New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Oa 
No man who stands 10 feet from a plant for fear of getting 
the mixture on his clothes, and who only sprays one side of a 
plant, should be employed. Neither is an awkward, stiff-wristed 
man of any use for this work. The work requires a man who is 
not afraid to get near enough to the plant to spray it from all 
sides by a simple turn of the wrist. 
Ifa knapsack is employed for applying the resin lime mixture, 
a strongly-made machine must be used. We have found the “ Gar- 
field ” quite satisfactory for this purpose. Such frail machines 
as the “ Eclipse’ knapsack sprayer have proven worthless for 
applying this mixture. The resin lime mixture gums the valves 
to such an extent that a frail machine is wrenched to pieces in a 
short time. The gumming of the valves by the resin lime mix- 
ture is the only disadvantage found in the use of the mixture, but 
no other mixture has been found that will adhere to the smooth 
leaves of cabbage and cauliflower, or plants related to them. 
Soapsuds can be flocculated with lime the same as the resin mix- 
ture, but it will not adhere as well. Where strong machines were 
used the only drawback from gumming was the requirement of a 
little more force in pumping, thus adding to the heaviness of the 
work. : 
DANGER FROM USE OF MIXTURE. 
The question of danger from the use of an arsenite on such. 
plants as cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce is important. It must 
be admitted in the case of cauliflower and lettuce that there is a 
point beyond which the use of an arsenite.is dangerous. With 
cabbage there is no danger except in cases of gross ignorance, 
not only on the part of the grower, but also on the part of the 
consumer. The consumer’would have to eat the outside leaves 
of cabbage in order to get any of the arsenite, besides the grower 
would have to be guilty of using the arsenite after the heads were 
completely formed in order that the consumer get the arsenite on 
the few leaves that are left on the outside as a protection to the 
head. Arsenites have long been used on cabbage in one form or 
another with no known ill effects. 
