TOMATO 
Sow 14 pound in seedbed to plant an acre, or plant 2 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 31% 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 feet 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 
diseases 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 Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
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. 
PONDEROSA (Brimmer). (88 days.) A very large, pink- 
fruited variety. The fruits are more or less flattened, very solid 
and meaty with few seeds, and of splendid edible quality. 
Recommended only for home gardens because its unusual size 
and weight are disadvantages in shipping. 
Pkt. 10c; 4 07. 45c; oz. 85c; Y% Ib. $2.75; 1 Ib. $10.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $9.90 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 
elobe-shaped, ripening to an attractive dark red color, with an 
exceptionally 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; 14 02. 40c; 02. 75c; 1% Ib. $2.50; 1 Ib. $9.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $8.90 per Ib. 
RUTGERS, (82 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 grower, hardy, and 
a heavy producer of firm green tomatoes which ripen to a 
bright red, producing an 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 
vegetative growth. This variety stands more rain as well as 
more drouth 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 in this variety on the 
market today. 
Pkt. 10c; 14 02. 30¢; 02. 55c; % Ib. $1.65; 1 Ib. $6.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $5.90 per Ib. 
Rutgers Tomato 
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