FRUIT AND POULTRY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 9

FRUIT AND POULTRY.

QUIET locally: Local merchants advise that the usual quiet) time in fruit and poultry is being, experienced. Poultry is in fair supply, and prices are moderately good and steady. In regard to fruit, there is, of course, little: coming forward. What apples are coming to hand are from the freezing chamber, and the experience is that this year they have not been keeping too well. A fair amount of “flesh collapse”, a kind of softening of the flesh of the apple, has been noticeable, and consequently the fruit has not generally kept well. Sturmers and Delicious , are said to b® most affected. Dealing with the coming season’s supplies,' a local merchant says that'.. advices from the growers in Hawke’s Bay prove that the hailstorms of some weeks ago have caused considerable damage tb stone fruit, as well as other classes. His experience has beep that the large fruits are badly affected l if they have to bear the battering of hail, and even small hailstones mil leave marks on the fruit from which it does not entirely recover. The effect is pretty certain to be reflected in market prices during the coining season.