. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 44 BETTER FRUIT March Cy^iroRKiA Chemical COMpXKT As an Eastern entomologist has slated, "the dusting method would have died a'bornin'" had the spray gun and high-powered sprayer appeared earlier. I believe that his judgment is sound in this respect. We have not had time to test out the gun under all conditions, but preliminary work seems to indicate that it will in a large degree fill the hill. This is particularly true of the new ten - horsepower, four - cylinder sprayer that is becoming popular in the Hood River Valley. This machine is capable o
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 44 BETTER FRUIT March Cy^iroRKiA Chemical COMpXKT As an Eastern entomologist has slated, "the dusting method would have died a'bornin'" had the spray gun and high-powered sprayer appeared earlier. I believe that his judgment is sound in this respect. We have not had time to test out the gun under all conditions, but preliminary work seems to indicate that it will in a large degree fill the hill. This is particularly true of the new ten - horsepower, four - cylinder sprayer that is becoming popular in the Hood River Valley. This machine is capable of maintaining three guns at a minimum pressure of 250 pounds. Several growers operate their machines in this manner, one man riding on top. The machine passes up and down each row, making necessary only a moment's stop for each two trees. The spray- ing of a large acreage per day is readily accomplished. Figures for the 1918 work, not all available at the present time, however, from data in hand two men on this high-power sprayer can cut their time in two and do the work much more easily than they could with the 12-foot rods and small outfit. In some cases the old three and three and one-half horsepower outfits were found capable of handling two guns. A little more than a third of the time was saved as compared to the time used with rods. This was also accomplished with much less effort on the part of the rodmen. In other words, the appear- ance of the spray gun has in a large measure taken the sting out of spray- ing, making easy work of what used to be decided drudgery. The handling of the gun on the part of many orchard- ists, however, has not been perfected. Some growers are inclined to take too much for granted with a result a good many tree tops were supposed to be covered when in reality they were not. This seems to be more particularly true where the gun has been adapted to the sprayer of low power. Some growers with good outfits were inclined to estab- lish speed recor
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