Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . )l()iighingand the use of the roller upon land that is loose and , old straw, and corn stalks among weeds in fencecorners should be burned in the early spring. This speciesis widely diffused, ranging from Kansas and Nebraska to theAtlantic Coast. I have taken it frequently in Maine, and. 544 HEMIPTERA. even on the extreme summit of Mount Washington, inAugu it. Dr. Shimer in his Notes on the chinch bug, sa3s that itattained the maxim
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . )l()iighingand the use of the roller upon land that is loose and , old straw, and corn stalks among weeds in fencecorners should be burned in the early spring. This speciesis widely diffused, ranging from Kansas and Nebraska to theAtlantic Coast. I have taken it frequently in Maine, and. 544 HEMIPTERA. even on the extreme summit of Mount Washington, inAugu it. Dr. Shimer in his Notes on the chinch bug, sa3s that itattained the maximum of its development in the summer of1864, in the extensive wheat and corn fields of the valley of theMississippi; and in that single year three-fourths of the wheatand one-half of the corn crop were destroj^ed throughout manyextensive districts, comprising almost the entire North-west,with an estimated loss of more than one hundred millions ofdollars in the currency that then prevailed, Avhile Mr. Walshestimates the loss, from the ravages of this insect in Illinoisalone, in 1850, to have been four millions of dollars. In the summer of 1865, the progeu}^ of the broods of thepreceding j^ear were almost entirely swept off by an epidemicdisease, so few being left that on the 22d of August, found it almost impossible to find even a few cabinetspecimens of chinch bugs alive where they were so abundantthe year before. During the summer
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