STOKES 

 TOMATO 



STOKES TOMATO BULLETIN 



PUBLISHED BY FRANCIS C. STOKES COMPANY. VlNCENTOWN. N. J. 



BREEDERS AND GROWERS OF FINE TOMATO SEED 



"We build the road; others will make the journey" 



— Victor Hugo 



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NO. 9, 



January 15, 1944 



We agree, a tomato bulletin should mention tomatoes here and there . 



We are in full sympathy with this premise, and with this issue will at once institute a 

 reform. Even this, alas, may be too late, for a friend of ours from Missouri for at least 

 a former friend) returned Bulletin No. 8 and asked that his name be removed from our mail- 

 ing list, making it very plain that he did not want any more of our "Republican propaganda" 

 That certainly gave pause to the editors of this modest sheet. However, we still reserve 

 the privilege of rowing over incompetance , waste, and delay. We must go FORWARD all along 

 the line'. 



P. D. 4. or D. L. & W.? It makes a lot of difference . 



We hoped that by this date we could furnish all State War Board tomato prices for 1944 • 

 Very sorry. Not yet. Someone apparently has not been able to make up his mind. It looks 

 very much like the same old story, Judge Vinson. Everything you remember, was going to be 

 on time this year, but we are faltering again. The news has an ominous sound. Let's get 

 going--with Gusto'. 



New Jersey rings up a First Place . 



The following are excerpts from a paper by Harry R. Livingston and Francis C. Stokes read 

 at the big Camden Tomato Meeting , January 5, 194-4, held under the auspices of the New 

 Jersey Horticultural Society and the New Jersey Canner's Ass'n. 



"New Jersey produced 167,612 pounds of certified tomato seed in 1943. This is better than 

 80% of the United States production of certified tomato seed. It is sufficient to plant 

 600,000 acres of tomatoes. New Jersey requires approximately 25,000 pounds of this seed 

 to plant its own cannery and market acreage. 



The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has been certifying tomato seed fields for 

 twenty-three years. This service commenced in 1921 with 132 acres. In 1943, 5,504 acres 

 were certified by the state. The harvest of this seed by varieties as follows* 



Rutgers 

 Marglobe 

 Stokesdale 

 Pritchard 

 Garden State 

 Bonny Best 

 Campbell's No 

 Valiant 



178 



113,546 Pounds 



38,561 " 

 8,019 



4,848 " 



1,380 " 



1,184 " 

 40 



34 " 



Mr. Edgar G. Rex has ably headed the New Jersey seed certification service for nineteen 

 years. The expansion of this department to its present position of importance has been 

 accomplished largely under the leadership of Mr. Rex. 



New Jersey tomato seed certification has set definite standards for s 

 tions, for inspection against disease in the seed fields and against 

 The tomato grower has profited enormously as the result of this seed 

 vice. There can be no doubt whatever but that it has raised the enti 

 American tomato production and has been a factor in doubling this pro 

 last ten years. One result is that the tomato is now American's Numb 

 The figure just released by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics give 

 to tomatoes for processing and shipping at 143,877,000.00. No other 

 approaches that vast figure. 



tock-seed regula- 

 varietal mixture, 

 certification ser- 

 re standard of 

 duction over the 

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 s a 1943 farm value 

 vegetable even 



New Jersey tomato growers can take justifiable pride in the contribution they are making 

 in the national effort. All of you are sharing in the increased yields, which have re- 

 sulted from the well planned and well executed seed breeding and seed harvesting program 

 that has long been established in New Jersey. 



