BULLETIN 927, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table II. — Quantity of tomatoes pulped from 1914 to 1918, inclusive, in the 
larger plants in the eastern and middle-tee stern tomato belts. 
State. 
Production (tons). 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
450 
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 
46,077 
967 
Indiana 
13,677 
6,000 
12,681 
12, 800 
12,689 
10, 400 
5,300 
9,338 
7,636 
12, 674 
5,500 
29, 165 
19,323 
14 093 
Ohio 
9,961 
4 949 
Total 
68,697 
56,835 
87,439 
102,047 
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 1918. 
State- 
Total production 
(tons). 
State. 
Total production 
(tons). 
1917 1918 
1917 
1918 
14,564 
3,137 
60,947 
2,017 
10,083 
3 137 
37,870 
7,494 
148,225 
4,309 
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 
