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Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Oct. 26, 1871, v. 36, p. 
680. 
jv ; Note that a “Missouri Republican” correspondent had success¬ 
fully [?] used salt to prevent progress of bugs in corn field. 
Sprinkled row of corn just ahead of bugs, and earth between it 
and the infested corn with strong brine. 
Prairie Farmer, Nov. 11, 1871. Straw Injured by Chinch Bugs. 
Fin reply to a query on the subject, a correspondent says that 
lie feeds straw and corn damaged by chinch bugs to stock with¬ 
out injury. In regard to getting rid of the insect by raising no 
spring wheat he says, *‘In this region [Kinmundy, Marion Co.] 
we raise no spring wheat nor barley, but oats, winter wheat, 
and plenty of chinch bugs, and they breed in the wheat first.” 
[LeBaron, Wm.] —Introduction. (p rairie Farmer, -, 1871.) 
Cj Chinch bugs were sufficiently numerous in localities, to start 
destructive colonies in June. The most important preventive 
measure against them is to sow spring wdieat as early as possible. 
It is not the hibernating bugs but their summer progeny that do 
the mischief. These do not appear until about the middle of 
June, and if we can get spring wheat well matured by that time 
it will escape their ravages. For this reason the earlier winter 
wheat is not often injured by them. 
[LeBaron, Wm.]—T he Chinch Bug once more. (Prairie Farmer, 
-—, 1871.) 
In reply to questions, says that the absence of cold drenching 
rains, and the slight check by birds and parasitic insects, indicate 
excessive prevalence of chinch bug in 1872; but as it feeds but 
little in the fall, winter wheat, maturing early in the spring, will 
escape serious damage; and the chances for winter wheat are very 
much better than for spring wheat where chinch bugs have pre¬ 
vailed this season. 
1872. 
Bethune, C. J. S.—Insects affecting the Wheat Crops. 3. The 
Chinch Bug (Micropus leucoplerus, Say). (Rept. Ent. Soc. 
Ontario, 1871, pp. 55-57.) 
A compiled account of the history, natural history, injuries, and 
enemies of the insect, with notice of remedies. 
Glover, Townend. —Report of the Entomologist. (Rept, [U. S.] 
Commiss. Agric., 1871, p. 84, fig. 17.) 
States that the chinch bug has been very destructive in Iowa, 
Kansas, and the Northwestern States. Quotes a correspondent who 
finds salt a successful barrier to progress of chinch bug. Stirs half 
a gallon of salt into a pail of water and sprinkles ground and row 
of corn just ahead of the bugs. He says they go from row to row 
■“with almost as much precision as a man plowing the corn.” 
