1910. 
THU rural, NEW-YORKER 
205 
SPRAYING IN A VIRGINIA ORCHARD. 
The picture given below, Fig. 106, shows 
two parts of spray work in a Virginia 
orchard. In the hilly country where 
most of the fine Virginia apples are 
grown air pressure sprayers are in com¬ 
mon use. The picture was taken on the 
farm of Dr.S.S. Guerrant, president of the 
Virginia State Horticultural Society. 
There is a water power on this farm 
which is used for many purposes, in¬ 
cluding pumping, turning mills and 
working the air compressor, u Fig. 106. 
shows the actual work of spraying a 
tree. This gives an idea of the way 
these trees grow, and the method of put¬ 
ting the spray on them. 
Making Bordeaux mixture is an im¬ 
portant operation on fruit farms and 
various methods have been worked out, 
depending chiefly on the water supply. 
Dr. Guerrant describes his method as 
follows: 
“In making Bordeaux Mixture we first 
make up a stock solution by using two 
old oil barrels with the heads out; 
these hold 50 gallons each. We weigh out 
50 pounds of sulphate of copper (blue- 
h_ Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield and 
Early Spring. Mid-season, Early Sum¬ 
mer, Succession and All-Head; late, 
Sure-Head, Flat Dutch, Danish Ball- 
Head. 
Carrot. Short Horn, Chantenay, Ox- 
heart and Danver’s Half-Long. 
Cauliflower, early, Snowball, Dwarf 
Erfurt; late, Seafoam. 
Celery, early, Golden Self-Blanching, 
White Plume; late. Winter Queen, 
French Success and Giant Pascal. 
Sweet corn, First-of-All, Premo, 
Golden Bantam, White-Cob Cory, Cos¬ 
mopolitan, Country Gentleman and Sto- 
well’s Evergreen. 
Cucumber, White Spine. 
Eggplant, Black Beauty, New York 
Improved and Early Long Purple. 
Lettuce, Grand Rapids, Boston Market, 
May King and Iceerg. 
Muskmelon, Rocky Ford, and Emer¬ 
ald Gem. 
Watermelon, Fordhook Early, Kleck- 
ley Sweet, and Halbert Honey. 
Onion, Prizetaker for transplanting; 
Southport Yellow Globe, Southport Red 
Globe and Red Weathersfield for sowing 
in the open. 
SPRAYING AN APPLE TREE IN VIRGINIA. Fig. 106. 
stone), put it in an old bag and sus¬ 
pend this in one of the barrels filled 
with water. This should be done the 
day before the mixture is to be used, as 
it takes considerable time for it to dis¬ 
solve. Then 50 pounds of good lime 
is slaked and put in the other barrel. 
Fill barrel with water, stir up well and 
then every time you take out a gallon 
of the lime and a gallon of the blue- 
stone mixture you get one pound each 
of lime and copper, and in this way you 
can get the desired strength. We have 
two tubs with wooden faucets; into one 
of these we put enough of the lime 
for 100 gallons of the mixture and into 
the other enough bluestone solution for 
100 gallons and when the 100-gallon 
tank is about one-half full of water we 
open the faucets of both tubs and allow 
the lime and bluestone solutions to 
run into the large tank; at the same 
time the mixture in the large tank is 
kept well stirred. The mixture is then 
run through a trough into the steel spray 
tank mounted on a wagon, and at the 
same time the air tank is being filled 
with compressed air. The entire process 
except that of dipping the stock solu¬ 
tions from the barrels is done by gravity, 
and very little time is consumed. The 
water is taken from the water-lane that 
goes to the wheel that runs the air- 
compressor, and is high enough to run 
into the mixing barrels and tank and 
then on down to the spray-tank on 
wagon. We used six pounds bluestone 
and eight pounds of lime to 100 gallons, 
and in some cases this caused consider¬ 
able injury to the fruit; this seemed to 
be worse when it happened to rain or 
become cloudy soon after spraying was 
done.” 
SOME OLD FRIENDS. 
Do not allow yourself to be carried 
away with descriptions and illustrations 
of new varieties of vegetables. Some are 
worth trying, but none of them should 
be planted on a large scale until you 
know their real merit. In other words, 
stick to old friends until you have found 
better. The following are dependable 
varieties largely planted : 
Asparagus, Palmetto is by far the most 
popular variety. It is large, vigorous ail'd 
rust resistant to a great extent. 
Beans, green-podded, Red Valentine 
is standard; shell, White Marrowfat; 
wax, Golden Wax and Brittle Wax; 
Pole, Golden Carmine Horticultural; 
Bush Lima, Burpee, Henderson and 
Dreer; Pole Lima, Early Leviathan and 
King of the Garden. 
Beets, Egyptian, Eclipse and Early 
Model. 
Chard, Swiss. Large-Ribbed White. 
Cabbage, Early, Race Horse, Jersey 
Parsnip, Guernsey and Hollow Crown. 
Peas, Alaska, Gradus, Thos. Laxton, 
Nott’s Excelsior and Stratagem. 
Peppers, Sweet, Neapolitan, Ruby 
King, Bull Nose and Chinese Giant. 
Radish, Scarlet Forcing, Earliest 
White, French Breakfast, White Icicle, 
Chartiers and Long White Vienna. 
Rhubarb. Victoria and Linmeus. 
Squash, Mammoth White Bush, Gold¬ 
en Summer Crookneck, Plubbard and 
Boston Marrow. 
Tomatoes, Earliana, Chalk, Matchless, 
Beauty and Stone. 
Turnips, Early White Flat Strap- 
Leafed, Early Red Purple Topped Strap- 
Leafed, and Red Top White Globe. 
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