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at that time, after they had gotten the man installed thoroughly, to 

 wind up by saying. "Now, remember one thing; if you ever get short 

 of news you can always jump on to the horticultural commission," and 

 they always proceeded to do so. As matters have progressed, we have 

 found a great many things that needed remedying; we made certain 

 rules for our inspectors. For instance, we told the inspectors that the 

 time to inspect is that time of the year when something is going to 

 follow. That means that the inspector is not to go out and inspect 

 simply for the purpose of drawing his pay, but when he inspects and 

 finds any pest it means that some disinfectant is to follow, either spray- 

 ing or fumigation. There are a great. many things that affect the com- 

 mission. I speak of these because the method that had been in opera- 

 tion before the time we went on brought the horticultural commission 

 into disrepute. Now we try to systematize everything, and we have 

 helps in every direction; we have the help of the University, we have 

 the help of the State Commission, and about three years ago we applied 

 to the Department of Agriculture, and they have sent a man who is 

 working now in the field for the purpose of systematizing the science of 

 fumigation in order that the work of fumigation may be perfected, that 

 is, that we may get the very best results from fumigation. For instance, 

 it has been customary in some portions of the south, as in our county, 

 for part of the people to employ the county to do the work. The 

 county will follow the methods which have been published in pamphlet 

 form and are available to anybody. Mr. Woglum has not the wide 

 scope of duties that the commission has, but his sole dut} r is to work on 

 the science of fumigation, that is. to overcome some of the difficulties 

 we have been having and to establish the correct dosage for the different 

 kinds of scales. All of these things are things that a commissioner 

 should know. This year we have been following him closely. We have 

 marked our tents with the "Wheeler system, which is the system he has 

 been using. After the trees are marked, by looking at the figures on 

 the tent you can find the exact number of feet over it. and then by 

 using a tape line you get the circumference, and he has a table of 

 figures and that gives you the exact dosage you should use. The reason 

 why the commissioners should know these things is so they may avoid 

 things that bring unnecessary expense to the growers, such as contract 

 fumigation. To explain that. I will mention that in our county we have 

 an ordinance requiring contract fumigators to take out a license to 

 fumigate within the county, and these fumigators are obliged to make 

 a report to the horticultural commission every month. One of the con- 

 tractors has made two reports, and in this report he has put here the 

 owner's name and the number of trees he has fumigated. Then he puts 

 on the other side the total number of pounds of cyanide that he used in 

 fumigating all those trees. By reducing those pounds to ounces and 

 dividing it by the number of trees it gives the average dosage that he 

 used on trees. The first report that he made showed that he used less 

 than four ounces to the tree, and such men as James Mills, who is try- 

 ing to do the work correctly, would use six ounces. The effect of that 

 would be. if Mr. Woglum is correct and it takes that dosage to kill a 

 certain kind of scale and a man attempts to kill them with one fourth 

 of the amount, that money is practically thrown away. He leaves the 

 bugs on ever}' tree. 



