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BULLETIN 78. 
another bed April 13th. Seed was again put in hotbed 
the last of March to get plants for later setting. 
April 19th, a planting of seed was made in open field. 
Irrigation was at once employed to germinate the seed 
and the plants were showing by the 30th of the month. 
It is not often safe to have plants in open field as early as 
this. This planting was made on land well enriched with 
barnyard manure. 
April 24th, twenty very early plants were set in open 
field on the same land as above. They were large, 
lengthy plants, what might be called ‘'leggy.” May 7th 
and 8th a considerable planting was made of plants 
from the hotbed. It consisted of transplanted plants 
(strong and stocky,) set on heavily manured land. The 
same kind of plants were also set on land having no 
fertilizer. Untransplanted plants were also set on both 
the fertilized and unfertilized land. Thus on the ma¬ 
nured land were four classes of plants. May 3rd, a plant¬ 
ing of seed was made on unfertilized land. 
May 8th, on unfertilized land, some very small plants 
(smaller than those above mentioned) were set, and on 
the 16th of May, still another planting was made. About 
one acre of land was used in these trials. 
By June 15th the bloom was plentiful and small toma¬ 
toes had formed on the transplanted plants growing on 
the manured land. By the middle of June all of the 
plants on the manured land were blooming well, but those 
on unfertilized land contained but few blossoms. The 
first fruit was picked July 16th from the transplanted 
plants growing on the manured land. 
At the time of the hail, July 24th, all of the plants, 
except those set May 16th, and those grown from seed 
planted May 3rd, had set some fruit. Much the best set 
being on the transplanted vines on manured land. 
The first ripe fruit from the plants grown from seed 
on manured land was picked July 29th. This was about 
two weeks later than from transplanted plants. It was 
August 23rd before any ripe fruit was taken from the 
plants set the 16th of May, more than a month later than 
the first ripening. The last of August the plants on the 
manured land were yielding fully twice as much fruit as 
those on unfertilized land. The early plants were yield¬ 
ing much better than the late ones. 
It was the middle of September before fruit in any 
quantity was taken from the plants grown from seed 
planted May 3rd, or from the planting of May 16th. Just 
