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Show PROTECT THE FACE WHEN USING SPRAY Vaseline or Lard Will Prevent Sore Eyes and Cracked FingersAlso Fin-gersAlso Use Gloves. In dealing with strong solutions of lime sulphur, the fruit grower must protect himself. After his eyes begin to smart and his fingers crack open, he learns that goggles and rubber gloves are splendid protection. Vaseline Vase-line or lard smeared on face and hands affords relief. Heavy leather gloves are serviceable when greased or soaked with machine oil. Some men prefer miscible oils for dormant spraying as they are more pleasant to handle. Arsenate of lead and bordeaux bor-deaux sprays in the summer are not so disagreeable. The man who sprays for ten or twelve hours and runs between trees to save time, studies out many little tricks of saving his strength. A change of position, and an occasional rolling of the head keep the neck from stiffening. A change of hands or a shifting of their position tends to keep the arms from paralyzing. I like to separate my hands widely, letting let-ting the rod balance loosely in the right hand and sliding it in and out for different limbs, twisting the pole with the left hand, which rests on the shut-off valve of an improved leakless type. When dragging the hose about, it is easy to drop the hand down to the end of the hose itself. This saves many a bursted hose connection, and broken stop-cock or extension rod. Never pull on the rod. Hug the left elbow in close to the hip and drag the hose by the weight of your whole body, not simply by the power of your arm. Pull the hose up this way a little farther than you need it each time, then back up one step and take advantage of the slack. A half-inch hose filled with water is no joke to drag about quickly all day, often through the mud, but the experienced sprayer soon learns the knack of handling it on the run. A smaller hose, while much lighter, reduces pressure, by giving too much friction. |