Crossword-Solution: CHINCH 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success.

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.

However, the chinch bugs were a very important factor in discouraging wheat growing and the land has been very good for corn, especially since the tile-drainage was put in; but on the whole is it not as I told you?" "But note these statements," said Percy, turning again to the book: "'It is true that heretofore we have had better crops with no better cultivation, but I believe that it is also true that the soil has never been pushed up to one-half of its capacity.

The captain had spent a restless night, and found himself blotched with innumerable chinch-bites; and on examining the berths and lockers, he found them swarming in piles.

The grain crop is loved by the weevil, the Hessian fly, and the chinch bug; the watermelon, the squash and the cucumber are loved by the squash bug; the potato is loved by the potato bug; the sweet corn is loved by the ant, thou sluggard; the tomato is loved by the cut-worm; the plum is loved by the curculio, and so forth, and so forth, so that no plant that grows need be a wall-flower.