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BULLETIX 1015, U. S. DEPARTVLEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The tomatoes you sent us gave fully twice as many fruits per acre as the 
.others ; besides, the fruits were of a much better quality. 
I had a canning-club girl who planted one-tenth acre in disease-proof seed. 
She has canned 1,100 quarts of tomatoes, made 1 dozen bottles of catsup, and 3 
gallons of green-tomato pickle from her patch. These are the only tomatoes 
that have been raised on this ground for years ; all other plants would grow to be 
about a foot high, take the wilt, and die. 
Although most of the reports received state the results in some such 
popular sv&y as expressed in the foregoing paragraphs, a few rerjort 
them in percentages of infected plants. Mr. Lewis Walker, county 
agent. TTaycross, Ga., says: 
I had one plat to run 100 per cent resistant and I feel that all the work would 
have averaged at least 95 per cent resistant. They were placed beside other 
seed and all wilted to about 60 per cent, leaving yours good. 
Dr. G. A. Osner. formerly of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 
Station, reported the data included in Table 3 on the test of the 
Xorton variety. 
Table 3. — Comparative resistance to wilt of varieties of tomatoes at Lafayette 
and Brazil, Ind., in 1917. 
Variety. 
Locality. 
Number 
of plants. 
Percentage 
of plants 
dead 
or badly 
diseased. 
Norton 
17 other varieties 
. , Lafayette 
| 102 
627 
6.8 
67.0 
Norton 
14 other varieties 
Brazil. 
do 
] 160 
1,045 
2.0 
55.0 
The Xorton was much more resistant than the other varieties and 
produced a better yield and quality of fruit. Although a small per- 
centage of Xorton plants was infected by wilt at the end of the 
season, this was not apparent in August when the writer visited these 
fields. A view of part of the field at Brazil is shown in Plate VIII. 
The rows at the left of the center are the Xorton ; those at the right 
are commercial varieties. The view shows only a few commercial 
varieties (one row of each) growing, .beside the Xorton, but there 
were 1-i commercial varieties in this field. 
The percentages of wilt- free plants reported by Prof. D. C. Xeal, 
plant pathologist of the Georgia State Board of Entomology, are 
grouped in Table 4. Included in this test were one of Edgerton's 
varieties, viz. Louisiana Hybrid (probably .Louisiana Red or Louis- 
iana Pink) , Stone, and Livingston's Globe. 
The resistant varieties. Louisiana Hybrid, Columbia, Marvel, 
Xorton, and Arlington, were superior to Livingston's Globe, a some- 
what resistant variety, and much superior to Stone, a typical sus- 
ceptible variety. Although it is not stated whether the percentages 
