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Thomas, Cyrus. —Entomological Notes, No. 2. Winter Plowing 
and Spading.—Chinch Bugs. (Western Rural, Nov. 6, 1875.' 
Exhorts farmers to report results of experiments for destruction 
of insects. Knowledge of what will not do any good is next in 
importance to a knowledge of that which will. Time now, he says 1 
to apply torch to whatever rubbish may afford chinch bugs win¬ 
ter quarters. Knows no better practical preventive. Mentions 
finding a few bugs that had survived the wet weather of the 
summer, but had been destroyed by some insect enemy—probably 
the spotted lady bug (Hippodamia maculata). 
Thomas, Cyrus. —Lime for Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, Nov. 
6, 1875.) 
Thinks it probable that lime would be beneficial as a fertilizer, 
assisting the plant to resist the attack of the bugs, but gives^it as 
his opinion that it will not destroy them unless administered in 
such quanties as to kill the wheat. Urges concert of action in 
burning them in their winter quarters. 
Glover, Townenp. —Report of the Entomologist. (Repoit[U. S. 
Commiss. of Agriculture for 1874, p. 127.) 
In 1873 chinch bug heard of in only one county east of Alleghany 
Mountains—Halifax, Virginia. In 1874 more or less destructive tc 
small grain, corn, and grass in various Atlantic Coast states and in West 
Virginia and Kentucky. It was also reported from various counties 
in Ohio and Indiana, and the drought favored their operations as 
far north as Wisconsin. They v T ere quite injurious in some parts 
of Iowa, but their most fatal ravages were in Missouri, where they 
were so numerous on some farms as to swarm into houses and 
barns. They w r ere particularly destructive to grass and grain, but 
in some localities corn adjacent to wheat suffered, and in others 
wheat on timber land measurably escaped. Kansas reports more 
or less injury in tw T enty T -seven counties. In Illinois, destructive 
sw T eep still wider, embracing the following counties: Menard. 
Sangamon, Perry, Effingham, Fay-ette, Jackson, Clay, Madison. 
Clinton, St. Clair, Massac, White, Randolph, Cass, Pike, Logan. 
Cumberland, Hancock, Macon, Marion, Pope, Mason, McHenry, 
Crawfford, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery, Moultrie, Morgan, Rich¬ 
land, Vermilion, Washington, Wayne, Piatt, Schuyder, Shelby, and 
Edwmrds. In some of these counties they appeared early enough 
to attack winter wdieat before harvest and to make the w r heat 
stubble a point of attack upon the various spring-sown crops. 
Muhleman, J. R.—Insect Life in Winter. (Trans. Ill. State Hort. 
Soc. 1874, p. 250.) 
Mention of trapping chinch bugs and other insects under boards 
placed in orchard for that purpose. 
