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given of the prodigious numbers and ravages of the chinch bug 
with successful method of fighting it—tarred boards, with deep 
holes every ten feet just outside. The false chinch bug and the 
ash-gray leaf-bug sometimes mistaken for the chinch bug. Illus¬ 
trations. Two hemipterous insects, larvae of lady bugs, and ants, 
are mentioned as natural enemies, the latter (which destroy the 
being regarded as the most efficient. As remedies, burn in 
rubbish and badly infested crops is recommended; also the sowing 
of winter rye with spring wheat—one bushel of rye to twelve 
of wheat. 
Report of Entomologist of the f U. S. ] Department of Ag¬ 
riculture, 1882, pp. 04, 65. Extracts from Correspondence. 
Serious injuries reported from Austin, Mo., and Marion county, 
1883. 
Forbes, S. A.—A Lecture on Insects affecting Corn, pp. 17-20. 
(Read before a Farmers’ Institute at the State Industrial 
University, Champaign, Illinois, Jan. 29, 1883, and issued 
in pamphlet form the same year. Review in Advance Far¬ 
mer, July, 1883.) 
Brief mention of life history, remedies, and natural enemies, 
bacterial and fungus parasites being especially noted. 
Riley, C. V.—Entomological Notes. Diseases of the Chinch Bug. 
(Rural New r Yorker, Feb. 17, 1883.) 
Biicf lefeience to the bacterial and fungus enemies of the chinch 
bug found by Professors Forbes and Popenoe. 
Forbes,^S. A. Insects affecting Corn. (Prairie Farmer, Feb. 
23, 1883.) 
When the chinch bug and army worm are in adversity we cc 
hderately and generously cease from troubling them, arousi 
3uiselves to attack them only when they are strong and trim 
phant. Pei haps this is not the best way. IV e may find the 
more vulnerable when they are weak and few, if we take the trout 
:o study them at that time.” 
Beedy Aich [Halsted, B. D.]—The Chinch Bug. (Farmer 
Review, March 22, 1883.) 
Compiled general article, mentioning Riley’s estimate of loss b 
diinch bug in 1874 in Illinois and Missouri as fifty million do! 
ars, giving number of broods, place of depositing eggs, effect ol 
veather, and remedies. 
Iolman’s Rural World, April 19, 1883. Salt on Wheat. 
Notice of a previously printed statement that salt will drive 
ffiincli bugs out of wheat and corn fields, and as confirmatory the 
allowing item is quoted: “The Massachusetts Agricultural So- 
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