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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7, 
THE LIME AND SULPHUR SPRAY. 
There seems to be quite a number of 
people who object to the use of lime and 
sulphur as a spray on account of the 
disagreeable labor involved. This, of 
course, is encouraged by people who 
have high-priced products to sell in its 
stead. That it is possible, 'by proper 
attention to details in the beginning, to 
overcome most of these disagreeable ex¬ 
periences, I think can be easily demon¬ 
strated. That the person who contem¬ 
plates a sulphur plant should be a com¬ 
mercial grower, goes without saying. 
Given then, a business that will afford 
the expenditure necessary, the first thing 
is running water. I would rather boil 
in an iron kettle and have running water 
than use a steam boiler and a hand 
pump. Still if you must pump get 
your pump high enough so that it will 
run into the barrels and boiler. As¬ 
suming that you have purchased a suit¬ 
able steam boiler (six to 10 horse¬ 
power) you will set uj) a platform for 
the boiling barrels, or vat, high enough 
so that the liquid will run into the spray 
rig, _ The arrangement of barrels for 
boiling is generally regulated by sur¬ 
rounding conditions, there being many 
convenient ways, and nearly every one 
different. When the connections are 
made, barrels one-third fu’l of water and 
steam up, turn on the steam and heat 
the water to the boiling point. While 
the water is heating get the lime and 
sulphur ready and pour in the lime 
when the water boils, not forgetting to 
turn off the steam for the moment. At 
the height of the commotion caused by 
the slaking lime pour in the sulphur 
and stir with a long paddle. Upon your 
success in pouring in the sulphur at the 
proper time depends the amount of stir¬ 
ring needed to avoid residue in the bar¬ 
rels. If properly done and a good head 
of steam turned on one or two stirrings 
is sufficient. Boil 45 to 60 minutes, until 
the mixture turns on the green. Use 
salt or not as you like. I use 10 to 15 
pounds to 100 gallons of mixture. Have 
a good pump, but it need not be any 
better than is needed for Bordeaux. If 
using air or gas 75 to 80 pounds is suffi¬ 
cient. I am not in favor of extreme 
pressures for bare trees. If properly 
made and strained the solution is no 
more difficult to spray than Bordeaux. 
This straining can be much improved 
by a very simple device of my own 
(not patented) whereby the liquid 
passes through a strainer on the main 
lead to the hose. Said strainer will 
strain 100 gallons of mixture without 
cleaning and may be cleaned in 10 sec¬ 
onds. Agitation I have also solved 
without an agitator. 
Next is good hose, get the best. Don’t 
use the ordinary stop-cock, but take 
34-inch gas pipe six inches long. Cut 
thread on one end for stop-cock and 
file notches on the other.. Let the gas 
pipe enter the hose four inches and put 
on two bands, screwing them up as 
well as you know how. Buy a stop¬ 
cock that won’t leak; you can do it. 
You can always buy globe valves. 
Solder a disk of galvanized iron four 
inches-in diameter on the extension rod, 
about 12 or 18 inches from the nozzle. 
With good hose, good valves and the 
disk on the extension rod, there is no 
need of getting your hands wet. As 
further protection we use cheap gloves, 
sun bonnets and vaseline or petroleum. 
Spray the trees, using the nozzle you 
like best, a new one with a revolving 
disk worked well last Spring. Spray 
when it is quiet and spray when the 
wind blows, using a little common sense 
in keeping to the windward of the spray. 
Spray the trees and do it so thoroughly 
that you will be able to skip some of 
them next year. Every other year will 
answer for small trees if well done. 
Spray the trees and spray in the 
Spring, the later the better, provided 
you get through before the buds start, 
but don’t wait until the last minute; if 
you do it will rain for a week or 10 
days, and then you can wait until next 
jrear (or use oil). Right here is one of 
the profitable places for oil, when too 
late to use lime and sulphur. 
Don’t hold the nozzle too close to the 
trees; give the spray a chance to spread 
a little, but quit when you are through, 
but see that limbs and trunk are thor¬ 
oughly wet. Don’t forget in setting up 
your plant that all pipes should drain 
out when opened. 
Don’t forget to keep fire all night 
if you have stock left over and wish to 
save it. Bank your fire and turn on 
the least bit of steam. Don’t forget to 
put an automatic check valve on the 
steam pipe from boiler to the boiling 
vat, unless you want the mixture in 
the boiler by morning. 
New York. fred’k w. vail. 
An Interesting Test of Spraying Nozzles. 
At Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N.Y.. Feb. 21, 1908. 
Farmers’ week lias been observed here at the 
Department of Agriculture in their new mag¬ 
nificent buildings. Yesterday much time was 
devotM to the study of Spraying Outfits and 
their appliances. All of the leading manu¬ 
facturers were represented- Prof. C. S. Wilson, 
Ass't Director, called for a test of the various 
Spray Nozzles, Prof. Riley, Director of Farm 
Mechanics, conducting same. 
The various makes of Nozzles, one at a time, 
were connected to a Power Sprayer, the pres¬ 
sure at 105 to 110 lbs. The operator would hold 
the Nozzle up where all could see it, making 
the quality of the spray visible to all; then the 
Nozzle was held over a pail which bad been 
balanced on the scales. At the word of Mr. 
Riley, who held the watch, the pressure was 
turned onto the Nozzle; The time given was 
one minute. The Nozzles tested were of the 
leading makes. The first one tested discharged 
6 % lbs. of water. It was a Gould “Mystery;” 
Brown’s Nozzle next. 7% lbs.; Simplex next. 
10 1-1(3 lbs. The "Friend,” the only one marked 
“patented,” which is t In- original of these large 
Nozzles.doing away wit h the cluster,came next 
discharging \l% lbs. While this Nozzle handled 
nearly double the solution which the first one 
mentioned did,still the finest spray was notice¬ 
able. It was also noticed that it drove the 
fine spray farther with much more force. 
Much study ami experimental work has been 
going on for years in order to obtain one Nozzle 
of sufficient capacity to do away entirely with the 
cluster. One pleasing noticeable feature about the 
“ Friend ” was that there was no dripping or clog¬ 
ging. One of the other Nozzles drizzled badly. 
The last one tested was free from all sensitive, in¬ 
ternal, movable parts, which are always subject to 
dislocation or becoming immovable by corrosion. 
This carefully directed test indicates conclusively 
that tlie “Friend” came nearest to the requirement, 
it is manufactured by "The Friend” Mfg. Co-, Gas- 
port, N. Y. It sells for $1.55, postpaid. This Com¬ 
pany is composed of young, live, clean blood, and is 
setting a lively pace for competitors in the manufac¬ 
ture of Spraying Outfits and their accessories. —Adv. 
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IX 8 I I . ‘‘SAN JOSE 
(\ILL the SCALE” 
with Lime Sulphur Wash, Prepared with 
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Directions for Use. 
This preparation is Lime, Sulphur and Salt, making a concentrated 
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