Show spraying a science the time has gone by when spraying of fruit trees Is considered a task that can be successfully performed by any novice when fruit growers first real iced that their trees must be sprayed it was currently supposed that any hired man could take a spray pump of any make and cover the trees with a spray solution destructive to the insects and fungi but harmless to the tree itself this belief was the cause of the many failures that were early recorded against the operators spraying Is now recognized as a science and all of our agricultural colleges are teaching how to do the work correctly the advice Is now given do not trust an inexpert encee man behind the nozzle of a sprayer most of the men that spray are mere bunglers at the business hav ing no complete conception of the great principles underlying the operation spraying la rapidly becoming a pro and we predict that it hlll not be long before men in spraying trees will be in demand both in the city and country it is becoming evi dent that the owner of a small orchard can better pay an expert owning his own apparatus to do the work than to himself invest in an outfit and trust his own experience |