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of ladders and tools as the man who has 80 or 100 

 acres to prune. 



When it comes to spraying, the small grower will 

 usually be obliged to content himself with less ma- 

 chinery than the commercial grower; but his ideal 

 should be to do as good or better spraying. The 

 best sprayer is usually the barrel pump see page 123 

 which can be carried about on an ordinary farm 

 wagon, sled or stone boat. Of course the same insects 

 and diseases attack, the farm orchard as the com- 

 mercial orchard, and are to be fought by the same 

 means. 



The man who is growing fruit for his own family 

 use will usually want some sort of storage. Formerly 

 apples were sometimes stored in haymows or buried 

 in pits in the garden, but such crude methods do not 

 satisfy the people of the present generation. Even the 

 better plan of keeping apples in the general cellar 

 under the house does not meet the wishes of many. 

 When the house cellar is to be used a special com- 

 partment should be done off for apples and pears, in 

 which the temperature can be kept considerably lower 

 than in the rest of the cellar. On many well-to-do 

 farms it is practicable to make special fruit storage 

 rooms or even storage houses. Such provision can be 

 made at an expenditure varying from $300 to $5,000. 

 This subject is separately discussed and many designs 

 given in the author's book on handling fruit.* 



*Waugh, Fruit Harvesting, Storing, Marketing, Orange Judd Co, 

 New York. 



