CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

 THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF SPRAYING. 



CHAPTER I. 

 EARLY HISTORY OF LIQUID APPLICATIONS. 



First Applications to Plants Present Distribution of Insect and 

 Fungous Parasites Oceans as Barriers Protective Applica- 

 tions the Most Effective Measures Spraying Defined Early 

 Recommendations Vinegar Rue Urine Dung De- 

 struction of Plant Lice Tobacco, Water, Powder Soap 

 Soot Sage Hyssop Wormwood Lime Petroleum 



Turpentine Tansy Leek Hellebore Oils Sul- 

 phur Paints Washes Forsyth's Composition Ashes 

 Sand Plaster Burnt Bones Decoction of Walnut Leaves 



Train-oil Whale-oil Flax Rubbish Sea-weed Sea- 

 shells Sea-sand Mortar Rubbish Clay Tanner's Bark 

 Leather Scraps Salt .Corrosive Sublimate Alcohol 

 Potato Water Decoctions of Elder Bitter Herbs Pepper 

 _ Lye Pot and Pearl Ashes Tar Hot Water Soft Soap 



Farmyard Drainage Brimstone Burdock Leaves 

 White Hellebore Nitre Whale-oil Soap Nux Vomica ' 

 Scotch Snuff Cayenne Pepper Aconite Pigeon Dung 

 Eau Grison Quassia Chips Copper Sulphate Various 

 Formulas containing these Ingredients Applications recom- 

 mended against Canker Cantharides Plant Lice Me- 

 chanical Injuries Canker-worms Red Spider Insects on 



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