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(3) Tomatoes showing any effects of freezing. 
(4) Fresh holes or cuts through the tomato wall. 
(5) Puffiness which causes the tomato to be dis- 
tinctly light in weight. 
“Fairly uniform in size” means that not more 
than 10 precent, by count, of the tomatoes in any 
layer may be more than one standard size larger or 
smaller than the standard size tomato for the count 
packed. 
Example of standard size tomato.—The standard 
size tomato for qa 5-6 layer is that size which will 
pack tightly tomatoes of uniform size 5 rows by 6 
rows in that layer in the crate. 
UNITED STATES STANDARDS FOR TOMATOES 
FOR MANUFACTURE OF STRAINED TO- 
MATO PRODUCTS 
(Effective Mar. 1, 1933) 
GRADES 
U.S. No. i shall consist of tomatoes which are 
fairly firm, ripe, well colored, and free from stems 
and from damage caused by badly discolored cracks, 
shriveling, molds, decay, sunburn, sunscald, freezing, 
or other means. 
U.S. No. 2 shall consist of tomatoes which do not 
meet the requirements of the foregoing grade but 
which are ripe and fairly well colored and which are 
free from serious damage from any cause. 
Culls are tomatoes which do not meet the require- 
ments of either of the foregoing grades. 
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS 
As used in these grades: 
“ Fairly firm” means that the tomato is not water- 
soaked. 
“Well colored ’*’ means that at least 90 percent of 
the flesh of the tomato has good red color, provided 
that a tomato having flesh of a lighter shade of red 
shall be considered as “well colored” if enough 
additional area of the flesh has a shade of red color 
so that the tomato has a sufficient amount of red 
to be equivalent in color to that of a tomato which 
has 90 percent good red color. 
