10 DEHYDEATION OF FBUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



On the question of weight and transportation, a 60-pound case 

 of canned tomatoes, when the tomatoes are dried, gives you in round 

 figures 2^ pounds of the dried product. 



The same illustration roughly holds good of other vegetables, like 

 spinach, and perhaps sprouts, and all these other light-weight vege- 

 tables that contain much moisture say, something like 75 to 95 

 per cent moisture. 



When you liave canned goods, you have to ship not only the 

 canned goods but you have to ship an equal number of cars of 

 empty cans to the cannery. For instance, 30 cadoads of canned 

 tomatoes would be equal to 1 carload of dried tomatoes. And you 

 take your 30 carloads of canned tomatoes 



Senator Smith of Georgia. In weight, but not in bulk? 



Mr. HoRST. In equivalent quantity; that is, if you take the to- 

 juatoes of 30 carloads of canned tomatoes and dry them you will 

 have 1 carload of dried tomatoes. 



Senator Smith of Georgia. In bulk— in spac. I mean — it Avould 

 only occupy that much space? 



Mr. HoBST. They will occupy that much spaces yes, sir. 



Senator Smith of Georgia. That ip what I mean — take no more 

 space. 



Mr. Hoest. The contents of 30 carloads of canned tomatoes- 



Senator Smith of Georgia (interposing). Can be put in 1 carload. 



Mr. HoRST. Can be put in 1 carload; yes, sir. When you have 

 your 30 carloads of canned tomatoes, you have to add on another 30 

 cars for the movement of the empty cans from the can factory to 

 the cannery. That makes 60 cars. 



Then, again, when you have in a carload of canned tomatoes 

 10,000 pounds of tin and 14.000 pounds of lumber, a total of 24,000 

 pounds. Then you have the movement of the tin-making material 

 from the mines to the tinplate factory, and the movement of the tin- 

 plate from the tinplate factory to the tin-can factory : and the move- 

 ment of the logs to the sawmill and of the lumber to the box-shook 

 factory, and the box shooks to the cannery, which gives you a grand 

 total of about 105- carloads as against 1 carload of dried product. 



Senator Eansdell. Is that one carload of dried product just as 

 valuable as the other for human consumption? 



Mr. HoRST. Yes, sir. And for that purpose I have brought plenty 

 of samples that anybody and everybody may try them. These prod- 

 ucts ha^e been tried now by the Walter Reed Hospital here for the 

 last few weeks since I have been here, and they were tried at the 

 Washington Barracks within the last few days. They have been 

 tried all along the line and every one certifies to the excellence of 

 the product. All nre agreed tliat they are better than canned goods, 

 nnd most of them agree that they are as good as the fresh vegetables 

 in season and better than fresh vegetables out of season. 



Senator Smith of Georgia. They are as good as the fresh vege- 

 tables, unless you get the fresh vegetables right off the farm. If 

 the fresh vegetnbles have to be delayed, as I understand you, in 

 transportation and distribution in a city, from a farm some little 

 distance away, then they are just as good as that kind of fresh vege- 

 tables. 



Mr. HoRST. That is exactly it. 



