irops, —to be left until after rains and then planted to some 
ate crop,—plowing or burning stubble immediately after harvest, 
3 tc.” We must rely on no single measure, but “fight all along the 
ine.” Regard^ as especially valuable in the presence of an out¬ 
break, burning in fall and spring, the intelligent use of fer- 
jilizers, limiting the acreage of crops especially liable to injury, 
die use of lures, fencing with coal-tar mixture, and the use of 
;he kerosene emulsion on corn when it is invaded from the edge. 
Shelton, E. M.—Experiments with Wheat. (Experiment Station, 
Kansas State Agric. Coll., Bull. No. 4, Sept. 18SS, p. 43.) 
Infested wheat plots plowed under to the depth of eight inches 
May 9 and 10 and shortly afterwards harrowed and repeatedly 
rolled. Notwithstanding this thorough treatment “an enormous 
brood of young bugs hatched, a large proportion, apparently, reach¬ 
ing the surface and passing directly to the adjacent crops, which 
received great damage from them.” This brood did the only 
noticeable damage that occurred on the College farm by chinch 
bugs, though they were numerous and voracious. 
Forbes, S. A.—Note on Chinch-Bug Diseases. (Psyche, Sept.- 
Oct., 1888, v. 5, p. 110.) 
The two diseases that were apparently efficient in suppressing 
the chinch-bug outbreak of 188*2 (described in Kept. State Ent. Ill. 
1882) have not since, until this season, been distinctly recognized. 
Now, however, chinch bugs in Southern Illinois are being rapidly 
destroyed by them and by a third disease not hitherto recognized, 
due to a Botrytis. One of the first-mentioned diseases is caused 
by an Entomophthora, the other is due to a microbe (Micrococcus 
insectorum. Burrill) principally developed in the alimentary canal, 
and is freely cultivable by the processes usual in bacterial in¬ 
vestigation. Both the Botrytis and the Entomophthora finally 
imbed the insect in a white fungus. The former has been much 
the more abundant and destructive in Illinois, though apparently 
less so at present than the bacterial form. It seems likely that 
these diseases will soon suppress an outbreak which, in view of 
its continuity and destructiveness, probably has no parallel in 
the history of this insect. 
Farmers’ Review, Oct. 3, 1888, v. 19, p. 628. Sure Remedy for 
the Chinch Bug. (Quoted from Colman’s Rural World.) 
When you sow wheat in the fall, leave a strip fifteen or 
twenty feet all around the field, sowing it with millet the follow¬ 
ing spring. At harvest the bugs will settle in the millet; then 
early in the morning, while the dew is on, plow them under and 
drag and roll the ground thoroughly. The following method for corn 
is equally effective. With an iron rod and cotton cloth make a swab 
and saturate with coal oil; then set it on fire, and walking between 
the rows dash the flames alternately on each side about the stalks, 
near the ground, while the dew is on. “If there is wind, go against 
it so that the heat may not precede the flame and scare the bugs 
out of its reach; if it is calm, walk rapidly so that the heat will 
