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Novel Spraying Apparatus. 



Sir, — Three years ago, while driving in the northern part of Terrebonne Co., Que., I 

 stopped at a farm house to feed my horse and have something to eat ; while conversing 

 with the farmer, I asked him how his fruit trees paid him ; his reply was that he could 

 not raise enough fruit to satisfy the insects. I asked him why he did not spray his trees ; 

 he said he could not afford to buy spraying pumps, etc , and had not much confidence in 

 spraying, anyway ; he thought it a waste of money. Just as he was saying this, I espied 

 an iron steampipe, about twenty inches long and one and one half inch inside, crossways. 

 I told him he could do with this for a while : he laughed (as much as to say, you are from 

 town and don't know much about farming). Taking the pipe, I asked him for a small 

 piece of tin, a file and a pair of shears. I cut the tin round, the same size as the end of 

 the pipe, pierced small holes (as small as possible) through it, as at 2 ; I then riled the 

 rough edges around the hole nice and smooth. Then, with a broomstick, I made an arm 

 for the sucker, about twenty-two inches long ; on one end I nailed a piece five inches long, 

 as at 5, for a handle ; on the other end I screwed the washer, as at 6, made of a piece of 

 trace, soaked in water to soften it, and cut it neatly round to fit the inside of pipe. I 

 screwed on the end of the stick, see 4, Fig. 000, in centre, as 

 5 shown at 3. To stiffen the leather washer, you may place 

 'two iron washers a little smaller than the leather one, one 

 on each side of it, before screwing it (leather washer) on end 

 of stick (or arm), 4. He had no soldering iron, so I told him 

 to go to a tinsmith and have the tin, 2, soldered on end of 

 pipe, and the sprayer was complete. I then told him to 

 start spraying as soon as the buds would come and every 

 fifteen days or so after, but not when in full bloom ; and to 

 use Paris green, one-quarter pound to fifty gallons of water. 

 I said nothing about other insecticides, in order to make 

 things look as simple as possible. A few days ago, I was 

 driving by his house, not thinking of him at all. when he 

 hailed me and I stopped, although I had little time to spare. 

 He thanked me for my device of three years ago, and told 

 me he had bought a spraying pump for $18 ; he looked very 

 jolly and happy, his trees and vines looked nice and healthy. 

 The use of that little primitive style of spiaying-pump had 

 fully convinced him of benefits of spraying. 



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Fig. 387.— Cheap Spraykr. 



O. Ga(;ni»n, Montreal, Que. 



The Fruit Crop in Germany. 



Mr. Aug. Steer, Fruit Broker, Hamburg, Germany, writes on August 19th: "Our 

 fruit crop in all parts of Germany is very abundant ; we have enormous quantities of 

 apples, pears and plums ; and though prices are very low, they are nearly unsalable. 

 Onions in Germany have suffered by the constant dry weather. They will be rather small 

 and not very abundant." 



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