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creases the earliness of ripening, and the size 
and quality of the fruit. Besides, the plants 
may be grown so much closer that the loss in 
quantity is not so great as would at first appear. 
Henry Jeroloman of New Jersey, known all 
over the country as the “ Strawberry King,” has 
a tomato-planting trick that is worth noting. 
Mr. Jeroloman, by the way, raises about $5,000 
worth from his eight acres annually, and he 
plants tomatoes at the foot of his grape-trellis 
posts and trains them to climb up the posts and 
along the trellis. And right here is where the 
real trick comes in: by training the tomatoes 
to climb up instead of sprawling all over the 
ground, he is able to plant his low-growing crops, 
like beets or turnips, close up to the vines and 
lose no space. That is one of the reasons why 
his eight acres bring in more than the average 
farm of 100 acres. Your profit will depend 
upon similar devices for “ working” the soil. 
The best rack for supporting unpruned vines, 
is a cheap, rough and simple affair, constructed 
by the grower himself as follows:—Run a row 
of stakes on either side of your tomato bed and 
nail a light board to each row about a foot from 
the ground, so that the distance between the 
two rows will be about three feet. Across this 
lay narrow slats, loosely. The plants lop on 
