BITTER PIT IN FRUIT
\ SCIENTIST'S RESEARCH
CAUSE STILL IN DOUBT
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(Received .January 7, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, January 7.
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has issued the report of Dr. Smith, of Cambridge research station, on bitter pit. in which he discuses various theories advanced to explain the cause. Ho points out that in no case has direct experimental verification been obtained. Most of the theories are open to grave objection on theoretical grounds, but the published data yielded two fairly definite results; thai, firstly, .severe pruning, and, seeondlv, heavy irrigation towards the end of the season, are circumstances predisposing fruit to bitter pit.
The commercial importance of the problem lies largely in the development of bitter pit during the carriage of fruit overseas. Dr. Smith tentatively suggests that a way out of the dilemma appears to lie in more rapid refrigeration, particularly cooling, before shipment. This would probably allow the fruit to be left longer on the tree and still arrive in Kngland l without being overripe, and with the appearance and and, in some cases, even the size considerablv enhanced.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 7 January 1927, Page 7
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