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...bought a 600-pound experimental celery transplanter last spring (one of two being used in the U.S. for experimentation), converted it for tomato planting. The transplanter carries enough water in two drums to irrigate 1,000 plants, has a two-winged blade for digging trenches and flanged wheels for closing them. He showed his labor-saving machine to all & sundry, showed that it could plant at least twice as much as the old back-breaking hand method. But his big selling point was profits. Hudson told the farmers that they could make from two to four times more per acre...
...Chungking was wonderland. They marveled at hot-water faucets. They ate-roast pork and lemon pie, tomato soup and mashed potatoes. They slept in soft beds. Then, at week's end, they started on their heroes' trek home...
...Long Wait. As best they could they kept together, some tied to a long rope like corks on a net. A demented sailor yelled that his mother had just handed him a glass of cold milk. Another pointed to an imaginary island; Seabees, he screamed, were drinking tomato juice, less than two miles away. This caused a weird mass hallucination, and nearly 100 men began swimming for the island...
armed with spray guns and nicotine sul phate, sallied into the tomato and potato fields. Last week, thanks to their deter mined attack and the arrival of hot weather, it looked as if Ohio and its neighboring states had succeeded in repelling the worst invasion of aphids since...
...Tomato Surprise...