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kill. Among fumigators maybe named the following as 

 efficient: 



Perlich's Excelsior Fumigator, made in the form 

 of a sheet-iron cone, small at the top and gradually widen- 

 ing, and covering a box with perforated top. Tobacco 

 stems are packed in the cone and lighted charcoal placed 

 in the fire box beneath, which draws its air from the out- 

 side, the suffocating tobacco fumes being ejected from 

 the top. The apparatus is perfectly safe and does not 

 require watching. They are also used in hospitals and 

 ships in case of infectious diseases. 



The Eureka Fumigator. This resembles the 

 Excelsior, the difference in the arrangement being very 

 slight. 



Woodaisne Fumigator Bellows. These are 

 very efficient for fumigating single plants or small con- 

 servatories. 



Spraying Machines and Atomizers. The in- 

 crease in the depredations of insects of both old and new 

 species consequent upon the vast extension of cultivation 

 of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and the extension of 

 inter-state commerce, has necessitated the invention and 

 manufacture of numerous machines adapted for spraying 

 and puffing insecticides, liquid and dry, for the destruc- 

 tion of such pests. 



Some of these inventions are adapted to small oper- 

 ations, both in-doors and out. Others of larger capacity 

 are intended to operate in the fields or orchards. 



Beginning with the smaller instruments, there are 

 sprinklers, sprayers and injectors, for use in the conserv- 

 atory ; garden and greenhouse syringes, made of brass or 

 tin ; bellows for spraying liquid, Peck's sprinkler, brass 

 and tin portable pumps, insect powder-guns, dredgerbox 

 powder sifter, etc. 



For the more extended operations in the field, among 

 the many machines for that purpose, a new device, copied 

 from the French, has been introduced, which is said to 



