Tomato facts

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[Text center] Tomato Facts

[Text center] Mary Rice McCullock

[Text center] Tomato Facts

I was in [?] work last year and enjoyed it, and besides I made some money all my own.

My garden is an oblong thirty three by one hundred and thirty two feet, it slopes gently to the north.

The soil is a sandy [?]. I selected it because it had

been sown in clovers two years and I thought I would make a big yield.

My plot was plowed with two horse plow in March and returned in May and harrowed to pulverize the soil. I used one two horse [margin] lead of stable manure and sixty six lbs. of Piedmont fertilizer 8-2-2.

The manure and fertilizer were put in drill before the plants were set.

I used Stone seed ordered them from Wood & Son.

I sowed my tomato seeds seventeenth day of April in a canvassed tobacco bed.

I transplanted my plants tenth of May and again on the twentieth of May.

My garden was plowed

with a cultivator three times and I hoed it four times and replanted twice.

I did not stake mine and only prunes off to the fifth leaf.

This was a fine year for raising tomatoes, there were no insects or diseases to fight.

My garden in almost one half mile from the house and I always gather tomatoes