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The United
THE C1IIXCII WHO. , , , ,
States depart-
nieut of agriculture has in press and will
soon issue Bulletin No. 15 , new series ,
division of entomology , entitled "The
Chinch bug : Its Probable Origin and
Diffusion , Its Habits and Development ,
Natural Checks and Remedial and Pre
ventive Measures , with Mention of the
Habits of an Allied European Species. "
It was prepared , under the direction
of the entomologist , by F. M. Webster ,
entomologist of the Ohio Agricultural Ex
periment station.
The chinch bug is one of the most de
structive insects with which the Ameri
can farmer has to contend , and the de
partment receives many requests for in
formation about it. This bulletin is in
tended to meet this demand and gives
many new facts concerning the life his
tory and distribution of the species , and
the whole subject of the practical hand
ling of its diseases in order to assist in
its destruction is treated at length.
It says few insects have caused such
pecuniary losses as the chinch bug , and
no other insect native to the "Western
hemisphere has spread its devastating
hordes over a wider area of country with
more fatal effect to the staple grains of
North America. It is widely distributed
over the world and hibernates in the
adult stage. It is of gregarious habits
and migrates in spring , summer , and
autumn.
When and where it lays its eggs , the
period of incubation , the different stages
of development , the development and
habits of the young , annual generations ,
and food plants are covered by the bul
letin.
It treats of the influence of precipita
tion and temperature on the insect ; its
natural enemies ; remedial and preven
tive measures ; and describes the true
and false chinch bugs.
The bulletin states that it would ap
pear that this pest first made its presence
known in this country in North Carolina
lina in 1783 , and mentions several serious
outbreaks of the bug in the West , the
estimated losses from its ravages from
1850 to 1887 reaching $2(57,000,000. ( It
also says that it is believed that the
losses up to 1898 amounted to fully
$330,000,000.
The bulletin contains nineteen illus
trations , including maps , showing areas
infested by the chinch bug and probable
course of its diffusion over North
America.
There is a great
and constantly
growing area of land in Nebraska and
other states cultivated by seedsmen.
The crops of cucumber , onion , rad
ish , beans , peas , muskmelon and other
seeds matured each year on the com
mercial seed plantations in the Aineri-
ican union aggregate a value of maiy
millions of dollarp. As a rule the seed
growers of this country are honest , on-
terprising and highly respectable men.
But each year they meet , as their com
petitors , congressmen and senators who ,
at government expense , gratuitously
distribute among a small per cent of
their constituents a few hundred tons
of seeds. The packets contain about one
cent's worth of seeds. The packages
contain ilvo packets. The voter who is
tickled with five cents' worth of garden
seeds and rejoices at being so well re
membered by the statesman who sends
them is too simple to bo allowed any
part in a self-respecting government of
the people by the people for the people.
Among many hoary humbugs in this
form of government not one is so mark
edly a development of senile dementia.
No other perpetrates more injustice and
nourishes more favoritism.
GROWTH AND DKCAD1CNCK OV
STATUS.
"Ill the youth of a state , arms do
flourish ; in the middle age of a state ,
learning ; and then both of them to
gether for a time ; in the declining age
of a state , mechanical arts and merchan
dise. " So said Lord Bacon. If the
Baconian philosophy is as true as my
lord undoubtedly believed it to bo , is
not decadence in oxir own country al
ready begun through the progress of
the mechanical arts and an astonishing
expansion of merchandise ? Lord Bacon
further says :
"Upon the breaking and shivering of
a great state and empire , you may bo
sure to have wars ; for great empires ,
while they stand , do enervateand , de
stroy the forces of the natives which
they have subdued , resting upon their
own protecting forces ; and then , when
they fall also all goes to ruin , and they
become a prey ; so was it in the decay of
the Roman empire , and likewise in the
Empire of Almaigno ( Germany ) after
Charles the Great , every bird taking a
feather ; and were not ttuUki' to befall
if it should hn'itk. "
Wo hear and
u(1 much Of tllo
FARMS.
valuQ Qf untraiue1)
standard-bred trotting horses horses to
which have been transmitted by a long
line of speedy ancestry the right in
form , limb , lungs and courage , to make
fast time. The value of these untested
animals is in the fact that they are race
products and invariably born with a
capability for speed which training , in
a proper manner , will bring out.
Nebraska has vast areas of land which
contain plant-food in abundance and
are opulent with fertility. Upon these
areas are found many so-called farms ,
where domicile , barn , shed , fence , fall-
iug-to-pieces-in-tho-lield hay rakes ,
mowing machines , plows , harrows and
reapers , all attest that though well-
soiled the farm is untrained. Dilapida
tion and decay are stamped upon every
hedge , tree , fence and shanty. And
these untrained farms in Nebraska are
the ones which will and must change
hands. Men who read and think and III
work efficiently can succeed in farming.
Shiftless , listless , dreaming , gregarious
men who rely upon organized vision
aries , such as sometimes read essays and
make orations before alliances , insti
tutes and granges , will not , can not suc
ceed as tillers of the best soil even in all
the world. They cannot train and de
velop a farm.
The gold democrats
DOLL A US.
crats of Nebraska
and all the other states have voted
against fusion and the money fallacies
because they believed that confusion to
commerce , manufacture and agricul
ture would inevitably result from a de
basement of the standard of value.
Gold democrats everywhere believe
in the gold standard and the gold dollar
as the safest and most satisfactory basis
for domestic and foreign trade.
Such dollars , gold dollars , are , by the
defeat of the sixtcen-to-ono fusioiiists ,
illusionists , dolusionists and confusion -
ists , established as the mcanunny dollar *
of the United States forever , provided ,
the republican administration of McKinley -
Kinley , which , after the 4th of March ,
1899 has both the senate and the house
to sustain it fairly and faithfully , with
coxirago , redeems its promises to estab
lish still more firmly the gold standard
for this republic !
The republicans
MONHTAllY have the
now legislative
KKKO11M.
islative and execu
tive branches of the federal government
in their charge and keeping. The ro-
publicans are pledged to the reform of
the monetary system of the United
States and to the maintenance of the
gold stamliud Upon the fidelity with
which the republicans redeem their plat
form promises to the people depends the
prosperity of the country and the solid
ity of its good name and credit. The
house of representatives and the senate
on and after March 4 , 1899 , will bo ruled
by republican majorities. Will Presi
dent McKinley convene congress in
extra session soon after that date for the
purpose of retiring the greenbacks and
giving the republic a safe and practical
nystem of banking and currency ?
T h o populists
DKMOCJIATS AND in Nebraska took
J'Ol'UMfeTS.
sixteen nomina
tions on the state and congressional
tickets and gave the democrats one a
very little one so small as not possi
ble to be very wicked Smytheo !
It is said that some European writers
have suggested that we adopt the to
bacco-blossom as our national flower.
And the spittoon as our national tune ,
isn't that it ? Altogether it sounds like
too old a joke for the year 1898.
