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the gasolene type the owner may also easily adapt it to doing 

 other kinds of work, such as pumping and sawing wood. There 

 are many different styles of gasolene outfits, from one costing 

 one hundred dollars and using a one and one-half horse-power 

 engine and a hundred-gallon tank, up to a twelve hundred dollar 

 machine with a ten horse-power engine and a three- or four- 

 hundred-gallon tank. Of late several good forms of the small 

 machine have been developed which seem to give promise of 

 great usefulness (Fig. 83). They are especially acceptable where 



Fig. 84 a. — Old style of vermorel nozzle. This type has the serious weakness that the 

 ejectora are constantly catching on the branches of the tree. 



Fig. 84B. — Angle vermorel nozzle. This type has great advantages over the last; it has no 

 ejectors and it delivers the spray at an angle. 



good, reliable labor is scarce. With one of these machines a 

 man, if "put to it," can do his spraying alone, and they are light 

 enough to get about on relatively rough land and cheap enough 

 so that the small orchardist can afford to buy one. One of these 

 machines will easily take care of two or even three small 

 orchards, so that if a man is on sufficiently good terms with his 

 neighbors there is nothing to prevent his clubbing in with one 



