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To make 12 gallons of Bordeaux, use one pound 

 of copper sulphate and one pound stone lime. 

 Be sure to use wooden vessels, as vitriol eats 

 tin; an oil barrel, sawed in halves, makes good 

 tubs for dissolving the vitriol and slaking the 

 lime. Put one to one and a half gallons of 

 water in the tub and hang the vitriol over night 

 in a piece of burlap, which just touches the water. 

 Slake the lime in the other tub by adding water as 

 fast as the lime takes it up, and no faster. When 

 both are properly dissolved, fill the spray barrel 

 about one-eighth full of water and add the solu- 

 tion of vitriol. Add enough water to the lime 

 barrel to make 2^ or 4 gallons and then strain the 

 slaked hme into the spray barrel through a 

 wire fly-screen or two thicknesses of potato burlap . 

 Fill the barrel with water enough to make 12 

 gallons of mixture, and stir thoroughly for some 

 minutes. If your spray has an "agitator" 

 attachment, you need not trouble further, but 

 if not, you must stir the mixture thoroughly 

 every few minutes while spraying. 



Bordeaux mixture should be made fresh for 

 each spraying, but the vitriol and lime may be 

 prepared ahead in large quantities, if they are 

 not mixed, and are kept covered to prevent 

 evaporation. Thus forty pounds of vitriol may 

 be dissolved in 40 gallons of water, and forty 



