Forest and stream in Illinois . the cover is dry enough to burn to theground and when the wind is not strong. It has not generally beenfound profitable to burn corn stalks, as by the time they have beenbroken down and raked into windrows they are very few bugs remain-ing in them. Experiments made in the part of the State now infested haveshown that one thorough burning over of the usual places of chinch-bug hibernation will kill from 50 to 75 per cent of the bugs.(1- . Remember that every female chinch-bug killed this winter means,on the average, 150 fewer in the wheat and corn next spring, an
Forest and stream in Illinois . the cover is dry enough to burn to theground and when the wind is not strong. It has not generally beenfound profitable to burn corn stalks, as by the time they have beenbroken down and raked into windrows they are very few bugs remain-ing in them. Experiments made in the part of the State now infested haveshown that one thorough burning over of the usual places of chinch-bug hibernation will kill from 50 to 75 per cent of the bugs.(1- . Remember that every female chinch-bug killed this winter means,on the average, 150 fewer in the wheat and corn next spring, and11,250 fewer of the second brood in the corn next summer. 3 9- lt is needless to say that this work will have little effect inreducing general chinch-hug injury next season if it is done byscattered farmers here and there. To be successful it must be carriedout generally over the whole area infested; and each communityshould organize and see that this work is done. The places where the bugs are, and the destruction they may I. Blue-stem, or bunch-grass, before burning. cause next spring being known, every effort should be made to reducetheir numbers this winter. Food destroyed by insects is just as surelylost as it is when an enemy spy fires a grain elevator, or a submarinesinks a grain-laden ship. The man who harbors these insect enemieson his farm, no matter how unwillingly, but who makes no attemptto destroy them, is certainly not doing all he can towards the winningof the war. Wesley P. Flint, Chief Field W. Edwards Street,Springfield, 111.,October 2,1918.
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