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Machinery and devices for the destruction op the worm — Continued. 

 Stanton's, 273 — bucket poisoners, McDonald's, Allen's watering-pot im- 

 provements, 273 — Amor's and Lane's can-syringe, Hull's, Wisner's, 274 — 

 Barrel and tank pumps and appurtenances, 274-283 — Single-acting, dis- ' 

 charging below the piston, Melcher's, 274 — Voglesang's, Ruhmann's, 275 — 

 Polansky's, Schier's, Butman's, Ball's agitator, 276— Eveuden's, Hel- 

 mecke's, 277 — Yeager's pump and nozzle, 277-8— Pinter's, 278. — Single-act- 

 ing, discharging from above the piston, Chipley's, Weith's, 278 — availa- 

 ble cistern or well pumps, 278-9— barrow pumps, tiuck pumps, garden 

 engine pumps, windmill pumps, Blunt's Lotus pump, the Pendulum and 

 Index pumps, counter pumps, 279. — Double-acting, force pumps proper, 

 279-283 — the best, 279, kinds characterized, Vose's hydropult, the Cham- 

 pion, 280 — Ramsden's, reduction-cylinder pumps, patentees and man- 

 ufacturers, 281-2 — author's agitator barrel-pump, found most satisfac- 

 tory, 282-3 — Conduits, frames, portage, and combinations of appurtenances, 

 283 — Johnson's cotton-spraying machine, 284 — Jones's, Biukley's, 285 — 

 Goodin's, Wolfram's, 286 — author's underspraying accessories, 288— plan, 

 skid, mixing and straining funnel, 288— adjustments of pipes, forks and 

 nozzles, 289-297, fork modifications, 290-2 — pendant pipes, 292, conform - 

 ability, lightness, cheapness, 292-3, tube substances, 293 — author's A- 

 frame machines, 293-7 — maximum width undersprayed, 295 — pipe adjust- 

 ments to row widths, flexible systems superior, 296-7 — VI. Gravitational 

 Distributors, 297-309— /or liquid, 297-302— kinds, author's tripod auto- 



■* matic sprinkler, 297-8 — Schank's sprinkler, Taylor's, 298 — Robinson's, 



299 — suction force pumps and windlass elevators, 299 — bilge pumps, 300 — 

 horseback automatic sprinklers, vN'ateriug pot method, Willie's sprinkler, 

 300 — Ramsey's, 301 — knapsack automatic sprinklers, 301 — Gray's, Rug- 

 gle's, Townsend's, 302 — automatic hand-sprinklers, watering-pots afoot 

 and on horsebackj 302 — For dry poisons, sifters, kinds, 302-9 — disadvanta- 

 ges, reciprocating sieve machines, hand-sieves, 303-4— sifting bag, Kurd's 

 sifter and blower, Goodheart's duster and sprinkler, 304 — rotary-sieve 

 machines, 304-7 — Robinson's duster and sprinkler, Davis' duster. Levy's, 

 305 — Taylor's duster and sprinkler, 306 — reciprocating-stirrer sifters, Wil- 

 lie's, 307 — rotary-stirrer sifters. Young's, 307 — Smith's, 308 — Eldridge's, 

 309. 



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Machinery and devices for the destruction op the worm— Concluded- 310 

 VII. Insect manipulators, mechanical treatment, dislodging, crushing, or 

 stifling the worms or chrysalids, 310 — sweeping, knocking, or jarring off 

 the worms; friction drags, fringes; beaters, 310 — collecting and dispatch- 

 ing means, 311 — crushing. Helm's sweeper and crusher, 311 — E wing's 

 sweeper and stifler, 312 — Wood-Smith's, 313 — Iske's catching trays, 314 — 

 traps for the moths, 314-321 — kinds of lures, light traps, 314 — Lewis', Mc- 

 Queen's, Rigel's, 315 — Walker's and others, 315-6 — lamx)s in motion, Le- 

 blanc's, Fordtran's, 316— bait traps, Heard's, Garrett's, 317 — traps combin- 

 ing light and bait, author's net trap, 317-319, thought the best, 318 — indis- 

 criminate killing wrong, the best bait, 319 — Sfcith's trap, 319 — Pugh's, 

 Garrett's, 320— Biukley's, 321. 



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History of the literature and bibliography 32^ 



History of the literature, 322— from 1802 to 1828, 322— from 1829 to 1847, 

 323— from 1848 to 1854, 324— from 1855 to 1871, 325— from 18o9 to 1874, 

 323— from 1874 to 1878, 327— from 1878 to 1880, 328— from 1880 to 1881, 329— 

 bibliography up to and including the year 1881, 329-344. 



