PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural Experiment Station
Circular No. 59 LaFayette, Ind., March, 1917
THE TOMATO AS A FARM CROP FOR THE CANNING FACTORY
Prepared under the direction of C. G. Woodbury by H. J. Reed
It is the purpose of this circular to discuss the growing of tomatoes as a farm crop for the canning factory. Much of the information contained herein is based on investigations which already have been reported in Bulletins Nos.1 144, 165 and 171 of the Station. The demand for these bulletins on the part of canners and farmers interested in tomatoes has been so great, however, that the supply is exhausted. The information contained in these publications has been supplemented by further field studies and is here presented in brief form, with the hope that it may be of practical helpfulness to the large number of canning factory managers and tomato growers who are seeking advice and information on the growing of tomatoes at this time. Since the crop is grown on so many different types of soil in this state, the cultural directions are necessarily general.
Special acknowledgment is due the Departments of Botany and Entomology respectively for the paragraphs on diseases and insects of the tomato.
The growing of tomatoes for the canning factory is an industry that is rapidly increasing in importance in Indiana.
The crop can be grown to advantage on the general farm and it fits into the general rotation very conveniently. These reasons doubtless account for the rapidly increasing attention accorded the
1 Bulletins Nos. 144, 165, and 171 were prepared by C. G. Woodbury and J. G. Boyle