SAVING FRUIT FROM FROSTS
American Methods to be Studied
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April It).
Gradually changing seasons and frost are causing so much damage to fruit and loss to growers that the Government has instructed Mr. W. R. Lloyd Williams, orchard instructor in Central Otago, to leave by the Aorangi for the western -States of America to investigate anti-frost systems there. Fire-pots, known in America as ’’smudges,” are employed in a few New Zealand fruitgrowing areas, but Mr. Williams seeks an alternative method and hopes to be able to introduce it before next spring. In America, said Mr. Williams, the use of firepots is part of orchard practice. He anticipates that the universal adoption of some protective system in New Zealand would save the country much loss from frost-bitten fruit.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 10
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