42 TOMATO CULTURE 



heavy dressing with wood ashes and puts it into the 

 best possible tilth before planting his tomatoes. This 

 grown usually harvests at least 500 bushels to the acre 

 and has made a crop of over 1,000 bushels. 



Early market. — In some sections of the South where 

 the soil is light and the growers depend almost wholly 

 on the use of large quantities of commercial fertil- 

 izer, they seem to meet with the best success by using 

 the same field for several successive crops, but in some 

 places they succeed best with plantings following a 

 crop of cowpeas or other green soiling crops plowed 

 under, with a good dressing of lime. 



