. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. >Sepf. 'J, 190S.] Agricultural Gazette of 1^1 put together with wliiti' lend. Any small cracks can be tilled up with putty, and if the room should be found to leak it can lu- papered inside. Fruit sulpluuvd in a large room rarely ever tastes of the sulplun-, and this is the great advantage of having a good-sized room, even though it takes a little morp sulphur. A room such as this will lidld oOO trays (piite easily, and requires about '1 lb, of sulphur. If the orchardist has only a s
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. >Sepf. 'J, 190S.] Agricultural Gazette of 1^1 put together with wliiti' lend. Any small cracks can be tilled up with putty, and if the room should be found to leak it can lu- papered inside. Fruit sulpluuvd in a large room rarely ever tastes of the sulplun-, and this is the great advantage of having a good-sized room, even though it takes a little morp sulphur. A room such as this will lidld oOO trays (piite easily, and requires about '1 lb, of sulphur. If the orchardist has only a small quantity (if fruit to handle, this could be sulphui'ed by taking a good-sized packing-case capable of holding a dozen trays, paper it inside, and, Ii;iviiig stacked the trays one on top of another,. Drying-tray. place the box over the to[) of the whole. This should l)e placed partly over a hole in the ground, jireNiously dug foi' the purpose, and about 2 feet 6 inches deep, wherein the sulphur is to be liuiiit m a small iion pot. AVhen the sulphur is Hghted, cover the hole closely oti the outside with a pif^ce of iron or board, so that the fumes cannot escape. Drying-Trays. These are made with either three oi- four boards. 1 prefer the three boards, as there are not so many cracks, which is an advantage in curing small fruits such, as sultanjis, cur'rjints, kc. iind thev apj>ear to hold toi;»'ther better than the four-board Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New South Wales. Dept. of Agriculture. Sydney, C. Potter, Govt. Printer [etc. ]
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