The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-06
1927 Main Street.

ed the white fungus disease among them
but takes a discouFag.ng view as TO is
general reliability. In some conditions
Il is quite effective, but IN majority o.
| cases ii has been a failure Dry weather
! Is especially unfsvorable TO its success.
The station Is making further trials Of i,
but Announces that il cannot undertake
| until more Is known. TO send out infected
bugs for trial AT the most but few
bugs can be sent 10 one locality. These
should be placed in any convenient vessed.
better a tight wooden box the bottom OF
which is covered TO a depth of an inch
| or two with moist soil. Into this live
chnch bugs should be put with green
wheat or other grant on which they may
| feed. Care must be taken lest the bugs
escape. The box or pail may be tightly
covered. If opened occasionally. or II small
holes are made in the cover 10 allow veati-
lation. The more chinch bugs put in the
better. By coming in contact with the
diseased or dead bugs the infection is
spread. This is known by the bugs hav-
ing their bodies more or less covered with
white fungus. The diseased or dead bugs
showing this fungus growth are to be
scattered about in the grain field affected
with the bugs. The more scattered. the
greater the probability OF the disease
spreading. The work in the box should be
continued and the field applications re-
nswed for several days. Even then. fail
ure is not improbable.
More reliance is placed on the barrier
method. This will not save the wheat
or other small grain or millet crops in
which the bugS have obtained a good
start-unless they are confined to one part
OF the fieid-but II is insisted that this
method may save the corn crop even when
the small grain has been ruined.
This method consists of surrounding the
infested field or that part Il is designed
to protect with a furrow made with a
pillow or with a lister. or with a double
furrow ridge. The sides OF the furrow
should be mads smoothe and fine as pos
sible. All sticks. weeds, straws. etc,
should be removed. The bugs cannot
climb up a furrow side. They may be
collected in holes made with a post auger
II this is at hand. in the bottom OF the
furrow, and destroyed there by hot water
or kerosene. This method Is made more
certain by putting a strip OF coal tar on
top of the ridge or furrow. but this Is not
an essential if sufficient care is taken 20
keep the furorw in good shape. In a
trial IN Illinois about twelve bushels OF
chinch bugs were killed as they tried TO
leave a twenty acre field OF wehat. Corn
adjoining was kept entirely free from the
bugs.
II the bugs have gotten a start In the
corn field ii is better 60 sacrifice the rows
they have attacked, putting the furorws
inside OF these II Is safer TO make two
or three furorws as described 30 that the
second or third may stop any bugs which
succeedin passing the first
One good result OF any destruction OF the
bugs. especially IN the early part OF the
season is that the probability OF injury
the coming season IS greatly reduced. g
pecially II all the farmers in a neighbor-
hood will unite in the work.
II the disease method Is 10 be effective |
each farmer must learn 10 grow the dis |
ease and apply IL under favorable condi- /
tons; keeping a small quantity from free
ling durinEf the winter with which 10 Il
start the seasons supply.