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received. The picking cost two cents per crate or 

 seven cents per ton. The cost was as follows: Pre- 

 paring ground and planting seed two dollars and 

 twenty-five cents, seed thirty cents, transplanting and 

 resetting three dollars and five cents, cultivating 

 five dollars and fifty cents, harvesting and market- 

 ing twelve dollars and ninety-five cents ; total 

 twenty-four dollars and five cents, and profits twenty 

 dollars and thirty-eight cents. 



Southern Tomato Culture, as described by A. 

 Klenke, Palo Pinto county, Texas, presents several 

 points of difference : My way is to plow the ground a 

 foot deep in the fall of the year, manure richly with 

 barnyard manure and some wood ashes, then plow the 

 ground several times during the winter to prevent it 

 from, becoming compact. 



I set the plants three feet each way. I find frames 

 not profitable, but plant close enough so that one plant 

 will in a measure support another. I put small brush 

 under the plants to prevent fruit from touching the 

 ground. A few times gathering will make regular 

 places for the feet to stand, and the same places should 

 be used every time when gathering tomatoes. I give 

 deep culture as often as possible until crowding plants 

 prevent plowing. 



In transplanting during a dry time, I have had 

 good success in the following way : First of all, I have 

 holes ready to receive the plants before taking them 

 out of the seed bed. I then pinch off all shoots except 

 the very top leaves, and set them so as only to expose 

 the top of the plants. I give plenty of water, rake 

 some dry dirt over the wet, and when carefully done 

 no shading is required, and in a few days the plants 

 will be several inches above the ground. When trans- 

 planting in the usual way I shade plants for two days 

 by placing old boards or shingles around them to keep 



