248 FUMIGATION METHODS 



" loth. 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 ' This stock has been fumigated,'' and 

 have very largely increased their business since they 

 adopted this process. 



' ' The San Jose 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 from a 

 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 Jose 

 scale." 



Common- sense view. The following letter from 

 Isaac C. Rogers, of the Rogers Nurseries, is a plain, 

 straightforward statement of f acts : ' ' Our f umigato- 

 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 



