FARM & COMMERCIAL.
."BLACK SPOT" IN APPLES •FROM MOTUEKA. Over a hundred cases of apples, many of them well filled with good-sized, well-coloured fruit, and which would have readily sold for 10s. por case, wore condemned by Fruit-Inspector Webb, of the Agricultural Department. The consignment was from Motueka and the fruit was infected with "black spot," said to be .very injurious to the fruit, though it appeared to consist of black spots that hardly penetrated the skin. To the lay observer it seemed V positive wasto of good fruit to see the apple 3 carted off to the destructor, but Mr. Webb stated, when consulted, that "black spot" was easily communicable, and that apples sold at the markets were quickly distributed to all parts of the country, where there were orchards that might become affected.'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2260, 21 September 1914, Page 8
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134FARM & COMMERCIAL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2260, 21 September 1914, Page 8
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