226 FUMIGATION METHODS 



the fruit. Fruit thafc has required washing is fre- 

 quently unsalable when clean grown fruit is seen be- 

 side it. This is a fact well understood and appreciated 

 in the districts where the application of cyanide gas is 

 practiced. Any one wishing to convince himself of the 

 vast superiority of fumigating over the old spraying 

 methods only needs to visit the orchards of Duarte, 

 Monrovia, Azusa, Covina, Pomona, and Riverside, 

 and consult the Horticultural Commissioners. It may 

 safely be stated that 99 out of every 100 of the Horti- 

 cultural Commissioners in the country are heartily in 

 favor of fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas. The 

 Rural Calif ornian. 



( ' Does it pay to fzimigate ?" is answered by editor 

 C. M. Heintz. He says: ' ' This question is asked daily 

 The Rural Calif ornian, and we wish to state that there 

 is nothing known at present which will assist the fruit- 

 growers all over the United States as much to eradicate 

 scale-insect pest as the process of fumigation. We in 

 California have tried it for years, have been benefited 

 by the operation, and permit us to say if it had not 

 been for the fumigation procedure the citrus fruit in- 

 dustry of California would have been a lamentable 

 failure. 



' ' The actual and continuous use of hydrocyanic acid 

 gas has demonstrated beyond the question of a doubt 

 that by exterminating the scale insect the citrus fruit- 

 grower has marketed a profitable crop. Districts like 

 Riverside, Ontario, Pomona, Azusa, Orange, Tustin, 

 Colegrove, San Dimas, Lamanda Park, and portion of 

 San Diego County, will each testify to that which we 

 state, namely ^fumigation pays, and pays three hundred- 



