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Literature 



Livingston and the Tomato, Columbus, Ohio, 1893, pp. 172. 

 Tomato Culture (in Cuba), Bulletin 4, Estacion central agronomica 



de Cuba, 1905. 

 Tomatoes, U. S. D. A., Farmers' Bulletin 220, 1905. 

 Tomato Diseases, Fla. Bulletin 91, 1907. 

 Tomato Culture, by W. W. Tracy, New York, 1907, pp. 150. 



EGGPLANT 



The eggplant has been cultivated by the natives of 

 India for thousands of years. It is now one of the com- 

 monest of green vegetables in almost all tropical countries, 

 especially in the East Indies. 



This vegetable is a money crop for the southern United 

 States ; although it can be grown in gardens of the North, 

 it does not flourish so well there since the seasons are short. 

 The greatest obstacle in the way of success for this crop 

 is that gardeners rarely supply sufficient fertilizer to the 

 soil. A successful grower in Florida began by raising ten 

 acres, but did not make a profit on the crop ; he then re- 

 duced his acreage to five, and used the same amount of 

 fertilizer that he put on the ten acres. Later, he again 

 cut down the acreage to two and one-half acres, but kept 

 the amount of fertilizer at the original figure, and also 

 bestowed as much attention on the two-and-one-half as he 

 did formerly on the ten acres. The two-and-one-half acres 

 then gave him more fruit of better quaUty and better size, 

 than the original ten acres, and at the same time the field 

 became more profitable. This instance illustrates what 

 has been insisted upon before, that one should resort to 

 intensive, rather than extensive, vegetable-growing. 



