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Average yield of tomatoes per acre = 300 bu. = 10 tons = 

 5,400 No. 3 or 3-lb. cans. 



Average cost of peeling tomatoes $11 25 



Average cost of packing tomatoes 8 00 



Average cost of processing tomatoes 3 00 



Average cost of capping and tipping 3 00 



Cost of fuel 1 00 



Highest known crop of tomatoes produced on one acre — 20 tons 

 = 10,800 3-lb. cans. 



Very low crop to acre — 3 tons = 1,800 3-lb. cans. 



Tomatoes are peeled in fibre buckets holding fourteen quarts, 

 and peelers are paid at the rate of three cents per bucket. Rapid 

 girls will peel as high as 50 buckets of tomatoes in ten hours. 



Packers are paid from 50 cents to $1.00 per day. Processers 

 from $2.50 to $4.00 per day. Cappers and Tippers from $1.00 to 

 $2.00 per day, and a fireman $1.00 to $1.50 per day. 



Much depends upon the help, and the employer must be the 

 judge in regard to the amount of work each one can turn off and 

 the wages they earn. Except for the work of processing and that 

 of the fireman, most of the work is done by women and children, 

 and where there are several in family, no hired help is needed. 



This reduces the expense to the cost of cans only, which is 

 estimated at about 2 to 2^ cents each for three pound and IV2 to 

 1% cents each for two-pound cans, when purchased in small lots. 

 Solder-hemmed caps cost about $1.50 per thousand and are by far 

 the best and easiest to use. 



Prices received for the canned goods vary according to the 

 market sought, just like all other farm produce, but the demand 

 always exceeds the supply. 



