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“In regard to the pump, we found in the immense amount of spraying we were obliged to do, on trees one hundred feet high, bushes and all kinds between, over hundreds of acres, we must have better facilities for spraying than we did have. We found a man willing to work under our direction, getting hints wherever he could, from experienced men, scientific men and practical men, and put them together for this spraying machine. That man was Mr. E. C. Ware. Mr. Ware made this machine for the State of Massachusetts, and the State of Massachusetts paid the bill, as it paid all the bills for the discovery of the arsenate of lead; and when the committee made the contract with these men, it was agreed that any discovery they made under the pay of the State of Massachusetts should not be patented, but should be reserved for the use of the people of the country, free, and that is the condition of the arsenate of lead and of the Ware pump. If you can make a Ware pump, you have a right to make it. If you can make arsenate of lead, you have a right to make it.”

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”The best sprayer that has come to my knowledge is the Ware hand pump, made for and used by the gypsy moth committee. It is fitted with hardened brass fittings, is worked by one man, and will spray two trees at once, but not quite so rapidly as a steam pump sprayer.”

Reference Data:

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, by Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1902