St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
TO FIGHT CHINCH BUGS.
A Writer in the Farmers Review
Gives His Experience With

A Writer in the Farmers Review
Gives His Experience With
Them.
The following are the two problems l
intend to solve: First, prophets have
said you can't raise wheat without
plowing. Second, the bugs will eat up
all such wheat. You don't know that
you are right in plowing all land for all
small grains, and, as to bugs eating up
all such wheat, don't believe there is
one bug in this stubble wheat to twenty
in the plOwed fields. Now for the bug
theory; one experience is worth dozen
theories, be they made by Prof. Riley or
others. He says irrigation iSthe only
plan. Submerge the country for two or
three days. Think of the idea. The
high, dry locality, where the bugs do
their worst and most destructive work:
submerge that kind of country. Yes;
if man without education would
suggest that as the only remedy, you
would start him
TO THE LUNATIC ASYLUM
on double quick. Such theories are too
much for the man to believe that has
been to the Pacific coast. Now for their
destruction. One man says cut out
four or five rows of corn. plow the strip,
leave dead furrOw in center, then cover
up with the green corn as cut; when
bugs collect under same set fire and
burn it all together. Then ask yourself
the question: Will green corn burn? or
where will the bugs be when the corn
is dry enough to burn? Next man says:
PlOw ditch, and when the bugs collect
in same, cover with straw and burn. L
ask you where the bugs will be by the
prnf+ +l,<.I ttnh
to burn? The answer will be, almost
all have got out safely, the straw form
ing the means of escape before burning.
Now, let me tell your many readers and
farmers that ten-year-old boy
CAN DESTROY MORE BUGS
than all plans put together that have
heard of by following this direction:
Pin or spike together two logs, SIX
inches in diameter by four feet in
length, by means of two pieces, two by
six. Place the logs three and One-half
feet apart, on plan of log slide, except
the ends can be cut off square, and is
better for no turning up at ends. Hitch
your horse at either side, in center OF
two by six piece. For convenience in
turning at ends of ditch without re-
the other end. To make the ditch 1
take a one-horse plow, run one fur
row all around field, it necessary.
then place one runner of drag in
furrow, hitch to and stand on same.
Drive to end of furrow. Now
you have marked the proper distance
for next furrow, which plow same as
the other. which gives good room for
the horse to walk without interfering
with the burrows. Now run back and
forth until they are bedded one-third Or.
one-half in the depth and the earth we'll
pulveIiZed, keeping out any straw or
litter, thereby preventing their escapeI
If properly done and at the right time
of day, you will destroy them
BY THE MILLIONS,
it being almost impossible for them to
escape, the second ditch catching any
straggler that might have crossed the
first. Commence in time; keep them in
the stubble, destroy them as they at
tempt to leave, which you can do by
being diligent. Any little boy or girl
can kill more bugs in that way than all
others combined. have had them die
in the ditch by the million in the heat
of the day, leaving the bottom of the
furrow looking black for days after quit
ting work,