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southward, and the quality of the product in the open air is not equal to 

 that of the Northern crop. But in the forcing-house we have a great advant- 

 age over the Xorthern grower, and we have treated of this part of the subject 

 fully because we believe that winter forcing in the Upper South is destined to 

 become a great interest. 



FURTHER REPORTS ON CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS IN FORCING TOMATOES. 



In the report of the Connecticut Station for 1899 we find the following 

 statements. In the season of 1897-8 two crops of tomatoes were forced, and the 

 compost and coal-ash beds were made to alternate with each other through 

 the house. To each plat of coal ashes and peat were added 411.64 grams of 

 nitrate of soda, 700 grams cotton seed meal, 141.36 grams dissolved bone 

 black, and 215 grams of muriate of potash. For the second crop the amounts of 

 these removed by the first crop were added. The application was too heavy 

 and the plants were injured by it. In 1898-9 nitrogen was furnished to the 

 plats of coal ashes and peat with same materials and also with bone meal. 

 The yield from the plats dressed with bone was below that of the others. 

 The soil of coal ashes and peat made a heavier yield of tomatoes than the pot- 

 ting compost, and the same result was found in all the crops. 



