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Agrioultuba.l Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



needs to be repeated, and it should also be said that the plants, 

 wkUe leggy, were still vigorous. 



12. Sheai'ing young plamts. — It is a fre(iuent practice to shear 

 the tops off young tomaito plants to make them stocky, in place of 

 a transiplanting. Two dozen Ig-notura plants, for which seeds were 

 Bowna. January nineteenth^ were distributed into two lots. One 

 lot, which we may call No. 1, was transplanted on February first, 

 March third, Apidl fourteenth, and May seventeenth; the second 

 lot was treated the same way excei3t that in place of the last 

 transplanting, May seventeenth, the plants were sheared. At 

 this time the plants were some fifteen inches high, and about three 

 inches of the top was cut off. 



TABLE XVIIL— SuBARiNG Young Plants. 



Tliere was coDsiderable loss in earl'iness in the sheared lot, but 

 a gain in weight of crop before froi.<t. This gain was not great, 

 and too much dejx^ndence should not be placed upon it. 



13. Piniiiig. — Two plots of twenty-eight good Ignotum plants 

 each were set aside for a test of the value of hilling tomatoes, half 

 of each plot being hilled July second, the remaining halves receiv- 

 ing common level cultivation. The soil was drawn up around the 

 base of the plant to a height of six inches, as potatoes are hilled. 



