Kirin DRIED. 
Estimated yield 
per acre. 
Per cent water | 
evaporated by 
drying 
Dry matter. 
60.28 | 39.72 
. 63.72 | 36.28 
dh Cuba Yam PE EER SABE SES RE ee Saas 1) DEGBE 
_ Early Golden : 68.40 
74.22 
77.63 
Qt = Southern Queen. s.r eee we beedence 292 | 20.33 | 67.97 | 32.03 | 1.35 | 3.78 | 21.97 
as 4 
883 | 27.33 | 71.12] 28.88 | 1.96 | 3.10] 19.33 
TOMATO TESTS. 
vigil A COMPARISON oF YIELDS. 
In these tests seven plants, each of nineteen of the newer 
varieties of tomatoes, were used. The plants were set in a young 
_ vineyard that had been top-dressed with bone meal at the rate of 
_. 200 pounds to the acre. The soil being in a good state of tilth. 
_ In setting the plants, each row was run east and west, then a wire 
trellis was run north and south, taking in the eastern plant of 
each variety. The next plant in each row was kept trimmed, 
allowing the sunlight to penetrate to the soil and reach every 
' fruit. The three following plants were allowed to mat at will. 
_ Whe sixth plant was trained to a stake and the extreme western 
plants were grown on a wire trellis. The trimmed plants in 
almost every case gave the first ripe fruits, but both west trellis 
and stake plants ripened ten fruits as early as did the trimmed 
plants. It will be noticed in the following tables that the staked 
and west trellis plants of every variety gave a very small yield. | 
This is accounted for by the fact of there being a clay knoll run-— 
- ning through the vineyard. While this was well manured the 
previous year, and was in good tilth, the rains of early summer 
caused it to become very heavy and to bake through the summer. 
