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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 5 (Supplement)

It is now passible to buy 8 pound of tomatoes in a paper bag made from tomato skin and cat thim by the light of a lamp burning tomato oil. Hitherto thero has been much waste in the conversion of tomatoes into catsup, paste, and soup. The seeds and skins have been thrown away, but now, after much research in factories at Naples and Parma, the byproducts are almost as valuable as the fruit itself. In this new process the residue of seeds and skins is dried in the sun. Then the seeds are crushed in a hydraulic press, when they yield a limpid orangeyellow oil, which, despite its strong odour of tomatoes, gives an odourless, bright flame when burnt in a lamp. By another process the skins of .tomatoes'can be so treated as to make a tough quality of wrapping paper.