Tools ajid Conveniences of the Year. 



277 



valve B, a quick and neat fumigation is secured. — A. H. 



Lange, in American Florist, v. 

 336. 



Spraying Outfit. — Bulletin 

 18, Cornell University Experi- 

 ment Station, describes and fig- 

 ures a convenient wheel-barrow 

 tank for use in spraying bushes 

 and other small plants. 



Fumigating Box. — (Fig. 74.) 

 ''There is a piece of zinc in the 

 bottom of the box, to prevent 

 its taking fire from dropping of 

 coals. On this set three flower 

 pots, and on these the pan con- 

 taining the leaves [of tobacco]. 

 The pan should have a hole in 

 it the size of an Q^g, to give suf- 

 . ficient draught so that the leaves 

 will be all consumed." A shelf 

 above the fumes holds the plants 

 to be treated. — America?! Agriculturist, ^4. 



Gopher Trap. — (Fig. -jc^^ A spring trap, set in the bot- 

 tom of a gopher's hole, and which is readily understood by 



Fig. 74. 



Fig. 75. 

 F. L. Washburn, 



in Rural New- 



reference to the cut. 

 Yorker, ^j/. 



Sulphur Gun. — (Fig. 76, page 278) ''Made of two pieces 

 of stove-pipe, the one fitting outside of the other, and working 

 up and down over the other piece, the latter being held firmly 

 with its pointed end in the hole, by one hand grasping the 



