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BETTER FRUIT 



An oust 



Better Cultivation 

 11: Better Fruit 



The Baby Caterpillar 



Tractor will cultivate 

 your orchard with- 

 out packing the soil. 

 The moist- 

 *^ ure is kept 

 in the ground; 

 the loose mulch 

 is saved. The long, wide 

 Caterpillar tracks distrib- 

 ute the weight so that the pressure to the square 

 inch is less than that of a horse or the average man. 







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Cannot Pack the Soil 



Handles easily. 

 Turns short from row to row 

 Works close to fences and 

 corners. 



Only 58 inches high without 



canopy. 

 Works close up under the trees. 

 Doesn't injure the branches. 



The Baby Caterpillar is guaranteed to do the work of 

 14 average horses — and yet it takes only one man to handle it. 

 It will haul your fruit to market, plow, dig ditches and build 

 roads; it will furnish power for sawing, threshing, grinding 

 and all sorts of stationary work. It is an all round tractor for 

 general farm use — absolutely practical; has paid for itself 

 many times over for others. It will do the same for you. 



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the non-alkali metals, being insoluble 

 in water, form a curd and are of no 

 value as detergents or for spraying. A 

 familiar instance of this kind is the 

 "curdling of water" when soap is put 

 into hard water. The hardness of wa- 

 ter is usually due to some soluble salt 

 of lime or magnesia, and when these 

 come in contact with the soluble soap 

 the insoluble lime or magnesia soap is 

 formed and is the "curd" of hard 

 wafers. 



Soaps-Liiiu'-Sulphur. — The "curdling" 

 of hard waters just alluded to is pre- 

 cisely the same kind of a change that 

 takes place when soap is added to lime- 

 sulphur solution. An insoluble lime 

 soap is formed that destroys the use- 

 fulness of the mixture. Practically all 

 of the sulphur will be thrown out of a 

 lime-sulphur solution by this treat- 

 ment. The new compounds are not 

 especially dangerous to use, but are apt 

 to clog the spraying apparatus and the 

 sulphur is no longer evenly distributed 

 throughout the liquid. 



Emulsions - Lime - .Sulphur. — If the 

 emulsion is a soap emulsion the soap 

 of the emulsion will be broken up, as 

 in the case of lime-sulphur, and the 

 emulsion destroyed, setting free the oil 

 and precipitating the sulphur. There is 

 lirescnt the jiossibility of foliage in- 

 jury, due to the uneven distribution of 

 the oil. 



Soap-Iron Sufid. Soap Emulsions- 

 Iron Sulfid. — The two combinations 

 above are incompatible for much the 

 same reasons as are the two previous 

 ones, but to a lesser degree. 



Tobacco-Lime-Sulphur. — Compatible. 



Tobacco-Iron Sulfid. — Compatible. 



This com])letes the discussion of the 

 main part of the table. For convenient 

 reference, however, the general effect 

 of the alkalies and acids upon the 

 various remedies is also indicated and 

 will be gone over rapidly. This part of 

 the table is given with the idea that it 

 may be of service as a warning against 

 some mistakes that might very easily 

 be made, such as pouring lime-sulphur 

 into an "empty" vinegar barrel or 

 working up acid lead arsenate in a pot 

 in which there is left tlie remains of 

 the last liatch of soap. 



The Effect of Acids on the Fungicides 

 Bordeaux. — The common acids (with 

 the exception of carbonic acid) dis- 

 solves the precipitated co])])er of bor- 

 deaux mixture. 



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