THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



orchard. In fact, for small orchards it will 

 answer the purpose very well. The proper 

 manipulation of a power sprayer requires the 

 user to familiarize himself thoroughly with the 

 directions sent out by the manufacturers with 

 each sprayer; and when the spraying season is 

 over, the machine should be taken apart, and 

 every part washed in kerosene and then wiped 

 with a piece of waste soaked in crude oil, and 

 put away for the winter. 



One of the most complex bits of machiner}^ 

 on the list is the reaper and binder. But when 

 we stop to consider the rapidity with which it 

 works — cuts the grain, gathers it into a com- 

 pact bundle and ties it with twine into a 

 sheaf about every^ ninety seconds, it seems as 

 simple a machine as human skill and ingenuity 

 could devise. No one, however, should be al- 

 lowed to run one of these machines until he is 

 familiar with every part and with its relation 

 to every other part. As an example of the loss 

 of time resulting from ignorant use of a binder, 

 a farmer friend of the writer's became sud- 

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