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Spraying and Spray Material 
S PRAYING lias become a necessity on 
the well-managed fruit aud truck 
farm. The man who attempts to grow 
fruit or vegetables these days without 
spraying will find the fates against him. 
To be successful with our spraying work 
we must know our crop, know what we 
are spraying for, know what material to 
use; know how to apply it; where to 
apply it, when to apply it and how to ap¬ 
ply it effectively without injuring our crop. 
Equipment. —In order to spray to ad¬ 
vantage we must have the equipment best 
suited to our conditions. The man with 
a garden can get along very nicely with a 
knapsack sprayer which need not cost 
over .$0 or $8. The man with a variety 
of truck crops and a few fruit trees can 
use a 50-gallon barrel sprayer to advan¬ 
tage. This should have an air chamber, 
so as to insure a fairly uniform pressure. 
There should be two leads of hose 15 to 
25 feet long, and two extension spray 
rods. For spraying fruit trees this can 
he loaded on a cart, wagon or sled, and 
drawn wherever needed. For spraying 
white potatoes it can bo loaded on a .Ter- 
Preparatiox Of Standard Bordeaux 
Mixture. —Four pounds copper sulphate 
(blue vitriol) ; four or five pounds stone 
lime (freshly burned and good) ; 50 gal¬ 
lons water. Dissolve copper sulphate by 
suspending it in a burlap bag near the top 
of a barrel holding 25 gallons of water. 
Slake lime in a separate vessel. Then 
strain into a second barrel and dilute with 
water to 25 gallons. Pour simultaneously 
from each barrel into a third barrel, or 
else directly into spray tank. Fse a 
strainer and keep solution well stirred. 
An elevated platform with spigots in tin* 
bottom of the barrels will facilitate this 
operation. To make a double-acting 
spray suitable for killing insects as well 
as preventing blight, add three pounds 
to six pounds of arsenate of lead to the 
above mixture. Completely dissolve tin* 
lead in a small quantity of water before 
adding to tlx* Bordeaux. This mixture is 
especially valuable as a spray for toma¬ 
toes and eggplants. Fse it in the bed, 
when plants are set in the field and every 
10 days thereafter until fruit is half 
THE FLOWER GIRL. 
sey dump cart drawn by one horse. The 
cart straddles two rows, the horse walks 
between. One man pumps and drives; 
another can tend the nozzles. If a sta¬ 
tionary spray rod is attached behind one 
man can do the work alone. For spray¬ 
ing tomatoes this barrel sprayer on a 
light wagon drawn by two horses* will 
work well, provided there is room to turn 
at the ends. If there isn’t room to turn, 
then the barrel would best be fastened on 
two-wheel frame. A barrel sprayer of 
this type with all attachments ... not 
cost over $50, and it can be put to a great 
variety of uses on almost any farm. For 
very large acreage of tomatoes, potatoes, 
eggplants, etc., one of the bettor makes 
of potato sprayers, costing from $75 to 
$100, and made so the wheels can be ad¬ 
justed to various widths of row, will he 
most economical. For large fruit grow¬ 
ers the power sprayer is without doubt 
the best and most economical, but the 50- 
gallon barrel sprayer is still the standby 
for the average grower. 
Reason For Spraying. —We spray 
for two primary reasons, to destroy the 
insects that infest our crops, and to pre¬ 
vent various fungus diseases from de¬ 
stroying our plants. The materials used 
and time of application must vary. An 
insect that bites and chews the foliage 
is killed by the use of some arsenical poi¬ 
son. We must get that poison in the in- 
sect’s digestive tract without injuring the 
foliage of the plant. The standard 
stomach poison has been Paris green, 
but now it is arsenate of lead. The lead 
is less liable to burn the foliage if ap¬ 
plied carelessly. Insects that suck the 
plant juices without chewing the leaves 
must he killed by some contact spray. 
We must kill them by stopping up their 
breathing pores, or by burning them 
with some caustic solution. This kill¬ 
ing must be done without injuring the 
plant. Blights, rusts and fungus 
troubles generally, cannot be cured; 
they must be prevented. 
grown. If rightly done the control of 
blight will be almost perfect. For white 
potatoes it is a standard spray. Keep 
vines well coated at all times. If hard¬ 
shell bugs are plentiful it may be neors- 
sary to add more arsenate of lead. Also 
a valuable spray for cantaloupes, melons 
and cucumbers as a partial means of con- 
trnlling blight and sure way of killing 
beetles. Fntil further experiments have 
been made Bordeaux is the safest aud 
best spray to use in controlling the va¬ 
rious vegetable diseases. 
Regular Lime-Sulphur (N. .7. Ex¬ 
periment Station).—15 pounds stone 
lime; 15 pounds sulphur; 50 gallons wa¬ 
ter. Moisten sulphur with water. Place 
lime in barrel or kettle. Add water to 
start slaking. Add sulphur and water to 
make 25 gallons. Boil vigorously for one 
hour. Add water to make 50 gallons. 
Strain and use immediately. This is used 
against the San .Tose scale alien trees 
nre dormant. It is also valuable in con¬ 
trolling peach leaf-curl if applied before 
buds begin to open. Boiling is best done 
by steam; if this is not available then an 
old hog scakler will come in handy. 
Self-Boiled Lime-Sulphur (N. J. 
Experiment Station).—Eight pounds 
stone lime; eight pounds sulphur; 50 gal¬ 
lons water. Fan be prepared most suc¬ 
cessfully in large quantities of at least 
24 pounds lime, 24 pounds sulphur and 
enough water to make 150 gallons spray 
material. Moisten sulphur with water to 
form thick paste. Place lime in barrel or 
kettle. Add water to start vigorous slak¬ 
ing. When slaking is well started add 
sulphur. Keep mixture thoroughly 
stirred (yet covered to hold the heat). 
When all active action of the lime has 
ceased dilute the mixture with water to 
the required amount. This is used as a 
Summer spray on peaches for control of 
scab, rot. etc. Apply first when shucks 
fall, second three weeks later, third three 
weeks later. Thoroughness of application 
is the key to success. 
