. The American apple orchard; a sketch of the practice of apple growing in North America at the beginning of the twentieth century. Apples. 152 THE AMERICAN APPLE ORCHARD means the best way of putting- up commercial apples is to pick by hand from the trees. There is something of a knack in picking apples, but unfortunately expert apple pickers are not often to be hired. The fruit-grower is usually obliged to put up with ordinary day labor and to make up H the careful- ness of his own supervision the lack of experience on the part of the pickers. Apple pickers usually get the prevailing day wag
. The American apple orchard; a sketch of the practice of apple growing in North America at the beginning of the twentieth century. Apples. 152 THE AMERICAN APPLE ORCHARD means the best way of putting- up commercial apples is to pick by hand from the trees. There is something of a knack in picking apples, but unfortunately expert apple pickers are not often to be hired. The fruit-grower is usually obliged to put up with ordinary day labor and to make up H the careful- ness of his own supervision the lack of experience on the part of the pickers. Apple pickers usually get the prevailing day wages; that is, from $i to $ a day. Apples are sometimes picked by the bushel or barrel, but this practice is not common and is not to be recommended. When it is indulged in, the price paid is from 8 to 15 cents a barrel. The writer has recently been told, on pretty good authority, of a picker who picked 100 barrels of apples from the trees in one day. Any such slam-banging work as that ought to be prohibited in any well-regulated orchard. The ordinary picker will pick from 12 to 20 barrels a day. Apples should be picked with the stems on and not torn from the trees. Where the stem is pulled out of the apple, the skin is usually broken and an opportu- nity for decay given. Some pickers prefer to pick into a sack tied over the shoulder. The best contrivance, however, is undoubt- edly the swinging-bail half-bushel basket. This is. PICKING BASKET. 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 Waugh, F. A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York : Orange Judd company
Size: 1458px × 1714px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorwaughfafrankalbert186, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
