TOBACCO PLANTS
: EXPORT TO AUSTRALIA
,;' Some 25,000 tobacco seedling plants are being grown near Auckland this season for export to Victoria, and Mr. W. B. McDonald, that State's assistant, tobacco expert, has come over here to arrange about lifting the plants and packing them for their voyage across the Tasman. The Victorian Director of Agriculture, Mr. Mullett, has explained that this is purely-an experiment that was being carried out at the suggestion of the tobacco growers, and was part o£ the campaign to try to- overcome blue mould, which had caused ,heavy losses Ito growers.- In the ordinai-y course of j events tobacco plants, while hardy, would live for about five days. It was necessary, therefore, to make special picking arid packing arrangements to i ensure that the New Zealand seedlings arrived in the best condition. About a dozen different methods of packing would be tried out as an experiment. From the time the plants were picked in New Zealand until they were planted in Victoria would be about a week. The cost of obtaining plants from New Zealand was not an obstacle if they resisted the blue mould, as was hoped. l
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 21
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193TOBACCO PLANTS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 21
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