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GOOD SPRAYING EQI . ,... , ' (By J. G. MOORE, Wisconsin Agricultural I Experiment Station.) Time and money are lost in attempting to spray with poor equipment. First-class machinery in good working order and mixing equipment adequate for the amount of material to be handled and designed to facilitate the preparation of materials and the filling of spray tanks are essential to economical and efficient work. The mixing equipment will vary with the amount of spraying to be done and the materials to be used. The home orchard will demand less elaborate equipment than a commercial orchard. Bordeaux necessitates more barrels or 'tanks than lime sulphur. In using bordeaux, four barrels or tanks are almost necessary. Convenient water supply is a time saver in spraying. A creek or pond in proximity to the orchard saves much time in pumping or hauling water. It is important, how A1?A ^maa ^i?Am ort*l t ever, uim uic waici uc nn nuiu 6..? The character of the pump depends largely on the size of the orchard sprayed. For commercial orchards a power pump Is most economical. For the home orchard the hand pump Is satisfactory. A good quality hose costs less In the end as It Is more durable than the common garden hose. | >-< J ; f | J [rgJ^MC s* yriT-'-i-yy ?v^:**v;i HAND PUMP SPRAYING OUT An extension rod is necessary In, / spraying trees over 7 or 8 feet high. Selection of Nozzle Important. Two general types of nozzles are used in orchard spraying. Tlpey may be characterized as the bordeaux and eddy chamber types. The bordeaux . which is not extensively used in .the East produces Its spray by forcing the material through a small aperture against a smooth surface. The char1 acter of the spray Is regulated by the fertmlizersTeast required by fruit Are Necessary in Only Few Places, Points Out Horticulturist of Kansas College. The application of fertilizers is one of the least important factors in fruit growing, In the opinion of F. S. Merrill, assistant professor of horticulture in the Kansas State Agricultural col-1 lege. "Some soils are eo extremely fertile that orchards planted on them have a tendency to make an excessive wood growth," said Mr. Merrill. "This abnormal growth of wood tends to cut down the size of the fruit crop. On such fertile soil the use of fertilizers Is a detriment "In a sandy soil where clean cultivation is practiced there may be a lack of humus and organic matter. On such soil it is well to use a fertilizer. "Except for young peach trees, barnyard manure is the only fertilizer that need be used. It is rich in organic i matter and supplies the soil with all i the material that is needed for orchard | fertilization. The manure should be ' applied in the fall and winter at the , rate of 12 to 15 tons an acre. In the spring the manure should be disked 1 into the ground." THINNING IS URGED TO IMPROVE APPLES ! It Is Necessary to Thin to Point Where Most Desirable Size Can Be Obtained. (By W. C. EDMUNDSON. Idaho Experiment Station.) It Is the desire of every fruit grower , to produce apples of good size, high color, fine quality and uniformity. This Is almost impossible without thinning. No orchardist will thin his fruit so as to obtain an abnormally large product, for the market does not demand such fruit. But it is necessary, with a big /?? 4-/\ fV?5n +a n nninf M?Vloro mApf VI J|J| till 11 iv/ ci puiut uuvit muoi desirable size for the variety can be obtained. One of the strongest arguments in favor of thinning is that it secures uniform fruit. Another point in its favor is that in thinning one may do away with a good many worms or scabby spples. If apples are allowed to glow touching one another, they form ( , v. ' . < VIY .-v..' . ' ' ^ JIPMENT ESSENTIAL pressure and the angle at whi strikes the obstructing surface, nozzle has great driving power a extensively used in the West fo calyx spray of apples and pear* The eddy chamber type of r produces the spray by forcing tn uid to rotate rapidly as it is exj through a small aperture at high sure which breaks It up into a mi form. There are various device producing the whirling motion, character of the spray is regulat a greater or lesser extent by the sure, the size of the aperture an relation of the openings in the i ing device to the aperture. T1 the type of nozzle used extensiv* the East. It Is desirable to have the op of the nozzle at an angle to th< as It greatly facilitates putting o material. Some nozzles known a gle nozzles are so constructed accomplish this. Unless an angl< zle is used, an angle connection 1 peratlve for efficient work. An entirely different type of pump is now being used by a nc of growers. Instead of pumpln uid, the pump compresses air 1 enters an air-tight tank containiu spray material. The in-rushing : v* ^ "FIT FOR SMALL ORCHARDS. made to agitate the spray materli also furnish the pressure to drlv< the nozzle. In the nozzle the s of spray material is combined \ stream of air under pressure, pro< a very fine spray. It is clairae< this machine reduces the amoi material required and the cost f gine operation, that the desired sure is constantly and evenly tained and that the spray produ especially efficient. an Ideal point of entry for the I; of codling moth. Thinning also has Its direct upon the tree. It allows it to mat proper wood growth, prevents t ing of limbs, and allows the tr produce, as nearly as possible, un annual crops. A heavy crop us follows a light one. The amount of fruit that shou left on a tree Is an exceedingly thing to judge and experience i best teacher. Some try to thin certain number of boxes; others 1 space their fruit. If spacing li lowed, the apples should not b< closer than five or six Inches i and no apples should be left oi tree that touch each other. Thi may be done by pinching the off with the fingers, but the work be done quite handily by a pa thinning shears. SPRAYING FOR SCAE WITH LIME SULPI May Be Combined With Tr ment for Other Diseases, Si as Brown Rot and Curouli Peach scab Is a fungous tr which, next to the brown rot, i most serious among peach dls< can be successfully controlled at cost by spraying with self-boiled sulphur or a solution of finely di wettable sulphur, which is a ml of superfine sulphur, glue and \ The spraying for scab may be bined with treatment for othei eases, such as brown rot and curculio. Spray with arsenate of lead self-boiled lime-sulphur or finel vided wettable sulphur about a r after the petals fall. If the fungicide Is used, the addition of may be a desirable precaution a? arsenical injury. Late varieties s be sprayed again in a month. Where brown rot is Injurious with finely divided wettable su or self-boiled lline-sulphur thre four weeks before the fruit rl but not less than four weeks h harvest if self-boiled lime-sulph usi>d. The strength of spray pre tions Is arsenate of lead ] one and a half pounds (or po three-fourths pound),> in 50 gal stone lime, two to three pounds *t n..1,xU,1N pa I inns; sfii-iiuiicu miifMiiinmi, pounds of lime and eight poun flour of sulphur in 50 gallons; finely divided wettnble sulphur, pounds in 50 gallons in the ease < paste, which is approximately & cent sulphur. 31 nn This ifl hi MP is B IhEiSr r the B H|| WT^Hk D BB H| iozzle H B| H e liq- B ^BK HI jelled B flBBl ^BBl pres- B stlike B s for B The B rz I ALWAYS J ,vhlrl- B lis is B 3ly Id B enlng a rod D n the ' H is an- ^ as to B ; noz- ^B ??? f spray tz r* i _ s uood pr (business. do~print: your bus ~ you wnei I Printing tha s any more al and e it to v tream pith a M lucing |3S A 1 that int o 1 fojjj or enpres main* A ced is H \ 1 Now is the ti effect H :e the H J X n? Printing. iform O jually Id be H hard B M THE PRJ Sin i* ^ T1 slrnnting II m uuvuuvuuu*. ^ ^ with W .eat_ V LONG CANE ' V The ^ w WLWWWtlWWWWV Was JCh VWVVVVVVVVVVVVV Thursd '?- Long Cane, Aug. 20.?The farmers of this community would be very f^jn? ouble gja(j t0 see a nice rain now as it is an?. 3 the so much needed. ^iss t^ofi Miss Nina Beauford spent Wednes- J,n s small , . . ,, , ? Mr an day in hte city witn Mr. and Mrs. vldea J. M. McKellar. Mr; xture Misses Eva and Estelle' Finley -fl vater. spent Friday night with Misses lone . ^.C0 com- and Viola Beauford. ni^ ' dis- Mioo T ilHrt Moo finrHrm of near!?? .... plum | Antreville, spent last week with Mr. and !Snd ^rS' j Miss Minnie Beauford spent Thuisoonth M Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bosler. She Mi latter ' Mr. Dave Keller spent Friday withI ^ 1 lime Mrs. Emma Haddon. jalnst j Mr. and Mrs. W. S? Bosler and Com hould children spent Wednesday in the city a heav; with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McKellar. (turn g] spray j Mrs> prescott Bosler and little, boautif lphur daughter, and Miss Virginia Bosler, a fwe i e t0 of Watts, spent Wednesday with Mr lation i lefore and Mrs* W' S* BosIer- 0::> gra: ur js | Mrs. J. M. McKellar of the city, Sulphu spent a few days of last week with trouble LIU.HIpaste, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Beauford and gst a ? wder, attended the picnic and hash dinner and Su lions; at Mr. T. H. Botts' spring Thursday..store a in 50 The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. old tin: eight w. T. King sympathize with them dition '*s ?* in the death of the latter's mother,! Whil Mrs. Sutherlnad. ' not sin )f the ' Carroll of the city, spent youthfi 3 per the week-end of last week with Mr. 'ness. and Mrs. L. F. Finley. jWyeth' " T ^ i ? - e A j ! nnnn/| Miss ljune Mae uoraon 01 . ' .v'-v 4$ .. ..^vV. Ill 1J VT YOUR SERVICI z ...... j _ t; >ssr?i . t * M.' * J.1 lllllJLlg Id tl That is tl ing that vi riness "stai I- , : rever you x oiaituo up than the "la ' * ? t me to place yoi You'll need lots i } 1 / iSS AND BA tat Stands (J " ipent a few days of last week does it so natural' [isses Rebecca and Ethel Bdtts. just dampen sp picnic and hash dinner which with it and draw !ld at Mr. T. H. Botts' spring hair, taking one ! ay was enjoyed by all present, by morning all gi es Clara and Viola Beauford appeared, and, af the week-end with Misses Eva cation or two, y jtelle Finley. 1 beautifully dark, Malulla Sutherland of Mar- luxuriant. till, spent Thursday night with This preparatio d Mrs. W. T. King and family, toilet resquisite ai and Mrs. L. F. Finley enter- for the cure, miti a few of the young folks in tion of disease.?i immunity at a party Tuesday ' DMA USED SAGE TEA TO DARKEN HAIR xcd Sulphur With it to Restore; III oloir, Gloss, Youthfulncss | ...... u , mon garden sage oreweu miu; Uy,(y tea with sulphur added, will i*ay, streaked and faded hairj ully dark and luxuriant. Justj ' ||lv^| applications will prove a reve-- AV f your hair is fading, sitreaked j /. Mixing the Sage Tea and! r recipe at home, though, is some. An easier way is to: I VHElF iO-cent bottle of Wyeth's Sagej ilphur Compound at any drug) 11 ready for use.. This is the le recipe improved by the ad-l / |\ oi owier uigieuieiii.3. | e wispy, gray, faded hair isj ?3, i,M Kg ful, we all desire to retain our; X jl appearance and attractive-' //' j^^\/ By darkeneing your hair with; ( s Sage and Sulphur Com-| j c**kiiu,i?*o no one can tell, because it ** : I . ? 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