PACIFIC I- R K E AND V I N F 



A. Ne-w SulpKur and Dust 

 Bello'ws 



A very useful implement in the or- 

 (.tiard or around the farm is a sulphur 

 bellows or a dust sprayer. We have re- 

 cently examined one which seems to ans- 

 wer its rei(uirementa in a very perfect 

 manner and to do the work better than 

 the sulphur bellows in (•(iniiM(jn use. This 

 i.s the invention of J. II. Hillis, of Ali-- 

 Kall, Mo.,andi3 now being manufactured 

 by the Tulare Dust Sprayer Manufactur- 

 ing; Co., of Tulare, Cal. 



It is a machine with a reservoir hold- 

 itig one gallon of lime dust and powder; 

 a bellows, which is oper*ted bw a lever, 

 forces the dust from the reservoir, and 

 tubes or pipes are provided for carry ing 

 the dust to the point desired. 



There are many purposes for whicli ;i 

 (hist sprayer can be used, as for sulphur- 

 ing trees for red spider, dusting pear and 

 clierry trees for slugs, using tobacco dust 

 on small flowers and plants for aphis, 

 using powdered lime for disinfecting, and 

 many other purposes that would suggest 

 themselues on a farm. It needs no argu- 

 ment to prove that it is at once more ef- 

 ii'itive, easier and quicker to spread dust 

 or sulphur through a tree by means of a 

 bellows of this kind than it is to do the 

 same work by hand. 



A man who does not grow much fruit, 

 but who thinks he could if he wanted to, 

 assured us that he had found scraping 

 his trees a very effective way of getting 

 rid of scale insects. There is little doubt 

 that he is right and that all that he 

 scraped off would die. .\nother effective 

 way would be to hit them with a ham- 

 mer, and we will guarantee that every 

 scale that gets a whack will die, but 

 neither process is to be reconunended on 

 a large scale. It is impossible to go over 

 a whole tree and scrape off all the scales, 

 and simply to scrape them off the trunk 

 is useless. It is strange that there are 

 people who practice laborious and inef- 

 fectual methods of doing things when 

 there are simpler and effective means of 

 doing the same thing. A good spray 

 pump will cover more ground and do it 

 better, reaching every part of the tree, 

 in a few moments, than a man with a 

 scraper could do in a day. Our only rea- 

 son for alluding to this is to show that 

 there are some absurd people still. 



Orange growers are met with an un- 

 pleasant situation. A very large part of 

 thsir crop is Still on the trees, there is a 

 great shortage of cars, and they cannot 

 move their fruit to market as fast as it 

 should be sent forward; small fruits will 

 soon make their appearance in the east- 

 ern market, soon followed by earlier tree 

 fruits and the market for oranges is grow- 

 ing daily less. 



Complaints reach us to the effect that 

 apricots are dropping from the trees so 

 fast that there is danger to be appre- 

 hended that the crop will be a failure. 

 These reports are general from all the 

 apricot sections, and the damage is at- 

 tributed to the heavy March rains and 

 the cool weather which succeeded them. 

 This had llie effect of chilling the tender 

 fruit stem and causing the fruit to drop 

 from the tree. It is dillicnlt at the pres- 

 ent time to decide how much truth there 

 is in the ruuKjrs, and it may turn out 

 that the fall of the young fruit may not 

 amount to more than a necessary thin- 

 ning, and that later developments may 

 show a good croi> and as much as the 

 trees ought to bear. There is usually a 

 late frost in the spring and invariably 

 after it occurs reports reach us that the 

 whole crop has been destroyed, but later 

 developments always show that enough 

 fruit has escaped to make a tolerably 

 full crop. It is a fact, that after these 

 spring freezes, it looks as though every 

 piece of fruit had dropped from the trees 

 and it may be so in thiacase; the damage 

 is not probably so great as it seems and 

 there will be a good apricot crop. 



In selling honey to groceries, especially 

 wholesale stores that buy to resell in 

 bulk and ship, I often found the need of 

 a small cheap jar or tumbler that would 

 seal tight, and could be retailed for ten 

 cents apiece after being tilled. The ordi- 

 nary one- third pint jelly-tumbler answers 

 the purpose for the home city trade; but 

 there is no way of sealing it tight enough 

 to ship with safety. The empty jars 

 ought not to cost over three cents apiece 

 and ought to be in cases holding two 

 dozen in a case. — Bee Gleanings. 



To feel perfectly safe while working 

 with the bees, it is necessary to wear a 

 veil. They are easily made and it is 

 fool-hardy to try and get along without 

 one. Take any kind of veiling with large 

 meshes and sew to the rim of an old 

 straw hat. Have it long enough so that 

 the lower edges can be tucked under the 

 suspenders or inside of the coat collar. — 

 Orange Judd Farmer. 



Beekeepers, as a rule, have consider- 

 able conlidonce in the future. We judge 

 so, as this is one of the years we do not 

 ask them and beg them to buy their sup- 

 plies early. Indeed, they are rushing 

 matters and seem to have the impetus 

 that business men of other callings have. 

 — Progressive Beekeeper. 



M. H. HIBBARD 



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