Bulletin . 4° THE CANKER-WORM. form of spraying outfit is represent-ed in Fig. 7. It consists of a kero-sene barrel holding fifty gallons, aforce pump having a double dis-charge, with a short line of hoserunning into the barrel to keep theliquid stirred, and a long line ofhose fitted at the end to a slenderbrass rod tipped with a spray noz-zle. This outfit can be obtainedthrough any hardware denier, ordirect from any of the numerousmanufacturers of spraying machin-ery. Where it is desired to combine thetreatment for apple scab with thatfor the canker-worm, the Parisgreen may be added to the Bo
Bulletin . 4° THE CANKER-WORM. form of spraying outfit is represent-ed in Fig. 7. It consists of a kero-sene barrel holding fifty gallons, aforce pump having a double dis-charge, with a short line of hoserunning into the barrel to keep theliquid stirred, and a long line ofhose fitted at the end to a slenderbrass rod tipped with a spray noz-zle. This outfit can be obtainedthrough any hardware denier, ordirect from any of the numerousmanufacturers of spraying machin-ery. Where it is desired to combine thetreatment for apple scab with thatfor the canker-worm, the Parisgreen may be added to the Bor-deaux mixture at the rate of fourounces of poison to fifty gallons of themixture, full directions for makinewhich will be found in Bulletin 45of this Station. THE FRUIT GROWERS INSURANCE Professor L. H. Bailey wisely de-scribes spraying as the fruit grow-ers method of insurance. -Thereare always elements of risk in grow-ing fruit, he writes. The chiefof these is frost, a difficulty whichwill never be completely under ourcont
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