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January 21, 192: 
Pinching Back Plants 
Will pinching back plants, such as to¬ 
mato and pepper, increase their produc¬ 
tion of plants'/ A. n. 
We always stake our tomato plants, for 
we find that we can secure more fruit on 
a given area, the tomatoes ripen earlier, 
and mi our heavy soils the fruit i.; not 
injured by slugs and wireworrns, as they 
are when the fruit rests on the ground. 
We drive the stakes first, then set the 
plants with the first blossom cluster 
turned away from the stake. As nil clus¬ 
ters grow on the same side of the stem, 
(his means that all tomatoes will grow 
on the side away from the stake. We do 
not cut or pinch back plants as A. II. 
suggests. The tomato sends up a single 
stem, and from the axil of each leaf a tiny 
shoot or sucker grows. If all are allowed 
to grow a vine with as many stems as 
there are side shoots is produced. For 
a single-stem tomato we pinch out nil 
these side shoots, leaving only the tip 
growth to extend the plant. For a two- 
stem plant we pinch out all except the 
first or lowest side shoot, allowing this to 
grow and produce a second stem, from 
which all the side shoots are pinched. For a 
three-stem plant we leave the first two 
side shoots. We have found by experi¬ 
ment that for this locality the earlier 
varieties produce the largest crops under 
the two-stem system. Poaderosa toma¬ 
toes gave the best results under the onc- 
stem system. It is our practice at pres¬ 
ent to remove the leaf directly over a 
cluster of fruit, thus admitting sunlight 
and ripening the fruit earlier. Peppers 
having strong, stiff stems are not staked, 
and the side shoots are allowed to grow 
and produce fruit, thus making a small, 
bush-like plant:, instead of a long vine, as 
in the case of the tomato. T. H. T. 
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I have 11 small greenhouse for starting 
vegetable plants, is ft. long by S ft. wide. 
Glass is high, but there is glass cloth, and 
I have used it on forcing boxes. Would 
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climate as the glass. One year we lost 
a block of spindly plants from damping- 
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Do you know that in Europe they raise 
200 bushels of Potatoes, and in Egypt, 
400 lbs. of Cotton, and the world’s aver¬ 
age, outside of U. 8., for Sugar Cane, is 
over 20 tons per acre. 
Here we raise only 97 bu. Potatoes, 
185 lhs. of Cotton per acre, and our 
average Sugar Cane production in F. S. 
is but 11 tons to the acre, less than half 
of the world's average. 
The reason is that farmers abroad use 
fertilizer containing 5 per cent, phos¬ 
phoric acid and 4% per cent, available 
nitrogen largely made up of Nitrate of 
Soda. We use much fertilizer containing 
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