. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. rels of apples from the trees in one day. Any suchslam-banging work as that ought to be prohibited inany well regulated orchard. The ordinary pickerwill pick from twelve to twenty barrels a day. Apples should be picked with the stems on andnot torn from the trees. Where the stem is pulledout of the apple, the skin is usually broken and anopportunity for decay given. Some pickers prefer to pick into a sack tied overthe shoulder. The best contrivance, however,
. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. rels of apples from the trees in one day. Any suchslam-banging work as that ought to be prohibited inany well regulated orchard. The ordinary pickerwill pick from twelve to twenty barrels a day. Apples should be picked with the stems on andnot torn from the trees. Where the stem is pulledout of the apple, the skin is usually broken and anopportunity for decay given. Some pickers prefer to pick into a sack tied overthe shoulder. The best contrivance, however, isundoubtedly the swinging-bail half-bushel is made in various styles, usually of oak or elmsplints. These baskets are now used in such largequantities that they can be bought at very reasonableprices. If fine fruit is to be handled with specialcare, it is worth while to have the baskets paddedinside. Each basket should be furnished with a hookmade by bending a strong three-eighths inch wireinto the form of a very crooked S. This can behooked over the limb of the tree so as to leave the 14 FRUIT-GROWER, ST. JOSEPH, Swing-bail Half-bushel Basket picker free to use both hands. When the picking isbeing done in large trees this same hook allows thebasket to be let down to the ground by a strap or PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS 15 rope, where it is emptied by an assistant, thus mak-ing it unnecessary for the picker to climb up anddown the tree for every basketful. Picking is greatly expedited by the use of suitableladders. The best ones are of two forms. The firstform is the step ladder, which should always havethree legs instead of four. These step ladders aremade in large quantities now for this particular kindof work. It is probably cheapest to buy ready-madeladders if any considerable number is wanted. Ofcourse, any handy man can make one or two suchstep ladders if that is more convenient than to buythem. The second type of ladder used in apple pickingis adapted
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