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cannot be seen on the trees. This is always a disadvantao:e. 

 That is not present when the hme and sulphur mixture is used, 

 as we make it. 



It does not take an\- complicated apparatus. About all 

 that is required is a pan or kettle of suitable size. Our for- 

 mula is to take 110 to 130 pounds of sulphur to 60 pounds of 

 lime. We generally take the sulphur and cook it into a Ijinling 

 mass, with from ten to fifteen gallons of water, and after it 

 has got up to the boiling point, put in the sulphur. You will 

 get a very high heat, so that it will reduce the sulphur quickly. 

 Then add more water, to make 50 gallons, and boil about an 

 hour. This will give you a mixture which will test from 24 

 to 27 degrees on the hydrometer, and can be reduced about 

 eight times. This will test from 24 to 27, and will stand to be 

 diluted from six to eight times. That is about all I can say 

 about the making of it. 



Now as to the cost. It costs in the neighborhood of three 

 dollars a barrel to prepare. Your sulphur will cost something 

 over $1.50 a hundred pounds, perhaps about $1.60. Your 

 sixty pounds of lime will be about 40 cents, making $2.10 

 for the material in your barrel, which will bring the total 

 cost to not over $3.00 a barrel all prepared. Of course, that 

 is not including the barrel. Your barrels can be used over 

 again. At a cost of $3.00 made up, if it is diluted 

 from one to six, your spraying material will cost 

 you about forty-five cents a barrel. I brought along 

 a sample of sulphur such as we use. I think most 

 people use what they call the flowers of sulphur, which 

 costs from $2.25 to $2.40 per hundred. Some of you may 

 have been a little bit surprised when I said $1.60, but that is 

 for another form of sulphur. The one which is in this 

 package is the crude powdered sulphur. It is quite fine, 

 as vou can see. There are no lumps or impurities in it. It is 

 99% and over pure sulphur, and is very fine, and a great deal 

 cheaper than any other form we have found. We have found 

 it is better to use in the preparation than the more expensive 



