1908. 
265 
SAVING EARLY TOMATO SEED. 
Concurring with Mr. Hulsart, I dis¬ 
covered some years ago that I could get 
better results by selecting tomatoes in 
the way he outlines in The R. N.-Y., 
page 143, and every succeeding crop of 
Earliana that I grew, after the first 
that I got from the introducers, seemed 
to be more uniform in size and earliness, 
smoother, more solid and less subject 
to crack. Several years ago, by some 
mishap, all the seed of Earliana which I 
had so carefuly selected and saved, was 
placed within reach of mice, and I lost 
every seed. I again procured, at the 
highest price, one-hdlf ounce of seed 
where I supposed there was no possi¬ 
bility of getting anything but the best, 
one-half ounce from another firm that 
claimed to have especially selected 
seed, as good as could be had anywhere. 
Both these lots were kept separate in the 
greenhouse, and set out separately side 
by side, at the same time, but after do¬ 
ing so and until fruiting time we lost 
record of which lot came from one or 
the other firm. From the one lot we 
succeeded in marketing a fair lot of 
tomatoes, though much inferior to what 
we had before; and the second lot"were 
nearly a total loss; there were little 
ones, crooked gnarly ones, big over¬ 
grown specimens, early, medium and 
late. In fact I never imagined it pos¬ 
sible to get together such an assortment 
of all that is bad in a tomato. The loss 
on this half-ounce of seed was nearly 
$ 100 . 
Among the better lot of these toma¬ 
toes we found a few plants that pro¬ 
duced ideal fruit, and by careful selec¬ 
tion we have got back again to where 
we left off when the mice appeared on 
the scene, and you may be sure that our 
annually selected and saved little pack¬ 
age of tomato seed is guarded with 
greater care; and when anyone says in 
ever so glowing terms, that they have 
anything better we may try a little, but 
for that to be depended on for a crop, 
we now get out that little package of 
our own saving, everytime. Last .year 
we tried a small patch of No. 10, said to 
be an earlier strain of Earliana. These 
seemed to be of many, different types, 
but we found a few plants that im¬ 
pressed us favorably, and we selected 
a few to plant again. Earliest Pink we 
discarded entirely. It is too rough and 
cracks easily. June Pink was not much 
better, but we found a few ideal toma¬ 
toes to make another trial. Maule’s 
Earliest was also tried and discarded; 
no earlier than Earliana and not so 
smooth. Several years ago we got from 
a Mr. Fedder, through a small “ad” in 
1 he R. N.-Y., an early tomato, from 
which we have selected some specimens 
that seem to be about half-way between 
Earliana and Early Jewell in habits of 
growth and fruit and in season of ripen¬ 
ing, and with this strain, the Earliana 
and Early Jewell, we are not inclined to 
look for anything better unless it be by 
our own selection from time to time. 
'Ohio. C. WECKESSER. 
THE BUFFALO FERTILIZER CO. 
'One of our readers in Pennsylvania, 
after reading in The R. N.-Y. what was 
said about the above company at the New 
\ ork bruit Growers’ meeting, wrote the 
Buffalo Fertilizer Company and asked if 
the fertilizer he bought from them last 
year was the same quality as that bought 
by the Fruit Growers. He wanted to 
now if it was to be the same this year. 
In reply they sent him the following 
letter: 
We are in receipt of your favor, and 
note what you say regarding the attack in 
1 he Rural New-Yorker. This attack 
follows a number of others that have been 
written attacking Mr. Dawley, who ap- 
parently has some enemies among the 
fruit Growers’ Association. The Fruit 
Growers’ Association received from him 
ie analyses that they paid for, and 
numerous private tests made at Cornell 
Name 
High Grade Manure . . 
Garden Truck. 
Ideal Wheat .and Corn 
Ideal Wheat and Corn 
Vegetable and Potato 
Celery and Potato . . . 
Celery and Potato . . . 
Bone and Potash .... 
Farmers’ Choice .... 
Fish Guano. 
Avail- 
Nitro- able Pot- 
gen Phos. ash 
Acid 
.28 7. 
15.50 
8 . 
7.86 
'9 
3.28 
fG. 3. 
• ’IF. 1. 
J G. 3. 
VIF. 1.28 
I G. 1.64 
’ ’I F. 1 
i G. 1 
• • ) F. 1 
,46 
.64 
.27 
J G. 2.46 
IF. 2. 
9. 
7.27 
9. 
6.91 
8 . 
6.45 
10 . 
6.11 
7. 
5.13 
5. 
3.98 
5. 
3.48 
7. 
5.79 
H 
tr. 
1.64 
8. 
19. 
F. 
1.66 
4.48 
8.78 
i 
(I. 
1.64 
8. 
10. 
■ i 
F. 
.79 
6.61 
5.80 
i 
G.ld. 
8. 
• 1 
F. 9.81 
3.50 
j 
i G. 
.82 
8. 
5. 
.89 
6.64 
3.91 
9. 
2* 
6.88 
1.93 
. tIlis is not enough read the follow¬ 
ing figures from the Connecticut Sta¬ 
tion : 
•Name 
Ideal Wheat and Corn.J G. 1.6 9. 
IF, l.o2 6.48 
Celery and Potato Special 
. i.o2 
1G. 1.6 
• 1 F. 1 64 
Vegetable and Potato Manure-j G’ vL 
IF. 1.60 
Potato Special .... J G. 1.6 
.IF. 1.53 
Avail- 
NP.ro- able Pot- 
gen Phos. ash 
Acid 
5. 
6.54 
10 . 
7.96 
7. 
7. 
10 . 
8.93 
8 . 
6.26 
8 . 
6.17 
8 . 
6.13 
III his fertilizer bulletin Dr. E H 
Jenkins states that the Buffalo 'Fer¬ 
tilizer Company were dissatisfied with 
the analyses made by the station. Dr. 
Jenkins, therefore drew two new sam¬ 
ples. These were analyzed and found 
below the guarantee—one of them even 
worse than the first sample. Anyone 
who can read figures will see what that 
means. Prof. W. F. Massey writes this 
about fertilizer laws: 
“If the Northern States had a fer¬ 
tilizer law like North Carolina, a fer¬ 
tilizer that fell two per cent short of 
the guarantee zvould be confiscated at 
once. Better amend the lazv and make 
the manufacturers live up to their guar¬ 
antee 
THE RURAL 
University, and also tests made through 
other chemists. A good many of this As¬ 
sociation buy fertilizers in large quantities, 
and in order to satisfy themselves they 
drew their own samples and had them 
analyzed. There never lias been a word 
of complaint from a member of the Asso¬ 
ciation. The enclosed guarantee, a copy 
of which has already been sent to your 
agent, should convince you that it is our 
intention to give our customers strictly 
honest goods. 
This guarantee state that if any doubt 
prevails in the mind of a buyer the com¬ 
pany will, on request send a representa¬ 
tive, who will, with the buyer, select fair 
samples of fertilizers from the bags, mix 
them, and fill two quart jars or cans. 
One of these is to be sent to any one of 
four named chemists for analysis. If 
such analyses shows that the goods fall 
below the guarantee the company agree 
to pay $.3 for each per cent of ammonia 
below guarantee and $1 for each of 
potash or phosphoric acid. The company 
states that a great variation has been 
shown on goods shipped from the same 
pile to various States. 
As for complaints from the Fruit 
Growers this is what Secretary Gillette 
said in his annual report : 
Tim orders for fertilizers were the light¬ 
est since I lie Association commenced co¬ 
operative buying. Several factors probably 
contributed to cause (his. It was doubt¬ 
less due partly to our late start in the 
matter and partly to the fact that the 
(joods which ire i>nt out hist season , under 
our own brand, that were put up for us 
b/i the Buffalo Fertilizer Company , in see- 
era/ instances were below guaranty, and the 
influence of that showed in diminished 
orders this year. 
Now the first thing a well-posted 
farmer will say is, “Why not send these 
samples to the State Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, or, why not take the station’s fig¬ 
ures. These stations are the farmer’s 
watch-dogs. They are paid to do this 
very work, and if we cannot trust their 
figures, what can we trust?” 
f his is the exact statement made about 
this Buffalo Fertilizer Company in the 
Vermont bulletin last year: 
“That this company is a perennial offen¬ 
der, and lias gone from had to worse in 
ilie matter of failure to deliver the prom¬ 
ised amounts of plant food, may be in¬ 
ferred from the statement heading the 
next page.” 
Then follows figures showing that last 
year five out of six brands of fertilizer 
sold by this house were deficient and 
four of them short in more than one in¬ 
gredient. 
In the last report of the Geneva 
(New York) Experiment Station some 
thirty analyses of goods made by the 
Buffalo Fertilizer Company are printed. 
We select 10 of them to show how they 
run. r \ he letter G means guaranteed 
and F the amount actually found in per 
cents: 
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