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•the whole length of the field, where salt was not sown, containet 
more chinch bugs than all the rest of the field, and bore on! 
about half as much wheat per acre. 
Riley, C. Y. —Micro pus leucopterus. (General Index and Sup 
plement to the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri 
Bull. No. 6, U. S. Ent. Commiss., p. 58.) 
“Now referred to Burmeister’s genus Blissus.” 
Saunders, Wm. — Annual Address of the President of the Ento, 
mological Society of Ontario. (Canadian Entomologist, 1881f 
y. 13, p. 198; Kept, Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1881, p. 5.) 
Mention of serious chinch-bug injuries to corn in Missouri and 
Kansas and comparative immunity from them in Ontario. 
Farmers’ Review, - 1881. [Starving out the Chinch Bug. 
Editors note that farmers in vicinity of Windsor, Ottawa Co- 
Kan., have resolved to starve out the chinch bug, having, in com 
vention, voted to abandon the growing of spring wheat for a serieJ 
of years. 
Everett, W. R. —The Chinch Bug. (Farmers’ Review, -, 
1881 [?].) 
Writes from Caldwell Co., Mo., that last August, at a meetim 
for consultation, farmers at Windsor, Henry Co., Mo. [?], agree( 
not to sow any wheat last fall. Wheat raising has been abandoned 
“in this part of Missouri on prairie lands, and the bugs are noi 
so bad as when more wheat was sown. If Prof. Thomas’s theory 
is correct the farmers ought to quit raising corn instead of wheat. 
1882. 
Prairie Farmer, Feb. 11, 1882. Chinch Bugs in Kansas. 
Chinch bugs swarming in prairie grass. Various remedial 
measures briefly discussed. Probably the best course is to grov 
other crops than wheat and barley for at least two years in a 
district that has been infested. 
Forbes, S. A.—The Ornithological Balance Wheel. (Trans. 
State Hort. Soc., 1881, v. 15, p. 130; Trans. Ind. Hort. Soc. ( 
1881, p. 80.) 
Fifteen representatives of eight species of birds shot among the! 
chinch bugs had not eaten these insects at all'; but one catbird) 
three brown thrushes, and one meadow lark were previously founa 
to have eaten them in barely sufficient number to show that the)! 
have no unconquerable prejudice against them. 
Farmers’ Review. Farmers’ Review of the Season, and F. B 
Club Record. 
March 30, 1882, v. 8, Supplement, p. 3. Effingham Co. Some, 
chinch bugs. Madison Co. County full of them. April 6, 1SS2 T 
p. 212. Coles Co. Chinch bugs flooded out. Shelby Co. Chincb 
