ORCHARDS AND FROST
CRUDE OIL BURNERS (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Aib Mail) LONDON, October 5. Speaking at a conference of fruitgrowers at East Mailing, Kent, Mr Harrington, an amateur fruitgrower at Bedford, described his experiments to protect his orchard from frost by the use of crude oil heaters. The heaters are tin canisters which are filled with crude oil and lit when an automatic device sounds the alarm as soon as the orchard temperature falls. Mr Harrington said he had divided his small orchard into three parts. One he left unheatcd: one he heated with 20 heaters to the acre, and the third with 50 heaters to the acre. On the unheated plot he lost the entire crop; on the second he obtained a poor crop; but the 50 heaters per acre plot had yielded so much fruit that he had been'compelled to thin severely in June, and now had a crop that was breaking the branches.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 12
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