The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-10
IusarIun wilt.

Richmond: MY garden Is infested
throughout with the fusarium wilt
disease, 50 that practically all my to-
mato plants die. | have seen your
suggestion that the tomato be planted
in an uuinfccted spot. but all the
ground have Is infected. ! have al o
your suggestion that n strain OF to-
matoes which are able 10 resist the
disease can be made By selection. II
there any other way? May such seed
he bought. or is there any Eermiciae
that will DESTROY the fungus in tho
SOLE Kindly reply in The Times Dis
patch. read Your articles regularly,
and get valuable suggestions
The only thing TO be done is TO use
resistant strains Of tomatoes. As
have before said. the little plum shaped
ana pear shaped toma toes all seem re
sistant But there is a good, small
biscuit shaped tomato that | had from
the Austin Nursery Company at Aus
tin Texas. called the Texas Belle. that
seems 10 be completely resistant to
all tomato troubles. II is a small
tomato. about the sizo OF small bis
cult. but ii is far better than none. and
is n wonderful bearer. II keeps fresh
long after it is ripe tnan any tomato
| have ever grown. and by careful
selection from the largest ones may he
increased In size. especially If YOU get
some pollen from nclc hbors garden
who can grow good tomatoes, and set
some Of the blooms with n camel hair
brush. you may get Il larger fruit " TIL
the resistant character. Soaking the
soil with 4 2-per cent solution of
formaldehytie m!rht sterilize It, but Ii;
would ho rather costly operation.
Greenhouse vegetable growers stcrilize
the soil with steam pines running
through it, and thus raise the tenn
perature to point where all bacte"iHl
life Is destroyed. but that. too. would
lie too costly in the open garden.
though / saw n great greenhouse at
Grand Rapids. Mich. that covered two
and n half acres which was treated in
this way successfully.
Navy Benns.
TuncnburC County; "Will YOU kindly
advise me the average wholesale price
of navy beans for the past year" Also
the best method for preparing the seed
bed, how deep. etc. and what Is tn"
average cror per acre. Do YOU think
the Sir Walter Raleigh Irish potato
would prove satisfactory here for the
local and Richmond markets." lust
what the average price at wholesale
OF the navy beans has peen the past
year | am unable 10 say, but think
not far from Sl.75 per bushel. But |
am rather sure that rs commercial
crop there is n" profit to be made In
them In YOUR climate. These beans are
mainly grown in New York state,
where conditions are far moro favor
able 10 them than in Lunenburr. You
might possibly make thirty to forty
bushels IN acre but YOU would have
50 many damaged beans that hand sort
ing or picking would lie necessary. You
can grow cowpeas that arc selling for
more money than navy beans. and YOU
can grow soy beams too. Better leave
the navy beans to the part of the
country better suited to them. for IT
does not pay to grow them here. cx-
cept In q very small way for family
use. Get the large white black eye
cowpca. and Won can get more money
from them than with the navy beans.
You can plant these in threc-foot rows.
and the keystone pea harvester will
gather them and thresh them az 1t
goes drawn by II pair of mules. and
black eye peas always sell higher than
navy beans. and are now not less than