Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-15
CH|NCH BUG PEST
|NvADES FIELDS OF
LA SALE COUNTY
STATE ENTOMoLoGlsT GIVES
VIEWS ON CHARACTERISTICS
OF DESTRUCTIVE BUG - DO
NOT WINTER IN sTUBBLEs.

Appearance of the chinch bug In
fields of La Sale county has occa-
stoned much worry among farming
communities, where the devastating
insect is known FOR the trouble It
brings. Two or three townships re-
port large invasions of the insect.
particularly In neighborhoods where
heavy timber and rich prairie sod
seen to be conducive 10 the welfare
OF the bugs.
Every energy of the farm bureau
is being exerted in the fight on the
bugs and the counsel of w. p. Flint,
state entomologist, is being used.
perience in combating chinch bugs
and his aid in the La Sale county
situation, 1t is felt Is highly yalu.
able. A bulletin on winter burning
as protective measure as viewed by
the state entomologist can be OBJ.
tanned at the farm bureau Office.
What Flint Says.
Replying 10 recent inquiry
from the farm bureau, Mr. Flint
says:
with regard to the continued
growing of wheat in sections infest.
ed with chinch bugs would says that
the growing of wheat brings chinch
bugs, and while there are probably
few more chinch bugs in areas
where wheat is generally grown,
have never been able to convince
myself that stopping The growing of
wheat will stop the bugs.
''ln the first place, the bugs do
not winter in the wheat stubble but
along hedgerOws, fences, the edges
of woodlands, etc. They fly to small
grains is the spring. but will settle
just as heavily in rye. barley or oats
as they will in wheat, providing that
these small grains have made sufii-
cient growth to form a good cover
The large wheat growing area around
ST. Clair, Washington and Randolph
counties has had more damage from
bugs during the last fifteen years
than any other part Of the state At
the same time, other large wheat
growing areas such as those In Blu
reau county, where wheat is grown
almost as extensively as in Wash
ington and st. Clair counties and has
grown continuously for long period,
has not had a serious chinch bug in
festation for long time until this
year.
III is often stated also that spring
wheat will bring chinch bugs. No
spring wheat has been grown for
many years in the counties where
chinch bugs have been most numer.
GUS. On the other hand, spring wheat
is grown to a considerable extent
in a number of northern Illinois coun-
ties where no bug damage has oc-
CURED during the last forty years.
"On the whole, do not think tina:
growing wheat will bring the chinch
bugs. If we are going to crop against
the bugs in this way, we would have
to discontinue not only wheat but
also oats, rye and barley, which
would be nearly impossible under our
present rotations"
Different Methods.
"Chinch Bug Barriers" is the sub
iect of bulletin issued by Mr.. Flint
and copies of which are at the bureau
office here. He deals with the creo-
sote. coal tar, kerosene and salt,
kerosene and limestone and dusty
barriers and spraying. The creosote
method was explained in recent
article and the coal tar method Is
conducted in much the same way,
the coal tar being the most expensive
of the two. Kerosene and salt costs
more than Kerosene and limestone,
but does not stand up under rain as
the later The dusty barrier re-
quires constant labor to maintain it,
and Of course is rendered useless
by rains.
In regard to spraying Mr.. Flint
recommends strong solution of to-
bacco or a Kerosene emulsion.