A tomato booklet

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A TOMATO. BOOKLET.

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History of My Tomato Crops.

I wondered for several year what the Tomato club was, I could read in the Progressive Farmer about the girls club but never had the pleasure to join until this summer.

Some of the reasons why I joined the club were first I thought it would be a good way for a girl to earn money and a very nice way,

to a healthy way you know we must have sunshine and fresh air as the plant.

My garden was measured off in March right near the woods but the woods never effected [affected] it any at all it was very [illegible] and a gray sandy loam [?] where corn had been raised the year before it was ninety seven by forty five, one of the reasons why I selected this place was it was real soft soil and the water run off and did not stand.

The preparation of my garden, first it was broad casted with a two horse load of manure and broke with a two horse plow about seven inches deep, and disked with a double disk to harrowed with a smoothing harrow so as to keep the moist.

The fertilizer used on my garden was one hundred pounds of high grade inch fertilizer 7-5-8 and seventy five pound of [illegible], with twenty five.

pound of 8-4-4, the first application of fertilizer was one hundred pound of 7-5-8, and the other where I transplanted my plants being three feet apart and the rows four feet, and when the plants were about three feet high I staked part of them, using one steak in the plant.

The first part and most important was getting strong healthy plants to start with, I planted my seed in a cold frame, using about fifty pound of stable manure