FUMIGATION DOSAGE CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780282820084 Géneros: TB Sinópsis: Excerpt from Fumigation DosagePractical fumigators in California have been notoriously at variance with each other in their estimation Of the dose Of cyanide required for a tent Of any given Size They all uniformly claim that they endeavor to place under each tent all that can be used with safety to the tree Those using the larger dosage Often claim that the others are not using enough and these on the other hand usually maintain that under their local conditions a larger dosage ls impossible without 1njury The common method employed by fumigators to verify the correctness Of their estimates is to examine the orchards the day after fumigation and they are satisfied if here and there Slight traces of injury to foliage can be seenIt was supposed by us that these differences Of practice among fumi gators were really justified by the facts and the present investigation was undertaken to determine and record the best practice of the various regions One would naturally expect that after all these years there Would have come to be certain recognizable standards based upon practical experienceFor the purpose of determining the actual practice Mr J S Hunter was sent into the field and Spent nearly two months visiting practically every fumigation outfit Operating in the State making measurements Of the tented trees and recording the doses assigned to them In this way we have secured dosage and measurements of trees representing the judgment of thirty fumigatorsThe data thus Obtained have failed to indicate that the practical experience has resulted in a satisfactory solution of the problems of dosage We have found as Will be Shown below that the judgment of all the fumigators is thoroughly unreliable It is doubtless a physical impossibility to guess with any degree of accuracy the capacity Of a tentAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenboo