The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-27
CHINCH BUG ARMIES INVADE new FIELDS;
NE|GHB0RS COMBINE TO CUT OFF PESTS

| Chinch bugs have been discovered
in several other locations in Wayne
county since last accounts Saturday.
An outbreak was reported Saturday
/ from point several miles north of
Cambridge City, on the farm of Fred
Adrian. An inspection trip Sunday
afternoon showed the presence of the
pest also in a rye field two miles south
! east of Hagerstown and in another
rye field near Hagerstown has num-
hers of the bugs, and farmers in that
neighborhood are taking steps to
protect themselves.
J Farmers in the Fred Adrian neigh
borhood, where bugs were reported
Saturday morning, worked all day Sun
day running lines around the best and
cutting off the infested portions of the
fields. The bugs had started from
two rye fields, and spread into corn
next to the rye. One field of only
few acres, was half covered before the
bugs be checked. The bugs crossed
the road also, invading a field belong
ing to John Working and Henry
Keggy, of Hagerstown, and operated
by James Mays. The insects pene-
trated this field only short distance
. however and furrow has been run
ahead of them.
Enclose Bug Army
Mr.. Adrian obtained some tarvia
from the city street department of
Richmond early Sunday morning, and
the lines were run clear around the
infested fields completely enclosing the
invading army, in the afternoon, sew
eral neighbors assisting in the work.
, Chinch bugs were found in numbers
also on the farm of George Lennard,
a neighbor of Adrian. and were said
to have been very damaging to crops
of Ben Hardman, two miles south
last year. There are very few on Mr.
! Hardman's farm this year, however
: Five acres of millet were destroyed
! by them last year, according to Mr.
! Hardman.
: Another outbreak was reported Sun.
/ day evening from the farm of Frank
Hunt, one mile east and a miles and
a half north of Chester opposite the
farm of Everett Hunt. All farmers in
the neighborhood were notified by
telephone Sunday evening or Monday
morning, and a dozen were at the
Frank Hunt farm before brea kfast tc
cooperate in fighting the insects.
Start Pillow Around
Early in the forenoon a pillow was
started around the corn field in which
L the bugs had been found, and the two
ends which have not yet been heavily
attacked were cut off so that the bugs
= were isolated in the center, acros!
which they had spread to the opposite
side of the field Men with shovels
spades and post-hole diggers followed
the plow, perfecting the furrow, 81
= that the bugs could not cross it anc
= digging post-holes to trap them. 4
: line of tar was laid along the furrov
: | also
9 The chinch bugs on this farm hac
q come from a wheat field next thu
o corn and, starting in the middle o
the field, which is long and narrow
p had reached the opposite side befor,
!, they were noticed All the center o
! the field will be taken by them, bu
q an attempt will be made to save tn,
r ends, which have not been seriousl,
e infested yet. Mr.. Hunt will lose a
l. least 10 acres, however.
d Cooperative Effort
v All the neighborhood turned out a
n once IN the last community INFESTED
d in a co-opera tive effort to surrount
d the bugs and keep them from spread
Y ing and to kill them before they hav
II a chance to mature.
It A dozen men were working on tn
o farm early in the forenoon, and wit
e so much help it was only a short tim
e until the barrier was laid.
s. Necessity for care in building tn
If barrier was shown Monday morning
u when it was reported from one of tn
:; first farms infested that the bug
were crossing the furrow az spots int