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the price of a spraying outfit right then and there. A few bushels more to 

 a tree then will pay for the whole outfit in one year. We paid S150.00 for 

 this outfit, just simply the tank and the spraying rods and nozzles and hose 

 attachments. There are other machines that are good. We like this one. 

 I examined it in New York when I was there. We bought it and we have 

 been well pleased with it this year. While I know some others have had 

 trouble, and possibly we may have trouble in the future, we are well satisfied 

 and feel it has done us good service. 



Mr. Farnsworth: I would like to inquire if any members have had trouble 

 in turning on the gas. Last spring I bought such an outfit as Mr. Rowe 

 has. When they brought the 100-gallon size to us, it seemed too small, 

 and we bought a couple and connected them together. But every time 

 we tried them we would pull them back into the shed and take out the two 

 old Wallace machines. They have been a dismal failure. I know many 

 who have splendid success with them. It encourages me to try again, 

 hearing your success. I notified the company and Mr. Brown agreed to 

 come to my place and stay until the machine worked. We are not altogether 

 greenhorns in the use of spraying machines, because I was perhaps about 

 the first in Ohio to spray, and my foreman is an expert; my brother across 

 the way has an outfit and is very handy with machinery; and none of us 

 could succeed with it. 



A Member: The gas would freeze up. In turning it on oftentimes the 

 drums would be half full and sometimes empty entirely. I am not con- 

 demning the machine, but I must say we will not undertake to use it next 

 year unless we can have a little more demonstration between now and then, 

 because if we had depended on it this year we would have lost our entire 

 crop. 



Q. What was the expense per gallon? 



A. We did not average 500 gallons from the 55 pounds of gas. We bought 

 it later in the season. My brother took one of his singly and used it for 

 spraying potatoes, and had no better success then. He didn't get out over 

 500 gallons with the drum. 



Mr. Kingsley: Perhaps there is a difference between Cincinnati and 

 Chicago gas. In regard to coupling together; that may have something 

 to do with it. I say there would be a weak point there; I told my man in 

 setting them up that would be the danger, and we fortified that. So we 

 had no trouble with that; but I think that might have had something to 

 do with the filling of them. 

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