Sentence:  ...so we shall justify the argument of Mr. Dooley, who said, in reviewing "The Jungle," that he could not see how it was any less a crime to cut off a young tomato in its prime, or to murder a whole <WSD>cradleful</WSD> of baby peas in the pod! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A quantity of something that is newly born or created.