464 The Trials of Spraying Machines at Cambridge. 
not adequate straining arrangements, and stoppages frequently 
occurred. There was much delay in starting it and great difficulty 
in keeping it to work ; but it is fair to say that this was due, at 
least in a degree, to the want of knowledge on the part of the 
person in charge of it as to its practical working in the field. 
The following entries were made in the other class for spray- 
ing machines at Cambridge : — 
Class IY. — Machine for Distributing Insecticides and Fungicides 
upon Fruit Trees and Bushes. 
No. in 
Catalogue Names and Addresses of Exhibitors. 
4644 4V. Weeks & Son, Ltd., Maidstone. Price 42/. (for liquids only). 
4615 do. do. Price 18/. 18s. (for powders). 
4655 Strawsons, Ltd., 77 Queen Victoria St. “The Antipest.” Price 1/. 15s. 
4656 do. do. The“Notus.” Price 1/. 8s. 
4657 do. do. The “ Coronetta.” Price 1/. 10s. 
4658 do. do. The Fruit Tree Sprayer. 5/. 
4669 Stott Fertiliser &c. Co., Deansgate, Manchester. Hop and Plant 
washer. Price 20/. 
4670 do. do. Distributor. Price 5/. 10s. 
4671 do. do. Hop and Plant Washer. 
Price 14/. 10s. 
4687 Ph. Mayfarth & Co., 16 Mincing Lane, E.C. “ Syphonia.” Price3/.8s. 
4980 Boulton & Paul, Norwich. No. 86a. Price 9/. 15s. 
4981 do. do. No. 87a. Price 81. 
4981 do. do. No. 14. Price 8/. 10s. 
There was one prize of 10£. offered in this class, which in- 
cluded machines for spraying high fruit trees and small bushes, 
machines drawn by horses and by hand, and machines carried 
on men’s backs, commonly known as “Knapsack” machines. It 
was most difficult to award the prize, as it involved invidious 
comparisons of great things with small things, and there ought 
really to have been two classes, one for horse and hand power 
machines upon wheels, and another for “ Knapsack ” machines 
and other machines for small holdings. 
It was soon seen that the horse machines must be set on one 
side, as they are only suitable for orchards or land planted with 
standards without bushes between them. No. 4644 is prac- 
tically a hop washer, admirably suited for washing hop plants, 
and No. 4645 is a hop sulphurator perfectly adapted for putting 
sulphur upon hop plants to prevent or check mould, but not for 
use in fruit plantations. The “ Knapsack ” machines, Nos. 
4655, 4656, 4657, 4658, and 4687, were then eliminated as 
being suitable only for small holdings. Some of these most 
useful machines are well suited for putting liquids and powders 
upon half-standard, dwarf, pyramidal, and espalier fruit-trees, 
