| 单词 | chinch |
| 例句 | There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war—the adult world of trouble, though, was not real enough to dim the goodness of an April morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He don’t go to chinch or nothing, but he not so quick to judge. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in chinch? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had felt faint in the hot sun many times myself and had seen chinch bugs eat up whole fields of wheat, and yet I did not want to die. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z All the houses was made of logs and we slept on shuck and grass mattresses what was allus full of chinches. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z All the troublesome vermin that ever I heard anybody complain of, are either frogs, snakes, musquitoes, chinches, seed ticks, or red worms, by some called potato lice. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts A quail killed in a wheat field in Ohio and examined by a government expert had in its craw the remains of over twelve hundred chinch bugs it had eaten that day. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories A man can work like a dog, and along comes a drouth or chinch bugs or too much rain during the haying season and, presto, all his fond hopes are knocked sky high.” Chicken Little Jane on the Big John I fought squash bugs, cut worms, Hessian flies, chinch bugs, curculio, mange, pip, drought, dropsy, caterpillars and contumely till the latter part of August, when a friend from India came to visit me. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) For two years the crop had been almost wholly destroyed by chinch bugs. A Son of the Middle Border I do not remember having seen a rat or a weasel on the frontier at that time, and many of the natives had never seen a potato bug or chinch bug or cockroach. Land of the Burnt Thigh The grain growers are losing over one hundred million dollars a year on account of the work of the chinch bug. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The chinch bug showing development with incomplete metamorphosis; a, egg; b, first nymph; c, second nymph; d, third nymph; e, fourth nymph; f, adult winged bug; g, chinch bugs extracting sap from corn plant. An Elementary Study of Insects Neither chinch bugs nor drought nor army worms could break his rest. A Daughter of the Middle Border For several weeks I hobbled about, bent like a gnome, and so helped to reap what the chinch bugs had left, while my mother prepared to "follow the sunset" with her "Boss." A Son of the Middle Border Found them so popular that he took on chinch bugs at a nickel, and fairly coined money. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." It takes over twenty-four thousand chinch bugs to weigh one ounce. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The various forms of pests such as the chinch bug, potato beetles, and others do an enormous amount of damage each year. An Elementary Study of Insects The Hessian fly does more damage to the wheat crop than all other insects combined, and probably ranks next to the chinch bug as the second worst insect enemy of the farmer. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition In western Kansas the "blowout" has been as great a source of damage to the wheat fields as the drought or chinch bugs or hot winds. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado To stop a boat leaking you "chinch" the seams with oakum. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour In fierce, uncontrollable and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the chinch bugs, the grasshoppers and the Hot Winds. The Way of the Wind There are a great many bugs injurious to vegetation, among them the little chinch bugs. The Insect Folk The chinch bug, attacking as it does such important crops as wheat, corn, and grasses, is a well-known pest. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Immediately the chinches disappeared and not one could be found, although one could gather than by handfuls before, as they say.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. It must of seemed longer to Oswald than it takes for a chinch bug to become a carboniferous Jurassic. Ma Pettengill The wheat yield was poor and chinch bugs attacked the corn in such myriads that our Farmer found "hundreds of them & their young under the blades and at the lower joints of the Stock." George Washington: Farmer Ned says he can guess what remedy the people apply to the healthy chinch bugs that are eating their grain. The Insect Folk In Orange county, North Carolina, farmers were once obliged to suspend wheat-growing for two years on account of the chinch bug. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success. Dust Unfavorable weather—excessive heat, followed by flooding rains—had hurt the spring wheat, and in every direction there were complaints of weevils and chinch bugs. The Pit Write to the Division of Entomology, Washington, for bulletins on the chinch bug. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones. The Insect Folk Unfortunately we cannot prevent all of the damage done by chinch bugs, but we can diminish it somewhat by good clean agriculture. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition These birds feed on the army worms and cutworms that do so much injury to the young shoots; they also destroy the chinch bug and the grasshopper, both of which feed on cultivated plants. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition |
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