Tomato Growing for Profit ; 



Being- a Ppactical Tpeatise, showing in Detail how to Grow 



Tomatoes by New Methods, from the Saving- of the 



Seed to the Marketing- of the Crop, so as 



to leave, when sold, the Largest 



Amount of Profit to 



the Producer. 



The whole being the result of over Thirty Years' Extensive Practical Experience 



by the Author, 



S. H. MITCHELL, Gardener, Florist and Seedsman, 



St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada. 



PREFACE. 



There can be no doubt but that it becomes the duty of each individual 

 who has made growing of some special crop the study and practical work of a 

 lifetime, to contribute the knowledge he has thus obtained for the good of 

 society as a whole ; more particularly is this the case when the experience of 

 the individual is directly opposite to the practice and directions given by others. 



Being a practical man, I hold that the best proof of any system is success. 

 Beginning the cultivation of tomatoes over thirty years ago, without any capital 

 except my own labor (if that can be called capital), I have succeeded in making 

 every tomato crop yield a fair profit But, during the last fifteen years, by 

 putting in practice the system described in this treatise, they have been far more 

 profitable. So that I can say without egotism, that out of the profits I have 

 been able to lay by something for myself and family for a rainy day. 



I do not aspire to literary talent, or claim that my sentences are all gram- 

 matical, but I have endeavored to make everything so plain that all can under- 

 stand, and put my methods into practice. 



The great aim of this work is to point out how to grow and sell a crop of 

 tomatoes in such a manner that, after all expenses are deducted, the largest 

 profits possible will be left for the grower. 



Although the instructions given are chiefly for the market gardener, and 

 others who wish to grow the crop for profit, yet it will be quite easy for the 

 amateur or private gardener to adopt them to suit his smallest requirements. 



I might have written a chapter on growing tomatoes in fancys, e. g:, by 

 tying them to stakes ; by growing them on hoops ; by pruning them once a 

 week, or oftener, in order to encourage a more thorough ripening of the fruit, 

 but such a chapter would be foreign to the design of this work. Those who 

 wish to grow tomatoes in fanciful ways, and spend three to five times as much 

 labor on them as is necessary, and tHen receive only half a crop, are welcome 

 to do so. A bushel of tomatoes grown in these fanciful ways, if time and 

 expense are counted, usually cost as much as two or three bushels bought at 

 market price. 



My mam object in this work is, not to teach profitless fanciful ways to 

 those who have plenty of time and money to spend, but to clearly point out how 

 the noor industrious man can support his family and lay by something for the 

 future, by growing tomatoes. S. H. M. 



