OUR APPLES.
Apples breathe, even after they’re picked, taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide, just like a man. So a ship’s hold, laden with a cargo of apples, could, unless it were skilfully ventilated, be unhealthy quarters for the fruit Yet New Zealand sends England every year cargoes of juicy fresh apples. Why do they reach us healthy after their journey?' Because science has turned out the sun for them. They have been kept at a steady temperature, a degress or so above freezing point. Experts in “low temperature research” are making conditions even better for travelling fruit. They have built, with a grant: from the Empire Marketing Board, a mode] ship’s bold in the heart of a Kentish i. -chard, out of sight of the sea, wl ere they will be able to ’(vprk on these problems affecting everyone who eats fruit.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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145OUR APPLES. Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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