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March 7, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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YOU ARE 
GOING TO SPRAY 
THIS SPRING 
f, APPLES A 
peaches! 
pearsI 
PLUMS 
CHERRIES 
GRAPES 
BERRIES 
POTATOES 
MELONS 
VEGETABLES 
FLOWERS 
VINES 
SHRUBBERY 
WEEDS 
N O matter liow small 
or extensive your 
operations there is 
a proven MYERS OUT¬ 
FIT—Bucket, Barrel or 
Power, tliat will just fit 
your requirements and 
do the work rapidly and 
effectively. 
Don’t take a chance on 
an outfit that you are 
not familiar with. Cut 
out failures by spraying- 
MYERS WAY. It pays 
big returns in better 
crops and higher market 
prices. 
Write today for Catalog 
showing all styles. 
F.E. MYERS &BR0., 
135 Orange Street 
ASHLAND OHIO 
LITTLE THINGS ABOUT SPRAYING. 
Busy times will soon be at band for 
the fruit men. Spraying will bo at band 
before we are aware of it. The time for 
doing the work properly is not long. If 
it is done, and it must it must be of we 
have that beautiful, delicious fruit for 
which we all crave, we must be prepared 
to push the work along when the time 
comes, and not be compelled to hasten it 
along by slighting the work. Slack 
spraying is time and money thrown 
away. Too late is as bad as being lax 
in applying, for if the larva of the Cod¬ 
ling moth makes its entrance into the 
apple, or the fungus has pushed itself 
ing. one should begin on some particu¬ 
lar branch of some one side of the tree, 
and cover it thoroughly, branch after 
branch, twig after twig, till every inch 
of the tree has been thoroughly cov¬ 
ered. Let us remember that none of 
these enemies we are seeking to destroy, 
are wandering around as if pleasure 
seeking, to get hold of our death trap. 
They have a purpose to perform. That 
purpose is the reproduction of their 
kind, through their natural agency. This 
natural agency they are there to leave. 
If we do not do the work carefully and 
till each blossom end, cover every leaf or 
branch completely, we have left a place 
A PENNSYLVANIA SPRAYING JOB. 
in the tissue of the plant, all the spray¬ 
ing in creation is of no avail. We must 
use all the time we have at our disposal 
now to prepare the outfit for the work. 
The pump may have been improperly 
cleaned when put away. Get it out and 
take it down. Look over all parts. Ex¬ 
amine for a weakness that may cause a 
break, just as we are nicely at work 
and thus cause a day or two of delay. 
Look over the hose and spray rods. New 
hose may be necessary; we cannot afford 
to have a break when we suffer delay. 
Extra couplings and hose-menders should | 
be secured and placed in the tool box to 
be taken to the orchard with the outfit 
when we begin, lias the pump shut-offs 
where hose and pump unite? Much 
time and annoyance will be saved by 
putting them there if you do not have 
them. Our pump did not have them 
when purchased, but on a rainy day 
they wore put on. 
By the way, is the pump of sufficient 
size to supply two lines of hose working 
all the time? Better have it large enough 
for three, than not large enough for two. 
We cannot at this time afford to use 
time of outfit for one-man spraying, 
would much rather have three if the sur¬ 
face of the ground is such that a tower 
can be used, so that one man may mount 
the tower and spray from the top of the 
tree while the other two from the ground 
spray the under limbs and sides. 
If the orchard is far from the house 
or water supply, the tank or carrying 
outfit should be large enough to take at 
least 1100 or 250 gallons of material 
afield at one time. Going back and forth 
so frequently costs too much time. The 
few extra dollars invested in the larger . 
tank will soon be repaid when we count I 
the cost of labor lost in waiting for the 
refilling of the small tanks. 
Equip the spray-rod with nozzles that 
spread the spray well, so as to cover tin- 
trees rapidly and well. The time for 
using nozzles of small capacity, or noz¬ 
zles that are constantly catching in every 
little branch, has gone by. The angle 
nozzles seem to do the best work in all 
condtiions and under varying positions 
of sprajing. 
Gain time in every way possible save 
by slighting the work. Here we must 
be car ful. There ax-e many failures in 
spraying, and it is wonderful that there 
are not more, when we see some people 
spray. No work on the farm should be 
done more systematically than that of 
spraying. We cannot afford to guess 
where we have worked on a tree. Here 
is where we need the very best of help. 
Help with enei-gy enough that they will 
not be slow in the free use of feet, hands 
and eyes. Standing in close proximity 
to a tree and pointing a spray rod at 
the tree, as the pump throws the liquid 
through the hose is not spraying. It is 
wasting. To do a thorough job of spray- 
of escape and we may expect the con¬ 
tinuation of the species. 
Spraying against the wind is wasteful. 
We cannot throw these fine sprays to 
any certain spot desired against hard 
winds. Spraying in the rain is in the 
same category. Spray on the side with 
the wind and then wait for the other side 
till the wind has shifted. Keep the spray 
rod moving, passing the nozzle up and 
down the branches till all is covered. 
One spraying done thoroughly and at 
the correct tim. is worth more than three 
VERY farmer, fruit-grower and truck-gardener needs this book. It is not 
merely a catalog. Over 30 pages are given entirely to description and photo- 
t |>m graphic illustrations of insects and plant diseases that rob you every year of a 
large share of your profits. It gives you in condensed form and in simple language 
all the information and instructions you need to combat these pests; enumerates the various 
remedies which experiment has proven successful and gives detailed directions as to how and 
when to apply them. I know that if you will send for this book and follow its instructions care¬ 
fully you will make more than enough EXTRA PROFIT from your acres or your orchard this 
year to more than pay forthecost of the outfit and the slight labor involved in using it. 
This book also contains illustrations, some in colors, of our 28 different styles and sizes of 
sprayers from small hand-power outfits to large gasoline engine sprayers for field and orchard.. 
It explains in detail our liberal selling policy under which you can buy 
Hurst Sprayers on 10 Days Trial with 5 Yr. Guarantee 
I will ship you any HTRST SPRAYER, without one cent in advance, without any bank deposit, and with¬ 
out any agreement to keep and pay for it unless you are thoroughly satisfied. I want you to try it for 10 days and 
then if it proves to be all I claim for it, you can pay for it on terms to suit your own convenience. You 
can take my word for it, that in reality it will not cost you a cent because it will give you more than enough 
extra profit the first year to pay for itself twice over. We pay the freight. 
I want to send you this fine, handsome book absolutely FREE and 
at the same time I want to explain to you my groat 
MONEY SAVING OFFER 
This is made to the first buyer in each locality this 
season. All I need is your address and you can send 
it to me on a postal card. Tell me what sort of sprayer 
you are interested in or what you have to spray, and I 
will be very glad to help you solve your problems. 
Now don’t put this off but write me today and the book 
will reach you in the first possible mail—FREE. 
E. H. LAMIELL, Gen’l Mgr. 
The H. L. HURST MFC. CO. 
2814 North St., Canton, Ohio. 
