70 FACTS AXD FIGURES OR THE 



Beauty, Acme, Stone, Matchless, Paragon, Duke of York, 

 Earliana, Kennerly's Florida Gold Mine, Dwarf Champion 

 and Early Detroit are all popular varieties. 



FERTILIZING. 



You will tind if you give the land where you wish to set 

 the plants a ton of Canadian hardwood ashes to the acre, 

 broadcasted and harrowed in, then lay it off in furrows the 

 width you wish the rows apart, and put about i ,200 pounds 

 of anv good brand of tomato special fertilizer, that will an- 

 alyze about as follows: Ammonia, 5'! ; available phos- 

 phoric acid, 4/^ and potash, g^^ . in the furrows, mixing 

 the fertilizer and soil well together, that you will make an 

 e-xcellent crop. 



CULTn'.-\TION. 



Tomatoes do not require the work that some other crops 

 do; they need only shallow cultivation. Keeping the weeds 

 down, and the surface of the soil open, is all that is neces- 

 sary. 



PRUNING. 



\A'hile I can not say that I fully approve of pruning to- 

 matoes, never having Ijeen able to satisfy myself as to 

 whether it pays for the expense or not, I think it is a good 

 idea to give a short treatise on it, in case some of my read- 

 ers should care to tr)- it. After the plants have recovered 

 from transplanting and started off to growing again, remove 

 all the suckers except the one which you will find just be- 

 low the first fruit stem. Watch your patch closely, re- 

 moving any other suckers you should find. As soon as four 

 01" five hands of fruit have been set on the sucker and main 

 slalk, top the plant. This checks its growth, allowing all 

 the strength to go into the fruit, which will give you heavier 

 and more perfect specimens. While you will not make as 

 large a crop by pruning, you will find that two-thirds of it 



