50 



to-day buying them in the largest way you can. 



QUESTION : That leaves you a cent and a half to two 

 cents only for the product. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : Leaves you a cent and 

 a half to two cents from the planting of the seed until the 

 tomato is in the can. 



QUESTION : Do you recall whether cans are higher to- 

 day than they wer6 four or five years ago? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : Yes : from $1.00 to 5.00 

 or more per thousand depending upon size and number 

 bought. 



QUESTION: Why I raised the point is, I found that 

 the Government figures on canning are very misleading, 

 leaving out either labor, or forgetting to reckon in the cost of 

 the product, or taking it for granted that the man himself 

 wasn't worth, anything anyway. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH: Well, those figures are 

 taken from Idaho (referring to document). 



UR. WHITTIER: Including labor? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : Supposed to include 

 everything. 



A MEMBER: You can't grow tomatoes in Massachu- 

 setts for 20 cents a bushel and can them. You can't grow 

 them for that. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : I don't know how it 

 could be done, under present conditions, but suppose you 

 worked all the green tomatoes, don 't you suppose that cuts 

 the price materially? I imagine that is where the tomato 

 would fail in this section of the country, because we haven't 

 a long enough growing season; but I believe that if all the 

 green and immature and young tomatoes were worked up 

 into various products that are standard on the market there 

 would be no reason why you would not make a very large 

 part of the profit from them. 



QUESTION: That introduces another calculation. I 

 was wondering how you got your crop raised and canned for 

 the price you give. 



