1911. 
RURAL? NEW-VORKRR 
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NEW PLAN OF TOMATO GROWING. 
Part II. 
Handling and Packing. —Most va¬ 
rieties, especially the early ones, crack 
more or less, causing much trouble and 
loss, as the cracked ones spoil very 
quickly after being handled, and in wet 
weather many rot in the field. To pre¬ 
vent this, when picking we take off all 
that show the least sign of a crack, 
though perfectly green, and take them 
inside. They do not crack until they 
change color from dark to light green. 
At this stage the growth is complete 
and they ripen just as well off the 
vine. The small cracks are no detri¬ 
ment, but if left out they grow larger 
and deeper each day. They are carefully 
spread on shelves or any place conven¬ 
ient for packing. Then we put on can¬ 
vas gloves, pick out the ripe ones, give 
them a quick rub to clean and polish 
and pack blossom end up in half-bushel 
baskets, being careful to have the bot¬ 
tom nice as well as the top. We have 
few culls, but what there are we sell 
as culls, if sold at all. Many will object 
to picking them green, as it is generally 
thought necessary to good quality that 
they be ripened in the sun, but I have 
tested it repeatedly and if there is any 
difference at all it is very slight. It 
saves much loss, and our customers fre¬ 
quently turn tomatoes away, wait until 
we arrive, then pay us 10 cents per 
bushel more than they could have got 
them for, because they know our toma¬ 
toes stand up much better than the com¬ 
mon stock. Again, when it rains those 
inside are always dry and ready to pack, 
and there is little or no loss in the field. 
As to Results.— We had last year 
about five square rods more than one- 
half acre, half each of early and late. 
The early ones pay best, but we did not 
keep them separate. Our plants got a 
serious setback during a spell of cold 
wet weather just after being set in the 
cold frame. With a muslin cover I 
could not keep out the wet, and a sort 
of blight set in. There were black 
blotches all over both the stems and 
leaves. Although they recovered I 
thought I had lost about 10 days’ 
growth. The tomatoes were sold at 
wholesale to the grocerymen and 
brought $187.60, no account being made 
of those used or canned. I cannot give 
the exact number of bushels, but know 
it was considerably more than 200. A 
neighbor of ours with better facilities 
for handling the plants, better garde • 
soil, and possibly better management, 
using the same system of pruning, more 
than doubled our income per acre last 
year. However, I feel satisfied with the 
suits so far when I consider that my 
place only a few years ago was an eye¬ 
sore to the neighborhood, and that I 
was told repeatedly that I could not ex¬ 
pect to make a living on it. I am trying 
gradually to deepen the soil, but can still 
find the raw yellow clay at a depth of 
about six inches, some places less. With 
this heavy clay soil we must compete 
with tomatoes from the light sandy soil 
of Ohio, but they must pay express and 
commission. Our best early tomato is 
Isbell’s Earlibell. I think it is identi¬ 
cal with the Improved Earliana, and I 
grow the Stone almost exclusively for 
the late crop. I turned under a crop 
of rye and used from 250 to 300 pounds 
of fertilizer, but no manure. The plants 
were set 3x5 feet and given thorough 
cultivation. I think this system of prun¬ 
ing is valuable anywhere for the early 
crop, but especially so where there is 
difficulty in ripening the crop, and that 
I could ripen a crop anywhere where I 
could get a good vine growth. Without 
it, under our conditions, we would drop 
the tomatoes entirely except for our own 
B. V. EGBERT. 
Pennsylvania. 
“Something has got to be done,” de¬ 
clared Mrs. Toots, “about this pig¬ 
stealing that is going on in this neigh- 
borhood. Three pigs have disappeared 
within a week. It’s got so now none of 
us are safe.”—Youth’s Companion. 
APPLES FOR NORTHERN OHIO 
MARKETS. 
In an answer to an inquiry from Huron, 
Ohio, Mr. Ballou places the Yellow Trans¬ 
parent ahead of the Tetofsky as a local 
market apple. I have never grown the 
Yellow Transparent (I am setting a few 
this Spring for experiment), but have seen 
them in the Akron market for two Summers 
and I fail to see where they have anything 
over the Tetofsky as a market sort. The 
latter beats it about two weeks in first 
ripened fruit, and being partly red the drops 
sell more readily than those of an apple 
which has no beauty until fully mature. 
Owing to disease the raspberry market is 
pretty bare, and consumers are fairly raven¬ 
ous for anything which looks like an apple, 
and the Tetofsky and Early Harvest both 
are earlier than the Transparent in my 
own county. The tree is wonderfully hardy 
and vigorous and with me is an annual 
bearer, although the same branches do not 
bear in successive seasons. All five of my 
trees have this habit, and I consider it an 
advantage over those like the Astrachan 
or Baldwin, which bear enormous crops in 
alternate years. I pick Summer and early 
Fall apples at three or four pickings, and 
in this way get good size and mature hand¬ 
some fruit. My Tetofsky color consider¬ 
ably, and the latest picking goes in with 
Astrachans, and buyers do not notice the 
difference. One of my trees, which stands 
away from the other four, produces finer 
fruit and more highly colored than the 
others, and I am using some scions to top- 
graft some seedling trees, and shall watch 
the result with interest. I have a Baldwin 
which has one limb on the southern side 
which produces larger and more beautiful 
fruit than any other Baldwin on the place, 
and I shall set some scions of this also. 
If it is really a sport and transmits the 
habit it will be a distinct advance, as a 
Baldwin nearly as large as a King will be 
a sure enough novelty. In regard to the 
Yellow Transparent, I have a friend (a 
prominent horticulturist) living near Chilli- 
cothe, O., who some years ago sold $500 
worth of Transparent apples from 100 trees 
which had been set less than half a dozen 
years. The fact was heralded abroad by 
the State Society Report and gave a big 
boom for the variety. East Winter I met 
the grower and asked him after the welfare 
of his Transparent orchard, and he was 
not very enthusiastic about it, not having 
had any very abundant crop since. Al¬ 
though he did not exactly say so, I got 
the impression that he considered the va¬ 
riety considerably over-rated. In north¬ 
eastern Ohio, where the writer lives, the 
urban' population has increased wonderfully 
in the past 10 years, and there is every 
appearance of its continuing, and there will 
be a market for a good many apples at a 
season when Baldwins are not to be had. 
Whether it will be more profitable to cater 
to this demand will depend largely upon the 
location of the grower. Along the ridges 
on the south shore of Lake Erie late Spring 
frosts are a rarity, and one can count on 
a crop, other conditions being favorable. I 
have found at a distance of 30 miles, where 
late frosts are not uncommon, that Sum¬ 
mer and Fall apples are not as easily in¬ 
jured as Baldwin and many Winter sorts, 
and in several frosty years have sold a 
good many apples, when if I had only 
Winter varieties I should have had none to 
sell. The only time when the later Sum¬ 
mer and early Autumn local market is fully 
supplied is at the season of the Lowell, 
which seems to have been very generally 
planted under the taking non de plume of 
Queen Anne. However, during the last two 
seasons the demand seems to be overtaking 
the supply, which lasts only about a week. 
Last year the demand for pie timber was 
so fierce that some picked the Lowell and 
other later apples when about half grown. 
I find myself fortunate in having some 
Summer apples to help out my loads in 
seasons when some of the vegetables fail, 
as sweet corn and tomatoes did last Sum- 
mei\ I grow Early Harvest, Tetofsky, As¬ 
trachan, Western Beauty (Summer or Large 
Rambo), Sherwood, Chenango Strawberry, 
Ohio Nonpareil, and Maiden Blush. All are 
profitable and fill the season from the close 
of wheat harvest until about the middle of 
October. During November there are no 
good desirable apples offered, and we have 
to pick Belmont to supply the demand, or 
else sell Winter windfalls. Some few 
Wealthy are offered, and I am setting some 
of this variety and some Winter Rambos 
where are nearly mature in November. I 
am also setting some (and top-grafting 
more) of the Greenville, which is a late- 
keeping Maiden Blush, but not so profuse a 
bearer. This should help fill the hiatus 
between Fall and Winter and give some large 
handsome apples for Thanksgiving. There 
seems to be a scarcity of many standard 
sorts of apples, and prices have been more 
than doubled in the last two years. This 
scarcity of sorts wanted is not an insuper¬ 
able objection to apple planting. One can 
buy such varieties as are to be had and set 
them and next year top-graft to desirable 
kinds, getting scions in the neighborhood 
from bearing trees. One does not lose much 
time and is absolutely certain of the va¬ 
riety long before it fruits. In the case of a 
suburban home, when only two or three 
trees can be given room, one can graft two 
or more varieties on the same tree. I saw a 
picture of a tree which was said to bear 
one hundred sorts, being the freak effort 
of a horticultural professor. My friend, 
W. W. Farnsworth, has been successful in 
top-grafting trees the same Spring of plant¬ 
ing out. He holds the scions dormant in 
cold storage until the trees start growth 
and then grafts, and thus the graft has an 
even start and does as well or better than 
by waiting a year. l. b. pierce. 
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