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of' timber on prairie farms is recommended as a means of attract- 
ln g. buds, who are the most destructive natural enemies of 
noxious insects. 
Hefei ence to statement in the ‘‘Bloomington Pantagraph” that 
the wheat crop of McLean county will only average from eight 
to nine bushels per acre, owing to chinch-bug injury. 
Prairie Farmer, Sept. 9, 1865, v. 16, n. s„ p. 190. The Chinch 
Bug. (Extract from Waukegan Gazette, also printed in 
Country Gentleman, Dec. 21, 1865, v. 26, p. 395.) 
Prints an extract from “Waukegan Gazette,” giving D. H. Sher¬ 
man s theory that the eggs of the chinch bug are deposited in the 
. ±uzz y enci ol the kernel,” and that the insect may be easily erad¬ 
icated by steeping the seed in some solution which will destroy 
the larva. Editorial comments [by C. Y. Riley?] showing fallacy 
of idea, and stating that the bugs hibernate as adults. 
Prairie Farmer, Sept. 30, 1865, v. 16, n. s., p. 253. 
Editorial note of receipt of a letter from Henry Shimer, of Mt. 
Garioll, to the effect that farmers need not fear chinch bu^s the 
coming >eai as they have “all died of climatic epidemic disease.” 
Prairie Farmer, Oct. 21, 1865, v. 16, n. s, p. 308. Chinch Bugs 
not m Seed Grain. 
Report of an experiment showing that egg of chinch buo- is 
not deposited in kernel. 
Prairie Farmer, Nov. 25, 1865, v. 16, n. s., pp. 384, 385 Condi¬ 
tion of Crops—Chinch Bugs, etc. 
A correspondent, address not given, thinks bugs have been killed 
as a result of rains. Can find no living ones. Says, “There is 
no great hazard in sowing a limited number of acres of sprint 
wheat in 1866.” 1 B 
Shimer, Henry.— Description of the Imago and Larva of a New 
Species of Chrysopa [G. illinoiensis\. (Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Phila., 1865, v. 4, pp. 208-212.) 
Specimens described were obtained from a field of corn (sown 
very thick for fodder) where the larvae were voraciously feeding 
upon chinch bugs, which literally blackened every stalk of corn. 
Estimates that there was, in September, one or more of the Chry¬ 
sopa laivae for every stalk of corn. One example confined in a 
bottle victimized about a dozen bugs in quick succession, sucking 
the juice from their bodies. Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1, saw this 
and othei species of Chrysopa flying, (the weather being quite 
warm after three weeks of severe cold, which froze the ground 
eight inches,) and thinks it probable, therefore, that the adult 
Chry sop a may live during the winter, in which case, he sees rea¬ 
son to hope that it will aid in suppressing the ravages of the chinch 
bug. 
