The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-07-16
for the farmer.
NOW CuINCH BUGS CAN BE SUCCESS
FULLY FOUGHT.

The rsvages of tile cbinch bugs are much grea-
+ur Than MANY suppose, aud unless some active
measures are taken the corn crop is in great dam
,,r. A correspondent of the Lawrence Journal,
writing to that paper, says:
I'm m. 18th inst. saw the wheat fields could
NOT contain the bugs any longer. They were in
frigbtfuI commotion, as though startled by their
avn incredible numbers. Many of them went di-
rect TO the corn On the 18th we got barrel of
cnal tar and ran some temporary lines as checks
along the railroad where the ouSS "eie 'ne '"ieA-
est.
On the 18th we cleared a track on the wheat
sitIe of the railroad, and permanently nxed our
headquarters. With the use OF tea Kettles we
located our far lines and resolved TO defend them,
nv nerish ON the ground. We had no experience
Sn IN. matter and therefore were always driven
by the rude hand of necessity Abont O'Clock
In the afternoon the bugs pressed on our lines
by millions. The best We could do was TO draw
Tar switches on the line and bag and burn them,
fnr which nurDose we kept constant fires along
she line. They would often pile up SO that
rould dig a common sized barn-yard shovel of
clear bngs.
On the Goth we dug pits twelve inches square
.,onr the line. with switches of tar to guide the
bngs into the pits and traced the top of the pits
ar11nd with Tar except the entrance, to keep
them in. This worked well. One pit filed to
rho denth of six inches in one day, another four
inches We also ran several inside lines and dug
r,its so as to have two chances. Our main head
line was nearly Oue-quarter of a mile long, with
twelve pits. About sunset we would burn them
all out. We cannot think of placing the bugs
DESTROYED thus at less than one hushel per day
The northwest corner of the wheat field Joined
our meadow. Here we kept tar lines and pits.
and thereby saved our timothy with but little
damage.
Our roasting ear patches of corn were greatly
exposed. Around one we placed pine fencing
boards one end under the earth, set asant, and
s,u the upper part, which stood above the earth,
we ran the tar. This did not give satisfaction,
from the fact that ths tar soon dried away and
the bugs walked over. We then placed the
boards on edge, ends together, earthed up on both
Sides made the outside rather smooth the
bugs could travel with but little obstruction.
Then took strips of cloth one and half inches
wide, double them lengthwise, tack them on the
top edge of the board, straight edge out, let it
project little over the boards, then with brush
or swab tar the cloth well. Old wooden clothing
or grain sacks will answer. This we give the
very best plan found among our experiments,
and do not think it ever fail.
Another correspondent writing to the Fort
Scott Monitor gives the following successful ex-
pertinent he has tried. He says:
/ will describe my cremating furnace with the
nodHs OperdRdi: ] took a sheet of tin, about
three feet long and one foot wide, and turned up
the ends one foot high, and riyeted a castaway
stove pan on one side, leaving the other open.
then made a ball of fencing wire and punching
holes in the sides Of the furnaces, hung the bail
SO the furnace would incline back little, and so
is in use. Then. with a cold chisel, cut a line
about three inches long commencing in the GEN.
ire of the mouth or open side of the furnace, run
ming inward, and turned up the sides and back
sufficient to admit three stalks of cOrn-say fOur
inches long and wide, making the back sides
oval.
The furnace completed was a tin box pbout
twelve inches square, with side and the top
open, hung to a ball-say eighteen inches long,
the box having a semi circular opening three in
rid IF tIo hoy in ba
of the open side, commencing Oh the outside and
running inward.
In using the furnace build a small fire made
ont Of durable wood, and Selling the bail in my
left hand and having a wooden paddle eighteen
inches long in my right hand come up to hill
of corn on the leeward side, letting the box down
on the ground, or asnear as convenient and drag
gng it up against the corn, so as to enclose il in
the semi-circular opening; then give the corn
two OF three raps with the paddle, and the bugs
alight into the fire and subsde with snap.
By placing the furnace close against the corn
to the leeward the jar of the paddle with the
sound to aid, carry most of the bugs into the fire,
and think with a little practice the operator
can go over nearly much ground in a day as
in covering corn with hoe in the spring time.
My rule in operating is to work principally in
the morning. the bugs are highest up on the
corn.
The Grdsskopper says:
Chinch bugs can be killed. The first year that
they attacked field of corn, adjoining wheat, on
the farm where were raised, and had covered
about dozen rows about thick as chinch bugs
ever get. We did not like to lose the W hole field;
SO while mother and sister heated water on the
stove, father and the boys carried the boiling
water in buckets, and, commencing on the corn
row, attacked and scalded every stalk of corn
that had bugs on it, killing corn and bags at the
same time. The next morning the few bugs that
had escaped were leaving the field, and we lost
no more corn, though many of our neighbors had
whole fields taken. A pint of boiling water will
generally do the work for bill of corn, and al
though it was hard days work, we always con-
sdered the time well spent.
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR RETARDING THEIR PRO-
GRESS.
We understand from reliable source that
Green Pope, residing near Circleville, In this
County, has discovered certain remedy for an
initiating the chnch bugs. His plan is as fol-
lows: First pillow a deep furrow; then pull up a
row of corn and lay it lengthwise in the furrow,
and while the bugs at work eating the sap.
pillow a fnrrow each side aud cover them up;
all the bugs travelling that day will remain there.
Then, the next day, pull mp another row as be-
fOIe, and SO continue for four or five days, when
they will be thoroughly cleaned ont. Care must
be taken not to disturb any that has been
covered. Mr.. Pope has tried this plans and found
it to work TO q charm.-HOItOR Express.