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Forbes, S. A.—The Chinch Bug. (Robinson [Ill.] Argus, July 
18, 1888; Indiana Farmer, Aug. 4, 1888, p. 9.) 
Reporter’s abstract of paper entitled “The Relations of Wheat 
Culture to the Chinch Bug in Illinois,” delivered at the mass 
meeting of the farmers of Crawford county, noted above. 
Pbaieie Farmer, July 21, 1888. Harvest Notes. 
From Butler Co., Kansas: “No chinch bugs to do much dam¬ 
age except where the rye fields are cut.” 
Mahin, S. T.—Voracious Missouri Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, Julv 
21, 1888, v. 60, p. 469.) 
Writing from Pettis county, says that the use of salt on millet, 
corn, and sorghum, and the sowing of timothy with wheat, as 
measures against the chinch bug, have failed this year in his 
county. The bugs like timothy about as well as wheat, and do 
not object to having their food salted. Much wheat plowed up 
and planted to corn, but the corn was taken likewise; in some 
cases a second planting. 
Prairie Farmer, July 28, 1888, v. 60, p. 479. 
“Chinch bugs are reported in immense numbers in the Miami 
Valley, Ohio. Recent rains checked their ravages, but the pest 
is now in oats and corn. * * * Have been no chinch bugs in 
this vicinity since 1881.” 
Prairie Farmer, July 28, 1888, v. 60, p. 487. Chinch Bugs in 
Southern Illinois. 
Notice, of the mass meeting in Crawford Co., Ill., referred to 
on previous page, with reprint of resolutions passed. Madison 
county farmers, at a recent meeting, pledged themselves not to 
sow wheat or rye, for two years, and to use every available 
means to destroy the chinch bug. 
Weed, Clarence M,—The Chinch Bug in Ohio: Midsummer 
Remedies. (Ohio Agric. Experiment Station, Bull. No. 4, 
2d series, July, 1888, pp. 53, 55. (Reprinted in part in 
Prairie Farmer, July 28 and Sept. 1, 1888.) 
The chinch bug is injuriously abundant in certain counties of 
Ohio, notably Franklin. As remedial measures the following are 
recommended: the plowing of infested fields as soon as wheat is 
for a rod or two along the borders (harrowed occasionally 
o make the soil friable) if the field cannot be wholly plowed; the 
turning of stubble in infested fields before the bugs leave, using 
sometimes a light coating of straw to facilitate the operation; 
;oal-tar as a barrier to migration, applied frequently, having 
loles for traps at intervals along the line; kerosene emulsion 
applied when bugs have reached outer rows of corn (formula be- 
ng given for preparation); and trapping in furrows. 
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