248 FUMIGATION METHODS 
‘‘roth. It is an injury to the nursery business to 
agitate the subject. This has been proven false by a 
large concern in Geneva, who advertise that they 
fumigate all their stock, and paste large cards on their 
boxes, stating ‘ 7hzs stock has been fumigated,’ and 
have very largely increased their business since they 
adopted this process. 
‘“’Mhe San José scale is doubtless with us to stay, 
but it is our duty to do all that we possibly can to 
keep it under control, and in my opinion we cannot be 
too careful about it for the interests of the fruit grow- 
ers and every one else in the state. The serious dam- 
age to orcharding from this pest may be judged froma 
letter I have received from a prominent fruit-grower in 
western New York informing me that he expected to 
destroy about fifteen acres of valuable bearing trees 
this season because they were ruined by San José 
scale.’’ 
Common-sense view.—The following letter from 
Isaac C. Rogers, of the Rogers Nurseries, is a plain, 
straightforward statement of facts: ‘‘Our fumigato- 
rium is a room inside the packing-shed. The great 
bulk we usually fumigate in a frost-proof and air-tight 
room after we are ready for billing out in the spring; 
then the small lots dug from time to time are run into 
the smaller room, with an opening at the top for the 
escape of the gas through the roof after done. The 
expense of fumigating is a small matter. The bother 
is a small matter compared with the feeling of security 
and the fact that after the trees have been through 
that deadly stuff they go out through the country 
carrying no mischief and trouble making insects. The 
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