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SPRAYING MACHINERY. 



The treatment of orchards requires machinery adapted to the purpose, 

 if it is to be performed profitably. While a small bucket pump will enable 

 one to spray a few small trees in the home garden, it does not do satisfac- 

 tory work in large orchards, and for this purpose some of the more power- 

 ful barrel or tank pumps should be used. These should have large air 

 chambers, which will enable them to throw even and continuous streams, 

 and if the pump handle is geared to the wagon wheel extensive orchards 

 can be sprayed very quickly and with but slight expense for labor. 



Frequent inquiries are received as to the best pump for orchard 

 spraying, and to afford such information as is in our possession, upon this 

 subject, we have concluded to insert illustrations and descriptions of some 

 of the pumps and nozzles which we can recommend from our trials of 

 them. The firms manufacturing them are some of the largest and best 

 known in the country and will be found entirely reliable. The prices 

 quoted are net for a single pump, but when three or more pumps are 

 ordered at one time we have made arrangements with the firms by which 

 a discount of fifteen to twenty-five per cent, will be given if the cash is 

 sent with the order. If several farmers in a neighborhood club together 

 and send in an order, from two to four dollars can be saved upon each 

 pump. 



Among the latest candidates for public favor in the pump line are the 

 Eclipse and Eureka spray pumps made by the Morrill & Morley Co. of 

 Benton Harbor, Mich. The former pump is shown in Fig. 51. It is made 

 in two styles. One has all its parts, except the handle, of brass, while the 

 other has brass cylinder, piston, and valves, with the remaining parts of 

 iron. The first style sells at retail for $20, while the latter costs but 

 $10. As will be seen, this pump stands low down in the barrel, so that 

 there is but slight danger of its tipping over. It is also at such a 

 height that it can be readily worked. The valves and plunger being 

 of solid brass, without rubber or leather packing, the inventors claim 

 that it will be much more durable and that there will be none of the 

 vexatious delays that are so common with many of the other pumps. 

 Being immersed in the spraying material, there is no necessity for a stuff- 

 ing-box, which is a necessary part of most of the other pumps, and which 

 causes a considerable increase in the friction if tight, or allow the liquid to 

 spurt out upon the man at the handle when loose. 



The power is applied at the downward stroke, making it easier than in 

 most pumps, while the small rod from the end of the handle works an agi- 

 tator, which is quite efficient in keeping the material in suspension. 



Another good feature of this pump is that the sliding plate which rests 

 upon the top of the barrel allows the instant adjustment of the pump to any 

 size of barrel or tank. While the brass pump is particularly desirable for 

 the use of the clear solutions of copper sulphate, the heavy iron castings 

 used in the combination pump will make it quite durable. 



The Eureka is similar to the combination Eclipse except that it has two 

 cylinders, which together have the same capacity as the single cylinder of 

 the Eclipse. It has no agitator and requires an equal power upon both 

 strokes. A larger-size pump of the Eureka pattern has long brake han- 

 dles and two agitators. It can throw two large or four small streams and 

 is adapted to work in large orchards. 



