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THE R U KAL NSW-VOKKiia 
March 27, 
SPRAY-- $IIO 
WITH THIS OUTFIT 
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to work. Price on skids. $110.00, or on wheels, 
$135.00. We have two larger sizes, one with 150 
gallon and one with 200 gallon tank. Send for 
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Tell us your power needs and get special propo¬ 
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Giveslatestcultural methods. 
Describes fully Allen's many 
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Salisbury, Md. 
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AT LOW PRICES 
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lap 
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HARRY L. SQUIRES Remsenburg, N. Y, 
Spraying as Insurance. 
As a text for spraying right at this 
time few things could be better than this 
from Prof. Inee in the North Dakota 
Food Bulletin : 
These two chemicals (Paris green and 
Bordeaux), and a number of others are 
used to protect plants against the ravages 
of insects and diseases. Since the two 
named above are used principally upon 
potato vines, this discussion will be 
limited to the potato crop. There would 
seem to be no question as to the advis¬ 
ability of spraying. It is nothing more 
nor less than insurance against losses 
which might he caused by bugs and 
blights. If a farmer is willing to trust 
to luck that no such pests will visit his 
potatoes, all well and good. But if he 
is going to take every precaution to pro¬ 
tect his crop, he will include spraying 
in his regular routine work just as much 
as he would cultivate a certain number 
of times during the season. And the best 
thing about this whole matter is that his 
insurance doesn’t cost very much and it 
pays large dividends every time. It has 
been proved, for example, that the pota¬ 
to plants react in some way with Bor¬ 
deaux and produce a larger and better 
crop, even if there was no fungus disease. 
No use limiting the materials to Paris 
green and Bordeaux. There are now doz¬ 
ens of them—oils, lime-sulphur, various 
forms of arsenic, emulsions, tobacco 
water and all the rest. Each has its 
place in the battle against bug and blight. 
The great, sound principle in this note 
from South Dakota is the fact that spray¬ 
ing is insurance. It is coming to be 
harder than ever before each year to sell 
anything except first-class fruit and veg¬ 
etables. The culls go begging more and 
more, and we all know that diseases and 
insects increase as fruit growing extends 
and concentrates. We are rapidly com¬ 
ing to the time when it must be spray 
or get out of the business. 
Home Preparation of Nicotine. 
T HE home preparation of nicotine solu¬ 
tion is practical, economical, and is 
successful, according to the Virginia 
Station’s investigations. Steaming, boil¬ 
ing and soaking to secure the desired pro¬ 
duct have been tried, and it is found by 
soaking stems, leaves or sweepings, for 
24 hours, and frequently agitating the 
mixture, 70 per cent, of the nicotine will 
be dissolved in that time. It is a much 
simpler method than boiling in an open 
kettle or cooking with live steam, and the 
result appears equally satisfactory. Vir¬ 
ginia has found that when tobacco stems 
cost $20 a ton, a homemade tobacco 
spray for aphis will cost about $1 per 
hundred gallons. 
By soaking 20 pounds of stems of .481 
per cent, nicotine content in 20 gallons 
of water and the juice drained off, the 
yield was 23)4 gallons of .0578 per cent, 
nicotine content and in this case .78 per 
cent, was extracted. The tobacco stems 
make excellent fertilizer after the nicotine 
is extracted, a conservative estimate 
places the fertilizing value at $6 a ton, a 
large part of the potash and all of the 
phospnoric acid remains. 
Virginia finds the addition of lime-sul¬ 
phur to nicotine solutions slightly dimin¬ 
ishes its insecticidal value. The use of 
lead arsenate in the proportion of five 
pounds of paste per 100 gallons, with nic¬ 
otine also lowers the insecticidal value 
of the nicotine solution for aphis, but a 
solution containing .05 per cent, of nico¬ 
tine and five pounds of arsenate of lead 
per 100 gallons, and lime-sulphur, one 
part to 40 is of sufficient strength to 
kill the lice. If it is desired to use ar¬ 
senate of lead for the codling moth and 
nicotine for the aphis, the two substances 
may be mixed together as a spray, in 
proportion of five pounds of arsenate of 
lead per 100 gallons, and of .05 per cent, 
strength. Bordeaux mixture may he used 
with a nicotine solution of .05 per cent, 
strength and not impair its insecticidal 
value. Such a solution docs not injure 
the foliage of the apple tree even when 
applied just as the leaves have opened 
out. 
Quassin Spray. 
Experiments have been conducted at 
Sacramento, California, to determine the 
value of quassin as spray material. The 
Department of Agriculture is issuing a 
bulletin mentioning possibilities of quas- 
; * as contact insecticide, and the bulle¬ 
tin says that quassin can be cheaply pre¬ 
pared and possibly sold at lower price 
than some materials now used in commer¬ 
cial insecticides. Quassin is the active 
principle in quassia wood. Quassia chips 
have been employed for many years in 
the preparation of spray solutions for the 
control of the hop aphis. The percentage 
of quassin may vary, possibly 75%. 
which if correct the author advises 1% 
pound chips to 100 gallons of water for 
an effective insecticide. Double this 
quantity would certainly be sufficient, 
and with three pounds whale oil soap at 
four cents a pound would make total 
cost of materials for 100 gallons of spray. 
The author believes quassin spray will 
compare with nicotine sulphate in effi¬ 
ciency, and questions whether in more 
humid climate it would be equally sat¬ 
isfactory. 
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;rown from selected seed. Sir 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St., New York City 
$1,000 an Acre 
Actually made growing the latest kinds of 
Ever-Bearing Strawberries 
THAT FRUIT SAME YEAR AS PLANTED 
Don’t buy until you write for my Free Catalogue telling 
what kinds to grow and how to grow them. 
C. S. KEMPTON, Longmeadow, Mass. 
Grower of the famous Longmeadow Cantaloupe. 
Mr. Kempton was one of the first growers to take up the produc¬ 
tion of Ever-Bearing Strawberries.—(Eu. Farm and Home.) 
