+ tion, _ have been tried using a basic fer- THE OARVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, May 6th, 194g For Te Progressive Farmer Of Trafalgar Township Fertilizer Placement Methods To Use With Tomato Plants | remaining 250 pounds applied as bands at planting time, Last, but not least, additional side dressings of 150 pounds of muriate of potash and 200 pounds: sulphate were made In order to obtain high produc- farmers buy considerable quantities of fertilizer each year. But there is a right time and a right method of applying it if the plant is to benefit to the full Investigation of this subject was begun in 1947 at the Dominion tilizer of 700 pounds of 2-12-6 per acre. In addition, half the tomato plants were treated with an 8- 24-8 starter solution at planting time, and although no increase in total yields was obtained the solu- tion definitely caused earlier rip- Horticultural Substation, Smith- | ening. field, Ont. The basic 700 pounds of fertil- Fourteen different methods | izer was applied in the spring by the following methods: 1. Broad- cast and disced; 2. Broadcast and ploughed; 3. Drilled in with grain ELECTRIC drill; 4. placed in furrows four WELDING feet apart (planting distance) and covered with two inches of No Job TOO Large-- soil; 5. Bands 21% inches away No Job Too Small We repair anything anywhere --any time 3 P. KOLLEE Ph. Bronte 25r21 | from the plants on each side and four inches deep at the time of planting. Another series of treatments included the above methods (ex- cept No. 5) but in these, the 700 pounds was split with 450 pounds being applied as above and the at the last cultivation to plots! receiving 700 pounds 2-12-6 broadcast and disced. It was this side-dressing treat- ment which resulted in the hight est yields in the course of two seasons and, moreover, the fruit ripened relatively early. The furrow application gave an equal- ly good response, but on the other hand, bands at all rates of appli- cation have not shown up favor- ably. Of the older conventional methods application by. means of the grain drill appeared tb give the best results in 1947 but only. average yields in 1948. An area of light soil was used in these experiments, and it is doubtful if similar results would be obtained on heavier soils, par- ticularly from the furrow meth- od. Obviously the amount of rain- fall at planting time will greatly influence the rate at which the fertilizer will dissolve and be- come to the plant. Lions Club of Oakville ANNUAL ; . Hobby Show From 2 p.m. till 9.30 p.m. Saturday, May 8th, 1948 HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Primary Awards at 4 p.m. All other Awards at 9 p.m. -- SILVER COLLECTION -- LUMBER AND PLANING MILL BUILDERS' SUPPLIES Special attention for the needs of the man who likes to do his own work Charles F. Doty & Son it is of interest Rules For Growing Registered Seed Some farmers may be interest- ed in growing registered seed but are. uncertain how to go about it. Here is the answer. To grow registered seed the crop must be grown from seed which is already registered. This, be- cause all registered seed must trace back through its parents to pure bred stock which has a pe- digree registered in the books of the Canadian Seed Growers' as- sociation. All registered tags which are attached to the bags of seed must be saved as the num- bers on them are used to estab- lish the pedigree. Unless a start is made with registered seed the crop cannot be registered, because it loses its eligibility for registra- tion if it misses such recognition for a year. Information as to procedure for growing registered crops is contained in Booklet No. 6, published by the Canadian Seed Growers! association, 251 Besserer. Street, Ottawa, a copy of which is available on request. Actually the procedure for growing registered crops and In to note that i 50 per cent of the fruit was left un- ripened when plants were killed by frost in 1947, with total yields ranging from 8 to 11 tons per acre. In 1948, however, yields of 18 to 20 tons were recorded and this increase is attributed to! the horn worm which defoliated the plants to such an extent that the bulk of the crop became fully ripened. Steps are now being taken to follow the lead of the mere worm by the use of chem- icals which may provide control led leaf removal. seed resolves itself around the strict precau- tions which must be taken to prevent contamination of the crop and the seed, For instance, if registered wheat is sown in a field which has produced com- mercial wheat the year before, the field will be turned down for registration because volunteer plants might come up from the previous crop. The field, too, must be isolated from adjoining crops by natural barriers or by a cultivated strip. All machin- ery, such as seeders, binders, ines, wagons or trucks, must Care Needed When Freezing Produce It will soon be time to give at- tention to filling the pantry or home cold storage with preserved fruits and Now that be carefully cleaned before be- ing used to prevent contamina- tion. Growers of registered seed send an application for crop in- spection to the nearest district supervisor, plant products divi- sion, Dominion Department of frozen products have: been devel- oped to such a high standard more of them are being put up. Every year there is a growing appreciation of the high quality and fresh flavor of properly pre- pared frozen fruits and vege- tables, says W. R. Phillips, Divi- sion of Horticulture, Central Ex- perimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont. Home canning involves longer cooking, more precise sterilizing and other procedures not requir- ed in freezing, says Mr. Phillips, but he warns "4s simple as the freezing process is, however, many mistakes are being made which result in failure. One common error is that the blanching of vegetables is not Dundas St. - North of C.N.R. | done properly. The blanching PHONE 76 -- NIGHTS 670 - 558-W process consists of immersing, the v sin boiling water or ex- CLARK'S Service CENTRE Chisholm & Colborne Sts: Oakville ANNOUNCES . . . i We are now equipped to do . .. Complete Car Repainting Body and Fender Repairs Touch-up Work FREE ESTIMATES - NO - NO OBLIGATION POWER GLAZING (The Modern Simonize) Phone 1031-w posing them to steam for a short interval. Under-blanching results in objectionable flavors and over- blanching produces a cooked pro- duct which may "also be objec- tionable. Different vegetables re- quire different blanching times, hence the instructions should be carefully studied. Freshness of the raw product is also important. If fruits, and particularly vegetables, are held too long before freezing much of the original fresh flavor is lost. Freezing as soon as possible after harvest results in better tasting food accompanied with higher nutritional value. Thus a defin- taining fresh garden produce di rect from the grower or, better still, using that which has been grown in your own garden. When the fruits and vegetables are in the freezer, they are in- clined to lose moisture and be- come dry or shrivelled. The-best means of controlling this is to use packages which will prevent moisture loss. Heavy wax, cello- phane, Tubb , and an visits the farm before harvesting. SAVE THE FORESTS Soon the forests and woods-will be tinder dry and those in and around them should be extra cautious when lighting camp fires. Canada's forests are one of the great natural resources, but large areas of them may be exhausted: through careless use of fires, The forest cover not only provides timber, but con- serves the watersheds so essen- tial to fertile agricultural land. HOG MARKETING During 1947 there was 4,765, 000 hogs marketed in Canada, a slight increase over the 4,465,000 marketed in 1946. However, in Western Canada there was a 12 per cent decline, while in Eastern Canada there was a 20 per cent increase. peratures. The Division of Horticulture, Central Experimental Farm, Ot- tawa, and the Consumer Section, Marketing Service, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, have publications available which will assist in making household freezing a success, Information for constructing household freez- ers is also available, ite advantage is gained by ob-|me==C 'The new Waterloo Garden 'Trac- tors are now available in 1% H. P. and 3 HP. at with a full and other materials are usually found adequate: Having taken the precautions mentioned, the only important precaution is to freeze promptly and hold at zero, or lower tem- peratures. It is frequently thought that just holding the product in: the frozen state is sufficient. Divi- dends in the form of high quality and better appearance will result from zero or lower holding tem- line of ing a 247, power-driven lawn mower. See These Before You Buy E. D. GREEN 8TH LINE - OAKVILLE International Harvester Dealer PHONE 350 Hart of the peril of an uprising white settlers of New Zealand in this sequence of "Green Dolphin Street," drama of adventure and romance Gregory Theatre next Tuesday and Wednes- day. Donna Reed, Frank Morgan and Academy Award winner Ed- mund Gwenn are others in the cast of the picture based on a $208,000 prize-winning novel. 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