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cover very larg-e trees with tents was g-iven up, such trees being- 

 severely pruned and thoroughly sprayed with kerosene emulsion 

 diluted to contain twenty per cent, of the oil. (See Plate VIII.) 



Great care was taken that the tents should be kept in perfect 

 repair, and every part of the work was carried on under the imme- 

 diate supervision of Mr. Green, foreman of the squad, or of Mr. 

 Braucher, the inspector. The treatment was applied thoroug-hly, 

 not only to all trees on which the scale could be found but to oth- 

 ers near enoug-h to stand in any dang-er of infestation. Owners of 

 infested hedges were induced to destroy them (Plate IX.); trees 

 very badly infested were, as a rule, cut out and burned ; and, in 

 short, nothing- was omitted which would help to make the work 

 effective and com})lete. 



We had also at Richview the especial advantag-e of the coun- 

 tenance, aid, and influence of Mr. J. W. Stanton, Treasurer of the 

 State Horticultural Society, himself an owner of larg-e fruit farms, 

 and a man whose character and experience made his judg-ment and 

 advice acceptable to his entire neig-hborhood. 



The work here beg-an December 22, 1899, and continued to 

 February 10, by which time all premises known to be infested had 

 been treated, with the exception of one larg-e apple orchard so far 

 removed from any other fruit plantation that no dang-er was ap- 

 prehended of an escape of the scale from it to any other property. 

 A g-eneral inspection of this region was made after a lapse of two 

 years, in March, 1902, all the places previously infested being- then 

 very carefully examined by Mr. K. W. Braucher, my most acute 

 and experienced inspector. 



Details of tlic Richviezu Work. — No. 1. The first place treated 

 at Richview was an orchard of apples and peaches on the James 

 Newcome Estate, owned at the time by J. W. Stanton and Georg-e 

 McCoy. 2,087 trees of small to medium size were treated by fumi- 

 g-ation between December 22 and January 4. On four of these 

 days — December 29 and 30 and January 1 and 2 — the .weather was 

 extremely cold, and fires were kept burning- in the orchards to keep 

 the water from freezing-. The canvas was so stiff with ice that it 

 was easily torn, and it was difficult to bring- the skirts of the tent 

 so close to the g-round as to prevent all leakag-e of g-as. When the 

 tents were removed from the trees, at the end of forty minutes, no 

 odor of the g-as was perceptible during- this coldest weather, al- 

 thoug-h at other times it was very distinct. This work was done 

 under the constant personal supervision of either Mr. Braucher or 

 Mr. Green. 



March 6, 1902, many trees in this orchard were badly infest- 



