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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 15, 
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Ill Irvine Street Warren,Pa. 
FRUIT FARM NOTES. 
Late Planted Tomatoes.— Although 
ours is primarily a fruit farm, we are 
accustomed to plant a certain amount of 
truck crops in order to occupy ground 
that would otherwise be idle, and to reno¬ 
vate the soil by rotating from small 
fruits to vegetables. The crops that we 
have found best adapted to this purpose 
are potatoes, sweet corn and tomatoes. 
In tomatoes we pursue a rather peculiar 
course in growing exclusively for the 
Fall, market, beginning about September 
1 . The way w T e fell into this habit was 
thus: We had observed that the local 
market, after the regular heat and often 
drought of July and August, was never 
well supplied with a line article of to¬ 
mato, but that the fruit was universally 
small and quite inferior to the best of the 
Summer crop. The reason of this was 
plain indeed. Truckers were depending 
on the fruit of Spring-set plants which 
were always more or less exhausted by 
September and incapable of producing 
large fine specimens. We had also ob¬ 
served that during the months of Sep¬ 
tember and October and on till hard 
frosts came to kill the vines, there was 
the same unremitting demand that had 
prevailed in the Summer for the tomato 
as a table fruit as well as an added one 
for canning purposes. 
Ponderosa. —Realizing that if we were 
able to fill this breach in the market we 
should find an active demand for first- 
class stuff with little or no competition, 
and that we should become genuine bene¬ 
factors to a hungry and unsatisfied pub¬ 
lic, we experimented by setting plants in 
the first days of July, and found that 
we had discovered the proper time for 
fruit ripening the first of September. 
The first variety that we chose for sup¬ 
plying this Fall market was the Pon¬ 
derosa, and now, after experimenting 
with divers other kinds, we are satisfied 
that here again fortune favored us with 
precisely the kind best suited to our pur¬ 
pose. The Ponderosa is too well known 
to need description. It is said to be the 
largest of the tomato family, and is an 
early and very prolific bearer. For the 
table it is unsurpassed in its solid meat 
and fine .lavor. Its one defect' is its 
deeply indented stem end, but' we find 
this goes without criticism among our 
customers, being quite overshadowed by 
its great superiority in other respects. 
Its top is also sometimes furrowed with 
sinuous channels, but we find this largely 
a matter of heredity. One year it ran 
extremely large, many specimens weigh¬ 
ing a pound and a half, but most of them 
with more or less furrowing. This year 
they average smaller but with a surface 
furrow seldom seen. For productiveness 
I have not found the Ponderosa excelled. 
I have counted a dozen fruit on one 
bush that would -average a pound each. 
It simply loads itself with magnificent 
specimens that defy competition on the 
market, and that catch and hold the eye 
6 f the tomato-lover whose taste has 
palled on the small inferior stuff that 
crowds the market at any price offered, 
ldis appetite returns at sight of the big 
pink beauties, and his hand instinctively 
seeks his pocket as he asks the price. 
We are selling these tomatoes at 60 
cents, 80 cents and $1 per bushel accord¬ 
ing to grade, but the lower grades form 
but a very small percentage. The great 
majority rank in class one. Ordinary 
stuff sells at 50 cents per bushel. Now 
for some details as to culture. 
Culture and Care. —We do not admit 
that anyone can duplicate our annual 
performance by simply ordering Pon¬ 
derosa seed and raising and setting 
plants at the approved time. To be suc¬ 
cessful the crop must be founded on the 
right soil and fertility. Our soil is a 
deep loam annually dressed with stable 
manure. Usually our tomato crop is 
grown on top of a turned under straw¬ 
berry bed which had been winter-mulched 
with manure at the rate of some 30 tons 
per acre. In addition to the remnants 
of the mulch there is the heavy growth 
of strawberry plants which, with the 
manure, fill the soil to repletion with 
vegetable matter. Such a bed absorbs 
and holds great quantities of water and 
renders the plants quite independent of 
droughts, as has been demonstrated in a 
year when no rain fell from in July till 
November. To put further stress on this 
water holding capacity, I will add that 
the plants are not staked, and that in a 
short time from setting the plants are too 
large to permit the passage of the culti¬ 
vator. At this late planting we experi¬ 
ence little annoyance from weeds, and 
thus the labor cost is much below the 
average of Spring-set crops with plants 
from the hotbed. I strongly recom¬ 
mend the above plan even for the family 
garden. L. R. J. 
Missouri. 
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Manufacturers of Asphalt Roofing and Paint 
Address all communications to 
203 Filmore Ave. TONAWANDA, N. Y. 
