. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. JZft*<$&L BULLETIN No. 859 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief Washington, D. C. September 7, 1920 THE PROCESS OF RIPENING IN THE TOMATO, CON- SIDERED ESPECIALLY FROM THE COMMERCIAL By Charles E. Sando, formerly Junior Chemist, Horticultural and Pomological Investigations. CONTENTS. Shipments of early tomatoes to northern markets 1 Growing and handling tomatoes in the 3 Packing and shipping operations 4 Previous chemica
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. JZft*<$&L BULLETIN No. 859 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief Washington, D. C. September 7, 1920 THE PROCESS OF RIPENING IN THE TOMATO, CON- SIDERED ESPECIALLY FROM THE COMMERCIAL By Charles E. Sando, formerly Junior Chemist, Horticultural and Pomological Investigations. CONTENTS. Shipments of early tomatoes to northern markets 1 Growing and handling tomatoes in the 3 Packing and shipping operations 4 Previous chemical investigations of the tomato 7 Experimental material 13 Methods of analysis 15 Analytical data concerning progressive changes in composition during 17 Comparison of the composition of commer- cially picked tomatoes with turning and vine-ripened fruit .' 21 Effect of lack of ventilation on ripening 24 Summary and conclusions 30 Literature cited 32 Appendix.—Comparison of the composition of "puffy" and normal Livingston Globe tomatoes 37 SHIPMENTS OF EARLY TOMATOES TO NORTHERN MARKETS. The shipping of tomatoes grown in Florida to northern markets during the winter and spring months is an exceedingly important industry. In Table I are presented statistics prepared by the Bureau of Crop Estimates and the Bureau of Markets of the United States Department of Agriculture, showing the production and car-lot shipments of the seven States where the early-tomato crop is chiefly grown. From the figures shown in Table I it can be seen that Florida ships annually more than half of the total quantity of early tomatoes forwarded from the seven States specified. Statistics show that 1 This bulletin gives the results of a portion of the work carried on under the project "Factors affecting the storage life of vegetables". The paper was completed after the writer was transferred to the Office of Drug-Plant, Poisonous-Plant, Physiological, and Fermentation Investi
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