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THIRTY-FOURTH FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 



sterling- integrity on the part of each commissioner, and each shall 

 insist upon their being faithfully enforced by their deputies, as well as 

 themselves, the certificate has little value. 



The horticulturists of the State must, through their organizations, 

 and individually, demand of the county boards of supervisors, that the 

 horticultural commissions must be taken seriously, and not classed with 

 the dozens of other commissions created by our Legislature and by 

 city and county governing bodies for no other purpose than to make 

 places for the political supporters of those having the appointing 

 power. Concerted action upon the part of our fruit associations and 

 Protective League can require the selection of well equipped and 

 reliable men for appointment to our horticultural boards, and our 

 supervisors Avill not ignore our demands for such appointments. We 

 have been too modest in our demands, and should begin to assert our- 

 selves vigorously in such matters. 



MR. EOEDIXG. In your paper you recommend that the fumigation 

 of nursery stock should be carried on in nursery rows. How about 

 nursery stock where the pest is in the roots of the stocks? In that 

 event, the fumigation of nurser}^ rows would not carry out the purpose 

 you would want it to. 



MR. BEMIS. Of course there would be a limit to its use, but I 

 think, generalh' speaking, the greater part of the work of disinfection 

 of our nursery stock can be accomplished by fumigation. We might 

 find it more easy to disinfect them after being taken up, but in the 

 case of phylloxera I don't know that we could gain anything by fumi- 

 gating for that purpose at all, so far as I know anything about the 

 practice adopted. I should presume, though, that in the case of many 

 of those root forms, the remedies applied could be applied in the nursery 

 row. That depends largely on what sort of treatment you use. If you 

 use bisulphate of carbon, or anything of that kind, it might answer. 



MR. ROEDING. It would not be practicable to fumigate for San 

 Jose scale. 



MR. BEMIS. For the reason that they would be below the surface 

 of the ground? 



MR. ROEDING. Xo, they Avould be above the surface, but the 

 immense area. 



:MR. BEMIS. I don't know that that would differ materially from 

 our treatment of red scale and that sort of pest that we treat on the 

 citrus. We have found it Yery profitable to treat them in the nursery 

 row. I don't know that we can economize room very much if we 

 take them out and put them in a box. 



CHAIRMAN PEASE. The next paper will be ''Cause of New 

 Infestations, ' ' by Mr. P. D. Fowler. 



I\IR. FOWLER. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : A number 

 of years ago Ave were told by one of the experts at Washington that 



