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Tomato Trellis for Perfect Fruit 
The very finest quality tomatoes can 
hr produced only with the aid of a trellis 
of some kind; furthermore, the yield for 
the size of the tomato plot can he doubled 
by the use of the trellis. In Italy it is 
claimed that they get three times more 
from the ground by setting their plants 
close and then staking them. There are 
several commercial growers in this coun¬ 
try, especially in Ohio, who stake their 
early tomatoes and trim them to one or 
two stems for an extra early, high-quality, 
heavy yield of tomatoes. 
The illustration herewith shows a 
most efficient trellis in use on the Froh- 
lleim Farm, New Jersey. The particular 
advantage of it is its cheapness, ease of 
construction and handy manner in which 
it can be folded up and put away until 
needed the following season. It is made 
entirely of shingle lath, Ix'J-incli mate¬ 
rial. The three side pieces are 12 feet 
long and the uprights are made of pieces 
10 feet long, sawed in half. About six 
inches from the top quarter-inch 'bolts are 
used to bolt two sections together!. When 
the season is over the two sections can be 
folded together just, as a carpenter's com¬ 
pass closes. The tomato plants are set 
in rows three feet apart and 2^4 feet apart 
in the row. They are trimmed to one 
or two stems and they are loosely tied to 
the trellis with raffia. The crop produced 
is especially high in quality, provided a 
higher quality strain is used, such as 
Bonny Best. Globe and Stone. Ponderosa 
willpur oduce enormously large specimens, 
and the quality and flavor will be excellent 
for home use, but the skin is pink and 
tender, the fruit is rough and the vines 
are quite subject to blight. While a hun¬ 
gry man prefers a large tomato, the high- 
priced trade prefers tomatoes uniform in 
size and about two inches iu diameter. 
Though the trellis is not in general com¬ 
mercial favor, it has special needs where 
high yields and superior quality is de¬ 
manded. R. W. OK RAT’S. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
AITPr.KS HIGHER. ONION A X T) C.VBltAG I' 
PRIORS FIRM. POTATOES AM) BEANS I.OWKK. 
T.ending lines of fruits and vegetables 
are moving at the rate of about 2.000 car¬ 
loads each week day. showing some gain 
over early February. Last year, also, the 
movement began to assume heavier vol¬ 
ume in late February, owing to more fa¬ 
vorable conditions of transportation and 
to the increasing supply of Southern 
truck. 
The carlots represent only from one- 
fourth to one-half of the crops. The rest 
is accounted for by local demaud, small 
lot shipments, shdlnkage, waste, etc. Pro¬ 
portion of cm riot to crop is much greater 
in sections remote from centers of popu¬ 
lation than in the more thickly settled 
States. Thus Colorado loads almost nine- 
tenths of its large potato crop upon cars, 
although raising one-third as many pota¬ 
toes as Connecticut, while Connecticut 
ships less than a dozen cars of potatoes. 
Prices of fruit are holding up well and 
even advancing. Vegetables, especially 
potatoes and beans, have dropped almost 
continuously since the middle of January, 
and. as usually happens under such con¬ 
ditions, the decline was hard to stop, be¬ 
cause nobody likes to buy much until the 
markets look like recovery. 
POTATOES AT SEASON’S LOW POINT. 
With Northern potato stocks cleaning 
up somewhat faster than last year and 
the Southern acreage much reduced, the 
long range outlook seems possibly better 
than indicated by present state of the 
market. If the Virginia early planting 
is to be less than one-lialf of last year’s 
acreage, the prospect ought to be espe¬ 
cially good for New Jersey and other 
Northern rtirly potatoes. The two dis- 
couraging features for the long pull are 
the continual high cost of production and 
the lessened buying power of the cities, 
owing to the increasing number of the 
unemployed. Potatoes at $1.50 to $2.15 
per 100 lbs. in city markets. Fast and 
West, have reached an average a little 
below the bottom last November, recent 
declines having been fully as severe in the 
Fast as in the West. Fastern cities still 
range about 25 cents average above West¬ 
ern. but in producing sections the range 
i' not far apart at $1.40 to $1.50 in ti»o 
Michigan and Wisconsin shipping region, 
compared 1 with $1.45 to $1.05 in Maine 
and New York State. 
GOO!) ONION AND CABBAGE IN MODERATE 
SUPPLY. 
Onions and cabbage are doing much ! 
better than potatoes lately. The stock 
remaining of good sound, hard onions 
Suitable for long shipment and good keep 
mg seems to be limited and the same 
may be said of cabbage. FTonoe Tange of 
price and of quality and condition. Faucv 
onions reach as high as $2.50 per 100 lbs. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
f. o. b. in Western New York and the 
same figures about represent top price in 
city markets East and West. The price 
Tange is more nearly uniform the country 
over than it was a year ago, but average 
values are about the same now as then 
that of a year ago. ranging $20 to $50 
per ton bulk now, compared with $50 to 
$00 a year ago. 
Nothing especially encouraging can be 
said about beans. Prices still move down¬ 
ward and buyers are few. Even the ex¬ 
rope, but present stagnation is discourag¬ 
ing. Still it must he admitted that white 
beans can be sold even now at about $0 
per 100 lbs. in the rough, a price that 
would have looked good in the years be¬ 
fore the war. City markets quote $fi.5i> 
to $8. 
APPLE MARKETS. 
Apples continue the brightest spot in 
the market, with sensational rises every 
week or two. Best lots of cold storage 
stock have reached or e~needed $10 per 
barrel in city markets, .ud choice Rus- 
setts were reported sold at close to that 
price for export. Best common storage 
Boldwins reached $N to $9 in leading 
city wholesale markets. a. b. f. 
Wire Girdles Trees 
All who plant fruit trees, especially 
those who set out but a few. should re¬ 
member to remove the wire that fastens 
the variety tag to the tree. The., wire 
will rust and poison the growing bark 
even if removed before* the fast, growing 
tree is girdled. The writer has seen 
many splendid trees ruined iu this way. 
It is a good plan to make a record of 
each tree and its name, or to draw a plan 
of the plot, with each tree's name marked 
thereon. This may be corrected each 
year when more are set. Of course nur¬ 
sery men do their best to give you a good 
tree, but if it is not properly cared for 
the odds are against it. ' n. j. b. 
Watkins, X. Y. 
Town toes Groten on 
with extremes of $1.75 to $2.50 per 100 
lbs. applying to comparable dates of both 
seasons. Cabbages, like onions, range 
about the same in the chief producing 
sections as iu the city markets for large 
lots but the price is no more than half 
Trellis in \< ir Jcrsct / 
port trade, which pr >. used a good outlet, 
has come to a halt owing perhaps to 
competition of Asiatic beans that seem 
to have been heaping during past sea¬ 
sons. It is still supposed our surplus 
beans will be needed to feed hungry Fu¬ 
ll- X.-Y.—Right. We have seeu many 
young trees wired to death. The trouble 
was not noticed until the leaves turned 
yellow and the tops failed. Then it was 
found that as the tree grew the wire had 
cut through the bark and strangled the 
tree. Some men hang themselves or their 
chances by wearing the tag too long. Do 
not let the trees do it. 
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