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Stays on just as well with the tree dry as if wet with dew. So 

 that the weather conditions with dusting are no different than 

 with spraying. But it has this one advantage, that you can 

 dust ten times as fast as you can spray. You are not a slave 

 to the weather. If it takes you two weeks to cover your or- 

 chard with a blossoming period of ten days, you have got to 

 hustle. On the other hand, if you go out and do that same 

 work in one or two days, you can choose your weather very 

 much easier than you can when you have to go out and cover 

 them with the sprayers. 



Mr. Sw^EETSER : Can you buy these dusters on the market ^. 



Mr. Mitchell: Yes, these dusters are for sale. Would 

 anybody like the names of the companies? 



Mr. Yeaton : I think we all would. 



Mr. Mitchell: The Dust Sprayer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, or better still, William L. Terhune, Waterville, N. Y., is 

 the agent for the Kansas City duster. The Niagara Sprayer 

 Company at Middleport, N. Y., puts out a complete line ot 

 dusters and dust. The cost of these dusters is $95 for the large 

 duster which takes about three and one-half horse power engine 

 to run it; $45 for the medium sized duster, takes about a two- 

 horse power engine to run ; and $25 for a little hand duster. 

 With a little hand duster on young trees, not over ten years 

 old, you can do very satisfactory work. I might say that on 

 hillsides, or with soft land in the spring, the duster will prove 

 a great boon, because you can put it on a stone boat or a very 

 low wagon and go almost anywhere with it. The duster 

 weighs, I think, about 250 pounds. Two of us, I know, lift 

 the duster on and off the wagon w^ithout any trouble ; and the 

 weight of the engine will vary according to the kind of engine 

 you have. But the weight of materials for dust working for 

 a day's work is only about 500 pounds. Load your wagon 

 with 500 pounds of dust and it will keep you going nearly a 

 day. 



Question : What kind of an engine do you use ? 



Mr. Mitchell: I have a Sears-Roebuck engine. I have 

 had a great many engines and pumps ; but I have a Sears- 

 Roebuck economy engine and a Lucas pump sold by that com- 

 pany. 



