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The spraying rod is a menace to good work, meaning, of 

 course, the heavy iron rod that is used too frequently in spray- 

 ing. 'The po'le should be just as lightly constructed as possible, 

 x'^ny one who has held an iron rod all day realizes that towards 

 the end of the day, the rod is held, not operated, and that 

 pointing a rod in the general direction of a tree is not spraying 

 according to the general definition of the term. 



PROVISION FOR SUFFICIENT HELP AT SPRAYING TIME. 



I am not sufficiently acquainted with Maine conditions to 

 more than touch on another feature that is becoming an im- 

 portant consideration in the state of New York. This is the 

 Cjuestion of whether or not individuals are not planting too ex- 

 tensively. The point involved has nothing to do with over- 

 production, but rather the question of maintaining a proper 

 balance between the orchard and the other farm operation^ 

 so that the orchardist may be assured of having men and 

 teams in sufficient number to do orchard work at the effective 

 moment. If this is not done the orchardist must put up with 

 transients at spraying time or he may even find it impossible 

 to get his spraying done at all. 



High Pressure Spraying. — As was intimated a few moments 

 ago, there is another way out of this difficulty — the possibility 

 of applying the fungicide in some other form or with some 

 kind of apparatus whereby a great deal more territory can 

 be covered. The possibility of spraying with extreme high 

 pressure has received some consideration in Massachusetts and 

 in the far west but has not been adopted generally as yet, 

 probably because of the high cost initial. 



DUSTING. 



All of you have noticed that when lime-sulphur is applied to 

 the foliage, changes set in immediately and in the course of 

 half an hour the sprayed leaf takes on a whitish appearance. 

 This, as most of you know, is due to the liberation of a certain 

 amount of sulphur. The individual particles of sulphur thus 

 set free are exceedingly small and are held more or less firmly 



