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The average crop should be about as follows : — 



I bushel extra early tomatoes $3 00 



1 " medium, " " i 00 



2 " late, " I 00 



i>^ " green " 50 



$5 50 

 After crops will cost about as follows : — 



Half a load of manure $ 25 



Preparing soil 25 



16 early large plants i 00 



Hoeing, training and picking i 00 



$2 50 

 Profit, $3. 



Having chosen suitable soil for main crop, plow ten inches deep in the 

 fall. Then, the following May, cultivate and harrow down smooth ; draw on 

 twenty five cords to the acre of good well rotted manure; spread and plow the 

 manure under, six inches deep, two weeks previous to planting time, say about 

 the middle of May. When ready to plant, harrow well till smooth. The har- 

 rowing will kill most of the weeds which will have started up after the plowing. 



CHAPTER Vni. 



Planting Main Crop and Protecting from Frost. 



When ready to plant, mark out the land with a hand marker ; set so as to 

 draw straight lines five feet apart ; make the marks from north to south : then, 

 with a Planet Junior cultivator, with only a double moulding steel in the centre, 

 or a light double mouldboard plough, turn out a furrow five inches deep, straight 

 along the mark. This furrowing out should be done only just as wanted, so the 

 soil will be fresh and moist for planting in. For planting, choose the very hot- 

 test weather. If the plants are prepared as directed, bright, hot, sunny weather 

 is the best. Even though it may be quite dry. it is all right so long as the earth 

 is moist where the plants are to be set. Avoid cold, wet weather, if possible. It 

 is the worst weather you can have for planting ; the ground being cold and wet» 

 and no sun to warm it up. It is better to defer planting a few days, or even a 

 week, until you can get warmer weather. Wet weather will not hurt, if the 

 weather is only warm enough. Do not water or shade the plants when set out, 

 they are better without it. 



To prepare plants for setting out, they must be watered sufficiently to wet 

 all the earth as deep as the roots ; and the watering should be done three or four 

 hours before the plants are wanted, so they will have time to drain. If put out 



