No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 399 



DR. FUNK: Forty-four pounds of lime, thirty-five pounds of sul- 

 phur and fifteen of salt to the hundred gallons. I think we will 

 have to leave the salt out in the treatment of the peach; the peach 

 is very susceptible. I just had a gentleman come to me this morn- 

 ing who told me that he was recommended to apply the lime, sul- 

 phur and salt, and he used it in the proportion of 22, 10 and 50 and 

 he said it not only destroyed the buds, but on all the young trees 

 that were planted last, it destroyed the terminals back anywhere 

 from six inches to a foot. In the trees that have been growing for 

 about two years, it has not injured the terminals but has destroyed 

 the buds in nearly all of these 



I have found that where I sprayed in the beginning — -I have 

 found that some of the terminals there, are injured by the lime, sul- 

 phur and salt so that I would advise leaving the salt out in peaches. 

 I believe it preferable to leave the trees without spraying until the 

 buds begin to expand. 



The SECRETARY: I would like to know whether your apparatus 

 is portable. 



DR. FUNK: No, most of my fixtures, except the spraying outfit 

 itself, are stationary. You see I have a fifteen-horsepower boiler 

 which is stationary, and different series of platforms. Here is 

 the driveway, for instance (indicating), and here is the first platform; 

 that would be seven and a half feet high; there is a wide platform 

 on which the mixing tanks are placed; that is three feet and a half 

 above, and here is a longer platform (indicating) where the cooking 

 tanks are; back of that is the boiler which creates the steam by 

 means of which it is cooked, through the distribution of steam 

 through pipes. Then it is run into the mixing tank and there di- 

 luted; everything is done by gravity; it is diluted to the consistency 

 we want, from there it is run by gravity again through pipes into 

 the tank on the wagon; that is closed, and then we use the carbon- 

 dioxide — doing away with all pumping, no pumps used at all. 



The SECRETARY: Have you ever seen an apparatus that is por- 

 table or could be made portable that would answer the purpose just 

 as well? You have my thought. I want to know of something that 

 we can get around with to show the people how it can be done suc- 

 cessfully. 



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DR. FUNK: Certainly it can be; this spraying apparatus can be 

 be put on two wheels, a fifty gallon size that ran be pulled anywhere 

 with one horse, or put on a two horse wagon, and you can have it 

 placed so that you can put the kettles upon it in such a way as to 

 make it practicable. 



There is another matter of importance that I want to mention. 1 

 believe that thejnajority of* people understand or arc instructed to 

 slack their lime and strain if before it is put in to boil; that is cer- 

 tainly wrong. I speak of it for this reason, when you put that in 

 to boil, you will get only a little over 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Now 

 you will understand that yon must get — when you put the lime in, 

 you get an increase of heat that will run over three hundred de- 

 grees, which you will never get if you firs) slack your lime and then 



