FRUIT DRYING.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1736, 4 May 1895, Page 2

FRUIT DRYING.

(to the Editor.)

Sin,—As more especial attention seems to have been given by my visitors to drying apples by fire heat in the machine, I wish to call your attention to® the possibilities of sun-drying as available to all. Apples cut up by a good parer and spread on trays of galvanized wire netting (£in mesh), and placed on stands well up from the ground to allow of the circulation of air on the under as well as upper surface will dry in 2 blight summer days. If thrown into a pail of water in which a big tablespoonful of salt has been dissolved it will greatly improve their appearance. The great point is to get them well forward before they have to face the night, .and to do all the paring and spreading before noon. Apples put oqt to dry in * the. evening will look very different from those put out early in the morning. Of course machine-dried apples are milch superior to sun-dried at their best; but it will be a good plan for 3 or 4 fruit growers to combine and make a. machine large enough to do $ ton a day, instead of getting small ones like this sent round for exhibition by the Agricultural Department, copy? ing its principles. —I sun, etc., B. Martin Gubb.