HEATING OF ORCHARDS
PRECAUTION AGAINST LATE TROSTS. AN EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKING. Heating of orchards to combat any unseasonably late frosts is a departure that is slowly finding favour in New South Wales orchards. The expense of such a system naturally prevents its more general adoption. Mr C. G. Savage, Director of Eruit Culture for New South Wales, recently visited the United States, and while in California he investigated systems of orcl ard heating at Riverside and Sacramento Valley. In California, fruitgrowers found it necessary to heat their orchards from four to six times each season, depending upon the number of late frosts that were experienced. The cost, taken over a number of seasons, worked out at approximately £l2 per acre, using cheap forms of oil. The costs in New South Wales were higher, due to the increased cost of the fuel. Australian fruitgrowers who have adopted heating in their oreharcla conrider that the heavy losses that occur by unseasonable frosts justify such an expenditure.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 82, 18 March 1933, Page 8
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163HEATING OF ORCHARDS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 82, 18 March 1933, Page 8
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