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THK RUKAE, NEW-YORKER 
February 10, 
SPRAYING NOTES. 
At the New York State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association and the Western New 
York Horticultural Society meetings the 
Cornell Agricultural College people 
made demonstrations of spraying 
against the wind. This is now a new 
idea to the average man who has been 
practicing spraying methods, and is of 
practical benefit only when young trees 
or older trees with small, narrow heads 
are to be sprayed, and whej? the force 
behind the spray nozzle is sufficient to 
drive the spray through the tree top 
against the wind, the wind catching the 
fine particles of spray material and 
driving them back upon that side of 
the branches not hit by the direct spray. 
This method is especially useful in 
spraying young trees, under six years, 
and if an angle nozzle upon an eight- 
foot gaspipe or bamboo extension is 
used the operator can thoroughly spray 
the tree with very little if any shift¬ 
ing of position. For large trees I be¬ 
lieve the method impractical and should 
not recommend its use upon large trees 
of any kind. Prof. Whetzel also dis¬ 
played a new type of spray tower, the 
top of which was about 3}4x6 feet in 
length, and instead of being surround¬ 
ed by a rail to prevent the operator 
being thrown off, it had a rail running 
lengthwise, which the operator rode 
astride. I can see how in old closely- 
planted trees there would be but a 
and Brown-tail moth fight in Massa¬ 
chusetts, and with their 3-16-inch nozzle 
and 250 pounds pressure they will lit¬ 
erally smother the top of a tree 75 feet 
high with spray, and do it quicker than 
one can describe the operation. Of 
course, smaller diameter nozzles would 
have to be used for orchard work, and 
there will probably be more waste -if 
high and large fruit trees are to be 
sprayed. I believe that the operator in 
using this type of nozzle must stand 
some distance from tree, or the force 
of spray would seriously injure foliage. 
In the ordinary spraying operations the 
improved Vermorel, throwing the fun¬ 
nel-shaped spray or the flat fan-shaped 
spray are renerally used, and are most 
effective if made to throw the spray at 
an angle from the extension rod; these 
are called angle nozzles. Swivel at¬ 
tachments are now offered that can be 
attached to any spray rod and turned so 
as to give any desired angle to the noz¬ 
zle. Nozzles arranged in this way are 
especially useful in spraying upper and 
lower sides of branches or leaves, or 
in spraying downward into the calyx 
end of apples and pears shortly after 
blossom petals fall for Codling moth. 
Some of the far western experiment 
stations claim that only by spraying in 
this way with using a coarse driving 
spray and high pressure can best results 
be obtained in controlling Codling moth. 
All experimenters agree that a thorough 
spraying with an arsenate poison of 
proper strength at this time, is the most 
important spray to be applied in the con¬ 
trol of Codling moth, and results of 
careful experiments made in New Eng¬ 
land and Hudson Valley would indicate 
that this one spraying carefully and 
thoroughly done would control this 
most important apple pest b. d. v. b. 
small amount of superstructure to catch 
branches, but am of the opinion that 
the tower man, after riding said rail 
over rough ground, stones, dead fur¬ 
rows, etc., and clinging to the rail with 
his nether extremities for a day, would 
begin to think he ought to have been 
supplied with an caudal appendage and 
also be well armor-plated if he was to 
continue spraying operations.—[Put on 
a saddle. Ed.] 
Nozzles, next to the pump and engine, 
are most important parts of the spray¬ 
ing equipment. Many variations of the 
principle types are in use. The kinds 
now most generally used in New York 
State and probably in the East have 
been developed from the old Vermorel 
type, and throwing a funnel-shaped 
spray, but one of from three to four 
times the spray-throwing capacity of 
the old style Vermorel does not break 
up the spray quite as finely, but fine 
enough for all practical purposes. The 
opening being much larger, eliminates 
practically all the clogging, which was 
the principal defect of the original type. 
The only fault which this type of nozzle 
has is that the spray lacks direct driv¬ 
ing force, and the spray must be blown 
through the tree by the prevailing wind, 
as the initial pressure is so spread out 
in the funnel-shaped spray that it is 
only thrown a few feet from the noz¬ 
zle. Another type of nozzle throws 
the narrow or wide fan-shaped sprays. 
With the best types of these nozzles a 
fine spray can be driven much farther 
than with the Vermorel type, and they 
are especially useful in reaching tops of 
trees that could not be reached by the 
other type, even if the ordinary exten¬ 
sion rod and tower were in use. They 
have the fault generally of throwing 
defective sprays after being used but a 
short time, and almost always have a 
disagreeable dripping tendency. They 
need high pressure to do most effective 
work, but will throw a spray through 
a tree upon still days to much greater 
advantage than the preceding type. As 
a rule the more narrow the fan-shaped 
spray the further it can be driven. 
Another type is the old solid round 
stream of small diameter, long since 
discarded in ordinary spraying opera¬ 
tions, as being inefficient and wasteful 
of material, but now under the high 
pressure, modern power spray pumps, 
and taking into consideration the cheap¬ 
ness of spraying material, it may prove 
to be a most effective instrument in 
the spraying of large trees. 
This type has recently been developed 
by the authorities conducting the Gypsy 
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