THE SPRHM0T0R 



PAINTING, WHITEWASHING & SPRAYING MACHINE 



HEARD'S PATENTS: CANADA, 1895, 1897 ; D.S., 1899. 



" The law is that the agricul- 

 tural schools and farms shall aid 

 the farmer by means of experi- 

 ments, farm managements, in- 

 vestigations of special difficulties, 

 by lectures, publications and 

 teaching. This has been done, 

 yet we found it to be a fact that 

 the majority of the farmers have 

 not been personally touched by 

 these great enterprises. Much 

 of the teaching is necessarily too 

 advanced to appeal to the gen- 

 eral farmer. Scientific knowledge is far in advance of the best 

 farm practice. The farmer must be awakened and educated. 

 How ? " 



The above extract from Bulletin 159, January, 1899, pub- 

 lished by the Cornell University Experimental .Station, aptly ex- 

 presses the difificulty attending any effort to reach the farmers. 



In Canada we believe the farmers are in advance of their 

 fellows in any country in the world, and are to a greater extent 

 than others putting the knowledge oV)tained from scientific 

 experiment to practical use. The farmers of Ontario have cer- 

 tainly been awakened to the advantages of spraying, which is 



