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and analyzing 7-7-5 gives very good results when used at the rate 
of three to three hundred and fifty pounds per acre. This on 
some light soil is supplemented by a dressing on two sides of 
the plant early in its growth of about one hundred and fifty 
pounds of nitrate of soda. An excessive use of nitrate of soda is 
to be avoided because when used in large quantities it produces 
too much vine growth at the expense of fruit. And what nitrate 
of soda is used should be used as early after plants are set as pos- 
sible, because at that time there are less nitrates available from 
natural sources than would be the case later when nitrification is 
more active. 
Fic. 429.—TomMAToES GROWING AT WILL, THE GENERAL PRACTICE WHERE 
GROWN FOR CANNING 
Cultivation must be done early and often and should be con- 
tinued as long as the vines will permit working between them. 
Many growers produce what is known as a second early crop. 
For this purpose a little later variety is chosen, not because it is 
a little later in ripening but because by its being a little later in 
ripening it is a better tomato, smoother and larger, hence sells at 
a higher price. Among the many varieties chosen for this crop 
are Bonny Best, Dwarf Champion, Twentieth Century, Dwarf . 
Stone, John Baar (new), and many others. 
