BLIGHT IN TOMATOES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 632, 7 January 1914, Page 7

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 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 day 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 ioo per cent, of water. Asked as to how it compared with Bordeaux Mixture, he said there was no comparison as the Sherwin-Wil-liams' 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 SherwinWilliams' 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 from Blight. He was quite convinced that as the Blight in Tomatoes was very similar to that in Potatoes, 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 five 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 Pays to spray, 1913."*