THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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about hand and power sprayers. 
There seems to be some difference of 
opinion among R. N.-Y. readers as to 
which is the more economical spraying 
outfit, the hand or power sprayer. I 
have used both kinds, and think each 
kind is all right in its place, but a great 
big nuisance out of its place. The 
proper thing to do in choosing a sprayer 
is to get one that is adapted to the work 
to be done. Consider the following 
points with reference to your orchards 
and then select a sprayer 1 ingly: 
1. Location of orchards, whether hilly 
or level ground, whether swampy, rocky 
or smooth and solid. 2. Size of trees, 
whether large or small, standing close 
together with low-hanging branches or 
power pump is more complex—more 
"fixings” about it, and in addition the 
gasoline engine takes a little extra knowl¬ 
edge to operate than is necessary with 
a hand pump, but the average farmer 
thinks nothing of learning to operate a 
gasoline engine. 
Ability to Reach Tall Trees. —No 
difference of course in the two outfits 
if you can keep up sufficient pressure. 
But it takes much more pressure to de¬ 
liver a given amount of spray up into 
the tops of tall trees than to spray the 
same at or near the ground. Also an 
elevated platform is a necessity when 
spraying tall trees no matter what kind 
of pump is employed, for it is not prac¬ 
ticable to use an extension rod over 10 
or 12 feet in length. Altogether the 
power outfit if properly equipped may be 
said to have considerable advantage over 
the hand outfit for reaching tall trees. 
STRAWBERRY JOE. Fig. 228. 
(See " Ruralisms,” page 077.) 
far enough apart to drive through with 
wagon. 3. Amount of work to be done. 
A few trees, even tall ones, can be 
sprayed with almost any kind of sprayer 
where time is no consideration, but 
where there are thousands of trees to 
be sprayed it requires a larger and 
more speedy outfit. I shall try to com¬ 
pare the advantages and disadvantages 
of a gasoline power sprayer mounted 
on a two-horse wagon and a simple hand 
barrel pump mounted on a cart, under 
the following heads: 
Speed.— With the barrel outfit we 
emptied 40 gallons an hour, but with 
pretty coarse nozzle. With power out¬ 
fit about three times that amount, but 
using finer nozzles (four of them), so it 
may be said that the power outfit had at 
least a four to one advantage over the 
hand outfit when speed was considered. 
Ease of Operation.— Pumping by hand 
is not just very straining work, but 
very tiresome if kept up all day. At 
least, I would not care to follow the 
pumping business, notwithstanding I am 
used to hard work; yet I could do it if 
necessary. There is no reason why one 
outfit should give the operator more 
trouble than the other, provided that 
both are put together right and kept in 
good repair. 1 had far more trouble 
with the barrel outfit than we ever had 
with the power outfit, but this was be¬ 
cause I did not understand how to op¬ 
erate any kind of pumps when I first 
started in spraying. I have never seen a 
spraying outfit yet that did not give the 
•'perators occasional trouble, even with 
what seemed the best of care. The 
J he hand outfit does very well for spray¬ 
ing all kinds of trees up to the size of 
a full-grown peach tree and can at times 
be used to better advantage than the 
heavier outfit, as will be explained in 
the next paragraph. 
Ease of Travel. —In this respect the 
hand outfit takes the lead. If the or¬ 
chard is on a hillside (as all peach 
orchards should be), then the outfit with 
the elevated platform is handled with 
difficulty. If the hillside is steep it is 
quite impossible to operate anything but 
a cart outfit. A barrel pump mounted 
on a cart and drawn by one horse will 
go almost any place—up and down hill, 
along the steep sides, between closely 
planted trees and under low-hanging 
branches, through marshes, and making 
short turns, performing all these stunts 
with comparative ease. One afternoon 
last Spring we pulled into a farmer’s 
young apple orchard situated on a hill¬ 
side with our heavy power outfit. The 
lower corner was swampy and after we 
got to end of the first row we could 
not make the turn up hill, for the lower 
wheels were partly buried in the earth. 
We had nothing to do but hitch the 
team to the rear end and pull it out 
backward. A man with a cart outfit 
would have had the laugh on us on that 
deal. Yet we get around very well and 
pulled out of some pretty tight places. 
Cost. —Here again the smaller outfit 
has the advantage. The barrel outfit 
costs from $15 to $20, the power outfit 
from $200 to $250. As to which is really 
the cheaper must be determined by the 
intending purchaser, taking into consid¬ 
eration the points mentioned and per¬ 
haps others besides. david plank. 
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