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lines of spraying apparatus. In return printed matter was received 

 from the firms named below : 



E. C. Brown & Co, Rochester, N. Y. 



Dust Sprayer Mfg. Co., 510 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. 



Deming Co., Salem, O. 



W. & B. Douglas, Middletown, Conn. 



Field Force Pump Co., Elmira, N. Y. 



Friend Mfg. Co., Gasport, N. Y. 



J. F. Gaylord, Catskill, N. Y. 



Goulds Mfg. Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y. 



Hardie Spray Pump Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. 



H. W. Henry, LaPorte, Ind. 



Hillis Dust Spray Mfg. Co., McFall, Mo. 



Leggett & Bros., New York. 



J. J. Kiser, Stanberry, Mo. 



Morrill & Morley, Benton Harbor, Mich. 



F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, O. 

 Niagara Spraying Co., Middleport, N. Y. 

 Pierce-Loop Sprayer Co., Northeast, Pa. 



Rochester Machine Tool Works, Ltd., Rochester, N. Y. 



Rippley Hardware Co., Grafton, 111. 



D. B. Smith & Co., Utica, N. Y. 



Spramotor Co., London, Ont., and Buffalo, N. Y. 



Wm. Stahl, Quincy, 111. 



Wallace Machinery Co., Champaign, 111. 



R. B. Williamson, Clifton Springs, N. Y. 



THE ELEMENTS OF A SPRAYING OUTFIT. 



In discussing the subject of spraying outfits it will be convenient 

 to consider the elements of which such outfits may consist under 

 the .separate headings of pumps, nozzles, agitators, extension rods, 

 hose, strainers or " separators," crop-sprayer attachments, tov/ers, 

 trucks and tanks. 



PUMPS. 



A spray pump has certain peculiarities which distinguish it from 

 pumps in general. The most important one is that the working parts 

 should be entirely of brass or certain kinds of bronze or some othei 

 substance which the spray liquids do not corrode, or should at least 

 be covered with such metal, since bordeaux mixture attacks the more 



