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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1973)
Page 8 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 16, 1973 THE BATTAlt; Ag Experiment Station Invents New Preferred Tomal The TAMU Saladette, a new tomato line designed to meet changing consumer preferences and to boost Texas’ fresh tomato industry, has been developed by the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station and is being re leased for major commercial plantings. Dr. Jarvis E. Miller, Experi ment Station director, empha sized that research horticulturist Paul Deeper of the Experiment Station at Weslaco has spent eight years developing the new tomato variety. “The new tomato is ideal for salads. And fruit quality and yields produced by the Saladette are better than existing fresh market varieties. The tomato will set fruit under a wider range of temperatures than existing com mercial varieties, enabling grow ers to market fruit a month to six weeks earlier in the fall and a month later in the summer,” Miller explained. The new variety has been favorably received by consumers in pre-market tests, conducted by the station’s marketing econom ics staff, and could serve to make fresh tomato production in South Texas profitable again, Deeper added. Consumers put their stamp of approval on the Saladette during pre-market tests last season, and apparently were pleased with the somewhat smaller than regular hamburger-sized tomatoes which they found to be just as red, flav orful and juicy. Chain store buy ers also heralded the tomato last season, the plant breeder ex plained. A major economic asset of the new variety is that it is the first fresh market tomato that can be machine harvested. Growers also like the small vine and early- maturing characteristics and bulk-handling potential because it fills a slot in the fall market when supplies are limited. Machines already are harvest ing some 90 percent of the na tion’s processing and canning to matoes. Agricultural engineers are working to develop a machine that can harvest fresh tomatoes without bruising them and are confident that this can be done, Deeper said. Although the Saladette is in tended as a fresh market variety, some will be used by the state’s processing industry. “Due to its -small and shallow core, it is well-suited to tomato packers who desire to can chem ically-peeled uncored whole to matoes. These factors plus the fruit setting and yielding city under adverse condition dicate that it could be ij, other tomato producin gat f : the United States and in, foreign countries,” Leepe, phasized. W. R. Cowley, resident j tor for the Experiment St at Weslaco, said that develop of the Saladette marks tls mination of years of si breeding and selection. WE GIVE _ m no WM 1 OWKKKI r LvmMPNftJ □M □M I OMHKK* T P oneersi T 9rrAK4P>9 I 'tmirntm m _ no Try A Little Tenderness. ...these fine meats at PIGGLY WIGGLY! 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