POWEE SPEAYING 



BY 



W. A. McKINNON, B. A. 



CHIEF FRUIT DIVISION, OTTAWA. 



Fig. 2686. 



Gasoline Power Sprayer used at 

 Ingersoll. 



WHOEVER has watched the trend 

 of events in the fruit growing 

 sections of the United States 

 must be struck with the advent of power 

 spraying as one of the routine operations on 

 the farm. The many difficulties which at- 

 tend spraying by hand are so well known \.o 



the readers of the Horticulturist that hey 

 need not be enumerated. It is also well 

 known that the great bulk of Canada's ex- 

 port fruit comes from small orchards where 

 the difficulties referred to are greatest, and 

 where the inducement to the owner to over- 

 come them is least. With these facts in 

 mind the Minister of Agriculture last spring 

 authorized the carrying out of some experi- 

 ments by the Fruit Division with a view to 

 demonstrating the advantages of power 

 spraying over the old method. These ex- 

 periments were highly successful from the 

 operators' point of view. It was found pos- 

 sible to cover twice the acreage in a day that 



Fig, 2687. Steam Power Sprayer used at 

 McKinnon's, Grimsby. 



Fig. 2688. Power Sprayer used on Farm of^ 

 J. C. Harris, Ingersoll, Ont. 



could have been attended to with hand 

 pumps. In some cases the difference was 

 even more marked. These experiments, 

 which were carried on in the neighborhood 

 of Woodstock, and on the Island of Mont- 

 real, proved extremely successful in elimi- 

 nating fungous diseases. Facts and figures 



