BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 622, 26 November 1913, Page 2

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 plants, and then suddenly the Blight has come and ruined the crop. Various remedies have been suggested and tried with varying results Many have sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture, and yet have had the Blight and that badly. Tt may interest our readers to learn the experience of one who gets practically the whole of his li\ ing from growing Tomatoes. Besides growing in the open, lie ha- \>vr large glass houses each about too icet x2O feet. In the glass houses ah-ne were over 6000 plants, and ni the day oi our visit a very lar.go number were at least four to live feet high, and showing signs ot a magnificent crop. As the plants had evidenllv been sprayed we asked what sprayhe used. He replied that he used the Shenvin - Williams' Lime Sulfur Solution, in proportion of one o( the Lime Sulfur to 100 per cent, of water. Asked as to how it compared with Bordeaux Mixture, he -aid there was no comparison as tire Sherwin-Wil-Hams" Lime Sulfur Solution was far and away the most satisfactory and reliable. It was his absolute knowledge and experience which made him so positive in his assertion, and it was not likely that a man who had so much at stake would reply so wholeheartedly on a spray like the ShcrwinWiliiams' Lime Sulfur Solution, if he had not demonstrated its Superiority to everything else. He was going to spray his potatoes as well, to protect them fiom Blight. He was quite convinced that as the Blight, in Tomatoes was very similar to that in Botato.cs. the S. W. Lime Sulfur Solution would be equally effective in controlling it in the latter. You can obtain the Sherwin-Williams' Lime Sulfur Solution in one and iive gallon tins or 50 gallon casks from any storekeeper or seedsman. The wholesale agents for New Zealand are Sharland and Co.. Limited, Lome Street. Auckland, to whom you should write for booklet., " It Bays to spray, 1913. "*