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We had a pleasant lunch in Tel-Aviv - & then went on
to visit the settlement, which was a place called Gan
[ ? mowel ?], just north of Hadera, & about half way to
Haifa. This a communal settlement & therefore on the same
system as [ ? ? ?], which I described to you
long ago. We were welcomed by a man called Rudi,
who is a great friend of Burstein's, & who was an officer
in the Austrian army in the last war, was captured by
the Russians, & escaped to Palestine & stayed here: &
by the Mukhtar, who was a v. pleasant man & suited the
whole time but could not speak English. We had a
good look round & it really was interesting. Trees & fruits,
of orange, lemon, grape fruit, lime, pear, apple, plum &
many vines, & many tropical trees in an experimental
stage. I learned for the first time, that a big, old
orange tree, say 40 years old, produces 10,000 oranges,
& they are all on the one tree as the one time.
It is amazing really - & that is on a tree of about 20 ft
high, & the same spread. These people have been very
clever & farsighted on account of the war, & I will tell you
why as I go along. About oranges - obviously, their market
has shrunk to far below what is necessary to absorb
their output. So, for export, they now take the juice
from the orange, evaporate it under a pressure of
75 lbs to the square inch, where boiling point is reached
at 50 degrees centigrade, instead of 100 degrees at atmospheric pressure,
by this low temperature evaporation, the vitamins are
preserved intact. The concentration is seven [ ?], &
the juice is shipped in barrels as a jelly almost. Much
of it is going to England, & this is the first year they
have done it. I made careful enquiries about this,
thinking of you & Maxie. There is nothing at all

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