COOL-STORED APPLES
New Treatment For Scald Disease (N.Z Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 6. Annual losses through damage to cool-stored apples will be heavily cut by a new treatment being used in New Zealand for the disease known as scald. People have been eating apples preserved by the new treatment for some weeks. Details were made known about it for the first time yesterday. Superficial scald is a common skin trouble in coolstored apples. The cause of the disease is not known. Treatment with a chemical was begun in April and th» apples to which this was applied were released for sal? last week. Tests of treated apples showed severe scald in 2 or 3 per cent, and slight scald in 15 per cent. In untreated apples the figures were 83 per cent, severe and 16 per cent, slight Rayburn Hl.— The Speaker in the United States House of Representatives (Mr Sam Rayburn) was said by an aide to be suffering from an incurable cancer.-—Washing-ton, October 6.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 2
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