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BULLETIN 78. 
before frost became severe enough to seriously injure the 
fruit. The yield would have been larger had the seed 
been true to name. It was purchased for the Beauty but 
the product resembled the Acme more. 
The equal area set May 14th, yielded only 2,550 lbs., 
or, at the rate of 4,250 lbs. per acre. The difference in the 
yield of the two plats can be attributed to the difference in 
fertility, the class of plants used and the time at which they 
were set. It can be attributed mostly to the first two 
causes, as there was a difference of only one week in the 
planting, but nearly a month in the time of ripening. 
The greater portion of the yield was secured after severe 
frost and the fruit was more or less injured. The results 
are in harmony with those secured by other growers. 
A factory with a considerable acreage, similar to the 
early ones, could begin to pack by the 20th of Aug¬ 
ust. September would be well advanced before packing 
could commence if the acreage corresponded to the last 
can. The tonnage would not be sufficient nor the quality 
satisfactory. The grower becomes discouraged and is 
slow to again venture in the business, preferring to put 
his land to some crop in which the returns are greater 
and surer. 
THE FIELD OPERATIONS. 
It is difficult to draw conclusions from this work for 
the reason that in but few cases can comparisons be drawn. 
The class of plants used, the kind of soil, the time of set¬ 
ting, attention given, and fertilizer used, seldom enable 
any comparisons to be drawn. Hence it is difficult to get 
very much reliable information from a vast amount of 
this kind of work. One little experiment where the con¬ 
ditions are under control is apt to be worth much more 
than the observation of many conditions of which we 
know but little. 
Probably the best crop of tomatoes grown in the val¬ 
ley this year was that of Mr. H. W. Harlow, near Man- 
zanola. From 1% acres he took 18 tons of tomatoes. 
The soil on which the crop was grown had supported 
cottonwood trees until two years previous. The location 
was in a swale, the soil naturally quite rich and enriched 
by the addition of much vegetable matter from the tree 
leaves, etc. The land was fall plowed dry, turning up in 
large prices. The planting was done about the middle 
of May with plants from the original bed, the plants were 
of good size, thrifty and forced from the start. Mr. Har- 
