Show POWDER GUNS FOR SPRAYING potatoes can be covered with fine dust while damp and bugs will eat themselves to death powder guns have long been in use on some farms but it seems to me that they night might be used a good deal more than they are says a writer in an exchange in the first place let me say that a pon powder der or dust sprayer is usually a bellows with handles attached so that a man can stand upright and have the business end of the bellows near the plant or vine he wants to treat with poison A good sized one holds about a quart of of mixture the mixture Is usually composed of powdered lime and a polson poison 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 lime and mix it well before putting in the blower A tunnel funnel is best to load with as it is expensive stuff to spill around on the ground sometimes people use flour and parts green or flour and hellebore or flour and powdered arsenate of lead it depends on which you like best and what the particular work Is however lately the flour is so BO expensive that it pay to use it except in very small quantities |