Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — POULTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY

HOME-MADu BPRAY OUTFIT. May Be Used to Apply Lime and Kerosene to Hen House. The spray pump described below cost me sll. One of standard make and not so powerful was priced at $45. Any ordinary workman who is handy with tools could put my sprayer together in a day. It has proven so valuable to me that I wish to make it known to everybody. It was assembled from the following: A riding cultivator frame, pole, and wheels (old scrap iron) a good coal-oil barrel

(price $1), a 3-inch cylinder cast-iron force pump ($6), a plain brass 2-inch cylinder and valves ($2), a piece of good 3-4-inch hose and a spraying nozzle ($2). Total cost, sll. After putting the above material together I was able to get easily a pressure of 150 pounds per square Inch, a very necessary prerequisite to apply the Bordeaux mixture with the right force.

Directions for assembling are as follows: Take the valves out of the cylinder of any castiron force pump. Replace these valves with the plain brass 2-inch cylinder and valves. Cut off with a hack saw the 2-inch cylinder to the right length to Just fill the cast cylinder. Fill in the space between cast cylinder and brass cylinder with plaster or cement, being sure that the brass cylinder is in the exact center of the cast cylinder. Attach the plunger valve of brass cylinder to the plunger piston of the force pump, and couple up the piston to the handle of the pump so as to get a full stroke. As only a small amount of liquid is needed in spraying, the object of this reduction of cylinder is to lessen the flow and increase the pressure. The reduction of 3 to 2 halves the flow and Rubles the pressure. Mount the pump on the barrel and the barrel on the riding cultivator frame. Make an agitatj|||fcs follows: In the barrel, near 'wW'bottom. on the end or head of thgaHjpL hang with a T-hinge a boariVurajfe of oak Ix6x2 feet to swing up and down. Connect the board with the pump plunger by a steel tod so that it will swing up and down with the stroke. The steel rod should enter the barrel through an opening made to pour in the liquid. I use this machine to spray my hen house with line and coal oil at the rate of 100 square feet per minute.

It makes a good job at whitewashing as well and is death to bugs and microbes on' my fruit trees. —Charles A. Umoselle, in Scientific American.

Section Showing Arrangement of Agitator.

The Home-Made Sprayer Complete.