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Tomato History

I joined the tomato club to learn how to grow and can vegetables for home use. I had never canned anything before this year.

This being the first year we ever used tin cans I knew nothing of what I had to have. My father went to get my things to can with and the tinner told him all we needed was soldern and English rosin. I found out later that I needed salimoniac to tin my irons with. I was told that soldern flux was poison but the demonstrator said it was not.

My garden contains one tenth of an acre. It is in a swamp and has sandy soil with red clay underneath. I selected this because it was far enough away from the house the chickens would not bother my tomatoes.

My garden was broken with a bulb tongue plow five inches deep. Harrowed well and one third of a sack of quano and one one horse load of manure was put on it.