BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 623, 29 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. It m:ty interest our readers to learn the experience of one who gets practically the whole of his living from growing Tomatoes. Besides growing in the open, he has four large glass houses each about 100 feet x2O feet. In the glass houses alone were over booo plants, and on the day of our visit a very large number were at least lour to live I eel high, and showing signs «>i a magnificent crop. As the plants hao. evidently been sprayed we asked wiiai spraj he used. He replied that ne used the Sherwin -V, illiams Lime Sultur Solution, in proportion oi (, ne ot the Lime Suii'ur to too per cent, oi water. Asked as to how it compared with Bordeaux Mixture, lie said there was no comparison as the Sherwin-Wil-liams' Lime Sulfur Solution was tar 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 SherwinWilliams' Lime Sulfur Solution, if he had not uemonstraleu its Superiority to everything else, lie was going to sprnv his potatoes as well, to protect them fiom Bhgtit. lie was quite convinced that as the Blight in Tomatoes was very similar to that in Potatoes, the S. W. Lime Sulfur Solution would i be equally effective in controlling it I in the latter. You can obtain die j Sherwin-Williams Lime Suliur Solu- J tion in one and five gallon tins or >0 : gallon casks from any storekeeper or : seedsman. ■ The wholesale agents for New /-ea- j land are Shariand and Co., Limited. : Lome Street, Auckland, to whom you j should write for booklet, " It Pays to j spray, 1913.'"' I