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BULLETIN 1015, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The tomatoes you sent us gave fully twice as many fruits per acre as the 

 others ; besides, the fruits were of a much better quality. 



I had a canning-club girl who planted one-tenth acre in disease-proof seed. 

 She has canned 1,100 quarts of tomatoes, made 1 dozen bottles of catsup, and 3 

 gallons of green-tomato pickle from her patch. These are the only tomatoes 

 that have been raised on this ground for years ; all other plants would grow to be 

 about a foot high, take the wilt, and die. 



Although most of the reports received state the results in some such 

 popular way as expressed in the foregoing paragraphs, a few report 

 them in percentages of infected plants. Mr. Lewis "Walker, county 

 agent, Waycross, Ga., says : 



I had one plat to run 100 per cent resistant and I feel that all the work would 

 have averaged at least 95 per cent resistant. They were placed beside other 

 seed and all wilted to about 60 per cent, leaving yours good. 



Dr. G. A. Osner, formerly of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, reported the data included in Table 3 on the test of the 

 Norton variety. 



Table 3. 



-Comparative resistance to icilt of varieties of tomatoes at Lafayette 

 and Brazil, Ind., in 1911. 



Variety. 



Locality. 



Number 

 of plants. 



Percentage 



of plants 



dead 



or badlv 

 diseased. 







102 



627 



160 



1,045 



6.8 





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67.0 







2.0 





do 



55.0 









The Norton was much more resistant than the other varieties and 

 produced a better yield and quality of fruit. Although a small per- 

 centage of Norton plants was infected by wilt at the end of the 

 season, this was not apparent in August when the writer visited these 

 fields. A view of part of the field at Brazil is shown in Plate YIII. 

 The rows at the left of the center are the Norton ; those at the right 

 are commercial varieties. The view' shows only a few commercial 

 varieties (one row of each) growing beside the Norton, but there 

 were 14 commercial varieties in this field. 



The percentages of wilt-free plants reported by Prof. D. C. Neal, 

 plant pathologist of the Georgia State Board of Entomology, are 

 grouped in Table 4. Included in this test were one of Edgerton's 

 varieties, viz, Louisiana Hybrid (probably Louisiana Ked or Louis- 

 iana Pink) , Stone, and Livingston's Globe. 



The resistant varieties, Louisiana Hybrid, Columbia, Marvel, 

 Norton, and Arlington, were superior to Livingston's Globe, a some- 

 what resistant variety, and much superior to Stone, a typical sus- 

 ceptible variety. Although it is not stated whether the percentages 



