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way for the small grower. I get a tank that will hold lOO 

 gallons, and it will cost you twelve to fifteen dollars. Get one 

 with a fire box in the center, and not at one end, because it 

 will heat your liquid a good deal faster if you have it in the 

 center. Then you want a boiler you can heat i8 to 20 gallons 

 of water in. Then heat this water and get a barrel and put 

 the lime in, say 40 pounds of lime in to the barrel. An old 

 molasses barrel will do ; in fact most any old barrel will do. 

 Put your lime in and before you slake it, make your sulphur, 

 say thirty pounds of it in a paste, and run it through a sieve, 

 and at any rate make it into a thin paste. When you get that 

 all right (your water is heating, you understand, all the time) 

 throw enough water into the barrel to slake your lime (hot 

 water, 15 or 18 gallons) and throw your sulphur paste in, 

 and boil it as quick as you can ; it will boil 20 or 30 minutes ; 

 you want the very best lime and the very best sulphur you 

 can get. When that gets done boiling, throw that into your 

 tank of eighty gallons of water and boil it thirty minutes ; 

 you will want it to boil thirty minutes, but you can boil it 

 twice thirty, but I don't think there is anything gained. Now 

 if you have paid the proper attention to details, you have got 

 something that will kill the scale. You must then put it on 

 as quick as you can get it on ; you can't get it on hot enough, 

 because before it leaves the nozzle two feet it gets cold. Some 

 of my neighbors were alarmed for fear they would put it on 

 too hot, and I told them they couldn't put it on too hot. If 

 you hit the scale you will kill it. There has been lots of talking 

 and writing about the scale being immune, or to that effect ; 

 in other words, harder to kill on the apple and pear trees than; 

 on peach, but that is all rot, and I don't believe a word of it. 

 You can kill it as easily in one place as you can in another. It 

 is possibly a good deal harder to hit the scale on apple trees,, 

 and on some trees than on others. You take the Burbank plum 

 tree, and it is a pretty hard tree to hit it on. and it is just so 

 with the apple tree on account of its scrawling parts and its 

 horizontal limbs, and still more than that, its hairy growth, 

 last year's growth, for the wood has a sort of hairy substance 

 on it that prevents the liquid getting in there as readily as on 

 a smooth bark, but -you can kill it on one spot as easily as you 



