Show SOME HINTS ON CHINCH BUG experience of illinois agricultural experiment peri ment station may be of interest to farmers farmer the experience ot of the illinois agricultural ri experiment station with chinch bugs ds discovered covered la irs illg lie spring ot of may prove or great value to tanners farmers who may bt br troubled trembled b by ahe he la ial y ing OIL th illinois pest peat th ibis 9 year station found tk th the chi chinch ich bugs the winter in iii excellent condition and on april tere beatt scattering erIng on the wing to lay their eggs me oct fact out of 0 fields escape of 0 the bugs on of 0 small grain at harvest time Is thought to be beat prevented by sur UP rounding each field with a lne ot of thick viscid road oil with post holes boles beside it some 36 feet apart such a line can be made and kept effective long enough to catch virtually all the bugs in a held field at a minimum expense of 35 cents a mile per day coal tar lar may be used lor for the purpose where road oil can be obtained but it must be much more frequently renewed to keep it effective A we well 11 made dusty furrow with post oat holes boles in the bottom may serve a temporary purpose in very verdry dry weather but Is made useless lifeless by rain rafts chinch bugs may be killed on corn without injury to the plant by a tobacco preparation black leat leaf 40 greatly diluted with wt th weak soapsuds soa |