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Manuring For Tomatoes.
W. B. Atwood, writing from tlie Vir-
giuia station, advocates manuring in the
lull for tomatoes. He fertilizes, as a
rule, with compost around the plants as
soon as transplanted, and by this secures
heavy crops of fine fruit. When he has
uo compost, a small quantity of chemical
fertilizer is used in the hills, but it m
thoroughly hoed in before setting the
plants; otherwise it would burn them
up, tomatoes being very tender hi this
regard. Applying compost around the
plant gives tho most satisfactory crop b-j
has ever grown. It is tlie custom in his
section to fertilize in the hill, and no one
complains of small tomatoes thus pro
duced.
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