Show TOMATOES FOR CANNING Suggestions for the Extensive Raising of the Vegetable I II ot I I PI planted one ounce e of tomato seed In our garden the middle of ot last March in open ground and I think every seed came up The young plants were looking well but were killed down by a frost the first of April By the last of ot the month they had all come out again and were large enough to set setout out and I planted the plants which grew from the theo o ounce nce of seed writes writes a at a correspondent of 01 oP Farm and Home The weather behig being be be- hig ing favorable almost every plant lived The land on which they were plant plant- planted planted ed was very poor and sandy with a clay subsoil I first broke It deep in March with a a one-horse one turn plow turning under a lot of ot weeds and grass About two weeks before setting setting setting set set- ting out the plants I laid out rows with an inch eight shovel and put In commercial fertilizer analyzing two per cent nitrogen ten per cent phosphoric phonic acid and three per cent potash at the rate of ot pounds per acre I covered this fertilizer by running over the rows once with two inch five-inch scooters on a double doable stock which ridged the soil level with the surface The rows were three feet apart and the plants were set two feet in tho the row The cultivation was begun as soon as the plants were firmly settled In Inthe Inthe inthe the soil and they were given three and two The last plowing was given about the time tho the tomatoes begun to form freely on the tho plants I made a mistake by not giving jiving them four Instead of three and by not applying nitrate of ot soda at the rate of ot pounds per acre at the last plowing By Dy falling failing to todo todo todo do this the plants stopped growing most of ot the leaves dropped off and andover andover andover over half halt the tomatoes were scalded by y the tho hot sun rendering them unfit for canning We got over two two- pound cans of ot tomatoes from this patch atch of ot about one fourth acre |