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TABLE 38. AVERAGE COST OF PRODUCING AN ACRE OF PEAS IN 1920 ON FARMS ON 



WHICH ACCOUNTS WERE KEPT ON THE CROP, AND ON FARMS ON WHICH 



COST FIGURES WERE OBTAINED BY THE SURVEY METHOD 



TOMATOES 



The raising of tomatoes on a scale necessary for commercial canning 

 is limited in New York State to those parts of the State having an average 

 growing season between killing frosts of from 160 to 170 days or longer. 

 Outside of the lower Hudson Valley, where tillable land is limited, and Long 

 Island, where land suited for tomato production is utilized for truck crops 

 for sale in cities, the only section having a growing season of this length 

 is a belt extending along Lakes Ontario and Erie (fig. 3). The protection 



