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-which ‘saki’ ov Japanese ‘rice beer’ has 
The tubs are 
hermetically sealed, and the fruit left in 
them from eight to ten days. When it is 
then removed, it is found to have -alto- 
‘been lately removed. 
gether lost the unpleasant quality which, 
one’s mouth into a pucker with tie first’ 
bite. 
hand like an apple. 
The fruit may be e:ten from the 
fumes of the saki coming from the wood 
eftects the change. For this purpose saki 
tubs of the regular Japanese. make are 
used. The. process. is widely used. in 
Japan, where the persimmon is a very 
valuable product. Some interest was 
taken in it by the Department of Agri- 
‘culture of the United States, but Mr 
Roeding is conducting or has just brought 
to a successful close the first experiments 
-of the kind in this country. 
Mr. Roeding says that the process is’ 
thoroughly practical on the farm. He 
used in his last work eight large saki 
tubs, 
gallons, and in these treated 1,000 Ib. of 
persimmons. 
the persimmons to the great consuming 
markets in good condition. its 
Fruit and Plant Pests in South 
Australia. 
In the-course of an “interview on his 
return from the Conference of Ministers. 
of Agriculture in Melbourne, the Minister 
of Agrictilture (Hon. E. H. Coombe) made , 
the: following 
press: — 
fruit and plant diseases in the Common- 
wealth I could not help feeling that South 
Australia enjoys an enviable position in 
its freedom from some. cf the worst 
pests. We have escaped such troubles as 
the fruit fly, phylloxera, pear and cherry 
slug;and San Jose scale. This speaks 
volumes for the carefulness of Mr. Quinn: 
and his staff in examining 
ments, It is some’ 
statement. to’ the~ daily 
satisfaction to 
know, too, that. our comparatively dry 
climate is less likely to favor the retention 
of the Irish blight than that of the other 
States ;. but we must .keep in line with 
It seems that the 
each of which would hold 25° 
Thus a wide field will be° 
opened ‘up for this new form of industry’ 
by the possibilities now held out of getting’ 
‘In-discussing the prevalence of | 
consign- © 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
October 1 190% 
——— 
their restrictive policy, otherwise we are 
blocked in their markets. 
fact [ was not proud of, and that was that 
codlin moth is worse in South Australia 
than in the orchards of any of our neigh- 
There was one 
bors, and that this is the only State in 
which moth-infested apples are allowed to 
be sold! I cannot help thinking that a 
great mistake was made a few years ago 
when the ‘restriction on the sale of motb- 
This is a 
Associa- 
infested fruit was removed. 
matter which the Fruitgrowers’ 
tion should take up. and a request from 
them to revert to the former condition of 
things would receive warm sympathy from 
me’ 
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Currie Street, 
ADELAIDE. 
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Interesting Orchard Notes. 
The strawberry growers in England 
have been having a bad time, owing to the 
excessively wet spring. 
* * * * * BS 
Mr. Rose, of Fairview, Renmark, 18 
reported to have sold a shipment of navel 
orauges at £1 per case, to arrive in 
London. 
4 ah * * * * 
Hatch’s Nonpareil, Californian Paper: 
shell, and Brandis Jordan are three of the 
best varieties of almond growing in South 
Australia. 
* * * * * * 
Mr Bruce Pusur, late president of the 
Fruitgrowers’ Association of New South 
Wales, and a close observer of fruit pests 
and diseases, says that the Irish blight 
found in potatoes is identical with bitter 
pit in apples, black spot’ grapes, and | 
tomato rot, In so:ne purts of the county 
of Cumberland, he declares, potato blight 
has existed ina mild form for several 
seasons. 
* * * * * * 
The practice of carting stable manure 
in fruit and vegetable vehicles has beet 
The Public 
Heulth department of. Victoria has had 
under consideration the advisability of 
framing a regulation dealixg with it, and 
condemned as insanitary. 
meantime. muncipal councils will have 
: their.attention-drawn to the practice, and 
be recommended to at least see. that such 
carts are thoroughly. cleansed. - 
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Mr. A Duthoit, who is interested in the 
Commonwealth fruit industry, recently 
returned to Melbourne. 
that the average price obtained for Aus- 
tralian-apples'in England this year has 
been 9a. 6d. per case.. The total export 
was about 100,000 cases less than the 
quantity forwarded last year, 
America sent far less a quantity of apples 
to the: English market this year, as com- 
pared with. 1905; He expects 
considerable extension of the 
sumption of Australian apples and pears 
in Germany. 
He estimates — 
_ He says | 
. that. the -disease known as bitter pit 
militated greatly. against good prices. 
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