Testing Ripeness
Fruit which is to be exported to a far-off country has always to be picked long before it is ripe, as it goes on ripening during the voyage (observes the Children’s Newspaper). . Fruit farmers have up to now just pressed on the fruit with the thumb, and experience has told them when it is ready for * picking. But soon the testing of fruit will be much more accurate, for a new instrument has been designed (by the TT.-S. Department of, Agriculture) which registers on a dial the exact firmness of an apple or other fruit. A plunger is pressed against the flesh of the fruit, and the pressure it will withstand is shown by a- pointer *on the dial. An enormous number of tests have been made 'with these instruments, from which tables have been compiled to help the farmer to pick his fruit in the best possible 'condition for export.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 11
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153Testing Ripeness Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 11
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