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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 
AN AIR PRESSURE SPRAYING OUTFIT 
When A. I. Loop put out his first 
little compressed air sprayer a forward 
step was taken that I believe will soon 
turn into one grand march of com¬ 
pressed air sprayers through every or¬ 
chard in the land where good work is 
required at least possible expense and 
trouble. Certain business conditions 
spray gangs of two each, one mechanic 
at engine and compressor, and two men 
at mixing and loading station, 7,000 to 
8,000 heavily loaded trees were thor¬ 
oughly sprayed daily to a sum total of 
nearly 300,000 trees. There were no 
break-downs, or stops for repairs. While 
the first cost of plant was nearly $3,000, 
effectiveness and low cost of work in 
J. H. HALE’S COMPOUND AIR SPRAYING STATION. 
hard to overcome having made it diffi¬ 
cult for manufacturers to see any profit 
in the air spray outfit, the development 
has been slow and almost wholly by or- 
chardists, who wanted something better 
than gasoline engines and pumps. Two 
years ago, when convinced that three to 
four annual sprayings must in future be 
given to the more than one hundred 
thousand trees in our Georgia peach or¬ 
chard, I spent many months and thous¬ 
ands of miles of travel looking over 
such compressed air sprayers as were 
then jn use. I found no two exactly 
alike, or anywhere near perfect, yet all 
able to do good work to the satisfac¬ 
tion of their owners, all of whom ad¬ 
vised me strongly to go in for com¬ 
pressed air. Therefore, after a careful 
sifting of all their ideas and experi¬ 
ments, I became satisfied that nearly all 
would have to be rejected, and a new 
start made on a scientific basis, and so I 
placed my need before Ralph B. Carter, 
a hydraulic engineer of New York, who 
had used compressed air in much of his 
work for years, and by the combination of 
his scientific knowledge with my prac¬ 
tical needs and limitations, an outfit 
was constructed that for efficiency and 
economy in large orchards on reason¬ 
ably level lands I am confident has no 
equal in the country to-day. The power 
consists of 10 horse-power gasoline en¬ 
gine and a two-stage air compressor set 
on solid iron bed piece and connected by 
shaft; no belts or pulleys of any kind, 
simply one solid piece of machinery. 
The tanks were 10 feet long and two 
feet in diameter and are made of one- 
fourth-inch galvanized steel, double 
riveted; this was tested to 400 pounds 
pressure and warranted for 250 pounds. 
(Never, never buy a ready-made tank, 
have them made right or have none at 
all.) Cross heads were put in these 
tanks, so that air might be in one end 
and liquid spray, in the other. This plan 
enabled us to haul a well-balanced load, 
while the old two-tank plan makes a 
heavy one-sided load, on the liquid tank 
side. Couplings, fittings, etc., were all 
of the very best and everything as near 
fool-proof as it was possible to make it. 
A quick shift coupling with Y .connec¬ 
tion for the two lines of hose made it 
possible to connect and disconnect hose 
in a small fraction of a minute. Six of 
these tanks were made and fitted up. 
Our water supply being only a little to 
one side of center of orchard, the com¬ 
pressor was there permanently located 
by the mixing tanks. The average haul 
being about one mile, we were able to 
keep a rapid fire line up of three foun¬ 
tains squirting a steam-like mist over 
the trees all the time. One team being 
at the charging station and two going 
and coming, loaded and empty, required 
six teams of mules and drivers; three 
orchard will soon pay for that. After 
lying idle from June until December the 
plant was started up without loss or 
trouble and our Winter spraying all 
done so quickly that it really seemed 
more like a little Christmas frolic among 
the trees, as no one dreads the spray 
job any more. 
The year’s experience in the South 
fully convinced me of the value of com¬ 
pressed air over any other form of 
power for spraying, so that during the 
past few months I have had Mr. Carter 
work out plans for two engines and 
compressor equipment and 10 one-horse 
tank carts, suitable for our rough hilly 
lands at Glastonbury and Seymour, in¬ 
stead of the one big tank of the South, 
for both air and spray liquid. Two 
short chubby tanks are used and placed 
parallel of the axle, between the wheels 
so as to easily turn about anywhere that 
a horse and two wheels can go. The 
air tank being larger than the liquid 
tank of 65 gallons, allows us to start 
spraying with 200 pounds pressure and 
finish at about 125 pounds (which, by 
the way, is fully enough for all practical 
orchard purposes). It appears to be an 
ideal equipment for the intended i tork 
and I think will be largely patterned 
after in years to come. Agitation is 
continuous by gearing to the wheels; it 
was thought at one time we might be 
able to do the agitation with the air, but 
it was not feasible. j. H. hale. 
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