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*Wardlaw, Claude W. , and McGuire, Laurence P. Storage of tropically- grown 
tomatoes. Gt. Brit. Empire Mktg. Bd. c Pubs. 3 E. M. B. 59, 50pp. 
London, 1932. 280.39 G792P no. 59 
Bibliography, p. 50. 
"This investigation was undertaken primarily to provide information 
for the transport of this commodity from West Indian Islands to 
Canada." Methods of refrigeration are included. The study is from 
the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at Trinidad. 
*Wardlaw, Claude W. Tropical fruits and vegetables, an account of their 
storage and transport. Trop . Agr. c Trinidad^ 14(3-12): 70-83, 110-116, 
131-139, 163-170, 200-210, 227-234, 265-274, 288-298, 320-328, 342-350. 
Mar. -Dec. 1937. 26 T754 
The last two installments take up tomatoes, pp. 325-328, 342-348. 
Although this article is very general, and "broad in scope, considera- 
tion is given to the West Indian tomato. General market considerations, 
pre-storage factors and quality, harvesting maturity, packing-shed 
trep.tment, transport by rail, interruption of cold storage, storage and 
ripening temperatures, and types of storage and ripening are considered. 
A bibliography of 64 items is appended, pp. 348-349. 
PUERTO RICO 
Costo de produccion de tomates en Jayuya, Puerto Rico, 1939. El Agricultor 
Puertorriqueno 20(2): 14. Feb. 1940. 8 Ag833 
A brief summary of a report (Mimeographed Report, no. 15) recently 
published by the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of 
Puerto Rico, entitled "Costo de Produccion de Tomates en Jayuya, Puerto 
Rico, 1939." The Report gives the results of a study of the cost of 
■production of tomatoes in the municipality of Jayuya, Puerto Rico, for 
the crop harvested at the beginning of 1939, presenting in detail the 
hours and costs of human and animal labor used in the individual opera- 
tions, and information on production, receipts and profits per cuerda 
of land. There is also an analysis of the factors which influence the 
cost of production per cuerda. 
Figueroa, Carlos A. Nuevo tratado de reciprocidad cubano-anericano de 
1934 y el negocio de exportacion de legumbres de Puerto Rico. El Agri- 
cultor Puertorriqueno 14(ll): -1-8. Nov. 1934. 8 Ag833 
A discussion of the Cuban-American reciprocity treaty of 1934 and 
the Puerto Rico vegetable export trade. A table includes U. S. customs 
duties on tomatoes, and another shows Cuban tomato exports to the 
♦Although these articles do not deal specifically with tomatoes in Puerto 
Rico or Cuba, they have been included because they relate to the West 
Indian product and nothing comparable in scope has been found for 
Puerto Rico or Cuba. 
