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products. 



One of the difficult things about making this hme- 

 sulfur is the straining of it, to get all the sediment out. Of 

 course in 60 pounds of lime there is bound to be some par- 

 ticles of stone and the "Rural New Yorker" has several 

 times shown pictures of a strainer which we used, and I 

 am sure that some of you have used it and find it to be 

 very handy. Yesterday afternoon I made a little model 

 of it. The principle is different from most strainers. Most 

 strainers strain downward and when the sediment collects 

 on the strainer, it stops the strainer up and that makes a 

 lot of trouble. This strain upwards. (Mr. Henry explains 

 the working of the model to the meeting). At night or 

 whenever you are done you can take the strainer right out 

 nad fasten it on a board and the box can be turned upside 

 down and flushed out with water ; and we find that is a very 

 practical and handy form of strainer ; in fact it is the only 

 one that gives us any satisfaction at all. The others al- 

 ways get clogged up and bother us a great deal. This can 

 be made by anyone out of a wooden box and a few pieces 

 of board and a strainer, but it always wants to be loose 

 so that it can be taken out. I will leave that here if anyone is 

 interested. It is a very crude form, but perhaps will show 

 you something of the idea of the thing. 



Now. before you start to spray you have got to have 

 some kind of an equipment. The first thing is a good pump. 

 Don't try to buy some little bit of a cheap pump, with 

 about eight feet of hose and expect that you are going to 

 spray big apple trees or peach trees with any satisfaction. 

 You want a good pump and plenty of hose. An equipment 

 with at least one hundred pounds of pressure is good and 

 200 will save a great deal of material and more time. It 

 is time which is precious. You all know what time is 

 worth when you are having a good spraying day. You can't 

 postpone it, and high pressure will do more to save time 

 than any other thing perhaps. It is surprising how much 

 more material can be applied at two hundred than at one 

 hundred. 



A Member. How are you going to know what the 

 pressure is? 



Mr. Henry. Put a pressure gauge on your pump. There 

 was never a pump made but what you can put a pressure 

 gauge on it if you want to. If you haven't got any other 



