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not get ahead of you.” If the corn is waist high you can go 
over it several times without injury to the corn, and it will de¬ 
stroy all the bugs. 
Marten, -John. —Chinch-Bug Parasites. (Prairie Farmer, Oct. 6, 
1888, v. 60, p. 650.) 
Four species of lady bugs, the larva of a lace-wing fly, the 
many-banded robber, and a small gray spider are mentioned. 
S. A. Forbes. —Chinch Bugs. [ Abstract of communication to Sec¬ 
retary Mills, of the State Department of Agriculture.] (Prai¬ 
rie Farmer Oct. 6, 1888, v. 60, p. 650; Farmers’ Review, Oct. 
10, 1888, v. 19, p. 642.) 
States that chinch bugs are being rapidly carried away in 
every place lately visited in Southern Illinois, by one or two 
diseases, the same as those which heralded the disappearance of 
the chinch bug in Central Illinois in 18^2. One imbeds the body 
of the dead insect in a white fungus, the number of these 
“moldy” chinch bugs being so great in some fields that the ground 
is whitened as if by a flurry of snow. The other disease, recog¬ 
nizable only by experts, but more general and destructive, is a 
true germ disease, characterized by bacteria in alimentary canal, 
and has produced a very great diminution in numbers of chinch 
bugs where it prevails. 
Prairie Farmer, Oct. 13, 1888, v. 60, p. 666. The Chinch-Bug 
Parasite. 
Mr. William Bield, Washington Co., Mo., writes: “Chinch bags 
have suffered here from the fungus disease you speak of. I would 
judge they are badly used up.” 
Farmers’ Review, Oct. 17, 1888, v. 19, p. 658. The 1888 Wheat 
Crop. 
Wheat was damaged by chinch bugs in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 
Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin' 
Forbes, S. A.— Chinch-Bug Diseases. (Farmers’ Review, Oct. 
31, 1888, v. 19, p. 692.) 
Reply to a letter of inquiry from editor. In addition to infor¬ 
mation given in the article in Psyche on the same subject (see 
.previous entry) the Botrytis and Fntomophthora diseases are said 
to propagate by means of minute dust-like spores (growing on the 
bodies of the dead insects) which are communicated to healthy brigs 
through their air tubes or by falling on their bodies. Nothing 
very positive can be said as to the usefulness of these diseases, 
but in 1865, in Northern Illinois, a chinch-bug army disappeared 
with a disorder that may have been identical with one of the fungus 
diseases lately observed; and in 1882 the bacterial affection noticed 
this year prevailed generally in the vicinity of Bloomington and 
Champaign (Ill.), the chinch bugs the following year being re 
duced to insignificance in those regions. No traces of diseases- 
were found in the extreme southern part of the State, and no 
