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shaken together and running over, shall men give into your 
bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall 
be measured to you again.” 
Mr. Allen. I want to extend the hand of fellowship to brother 
Wood, for he expressed in his paper my views exactly on chinch- 
bugs and all. You may just as well raise a good crop of wheat ;is 
not. In the first place you want the grain put in at the proper 
depth. The chinch-bug when it first comes to light is a tiny 
thing, a little point something like a mosquito’s egg, but they 
will have life before }-ou can see them. They may commence by 
the first of June, and if the wheat is covered up deep enough, so 
that they cannot find the roots, they won’t breed there. If it is 
covered up an inch and a half deep, they cannot get to the roots, 
and if the land is mellow, it should be pressed down with a roller or 
something. If there are corn roots or something of that kind they 
will breed there. Then again, as to a further preventative, I 
would sow clover and plaster. After the clover grows and shades 
the grain, you will not find many chinch-bugs on. the ground. 
Mr. Anderson. I want to discourage the idea that clover will 
prevent the chinch-bugs from eating wheat, for I know to my sor¬ 
row that it won’t do any such thing. 
Two or three years ago I thought I prevented the chinch-bugs 
from destroying wheat by having a very heavy undergrowth of 
clover, but since that time I had heavy clover and straw, and yet 
they destroyed it all. The last season on the best land I had, they 
took it so I never threshed it at all; and I had a heavy crop of 
straw; but I never sow small grain without sowing clover. I hold 
that any farmer who believes that he can save his crop of wheat by 
sowing clover, is mistaken, if we have a dry, hot June. 
The idea that rolling the ground prevents bugs is a fallacy. 
Last year my grain that was rolled was nearly all destroyed with 
bugs. My clover and wheat were the best where my ground was 
in lumps as big as my fist all over the field, and my clover and 
wheat both did better by far; so that theory is gone. 
In regard to the bugs hatching in corn-stalks—in dry corn¬ 
stalks—they do not do any such thing. They hatch a little under 
the ground, and they will hatch just as quick in the stalk, or in a 
blade of grass or wheat. Eggs laid by chinch-bugs are not laid in 
the fall and hatched out in the spring, but full-grown bugs live 
