Girls club, tomato club booklet

[image of two tomatoes]

I joined the Tomato club when Miss Schaeffer came to Bessemer in the spring and organized a club, becausae she told of all the nice things for a club member and I really wanted to make some money of my own.

I planted my seed in a box which was covered with glass about the sixth of april. I Kept the seeds out where the warm

sunlight could strike them and kept them watered well. It was not long before I could see the little seeds beginning to sprout and then tiny little green leaves to show, it was hard to tell which were grass and which were plants at first, but before long they could easily be distinguished

I kept them growing as fast as possible untill the first of May, by that time the

largest ones were ready to transplant I selected the largest ones from the boxes and set them out This gave the others a chance to grow faster. It was about May the twenty fifth when I mixed up some bordeaux mixture and went out to spray my plants. This being about ten o'clock in the morning the sun was getting rather hot.

I went out to spray the plants that were in the boxes first, They

were not strong and soon wilted right down as the sun rays were shining directly on them.

Then I went out to spray the plants that were in the fields, they were stronger, and the mixture did not kill but a small amount of them. This taught me a lesson that probably I would not have learned otherwise. But I had good-luck in getting