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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 16 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York 
THE CHINCH BUG IN N. Y. STATE. 
Our Timothy meadows are being damaged by a 
small fly which is working around the roots 
and lower part of the stalks, killing the plants in 
all places passed over. What is it, and what is 
the best way to stop it ? R. a. d. 
Watervliet, N. Y. 
When I first read R. A. D.’s descrip¬ 
tion of the workings of the insect in his 
Timothy, I feared that we had to deal 
with a new and dangerous pest. But a 
glance at the specimen, sent later, 
showed that the depredator was the 
well-known and destructive Chinch bug 
of the West. This little insidious enemy 
is proving a hard chap to fight. Fortun¬ 
ately it is naturally a southern and 
western insect, but it has appeared in 
isolated localities in destructive numbers 
in many of the eastern States. As the 
insect has appeared in injurious num¬ 
bers in New York State but three times 
in 14 years, its ravages have not con¬ 
tinued for more than two seasons in any 
instance, and it has never reappeared in 
noticeable numbers in the same locality. 
It is thus very doubtful whether it ever 
becomes the serious and constant menace 
to farm crops in New York that it is in 
Illinois or Kansas. 
The Chinch bug hibernates in the adult 
winged state, preferably in the stools of 
grass below the surface. It comes forth 
early in the spring, probably in May in 
our State, and lays about 250 amber- 
colored eggs at the bases of grasses or 
grain ; egg-laying covers several weeks. 
The eggs hatch in about two weeks, and 
the young-bugs, called nymphs, soon be¬ 
come of a bright red color, and shed 
their skins four times before the adult 
stage is reached. They obtain their food 
by sucking it from the grasses or grain 
with their beak-like mouths. The first 
brood of these red nymphs matures in 
July and August, and the adults lay 
eggs for another brood, whose nymphs 
develop into the adults that go into 
hibernation. Thus far, the work of the 
insect in New York State has not seemed 
to warrant the necessary expense attend 
ant upon the propagation and distribu 
tion of a certain fungous disease to 
which this pest often succumbs in large 
numbers, and which has been used in 
large quantities in fighting the bug in 
the West. I believe that the most prac¬ 
ticable method of controlling the Chinch 
bug in New York is by deep fall plow¬ 
ing, or the burning over of infested lands 
late in the fall. By either of these 
methods, many of the hibernating bugs 
will be destroyed, m. y. slingerland. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
Bulletin No. 45 of the Oregon Station 
(Corvallis) devotes 127 pages to a discus¬ 
sion of the Growth and Market Prepara¬ 
tion of Prunes. This ought to be of 
great interest to prune growers on the 
Pacific coast, and also to the prune 
eaters of the rest of the country. It is 
stated that, in 1891, the United States 
imported 34,000,000 pounds of prunes, 
and also consumed 29,000,000 pounds of 
the home product. In 1895, the imports 
of prunes dropped to 14,000,000 pounds, 
while the production increased to 69-, 
000,000. The prunes of the Pacific coast 
are noted for their size and flavor. This 
bulletin gives, in great detail, the various 
methods of growing the crop, and also 
describes how the prunes are dipped in 
boiling lye, pricked by needles by the 
use of pricking machines, and dried in 
evaporators for market. As to the value 
of the prune as an article of diet, the 
bulletin quotes the following from a 
book published in 1628, by T. Venner. 
Dryed plums, which are commonly called 
Prunes, are wholsomer, and more pleasant to the 
stomacke, than the greene plums; they yeeld 
much better nourishment, and such as cannot 
easily putrifle, by reason that their crude and 
superfluous moisture is dryed up and consumed. 
The Damask and Spanish Prunes are the best, 
because they are the sweetest: being boyled in 
brothes, they loose the belley, and excrete out 
choler: being stewed and eaten betweene or be¬ 
fore meals, they are most pleasant to the taste, 
excellently refresh a weake stomacke and doe 
also mollifle. They are most convenient for them 
that are of a cholericke or sanguine constitution. 
French Prunes, and all such as are somewhat 
sour in taste, are somewhat of a binding, and 
not of a soluble faculty. 
We think most of our modern house¬ 
keepers will agree that this venerable 
Doctor of Physic knew what he was 
talking about. 
Bulletin 42 of the Florida Station (Lake 
City) gives a brief account of the various 
insects which attack the strawberry in 
that part of the country. Bulletin 41 
of the same station discusses a fungous 
disease of the San Jos6 scale, which may, 
possibly, be used for destroying this 
dreaded insect. It is well known that, 
in various parts of the West, diseases of 
insects have been used to destroy insect 
pests, and some of these diseases may be 
artificially spread with profit. It is pos¬ 
sible that, in climates like that of 
Florida, this disease may be used to 
sicken and kill the San Jos6 scale. 
Bulletin No. 38 of the Missouri Experi- 
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n ovel methods of protecting peach trees 
in winter. The one that will attract most 
attention is a scheme for whitewashing 
the trees. The whitewash used is four 
parts of water, one part skim-milk and 
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