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Title: Fumigation for the citrus white fly, as adapted to Florida conditions
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: United States.: Bureau of Entomology
Subjects: Citrus whitefly--Control--Florida Citrus--Diseases and pests--Florida Aleyrodidae.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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age. Theacid is dipped into the measuring glasses bymeans of a long-handled enamel-ware dipper, or poured in from apitcher. For carrying water a couple of large pails are needed. The one who measures the acid and generates the gas should beprovided with rubber gloves of good quality and long enough tocover the wrists well, or even the entire forearm. For generating thegas, earthernware jars from 1§ to 5 gallons capacity are necessary,according to the size of the trees and dosage required. Extra jarsshould be provided to obviate possible inconvenience in case of break-age. Cylindrical jars are preferable to those winch narrow at the top,as the chemicals are much more likely to boil over in the latter than inthe former. The cvanid, after being weighed, may be put into paper A o A B O 0 c o o o o D O 0 Fig. 3.—Plan for schedule board,showing convenient arrange-ment: A, space for resting lan-tern temporarily; B, scratchpad; C, dosage table; D, dia-gram of grov^. (Original.) I Plate IV.
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Fig. 1.—Commissary Tray: Open Compartment Tin Lined1 for Cyanid at Right,Balances and Torch in the Middle, Compartment for Acid Pitchers andGlass Graduate at Left. Fig. 2.—Top of Derrick. Showing Method ofAttaching Pulley and Guy Rope. Fig. 3.—Base of Derrick, Showing Methodof Constructing Braces. Original.- KLLANKOUH HI Ql M:i Ml 28 or into bin cans, or if ma) be emptied directl) from the scoopmto the generating jar, \ spade or shovel should be on hand foruse whenever it is necessary to weight down the ed i of the tent l>\a lew Bhovelfula t earth and also for use in burying the contentthe jars. A. copy of the table of dosage required for the white fly andround in the appendix of this bulletin mould always l> on hand. Aconvenient arrangement for handling the diagram ! tin- grove andthe dosage table when fumi is illustrated bj figure 3. This represents ;i board upon which the position for Betting the lanterntemporarily, and the positions for attaching diagram of the

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