ONLY FIRST-CLASS FRUIT WILL MAKE GOOD JAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 5

ONLY FIRST-CLASS FRUIT WILL MAKE GOOD JAM

fruit preserving works make orchards possible Inspection of a modern fruit preserving works gives some idea of the ~reat service that such enterprises are to the fruitgrower. Only by the works taking the enormous quantities of fruit that they do, and converting it into a form which will last all the year round, js fruitgrowing possible. Without the secondary industry of preserving, the primary industry of fruitgrowing would of necessity collapse. Xo commercial orchards, except perhaps those run for export apples, could be carried on by supplying fruit for shops only. The majority of orchardists can keep on solely by reason of the factories which they supply, in conjunction with the open market. Mr. Frank M. Hills, managing director of Thompson and Hills, Ltd., the famous “Oak” jam people, removed a popular misconception when he stated recently that preserve works do not take second grade fruit. “Fruit for us has to be as carefully-, graded as that for the open market,”' he said. “In fact, it generally has to be more strictly graded. We still get an occasional grower who imagines that any old fruit is good enough for the factory. We soon undeceive him, however, and this class of grower is fast learning better, so that we are now rarely troubled in. this way. “Wo found that some growers actually imagined that some kind of miracle took place in the boiling pans where rubbishy fruit was transformed into good jam. We generally demonstrated that whatever went into the pan had to come out in the jam, and rhat nothing but clean, sound fruit could make clean, bright jam.”