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arate as readily as when made by the Cahfornia method. In conversing 

 with J. H. Hale some time since he told me that he had sprayed 60,000 

 peach trees in his Georgia orchards with oil with success; he ran six 

 pumps, but kept an expert with the pumps and tested each' one of them 

 every fifteen minutes to maintain the solution of proper proportions. 

 His neighbors not exercising these precautions, lost their trees bv tlic 

 tlTOUsands. In Mr. Hale's Connecticut orchards he used the lime, salt 

 and sulphur wash and the oil, and was so pleased with the results of the 

 lime, salt and sulphur wash that in the future he will use nothing else. 

 He purchased three carloads of sulphur last week for his spraying pur- 

 poses this spring, 



"I have a neighbor who last spring had the finest six-year-old peach 

 orchard I ever looked at. there was some scale in it. He procured a 

 pump, applied oil 20 per cent, and he has badly injured the orchard. 

 He tells me that there are places in that orchard where he has lost two 

 dozen trees in a single block. The danger of using the oil has left a sad 

 impress with him. No one doubts Mr. Hale's success as a fruit grower. 

 He says the greatest blessing he has ever received as a horticulturist was 

 the San Jose scale, because it taught him the use of the lime, salt and 

 sulphur wash, which was a great fungicide as well as a perfect insecti- 

 cide. My Elberta peaches the past season from the sprayed trees were 

 one week later in ripening than any in the Wyoming peach section, be- 

 cause of the vigorous growth and heavy foliage caused by the beneficial 

 effect of this wash." 



A member : "What is the cost of your spraying outfit ?" 



Mr. Brown : "My outfit cost about $38, myself and four sons do 

 the mixing of the wash and apply it. We have but one aim, and that is 

 thoroughness. We cover about 1,000 seven-year-old peach trees daily. 

 There was an exhibit of almost every style of spraying outfit manu- 

 factured in the United States at the late Fruit Growers' meetins: at 

 Geneva, N. Y., and as we are looking for power sprayers. I examined 

 tliem with considerable care. I find four methods by which to appl}' 

 power to our sprayers. The gasoline or steam engine, of which the 

 'Fairbanks' seems the most complete. The traction method of pro- 

 ducing air pressure, 'The Compressed Air Sprayers,' and the 'Niagara 

 Gas Sprayer,' the two latter doing away with the use of pumps ; in the 

 Niagara Gas Sprayer the carbonite of soda is the source of power. ' This ' 

 is the cheapest and from experiments has proven eminently successful. 

 It is worthy of trial before investing in the more costly devices." 



A member: "How many trees will that one barrel of 60 gallons 

 cover ?" 



Mr. Brown : "That depends entirely upon the size of the tree. We 

 used in one orchard of 5-year-old peach trees of large growth, i^ gallons 



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