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time there were immense quantities of green fruit on the 
plants set late in May. If frost had come as early as 
usual these plants would not have made the returns they 
did. This is quite a striking example of the benefit to be 
derived from the use of strong, early plants. This was 
the finest field of tomatoes I had yet seen in the valley. 
If it were true that a heavy nitrogenous fertilizing would 
produce vine at the expense of fruit, we would expect to 
see such results in this instance. On the contrary, we 
find this field yielding double, and often treble, what 
many other fields did in the vicinity. 
Another striking example of the benefit derived from 
the use of manure was on the farm of Mr. Foster, Man- 
zanola. His land is quite sandy, consequently it gets 
very hot during the summer. Part of his tomato land 
had been manured quite heavily. The same class of 
plants were used throughout and the planting was done 
at the same time. The plants on the manured land grew 
large and thrifty and made a good yield. Those on un¬ 
fertilized land were small, unthrifty and many blighted. 
The yield was not sufficient to warrant the labor expended. 
season of 1902. 
This was largely a continuation of the work of 1901. 
However, more time was given to observing the work of 
different growers, especially in the vicinity of Manzanola. 
Mr. Barton, of the Manzanola Canning Co., was much 
interested in the effort to improve the industry and ex¬ 
tended many courtesies. 
The work on the station land comprised the following: 
1. Comparison of plants grown m the field with those from the 
hotbed. 
2. Comparing transplanted plants with those not transplanted. 
3. Comparison of land well fertilized with land not fertilized. 
4. Comparison of early and late plants. 
April 26th, seed was sown in open field on land heav¬ 
ily manured with rotted barnyard manure. Speedy ger¬ 
mination was secured. Adjoining these were set, on May 
7th, thirty-five long spindling plants taken from the origi¬ 
nal bed. They were from a bed made early in March. 
Adjoining these were set, on the same date, seventy 
plants taken from the same bed but which had been trans¬ 
planted a short time. There was but little difference in 
the appearance of the plants from the two sources. The 
plants were purchased for the purpose of making the 
comparison. Next to the above were set transplanted 
plants that were of nice size, strong and stocky. They 
