FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 51 



to \-d\ out. and how inucli lime to i)iit in there, and the water 

 runs in itself by turning- a tap, and the steam the same way 

 by turning a tap. Now, by the way, some people make lime- 

 salt and sulphur mixture bv simply ]nunpin,L;- through a straight 

 pipe right down into the tank ; that is the wrong way. You 

 want a coil of pipe all around the outside of vour tank, per- 

 forated with small holes not over a thirty-second of an inch, 

 so that the steam will jet all around, and impunge on every 

 particle of the lime and sulphur, and in that way you get a 

 good mixture, and your boiler pressure ought to be up to 

 sixty pounds. We find we get a mixture such as your scien- 

 tists describe you should have — that clear amber mixture — in 

 about an hour's boiling. We make our bordeaux in just that 

 same tank. We have a platform above that tank, so every- 

 thing is dumped into it, and when we want to get the mix- 

 ture out of that tank all we have to do is to open a valve 

 and let it run out. 



I use a strainer 18 inches square, made of hard brass wire, 

 24 and 30 meshes to the inch, one above the other. I had 

 full grown apple trees, a few that were 100 years old, good 

 high trees. Well, to get up in an ordinary wagon and hold 

 a pump rod up to reach them is what our men in Delaware 

 wouldn't do ; I couldn't do it myself, and you can't do it 

 here. So if you will note, I built a platform. That platform 

 is twelve feet from the ground, and two men stand up in 

 that cage and spray. If you will note another thing, there are 

 .only two standards holding that cage up there, four inches 

 square : those standards are built that way so you can go 

 through the orchards wdiere the limbs almost touch, and 

 still not mar the trees and break the branches as you go 

 through with your spraying wagon. The first one I built 

 sideways with an ordinary wagon, and I soon found I was 

 tearing my orchards to pieces. A gentleman asked me last 

 spring what spraying outfit I used. I said, the pump I 

 bought in Seneca Falls, New York, and the engine I am using 

 I bought in Stamford, Connecticut, and the tank I bought 

 in Lakeville, Connecticut, and the hose came from Philadel- 

 phia, and the wheels that I use came from Columbia, Penn., 

 and the blacksmith made the tower and the jilatform of the 



