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and Dwarf Champion are good second-early pink-skinned 

 varieties. Selected strains of Spark's Earliana are the 

 best for early red tomatoes. For late red-skinned varie- 

 ties, Beauty seems to be quite a favorite, and Stone, 

 an old standard, is also good. It does not usually pay 

 to grow the earliest varieties for general crop, since they 

 are inferior. In many unfavorable localities, however, it 

 may be best to grow them, as they do very well for home 

 use. 



Marketing. Tomatoes are sold in various sorts of 

 packages, holding from a few pounds to a bushel. Can- 

 ning factories pay from 

 $7to$10perton. Yields 

 will run from 500 to 

 1,000 bushels per acre, 

 depending on the man- 

 agement of the crop. 



Insects. The toma- 

 to is subject to few 

 insect pests. It is some- 

 times attacked by the 

 potato beetle. The rem- 



edy is Paris green and water, as recommended for the 

 same insect when it attacks the potato. 



Tomato Rot. There are several diseases that attack 

 the tomato when grown in greenhouses, but only that 

 known as the "rot" is often seriously injurious to plants 

 grown in the open field. This is a fungous disease, the germs 

 of which lodge in the ends of the young fruits, probably 

 often just as the flowers fall off. By their growth they rot 

 the ends of the tomatoes and often cause much loss. 



Remedies. The disease lives over winter in the ground 

 where the rotten tomatoes have fallen. The diseased fruit 



