Fumigation of Fresh Fruit to Destroy the Adult Japanese Beetle (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0365488046
- ISBN-13
- 9780365488040
- Pages
- 38
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-03-24
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Max Raymond Osburn
Description
Excerpt from Fumigation of Fresh Fruit to Destroy the Adult Japanese Beetle It was found that when adult Japanese beetles were exposed for 2 hours to the vapor of 1 pound Of ethylene oxide to cubic feet Of space, 90 percent Of them were killed at a temperature Of 65° F 96 percent at and 100 percent at One pound for 1 hour killed 54 percent at 75° and 93 percent at When ethylene oxide was used at the rate of 2 pounds per cubic feet, 96 percent of the beetles were destroyed at the end of 1 hour at a temperature Of 7 5° and all of the beetles were destroyed when the temperature was 80° or the period of exposure was 2 hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
