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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



way to judge which of these machines will best 

 perform the work is to be governed by the ver- 

 dicts of users of them, or those who see both 

 makes in actual operation. 



To decide which is the cheapest is to learn 

 which is most capable of making the covering 

 capacity of the mixtures the greatest, accom- 

 plishing the greatest amount of work in the 

 shortest time (thus reducing expense for time 

 of help and team) and with the smallest 

 amount of help, and then take into account 

 their original cost and make comparisons. 

 When this has been done correctly the point 

 of which produces the most paying results will 

 have been met and decided. 



First, let me inform every reader of this 

 article that Wallace Power Sprayers are not in 

 the same class as the Little Giant. They are 

 strictly air compressors, and are the only ma- 

 chines of that class now being sold or exten- 

 sively used in Canada or having a resident re- 

 presentative here. They are leaders, and are 

 so far ahead of such combinations as the Little 

 Giant that the latter will have a long lap to 

 cover in catching up. I intend to use, as much 

 as I can, Canadian made trucks and tanks in 

 mounting the 4-wheelers. and to make here in 

 Canada many of the attachments for their vari- 

 ous uses. We furnish these in sufficient variety 

 to enable our customers to spray most thor- 

 oughly two grape row sides " at the same 

 time " (this has been done by some of them 

 with my own make of grape spars on the 

 " Standard " machines during the past season, 

 and I am credited with having the best design 

 extant. I intend to further improve it for next 

 year's work), or two rows of anything else that 

 grows in the bushy row form, or four rows and 

 upward of strawberries, potatoes, tobacco, etc., 

 or twelve feet and upward in width when 

 spraying to kill mustard, etc., and tree spars, 

 which make it possible for one man to handle 

 both the levers and spar and thoroughly spray 

 largest apple trees without halting from start 

 to finish of each row in doing the work. All 

 he requires is a boy to drive the team for him. 

 We design our own fixtures and improve them 

 as we find necessary or of use to our custom- 

 ers. W^e will also get up for them any special 

 arrangement of nozzles their work demands, 

 and we guarantee every machine. 



The Little Giant has not, and never had any- 

 thing worth our while to attempt to copy or 

 " imitate." My opinion is that this boot is on 

 the left foot. At some of the fairs at which 

 both of us were present I found this man mak- 

 ing very close examinations of our "Junior" 

 and " Duplex " machines. As these machines 

 and their various improvements are protected 

 by patents I trust his rashness will not lead 

 him into attempting to adopt some of our pat- 

 terns. The demand for Wallace Power Spray- 

 ers is such that the company have had to buy 

 more yard and store room and enlarge their 

 factory to cover one acre more. 



Regarding Mr. E. D. Smith, let me say that 

 he not only possesses a Little Giant, but also 

 a Spramotor and a Wallace " Standard." He 



uses the first named for nursery stock only, 

 the Spramotor for vineyard work, and the 

 " Standard " for all his heavy orchard work, of 

 which he has a sufficient acreage to keep it 

 steadily going during the spraying season. On 

 receipt of request I will forward any of your 

 readers a 20-inch circular on which will be 

 found Mr. Smith's commendations of our ma- 

 chines and those of a number of others who 

 own and use them here in Canada and some in 

 the United States. On it, also, will be found a 

 number of hard facts regarding our machines 

 and other useful information along the same 

 line. A postcard will bring it. 



Regarding Toronto Fair. I happened to be a 

 visitor there and saw other power sprayers 

 than the Little Giant, and when I passed both 

 exhibits the other exhibitors seemed to have 

 " won more friends " by three times the num- 

 ber I saw around the latter. To a group of 

 my acquaintances who interviewed the Little 

 Giant man, he stated that a Mr. Orr said that 

 he would give his present possessions in the 

 line of sprayers for a Little Giant. My query 

 is why he did not make the deal. Let us see. 

 Mr. Orr and Mr. R. H. Dewar own both a Spra- 

 motor and a Wallace " Standard." (In my cir- 

 cular will be found an extract from their letter 

 also.) Are we to infer that this man consid- 

 ered these machines too risky to venture his 

 cash in ? Here is Mr. Orr's reply to my ques- 

 tions regarding this: "It is utterly false. I 

 made no such offer to any one: I am not quite 

 so foolish. It is the veriest nonsense. It oc- 

 curs to me that I met this man on the car one 

 day and he gave me a glowing representation 

 of the capabilities of his machine, the correct- 

 ness of which I have yet to see verified. I may 

 have said that I would give a good deal for a 

 machine that would do all that he claimed for 

 his, but I made no offer whatever. I have yet 

 to be convinced regarding his machine." My 

 own personal opinion leads me to view him as 

 leaning too readily toward this style of talk. 

 It is also strengthened by the fact that 

 I personally overheard him making use 

 of a statement in a manner calculated 

 to make a most damaging impression re- 

 garding our machines, and my advice to 

 him and the writer of the statements 

 herein complained of is to comb down some- 

 what and be content with plain modest truth 

 in regard to his representations of both his 

 own and other makes of machines even if he 

 does not wish to accord toward the latter the 

 spirit of common fairness nor cares how he 

 jeopardizes his own public reputation for 

 veracity and the common self-respect possessed 

 by all honorable dealers in so doing. In so 

 far as I am personally concerned, his blustera- 

 tions carry no weight nor cause me the least 

 concern, because I am too well aware as to 

 how much he knows about the whole spraying 

 business, and how much he has yet to learn 

 regarding it. I also estimate that the ma- 

 jority will very quickly learn the same things. 



My object in dealing at all wich this matter 

 is as at first stated— I do not care to see the 



