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Other infected trees. The following is 
the formula for the lime, sulphur and 
salt mixture and our method of prepar¬ 
ing and applying it. 
LIME, SULPHUR AND SALT MLXTURE. 
Rock Lime .21 pounds. 
Flour of Sulphur.15 pounds. 
Salt . 5 pounds. 
Water to make fifty gallons. 
The lime is placed in the cooking bar¬ 
rel with about 10 or 12 gallons of water. 
The steam is turned on, which agitates 
the lime while Backing preventing it from 
burning, and renders the slacking more 
perfect. After lime is thoroughly slack¬ 
ed fill barrel about one-half full of water. 
Mix the sulphur into a paste, after lime 
is slacked add the sulphur paste and salt 
and boil vigorously for forty minutes. 
The arranging of cooking plant I will 
be glad to explain to any one sufficiently 
interested to write or ask about it. 
In spray machinery we have used 
everything from a knapsack sprayer to a 
traction engine and steam pump, the lat¬ 
ter carrying 20 to 30 nozzles, except the 
gasoline power sprayer. The gasoline 
power sprayers have never appealed to us 
for two reasons, first: The weight of en¬ 
gine, pump and tank of water for cooling 
engine, neccessary to haul around, and 
second, the intricacy of the little engines 
and a scarcity of a class of help with a 
knowledge of gasoline engines that would 
care to work in as disagreeable work as 
spraying. When you have a days weath¬ 
er, right for spraying you want the most 
reliable machine possible. The most prac¬ 
tical we have yet found is the Wallace 
Sprayer, manufactured by Wallace Ma¬ 
chinery Company, Champaign, Ill. The 
pump is driven by a gear from the wheel, 
one extra mule or horse will pull the ex¬ 
tra load occasioned by this gearing and 
maintain a pressure of from 90 to 120 
pounds. For effective spraying a high 
pressure must be maintained. The trac¬ 
tion engine outfit did good service, though 
do not know as it is an economical outfit, 
the 'trouble came from the little annoy¬ 
ances such as two or three of the nozzles 
out of a cluster of four or six becoming 
clogged, necessitating the stopping of the 
remainder of the twenty or thirty noz¬ 
zles for these two or three to be cleaned. 
With thiis steam outfit, an engineer, fire- 
mian and six men could spray thoroughly 
one side of three rows of trees ranging 
from 12 to 15 feet in height, about one 
half as fast as a man would naturally 
walk up and down the rows, covering 
about ten acres a (day. With the Wallace 
outfit three mules and three men would 
spray one side of one row at a little fas¬ 
ter pace than the engine moved, in fact 
the team was kept moving slowly and 
steadily. While I do not know that the 
Wallace Sprayers would be practical in 
an orange grove, where a great amount 
of leaf surface is to be covered but for 
spraying peaches, while in a dormant con¬ 
dition they are practical. 
The curculio, curculio stung or wormy 
peaches and plums are found in every old 
peach growing section and in fact in near¬ 
ly every plum thicket. Cures or remedies 
.for this little rascal are few and difficult, 
preventatives are about our only hope. 
Here are a few of them. 
Plant your trees in a place as far dis¬ 
tant from other peach and plum trees 
where you find worms in the fruit, as 
possible. . Keep all brush heaps, old rot¬ 
ten logs, and such trash cleaned out 
