46 REPORT ON THE FIG MOTH IN SMYRNA. 
INFESTATION IN FIG ‘“ DEPOTS.” 
As the figs are gathered from the “serghi” they are transported, 
(see Pl. VITI, figs. 1, 2) in goat’s-hair bags or woven willow bas- 
kets strapped on the backs of horses or camels, to the villages, where 
they are dumped into large piles in buildings known as fig “ depots.” 
Here the different grades are mixed and resacked into other goat’s- 
hair bags (see Pl. LX, fig. 1), and later loaded onto camels (Pl. IX, 
fig. 2) to be carried to the railroad station for shipment to Smyrna. 
The figs are brought to the “depots” in large quantities, and con- 
siderable forces of men and women are required to handle them. It 
is stated by the Turks, who have charge of the figs at this period of 
their manipulation and who look after their transportation to 
Smyrna until they are turned over to the commission men at the 
bazaars, that the figs never remain in these “ depots” for more than 
48 hours, and seldom longer than a single night. Tt would seem from 
this that the opportunity of infestation in the “depots” is neces- 
sarily small. 
At about sundown August 24 a fig “depot” located at Tchifte 
Kaive was entered with the hope of determining whether or not the 
moths occurred there as abundantly as they did over the “ serghi.” 
Lanterns were used, and at about 6.30 p. m., at least 30 minutes 
before the appearance of the moths out of doors, they began to be 
active, and by 7 o’clock were fluttering in large numbers over the 
piles of figs and depositing eggs. 
The moths are not present in these “depots” early in August be- 
fore the figs have entered them. A large number of “depots” in 
the different villages was inspected early in August before dried 
figs had begun to enter them, and no sign of living Ephestia in either 
pupal or adult stages could be detected by the minutest examination 
of the dust and cobwebs in dark corners of the buildings. Unques- 
tionably the moths are attracted into the “depots” by the odor of 
the first figs that enter. . Finding the building to afford good shelter 
from heat, wind, and too much light, and furnished a fresh supply 
of figs each day from the orchards, they doubtless remain inside until 
the end of the season, increasing each day in abundance as new indi- 
viduals enter from the outside. The moths are more abundant in - 
the “depots” than outside over the “ serghi,” and it is astonishing 
that a single fig passing through the “ depots” should escape infesta- 
tion. If the figs were to remain for any length of time in the “ de- 
pots,” the amount of infestation resulting from so great an abun- 
dance of moths would prove almost startling. 
INFESTATION IN FREIGHT CARS. 
After leaving the “depots” the figs are tightly inclosed in goat’s- 
hair bags until they reach Smyrna, and there is little chance for fur- 
