The Chinch Bug

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Excerpt from The Chinch Bug: A General Summary of Its History, Habits, Enemies, and of the Remedies and Preventives to Be Used Against It Dr. Fitch, in his second report, gives with some little detail an account of its early appearances, from which we may simply state that after this first notice the insect did considerable damage for several years in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. After a short series of seasons it was again destructive in North Carolina in 1809, so that in Orange County the cultivation of wheat was abandoned for two years. In 1839, in the same States, great damage was done to corn and wheat, and in 1840 an increase in number occurred, and the wholesale destruction of the crops was only prevented by an exceedingly wet season. The first scientific description of this species was given by Say in 1831, in a pamphlet, now very scarce, published at New Harmony, Ind., entitled Descriptions of new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera, from a single specimen collected on the eastern shore of Virginia, and it was probably at that time rare in Indiana, where Say resided, at New Harmony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.