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...Texas the corn crop was estimated at less than one-fourth of normal. Carloads of cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
Sugar. Since Hawaii's chief industry is agriculture, since her No. 1 agriculture product is sugar and her No. 2 product is pineapples, since her chief manufacturing industries are processing sugar and canning pineapples, there is no doubt about who rules the territory, regardless of who happens to be holding forth in Iolani Palace. Most of these economic rulers, traditionally Republican, view the New Deal of their distinguished Democratic visitor with considerable apprehension, if not downright alarm...
...cases of whole tomatoes, paste, pulp, sauce and juice were produced in U. S. canneries, to say nothing of the countless millions of fresh tomatoes which grocers sold each day. Canning alone was a $33,000,000 industry. As a tomato State Texas is surpassed by 20 others (biggest canners: Maryland, Indiana,California...
More newsworthy than the canning of whole tomatoes, which was a full grown industry by 1911, is tomato juice and the tomato cocktail which, in five short years, has tickled the nation's palate and pocketbook with ever mounting success. Before 1928 tomato juice was used chiefly for invalids and babies who needed its vitamins. Packers did not produce enough to warrant keeping separate figures. The first recorded figure was 165,251 cases in 1929. In 1930 production soared to 1,316.299 cases. Last year as tomato juice took its place on nearly every restaurant menu in the land...
...credit for converting what might have been a fad into a permanent national drink. It helped keep inferior grades off the market by demonstrating, even before 1929, that tomato juice must come only from the best tomatoes, could not be considered a mere byproduct. Today tomato juice canning is a highly specialized six-week business, running from August to October. Tomatoes are brought to the factory the day they are picked on the farm, usually no more than 75 miles away. The juice is forced under mechanical pressure through a fine screen to form a smooth liquid. The brew...