THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 4 
262 
THE COST OF SPRAY INC. 
HOW MUCH TO CHAROK. 
Old Figures Restated. 
These figures are the results of care¬ 
ful tests. In a level Pennsylvania or¬ 
chard of 440 large thrifty trees 25 years 
old, with water convenient, three men, 
two horses and a barrel pump throwing 
two streams required two days to go 
over it once. The cost of applying was 
$9, allowing $1.50 for the team and $1 
for each man; 22 barrels of liquid were 
used. This quantity of Bordeaux Mixture 
cost $7.02; ammoniacal copper carbon¬ 
ate, $5.28, and Paris-green and lime, 
$1.70. In central New York 25-year-old 
trees were sprayed with Bordeaux three 
times for 10 cents per tree, or with 
Paris-green added, seven cents extra. 
The mixture was four pounds each of 
blue vitriol and lime and one pound of 
Paris-green to 50 gallons of water. In 
Illinois 10-year-old trees have been 
sprayed three times with Bordeaux- 
Paris-green solution for from 71-5 to 
cents. As there is so much varia¬ 
tion in size of trees, lay of land and gen¬ 
eral conveniences for the work, a charge 
by the hour seems more satisfactory 
than job work; 20 cents per hour is none 
too much for a skillful nozzie-man. 
Forty Cents per Hour. 
In this section a man and pair of 
horses with cart or plow commands 40 
cents per hour. With a mowing ma¬ 
chine or corn harvester $1 per hour for 
actual work, and with a good pump, full 
equipment and skillful work, spraying 
should command the latter figure for ac¬ 
tual work. At the above price one must 
be prompt and active and do the work 
rapidly or he may not receive much pat¬ 
ronage. In most of the ordinary spray¬ 
ing one horse and two men make a com- 
plet(D equipment for labor. It should be 
l)orne in mind that a complicated ma¬ 
chine like a pump is constantly liable to 
get out of order, and the man who goes 
into the business of spraying should 
know every part of his pump and nozzle 
and always keep it in perfect working 
order, so that there shall be no waste of 
time after the work begins. 
Massachuseits. s. t. maynaho. 
Draindge of Cellar. 
,]. W. B., Haimn, Moss.—The water enters 
the cellar of my new house whenever the 
land is as we say full of water, as in the 
Spring or after very heavy rains when the 
ground is unfrozen. The land falls away 
from the house slightly but on one side, 
say 60 feet off, is a hollow which retains 
water. This is under-drained and in a few 
days the water di.sai)pears from the sur¬ 
face. It cannot be surface drained. This 
low spot is responsible for much of the 
water in (he cellar, yet 1 feel rpiite posi¬ 
tive it is not entirely tlie cause. The sub¬ 
soil is tlie hardest of iiardpan. 1 jiropose 
to liave a drain along all four sides a foot 
below tlie bottom inside the walls. 1 say 
inside the cellar, because of the very hard 
digging if placed outside. Perhaps a 
greater depth than a foot would be better, 
but I fear that I have not suflicient fall to 
increase it. Shall it be a narrow 10 or 12- 
inch trench filled with small stones, or a 
21 ^-inch land tile? The cellar is only 20 by 
16 feet, and contains a furnace. There is 
an air chamber under the furnace laid up 
in Portland cement, and supposed to be 
water-tight, but it is not; and I intend to 
connect this with the drain. Is there any 
better method of overcoming the trouble? 
I not only want no water but desire to 
have it as dry as possible. Any sugges¬ 
tions based on experience will be very 
acceptable. 
Ans.—J. W. B. has the right ideas 
about draining his cellar. One foot be¬ 
neath the level of the cellar floor is deep 
enough for the trench, but he may go 
deeper if necessary to do so in order to 
drain the air chamber beneath the fur¬ 
nace. It should be about 12 inches wide 
at the bottom if stones alone are used, 
or it may be one-half that width if a 
2V^-inch tile is laid on the bottom with 
stone covering. A cornice of brick 
should be made as shown in Fig. 95, the 
first course set on end and projecting 
two inches above the level of the cellar 
floor, and the second course lying flat 
and capping the course previously laid. 
The filling of the trench is finished to a 
level with the cap bricks by two or three 
inches of concrete made with gravel and 
Portland cement. This keeps the water 
from rising if there is temporarily more 
than the drain can carry off. It is also 
a protection to the base of the founda- 
DRAINAGE OF A C'ELLAR. Fio. 9.6. 
tion wall and will be found to make the 
cellar rat-proof. If J. W. B. has the 
fall, five-tenths of one foot to 100 feet is 
enough, he will have no trouble in keep¬ 
ing his cellar dry by this trench all 
around it. g. ». 
Keeping Water Out of Cellar. 
IV'. K. B., Maryland.—liovi can I keep wate 
out of cellar? I cannot drain it; have had 
it cemented but water breaks through. 
Ans.—T he only way that W. E. B. can 
keep the water out of his cellar is to 
make the cement floor strong enough to 
resist the inward pre.ssure of the soil 
water. He may excavate his cellar one 
foot deeper and fill to that depth with 
cement. If made with a Portland ce¬ 
ment such as Vulcanite, and well ram¬ 
med it certainly would keep the water 
out. _ G. I). 
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