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Show POWDER GUNS FOR SPRAYING Potatoes Can Be Covered With Fine Dust While Damp and Bugs Will Ea.t Themselves to Death. Powder guns have long been In use on sonio farms, but It seems to me that they might be used a good deal more than they are, says a writer In an exchange. In the first place let me s:ay that a powder or dust sprayer Is usually a bellows with handles attached at-tached so that a man can stand upright up-right and have the business end of ihe bello.vs near the plant or vine he wants to treat with poison. A good-izcd one holds about a quart of mixture. The mixture is usually composed of powdered lime and a poison poi-son of whatever kind you want to use. If we want to use Paris green we usually take about one part of it to ten parts of li:t,e and mix it well before be-fore putting In the blower. A funnel fun-nel 1s best to load with as It Is expensive ex-pensive stuff lo spill around on the ground. Sometimes people use Hour aud pari green, or flour and hellebore, helle-bore, or Hour au'l powdered arsenate of lead. It depends on which' you like best aud what the particular work is. However, lately the flour Is so expensive ex-pensive that It doesn't pay to use it except in very small quantities. |
