Excerpt from Salvaging of Unripe Processing Tomatoes Harvested by Machine About acres of processing tomatoes were harvested in California in 1967. About 85 percent of this acreage was harvested by machine. Although machine harvesting of tomatoes is less common in the Eastern United States than in the West, undoubtedly the prao tice will increase in all parts of the country in the next few years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.