POISON ON THE FRUIT.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13342, 6 February 1909, Page 11

POISON ON THE FRUIT.

AN ESHANATION.

In reference to a paragraph appearing in it Northern journal recently to tbe effect that consumers of fruit bad suffered from amenate of lead' ing owing to tbe presence on the fruit, of the spraying mixture used almost universally by orobanMste to destroy hligsit and. noxioue Krlibe, a representative of this journal yesterday mado enquiries from several local ffuit growers. Ono stated that it was highly . improbable that any iujuriou* matcriale ~ tfouWT remain upon fruit for co long :• .after spraying, -The fruit was treated «w coon as it was first "set," and' by < r - tnb time it ripened it would grow to t' thr»e tinvea th* eiae it e»umedf at the ! I tira© of sprayinc; so that oven if it P" were drenched with the solution in th» s first place, the quantity of eolid matf , ter remaining upon the fruit subaeJ l ' nneirtly woul<s bo very small indeed. I* Eiposuro io the weather would dimin- ? jsh the t'ffecte of tho arsenate, and ! much of it would be weshedi oS by |, wine. Tlw quantity used was about i two pounds to 100 gallons of water. i Another «ypert etat«l that late spraying. or spraying two. or times, ■ might conceivably result in slightly Uisssrwable effects to anyone eating each fruit. The digestion -would 1 be upset fwr* little white, but tho quantity ot powan vrms so infina-teoi-ninl that no Tfwy 4fnKerouß weulta could poaeibly *emie. IV w»3 tHe praotico in most BSWS itope to wipe the fruit before expoMßßrt fox sale, end purchasers wore *slS*'** tcXkm ihi» practice ac an •Wtionei precaution.