NELSON FRUIT CROP
DECREASE ANTICIPATED It is fairly definite that the fruit crops in the Motueka area will be down 75,€09 to 80,000 cases this year, according to Mr. 6. Stratford, of the .Department of Agriculture. The falling-off will be mainly in the early and late varieties; midsummer fruit will be about the same as last, year, with Jonathans, on the whole, heavier. Cox’s Orange I’inpin and Stunners are the chief defaulters among the early and late varieties.
Tho cause is hard to explain, but in all probability one of the chief reasons is the very ilry weather experienced during) the spring and summer of 1931, when the trees hud not the vitality to
nrodu e a good crop and mature their buds for this season.
The strawberry season is in full swing. Crops are not as good as anticipated owing to a disease spreading rapidly throughout many gardens.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 6
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149NELSON FRUIT CROP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 6
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