Show ETHYLENE GAS GA USED TO SPEED SPEE D RIPENING OF TOMATO T HARVEST found to be effective accelerator by growers tomato growers abo wish to hasten the ripening of their crop to take advantage of early markets will find treatment with ethylene gas nn an effective alve accelerator according to dr R 1 U I narvey harvey agricultural botanist cal hersity form farm st paul inventor antor of this process which has recently been granted a patent ninny many wholesalers and commercial growers glowers now are using the ethylene method meallo I 1 of ripening with notable success all that Is necessary in the way of special equipment Is a suit suitable a ble roo room in or chamber hain ber anda and a tank of ethylnne ethy jene gas equipped with a simple flow meter the meter plus enough gas to treat several carlondo cai car loads londs of tomatoes will cost only about 30 the gas cost is 3 neg li gible ranging froni from about 40 cents hentsi to boo a carlond the room or cosm ber should be closed on off so as aa to make it gas tight an ordinary plastered room or cellar room will work satisfactorily providing cracks around windows are closed with ad herive tape and if it has a fairly tight fitting door some means should also be available for maintaining a tempera temperature of from ca to 80 degrees Fahren belt tomatoes tomatoes be picked when they anre beginning to turn or when they are fairly well along toward maturity in no case should they be picked so green that more than four days Is required to ripen them by the gas process doctor harvey says they may be placed in the ripening chamber chanah er in baskets crates or other containers |