The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-02
FIGHT CHINCH BUGS
Join in Cooperative
Campaign Against Pest. "
Good Results In kansas Sc
cured, Says FARRELL.

1T begins to look as If Kansas
would enter 1923 pretty well free
I from the menace of the chinch bug.
as a result OF the cooperative cam
paign which has been waged for weeks
I past by the county agricultural agents.
the state agricultural college experts,
and the representatives of the rail2
! roads, J. +. FARRELL. agricultural com
missioner for the Santa F'e, declared
this week.
The college, the agricultural experts
and the railroad men have all been
waging a war against the cilinch bugs.
and spreading the gospel of their eX-
termination. among the farmers of the
wheat and corn producing sections of
the state. for long time.
The chinch bug has caused meal
cu!able damage to wheat and corn in
Kansas in the past He has dimin-
down the farmers profit. and by de-
creasing the amount of grain to be
shipped has cut off a share of the
railroads incomes. wherefore the
ailyfng OF these agencies against him.
IA S. A. G. Works Out Methods.
The state agricultural college ex-
y1eerts at Manhattan, and the staff of
the state agricultural experiment sta
uons, have worked out formulate and
methods for killing them.
The county agricultural agents and
the railroad men have been entrusted
with the job OF disseminating the
means of killing off the chinch bugs
and reporting on the progress which
has been made along that line.
Local agents of the railroads have
passed out among the farmers of their
neighborhoods, the bulletins which
have been printed and distributed by
the college and the roads, to the farm
ers, and have Investigated the cOndi-
tons around their stations with regard
to how far the farmers have gone in
clearing away the pests. Division and
travelling freight agents for the roads
nave collected and tabulated the re-
ports of the local agents on the chinch
bug situation.
Cleanliness Means Eradication.
Cleanliness about the FERNS is the
best method of chinch bug eradica-
ton, it has been shown. The bugs
breed during the winter in trash piles,
hedges which are untrimmed. and in
stubble. The efforts of the eradica-
tors have been to get the farmers to
burn their trash, clean out their
hedge rows, and pillow under their
stubble.
kansas is apparently cleaner in
this respect than it has even been be-
fore" FARRELL declared. THE main
trouble has been to get all the farm
ers to clean up. 1t isn't sufficient to
get a majority against the chinch bug
The vote and the campaign must be-
absolutely unanimous. If one farmer
out of twenty doesn't heed the cam
he can breed enough chinch bugs on
his farm this winter TO undo all the
work the other nineteen have accom-
plished.'
The work will go on till late in the
winter, when all chance for the breed II
ing of the chinch bugs has been elm
mated
The campaign has included personal
work among the farmers, addresses at
all the farm gatherings which could be
reached, the placing of bulletins in
the hands of the men with wheat and
corn acreage, and the publication of
earnings against the menace of the
chinch bugs and means for their
eradication in newspapers, thruout the
state.
A similar campaign against the boil
weeYil in the cotton growing areas of
Oklahoma, is under way by the same
agencies