Bui. 104, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate XIV. 
Fig. 1 .—A Hand Vacuum Machine for Extracting 
Air from Jars of Figs, and Its Operator. 
Larvae do not survive in jars <>i tigs so treated. I Original, i 
Fig. 2.— Oven for Sterilizing Figs by Dry Heat, with Loading Frave Extracted; 
Employed in a •"Khan'" in Smyrna. 
By subjection to dry heal a very large proportion of larvse in the Bgs is destroyed. (Original.) 
