Weed, C. M.J—Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer Sept. 17, 1887.) 
No practical way of getting rid of the pest yet discovered. 
' here wheat is grown other crops are jeopardized. “Diversified 
lining, with wheat mainly left out, is the best practice we now 
aow or. 
r EBSTER, F. M.— Insect Enemies of Crops. The Outlook. (Farmers’ 
Be view, Sept. 28, 1887.) 
Objects to statement made in previous issue of paper (Sept. 14) that 
landonment of wheat as a crop will banish the chinch bug. The 
penence of southern planters is directly to the contrary. In 
misiana, where no wheat or barley is raised, corn is sometimes 
maged. As to chinch-bug prospects for another year, it is 
arceiy less a meteorological than an entomological problem; 
nsequently it is very difficult and almost useless to predict. 
diana Farmer, Oct. 15, 1887, v. 32, p. 14. Chinch Bugs. 
°° ntinu ° us weather. A few weeks of open, moist 
ather kills them. Favorite breeding place, wheat fields. Will not 
i-ive where soil is strong and vegetation rank. Writer saw them 
t m Edwards county, I I, in 1855. Probably has been no year 
the. past twenty m which a few chinch bugs could not be- 
ind. m wheat. 
iTEE , S 4or?' Bug ‘ ( Farmers ’ Review, Oct. 19. 
Ioo7, v. 18, p. 658.) 
hinch bugs seek winter quarters uniformly in some damp 
ce, not m dry fodder, etc. Wet weather in winter or an open 
iter does not hurt them. The winter of 1881-82 was exces- 
3iy wet and they came forth in the spring “by the bushel.” Buo- s 
nersed for a week or more on ears of corn in fodder which 
iallen into water and was frozen over with ice, were lively 
6 “ ^’ ar n ed -k y s ? n - , 0ne lot lived in a jar of wet earth 
a month without food. Argues, with Mr. Webster, that aban- 
iment ot wheat and oats as crops will not stop- their ravages 
ips ot rye or spring wheat may serve as traps in the spring. 
, l plowed under in moderately damp weather, the insect will 
come out; but if eggs are laid, they may hatch and young 
,s come to the surface. 3 
M '~ The Chinch Bu "- (Farmers’ Review, Nov. 23, 
lefers to letter by Mr. Waters in issue of Oct. 19, as interest- 
and evincing a commendable spirit of investigation. Calls 
ntion to the tacts that chinch bugs feed on native prairies 
that outbreaks may occur in timothy meadows, — as in 
