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that have home orchards of an average nature, just the average farm 

 orchard, who is not able or willing to buy spraying machines of the 150- 

 gallon capacity, or the 250-gallon capacity that Mr. Duncan spoke of, and 

 I think we should give some consideration to the average farm orchard 

 in talking about these spraying things. We are not all commercial or- 

 chardists. If we were, the country would be flooded with cheap orchard- 

 ists, and we would have to go out of business, and go to raising corn and 

 farm products. Now I wish somebody would tell why and what sort of a 

 spraying machine, a cheap spraying machine, for instance a farmer who 

 has 100 apple trees can use. He won't go and buy one of those great big 

 machines, and he can not afford to. Now, I wish somebody would tell 

 what sort of a little spraying machine, a farmer should have, an up-to-date 

 farmer, who wants to raise fruit that is not wormy. What sort of a thing 

 he should have for spraying. Who makes it and what it costs. 



Mr. Duncan: Do you mean to have the name of the manufacturer or 

 do you wish the price and such as that put on the record? 



Mr. Yeager: Certainly, tell us who makes these things, and ap- 

 proximately what they cost. 



A. Approximately, well, there are several. There are hand pumps 

 that cost from $5 to $20, and there are hand pumps a little larger, and 

 power pumps at from $20 to $75. These small ones would be suited to the 

 man who has forty to fifty trees, and they will maintain a pressure of 

 from 100 to 175 pounds, and the larger size will maintain as good a 

 pressure as the power pumps costing $200 to $275. There are two or 

 three companies, Morley & Morley of Benton Harbor, Mich., makes a 

 good hand pump; the Myers Spray Pump Company, of Ashland, O., and 

 the Deming Pump Company of Salem, O., also make good pumps. There 

 are several horticultural papers that any growers can get this informa- 

 tion in. They carry advertisements of these machines. 



Roy E. Marshall: I had some experience with several hand pumps 

 last summer, and the one that impressed me the most was the Myers 

 pump with two cylinders, and that had a handle that we could push back 

 and forth something like a washing machine, and with which we are able 

 to get a pressure of from 150 to 200 pounds. We had two leads of hose 

 on it, and it seems to me this type of sprayer answers the purpose of the 

 small orchardists with up to 400 or 500 trees. We are able to cover from 

 125 to 150 trees a day, and where the water was hauled in a ten-barrel 

 water tank, it was set in about the middle of the orchard. I do not know 

 another pump we have had experience with that we could recommend so 

 highly for what it has done for us. 



The Chairman: The next number on our program is by Prof. Beach 

 on "Pedigreed Nursery Stock." 



