Show starving chinch bugs cheeks checks loss diet of legume crops good plan to minimize the threatened raid by W P flint of t agri agriculture y or of annons service Sort lct what threatens to be one ot of the most destructive invasion of chinch bugs can be headed off and widespread damage prevented or at least minimized it if farmers will starve the bugs by limiting them to a diet of legume crops unless the weather during may and june Is wetter than usual so as to drown out the bugs they threaten to cause more damage than they have caused it in any year during the past 50 farmers that are known to be in the heavily infested chinch bug area are being warned to include all the legumes possible in the field crops they grow during the coming season this Is one of the most effective and at the same time one of the least expensive methods that farmers can use in fighting the bugs if chinch bugs could be confined only to legumes during the coming season they would not live any longer than a meat eating animal would live on this same diet chinch bugs will not feed on any of the legumes in eluding alfalfa soy beans cowpeas cow peas field leas peas red clover sweet clover vetch or lespedeza neither will they feed on such other common held field crops as rape buckwheat flax sunflowers sun flowers or stock beets the crops that are meat for chinch bugs and the only ones on which they feed are the grasses and these grasses roust must be green with the sap flowing in them as the chinch bug Is a sucking insect and takes its food not by biting oft off and chewing up a bit of the leaf surface but by inserting its beak in the grass plants and sucking out the sap they feed on all the small grains including barley spring wheat winter wheat oats rye emmer and spelt spell T they hey will also feed on sorg sorghum bum broom corn field corn sweet corn sudan grass and millet it if corn and soy beans are planted together and a good growth of soybeans soy beans Is ie obtained so BO that the beans shade the lower parts of the cornstalks corn stalks such shaded stalks will have fewer bugs than corn without soy beans A beav heavy y stand of sudan grass and soy boy beans w will III suffer only slightly from chinch bug damage whereas sudan grass alone alon e would be killed |