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Latched, on some warm day fire the straw. If the rye doesn’t burn, 
sprinkle stubs with Spanish green. Three years of this procedure 
will practically exterminate the bugs. 
Tan W., R. A.—To Destroy Chinch Bugs. (Farmers’ Review,, 
Jan. 18, 1888.) 
Advises destroying chinch bugs on corn and millet, after harvest,! 
with kerosene and fire. 
Forbes, S. A.—The Chinch Bug. (Freeport Journal, Feb. 15, 
1888.) 
Reporter’s abstract of paper read before Farmers’ Institute at 
Freeport. 
Statistic\l Report of the Illinois State Board of Agricult. 
ure, May 1, 1888. Circular 139, pp. 16-24. Correspond¬ 
ents’ Remarks. 
Johnson, Marion, Massac,. Richland, White, and Williamson 
Co's. Chinch bugs reported as injuring winter wheat. 
Howard, L. O.—The Chinch Bug: A General Summary of its 
History, Habits, Enemies, and of the Remedies. and Pre 
ventives to be used against it. (Bull. No. 17, Div. Ent. L 
S/Dept. Agric., p. 48; Rept. [U. S.] Com miss, of Agricult 
ure, 1887, pp. 51-88, Plates I., HE; Farmers’ Review 
May 9, 16, 30, and June 6 and 13, 1888.) 
A complete review of the subject to meet the demand for in 
formation not now generally accessible. The well-known Missour 
Reports are quoted from at length, and other previous writing 
laid under contribution, and the note books and records of thi 
Division of Entomology have been at the author’s disposal. lh« 
' history of the insect is outlined, estimates of loss are given, an< 
1881 is mentioned as the year in which, at the Chinch Bug Con 
vention” held at Windsor, Kan., it was decided to cease raisin 
wheat. The interesting point in the season of 1887, is said to b| 
the occurrence of the chinch bugs in immense numbers m part 
•of Virginia and the Carolinas for the first time in many yeare 
A report by the statistician of the U. S. Department of Agricult 
ure is presented, from which it appears that the . chmch-buj 
damage to corn, wheat, and oats in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiam 
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas l. 
1887, exceeded $54,000,000, the total loss, including damage to ba 
ley, rye, and millet, being approximately stated at bbO,OUU UU»< 
Insect indigenous east ot the Rocky Mountains, and found f 
California in very limited, not injurious, numbers. Outside o 
United States, specimens are recorded from Canada, Cuba, an 
Mexico. Wild buckwheat is added to the list of food plants o 
the strength of testimony from Nebraska by Mr. Lawrence Brd 
ner; mention is made of adult specimens’ being found m cult 
vated rice in Georgia in 1881; and upon the sand oats ( Unio » 
jpaniculcita) in Florida the insect is said to undergo its entire a 
