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serviceable than any other material that can be used. They have 

 to be handled with greater care however, in being taken apart, be- 

 cause of the softness of the metal. 



Outfits similar to this one are put out by Collard & Newing, Albion, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. J. B. Collamer of Hilton, N. Y., has an outfit (Fig. 40) having 

 a common wagon truck with high wheels both before and behind 

 and broad tires. The tank holds about 270 gallons and cost $22. 

 The agitator is a screw agitator geared to the wheel. The outfit is 

 not set on bed pieces but has semi-circular bolsters for the tank to 

 rest in. This is required by the fact that the wheels are high and the 

 outfit could not be turned readily if there were bed pieces close to the 

 wheels. The pump is the Union steam pump and the boiler the Little 

 Giant. The latter is set on a platform swung from the hind axle. 

 The outfit weighs 2100 pounds and three horses are used on it. 



Mr. W. I. Smith of Hilton has a one-and-one-half horse-power 

 water-tube boiler, which is an unusual type for use in spraying out- 

 fits. In this type the water is in the tubes and the fire is on top of 

 and around them. The boiler weighs only 206 pounds. It was made 

 originally for an automobile and cost $50. It can be fired up very 

 rapidly, a pressure of 50 to 100 pounds being obtainable in eight 

 minutes. lUit the pressure goes down equally quick and the boiler 

 has to be fired every five minutes. It also cost more than do other 

 boilers. 



Mr. T. B. Wilson of Halls Corners, N. Y., has an outfit (Fig. 41) 

 consisting of a large upright cylindrical tank with a steam engine 

 just in front of it, both mounted on a common farm wagon. Two 

 lines of hose are used. Instead of a tower it is furnished with a seat 

 fixed on top of the tank for the two men who handle the nozzles. 

 The power spraying apparatus is from the Rochester Machine Tool 

 Works. It consists of a one-horse power engine with one-and-a-half 

 horse-power boiler, together with a small steaiu pump having a 



