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A Member: One man told me you cannot raise tomatoes 

 on the ground as well as on the stake. I said : 'Try it." He 

 had just as good plants, but did not get any early tomatoes. 

 He was on a dry, gravelly soil. 



Mr. Clum : There is another advantage. You can con- 

 tinue cultivation much longer. Also it is a great deal easier 

 picking the fruit. You can pick much more. 



Mr. Wilkinson: I have figures on picking, and it was 

 found to be otherwise. 



Cost of picking, grading and packing: 



1910 1911 1912 Average 



On stakes $10.95 $19.80 $29.91 $26.22 



On ground 9.18 18.84 31.80 19.92 



Those figures represent the cost, but they do not represent 

 the convenience or ease of operation. 



Question: Does spraying control the blossom end rot? 



Mr. Wilkinson: We have yet to find authorities who 

 give a remedy for that, or anyone who has combatted that 

 trouble successfully. It seems to be in some way connected 

 with the variety, the season, the soil. Certain varieties are 

 troubled with the disease more than others, certain soils are 

 troubled wtih the disease more than others. As far as spray- 

 ing is concerned, the advice is to use bordeaux mixture, but 

 men report right and left that bordeaux mixture has very 

 little infiuence as far as they are able to observe. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



FERTILIZERS FOR VEGETABLES. 



L. L. Van Slyke, Geneva, N. Y. 



In the growing of vegetables or any other crops, the use 

 of fertilizers is not the whole thing. This fact needs to be 

 emphasized at the start, so that it may be kept constantly in 

 mind, even if nothing else is. The belief has been, and still 

 is, too common that supply of plant-food is the chief or only 

 thing to be considered in the successful growing of vegetables. 



