Show GIVES CIVES TO WORLDS WORLD MANY PRODUCTS America En Enriches iches Supply by Furnishing Maize Potatoes and Chocolate TOMATO HAD HOME HERE Culture for Edible Purposes Declared to Have Originated in Peru I I I Excepting scientists there are arc comparatively comparatively comparatively com com- few people In this country who ever stop to think of or how man many Important products that now new minister to o the health sustenance and pleasures of or mankind were added to tho the worlds world's supply by the discovery of ot America A Afew Afew few ew of ot are Incidentally mentioned In n an article on Tho The Tomato In the current number of or tho the Bulletin of ot tho the Pan American Union by Edward Albes who writes writes- The greatest gre o known knon to today to- to day day quinine quinine camo Into existence be because because because be- be cause the incas of Peru had discovered the Jie mc medicinal properties of ot tho the bark barIc of ot th the tho cinchona tree tho the leaves of ot the coca plant a South American product have served to alleviate te pain tho the world over by their essence essence cocaine In Indian Indiancorn Indiancorn lan corn or was unknown to the theold theold theold old world before betor It W Wn was S found to be bethe bethe the th great s food staple of or the Americas Irish n as well welt as sweet potatoes had hed their first home homo In the new world the delicious concoction known n as choco- choco lat late latA serving ser man as ne both lOth food and drink had been known for tor centuries b by the incas of or Peru ru and tho Aztecs Azteca of ot Mexico I exico before tho the Spaniards found it in th's countries and Introduced It Into Europe whoso whose rings of or aromatic smoke now circumscribe tho the earth carth W was nd added cd to mans man's pleasures b bythe by the Indians of or America Many ran other pro products might ht bo be enumerated rated but among them thorn all perhaps none ministers moro more delightfully dells t to the palato palate of f tho the modern epicure than does the t tomato that lucious eg fruit which gratifies tho the o eye oyo o with Its beauty beautor of or color and form torm stills hunger hung with its meat and assuages ea thirst with Its Juice Of Orl Origin n. n Tho The name tomato seems to to- tobe be be- beof of Aztec given as ns b by some Rome authorities and as b by others other and still persists in some somo few tew of or the older Mexican town names such as etc but the general general general gen gen- eral consensus of ot opinion among among- botanists hot oot- seems to be bo th that t the plant and Its culture for tor edible purposes purpose origInated mated In Peru whence it spread to other sections of ot the Americas It Is certain at any rate that It was s a known and cultivated for tOr Its fruit centuries before the Columbian discovery That the cultivated tomato was known to some of tho the European botanists botanists bot bet over o years ago Is evidenced by the fact that two large varieties were vere described by as early rh as 1554 1654 but for tor man many years It was only In southern Europe that the value of oC tho the fruit for uso use In soups and arid as a a. salad was sas recognized It W was S quiro generally used in Spain and Italy durIng during during dur dur- ing the seventeenth century but In England and In northern Europe generally gon- gon crall emily tho the plant was grown s-rown only onh In bo botanical botanical ho- ho gardens AS ns a L curiosity and for ornamental purposes It was W seldom eaten being common commonly re regarded ar ed as ts Unhealthy un un- healthy and even cen poisonous This This- Thisbe belief be be- lief hief probably arose because of or the close resemblance of or the plant to Its allied relative re the nightshade or b belladonna and had of course no foundation In fact tact It was not until the early part of or tho nineteenth century that the to ma mato to came Into general uso use as 33 a a. food In northern Europe and oven in itt the United States Since about 1835 1335 however however how how- I ever cr the uso use and d cultivation of ot the vegetable has hns grown to such an extent that it has now become one ono of or the most moat Important of ot our garden arden crops Output Cases Cane When a a. successful process of ot canning canning can can- ning tho fruit was vas evolved the tomato Industry at once assumed large It was found foun that for tor all cookIng cookIng cookIng cook- cook Ing purposes the canned fruit was as asgood asgood asgood good as aa that fresh from the vine Ino and andas andas as a result the tomato has become a staple food tho year ear round and millions mil mU- lions of oC dollars are lre now Invested In in canning factories In the United States whoso whose chief output consists of or toma toma- toes From statistics compiled complied h by the National Canners Canners' association for tor or tho the year rear 1914 It Is learned that amon among the tomato producing states Maryland ranked first with a n. production of ot 5 cases of or canned tomatoes Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- ware second with cases Indiana Indi ann ana third with 19 Tho total production production pro pro- for the whole country amounted amount amount- ed to cases case of ot tomatoes and about cases of tomato pulp used In making catsup sauces soups etc Tho The total was therefore over tr 20 O.- O. cases ses of ot twenty four two-pound two cans each ench or an output t of or cans weighing weighing- tons and having an approximate value of If It cans ans were placed one on top of ot the other the resulting column would ho bo vory nearly miles hl high h. h or If It placed end to end In a a. row ro would en encircle encircle encircle en- en circle the earth one an and a half haIr times at nt the equator quator These figures ures deal only with the canned product of factories keeping accurate statistics When It Is remembered that perhaps twice twice- aa as many moro more are eaten raw and canned by the thrifty housewives and girls girls' canning club clubs some Bome idea may mav be obtained oh- oh tamed of or tho the importance In national econom economy of the garden tomato |