. Fruit farming: practical and scientific, for commercial fruit growers and others. Fruit-culture. 87 Fuel, oil and geease 4s. per daj'. Supervision.—Proportion of foreman's time, 6s. per day. Intebest on Capital.—6 per cent, on £900 equals £54; spread over 16 working days, £3 7s.; total cost per day, £49. Cost per acre, at 10 acres per day, £4 12s. Fruit Spraying on a Smaller Scale with Motor Power. By C. H. Hooper. In one plum plantation at Pershore the following outfit was at work this spring: AY. Weeks and Son's. Ltd., Outside Adjustment Nozzle. A Weeks' (of Maidstone) spray pump fitted wi
. Fruit farming: practical and scientific, for commercial fruit growers and others. Fruit-culture. 87 Fuel, oil and geease 4s. per daj'. Supervision.—Proportion of foreman's time, 6s. per day. Intebest on Capital.—6 per cent, on £900 equals £54; spread over 16 working days, £3 7s.; total cost per day, £49. Cost per acre, at 10 acres per day, £4 12s. Fruit Spraying on a Smaller Scale with Motor Power. By C. H. Hooper. In one plum plantation at Pershore the following outfit was at work this spring: AY. Weeks and Son's. Ltd., Outside Adjustment Nozzle. A Weeks' (of Maidstone) spray pump fitted with Amanco engine of 3 to 4 horse-. Vermorel Knapsack Sprayer. power, taking 2 men to look after engine and get limewash ready; 4 men with four lances. The acreage sprayed de- pends on the iron piping being laid to the best advantage. Other things being favourable, this equipment could lime- spray about 2i acres per day of mature plum trees (planted about 16Ut. apart for Pershore egg plums, 18ft. for Pro- lifics, 21ft. for Monarchs). On Mr. E. P. Whiteley's fruit farm at Pershore a Drake and Fletcher l|-hor8e- power engine, drawn by a horse, with 4 lances, with 100 yards l^in. steel piping, a three-way tap every 30 yards; 2 90ft. fin. rubber hose laterals running at right angles to the steel piping, each having 2 60ft. rubber pipes terminated by a lance, making 4 lances in all. By this disposal it was estimated 5 to 6 acres could be sprayed, using nicotine and soft soap or similar wash with the engine in one position. A Maidstone grower told me that with 13 men employed, 6 nozzles in use on 20- year-old apple trees, 500 gallons of wash were used per acre and 8 acres sprayed in a day. Limewash Spraying Fruit Trees. Lime-spraying is so much believed in at Pershore that Mr. P. D. Poole, of Per- shore, contracted to lime-spray orchards at 8d. to 9d. per tree ; my brother had 10 acres of mature plums and apples some- what closely planted thus sprayed at a cost of £100. The
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