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wagon, so that I have had to build up to suit my own needs 

 a wagon that suits nie, and I doubt to-day very much whether 

 any one engaged in spraying will be able to buy a rig just 

 to suit them. When you have done two or three years' spray- 

 ing, you will probably be able to evolve in your own mind 

 just the rig, just the pump, and just the engine that will suit 

 you. Xow for small growers with ten acres of orchards 

 there are plenty of pumps that are the very best kinds of 

 pumps. And \et I want to warn you of one thing — don't take 

 a pump that has to suck, that has a plunger in there to draw 

 the water up. Take a pump where the cylinder is submerged 

 and the work is done, not by sucking the material up through 

 the piston, but that is forced out by the blow of the piston 

 as it goes down ; get a pump that has a mechanical mixer 

 on it, and I may say the larger the better. No one wants to 

 spray to-day without a spraying rod. Probably the vermorel 

 nozzles that we have are the best, or as good as we need ; there 

 are several makes of those, mostlv alike, but with some 

 pistons it makes a difiference whether we get a nozzle that 

 clogs up and cannot be easily cleaned, or whether we have 

 one that is easily cleaned. \\'e find that for spraying machin- 

 ery for small orchards, there are plenty of good ones made, 

 but when we come to power-s])raying machines I believe there 

 is room for improvement. To-day I am using a triplex 

 engine — that is. three cylinders with an oil engine. We are 

 ■doing very creditable work, but still, usually it is put into 

 the hands of green farm hands that are not used to delicate 

 machinery, and it is something that recjuires constant atten- 

 tion, and requires a good deal more knowledge of machinery 

 than he has, but I may say it is part of the farmer or orchard- 

 ist's work to educate his workmen. We always feel that when 

 we are educating a man who is working for us as though we 

 were doing something for that man, because the dull routine 

 of a farm laborer who has nothing but his day's work to 

 sell, we must all agree is a very barren life, so it is up to 

 the men who are spraying not only to put some enthusiasm 

 into his work himself, but also some enthusiasm into his men. 

 I have men to-day who have been at work for years spraying, 

 and all I liave to do is to say, go and spray. Of course we are 



