BLIGHT IN TOMATOES

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1913, Page 6

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 %rowing in the open, he has four large glass houses, each about 100 ft. x 20ft. In the glass houses alone were over 6000 plants, and on the day of our visit a very large number were at least four or 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-Wiliams' Lime Sulfur Solution, in proportion of one of the Lime Sulfur to 100 per cent, of water. Asked as to how it compared with Bordeaux Mixture, he said there was no comparison as the SherwinWilliams' 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 rely so whole heartedly on a spray like the Sherwin-Williams' 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 S HARLAN D & CO., LTD., Lome St., Auckland, to whom you should write for Booklet "It Pays to Spray," 1913.