il, 104, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate XVI 
Fig. 1.— Copper Boilers and Galvanized Strainers 
Used for Sterilizing Figs in a Smyrna •'Khan. - ' 
The Percentage of Living Larv/e in the Figs is 
much Reduced by Scalding. (Original.) 
Fig. 2.— Interior of Oven for Drying Trays of Figs which have been 
Sterilized by Boiling, Used in a Fig "Khan" in Smyrna. Original.^ 
