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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



Fordhook tomato. Last season he had ripe 

 tomatoes on the market from this variety be- 

 fore anybody else, and the plant stands up so 

 well that it hardly needs staking, and can be 

 grown much clostr than ordinary tomatoes. 

 Perhaps it might interest our readers to know 

 that Burpee has given my neighbor Green a 

 contract for furnishing 300 lbs. of seed the 

 coming season. Friend G. is growing a nice 

 lot of little plants in his greenhouse, and will 

 have the tomatoes on the market again before 

 anybody else. As long as he can get good 

 prices for the fruit, he will sell fruit ; but 

 when the price drops, then his whole planta- 

 tion will be devoted to the production of seed. 



USING PARIS GKEEN, BORDEAUX MIXTURE, 

 ETC , IN A MORE CONCENTRATED FORM, 



WITH THE FAULTLESS SPRAYER. 

 One of the things that have made these lit- 

 tle pumps spring into popularity so quickly is 

 that you do not need to make your solution of 

 any particular strength. A spoonful of Paris 

 green or even more in a cupful of water an- 

 swers all right, and the exceedingly fine mist 

 or spray does not hurt the foliage. The fol- 

 lowing, which I clip from a recent copy of the 

 Rural New-Yorker, covers the whole ground 

 pretty thoroughly. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE IN A TIN CUP. 



M. R. W , Bath, A'. ]'.— There is now on the market 

 a small tin sprayer, "vapor-sprayer" sometimes 

 called, holding about a quart. It is sold at hardware 

 stores for50cts., and works well in putting Paris green 

 on potatoes, requiring only a pailful of water to go as 

 far as a barrelful would go if applied with a sprink- 

 ling pot or spray-pump. I have never used Bordeaux 

 mixture on potatoes, because, having no spray-pump, 

 it seemed like so big a job drawing so much water 

 and applying it with a sprinkling-pot. Can the Bor- 

 deaux mixture be used in this small vapor-sprayer by 

 mixing it enough stronger to make up for the smaller 

 amount of water required ? 



Ans. — Last year one of the small vapor-sprayers 

 was vised here at the Cornell Experiment Station for 

 spraying potatoes. Paris green was used in it as 

 strong as four to six ounces of the poison to the quart 

 of water contained in the sprayer; this very strong 

 mixturedid not injure the viuesin the least. It would 

 seem that this was using the poison unnecessarily 

 strong; probably one or two ounces of the poison 

 would kill the bugs just as surely. Bordeaux mixture 

 was also used in the little vapor sprayer. The Bor- 

 deaux was made more than twice as strong as one 

 would apply it to fruit-trees; that is, at least 6 pounds 

 of the sulphate of copper were used in about 20 gal- 

 lons of water, and even stronger, without injury to 

 the vines. As the spray from one of these vapor- 

 sprayers is so very fine, the quart of mixture it con- 

 tains will go a good" way on an acre of potatoes. It 

 was the experience here, however, that the spraver 

 was hardly equal to the task of spraying the vines 

 when they got half or two-thirds grown. The sprayer 

 was used only when the vines were very small, soon 

 after they had come up. It thus seems to be pertectly 

 feasible to use Paris green or Bordeaux mixture much 

 stronger in these little vapor-sprayers than in ordi- 

 nary spraying apparatus. These little machines are 

 exceedingly useful tools in almost any business hav- 

 ing to do with the growing of plants They are also 

 very handy in applying insecticides to cattle or other 

 stock infested with lice. The housewife will find 

 them very useful among her house-plants in fighting 

 red spider, plant lice, etc. 



M. V. Slingerland. 



My brother used one last summer on his cow, and 

 liked it very much. One push of the piston for each 

 side of the cow will put on enough kerosene spray to 

 last two or three davs. J. S. Hunt. 



Charlestown, N. H., April 14, 1899. 



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