The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-02

Few insects. and certainly no other
,pecies of the natural order TO which
this one belongs, have caused such
enormous pecuniary losses as has the
,hinch bug. No other insect native to
the western hemisphere has spread
Its devastating hordes over a wider
area of the country with more fatal
effects to the staple grains of North
America than has this one But for
the extreme susceptibility Of the very
young to destruction by drenching
rains aud to the less though not in.
significant destructiveness during
rainy seasons of the parasitic fungus,
on both the adults and the young. the
practice of raising grain year after
year on the same areas, as followed
in the United States. would become
altogether Improbable. Some Of this
insects own habits, emphasizing as
they do the effects of meteorological
conditions, are the most potent inhu.
ences that serve to hold it within
bounds, by giving its tendency to eX.
cessive increase decidedly spasmod.
ic character. The shaded portion of
the map shows the extent of territory
affected by chinch bugs
For the farmer engaged in attempts
10 check the ravages of the insect in
his fields the question of origin. or
how it came TO reach him, will at
the time have little interest for him.
1t will suffice that 1t is present in
overwhelming numbers. and what he
will most desire will be to learn how
TO rid his premises of It's most un-
welcome presence in the most sum.
mary manner possible.
If. however. the farmer happens to
be a thoughtful and observing man.
he will sometimes wonder how IL IS
that. except in Virginia and the Caro-
lhnas. a person need not be very aged
In order to remember a time when
the chinch bug was an unknown fac
tor in his profession, with a possible
value far too small TO merit cOnsidcra.
tion. If he happens 70 reside In
northeastern Ohio, or in some por.
tions of New York and has spent
some time I'm Illinois. Iowa, Kansas
or Minnesota, he will probably marvel
at the striking difference I'm appear
ance between many OF the Chinch
bugs of his own locality, and those
found IN any of the last-mentioned
states, and will probably be able TO
satisfy himself of their identity only
by the similarity of their vile odor
Again, he will probably be equally at
a loss to understand why IL Is that
his own timothy meadows are over
run by these pesuferous insects and
destroyed, while in other localities.
perhaps less than 100 miles away.
similar meadows are left untouched.
the injury there being confined 90
the wheat and corn fields
II is not the excessive numbers
but the persisteucy with which they
will congregate On masse on limited
areas, that renders the attack Of
chinch bugs SO fruitful Of injury
With an ample supply of food the
young develop and leisurely difuse
themselves over the adjacent fields.
and there are neither swarmmg
flights nor migration, In 1884. I'm
hAl AINl II lnh4AAds a oAlNll ltlQ hl
wheat was severely attacked by
chinch bugs At harvest there was
every prospect of a migration from
the field of wheat to an adjacent one
of corn, aud the bugs were present
in sufficient numbers to have worked
serious injury 10 the latter; but the
wheat had grown up thinly on the
ground and there had sprung up
among the grain a great deal of mead
ow foXtail grass, and panic grass, and
20 these grasses the bugs transferred
their attention, flashing their devel-
opment thereon, and later, so far as
could be determined, they scattered
h. flight out over the adjacent fields,
working no further injury Pedes.
trian migration may continue for a