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The Ohio Agriculture Experiment
station at Wooster has sent out the
following warning on "Chinch Bugs"
Chinch bugs are in wheat in parts of
western Ohio. They will go from
wheat to corn. With single shovel
plow make deep V-shaped furrow
around the corn field. Make the sides
of furrow loose and dusty so that the
bugs will fall back when trying to
climb out Make holes every 12 to Is
feet in bottom of furrow to catch the
bugs as they crawl along the bottom.
When massed in these holes pour
kerosene on them or smash them with
a wooden pestle. Along the inside of
the furrow next to the corn smooth
and firm the bank with hoe or roller
so II will not be dusty, and with
water pot having a tubular spout pour
slender line of road oil or fluxing
oil along the hardened bank. AS soon
as the first line has soaked into the
ground go over the line again and dis
tribute more of the oil The road
binding oil can generally be obtained
from any representative of the Stand
ard Oil Company. The line should be
renewed every two or three days or
whenever 1t becomes so dried out that
the bugs are able to cross over it.
Coal tar may be used instead of flux-
Ing oil, but according to DR.. Forbes of
the Illinois Station, tar is much infer
lor, sinking into the ground too rapid
ly and drying out too soon in the sun
renewed about twice per day during
the migrating period of the insects.
A man or boy giving all his time to
guarding such a barrier and keeping
1t in condition can care for a line 80
to 150 rods long. The tar will cost
about 25 cents. per day for a line 100
rods in length. The road-binding oil
according to DR.. Forbes experiments
lasts from five to nine times as long as
the tar without renewing and does not
cost more than twice as much. The
furrow is not absolutely necessary and
the oil line can, in case of emergency,
be poured along level cleared space
of firm ground, and the post holes can
be dug beside the tar line where the
bugs will be trapped almost as readily
as IL the holes were in the bottom of
q furrow
If the bugs are already distributed
over part of a field OF corn, oats or 9th
er crop, make the barrier between the
clean portion of the field and the part
infested. Then spray the infested
plants with Kerosene Emulsion dilut-
ed with TO 10 parts Of water The
stock solution of Kerosene Emulsion
IL made as follows:
Laundry soap (chpped) half pound.
Kerosene (ooal oil), two gallons
Water (preferably soft and free
from dirt particles) one gallon
Dissolve the soap in the full amount
of water and when this solution is boil
ing hot. remove from fire and add the
kerosene. Stir the mixture violently
by driving II through a force pump
back into the vessel until it becomes a
creamy mass that will not separate,
This requires from five to ten minutes.
The stock emulsion will keep good for
months If kept in air-tight vessels.
Kerosene emulsion kills by contact,
and therefore, the application should
be very thorough The quantity of
materials given in the formula will
make up so gallons OF spray for use
The cost per acre for spraying will
not be over 81 for the ingredients. APP
ply with spray pump or In case of
emergency shake over the infested
plants with brooms.
There should be an oil or tar barrier
to prevent further migration into the
field as well as to protect the clean
part OF the field, If two or three ap-
| plicatlons of spray day or so apart
have eradicated the bugs from the In
tested part of the field, the mid-held
barrier can be discontinued and atten-
tlon concentrated on the outside one.
Where for any reason the oil bar
rler cannot be provided, proceed as
follows; Plow up a strip of ground
about ten feet wide around the infest'
cd fields, than disc and drag with
brush bundles until the soil Is pulver-
lied into fine dust. Now with a
short log, from eight inches to one
foot in diameter, or with triangular
trough made by mailing two boards to-
| gether and then weighted with stone
make a furrow by dragging back and
forth In the same track until good
ditch has been made across the line
of chinoh bug march. Where neoes
sary, dress the sides OF the furrow
with how. making sure that al
slopes are even and dusty so that the
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