| Show chinch bug war hard congress in the last session voted an appropriation of a million dollars to halt the ravages of the chinch bug in the corn belt and this money was used to build barriers totaling miles biles along which creosote halted the advance va ace of the insects the chinch bug however has two generations in a single season the first generation being a crawling insect which can be controlled by the creosote barriers but the tha second generation flying Is not halted by this form of control experts estimate that the million dollars spent on control measures saved at least aj worth of corn |