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€ false chinch bug (Nysius ericae Schill.), according to recent informa- 
a8 been one of the most injurious insects of the year, having been particu- 
destructive to sugar beets grown for seed in Colorado, 
CHANGE OF ADDRESS 
Mr, Fe 8. Milliken has changed his address from 214 N. Clarence Ave. to 2007 
Doug las Aves, Wichita, Kansas. 
- CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
a W. RB, Walton, in Charge. 
NOTES FROM THE WELLINGTON FIELD STATION. | 
February 19, 1917. 
_ Chinch bugs are rather plentiful in bunch grass. A great deal of roadside 
getation has been burned, but the normal burning, as it is usually conducted, 
cial and kills only a small percentage of the bugs. 
essively dry weather has checked the wheat growth. At the present date 
few green blades are above the ground, 
general survey of Southern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma during the last week 
ed that Toxoptera graminum does not occur in this locality, 
utworms hibernating in this locality are less numerous than last year, Indi- 
larvae are noticeably smaller than at this date last season, Soba ny due 
ng been forced into hibernation fully a month earlier than in the winter of 
[Signed] E. 0. G. Kelly. 

