A NEW TOMATO CULTUDE. VS. About the first of June Is tlir time to Htnkr your tomatoes, speak Ini: pon ornlly for the I'nltod States. Thin nrttelp would have Iwn inon timely Imd It Iwn printed n month nco, but even If It can lie remembered for next year's operations In tomato crowing, tln writer will feel more thini com pensated, since for nt least small toninto patches the lilnn here sug treated has Is-on proven I'.v liim to have nevernl ndvnntai.-oK. Some years nco 1 attempted to crow seven iiores of tomatoes in Southern Florida Polk County for the north ern winter market. The tomatoes were planted In November. It wax the winter of the great freeze, which swept Florida from stem to stern and obliter ated nil ''frost lines" the tlrst oc curred Ivcciiihcr Mh. Just on top of fi balmy Christmas Kve spent on the piazza in Rummer clothes, (in that day, the thermometer in this "frost proof region descended to IsF. with D biting northwest wind. Thousands Of ncres of tomatoes and egg-plant were cut down to the ground. For tunately for my partner and myself we were from the region when' .lack Frost bfilds niiuual sway tuul we had main tained u seed hed in spite of the jeers f our neighbors. Ity the use of fer tilizer sacks, all the lied quilts, sheets nnd clothing we had. and hah a dozen tires to windward, we uiani:-".! to save some seven or eight thousand younc tomato plants, and thus when the frost king had passed 01. Irs way. we had n start over our m-i-j nt-ors of from eighteen to twenty lou days (xowth. a second rra:i:;'.:: oe liad visions of wealth In t neven acres, it is true we piants for only nlsiut i, M!,-ie eiieh. Imt we expected eii;. Ten or twelve dollars a crate l'. our toma toes. Instead of two or tie-- : dollars, because nil Florida hati been wiped out. T'nfortumitoly. m this instance, the lightning struck twice, and in Fcl ruury. Just as our pi:. tits were blos soming and bepititiui': to form fruit, n second mid oi;'.i:;l!v severe freeze struck Into on ; .nlst, ami again the entire agricultural section of Florida. with the eseeptHiii of a very acreage on the soiithmost keys, was frozen to the roots. However, in this instance the Weather Hurcau was on the lookout, and about nine o'clock in the evening we had information that u severe northwest blizzard was rapid ly moving down the Stato. Necessity, .n usual, proved Itself the mother of invention. nlll tliv part ner, Mr. (.'. ti. Stephenson, of Herndon. Vn.. unci myself strapped lanterns to our left icl's. and with a big cotton hoe each, tratiied up and down our GUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL ! c tried the scheme nnd It repaid us i : well. Since my return to the North I j I luive each yenr followed out this Idea, .although it has been applied simply to n garden plot of tomntHs. It Is some-1 what revolutionary, nnd whether It Is ' practicable or profitable where you are raising ten or twenty acres of this i moisture ntid sttotenntiep which the pools collect. Insleml producing ten or twelve pounds of uncles prowl h will po lintel.' Into the formation of fruit. Clusters of tomatoes will hum: thickly agaln-l the stake; Ihey 'II secure tin lull belicllt or the sun's polilal wii'imh: there be no rot ting; .he trie fruit can be seen at it plance; the tomatoes will be hiruot. and there will be few, If any. Vetv small oie-s: the yield per vine will be us heavy ot heavier, while If the plant lug Is 'made with this In view, the vines can be set considerably closer. as the - Mive requirement will lie tin less than under till' USUUl BlOLhod the tritoip . est. i eoi"" hr ,rent (luck fsrm of !... I"" . i Km n lull! cw .icrsoy iuin - ,11,ced , he duck supply "lr"",1,,,, ... i n., future census will be .'lonely 1 i no i in in i- .-.-.-"." ' i .t its Mulsh for a uion nil studv of these condition s can be learned nt pr , i ., ....oitiv culture so I ..... ilouiiieu o " I I i.-rs at Mini- ILnTv ' .v. Y ' f - jT WTTfj VI t 'V ' t'" 1 -k,-?iff White Vvl, IL - fat f.' i-n m ei'll Hie ,'inv CIINv So fur nt. the W Ibfoiikh these ..i:iic mis aimoi hix years. The West Is more largely lidcroMed la the Flvmotith ISock and vTyandottr br Is Itian In any other. The F.iml- tiiles seem In be more given in Miltlvallon of Leghorn than are of the Western hs'iilill". 1 1"' ,;gs having the brown shells seen, best suited to the West The brown shelled eggs stand shipment letter. f,o. the fuel thai the shells arc l.ei.v. ,,,,.! siroiigcr than those laid l the Medltct ralicali breeils. The T'.rMl'imi nnd I.tiiitrshim f-'Wl" were rorniellv most populiif I" tin" . . i ..1 ti.. sections The Flyniotitli ijock- viiialottes Is-liig smooth, thai I ot.r.'atbercl. on the Mlumks, lusr. :ib..iit an. I tonu'e for their own nu . . . ., 1... r..i ttiercl ni'ice irii' ti lienor lono i.' - , net Ich The original Asiatics---the r.tahams and the Fiiiigshatis- pn.uu the eggs having Hie darkest and tvavlesl shells The I'M u th KCH'U in, v in, s lag a considerable . . . .... 1.1 1 li, their Oct ceil : vsnm - veins prodiiee n Motion Than tin 111- satcr carn.igi inat'l.ct. -n m.'iti.v In from vrrORTCMTRS. for Yixmff Men -Through lntftlvt f rming. Tbe Wiiio" AjrrWtiHttrnl In1ltnt la Im iited nl Wlmm UkS lnt. It In 00 f Hie most prolilisiim mutt m mw wi of n iM tter iiKrlculliirv; It waa foumiod 1... 1 i.e wiiioitH Aswmbly, wlik'h la .,i,iv known a tb Watem Clinuinii.iua. The AmrU-oUural luatl lute. Iiowivet. Is only ' Uta mr isineiitioiial Instliullotia that baa Inh-ii oigaiiu-sl by Uil AawnibLy. Theie Is also a Technical or Tratta rU-liiHil nl llidlwiiajKiiis; irniniug Sclus.l for Hible teiicliera IU ork; rnrmn . by no art. i tha B,t, vrntur,,,, k hvt bmlS "'n or Jt;. . han thUiiftZTrS: ! It UlOftBhJtiimii! iii. v.. aw K" sfotig shelled egg while shells, llsslir a long distance te Tins is the real of the eggs that Western parts tner kind di:T. 'fence vl I the egg thei may be the c. reason III' are slilppeu have the ,.r shells Then- Is 110 alevct In tin' iiihl.v of i.soIvck 110 iiihtler what ihit ol the eMerior, yi't H K ti vv ell I. now ti ones ha v e t lie pr City. 'If pi-mluc grown iiraf. r t fact that the White .Terence III Now ork e thee thev li.ll"l Is the Metropolis to c tead had acre vepptnble T nm not prepnrod to snv priminp and cultivating that '- or at, acre In Florida kept me hustling as 1 had never hustled U.fore but as a 1 pardon proMisition where von are nils mull ! fr"m ,ift.v " one hundred plants it oas proven itseit an ideal method of culture The directions are these, simple in the extreme, but reiuiiin rather close attention, us one,, v. II started the tomato is 11 rapid grower l'.y the time the plant forms its nrst blossoms, haven slim stake siv feet in length in Florida we used pine sticks alsntt one Inch sipiari' with a crow bar, or a hei vy mallet stake jour to mato firmly. Take 1111 ordinary piece of grocers' soft cotton twine and tie the stem close to the stake. Wo ev sen the danger ol cracking rrolu IOUK shipments The general purpose l"'K ttif Plymouth Kock and the V v undotte. have iM'conie 11 blessing to the MHiltr growers ol the West and Northwest aflmtlvt ha. Conan DoyW'i i dn!,E era tharlhttoTr,; la kin, - """ttkelSl.t nc In th, "jBftrla ! B aurc to id th aa it I a aUrrtaf 3roH5't your Intarwt J '' w luirln lotif ,wl it'ill, .... n,..l 1... 1 l or. ,.f 1, , .,,..1 ...1.1. " "l" ""U 0.-11. 1 .o;,i piugie u:g iuiu pun. ior eaen plant, cov ered tlie blossoming tomiitis-s with Where n great amount of leaf is pro duced. If the ground is rich ntnl the plant grows luxuriantly, its entire strength can be thrown into the fruit by pun h itlp Ollt the top b'ld after the V me ,;i reached tiie Iciglil of the stake. Another n.lvati'.a;" of t,u. in.-: !m. I of culture i that for a coiijili- of vi s alter the ordinarj tomato cl'i They are spviik nml great nblhtv lo imdefgii haril'lnps mi, 1 vet th'-i' HO ijll.tlot but tha' th Ihirre.l r!M!iol!!h I: ihrotii'hont th,- ,...! rn mi all trv IS the gre the I'-"! .'I. at U. to be tie Mitaftv I 1.1 1 1 1 1 . Ill' .'.tel ,. .1 01 wtan.1.1 In Fr.iliee 1 n.al Let fowl 'i..' but thr. f the I'M 10011:1 ept.'.l a, the I' ll'.lfl.el poll! , ., iv sm h III" p. even if ji-j,g prod.n ci'. duriit th sturdy, with more or less . 'Ihere l r-.'e icv more " . . s tri'Wii ; 1 "iiir-v 'hah J -.1 te.'.l p.. Ill . the lloil.lan III Inglatnl iilli'hollt the 1 ;, ,s s.s'in "t.iii'l: r.l of fv 111 nd r.'U'h!'. gsii ensue vcur 1 1 " J I r fs COR life I SEEDBESV. nearly a sipiare foot of the loose Florida up-land sand. 111 which the winter tomato is pro, n I'.y two o'clock we had finished our task. Rial wo thought we were some what tired: but fills effort was nothing tr the job of digitin oat the Mains mi the two succeeding days. The small of my hack still creaks in retnein. brance of the straiphteninp up periods at the cud of t'uch row. Finally, after the two freezes had done their worst, and the penial sou 01 Mnituern Morula Is-gan to warm the air. as uiwm a rare day in June, we each found ourselves with about !Vi of an acre of rather dilapidated but still thrifty mid Iirtle damaged tomat K-s. far ndvauccd over those of the sur rounding tields. PRUMNG TOMATO VINES. The tomntoe-s were bepinninp to tlirow out numbers of axillary suckers Just above etieh h-af. It was my turn, one day, to drive the white mare to town uud pet a supply of jruh we 1 can were camping. liy chance. 1 ran I mp found that the ordinarv. live-cent a hall, white twine BUtlieod. and that there was no dancer of in.ltirltip the stem of the plant. Then po through the rows and pull o(T every sucker leaving of course the blossom stems. In other words simply train the tomato vine to a single stem, and as need be tie it up close to the stake. I Miring the season of growth three or four ties will suttiee. We tried using a sharp knife to cut ofT the suckers in the belief that yanking them off by the lingers would injure the main stem, but event ually came back to the Crystal Spriupb method, where everything is done by the lingerh. SINCILi: ?TH.M rLAN'TS. There will be stronp temptation, should the vines get three, four or live days start, and one of the suckers or hianeiies becomes almost as I as the main stem, to let it prow, in Un belief that it will injure the vine to remove it, but such mistakes should lie ruthlessly remedied. Oiiee well started the tomato Is one of the toughest ami sturdiest growing vegetables a horse step on one withoiii much da map it and there need lie no four fmmymmmmi nwnmmm, .11 n m .mn.i. j V. , r7 i'lliUMI TO. 'till iMH i.m. 1 1 - f..r. .,,, t. h ' ' - : '..' lA KIIIl'MENT OF CIIK'AOO 1'LVi A'l 'Vt i : v across an old Htaper Who had dnrted I about tenrinp out even the large suck down to South Florida from the repiou J ers which have developed four or live ( I (Pill iljif 'T f lln If 111; f fen?T) WW method, is i'h a v. ' lOWs ,f ... laid ho, ti"d up in the usual by," the gardener v can puss through flu tomatoes, nnd with his hoo set hallow, can keep down am w men luav rob the plant ; of t snare or moist ure. Cows of loniiitiM's. grow n in thn IUIIIIIHT. present one of the luo-t al tractive sights imaginable. f ; ; , 1 1 1 -1 than a tomato ptitch tl.ev (,, ,i ,. . voung of.'hard, l:,."i, with a plethon of ripening or green Tnnt, b H"! 11 I.' xjlli Al'.s"l'I.AH.V. MS to Ulako tlieui an ce..i..,t s, ,., I"'' U'la'li futi-farm prime favorites, m,. tion lor i.ll p.irpos.. ate kepi njs.n th e,,. their full fits;,.;' a "f I 'i ' ll H . I OIIS TOJIATOEH TllAINEU TO SINGLE 8TEM8. (After PbotOKrapb.) Of Crystal riprings, Miss. Me told me Of the iuethiKls In that vicinity, by which tomatoes were not only ad vanced In ripcuitip from live to seven days, but lucre-atc-d lu yield. Much mora hvlxw wu iuul but tU' r- siilis wr toore than comiix-r)uiuie leaves, and even Incipient blossom clUHtiTS. However, It Is of course U'tter to keeji the vines pruned down closer. Al ANTAOKH fF THE METHOD. Tha imuit will ba that tha via win irrmr ua m tha mii tit rm imta The plan euuttiHtefi simply in t&L!uK laad stronp. I ho sin pie lotirvs will de an4 cruulus each pluub I vtdop hugely, und a Krut umouot of Poultry Untwine Sorth mid M'csf. T r .'(;i:rw The chief center of poubrv growing upon the farms Mini h small establish. UlCllts devilled e.'llS!Ve to the pro- dticlhg if eggs ami p.uillrv for nurl et is lis'iited in that por' ion' of the i-iiui-try now called the Noiti, ,,,,,1 West, m which we must ho'luii,. Missouri, Kan sas and the gr. -at Nortliwesi. It Is not li-oiallY known that .Mis. sourl, Iowa and Kansas are the great est producers of poultry of all kinds including waterfowl, , n,ilt m.,,: gnu and Wconsm ur,. l.e,,iuing the pieatesi or nil goose ir.,diiei,g Ncetli or tin- country. Fpon the vast whom iie.s or the Northwest are grown thousands upon luuiisiiiuis 01 younp lowls that are hatched and cured for with reference to having them of the proper sisje for ranging over the wheat holds as ,, as the harvest Is In, and are luter gathered up by the pur husers r the great poultry-killing Htiiblirthmeiits of Kansas City and oilier centers. These younp lowls are taken nwiiv and shipped to the killing I lin es prior p, 'he bepinninp of the cold rigid wouih,.r of the North, only leiiv ing for the cure of the farmers during the winter months a Hiillicient number to proiiu, ,. epps for the next Hummer's crop Wisconsin and .Michigan pi,ii.,. larpe numbers of goose, grown ir their feathers, nnd then shipped awnv to the Kiistorn Mules, where they fattened ami sold to the city markets. Missouri and Kansas luive becom,. front egg producing coiilei'sof the W . si It Is claimed that more e; s and wore (ItCHKed poullr.v are shipped from some or the gathering, stations of .Mis sourl than from nuv ol..er lociilltv i,. Ihis country. Iowa has for many jeitrs ranked among the foieinosi states in me producing of both und market poultry of kinds. llie last census Ilgurcs for lovvn are a Hiirprise to many of those beul m formd on poultry mattci. M,,a, dns'ks Her imported as binr arowu aud shipped to iiiiu-ket out of II, ,i rilutu ulouu thuu hud bueu credited i0 You can free u nio'li of the ei. .,,., ,11VU I'ourini; hoi vihigar into Of till ,.l; l,.'t p., , (,')! .-hut l,e u,,, vinegar hi upon tn- 01 i ne pan, and (,,n't day. Ilba.l.'.l closet Jtlol l'-i;s , li re, I , ir,,l: U in i,,. noon llK ( le a i il iiwrTio ,. "I"'" a;.'i!ii tnnt n ml the Wliionn Fnrk School for Rlrla. nil or which sre In a flourishing ron ditiou nnd the pnvliict of tbo ffforts ,.f hoiievolctit men and womon, Tit Wlnonn U-t ii ultornl lntitun differs from niniiv other liitUutlons of tho Wind In 'hat it believe In training tho hr.ud I" ""' l""-'""1 "f "M frsctlcal work of preparing the Mill, plttlit- tiir nnd rnlsine cro. enrinu mr aiilmiil- and the study of the kind a. nml in fact eiiibrncliip nml rsunbliiliig the i.riictici.l mid sclent lllc towards the tidviiliccmenl of this luiH.rtaiit In iliistrv Mor.s.vcr lla fibjiti la to train 'nnd iireimn- y.umc men to rain a PihmI livelihood from a small tra-t of land, placing the vnltie In the Imy rather than In the hunt. In Other words, the student N train vt to get tlw most out of s small aereago, aa hv la most likelv to Is- forent from rlmtm strinees to start on a smull farm, which Bint Is' liirtvnsod In sisipr. or th Blnall farm cm 'lumped for a Inrper on. Thus It iv ill ' sis'ii T tint thla plan of feri a lunch larger s-r tint, of soccraa to thr stu.l. iil Hum If hi training was nil bas.s! on the obtaining of a farut contilstliig of from forty to one bun dnsl ftcrea Q'tis riKiin and practlral work la In charge of practical men. who hnvo hiid cvis'ptioiinl (mining fesr thla mirk. The In-nn of llw Intltute. K. .1. Iloilisier. l soll rifwrt with a .iiitionul reputation nnd hla pnt year's ' vrork nt Wlnonn .okt hn l ttiot ! interiftlne The aitiitxiiis lall1 Trotn their f-iriu nnd garden crftftt tn forty cn- of In ml lut J.nr fl.Mtsi.lsi, i iifirl thin wolk was oil IM-rfiirtlnvt t ' the stiid.ii!" IIm-iiisi lt.- with tbi rt- J OS 1 1 J i 1 i ti CS tt eepiion ol "tie rinpioi nit'io f,i i m a r ft "n tli'ti nml th,- engairtng f the Br vicea .f eight tiidcntu to remain ami l'ik af'er the cri. ntnl do the Inn rt ri ll;? during the hiilnlny M.am. Kven l is busiio n nil cnrrlcl rm by lie stndeiiK iin li'T the dtrvwthm of of the profi-ir Ttint l to aay, lit bo' S rn '. I the rriin. loarkets flsstn. haiaili-d tie- inoiiev, iu thf anctwaa aT the v-ti'u.-. ts.tti from a flnanrtal htiitdi'itit 1" "ell na the tmlnlni tt0 boy pot, i t lug usl aa a basis for i'ui:'.rg"d op ration, thl M'awin, all with the view to tiring the attiiVtifa la , 'oer touch with all tin- agrtruttural ' i.tiHtssea. stipph-int-iitltig the practical work with a courar of bsi-turea and tudli'a thitt tll aimplify lb aclctK of ngrlculture Tin- Is nu hna mt ettrtigwl lo PX w rt pmcticnl work Ith aolU and nits, the tra im) Mining and marketing oT crops over a wide range of rllmat with n variety of soda, embracing tunny portions of that mi which lie betwi-n the foot hUU of the llnrfcr Mountains and luig Uliind In New ork Mate, ii n l fr-nu the r-iitral iwrt of C'ntindn to the I . verplmb-a In Ktor Ida, and I" n-.vr in addition to bla work lit V inoim d'ri-tlnp the recla mation of n l.i tract of tidal Innda on the ( oiue eticui I .,nt He tt)Hrt this ntid o'ber !uiMrtiiiit fenlnre of liii exiM-ri.-ne,. to tl - ! u-loiita, and iim i'mis to prepare v ism - tiM-tt to take up this cvpert wotk e lei lntinilv 'iirming. lie i n thoistmgh U lu-ver In he i vtension of our pnsTlf r and tha ut.'iis.' of tin. stren-th of ltd' tint loft through the development of our a f rt. ul'urul riKouri.-ii, mij donl with th problem ton, i, print ii-nl jsilnt of view. lb- . nniious to luaupurato a movement ti, t d Hit the iii.ptoiemeiit of th,. nlHindnned fariua in the laist. eoiiilnuliig wiitwnrd ra taking up thus., putts of tlm iu.it, 1. w.st wIm m- fnriuiiip U carried uq r irrii'iitmn, trulniiig juung hm-o i n iiv mg "' Tin tuny II greater llsuiu Hum ' iy,,1- hundrisl dollar aular In tb aKiiculturc. for extensiot,, now m Krcatdsr.cae, can help you tts b. own future. fVnr; Winona Ajrto?ff!j r s - fUjs-. 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