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and let the other grow naturally over the side 

 of the barrel. Give a gallon of water a day to 

 each barrel and you will raise enough tomatoes 

 in the season for a family of four or five persons. 



The Iowa Experiment Station showed that un- 

 trained tomato vines gave the smallest yield 

 and the largest percentage of decayed fruit; 

 that staked vines gave a much larger percentage 

 of sound fruit and the least percentage of de- 

 cayed fruit of the whole experiment; that 

 hiUing up did not give any striking results in 

 any direction; and that, while mulching enor- 

 mously increased the yield, it also greatly in- 

 creased the tendency to rot. 



Because tomatoes suffer so from frost, it is 

 wise to hasten fruiting by every means, but if 

 frost strikes before the fruits are ripe, the large 

 green ones may be picked and placed in drawers 

 or other dry, close places to ripen. Generally 

 they color well and develop a good quality. If 

 the fruits have not reached full size, the whole 

 plant may be pulled with the fruits on, and hung 

 upside down in a barn or dry building, and they 

 will continue to draw nourishment from the 

 plant and sometimes ripen. 



From one ounce of seed you may expect from 

 2000 to 2500 plants; if planted in hills three by 

 four feet apart, an acre will require 3630 plants. 



