BULLETIN 027, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table II. — Quantity of tomatoes pulped from 1914 t° 1918, inclusive, in the 

 larger plants m the eastern and m id dlc-ive stern tomato belts. 



State. 



Production (tons). 



1911 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1918 





150 



1,550 

 3,200 

 11,637 



4,650 

 11,300 

 19,736 

 1,000 

 7,556 

 14,570 

 10,215 

 9,412 

 9,000 



6,540 

 11,300 



22,837 

 878 

 29,489 

 16,362 

 5,962 

 4,639 

 4,040 



5,050 





10, 600 





13,677 



46,077 





967 





6,000 



12,681 

 12,800 

 12,689 

 10,400 



5,300 

 9,338 

 7,636 

 12,674 

 5,500 



29, 165 



Now Jersey 



19,323 

 14,093 



Ohio 



9,961 

 4,949 









Total. 



68,697 



56,835 



87,439 



102,017 



140, 185 



Supplementing the figures given in Tables I and II, there is pre- 

 sented in Table III the entire production of tomatoes for soups, pulp, 

 purees, etc., in two years, 1917 and 1918, as published by the Bureau 

 of Crop Estimates on January IT, 1919. 



Table III. — Quantity of tomatoes used for soups, pulp, purees, etc., in the 

 eastern and middle-western tomato belts for the years 1917 and 191S. 



State. 



Total production 

 (tons). 



State. 



Total production 

 (tons). 





1917 1918 



1917 



1918 





14,564 

 3,137 



60,917 

 2,017 



10,083 

 3,137 



37,870 



7,491 



148,225 



1,309 



26,083 

 7,515 





69,461 

 10,531 

 10,531 

 3,362 



110,209 







37,880 





Ohio.. . 



25,001 







8,024 





Total 







187,770 



412,610 













QUANTITY OF SEED AVAILABLE. 



Since one-half of 1 per cent is adopted as the yield of dry seed 

 from whole ripe tomatoes, the total quantity available, as shown 

 in Table I, is 1,026 tons. This tonnage is based on the output of 

 pulp from only the largest manufacturers in the. States specified. 

 By calculation from the figures given in Table III for 1918, it is 

 found that a total of 2,063 tons of seed is available as the output 

 of all the pulping plants in the eastern and middle-western tomato 

 belts. 



COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS OBTAINABLE FROM TOMATO SEED. 



By proper treatment tomato seeds may be made to yield two im- 

 portant commercial products — namely, fixed oil and press cake, or 

 meal. In order to obtain these products it is necessary that a certain 

 procedure be followed, and the purpose of this bulletin is to describe 

 in detail the handling of the material from the time the wet waste 



