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New York, in 1882 and 1883. Burning grass and rubbish destroys 
a few bugs and deprives the remainder of shelter. Much of the 
grass will not be burned, but sheep, if the farmer has them, will eat 
it so close as to leave no shelter for bugs. In warmer portion 
of the country no doubt many eggs are deposited in the fall. 
The bugs seek the higher parts of a field, because dampness is fatal 
to young and eggs. Strips of crop to trap them should be sow n 
in such places. Careful experiment for controlling chine “ 
bug always in order, but hasty, wholesale abolition of the culti¬ 
vation of one of our most important cereals, without proof of its 
efficiency, seems an injudicious measure. 
Prairie Farmer, Dec.-, 1887. Destroying Chinch Bugs. 
The following dispatch to the Chicago papers from Hillsboro, 
Illinois, quoted: “A number of farmers here, acting on the ad¬ 
vice of the State Entomologist, are burning off theii fields and 
wood pastures for the purpose of destroying the myriads of chinch 
bugs that ruined the corn crop of last season. An effort is being 
made to make the burning general.” 
Prairie Farmer, Dec. 24, 1887. Burning Corn Stalks to destroy 
Chinch Bugs. 
Thought to be impracticable,. as early in fall the bugs leave 
the corn stalks and take shelter in grass in edges of fields, under 
rails and leaves, in woods, etc. Burning in hiding places recom¬ 
mended. 
S. A. Forbes. —On the Chinch Bug (Blissus leucopterus , Say) in 
Illinois. Present Condition, and Prospects for 1887^ and 
1888. Remedial Procedure Recommended. (Bull. No. 2, 
Office State Ent. of Ill., pp. 27-43. Extracts, abstracts, or 
comments, in the following papers: Fruit Growers’ Journal, 
Oct. 1 and 15, 1887; Review Dispatch, Sept. 23, 1887; 
Prairie Farmer, Och 1, 8, 15, 1887; Chicago Daily Intel 
Ocean, Sept. 17, 1887.) 
Chinch bugs extraordinarily destructive for three successive years 
in Southern Illinois, infested area gradually increasing until it in¬ 
cludes the greater part of thirty counties. Careful search in Noith¬ 
em Illinois showed it to be locally numerous in Lake, Winnebago, 
Stephenson, and Lee counties, and occasionally injurious . to corn 
and oats adjoining wheat and barley, breeding in both winter and 
spring wheat. Reported present in Rock Island county m gre’a 
numbers, and attracting attention in many parts of Central ant 
Western Illinois. Weather conditions throughout the State this 
year, and in Northern, Southern, and Western Illinois last yeai, 
have been generally so favorable to the multiplication of the 
chinch bug that the State is threatened with great loss. Timely 
concerted action suited to the emergency is urged. Notes from 
crop correspondents in answer to circular of inquiry are given, 
from which it appears that the chinch bug is. very destructive in 
thirty counties; occurs in large numbers in sixteen; in modeia e 
