TOMATO 
Sow 4 pound in seedbed to plant an acre, or plant Y2 pound per acre in field. 
For the garden sow one packet in a seedbed for 50 plants to set 150 feet of row for a family of 3 or 4 people. 
If plants are staked and pruned, which is advisable in the garden, sow one packet in 
seedbed for 50 plants to set 75 feet of row for 3 or 4 people. 
Typical fruits of Jefferson (Wilt Resistant) Tomatoes 
The Kilgore Seed Company has had over 40 years experience 
studying the particular requirements of Florida tomato grow- 
ers. Selections are made each year for earliness, high yield, 
adaptability, and uniformity in size, shape, and color. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Tomato Seeds are Bred and Developed in 
Florida for Florida. (See page 34.) 
Culture. Tomatoes are grown on all kinds of soil, from a light 
sand to a muck. The land should be put in good condition. 
Lay off rows 314 to 5 feet apart, open a furrow, and drill in 
1200 pounds per acre of high grade fertilizer such as 4-7-5, 
and mix thoroughly with the soil. It is good policy to let this 
stand for seven to ten days and then plant the seed or set the 
plants. Seed may be planted direct in the field or preferably 
in a cloth-covered seedbed. Plants started in a seedbed should 
be 6 to 8 inches high when ready to transplant to the field in 
31-to-5-foot rows and 21% to 3 fet apart in a row, or if staked 
16 to 20 inches in the row, rows 4 feet apart. 
On the east coast of Florida, first plantings are made during 
August and continue until January. North and Central 
Florida begin planting for a spring crop the middle to the 
latter part of December and continue to the middle of Feb- 
ruary. For a fall crop in Central Florida, plantings are made 
in July and August. To control blight and other fungous dis- 
eases and to increase yields, spray with “Dithane.” (See page 
61.) 
For control of insects and diseases of ‘Tomatoes see page 
56. Spraying or dusting tomato plants with Dithane before 
the disease appears will help prevent the destructive late 
blight disease from developing, according to the Florida Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. (See page 34.) 
The number of days indicated after each variety represents 
the time required from setting of plants in the field or garden 
to produce marketable fruits. It usually takes four or five weeks 
to produce plants for field setting. 
MANASOTA (Wilt Resistant) (new). (75 days.) This new 
Fusarium wilt resistant variety was developed by the Gulf 
Coast Experiment Station at Bradenton, Fla. and is well adapt- 
ed to Florida growing conditions. The plant is of open growth, 
early maturing, producing beautiful, smooth, deep globe- 
shaped fruits. An excellent variety especially recommended 
for old wilt infested soils. 
Pkt. 10c; 4 02. 40c; 02. 75c; 4% Ib. $2.25; 1 Ib. $8.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $7.90 per Ib. 
All prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for special prices on larger quantities. 
JEFFERSON (Fusarium Wilt Resistant). (76 days.) This 
variety was developed from a single plant selection made 
several years ago in our breeding station at Bradenton, Florida. 
The plant is medium to heavy in growth, more open than 
Rutgers and not as subject to bunching as Rutgers, vigorous 
and high yielding, resistant to Fusarium Wilt. Fruits are globe- 
shaped, ripening to an attractive dark red color, with an ex- 
ceptionally good flavor, thick walled with a small core, and 
relatively free from cracking. Offers good insurance in wilt 
infested areas. This variety is not resistant to all wilts but is 
highly resistant to the most serious wilt disease of tomatoes 
caused by the Fusarium soil fungus. 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 50c; 0z. 9Dc; 14 Ib. $2.85; 1 Ib. $10.50 
5 to 25 Ibs. $10.40 per Ib. 
IMPROVED RUTGERS. (81 days.) Our improved strain of 
this important variety is exceedingly uniform in plant growth 
and produces more uniform, smoother, thick walled, firmer, 
deeper globe-shaped fruits. The plant is a very vigorous grow- 
er, hardy, and a heavy producer of firm green tomatoes which 
ripen to a bright red, producing and enormous yield of large, 
deep globe-shaped fruits over a long season. The large fruits 
are very firm, free of puffs, with thick outer and inner walls. 
The fruits of our improved strain size up well clear out to the 
end of the vine, and are smoother and freer of cracks at the 
stem end. This variety is especially recommended for a spring 
crop in Florida and is well suited for light sandy soils and also 
for shallow dry pine land on the lower east coast of Florida. 
Not suitable for deep wet glade lands where it makes too much 
vegetable growth. This variety stands more rain as well as 
more drought than other varieties. Many growers have told 
us that our Improved Rutgers makes the smoothest as well as 
the fanciest fruits of any strain of seed of this variety on the 
market today. 
Pkt. 10c; 4 oz. 39c; 02. 55c; Y% Ib. $1.65; 1 Ib. $6.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $5.90 per Ib. 
Improved Rutgers Tomato 
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