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extra expense of handling is really a small item. The 

 only way it bothers us is sometimes in loading a car 

 there will be a shipment to get off that has to have a 

 few trees fumigated, and then with thirty minutes out 

 of an hour taken up with the fumigating one has to 

 jump around pretty lively to make connections. But 

 the rush and jump are only parts of the nursery busi- 

 ness and all in the same line, so we do not mind it. 

 On an average it costs us 25 to 30 cents per thousand 

 for the actual fumigation, including the extra hand- 

 ling. 



1 ' We have been fumigating now for three or four 

 years and have had no trouble from loss of trees as yet, 

 although we were assured by the antifumigators that 

 we would have our trees to replace. We are careful to 

 fumigate the trees when dry, and for that reason like 

 the fumigating room as a part of the packing-shed 

 much better than to have it as a separate building. If 

 the trees come in during a wet day they can be allowed 

 to dry before being put in the fumigator, and it is far 

 more convenient to be able to step into the room from 

 the packing-shed during any kind of weather. 



" The objection generally made by nurserymen is 

 from the fact that a very large part of the nursery stock 

 grown in western New York does not go direct to 

 planters, but is shipped here and there to dealers and 

 nurserymen all over the United States. Nurserymen 

 in other sections must have their stock shipped early so 

 they can reship to their customers, probably back in 

 New York. In order to get this done and the trees 

 planted before it freezes up, they have to be dug before 

 they are fully matured. Some nurserymen fear that 



