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of two gallons per acre. The machine will spread as little as a gallon over 

 an acre of land, if required. A fine spray of paraffin was spread to a width 

 of about 20 feet as the machine travelled, and every square inch of land 

 in that space was found to be sprinkled. Next, the other machine was 

 set to work to sow barley broadcast, at the rate of three bushel? to the 

 acre. The corn was distributed with wonderful regularity over a tract 18 

 feet wide. A greater width could be covered, but the width named is con- 

 sidered most effective, and, as at this rate 30 to 40 acres can be got over 

 in a day, the width is sufficient. 



" The fourth trial was an illustration of the sprinkling of a hop garden, 

 special nozzles having been fixed for directing the liquid properly. In 

 this case a dense and fine spray was sent out from the level of the 

 ground up to a height of about 20 feet on either side of the machine, 

 and all present agreed that if the operation had been carried on between 

 two rows of the tallest hops the vine would infallibly have been sprinkled 

 all over from top to bottom. 



" Salt was next spread in as regular a style as the barley had been, 

 and the operation showed how well the machine can sow nitrate of soda 

 and other manures. 



" Lastly, fine-powdered lime was sent in a cloud with the wind over a 

 great space of land, falling in a fine film upon the surface of the land. 

 If young turnip plants attacked by the fly had been growing in the field, 

 every one of them must have been dusted with lime. In this operation 

 a great, area of land could be limed in a very short space of x time. 



" Small hand-power machines are made for gardens, fruit plantations, 

 coffee or tea plantations, and other purposes, as well as horse-power 

 machines for farms. Special distributors are made for use in vine- 

 yard a." 



Agent: I. G. Foster, West Melbourne. 



FRENCH PORTABLE HAND SPRAYING MACHINE. 

 (See Fig. 14.) 



We have taken the following information (and re-produced Fig. 14) 

 from the " Third Annual Report " of the Agricultural Adviser (Charles 

 Whitehead, F.L.S.) to the British Board of Agriculture regarding 

 a small hand machine, as follows: "This is a little machine largely 

 made use of in the French vineyards for applying washes to vine 

 for mildew and insects. Machines made upon the same principles 

 are extensively adopted in Italy. The liquid in the tank is forced 

 through the jet by the vendangeuse moving the lever on her left hand, 

 as shown in figure 14. It might be used on small holdings. In 

 plantations where the bushes are closely set a number of them could be 

 advantageously employed." 



We have been shown a machine constructed on a somewhat similar 

 plan to the above, with the exception that the force necessary to send 

 the liquid through the nozzle is by means of compressed air; 

 unfortunately the machine, which is the invention of Mr. Fra^ois de 



