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Farmers’ Beview, Aug. 24, 1882, v. 9, p. 113. / 
Notice of experiments by Prof. S. A. Forbes with an insecticide 
mixture for the chinch bug; viz., an emulsion of water, kerosene, 
and milk, costing half a cent a gallon, and applied with a sim¬ 
ple machine. 
Farmers’ Beview, Aug. 31, 1882. Warsaw Horticultural Society. 
Chinch bugs quite numerous in some corn fields, 
Forbes, S. A.—Bacterium a Parasite of the Chinch Bug. (Amer¬ 
ican Naturalist, Oct., 1882, v. 16, p. 224. Abstract of article, 
with extracts, in Prairie Farmer for -, 1882.) 
Chinch bugs under observation died rapidly and unaccountably. 
Microscopical examination of the fluids from the crushed bodies 
of both living and dead bugs showed them to be swarming with a 
species of bacterium, having its principal, perhaps exclusive, seat 
in the alimentary canal. Bugs in the field diminished rapidly, the . 
mortality being, however, chiefly among the older insects. 
Popenoe, E. A.—The Chinch Bug and the Season. (Prairie 
Farmer, Nov. 25, 1882.) 
Chinch bug everywhere abundant in Kansas in early spring- 
months, some badly infested fields being turned under by the 
plow T , and young corn near wheat or meadow-lands being destroyed 
by invading chinch bugs. Abundance of rain following, season 
proved on the whole unusually free from damage. Possible that 
simple excess of moisture drowns young bugs on the ground, but 
doubts if others are so affected. Gives illustrations of tenacity of 
life in chinch bugs. Becalls Dr. Shimer’s theory of epidemic 
disease, cites Thomas’s opinions in support of it, and quotes ex¬ 
periments made by Forbes in which chinch bugs were artificially 
drenched for many successive days without effect. Also refers to 
Forbes’s observations on bacterial parasite of chinch bug. Beports 
recently finding in Southeastern Kansas situations where chinch bugs 
died in great numbers in corn fields, “each, dead bug being covered 
with a strong growth of white mold.” Connects this occurrence 
with Shimer’s and Forbes’s statements. Cites Forbes’s experiments 
with kerosene emulsion for chinch bug. 
J[ohnson], B. F.—Notes from Champaign, Ill. (Prairie Farmer, 
Dec. 9, 1882.) 
By destroying volunteer wheat great numbers of the Hessian fly 
and chinch bug would be destroyed. 
Forbes, S. A.—Another Chinch-Bug Parasite. (Prairie Farmer, 
Dec. 9, 1882.) 
Beferring to Popenoe’s article of Nov. 25, surmises that white 
mold mentioned is identical with a fungus found destroying chinch 
bug in corn fields near Jacksonville in September. This fungus, 
identified by Prof. Burrill as an Entomophthora, imbedded the 
chinch bugs and fastened them to leaves and stalks of corn. Be-a 
