. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Bruised Fruit No Stem Punctures "4 W" Picking Bucket APPLIED FOR A heavy galvanized-iron picking bucket with bottom of strong canvas, reinforced at wearing points with chrome leather. Bucket is shaped to fit close to the body. Sus- pender-style harness distributes load equally on both shoulders and back. Top edge of bucket lower in front by one inch; and is padded with felt, covered with twill webbing sewed to bucket with soft brass wire. Felt pad at back stops bruising in picking operation. Canvas bot- toms are fastened to bucket by patented r
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Bruised Fruit No Stem Punctures "4 W" Picking Bucket APPLIED FOR A heavy galvanized-iron picking bucket with bottom of strong canvas, reinforced at wearing points with chrome leather. Bucket is shaped to fit close to the body. Sus- pender-style harness distributes load equally on both shoulders and back. Top edge of bucket lower in front by one inch; and is padded with felt, covered with twill webbing sewed to bucket with soft brass wire. Felt pad at back stops bruising in picking operation. Canvas bot- toms are fastened to bucket by patented ring which per- mits instant removal if ever necessary. Hundreds of these buckets will go through two full seasons without changing the original canvas. New bottoms are always available and inexpensive. Fruit is dumped from bucket through canvas bottom—both hands of picker guiding placement and assuring no damage to the finest fruit. Every "4 W" Picking Bucket Sold During the 1921 Season Paid for Itself many Times Over by Eliminating Loss from Bruised and Stem-punctured Apples. Earned $25 to $50 Each Wenatchee, Wash., Oct. 22, 1921 WELLS & WADE, Wenatchee, Washington, Gentlemen: During the 1921 fruit season we pur- chased and used approximately two hundred fifty of your '*4W" Picking Buckets. The bucket has proven a big success in our orchards, practically e\\m-^~ ina'ting stem punctures from our fruit, v*' It would be very hard to induce this organization to go back to the old sys- tem of picking with canvas bags. It is impossible to estimate the sav- ing made by the use of the Wells & Wade Bucket—but I am confident that in our orchards we have been able to market several thousand more boxes of apples because of having used the buckets, than we would have marketed if we had used canvas picking bags. Very truly yours, AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC. (Signed) By Earl Barnhill, Regional Supervisor. SEND. Please note that these images are extracted from scan
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