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Harvesting canning tomatoes: Reduction of labor requirement per ton pending development of economic mechanized tomato harvesting is subject of study

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John H. MacGillivray, University of California, Davis.
Mike Zahara, University of California, Davis.
L. J. Clemente, University of California, Davis.

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California Agriculture 13(11):12-15.

Published November 01, 1959

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Newest among the several types of equipment developed to study the harvest of canning tomatoes–where hand labor constitutes 88% of the cost–is a wheelbarrow harvester.

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Further details on work simplification methods for vegetable growers are given in Leaflet 57, which may be obtained without cost at the office of the County Farm Advisor or by addressing a request to Agricultural Publications, 207 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4.

Harvesting canning tomatoes: Reduction of labor requirement per ton pending development of economic mechanized tomato harvesting is subject of study

John H. MacGillivray, Mike Zahara, L. J. Clemente
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Harvesting canning tomatoes: Reduction of labor requirement per ton pending development of economic mechanized tomato harvesting is subject of study

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Authors

John H. MacGillivray, University of California, Davis.
Mike Zahara, University of California, Davis.
L. J. Clemente, University of California, Davis.

Publication Information

California Agriculture 13(11):12-15.

Published November 01, 1959

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Author Affiliations show

Abstract

Newest among the several types of equipment developed to study the harvest of canning tomatoes–where hand labor constitutes 88% of the cost–is a wheelbarrow harvester.

Full text

Full text is available in PDF.

Author notes

Further details on work simplification methods for vegetable growers are given in Leaflet 57, which may be obtained without cost at the office of the County Farm Advisor or by addressing a request to Agricultural Publications, 207 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4.


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