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SPRAY MACHINE MAKING ITS EIGHTH TOUR OVER THE FIELD. 
'T'HIS picture shows our insurance policy against all fungi and insects. In about ten days after the plants are 
*■ set we start the spray machine, using Bordeaux mixture and Paris green. The machine has a gearing on 
the axle, which operates the pump, thus throwing a perfect mist all over the plants. It requires just three days 
to spray the entire one hundred acres, which is repeated every ten days. Growers who set our Thoroughbred 
plants are insured against any insects or parasitic fungi being carried to their farm. This one feature alone 
speaks volumes in favor of our Thoroughbred pedigree plants. 
Other plant ready to set; in this way there is no 
lost motion and the work is done so quickly 
that one man easily can set 2,000 plants a day, 
doing good work. 
Spraying. 
EVERY crop has foes of some kind; often 
they gather the lion's share of the har- 
vest. But the strawberry is attacked by 
fewer of them than any other fruit, which is 
certainly a favorable feature and encouraging to 
their general cultivation. The difficulty of sav- 
ing a crop of strawberries from ravages of nox- 
ious insects and parasitic fungi is small compared 
to tree fruits; and when some enemy does attack 
them, it readily is controlled because strawber.'y 
plants are easy of access and spraying can be 
thoroughly done. Fighting insects and fungi 
is like fighting anything else: they are the more 
easily whipped if we start war on them before 
they get too big for us. The old adage, "an 
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", 
can well be applied here. For fungous growths, 
such as mildew, blight, and rust, start spraying 
at first sight using Bordeaux mixture which is 
made as follows: 
4 lbs. lime slaked in 4 gals, hot water. 
4 lbs. blue vitriol dissolved in 4 gals, water. 
To which add sufficient water to make one barrel 
of forty gallons. 
For any leaf-eating insect use Paris green 
which should be mixed as follows: 
Take 1 pound unslaked lime; put over this 7 
ounces of Paris green and pour over this 2 gallons 
of hot water. To which add water to make fifty 
gallons. 
Should both insects and fungi be present on 
the vines, the Paris green may be added to the 
Bordeaux mixture and applied at one spraying 
Proper Poilenation. 
TAKE the best plants that ever were grown, 
set them in ideal soil and give the best 
cultural methods known to the scientific 
world, and unless there was proper mating of 
varieties at setting time the outcome will be dis- 
appointing. It simply is impossible for the bi- 
sexual to be of any benefit to the pistillate unless 
they both bloom at the same time. As a rule 
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