. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. 74 BIGGLE ORCHARD BOOK Protect the hands by coating them with vaseline or by wear- ing gloves—rubber being the least injured by the lime-sulphur spray. 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 strong lime- sulphur spray is a splendid fungicide as well as a louse-killer. Therefore its use may take the place of the earlier Bordeaux app
. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. 74 BIGGLE ORCHARD BOOK Protect the hands by coating them with vaseline or by wear- ing gloves—rubber being the least injured by the lime-sulphur spray. 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 strong lime- sulphur spray is a splendid fungicide as well as a louse-killer. Therefore its use may take the place of the earlier Bordeaux applications, before the buds have opened. For later fungous sprays, use Bordeaux, or the mild self-boiled lime-sulphur. A fifty-gallon barrel makes a very convenient unit for even the most extensive spraying opera- tions, says M. B. Waite. Here is a plan of a lime-sulphur boiling t. S ClKlKl K plant of six barrels, rather similar s| to the model of J. H. Hale. (Fig. 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 crosspieces, and then bubbling up and out. The water inlet and outlet pipes have no connection. tl of course, with the steam pipes. Stop-cocks should FIG. II. be located as shown—fifteen in all. (A scientific barrel frjt.]ui „f mine suggests that a steam coil in the bottom of each barrel, through which steam could pass and then retut >i to the boilet, 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.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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