Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1911 — FARN AND GARDEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARN AND GARDEN

PROPER son, FOR TOMATOES.

Area With Gentle Slope to the South Considered Most Desirable. ‘ The tomato as a field crop is adapted to a wide variety of soils, though a medium clay loam is probably the best. In fact, any soil well adapted to potatoes will grow the tomato to good advantage. The previous treatment, however, has an influence on the beat development of the crop, and a clover sod, or soil upon which corn has been the preceding crop, la perhaps the best. In either case the land should be deeply cultivated. The plants should be set from 4 to 4% feet apart each way and cultivation should begin Immediately.

The first cultivation should be deep, In order to conserve the moisture, and each subsequent cultivation shallower, in order not to destroy the roots, which will fill the soil as soon as the plants reach maturity.

Pot-grown plant, ready for transplanting to field.