BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 611, 15 October 1913, Page 5

BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

♦ Everybody who has grown Tomatoes has had the bitter experience of what Blight means. Growers have spent time, labour and money in manuring the land, planting, caring for the young paints, and then suddenly the Blight has come and ruined the crop. Various remedies have been suggested and tried with varying result-'. Manyhave sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture, and yet have had the Blight and that badly. It may interest our renders to learn the experience of one who gets practically the whole ef iii•- living from growing Tomatnos. Besides growing in the open, he litis four large glass houses each about 'ino foot, x2O feet. In the glass houses alone were over (iOOO pi •* -r " "- '" , d iv of our \ sit \ i v\ f e at lea t oi i ' an 1 c hov in i n ii i C n j. i ( bo \ \ I t i i \ h i t 1 u i 1 ' n M i V n, t l i *•> ' ii i pr t i ilit in u' in lot Hi o 1 ) o i itn Pe M ut d ( i u nc (o i uii i n iY\ il h 111 L 1 v 1 \ I t I arc 0 "Mi (i i i°hau B v\ " hi i nl ' led y n in \hi ' i i =o n i i c i c i ' not hi eh ti m i \ i i at f c oi 1 1 c] h I\ili i -~ i \ 111 I 1 1 f M 'lt Ol t I ho c v M tO \ ill V 11 I 1 I 1 oi i h (in i i it t t! Ili h in n \ \ mi i i i l i S \ Hi lot i i I c u 1 t c i \ i 011 i 1111 ut i it "n i \ il i i MMi II ii oi e In 11 1 n e i s n "n lii i i i In I in (1 i i < -i i tin v I i no I 1 11 ii 1 c 1 t ill i p i Ii