The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-28
FIND MORE CHINCH
BUGS ON FARMS IN
BOSTON TOWNSHIP

DUOI UN IUVHNOlIII
Chinch bugs have been reported by
several more farmers from Boston
township, in addition to these report
ing previously, and by VIII Guyton,
south of Dublin, and Ben Gaiser, of
Center township, said County Agent
]. L. Dolan, Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Dolan spent all Wednesday morn
ing in southwestern Wayne county
and left for the western part of the
county in the afternoon.
The bugs are just leaving the
small grain fields and in nearly every
case reported the farmers have had
their attention called to the bugs by
their presence on the first few rows
of corn said Mr. Dolan.
Owing to the recent rains, dust
can not be maintained in the burrows
and barrier burrows can not be used
to fight the bugs" he advised. The
best method of stopping them now is
to make a smooth line, eight inches
to foot wide, in front of them by
packing with a shovel or dragging
plank where the ground is dry enough
laying a line of oil along this path,
and dig the trap post holes touching
the oil line.
ON account of the rains the bugs
have been unable to move for the last
SO to As hours and most of them are
concentrated on the first few rows of
corn under the leaf sheaths. While
they are SO concentrated is a fine op-
portunity to get them. Spraying with
a tobacco solution BLACK Leaf 40 or
nicotine sulphate, one teaspoonful to
gallon of warm water) will kill
thousands before they. have a chance
TO spread. A piece of soap the size
OF walnut should be added to each
gallon Kerosene also will kill them.
and so will kerosene emulsion, bur
both these are likely also to kill the
corn. The tobacco solution will not
hurt the corn One man used crank
case oil and killed his corn also, al
though he did succeed in getting the
bugs"
While there may not be enough of
these bugs to kill very much corn
themselves, said the agent, he empha-
sized the importance of getting as
many as possible of this generation
on account of the second brood. "All
information we can get points to the
heaviest damage being done by the
second brood" he said, land each one
OF these bugs means 200 to zoo in the
second brood. Thery are the ones
that will do the harm, and there is no
way to fight them or to prevent 4
second brood after the first brood ma
lures"
Evidence of Damage
Strong evidence of damage from the
cecond brood was secured by Al Irwin
of Webster township last winter. With
enc field infested and one free, he
harvested the corn with the bugs in it
separately from the other, and found,
he claims, a damage of SO per cent
where bugs were present The corn
was cribbed separately and shows an
alarming percentage of deformed,
light or chaffy ears.
While first brood damage is not usu-
ally spectacular, and frequently does
not have sufficient effect to be obserV-
able. yet in some cases the bugs are
numerous enough even to cause seri-
ous loss.
Wheat Begins to Die
When we cut wheat this summer"
said Ben Gaiser of Center township,
it was beginning to die in spots.
am confident that if harvest had been
4 week later severe damage would
have been found, and 10 days more
would have seen whole fields killed.
On the farm of Henry Schlegel, on
he Abingdon pike, also. it is possible
10 trace the advance of the bugs in an
oats field by the advance of the line
Of dead oats, said Mr.. Dolan. a ten
acre patch adjacent to the wheat field
has been invaded and on Tuesday a
stripe for a rcd inside the fence had
been killed.