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gaticni the most effective method we have? Now to my mind, 

 it is the most effective method we have, but it must be done 

 properly with the right kind of chemicals, but there is a 

 whole lot of difference in them. I think fumigation done 

 properly is the most effective method for the trees. 



j\Ir. SkilliMAn : If the trees are wet. fumigation is in- 

 jurious. 



Prof. Slingerland: Yes sir; if the trees are wet. 



Mr. Skillman: You will also admit that soft-wooded 

 trees treated with hydrocyanic gas will be injured. 



Prof. Slingerland: They may be under certain conditions. 



]\Ir. Skiu^man : Then I would ask you how are we old 

 hayseeds to know what those conditions are? 



Prof. Slingerland: Are you sure that vou kill every San 

 Jose scale when you dip the trees in the lime and sulphur, 

 or kill 95 per cent.? 



I\Ir. Skillman: I don't claim we kill them all; we have 

 got to allow for the Lord's poor that are always with us. Now 

 then, I am not in favor of a compulsory law. I have no 

 objection to the other fellow having his trees fumigated, but 

 I hate to have it crammed down my throat when I believe it is 

 injurious. I planted several orchards of stock they told 

 me was fumigated, and in one block of a thousand I only 

 lost three trees ; it don't always kill, but it sometimes does. 



A Member: Would you rather have fumigated trees or 

 inspected trees? 



Mr. Skillman : I don't want the fumigated trees, and 

 I don't care for the other, because if I haven't got a scale on 

 the trees when I buy them, I will have them pretty soon after- 

 wards. 



Mr. Hovt: I don't know what the poor nurseryman is 

 going to do ; one man will not have them fumigated, and 

 the other must have them. 



Mr. Skillman: If the fellow wants them fumigated, give 

 it to him, but if he don't want them, don't fumigate them. 



Mr. Hoyt : The nurseryman doing any business could not 

 get along that way. 



]\Ir. Skillman: I don't know; I simply don't want my 

 trees fumigated. 



