BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 2

BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

Everybody who has grown Tomatoes has had the bitter experience of wnat Blight means. Growers have spent time, labour and money in manuring the land, planting, caring for the voting 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 may 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 6000 plants, and on the clay of our visit a very large number were at least four to five feet high, and showing signs of a magnificent crop. As the plants had evidently been sprayed we asked what spray he used. He replied that he used the Sherwin - Williams' Lime Sulfur Solution, in proportion of one of the Lime Sulfur to 100 percent, of water. Asked as to how it compared with Bordeaux Mixture, he said there was no comparison as the Sherwin-Wil-linms'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 likelv that a man who had so much at "stake would reply so wholeheartedlv on a spray like the SherwinWilliams' Lime Sulfur Solution, if he had not demonstrated its Superiority to evemhmg else, .lie was going to spray his potatoes as well, to protect them fiom Blight. Lie was quite convinced that as me Blight in Tomatoes was vcrv similar n> that in Potatoes, the S. \V. Lime Subim Solution would be equally ci'ieoipv in controlling it in the latter. Y>ai can obtain the Sherwin-VViliiauis' 1 .ime Sulfur Solution in iane and live eobLn tins or 50 gallon casks from any storekeeper or The wholesale agents br New Zealand are Sharland and Co., Limited, Lome Street. Auckland, to whom you should write for booklet, " It Pays to sprav. !plv" ::