Excerpt from Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1926A method was developed for testing cherries as received at the factory to determine the amount of infestation by maggots. By means of this method it is possible for factory managers to ascertain the percentage of cherries that contain maggots in each delivery and to refuse those offerings which are unfit to pack. As a result, the cherries packed during the last sea son were far more free from these pests than the packs of previous years.A process was developed and a ma chine devised for removing maggots from blueberries, a very serious pest in Maine. The total value of the pack has been estimated at from to and it is believed that the machine devised for eliminating the maggots was responsible for saving a large proportion of the crop.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.