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Weed, Clarence M.— The Chinch-Bug Scourge. (Prairie Farmer, 
Aug. 25, 188S, v. 60, p. 545.) 
_ General article urging cooperation by farmers for the destruc¬ 
tion of the chinch bug. 
Farmers’ Review, Aug. 29, 1888, v. 19, p. 546. 
Editors report that a “second crop” of chinch bugs has appeared 
in the vicinity of Metropolis, Massac county, Ill., and corn is 
being injured by them. It is recommended that after corn is 
gathered cattle be at once turned into the stalks, and, later, that 
the remnant be burned. 
Farmers’ Review, Aug. 29, 1838, v. 19, p. 554. 
A correspondent from Grant Co., Kan., reports corn much 
damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. Recommends that no wheat 
be raised for a few years. 
Monthly Weather Review oe the Illinois State Weather 
Service for Aug., 1888. Weekly Weather Crop-Bulletin, p. 7. 
Aug\ 4. Corn has been seriously damaged in some sections by 
the chinch bug. 
Gillette, C. P.—A few Important Chinch-Bug Remedies. (Bull. 
Iowa Agric. Coll. Experiment Station, No. 2, p. 25. Ex¬ 
tracts in Prairie Farmer, Oct. 20, 1888.) 
Climatic conditions in Iowa this year have been unfavorable to 
the chinch bugs, and they have not occurred in injurious num¬ 
bers except over limited areas. We cannot, however, predict the 
weather with any certainty, and systematic measures against the 
pest should be taken. Plowing bugs under to a depth of at 
least six inches is an effective remedy, and may be resorted to in 
early summer wherever bugs are first found injurious, usually 
along the borders of fields or on high sandy spots. When small 
grain is harvested, stubble should be carefully examined, and if 
bugs are present in considerable numbers it should be plowed at 
once. Instances are given illustrating the effectiveness of this 
treatment. If in spring it seems likely that work will be too 
pressing to admit of much plowing immediately after harvest, fields 
of grain should be surrounded with strips of millet, on which the 
bugs will accumulate when migrating from the grain, a furrow or 
two being plowed outside the strip and thrown into the field to 
keep the bugs from passing. When all the bugs seem to have 
left the stubble the millet may be cut,—saved if worth it,—and 
the strip plowed, dragged, and thoroughly rolled as quickly as 
possible. Plowing in fall is effective wherever bugs are numer¬ 
ous; and previous scattering of straw, cornstalks, manure, and the 
like, tends to secure an accumulation of the insects. In order to 
gain the most from plowing, the surface of the soil must all be 
thrown to the bottom of the furrow, which can be done most 
effectually by the use of a jointer on the plow. Burning is 
sometimes preferable to plowing, if it can, by any device, be 
