immense swarms as to attract attention. In 
July, as these acquire wings, they scatter 
over late grain, and corn fields, where they 
lay their eggs ; but the second brood, hatch- 
graved hunting case, and will bo given for 25 
subscribers at $2.65 or 45 at $2.15. 
0 represents a full plate lever movement 
with steel balance and over-sprung hair 
spring, seven jewels, in silver engraved hunt¬ 
ing case, and will ho given for 15 subscribers 
at or 50 at $2.15. 
These watches we can confidently recom¬ 
mend as sure to give satisfaction, of hand¬ 
some style and finish, with durable and ac¬ 
curate internal arrangements. If the reader 
buys a watch of either of these styles, he will 
be sure to get the worth of his money, while 
by taking it for the slight labor required to 
get up a club of Rural New-Yorkers, he is 
certain to reap a double benefit in having a 
good time-piece and the satisfaction of aiding 
in doing a good work in his or her town or 
neighborhood. 
tuality becomes a necessity as well as a car¬ 
dinal virtue. 
Not to moralize too loug over this subject, 
we come to the practical and business fact 
of the announcement that the Rural New- 
Yorker has this year made arrangements 
for a superior article in the line of either gold 
or silver watches, which it is able to offer on 
terms that place these articles within every¬ 
body’s reach. The New York Watch Com¬ 
pany, whose factory is In Springfield, Mass., 
and which is represented in this city by 
Messrs. Wales, Roger & Co, No. 12 John 
MACKIE & CO.’S PATENT BELL TREBLE 
GRAND, EQUARE AND UP¬ 
RIGHT PIANOS. 
Rural New-Yorker “C** 
Silver Watch— “C.” 
ing from these eggs, generally attracts less 
attention and does less injury than did the 
first, because of its more scattered nature 
and the greater maturity and resistingpower 
of the plants. 
Anything that will prevent the mother 
bug from getting at the roots of the graiu, 
will prevent the Injury done by her progeny ; 
hence the importance in this connection, of 
fall plowing and using the roller upon land 
that is loose aud friable ; and hence, if old 
corn ground is sufficiently clcau, it is a good 
plan to harrow in a crop of small grain upon 
it without plowing at all. The earlier, also 
that wheat gets well started and matures, 
the less it will suffer ; because it may be 
harvested before the hugs acquire their 
greatest growth for harm ; hence, and from 
the greater compactness of the ground, win¬ 
ter wheat suffers less than spring wheat. 
Heavy rains are destructive to tbo chinch 
bug; hence, if such occur in the Fall, the 
farmer may plant with little fear of injnry 
the following year, while if they occur in 
May ho need suffer no anxiety, so fur as 
chinch bugs are concerned ; hence, also, 
where irrigation is practicable, the pest may 
at all time - be overcome. It. injures no other 
plants than grasses and cereals. 
On the principle that it is better to save 
tho labor and seed than lose both and the 
harvest withal, the idea of quitting the cul¬ 
ture of the. cereals, and especially of spring 
wheat and barley, for a year nr two, as a 
means of preventing tho breeding of the in¬ 
sects to any injurious extent, has often been 
considered and discussed. There is some 
reason to believe that the abandonment, for 
a single year, of barley and spring wheat cul¬ 
ture over a sufficiently large extent of the 
country—as, for instance over ail entire 
county—would cause a sufficient reduction 
in tho number of chinch bugs in such a 
county as to insure fair crops for two or 
and Buch a course 
FACTS ABOUT CHINCH BUGS 
The chinch bug injures by suction, not by 
biting. It Winters in the perfect state, most¬ 
ly dormant, principally in the old rubbish, 
such as dead leaves, corn-shucks, corn-stalks, 
Gold Watch— “A.” 
at., who are the general agents, makes su¬ 
perior watches by machinery, warrants 
every one to be a good time-keeper, and in 
style and finish not surpassed by those of any 
other manufacturer. We take pride in offer¬ 
ing thoso watches in the Rural Premium 
List, believing them almost if not quite as 
good in their sphere as tho Rural is in its, 
and, as we “can swear by no greater,” Ru¬ 
ral readers will all readily understand that 
this means that, the watches are as good as 
watches possibly can be. 
We give herewith engravings of the four 
styles which we have selected as premiums 
and which are thus described : 
Engraving A represents a full plate, lever 
movement, nickle plate chronometer balance 
Rnrnl Vtw- Yorker, “B" 
Silver Watch—“B.” 
and under weeds and prostrate fence-rails 
and boards that generally surround grain- 
fields ; also, in whatever other sheltered situ¬ 
ation it can get in adjacent woods ; hence 
the importance of fighting the pest in win¬ 
ter time, either by trapping it under boards 
laid for the purpose, or by burning it in its 
aforementioned shelter. Such burning will 
not destroy all the dormant hosts, but will 
practically render the species harmless—es¬ 
pecially where whole communities combine 
to practice it. It issues from its winter 
quarters during the first balmy days of 
spring, when thoso females which were im¬ 
pregnated the previous fall, and which are 
most upt to survive the winter, commence 
ovipositing at once, if suitable conditions are 
at hand. Others take readily to wiug, and 
scatter over our fields, attracted by prefer¬ 
ence to grain growing in loose and dry soil, 
into which they penetrate to consign their 
Gold WATCn — 1 ‘ A x ,{. ’ ’ 
hardened and tempered, hair spring Da- 
maskened, fifteen jewels, in engraved 18 K 
gold hunting case. This watch we will give 
for 60 subscribers at $2.65 or 110 at $2.15. 
Ergraving AX show's a watch in gold 
hunting case engraved, with fifteen jewels, 
with full plate lever movement, nickel chro¬ 
nometer balance hardened and tempered, 
three succeeding years 
is well worth trying. 
It is to be feared, however, that it will 
never bo carried out iu concert over a suffi¬ 
ciently extended breadth of country—first, 
because the farmer can never foretell the 
character of tho coming season, on which 
the increase or decrease of the pest so largely 
depends, and will naturally hope for the 
best; second, because if neither spring nor 
fall wheat, barley, oats, rye, Hungarian 
grass, timothy nor corn w'ere grown for one 
season in any given county where there are 
wild prairie grasses, the chinch bug would 
yet breed, though not ao numerously.— Prof. 
RUey'8 Seventh Report on Insects of Mis¬ 
souri. 
The eggs are deposited on tho roots, and 
the young, which are red, remain under the 
NEW YORK WATCH COMPANY GOLD 
AND SILVER WATCHES. 
It is many years since the Rural New- 
Yorker inaugurated the plan of offering 
watches as premiums for Agent Friends who 
were Increasing its circulation 
Since then 
hundreds of roeu aud women in all parts of 
tiie country have competed for and won 
these prizes—in many cases making the re¬ 
cipient for the first time the owmer of u first- 
class time-keeper. No class of premiums 
has been more eagerly sought, and none 
are more highly prized than these. A good 
watch Is, indeed, a desirable memento, and 
■whether received as a gift from a friend or 
earned by one’s own exertions, the pleasure 
of its first possession is never forgotten. It 
might be thought that the “hard times” 
through which the couutry has been passing 
would seriously diminish the sale of watches. 
So indeed they would, w'ere these convenient 
time-keepers articles of mere luxury. They 
are, however, found so necessary iu most 
kinds of business, and so valuable in all, that 
there is no cessation in the demand. The 
first lesson w'hich hard times teaches is econ¬ 
omy, and of what should w r e be more 
ecocomical than time, the most valuable of 
all gifts t The daily waste of a few minutes 
is a loss which can never be replaced, and 
the only one of which this eau be truly said. 
Decidedly the best way to prevent lost time 
is to have a good time-keeper. Before the 
days of electricity aud steam a few minutes 
more or lcs9 made little difference, but now 
minutes and even seconds count, and punc- 
THE MAPLE-TREE LOUSE IN IOWA. 
The rapid increase of a species of maple- 
tree louse supposed to be the Lecanium 
acerlcolo , in some portions of the Western 
States, bids fair fo put an end to the cultiva¬ 
tion of the silver-maple, if not other species. 
P. H. Hollingsworth of Muscatine, Iowa, 
in a private note dated Oct. 17, says, 1 the 
trees are entirely covered with this insect, 
and the branches of some look as though 
they had been scorched by fire. As the 
leaves die the lice appear to crawl away and 
fasten themselves upon the branches. We 
shall have to find some other trees for general 
planting, unless this maple tree pest can be 
destroyed.” Prof. Riley’s attention has 
been directed to this pesit, and it is to be 
hoped he will suggest some practical method 
of destruction. 
