es deep. Keep
wet and give all the light and sun you can, and by the time it is safe
to set them outside they should stand from twelve to twenty-four inches
in height, with bodies half an inch thick.

_To prepare the ground._--First select a place as near water as
possible, and also, if you can, let your rows run east and west. Throw
out dirt two spades deep, then put in three or four inches of night soil
if you can get it, if not use hen manure and wood ashes, equal parts, or
some other strong manure, in the bottom of trench. Then fill up the
trench with the best dirt you can get, mixed with well rotted stable
manure, as no fresh manure must come near the roots or bark to rot them.

Now set out your plants without disturbing the dirt about the roots. Set
eighteen inches apart in the row and have the dirt in the trenches a
little lower than at the sides. Place a strong stake at each plant or a
trellis and tie them to it as fast as set. Then if it does not rain use
hard, soft, cold or warm water and give plenty each day. As your plants
commence to grow, just above each leaf will start a shoot. Let only the
top of the plant, and only one or two of the best branches grow, so as
to have not over one or two of the best stems to run up. Now the buds
for blossoms show themselves on the tops of the vines, and a few inches
below. Just above each leaf, a shoot starts; nip off every one of these
just as soon as they appear. As the lower leaves get brown and old pick
them off. Train the fruit as it grows to the sun. Tie often and well.
Let no useless wood grow. Give all the sun possible and water, water and
then water. Then you can take the cake on tomatoes.

[Illustration: Wm. Mansfield and his big tomatoes, Casselton, N.D.]

Mr. Mansfield's record twenty-six years ago, at Johnsons Creek, Wis.,
was: Height of tomato tree, eleven feet. Weight of single tomato, two
pounds six ounces. He says, since he has moved to North Dakota, his
tomato has in no wise deteriorated.

Annual Report, 1915, Central Trial Station.

PROFS. LE ROY CADY AND R. WELLINGTON, UNIVERSITY FARM.

Since the coming of Prof. Wellington to the Station to take up the
pomological and vegetable divisions the work of this Station, has been
divided, Prof. Wellington taking the fruit and vegetable experimental
work, while Prof. Cady continues the work in ornamentals, and on that
basis the reports will be made this year.

_Ornamentals._--The campus of Unive