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Updated: June 19, 2025

I have given the price a bushel, though canning tomatoes are usually sold by the ton. The cost of the product of a well-equipped cannery is divided about as follows: fruit, 30 per cent.; handling, preparing and processing the fruit, 18 per cent.; cost of cans, labels, cases, etc., 43 per cent.; labeling, packing and selling, 0.035 per cent.; incidentals, 0.055 per cent.

W. W. (William Warner) Tracy - Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato

The deficiencies charged upon this prolonged term amounted to £5,160,459: 14: 9½. In 1701, those duties, with some others, were still further prolonged, for the like purposes, till the first of August 1710, and were called the second general mortgage or fund. The deficiencies charged upon it amounted to £2,055,999: 7: 11½.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations