128 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
ends of the foremost pieces are attached to the front corners of the frame on the 
wagon, while the ends of the other two pieces simply rest upon that frame on either 
side of the mast. The upper ends of these pieces are fastened together by a strong 
iron bolt, to which a large pulley is attached. In lowering the masta large rope is 
attached to it just above the point where the iron clamp encircles it; the other end 
of the rope is then passed through the pulley at the upper end of the derrick, and - 
from this point it passes to the windlass, upon which the rope is then wound, The 
block of wood bolted to the wagon reach in front of the mast is then removed, and 
the stay-rods fastened to the frame on the wagon are disconnected; then, by un- 
winding the windlass, the mast is lowered until it rests horizontally upon the 
wagon, turning upon the iron pin that passes through the mast near its base. 
I have used this fumigator repeatedly, and it has given good satisfaction when 
used on level ground and at a time when the wind was not blowing very hard. 
Two men can operate it with ease. For transporting from place to place it is the 
best apparatus that has yet been produced. It is desired to have the stay-rods and 
windlass attached to a turn-table, so that the tent could be taken off of one tree 
and put upon another without moving the wagon; by this arrangement three tents 
could be operated by the one apparatus without any loss of time. It mightalso be 
desirable to mount this apparatus upon runners, like those of a sled, but placed as 
wide apart as the trees would admit. 
This fumigator has not been patented up to date. 
The Titus Fumigator.—This apparatus was devised by Mr. L. H. Titus, of San 
Gabriel, and is especially designed for operating on talltrees. Itisshownin PlatelV, 
and consists of four corner posts made by bolting together two boards in such a 
manner that they form a right angle with each other; at the upper ends these posts 
are connected by cross-pieces formed of boards bolted together like those forming 
the corner posts. Two of these cross-pieces are longer than the other two, and are 
placed on opposite sides of the frame; they are connected near the middle by two 
cross-pieces, between which is placed the roller upon which the tent is to be wound 
when being drawn off the tree. These various cross-pieces are braced, as shown in 
Plate 
The lower end of each of the rear corner posts is rigidly attached to an axle, on 
the outer end of which a light wheel is placed, while the inner end is connected 
with the corner post by an oblique brace. Thelower end of each of the front corner 
posts is attached to the middle of an axle having a light wheel at each end; the post 
is attached to the axle by an iron bolt, which permits the wheels to be at the same 
moment turned, the one forward and the other backward, like the forward wheeis 
of a wagon or'buggy. By means of this arrangement the fumigator can be turned 
about ina circle. The front and rear corner posts on each side of the fumigator 
are connected with each other by a cross-piece extending from one to the other, and 
strengthened by braces which extend obliquely from the cross-piece to the posts. 
When this fumigator is in use the front and rear cross-pieces shown in Plate [V as 
extending from the posts on the one side to those on the other are removed, so as to 
permit the frame to pass either forward or backward over the trees. 
The top of the tent is attached by three ropes to the roller, while to the lower edge 
of the tent are attached four ropes, placed at equal distances from each other; each 
of these ropes passes through a pulley attached to a frame near each upper corner, 
and the end of the rope is attached to the lower edge of the tent at the place where 
the opposite end of the same rope is attached. For winding the tent upon the roller 
an endless rope is used; this passes around a grooved wheel at one end of the roller 
and is carried through a pulley near the upper end of one of the rear corner posts: 
from this point it passes to and around a grooved wheel fastened to the cross-piece 
near the lower end of this post, and this grooved wheel is operated by a crank. 
In taking a tent off of a tree each of the corner ropes is pulled through its pulley, 
drawing the bottom of the tent upward, thus turning the tent inside out; after the 
tent has been drawn up as far as possible, the crank operating the grooved wheel 
that works the endless rope is turned, winding the tent upon the roller until it has 
been entirely removed from the tree. The fumigator is thus drawn forward until 
the tent is brought directly over the second tree, when the ropes attached to the 
lower edge of the tent are loosened, permitting the tent to drop down over the tree, 
at the same time unwinding the tent from the roller, and continuing this until the 
tent rests upon the tree, 
i have helped to operate a fumigator of this kind several times, and it gave very 
good satisfaction, especially the manner in which the tent was let down over the 
tree and taken off again. ~The frame of the fumigator should be so constructe1 
as to admit of its being fwered when not in use, to prevent its being injured 
by high winds; three of these fumigators have, to my knowledge, been totally 
wreckod by high winds within the last three months. There is also need of some 
device by which one of these apparatuses could operate two or three tents 
