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:\IR. STRONG. Would you consider with the test that you have 

 made, the dosage you have been using per hundred cubic feet — would 

 you consider that practical through the fumigating season 1 



MR. MASKEW. Mr. Woglum made it very clear to you, and the 

 conclusions arrived at in our experiments apply only to conditions as 

 they occur at Orange. I will say for normal trees eleven to fourteen 

 feet high, we are simply going to take this as a basis and duplicate it in 

 different localities under different conditions and at different times of 

 the year. What he set forth this morning, and he made it very clear 

 in his paper, applies only to the conditions as we found them at Orange, 

 and with the sized tree upon which we experimented. There are 132 

 different experiments performed there against the purple scale on 

 the normal commercial trees. From them we expect to derive a base 

 on which to conduct our future operations and eliminate a great many 

 useless operations. We believe we have got that, and we have simply 

 given to you the conclusions as we found them under those conditions. 



MR. PEASE. I want to ask one question. Is it practicable, in a 

 tree thirty feet high, to make the gas as dense at the bottom of the tree 

 as it is at the top ? 



MR. ]\1ASKEW. We are not prepared to make that statement. 

 We want these statements to be accurate when we make them. That 

 will take a series of many experiments to prove. It is one of the things 

 we hope to work out with the tenting material, with the equilibrium 

 of the gas. the adulteration of cyanide, and a hundred other problems. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. I will next introduce Mr. Briggs. Mr. 

 Briggs has just returned from Washington Cit}^, where he has been 

 making a fight for the rights of California to sulphur fruit. He is 

 president of the San Francisco Board of Trade. I now have the 

 pleasure of introducing Mr. Arthur R. Briggs, of San Francisco and 

 California. 



]\IR. BRIGGS. It is a disappointment to me that Dr. Wiley is not 

 with us to-day. When I was first asked to prepare a paper on the sul- 

 phuring of fruit, it was with the understanding that I was to follow 

 Dr. Wile}^ in a paper he would present, showing why it was not 

 advisable to stop sulphuring fruit. I make this explanation, because it 

 is a disappointment to you all. The question of the use of sulphur, or 

 its nonuse, is not as interesting to the people of this part of the State as 

 it is to those engaged in other branches of fruit growing in other parts 

 of the State ; but it is a rule which we must all recognize, that whatever 

 affects the fruit interest in one part of the State, or one branch of that 

 business, affects the whole. We never know where lightning is going to 

 strike. I have reduced what I have to say to manuscript, and will 

 therefore confine myself to it. 



