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as soon as possible. If they are to be sold, they must be <^raded. to meet 

 the requirements of the purchaser. After the crop has been fully har- 

 vested, the vines should be destroyed in order to prevent the spread of 

 disease. 



Yields. — Yields vary greatly. One hundred bushels per acre is an 

 average yield in several states, though this is exceedingly small. In some 

 sections of this State, tomatoes yield from two to five hundred bushels, 

 or from six to fifteen tons, per acre, and under intensive methods of cul- 

 ture as high as from eight hundred to a thousand bushels, or twenty or 

 more tons, per acre. For canning, the price paid for tomatoes is from seven 

 to twelve dollars per ton. A fair profit may be realized if nine or ten 

 dollars per ton is paid, providing labor is reasonable in price, the haul to 

 market is not too great, and other conditions are favorable. The cost of 

 growing an acre of tomatoes varies from fifty to sixty-five dollars. There 

 is, therefore, from twenty-five to forty dollars profit per acre in this crop. 



