Show WARN Of INJURY BY CHINCH BUGS BUDS I Spring Flight of Insect Continued Over Much Longer Period Than Usual HARM TO CORN APPREHENDED Department of Agriculture Urges Steps Be Taken to Check I Infesta Infestation tion Kerosene tion-Kerosene Kerosene Emulsion Will Stop March of Pests Warning messages from Missouri Indiana and Illinois state that the bu bug is appearing locally locan In the Ii r NW fe Y M- M 1 l e- e ew t tt t dV w MO y u-o. u m er i f Control Ir t r From t f Meet Iy a n or wT d w a I 4 f. f f ee e t a e ea elUe southern portions of or th these se states state and somewhat farther north In Indiana The spring flight of or the bug continued over oyer a longer period than usual and for that reason renson the Infestation has 4 been extended to larger areas The hureau bureau of entomology United States department of agriculture apprehends severe severe e OJe Injury to the corn crops later Inter on unless steps are taken to check the Infestation and Is assisting to the extent ex ex- v tent of its ability toward putting control con trot measures Into effect Where Bugs Hibernate The bureau of entomology offers the following Information The chinch bugs spend the winter In clumps of bunch grass and under dead lea leaves and rubbish In the spring they emerge and fly to fields of young wheat where they lay their eggs on the root tops and stems When the wheat commences to rIpen riven and dry the young bugs leave lea the wheat fields In armies armies' and walk walk for for most of them I i l I Chinch Bug cannot fly to fly to the cornfields where the they do lo the greatest damage The fact that they make the migration migration migra tion from the wheat to the corn by walking gives the farmer his opportunity to check the Invasion In by pourIng pouring pour pour- Ing r road ad oil on along the bottom of a n shallow furrow dug across the line of march Deep holes should be dug every 25 feet along the furrow on the side nearest the tIle wheat to trap the thee bugs Spray Infested Corn Corn already Infested may be sprayed ed with kerosene emulsion along the bugs the first rows to prevent pre from going farther Some corn wIllbe will willbe willbe be injured by the spray but the balance bal bal- ance will be safe satt from the bug As a preventive pre measure burn all an trash and dried grasses grosses especially such as grow In clumps like broom sedge sede during carl early winter or 01 early spring Roadsides and pastures should receive most thorough treatment of this character |