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TOMATOES FOR MARKET AND CANNING 



VARIETIES 



Question: Don't you think the Stone will outyield Chalk's 

 Early Jewel? 



Mr. Cook: Yes, I do. We are coming back to the growing of 

 plants. As I said, if people would take proper pains to grow good 

 plants and start them earlier, I think we would have heavier yields. 



Question: Have you ever tried the Red Rock.^ 



Mr. Cook: I grew a few some two years ago. It is a nice toma- 

 to, but is classed with the Stone for ripening. 



Question: Does it make a good late market tomato? 



Mr. Cook: Very fine. 



Question: Have you ever tried a tomato called Canner's Early? 



Mr. Cook: I never have grown this. I might say there are a 

 great many different tomatoes catalogued by different seedsmen. 

 There are too many. I know of one seedsman who catalogued 

 thirty-seven varieties. 



Question: What price did your Association get? 



Mr. Cook: We get nine dollars. Our average yield was almost 

 twelve tons on five hundred acres. There were some of our growers 

 who made as high as twenty tons to the acre. We have never been 

 bothered much vdth blight. Sometimes the early varieties have 

 blighted badly on poor soil. 



Question : Did you find the Bonny Best as early as the Earliana? 



Mr. Cook: We have found a few of the Bonny Best will ripen at 

 the same time as the Earliana ripens its first, but not so many. 



Mr. Bronson: Does the canner furnish you with plants? 



Mr. Cook: Xo, the canner has furnished a goodly number of 

 growers with plants, but a great many growers prefer to contract 

 their own plants. Last year our Association handled this plant 

 deal very nicely. We contracted with greenhouse growers for plants, 

 and the grower went to the greenhouse when the plants were ready 

 and got his plants. 



Mr. Bronson: Suppose a canner went to the trouble of raising 

 his own plants, breeding up better seeds. Wouldn't your Associa- 

 tion pay more for the plants? 



