INDIANA HOETICULTURAI. SOCIETY. 3ll 



We find that some of the most, favorable days for spraying is when the 

 mercury is down to about zero somewhere. The question is how to spray 

 under that temperature. I will tell you how we solved that problem, and 

 I do not care how cold it is, we spray right along. 



We made another connection with the boiler and put in hose so that 

 we turned the steam directly into the tanlj— the way that is constructed, 

 the excess steam goes through the tank in order to keep the material 

 warm. We cut that out entirely and attached the hose directly to the 

 boiler, so we can put them now right in the tank, and we can have three 

 hundred gallons of mixture boiling, if we want it; and not only that, but 

 in the morning we would bring the four tanks right along with the same 

 boiler, and we heated the mixture in all of those tanks so we could use it. 



But there is another problem that has an awful sight to do with spray- 

 ing, both with the efiiciency of it and the expense of it, and I do not 

 know whether we are going to be able to do much with it or not, and 

 that is the wind. Some of the recommendations regarding spraying you 

 see so much of, read very nicely. It is very easy to spray if you can get 

 a room like this is to spray in, where there is no wind at all. That is a 

 very easy matter; but if the wind is blowing hard it is not so easy. You 

 go out some morning and attempt to spray when the winds are going 

 anywhere from fifteen to seventy miles and hour, and you will find that 

 the mist that is spoken of is a good deal of a myth; spraying with a 

 heavy wind blowing is not a very easy matter, that is, 1 mean effectual 

 spraying. To do good, eflicient work when the wind is blowing requires 

 exceedingly good assistants. It adds greatly to the expense. It will make 

 a difference of fifty per cent, in the cost of the spraying— I mean effectual 

 spraying— between a calm day with very little wind and a windy day. 



As I told you, we have to spray the peach trees in the spring. There 

 are only about ten days or two weeks when we can spray the bearing 

 peach trees. Sometimes during those two weeks the wind blows more 

 continually than any other week in the year; for that reason our spraying 

 has been somewhat expensive. This problem, if it can be, should be solved 

 by somebody, but I am free to confess that we are a good deal puzzled 

 to know how to go to work to overcome, even in part, the effect of the 

 wind on our spraying. * 



We have overcome the effects of the temperature, and we can keep the 

 mixture so warm that it keeps the hands of the men warm who are 

 handling the hose. I presume the steam sprayer is new to the most of 

 you, but I believe that with some improvement that will be just about the 

 thing that will be wanted; then you educate the man to spray and spray 

 right, and give him a certificate or a license, or whatever it may be, then 

 he can buy a machine and go to work and take his contracts to do 

 spraying. It is his business to do it at the proper time. You don't have 

 to have that on your mind at all. That is his business to do it at the proper 

 time and do it as it ought to be done. As soon as you have got trained 



