Identifier: fruitgrowersguid00favo (find matches)
Title: The fruit-growers guide-book
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Favor, Ernest Howard, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fruit-culture. (from old catalog)
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., The fruit-grower
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ll as the width of the tires. Highwheels reduce draft on the team, but increase the dangerof upsetting on steep hillsides. On plowed ground, espe-cially in the spring when it is more or less muddy, widetires are an advantage, but in rocky land the narrow tiredwheels are much more serviceable. In this connection, nomatter which is the height of the wheels, or the width ofthe tires, it is highly important that there be.no wastespace between the frame and the engines and that theframe be constructed so as to permit of the shortest pos-sible turns without cramping or binding the wheels. • The hand pumps are very much more diversified inshape and construction than the engine power machines,as they are adapted to a far greater variety of uses. Thesewill vary from the hand pumps which can be mounted onthe spraying tank, or in a barrel, or attached to a knapsackand carried on ones back. All of the working parts should be of hard brass oriron, as aluminum, which has been used in a small way.
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< c G be 118 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book wears too fast. The nozzles especially need to be of brass,and their weight, especially for power machines, is of noserious consequence, as the back pressure from the pumpmore than balances the weight. For general orchard spray-ing the types of nozzles are limited to two. These are thebordeaux and the large chambered nozzle. The bor-deaux is the nozzle which is most desired for the firstspraying for codling moth, as practiced in the Westernstates. The other is the best for use when a mist-likespray is wanted, as is the case in the Middle Western andEastern states for applying bordeaux mixture. In sections where bordeaux mixture is most extensivelyused it will be an advantage to have all of the workingparts of the machinery of brass, which comes in contactwith the liquid, as this metal is not corroded by the spraymixture, as is iron. But where lime-sulphur is used most,then the working parts need to be of iron or steel

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