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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 21 February 1913, Page 11

Tha New South Wales Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr Trefle) recently had on _ view in Ms office a case of choice fruit grown on the Yanco Experimental Farm, under irrigation. It consisted of peaches, cooking apples, and eating apples. The peaches were enormous, and it was reported that a case containing four dozen had sold in open market for 10s. The varieties of peaches were Wheatland, Admiral Dewey, and Elberton. They were plucked from trees five years old, and the fruit expert (Mr Allen) reports that the yield to the grower under irrigation conditions should be £IOO per acre. The cooking apples were larger than anything usually offered to the housewife. In fact the average restaurant would only serve one-quarter of an apple per customer if it could obtain such fruit. Half such, a baked apple would be considered a fair thing in any private family. The varieties represented were Cbeston and Santa Clara King. The eating apples were Eibston 'Pippins. They also were considerably above the average.