People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — WAR ON A PEST. [ARTICLE]

WAR ON A PEST.

lowa Farmers Clearing: Their Fields of Chinch Bugs. Davenport, la., July 25.— Crops in this section, after passing through an almost unprecented drought, are being ravaged by chinch bugs. The attacks of the chinch bugs are being succesfully combated by the use of the chinch bug bacillus. James Dyer, of Pleasant Valley township, owns one of tue farms that were first attacked by the pest, and he secured some infected bugs from Prof. Herbert Osborn, of the agricultural experiment station at Ames. Within four days after M*. Dyer distributed the his bauly-infected field every Tug-FiS - the field was dead. Owners of adjoining farms have also introduced the plague among the bugs ravaging their fields and are meeting with like success.