Show Pruning Tomatoes Will Greatly Increase Size The size of tomatoes can be greatly increased and the season of ripening I Ican can be hastened by pruning tomato plants to one stem and by training them to stakes By this method the tomatoes are lifted up from the ground and do not rot as ns readily The size Is Increased possibly because because most of the plant food which would go Into the formation of extra leaves goes Into the production of tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes' Instead Pruning should commence as soon as ns the suckers or shoots start to form In the axils of the leaves lea of the plant This should be cut before they attain any great size If these thesA are kept out continually the plant automatically has but one stem The final ripening of the crop can be further hastened by pinching off the tile terminal bud when six or seven se clusters clusters clus clus- tens of tomatoes have e been set on the plant The practice of pruning results in securing very early tomatoes and the tIle maturing of a larger proportion of the crop of late tomatoes When tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes toma toma- toes are planted in this way it Is per- per to plant them quite close especIally especially especially es es- es- es on good rich soil Tomatoes that are to be pruned to one one stem can be planted two feet apart each way |