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quality where the plants were allowed to run at will, but a 

 larger proportion with the stake method. 



Question: With the stake method, do you plant nearer 

 together? 



Mr. Wilkinson : Much nearer. Where running at will, 

 three by four, four by four, four by five ; with stakes, eighteen 

 inches with two feet or three feet between rows. 



Mr. Coleman (Albany County) : Do you know whether 

 the staked and unstaked tomatoes were planted at the same 

 distance in those variety tests? 



Mr. Wilkinson: Yes, there was the same number of 

 plants per plat. 



A Member: There would seem to be a chance to change 

 those figures in actual practice. 



Mr. Wilkinson : Yes, because where stakes are used, a 

 larger number of plants may be set, resulting in larger yield 

 per acre. It is claimed in Ohio where they stake their toma- 

 toes that they are able to produce more tomatoes than by 

 other methods, because they have more plants. Some report 

 as high as twenty to twenty-five tons per acre. In our best 

 canning sections, if they report fifteen or sixteen tons, they 

 are doing very well indeed. 



Question: Is wire fencing practicable for tying up? 



Mr. Wilkinson: If you have a small garden, yes; if a 

 large garden, no. 



Mr. Hunter: Why would it not be practicable in the 

 field? 



Mr. Wilkinson: In the first place, you must place the 

 wire there and take it away. The leaves will work their 

 way through, and you must take those out. 



Mr. Clum (Seneca County) : Mr. West had perhaps an 

 acre trellised with common galvanized wire. He is a prac- 

 tical man. It seems as though he knew what he was doing. 



Mr. Hunter: I meant plain wire. 



Mr. Wilkinson: It would be practicable if plain wire 

 was used, but not poultry wire. 



