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Western Rural, May 17, 1884. Insecticides. 
Editorial mention of Professor Forbes’s success in destroying 
chinch bugs with kerosene emulsion. 
Kanf, Kirk. —How to beat the Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer,' 
June 21, 1884. Extract in The Issue, July 5, 1884.) 
Writing from Southern Illinois notes general immunity from 
chinch-bug damage in 1874 and 1882 in wheat fields where timo¬ 
thy had been sown the fall before, while others were destroyed. 
Thinks the thick growth of timothy holds dampness nearly all day 
and prevents the increase of the bugs. 
Illinois Crop Prospects. Consolidation of Reports returned to 
the Department of Agriculture Aug. 1, 1884. Circular No. 
116, p. 61. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Hamilton Co. Chinch bugs have made their appearance again 
in localities. 
Forbes, S. A.—Notes of the Year [1883]. (Thirteenth Rept. 
State Ent, Ill., p. 9. Abstract in Cultivator and Country 
Gentleman, Oct. 30, 1884.) 
Practically no damage by the chinch bug in 1883, but it is not 
far below the danger line. 
Harrington, W. H.— Exhibition of Insects. (Can. Ent. Nov., 
1884, v. 16, p. 218.) 
Exhibited specimens of chinch bugs from Sydney, Cape Breton, 
where he had found them abundant. 
Illinois Crops for 1884. Circular [of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture], No. 118, pp. 160, 166. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Clark Co. Corn, in localities, poor and chaffy, owing to chinch 
bug and drouth. Marion Co. Yield of corn far short of that of 
1883, owing to the chinch bug. 
Bruner, Lawrence. —Notes from Nebraska. (Rept, [L. S.] Corn- 
miss. Agric., 1884, p. 399.) 
Great numbers of bugs appeared in grain fields in Cuming, 
Burt, and Washington counties early in July, but heavy rains set 
in soon after and the bugs disappeared. 
Forbes, S. A.—The False Chinch Bug (Nysius destructor , Riley). 
(Thirteenth Rept. State Ent. Ill. [1883], p. 105.) 
Distinction between chinch bug and false chinch bug noted. 
Mendenhall, R. J.—Entomological Notes for the Season of 1883. 
(Trans. Minn. State Hort. Soc., 1884, p. 140.) 
Chinch bug presumed to have done considerable damage in 
Minnesota, locally, in 1883. Habits of the insect noted, and the 
standard remedies. Farmers said to sow Hungarian grass or mil¬ 
let with their small grain to divert the bugs from the latter; oi 
fields are bordered with these forage crops, corn sometimes being 
