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had the season been a month longer. Thus, in the first table, the 

 first intermittent plot (No. 2) is thirteen per cent less in yield 

 than the single treatment plot, but in the second table it is only 

 6.7 per cent less; the second intermittent plot (No. 3), is thirty-four 

 per cent less in the first instance and only nineteen per cent less 

 in the second instance. It will be noticed, also, that the number 

 of fruits — in the first column of figures — foUows the same 

 course. AH this is proof that productiveness in the tomato is 

 largely a question of early bearing and that the best tomato 

 fertilizers are those which give up their food materials quickly. 



It must hot be understood, however, that this early produc- 

 tiveness necessarily implies earlier individual fruits; that is, the 

 idea refers rather to the production of many fruits — heavy pick- 

 ings — early in the season rather than to the actual few first ripe 

 fruits. A detailed account of the pickings from the plots Ulas- 

 trates this: 



