THE TOMATO INDUSTRY OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY. 7 
The Stone did not bear much until the first week in 
September. All of the plantings were then yielding ripe 
fruit except that made May 28th, which did not bear un¬ 
til September 18th. 
It should be noticed how uniform was the yield from 
all the plantings made early in May. The plants set late 
in May yielded about the same and commenced to bear 
about the same time as the plants grown from seed. 
I had under observation one field in which consider¬ 
able pruning had been done, but there was no benefit 
derived. 
The work of the season was intended to be largely of 
a preliminary nature, the press of other work not enab¬ 
ling us to take up the question extensively. It should be 
noticed that the work was to test whether those ideas 
popularly held were true, i. e.—that the plants grew too 
much to vine at the expense of fruit. 
From the results of the year it was quite evident to 
me that a lessening of the vine was of no benefit. It was 
also evident that late set plants were of but little value. 
season of 1901 . 
The work of this year was along different lines from 
those of the preceding year. 
It embraced two distinct lines. 1. Experimenting 
along certain lines at the station. 2. Observations, 
among the growers, of the methods employed and the 
success obtained. 
The work of the station was planned as follows: (a) 
A comparison of different classes of plants, also a com¬ 
parison of the time of setting in open field as affecting 
maturity and production. This included the use of trans¬ 
planted plants (very stocky,) set early in open field. 
Also plants, not transplanted, set in open field early and 
late, and plants produced from seed sown in open field. 
(b) The yield and maturity of plants compared when 
grown on land heavily manured, (barnyard manure well 
rotted,) with land having no fertilizer (c) Variety tests. 
The work was badly handicapped by a hail storm on the 
24th dav of July. For a time it seemed as though the re¬ 
sults for the season would be destroyed. Owing to the 
effects of the storm, only general results can be given, 
but the facts are sufficiently clear to warrant the conclu¬ 
sions, verified as they are by the results of others. 
The seed of a Beauty tomato was sown in hotbed 
March 2nd, and plants from this sowing transplanted to 
