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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9713, 8 January 1895, Page 5

The Gardeners' ' Chronical publishes th< following about spraying Our American cousins are 'much more enthusiastic about the merits of spraying than we are. Oar apathy; is, however, gradually breaking down, 'and it may) be expected that the Technical Education lectures and demon* sbrations will hasten that process. One thing to be specially inculcated is, than spraying is done not with a view to cure but as a preventative. It is no use putting a look on the stable door when the horse has been stolen, unless it be to prevent a similar lot overtaking another horse. In a little book entitled " Spraying Crops," to be. had from Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., Paternoster House, CbaringCross Road, . full details are given as to why, when, and ' how, spraying should be done. We commend :. Ib to all growers on a large scale; Of course,;;; spraying needs to be done with great judgment, the operator always bearing in mind : v that : Ivi is dealing with poison. Ac the same time, if spraying is properly done at the right time, and in the right, way, lb is a very profitable at least, so say. our American friends, who look very sharply after the dollars. Provided the conditions already mentioned are duly observed, ,there can be no danger whatever cf poisoning the consumer. "