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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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SENSIBLE SPRAYING NOTES. 
Some time ago The R. N.-Y. contain¬ 
ed an article on the inability of one 
man to use the ordinary spray pump, as 
it requires one man to pump and an¬ 
other to hold the spray rod. This 
point was well taken. I had the same 
trouble and wrote to several manufac¬ 
turers and also our experiment station, 
asking where I could find a tank hold¬ 
ing from three to five gallons that I 
could attach to the pump as an extra 
air .chamber, so one man could use it 
for a few trees if wanted, but more 
especially to retain a steady pressure 
and make it much easier for the man 
doing the pumping, when using two 
■lines of. hose. I finally found a tank 
which I attached and added a pressure 
gauge. This made it very much easier 
for the man doing the pumping to keep 
up a uniform pressure. 
My tank is located above outlet of 
pump and makes it top-heavy. I am 
told that some firms are making outfits 
with a large t air tank down in the bar¬ 
rel holding the spray liquid. If this 
can he done with no danger of this 
tank filling with liquid, it would be 
much better than mine. My pump is 
SPRAY STRAINER. 
on a 30-gallon barrel on a two-wheel 
cart and is as heavy as two men can 
well handle to draw it about in the or¬ 
chard. 1 find in practice that many 
mixers as furnished will not keep arse¬ 
nate of lead from settling, causing 
some leaves to be burned where spray 
was too strong. I finally discarded my 
mixer and found one with four paddles, 
two moving in opposite directions, 
operated by the handle of the pump; 
this works very well. I also find that 
the small two-inch strainer at bottom of 
pump is too small, especially for home¬ 
made or self-boiled lime-sulphur. My 
advice would be to see that strainer at 
bottom of barrel be not less than three 
to four inches in diameter, so if a little | 
sediment collects on strainer and oh- | 
structs the inlet it will not make it 
harder for the man at the pump. To j 
overcome this I had a strainer made j 
3 l /2 inches in diameter and five inches j 
high, surrounding the pipe at bottom of | 
barrel. This works to my full satisfac- i 
tion, using a brass wire cloth, 26 mesh ! 
to the inch, the holes in pipe being 
within one-half inefy of bottom of 
strainer, which rests on bottom of bar¬ 
rel. This leaves but very little liquid 
in barrel that cannot be pumped out. 
See cut. Many manufacturers recom¬ 
mend too short a hose. I would never 
think of using less than 25 feet. Mine 
are 33 feet each, and when I buy again 
.1 will get 50 feet for each line. Then 
two men can spray two rows and get on 
any side of trees. The bamboo exten¬ 
sion rods with brass or aluminum pipe 
inside, are an actual necessity. I have 
8, 10, 14 and 20 foot extension rods, hut 
the 20-foot is too heavy and limher to 
be practical. If trees are very high I 
find it fully as satisfactory to use the 
14-foot rod and a good stepladder. 
Ohio. b. c. w. 
Best Forms of Nitrogen. 
E. D., Pennsylvania .—In what form should 
nitrogen be purchased to use in home-mixed 
fertilizers to get best results? The soil is 
sandy and gravelly loam, fertilizer to be 
used on general farm crops. Has kainit 
any value to rid soil of the white grub 
and cutworm in addition to its value as 
potash ? 
Ans. —The theory of using nitrogen 
in home-mixed fertilizers is to take at 
least two different forms—one which is 
quickly available, the other an organic 
form which will decay and feed the 
plant through the season. For the first 
form nitrate of soda and sulphate of 
ammonia should be used. For organic 
nitrogen there are dried blood, tankage, 
ground fish and others. While dried 
blood is usually most expensive we 
should prefer to use it. Kainit is one 
of the German potash salts. It con¬ 
tains considerable common salt and in 
ordinary fertilizing amounts would have 
but little eeffet upon insets. If you used 
enough of it to do the insects any harm 
you would sterilize the soil for most 
crops. 
Farmers’ Price for Seed. 
Can you toll us what farmers in your 
locality received for the last crop of clover 
and Timothy seed? 
Clover seed, $9 per bushel; Timothy seed, 
$4 per bushel. H. H. avert. 
Indiana. 
I sold my Timothy seed for $5.50. I 
think that is the average for the bulk of 
the seed. As for clover, I do not know 
of a bushel being thrashed, on account of 
dry weather none seeded. R. t. b. 
Marengo, O. 
Those who sold clover seed last Fall 
sold for $11 and $11.50 per bushel for 
prime, uncleaned seed. No Timothy ever 
grown here for seed. l. c. t. 
Ilowe, lud. 
At the present prime Timothy is worth 
$6.50 per bushel, prime clover Seed. $12.50 
per bushel. Quite a few farmers sold their 
Timothy seed early and received $5 per 
bushel for it. I. J. A. 
Jcromesville, O. 
One man who thrashed Timothy sold it 
to neighboring farmers at $7 the bushel. 
No. 1 seed. Not much Timothy thrashed 
or clover hulled here, as it is mostly sold 
for hay or fed. Local dealers charged from 
$7.50 to $8 per bushel. d. b. c. 
Loveland. O. 
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