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A NEW TOMATO CULTURE.
GUY CLUOTT MITCHELL
moisture and sustenance which the
roots collect, Instead * producing ten
or twelve pounds of useless growth
will go largely Into the formation of
fruit Clusters of tomatoes will hang
thickly against the stake; they ””11
secure the full benefit of the sun’s
genial warmth; there will be no rot­
ting; the ripe fruit can be seen at a
glance; the tomatoes will be larger,
and there will be few, if any, very
small ones; the yield per vine will be
as heavy or heavier, while if the plant­
ing is made with this in view, the
vines can be set considerably closer,
as the moisture requirement will be far
less than under the usual method
the Whole West People Imagined that
the great duek farms of Long Island>
New Jersey and Pennsylvania bad
produced the duck supply of the coun­
try The future census will be closely
scanned at its finish for a more care­
ful study of these conditions. So far
as can be learned at present, the in­
crease in poultry culture through these
states has almost doubled In the last
six years.
The West Is more largely Interested
In the Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte
breeds than in any other. The East­
ern States seem to be more given to
the cultivation of Leghorns than are
any of the Western localities. The
eggs having the brown shells seem
best suited to the West. The brown-
shelled eggs stand shipment better,
from the fact that the shells are heav­
ier and stronger than those laid by
the Mediterranean breeds.
The Brahma and Langshan fowls
were formerly most popular In these
sections. The Plymouth Rocks and the
W.vandottes being smooth, that is
unfeathered, on the shanks, move
about and forage for their own sus­
tenance much better than the feathered
varieties. The original Asiatics—the
Brahams and the Langshans—produce
the eggs having the darkest and
heaviest shells. The Plymouth Rocks
and Wyandottes having a considerable
per cent, of Asiatic blood in their
veins, produce a strong shelled egg,
stronger than the white shells, assur­
ing safer carriage a long distance to
market This is the real reason why
so Many of the eggs that are shipped
in from Western parts have the
former kind of shells. There is no
difference whatever in the quality of
the eggs themselves, no matter what
may be the color of the exterior, yet it
is a well-known fact that the white
ones have the preference in New York
City. To produce these, they must be
grown nearer to the Metropolis to les­
sen the danger of cracking from long
shipments.
The general purpose fowls, the
Plymouth Rock and the Wyandotte,
have become a blessing to the poultry
growers of the West and Northwest.
They are strong and sturdy, with
great ability to undergo more or less
hardships and yet thrive. There Is
no question but that there are more
Barred Plymouth
Rocks grown
throughout the Western country than
all other kinds of standard-bred poul­
try combined. In France, the Houdan
18 the great market fowl; in England,
the Dorking; but throughout the
Great West the Plymouth Rocks seem
to be accepted as the standard of
quality for market poultry. In ad­
dition, they are such thoroughly good
egg-producers during the entire year
We tried the scheme and it repaid us
’about the first of June Is the time well.
Since my return to the North I
to stake your torihttocs, speaking gen­ have
each year followed out this Idea,
erally for the United States. This although
It has been applied simply to
mrtlcle would have been more timely
■had it been printed a month ago, but a garden plot of tomatoes. It is some­
even If it can be remembered for next what revolutionary, and whether it Is
year’s operations In tomato growing, practicable or profitable where you are
the writer will feel more than com­ raising ten or twenty acres of this
pensated, since for at least small
tomato. patches the plan here sug-
Ringlet
gested has been proven by him to have Barred Ply
several advantages.
mouth Roc In.
Some years ago I attempted to grow Prize Win-
«oven acres of tomatoes in Southern nerg at Mad­
Florida—Polk County—for the north­ ison Square
ern winter market. The tomatoes
were pif nted In November. It was the Garden, New
winter of the great freeze, which swept York Poultry
Florida from stem to stern and obliter­ Show.
ated all “frost lines”—the first oc­
curred December 28th, just on top of
n balmy Christmas Eve spent on the
piazza In summer clothes. On that
day, the jtbennometer in this “frost
proof” region descended to 18F. with
a biting northwest wind. Thousands
Of acres of tomatoes and egg-plant
were ent down to the ground. For­
tunately for my partner and myself we
Were from the region where Jack-Frost
bolds annual away and we had main­
tained a seed bed in spite of the Jeers
of out pclghlmra. By the use of fer­
tilizer tacks, all the bed quilts, sheets
and clothing we had, and half a dozen
fires to windward, we managed to
White Wyan-
save some seven or eight thousand
dottes. First
young tomato plants, and thus when
the frost king had passed on his way,
Prize Pen at
we bad a start over our neighbors of
Boston, 1005
from eighteen to twenty-four days in
growth.
A SECOND FREEZE,
We had visions of wealth. Instead
of aeven acres,
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true, we
had
plants for only about a single acre
each, but we expected eight, ten or
twelve dollars a crate for our toma­
toes, Instead of two or three dollars,
tiecause all Florida had l>een wiped
cut. Unfortunately, in this instance,
the lightning struck twice, and in Feb­
ruary, just as our plants were blos­ vegetable I am not prepared to say— where a great amount of leaf is pro-
soming and beginning to form fruit, pruning and cultivating that % of an duced.
If the ground Is rich and the plant
a second and equally severe freeze acre in Florida kept me hustling as I
struck into our midst, and again the had never hustled before—but as a grows luxuriantly, Its entire strength
entire agricultural section of Florida, garden proposition where you are rais­ can be thrown into the fruit by pinch­
with the exception of a very small ing from fifty to one hundred plants it ing out the top bud after the vine has
acreage on the southmost keys, was has proven Itself an ideal method of reached the height of the stake.
Another advantage of tnls method of
frozen to the roots. However, In this culture. The directions are these,
Instance the Weather Bureau was on simple in the extreme, but requiring culture is that for a couple of weeks
the lookout, and alxiut nine o'clock in rather close attention, as once well after the ordinary tomato crop, even if
the evening we had information that started the tomato is n rapid grower.
By the time the plant forms its first
a severe northwest blizzard was rapid­
blossoms, have a slim stake six feet in
ly moving down the State.
length—in Florida we used pine sticks
Necessity, as usual, proved Itself nltout one Inch square—with a crow­
the mother of Invention, nnd m.v part­ bar, or a heavy mallet stake your to­
ner, Mr. C. G. Stephenson, of Herndon, mato firmly. Take an ordinary piece
Va., and myself strapped lanterns to of grocers’ soft cotton twine and tie
our left legs, and with a big cotton the stem close to the stake. We ex­
hoe each, tramped up and down our perimented with tape and heavy cord,
long rows of tomatoes and with a but found that the ordinary, tlve-cent
single dig and pull, for each plant, cov­ a Dall, white twine sufficed, and that
ered the blossoming tomatoes with
nearly a square foot of the looso there was no danger of Injuring the
Florida up land sand, lii which the stem of the plant. Then go through
the rows and pull oft every sucker­
winter tomato Is grown.
leaving of course the blossom stems.
By two o’clock we had finished tmr In other words simply train the tomato
task, and we thought wo wore some­ vine to a single stem, and as need be
what tired; but this effort was nothing tie it up close to the stake. During the
to the Job of digging out the plants on senson of growth three or four ties will
the two succeeding days. The small suffice. We tried using a sharp knife
of my back still creaks In remem­ to cut off the suckers in the belief that
brance of the straightening up periods yanking them off by the fingers would
at the end of each row.
Injure the main stem, but event­
Finally, after the two freezes had ually came back to the Crystal Springs
done their worst, nnd the genial sun method, where everything is done by
of Southern Florida began to warm the fingers.
the air. as upon a rare day In June, we
SINGLE STEM PLANTS.
each found ou.'selves with about % of
There
will be strong temptation,
an acre of rather dilapidated but still
SHIPMENT OF CHICAGO PLYMOUTH ROCKS AS RECEIVED
the vines get three, four or
thrifty and little damaged tomatoes, should
AT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.
five
days
start,
and
one
of
the
suckers
far advanced over those of the sur­ or branches becomes almost as big ns
rounding fields.
the main stem, to let it grow. In the tied np In the usual method. Is “laid as to make them prime favorites, and
rilUNING TOMATO VINES.
liellef that It will injure the vine to by,” the gardener with a wheel hoe an excellent selection for all purposes
The tomatoes were beginning to remove It, but such mistakes should lie can pnss through the rows of staked for which fowls are kept upon the
throw out numbers of axillary suckers ruthlessly remedied. Once well started tomatoes, and with his hoe set very farm.
can keep down any weeds
jutrt above each leaf. It was my turn, the tomato is one of the toughest and shallow,
which may rob the plants of their full FITS
»oateornervonrae« after
one day, to drive the white mare to sturdiest growing vegetables—a horse share
rl I O <lr»; day’jww ot Dr. KUne-i Great Nerve lie-
of moisture.
rtorer. Sent for FREE »2 00 trial bottle and troatl»
town nnd get a supply of grub—we can step on one without much damag­
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Rows
of
tomatoes,
grown
In
this
were camplug. By chance, 1 ran ing it—and there need be no fear manner, present one of tlie most at­
acrons an old stager who had drifted nlsmt tearing out even the large suck- tractive
sights imaginable. Rather
You can free a moth-infested closet
down to South Florida from the region ) ers which have developed four or five than a tomato
patch they look like a of the "creatures,” larvae and eggs, by
young orchard, laden with a plethora pouring hot vinegar into a red-hot iron
or tin pan set upon hot bricks in the
of ripening or green fruit.
closet. Shut the door as soon as the
Poultry Growing North and TTcsf. vinegar hisses upon the heated surface
of the pan, and don’t open again that
T. F. MeGREW.
The chief center of poultry growing
upon the farms and by small establish­
ments devoted exclusively to the pro­
ducing of eggs and poultry for market,
is located in that portion of the coun­
try now called the North and West, in
which wo must Include Missouri, Kan­
sas and the great Northwest.
It is not usually known that Mis­
souri, Iowa nnd Kansas are the great­
est producers of poultry of all kinds,
including waterfowl, and that Michi­
gan and Wisconsin are becoming the
greatest of all goose-producing sections
of the country.
Upon the vast wheat fields of the
Northwest are grown thousands upon
thousands of young fowls that are
batched and cared for with reference
to having them of the proper size for
ranging over the wheat fields as soon
as the harvest is In, and are later
gathered up by the pur hasers of the
great poultry-killing establishments of
Kansas City and other centers. These
Even an expert cannot distinguish by
young fowls are taken away and
appearance roasted Java from Bri
shipped to the killing t laces prior to its
zilian
Coffee. Then how can you know
the beginning of the cold rigid weather
that
you
get your money's worth when
of the North, only leaving for the care
of the farmers during the winter you buy loose grocery-store coffee on
months a sufficient number to produce loota «nJ the price mark? You don't
know-, and the grocer does not know,
eggs for the next summer's crop.
Wisconsin and Mlchlgnn produce for “cup quality is not visible to the
large numbers of geese, grown for eye, and he cannot show it to you.
their feathers, and then shipped away Refuse loose scoop coffee I You may be
to the Eastern States, where they are sure that afi coffee deteriorates when ex
fattened and sold to the City markets. £sje«l to U h - air, anil is easily contan^
Missouri and Kansas have become
great en produclnircentersof the West. nated by dust and impurities.
Y ou will find it to your advantage tc
It is claimed that more egjs and
more dressed poultry are shipimd from buy from us direct if your grore^Tefuses
some of the gathering stations of Mis­ to supply Arbuckles’ Ariou Coffee.
TOMATOW TRAINED TO RINGLE STEMS. (After PfcotoKrapb.)
For v-m^rotection to positively in­
souri than from any ou.er locality tn
this country. Iowa has for many sure youTilI weight, purity and the best
of Crystal Springs. Mlns. He told me li-aves, and even Incipient blossom years ranked among the foremost coffee value for your money, Arbuckles’
of the methods In that vicinity, by elustera. However, it is of course stall's In the producing of both eggs An-68 Coffee is sold in sealed one
which tomatoes were not only ad­ better to keep the vines pruned dowu uud market |>oultry of
pound packages only. As the largest
kinds.
vanced In ri|ieulng from five to seven closer.
The last census figures for Iowa are coffee dealers in the world, with a busi­ 1
days, but iocreuMd in yield. Much ADVANTAGES OF THE METHOD. a surprise to luany of those best in­ ness exceeding any Jour other coffee
more labor was required, but the re­
The result will be that the vine will formed ou poultry matters. More h alers, we can and dogive l>etter coffee
sults ware more than commensurate. grow up to the top of the stake, stocky ducks were reported as being grown tlian
be bought elsewhere for any­
ITbe plan consisted simply in slusiug uud strung. The slugle leaves will de­ and shipped to market out of that thing can
like the same price—in proof of
•Bd pruaia« Mcfi plant.
velop hugely, uud a great amount of State alone than bad been credited to | which the sales oi Ariusa for th years
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