The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-29
CHINCH BUGS
ARE FOUND IN
8 TOWNSHIPS
Five Barrels Of Special Oil
Distributed to Farmers for
Use in Combating Sucking
Pests.
ARMY WORMS APPEAR

the Is townships of Wayne county,
and some have been found in several
other of the townships, though not as
yet in sufficient numbers to cause un-
easiness.
The locations where the bugs have
been found are: Orville Price farm.
northwest of Centerville, from which
they are spreading to Arvel Daileys
corn field; Roy Roberts farm and an
other farm a mile distant on the Mid
dleboro pike; H. Jefferis farm, one
mile north of Middleboro; Frank Hunt
farm, mile east and a mile and
half north of Chester, and another
farm, operated by r. Radford, a mile
still farther north; an unnamed farm
two miles west of Abingdon, Elmer
Sideloh farm in the edge of Green's
Fork; Dan Smith southwest of Hag-
erstown; Fred Adrian farm, south OF
Hagerstown, and the farm across the
road belonging to Henry Keggy and
John Working, of Hagerstown; Lind
ley Baker, we'll known hog breeder,
north of Cambridge City, and just
across the line in Henry county, west
of Cambridge City.
have been doomed to destruction,
while several hundred acres in addi-
ton will be wiped out unless the pest
is checked Immediately.
Special Oil Arrives.
Five barrels of special chinch bug
oil, used and recommended by the ex-
tension department of Purdue agricul-
tural college, arrived by express from
ThA1o MI
tributed Immediately for use against
the insects.
Money for this purchase was ad-
vanced by the Wayne County Farm
Bureau. Measures are being taken to
secure more oil for the same purpose:
Randolph county probably will CO.
operate in buying this oil. according
to officials and the county agent
Chinch bugs are thick in that county
Army Worm Appears.
Still another pest was reported
Wednesday morning when A. Hudson,
living west of Whitewater, and Mr.
Radford mentioned above, came to the
Palladium Office with samples of corn
attacked by army worm.
Both men say that the worm is
present on their farms, and several
IO"o vi SOI Il nave OcCll pIOD-
ably killed, on Hudson's farm. Eyi-
dences of the worm have been
observed in other parts of the
county, particularly on the farm of
Arvel Daley in Center township, which
is threatened with a severe infestation
of the chinch bug.
Methods of Fighting Pest.
Should the spot infested by the army
y
be moved off and straw scattered over
the spot and burned If the worms
have been distributed over a large area
it may be marked off with stakes and
a solution of Paris Green, used as
spray. Proportions of one pound of
Paris Green to so pounds of water are
to be used.
Care should be used that stock does
not gain access to this area. In case
the worms have begun to travel in
mass, they can be destroyed by furrow-
ing or ditching around the infested
area. The worms will fall into the
bitches and can be killed easily by
dragging a log back and forth in the
furrow.
In brief talk with the manager OF
the elevator at Lynn on Wednesday,
he stated that to date not a single
farmer had complained nor had any
report of chinch bugs in the vicinity of
Lynn been received.
This is in line with the report made
by the Farmers elevator at Camden.
where it was said no reports of pests
of any kind had come i'll up to IL
o'clock on Wednesday.
Foster Campbell, county agent at
Liberty, said on Wednesday morning
that here had so far been but two re-
ports of chinch bugs in Union county.
Floyd Doner, near Philomath, had
rather serious fight on hand, and was
the first to report the pest Harry
Lambert, living in the same section,
had reported discovering a few chinch
bugs on his place on Wednesday
morning, which he hoped to check,
promptly.
Williamsburg Suffers.
President Lewis, of the bank at
Williamsburg, says that Burt Hinshaw.
living southeast of town. reported
chinch bugs in his corn on Wednesday,
but did not say how seriously the corn
had been attacked. This was the only
case of this kind that Mr.. Lewis had
heard of. The manager of the elevator
at w dUu bOlIluR 10
this report. He said that no complaints
of any nature had reached him.
The manager of the Hagerstown
-four mill says he has heard of "a few
bugs northwest of town, but that ap-
parently little damage had so far
occurred"
Lem Poland, of Centerville, says
that he has 20 acres of oats which
chinch bugs are ravaging, and thinks
he will cut them for hay, at once He
also stated that a small corner of an
adjoining corn field had been invaded
and he was in Richmond to get fight
ing material on Wednesday forenoon.
The Poland farm is in the infested
district, 31a miles northwest of Cen
terville, close to the Ennis Kitterman
place where fight on the bug has
been waging for two days. Four or
five farmers are fighting chinch bugs
in that neighborhood today.
Dry Weather Method
The Missouri college of agriculture
reports an invasion of chinch bugs in
several counties, which driven from