----------------------------------------------------------- | | _Per cent_ | | _of total_ Growing costs: | | Land | $ 7.66 | 9.17 Manure | 3.91 | 4.68 Commercial fertilizer | 8.21 | 9.83 Plants | 15.55 | 18.62 Plowing | 3.42 | 4.10 Fitting | 3.83 | 4.59 Applying fertilizer | 1.65 | 1.98 Setting | 5.41 | 6.48 Cultivating | 6.38 | 7.64 All other growing costs | 2.14 | 2.56 |--------------------- Total growing costs per acre | $58.16 | 69.65 Harvesting and delivering (8.2 tons) | 25.34 | 30.35 |--------------------- Total costs | $83.50 |100.00 ----------------------------------------------------------- All too often, growers think they are counting costs when such important items as interest, use of truck and machinery or others are omitted. One sometimes sees such figures in print. One good way to view returns is in terms of cents per hour for labor. Cost accounts in New York have showed that a group of farmers who raised cannery tomatoes the nine years up to 1937 and whose records were studied, realized $0.34 per hour for their time given to tomatoes, $0.51 for potatoes, $0.24 for wheat, and $0.11 for oats. SELECTED REFERENCES This book is not a monograph in the scientific sense and no attempt has been made to cite references for all statements. This list is intended to include the publications that are likely to prove most useful to one who wishes to read further about tomatoes. There are many others of great value, most of them being included in bibliographies in the works cited below. Unless otherwise stated, references are to publications of the state experiment stations, addresses of which may be obtained by writing Office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. General Beattie, W. R. Tomatoes as a truck crop. U.S. Dept. of Agr. Farmers Bul. 1338. 1923. Snyder, G. B. and Dempsey, P. W. Tomato production in Massachusetts. Mass. Ext. Leaf. 51. May, 1937. Porter, D. R. and MacGillivray, John H. The production of tomatoes in California. Calif. Exp. Sta. Cir. 104. 1937. Cochran, H. L. Improved methods of tomato production in Georgia. Ga. Exp. Sta. Bul. 206. 1940. Huelsen, W. A. Growing tomatoes in Illinois. Ill. Exp. Sta. Cir. 451. 1936. Balch, W. B. Growing tomatoes in Kansas. Kan. Exp. Sta. Cir. 172. 1933.