Tomato club booklet by Myra Yount

TOMATO [image of green foilage wreath with red tomato in the bottom of the wreath]

I joined the girls Tomato club in February 1912

I sowed my tomato seed in hot bed March 11, 1912.

April 3 1912 papa plowed my tomato patch and put three one horse loads of stable manure on it.

I trans planted my tomato plants in cold frame April 22 1912.

April 30 1912 I planted my tomato plants in my one tenth acre. It took me 2 hours to plant them

I hoed my tomato plants June 5 1912. Papa plowed them May 28.

I sprayed my tomato plants with lime and Blue stone to keep off disease and insects.

May 31 1912 I saw the first bloom on my tomato plants and the first ripe tomatoes July [6?] 1912.

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I staked my tomato plants May 7 1912 with straight stakes.

I cut off all the limbs off of my tomato plants below the first cluster of bloom.

I gathered off my tomatoes ever other day since they first begun to ripen.

I kept in account of all my work and charged myself 70 [cents] an hour for all my work.

Myra Yount. Hickory N.C.