Bomb Blasts Assist Pollination

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 33, 25 March 1942, Page 2

Bomb Blasts Assist Pollination

I_MJJ.HU XXOCJio w *. —- -- Writing to a friend in Timaru, a resident of Plymouth gratefully acknowledged a gift of butter which arrived in time for Christmas. "But-

ter is scarce," he Avrites, "and is severely rationed, but we do rub along comfortably Avith margarine and other fats. In addition the fruit harvest Avas really bountiful, and has given us adequate supplies of jam. In my own garden at Plymouth there AA r as the best crop of apples for a generation. I attribute it to the rains and continuous blast at the time of .blossom, Avhich did most effectively improve the pollination. I have never seen apples so crowded on boughs."

Household Practice "5t is a very bad practice to keep fresh meat or fish wrapped in paper for any length of time," said Mr A. J. Parker, public analyst, when giving evidence in the Auckland Supreme Court on the' efficacy of an oiled paper for holding such goods i'or 24 hours without absorbing the juices from the meat and fish. "The housewife," said Mr Parker, "knows that fresh meat and fish should not be kept lo.ng in a paper wrapper, and generally turns it out on a dish as soon as possible—probably in half an hour to an hour after purchase." He added that keeping the meat and fish wrapped up for 24 hours was merely a severe laboratory test of the quality of the paper as a wrapper.