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Two rows cabbages 



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Buy a good spray-pump (there are several good ones which sell 

 for about ten dollars), mount it in a fifty-gallon barrel and place 

 the barrel on some kind of a cart, which is to be hauled along the 

 open spaces by one horse. The heavy, two-wheeled, dunup carts 

 used by market gardeners will answer this purpose very well. 

 The horse walks between the cabbage rows and the wheels which 

 are about six feet apart, run between the cabbages and the out- 

 side rows of cucumbers. From the spray-pump let a lead of hose 

 several feet in length extend on either side. At the end of each 

 lead of hose attach a piece of gas-pipe* about eight feet in length 

 and carrying at its extremity two or more spraying nozzles. The 

 two-discharge and three-discharge Vermorel nozzlesf are as good 

 as any. 



Three men will be required to operate the sprayer — one to drive 

 aud work the pump and one on either side to manage the nozzles. 

 A fourth man and a team can, with advantage, be used to haul 

 water and prepare the Bordeaux mixture. If the strips each con- 



•What Is known as the bamboo extension rod will serve the same purpose admirably. 

 tFor sale by the Gould Manufacturing Co., 16 Murray St., New York City. 



