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stages (Riley’s), and characters of nine varieties as pointed oi 
by Fitch. Remedies, natural and artificial, considered at lengt, 
with quotations from Fitch and Riley laying particular stress upc 
drenching or irrigation as the best preventive measure where pra' 
ticable. Statistical comparison of chinch-bug injuries to whe; 
and corn in Northwestern States, showing that corn sustained tl 
.greatest damage in the three great chinch-bug years, 1864, 187 
and 1874. Clean and diversified farming best methods of preven 
ing increase. Entire loss to nation in 1874 estimated at $100,000 
000. ,l As the species seems to have a maximum of developmei 
about every five years,” the annual loss to the nation is probabl 
about $20,000,000. 
Wells, T. C.—Notes from [Manhattan] Kansas. (Am. Ent., Mar 
1880, v. 3, p. 77.) ' ■] 
“Although we had a very wet season in 1878, and plenty c 
rain in 1879, the chinch bug continues troublesome, injurin 
spring wheat very materially, also millet, and where these are cu 
going for the corn. Some fields of corn were very badly dam 
aged by them last season.” 
American Entomologist, March, 1880, v. 3, p. 75. * ,1 
“Prof. Cyrus Thomas has expressed the opinion that if we hav 
a dry,^ early summer, the chinch bug will be very troublesome i; 
the West the present year.” 
Pacific Rural Press, May 8, 1880. The Chinch Bug. 
Publishes query from Prof. Cyrus Thomas as to appearance o 
chinch bug on Pacific coast, answering in the negative, and quot 
ing a paragraph from his recent article on the chinch bug (Bull. U 
S. Ent. Commission, No. 5). 
Prairie Farmer, May 29, 1880. Chinch Bugs. 
A letter from Ford Co., Ill., states that chinch bugs are abun 
dant in small grain, and inquires if it should be plowed up tc 
save the corn. Editors give extracts from Thomas’s bulletin or 
the chinch bug. 
Prairie Farmer, July 17, 1880. [Answer to Correspondent.] 
“If barley, winter or spring, is chinch-bug proof, we are 
not aware of it.” 
Cary, S. L.—Chinch Bug in Iowa and Minnesota. (x4m. Ent, 
August, 1880, v. 3, p. 206.) 
Writing July 1, says Northeastern Iowa and Southeastern Min¬ 
nesota have been greatly infested with chinch bugs, which came 
as early as April, and were flying in great numbers about the 
10th of June. They commenced laying eggs, but a wet spring 
and summer destroyed most of them. 
