The Green Forest tribune., 1907-12-13
TOMATO CULTIVATION
The Experience of Some Local
 Growers the Past Season
NEW GROUND SOIL THE BEST
Teter and Son and J. H. De-
 Burger Reap Good Results

Knowing that a very large per cent of our local patrons are in- terested in the subject of tomato growing, The Tribune has been gathering data from the ex- perience of some of the growers last season, which we believe will be beneficial to those who expect to engage in this in- dustry next season.
 While the 1907 crop was as a whole a success, yet it fell for short of the average crop, and in some instances it might as well be termed failure, for some growers were unable to realize a profit upon the labor expended. There are different reasons for this. It seems that where the ground was properly selected, a sufficient amount of fertilizer used or with ample cultivation given the crops yielded we'll in spite of the bugs and almost un- precedented dry weather.
 Take N. w. Teter and Isaac Teter, for instance. These farmers planted two acres in to- matoes and realized what might properly be pronounced on enor- nous profit, cashing out the cror at the Green Forest Cannery for S154. Feeling that this case is worthy of special investigation The Tribune called on Isaac Teter in town the other day. to tell us how he did it. His answer was that it was by "cultivation.' A strip of new ground was chosen for the tomato patch which was te be, and was in fact, only an incl. dent the farm crop. MT. Teter says the first thing after the ground was cleared up was te break it thoroughly and the next thing was to break it thoroughly again, using the old. style bull' tongue blow, which left the ground veritable ash bank.
 With the ground thus pre- pared, the tomato plants were transplanted down we'll into the earth. Two plowings and one chopping out constituted the re- mainder of the work necessary to reap the neat harvest of S7E per acre.
 J. H. DeBurger, whose farm is on top of the mountain, two and a half miles southwest of Green Forest, harvested S90.65 worth o1 tomatoes from a two-acre crop but the conditions under which he labored were altogether diff ferent from that of Teter ano son. His crop was late, the las quarter acre transplanting being made on July 3. His crop suf' fered greatly from the bug pes and dry weather, cutting it in hall from what it would have beer under more favorable circum stances.
 His crop had not fully maturee when the canning factory shu down, he having marketed a the factory only S1S.70 worth; bu the sweeping frost which put al low land crops out of bushes on Oct. 12, did not effect De Burgers crop in the least, owinl to the high altitude.
 But MT. DeBurger did no need a cannery to take care o his crop. He found a read, l I market in Eureka Springs for al he could gather at from 2 to 3 l. } cents a pound. No frost cam that injured his vines unt , Nov. il, before which time h } had stored his crop.
 , He marketed his last load o Nov. 26, realizing from this man } ner of marketing $71.95, or } tatal S90.65 for the two-acr } crop.
 It would seem from Mir. De Burger experience that tn : mountain lands possess som
 superior advantages in the mat 1, ter of tomato growing as well g in soma other material noints.