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Show PROPER CARE OF TOMATOES Trimming of Vines in Mid-Summer Will Greatly Increase Yield Experiments Ex-periments in Maine. Very few amateurs practice trimming trim-ming tomato vines, but if this Is done in mid-summer the yield of fruit is very greatly Increased. Experiments at the Maine experiment experi-ment show that the increase due to An Excellent Specimen. trimming reached from 6 to 50 per cent., and the gain by weight was very marked. In one instance reach 58 per cent. The plants were grown under ordinary or-dinary field culture and they were started in the green house April 1, planted in the field June 1 and headed head-ed back July 24, August 8 and September Sep-tember 5. At each trimming the leading branches were shortened about - sis inches and most of the side shoots below the first clusters were removed the others being shortened, and th$ sunlight was thus freely admitted. Training tomatoes on wires to run from five to ten feet high Is becoming becom-ing a common practice. This method increases the yield as the sunlight reaches all of the fruit and makes picking much easier. |