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GAEDESIKG FOK THE SOUTH. 



by taking 5 ounces of copper carbonate and mixing with 1 

 pint of water to a thick paste; dilute with V/ 2 gallons 

 of water in a wooden bucket; stir vigorously, and at the 

 same time add 2 pints of strong ammonia, or 5% pints of 

 ammonia water; when dissolved dilute to 50 gallons by 

 the addition of water. 



SPRAYING APPARATUS AND METHODS. 



No garden or orchard is well equipped without the 

 apparatus necessary to combat the attacks of insects and 



Fig. 67— Victor Spraying Machine. 



fungi. The experiment stations have studied so carefully 

 and thoroughly the subject of spraying and its appliances, 

 and have published, within the past ten years, so many 

 bulletins containing hundreds of pages of valuable ad- 

 vice to those contemplating, spraying, that the practice 

 has become almost as universal among fruit growers and 

 market gardeners as is the use of commercial fertilizers 



