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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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ARRANGING A SPRAYING TANK. 
East week W. A. Bassett asked for ad¬ 
vice before building a spraying plant or out¬ 
fit. His plan was outlined as below: 
Replies from fruit growers are being re¬ 
ceived : 
In answer to Mr. Bassett, will say 
that my brother and myself have a 
very complete and satisfactory plant for 
boiling and preparing spray mixtures 
which we have used several years 
jointly, but as we have outgrown one 
plant, I am planning to build an addi¬ 
tional one myself. Our present plant 
has a steam engine of about eight horse¬ 
power for pumping water from an ad¬ 
joining pond, and boiling lime and sul¬ 
phur. The water is elevated to two 
galvanized iron tanks holding together 
about i.ooo gallons, and elevated high 
enough so that the water flows down into 
two wooden half round wagon tanks, 
in one of which the lime is prepared, 
and in the other the copper sulphate. 
The two are then allowed to run down 
together into the tank on wagon. In 
the case of boiling lime and sulphur, the 
water is drawn into the wooden tanks 
as before, and cooked there by steam 
pipes in bottom of tank. In my new 
plant I shall not use steam, as we have 
been experimenting for a number of 
years with the “Rex” lime and sulphur, 
and shall use that exclusively this year; 
hence will depend on the gasoline engine 
for power and not need to keep an en¬ 
gineer at the plant all of the time as 
with steam. I expect to use a gasoline 
engine to pump the water into tanks 
high enough, at well, so that it will run 
by gravity to spray house, believing this 
better than to try to force it directly to 
spray house. I have not decided as to 
size of pipe, but think it will be 1^2 
inch. I have been using an Aermotor 
gasoline engine for three months with 
satisfaction, and my neighbor has had 
one in use some six months, and is 
pleased with it. We both use them for 
pumping for stock, and draw only 15 to 
30 feet, and I do not know just what 
their capacity might be in higher lifts. 
Air. Bassett will find it an advantage 
to have the water elevated high enough 
that all transfers can be made by gravity 
while the operators are preparing the 
mixtures for the next tankful. Some 
of the spraying outfits now on the mar¬ 
ket have a pump on tank (run by the 
gasoline engine on tank which furnishes 
power for spraying), to pump water 
from shallow well or pond, etc., to fill 
tank. I have never used them, but ex¬ 
pect to try one this year for one of my 
orchards which is some distance from 
home, where I have no mixing plant. 
Ohio. W. W. FARNSWORTH. 
It looks to me as though Mr. Bassett’s 
plant ought to work satisfactorily, and 
I would suggest that if he expects to 
use a power sprayer if possible the posi¬ 
tion of his platform be reversed, so that 
lie might drive the sprayer between the 
creek and the platform, then with a ro¬ 
tary pump for filling he would have a 
pretty complete rig. My plan has been 
to build a platform that was level with 
the top of the sprayer. On this platform 
I keep my barrels for blue vitriol, my 
tubs for lime and anything else needed. 
When we load up we hook the suction 
pipe to the rotary pump, using the dis¬ 
charge hose to wash out the lime and fill 
the tank; usually we can load the 200 
gallon tank in 10 to 15 minutes. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. b. j. case. 
Self-Boiled Lime and Sulpher Wash. 
TV. D., Madisonville, O. —It is considered 
important to use the boiled Jime-sulphur 
wash as soon after its preparation as pos¬ 
sible. Is it equally necessary that the selj- 
Voiled mixture should be used at. once, or 
cculd a quantity of it be kept several days 
(say a week) without deterioration in qual¬ 
ity ? 
Ans. —The self-boiled lime-sulphur 
mixture can be kept for a week or 
more without any material deteriora¬ 
tion. 
D. G. M. T„ Decatur, Ind. —In The R. 
N.-Y., of December 5, Prof. Scott says there 
is a difference in a mixture of lime and sul¬ 
phur made by boiling only from the heat de- 
\eloped in slaking the lime and immediately 
diluting with cold water, and one made 
by continued boiling. That the one made 
by the cold process does not injure the 
foliage but that made by continued boiling 
does. In the making of this mixture either 
way we get as a chemical product sul¬ 
phite and hyposulphite of lime. As sul¬ 
phur and lime combine in a proportion of 
near three sulphur and two of lime, when 
using equal parts we have an excess of 
lime. The mixture then ready for spray¬ 
ing consists of sulphite and hyposulphite 
of lime in solution and insoluble carbonate 
of lime. Does the caustic action of the 
mixture depend on the quantity of the sul¬ 
phites in it? How much of the sulphites 
of lime are in a given quantity of the 
mixture made by cither process? 
Ans. —Calcium polysulphid and thiosul¬ 
phate are formed in the self-boiled lime- 
sulphur the same as in the regular boiled 
wash, but in very much smaller quan¬ 
tities. These compounds are injurious 
to the foliage of fruit trees except in 
very dilute solutions. In making the self- 
boiled lime-sulphur mixture for Sum¬ 
mer use the object is to get a mechan¬ 
ical mixture of lime and sulphur in a 
finely divided condition with as little 
chemical reaction as possible. The in¬ 
tense heat and violent boiling caused 
by the slaking lime produces the de¬ 
sired result. If cold water is added 
immediately after the violent boiling 
ceases only a small per cent of the 
sulphur is dissolved or brought into 
chemical combination with the lime, 
and the wash is, therefore, not injuri- 
fcus to growing plants. But if the hot 
mass is not cooled the chemical reac¬ 
tion continues for an hour or more., 
and a large per cent of the sulphur 
may combine with the lime as poly¬ 
sulphid and thiosulphate, thus making 
a mixture entirely unsafe for use on 
trees in foliage. 
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