SWORD TO PLOUGHSHARE
SMOKE-SCREEN WILL SAVE ORCHARDS USE IN JAPAN The smoke screen, used with so much effect during the last war by all armies, is being put into service in Japan against an old and treacherous enemy—Jack Frost. Having suffered huge losses every year when the cold descends upon the tender mulberry leaves which feed the silkworms, the industry has perfected a method of protecting the crops with clouds of smoke. The smoke, a heavy but lion-poisonous variety, is spread over the trees in the danger season, and hangs about them like a warm cloak. Recent experiments indicate that next autumn the mulberry leaves will be even more fully protected from the ruinous frost than were some of the armies from enemy eyes during the war.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 28
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127SWORD TO PLOUGHSHARE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 28
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