing 
double furrows along side of field, upper edge of boards being 
saturated with kerosene. Bugs did not cross. 
Foster, Suel.— The Chinch Bug Destroying the Wheat in Iowa. 
(Country Gentleman, July 28, 1864, v. 24, p. 58.) 
Writes fiom Muscatine, Iowa, July It, 1864, of great damage 
by bugs in Eastern and Central Iowa. Winter wheat badly win¬ 
ter-killed, and spring wheat over half destroyed by bugs. Young 
red bugs found about roots. Says, “W e must quit growing spring 
wheat in the West, until we get rid of the chinch bug.” Much 
corn injured. 
Prairie Farmer, July 30, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 69. [Editorial re¬ 
view of circular issued by Geo. R. Chittenden, concerning 
crop prospects.] 
Illinois. Counties reporting chinch-bug injury—“principally 
in spiing wheat aie Bond, Boone, Christian, Henry, Iroquois, 
Jefferson, Knox, La Salle, Livingston, McLean, Marshall, Ogle, Pe¬ 
oria, Stephenson, Whiteside, Woodford. Iowa. —Counties infested 
are Black Hawk, Bremer, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Dubuque, 
Klkador, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Muscatine, Pow^esheik. Wisconsin. 
—The following counties report damage by chinch bugs: Colum¬ 
bia, Crawford, Dodge, Grant, Green, La Fayette, Racine, Sauk, Wal¬ 
worth, and "YV aukesha, the damage being estimated from consider¬ 
able to almost an entire failure of crop. Oats and barlev are se¬ 
verely injured, and corn frequently attacked. 
Budd, Jas. [Jos.] L.—Chinch Bug. Objection to Deep Covering 
of Spring Wheat. (Prairie Farmer, Aug. 6, 1864; v. 14, n. 
s., p. 84.) 
• Re P 1 y in ^ to “Agricola” [see previous page], reiterates belief 
m . efficacy of sowing spring wheat early and thick. Suggests 
laising winter wheat instead, on account of its being a surer crop. 
Prairie 1 h armer, Sept. 10, 1864, v. 14, n. s., p. 164. Chinch 
Bugs—Birds. 
A correspondent mentions the appearance of chinch bugs in 
wheat on sod, but not in numbers to do serious damage. Thou¬ 
sands of birds about when seed was sown, but they were after 
the wheat, and necessitated the sowing of some land twice. 
