FUMIGATION IN SPAIN. 53 
gas against these insects. Compte de Montornes, the Royal Com- 
missioner of Agriculture from Valencia, and Leopoldo Salas, Agri- 
cultural Engineer of Malaga, had been appointed by the Minister of 
Agriculture to supervise such demonstration experiments as were 
necessary. Through the aid of these gentlemen paraphernalia essen- 
tial for the equipment of a field fumigation crew such as the writer has 
used in California * were acquired so far as was possible. Intelligent 
men were selected and drilled in the procedure, so that before leaving 
Spain a crew competent to carry on field fumigation under the direc- 
tion of the two eminent Spanish authorities had been established. 
Dosage tables of the character used by the writer in California were 
introduced into Spain. 
The initial procedure of 1910 has developed very rapidly. In a 
letter recently received from the Compte de Montornes he stated 
that now there are 10 complete outfits of 30 tents each, as well as 
several smaller ones in different parts of Spain. Six of these outfits 
belong to the Government, the remainder to societies and private 
individuals. The results everywhere were said to be very satisfac- 
tory, and as the success of the process is becoming known to the grow- 
ers it is producing a great demand for more extended operations. 
» Bui. 90, Part I, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1911. 
