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using copper sulphate solution, tliat one spraying will do much toward 

 reducing the injury. I always si>ray for leaf-curl at that time, and then 

 spray the trees again, soon after they blossom, using Bordeaux mixture 

 and Paris green. 



Mr. Morrill : With nearly everyone who has a large amount of spray- 

 ing to do, this matter of getting the lime into proper form has caused 

 as much harsh language as anything connected with it, and the idea has 

 been prevalent that we should strain it through something cheap, and it 

 has been recommended that we use burlaj). Burlap has considerable 

 loose lint, it is an imperfect strainer at best, and it clogs nozzles and 

 strainers, and a few of those things have caused a great deal of trouble. 

 In our own work we use this (exhibiting a large funnel) and it can be 

 made by any tinner. Use a twenty-four-mesh wire cloth and a copper or 

 brass strainer, and then none of your materials can affect it; and when 

 it has gone through there, not only jour material is strained, but every- 

 thing that will affect the jjump is taken out. 



Q. You strain the mixtures before they are put together, don't you? 

 A. I strain them right into my spraying tank. 



Q. You don't put the lime with the sulphate first thing, do you? You 

 strain them each separately? 



A. My plan is to mix my stock solutions. I mix my stock solutions 

 stronger than does Prof. Taft. I use a pound to a gallon. Then we put 

 into our tank the regulation amount; although I use four and four to fifty^ 

 it makes a safe solution, and it has been perfectly effectual with me. 

 In a fifty-gallon cask we dissolve fifty pounds of copper sulphate and in 

 another slake fifty pounds of lime. We find in straining it that there is a 

 great deal of waste, but we make sure of enough lime. Then we strain one 

 of the stocks into the tank, filling up with water, and then the other stock 

 is strained into the tank, in this way preventing the curdling of the mix- 

 tures. When it comes to the nozzle, those little soft lumps will bother; 

 but by proper straining, and a little care in not straining the two stocks 

 together without plenty of water, this can be avoided. This curdling we 

 have found very troublesome, as it will pass the strainers and prove 

 troublesome in the nozzle. 



