Whitewashing Agriculture.(Agricultural Research Service, kaolin protects fruit trees)(Brief Article)
From: Agricultural Research
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Date: 11/1/2000
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Author: McBride, Judy
Last year, Michael Glenn held the Big Apple in the palm of his hand ... and he was far from New York City. In the orchards of ARS' Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia, the severe drought of 1999 revealed another advantage of covering apple and pear trees with a white, reflective film of specially processed kaolin, a type of clay. Empire apples harvested from treated trees were an average of 17 percent larger than fruit from trees left naked to withstand ...
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