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1876. 
Riley, C. V.—Insect Ravages. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mar. 
4, 1876.) 
Loss by chinch bugs in Northwestern States in 1871, $30,000,000; 
and in 1874, $60,000,000. 
Report Department of Agriculture, July, 1876. [Insect In¬ 
juries.] (Prairie Farmer, Aug. 19, 1876.) 
Troublesome only in a few counties of the Northwest, including 
four counties in Wisconsin, three in Iowa, one in Missouri, one 
in Kansas, and Ogle and Winnebago in Illinois. 
L., J. F.—Chinch Bugs, etc. (Prairie Farmer,-Nov. 4, 1876.) 
Thinks that by legislative action a fence could be secured around 
and through which fire might pass without injuring it, thus per¬ 
mitting the thorough destruction of leaves, weeds, and rubbish, 
which afford shelter to the chinch bug in the winter. Then, if 
concert of action could be secured, State Entomologist’s sugges¬ 
tions might be carried out. 
Glover, Townend.—[T he Chinch Bug or “Mormon Louse.”] (Re¬ 
port of the Entomologist in Rept. [U. S. ] Commiss. Agric. 
1875, pp. 122, 123.) 
Reports insect as injurious to almost every description of garden 
vegetables, grain, maize, herbs and other grasses, wheat, oats, 
potatoes, and even to buds of the pear and other trees. Describes 
the different stages, and on Dr. Shimer’s authority mentions 
twenty days as the time occupied by the female in laying her eggs 
(about 500, deposited in ground, on or among roots of plants); 
which hatch in fifteen days. Two broods in Northern States; 
sometimes three in Southern. Hibernates under rubbish. One 
specimen taken in midwinter in Washington was one and a half inches 
under ground, stiff and lifeless when found, but soon as lively as 
■ever. Insect multiplies much the fastest during dry seasons. 
Destroyed by several parasites. The false chinch bug and lace¬ 
wing flies said to destroy it, and quails to feed upon it. 
Glover, Townend. —Remedies Reported to be Serviceable in De¬ 
stroying Insects of the Suborder Heteroptera, or Plant-Bugs. 
(Report of the Entomologist, in Rept. I II. S.] *Commis. 
Agric. 1875, pp. 139, 140.) 
Short general discussion of chincli-bug remedies with favorable 
mention of salt, sowing Hungarian grass with grains, ditching, and 
coal-tar barriers. 
Riley, C. V.—Lessons of the Year. (Eighth Rept. State Ent., Mo., 
1875, pp. 142, 143. 
Says the destitution in western counties of Missouri the pre¬ 
vious spring was certainly owing as much to the ravages of the 
chinch bug as to those of the locust. Mentions diversified agri- 
