. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 14 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING use a big ladder that two people will have to move. The top end or point should be drawn together so as to enable it to be pushed up through the limbs or the branches. A square top on the ladder is always catch- ing on the limbs and knocking off the fruit. The rungs are made as large as possible, because it is tiresome work for a picker to stand all day on small pins, and the more one can contribute to the comfort of the picker, the be
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 14 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING use a big ladder that two people will have to move. The top end or point should be drawn together so as to enable it to be pushed up through the limbs or the branches. A square top on the ladder is always catch- ing on the limbs and knocking off the fruit. The rungs are made as large as possible, because it is tiresome work for a picker to stand all day on small pins, and the more one can contribute to the comfort of the picker, the better work he will do. Disposition of the Fruit. — It has been cus- tomary among the growers of the Northern and Eastern states to put the apples on the ground in piles, protected from the soil by a little straw. These have been allowed to remain in the pile for several weeks, and frequently have been graded and packed in barrels direct from these piles. The argument in favor of this method was that the fruit which had started to decay would be discovered when it was regraded and could be thrown out. This, however, no longer applies, because if. Fig. 9.—A CONVENIENT HOME-MADE PICK- ING LADDER FOR LOW-HEADED TREES. 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 Brown, Bliss S. , 1880-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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