. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 13 ally there are wire claws â which are supposed to pull off the fruit. Some of them have long tube-like sacks made of cloth through which the fruit can roll down and be caught in a receptacle at the lower end. On a commercial basis none of these fruit-picking tools have ever proved successful. They are good for sampling or for picking specimen fruit for shows, etc., but are alto- gether too slow for commercial work. Ladders. â Ther
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 13 ally there are wire claws â which are supposed to pull off the fruit. Some of them have long tube-like sacks made of cloth through which the fruit can roll down and be caught in a receptacle at the lower end. On a commercial basis none of these fruit-picking tools have ever proved successful. They are good for sampling or for picking specimen fruit for shows, etc., but are alto- gether too slow for commercial work. Ladders. â There are but two kinds of ladders commercial- ly used iu an orch- ard. One, the com- mon step- ladder (Fig. 7 i.),the other the long or rung- ladder (Fig. 7 a.). The step-ladders are about 8 or 10 feet high, and have only three legs. The third leg is reinforced at the top by braces and comes to a point on the ground. This is necessary because of the general unevenness of the orchard land. The three- legged ladder can always maintain an even position while it is usually difficult to properly set a four-legged ladder. The rung or long ladders are made of light material and always small enough so that one man can handle them alone. It is a waste of time to. Fig. 8.âA CONVERTIBLE STEP-LADDER. 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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