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gas against these insects. Compte de Montornes, the Royal Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture from Valencia, and Leopoldo Salas, Agri- 

 cultural Engineer of Malaga, had been appointed by the Minister of 

 Agriculture to supervise such demonstration experiments as were 

 necessary. Through the aid of these gentlemen paraphernalia essen- 

 tial for the equipment of a field fumigation crew such as the writer has 

 used in California ^ were acquned so far as was possible. Intelligent 

 men were selected and drilled in the procedure, so that before leaving 

 Spain a crew competent to carry on field fumigation under the direc- 

 tion of the two eminent Spanish authorities had been established. 

 Dosage tables of the character used by the writer in California were 

 introduced into Spam. 



The initial procedure of 1910 has developed very rapidly. In a 

 letter recently received from the Compte de Montornes he stated 

 that now there are 10 complete outfits of 30 tents each, as well as 

 several smaller ones in different parts of Spain. Six of these outfits 

 belong to the Government, the remainder to societies and private 

 individuals. The results everywhere were said to be very satisfac- 

 tory, and as the success of the process is becoming known to the grow- 

 ers it is producing a great demand for more extended operations. 



I Bui. 90, Part I, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1911. 



