This Month's Cover

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 94, Issue 2, 15 February 1957, Page 113

This Month's Cover

Bulk harvesting of apples in the upper Moutere district, Nelson Province, is the subject of this month's cover from a colour photograph by* R. V. Francis Smith. In use is a fork-lift harvester, one of the several variations of bulk handling equipment designed by orchardists themselves for the harvesting of apples and pears. Bulk handling speeds up harvesting and eliminates the lengthy and costly carting of fruit cases to and from the orchard, the unloading and stacking, and the tipping of fruit into the hoppers of the grading machine. All this handling caused bruising of the fruit, which with the bulk method is surprisingly less.

New Zealand Department of Agriculture HEAD OFFICE: Dominion Farmers’ Institute Building, Featherston Street, Wellington DIRECTOR-GENERAL: E. J. Fawcett ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL: R. B. Tennent DIVISIONAL DIRECTORS: Animal Industry . . J. E. Mcllwaine Animal Research . . . . J. F. Filmer Dairy . . . . . . . . . H. A. Foy Extension . . . . P. W. Smallfield Horticulture . . . . A. M. W. Greig Editor: G. J. Neale