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Spraying Machines. 



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is soft, rough, or hilly, the wheeling of even a 30-gallon 

 machine is very hard work, and the lad needs the help of one of 

 the men for every shift of position. There is a drawhook 

 in front, to which a rope, billet, or whippletree can be fastened, 

 and shafts are attached to any machine when desired. A horse 

 is needed for the larger machines. They are made only 22 

 inches wide, outside the wheels, for work in the narrow spaces 

 between rows of bushes. 



Other manufacturers make hand-power machines similar in 

 appearance, and the differences that exist are mainly in pumps 

 and spraying nozzles, upon which efficiency is largely depen- 

 dent. A hand-sprayer of the garden engine type is also made by 

 Messrs. Henry S. Tett & Company, of Faversham. Fig. 1 is an 



illustration of the hand-power type of spraying machine. Those 

 of comparatively small size, which can be wheeled with the help 

 of a man pulling in front, are most suitable for plantations of trees 

 and bushes in which the growth has left very little space between 

 the rows, as a horse, with a swinging whippletree, is likely 

 occasionally to damage the trees and bushes, especially in turning 

 in and out at the ends of the rows. Indeed, where there is room 

 for a horse, there is room for one of the horse-power machines, 

 illustrated in Fig. 2, which spray as they travel along, and have 

 no hose to be dragged in and out among the trees and bushes. 



Messrs. Strawson have brought out this season a handy and 

 inexpensive sprayer in the form of a barrel containing the pump 

 suspended vertically to the frame of a kind of sack-barrow, with 

 only one wheel. The pump is a brass one of considerable power, 

 with brass valves. All internal parts are readily accessible, and 



Fig. 3. — Small Barrel Pump. 



