. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 74 ORCHARD HOOK Trotect the hands by coating them with vaseline or by wear- ing' gloves—rubber being the least injured by the lime-sulphur- salt wash. Cover the horses. Spray only with the wind, if it be too strong to spray against it. It is impossible to throw the spray satisfactorily against a very strong breeze. Special note: Many folks do not fully realize that the linie- sulphur-saltspray is a splendid fungicide as well as a louse killer. There
. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 74 ORCHARD HOOK Trotect the hands by coating them with vaseline or by wear- ing' gloves—rubber being the least injured by the lime-sulphur- salt wash. Cover the horses. Spray only with the wind, if it be too strong to spray against it. It is impossible to throw the spray satisfactorily against a very strong breeze. Special note: Many folks do not fully realize that the linie- sulphur-saltspray is a splendid fungicide as well as a louse killer. Therefore its use may well take the place of the earlier Bordeaux applications, before the buds have opened. (Full-strength'lime- sulphur-salt is not suited for spraying on trees in leaf.) A fifty-gallon bnrrcl makes a very convenient unit for even the most extensive spraying opera- tions, says M. 1?. Vaite. Here is a plan of lime-snlpliur-salt boiling plant of six barrels, rather similar to the model of J. II. Hale, (l"ig. I shows general view ; fig., II shows details of one barrel.) The boiler rests on the ground, the barrels and the water-supply pipe on an elevated platform about eight feet from the ground. The outlet is terminated by about three feet of flexible hose, through which the finished mixture can be piped to the wagon tank as wanted. The steam is conducted directly into the bottom of each barrel, escaping into the liquid through the per- forated crosspicces, and then bubbling up and out. The water inlet and outlet pipes have no connection, of course, with the steam pipes. Stop-cocks should be located as shown — fifteen in all. (A scientific friend of mine suggests that a steam coil in the IkjUoui of each barrel, through which steam could pass and then return to the boiler, would be more economical of steam and of fuel. He says that it's wasteful to allow the steam to escape in the barrels.—J. B.). HALE'S STEAM COOKER l watch unci FIG. II. I1ARRET,
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