A Spraying Caution for 1918 
The spraying season of 1918 is at hand, 
and the thoroughness with which this fea¬ 
ture of orchard practice is carried oiit 
will largely determine the value of the 
fruit crop for the present year. It is a 
well-known fact that the most important 
orchard enemies cannot be satisfactorily 
controlled if the spraying is not done at 
the right time with the right materials. A 
fact that is much less appreciated is that 
the leap the spraying is done is often of 
equal importance to the first two. Two 
different individuals may spray the same 
day with the same material, and the same 
outfit, and one will get excellent results 
in the control of orchard enemies, while 
the other will fail. There is a great 
difference in the thoroughness with which 
different individuals spray trees. 
A feature of spraying work in many 
places in 1918 will be the use of one of 
the so-called spraguus. which were rised 
to some extent during 1917. The sugges¬ 
tion has been advanced that spraying can 
he done much more rapidly with a spra- 
gun than with the former type of nozzles. 
This has appealed to many growers, espe- 
cialfy because of the shortage of labor. 
This idea of spraying is likely to be the 
one fixed in the mind of a grower, and 
he will expect his spraying crew or crews 
to show results in the saving of time over 
previous years. There will he a tendency 
upon the part of many men to speed up 
the work, and herein lies the danger. 
Hasty spraying is seldom good spraying, 
and there are often disapiiointinents in 
the results. The weather, materials or 
some other factor is often blamed for 
failure to control orchard enemies, when, 
as a matter of fact, a little more c.-ireful 
work with the nozzle would have brought 
the desired results. A spragun may put 
on material faster than the nozzle which 
you have been using, but just as careful 
woi'k is required of the “man behind the 
gun” ns was required of the “man behind 
the nozzle.” It is just as necessary that 
he hit every branch, and to do it thor¬ 
oughly. Some men assigned to spraying 
work are certain to get the idea that it is 
only necessary to hold the gun in the gen¬ 
eral direction of the tree, and the rest 
will be accomplished. Nothing is further 
from the facts, and where such an idea 
is allowed to prevail in the minds of the 
men doing the work, there is likely to he 
dissatisfaction with the implement at the 
end of the season. AVe are often prone to 
assign extraordinary powers and efficiency 
to a new machine or a new method. AA'e 
should not forget their limitations. Some 
very effective work in the control of fruit 
diseases was reported as a result of the 
use of spraguus last year. If you have 
purchased one for use this year, caution 
the men who use it that successful si)ray- 
ing is only accomplished vlnm one gives 
careful attention to the skilfull applica¬ 
tion of the spray to every branch and 
leaf; that haphazard, hasty work will not 
bring effective results with the spraguu 
any more than it will where the ordinary 
nozzles are used. Many growers will 
probably be forced to use inexperienced 
help in the application of sprays this 
year. Do not let them get the idea that 
simply driving through the orchard and 
holding a spraguu in the ^ueral direction 
of a tree is spraying. M. a. blake. 
New Jersey. 
Figuring a Corn Yield 
It seems, according to The Kew York 
Times, Sunday's edition, magazine sec¬ 
tion, that one Camp Fire Girl raised more 
than 115,000 bushels of maize on a single 
acre of land. Why not enlist 50,000 
Camp Fire Girls to raise corn this year 
and have a crop of five and three-quar¬ 
ters billion bushels? This would give the 
farmers a needed vacation.. a. j. a. 
New York. 
This seems to be a case where if you 
add nothing to nothing you have a large 
amount. Suppose one girl grows 10 hills 
of corn and there are about 5,000 hills 
to an acre. Estimate the crop from the 
10 hills and multiply by 500. Now zero 
equals nothing, and three of them also 
equal nothing. So just put three in to 
make the figures look pretty and you 
may have the. total crop of the Camp Fire 
Girl. That is not unlike the way some 
of the city people undertake to figure for 
us. and then proceed to advise us on the 
basis of such figuring. 
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Vegetables 
The U. S. Dept, of Agriculture rec¬ 
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* ^he Farmer’s Friend 
It prevents potato scab and black-leg 
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It guards against onion rot and onion 
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It prevents mould in celery, lettuce, 
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applied to the beds before planting. 
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