Show PICKING AND PACI PACKING APPLES Not a Little Is Lost in Improperly Preparing the Apple Crop for the Market I IY Er n It n RUS The best I ever tried Is pickIng into Inlo baskets These baskets should be e h H bu ld round baskets with drop The basKets should IJ lie on tIde tho InAl Is free from strips aroun around tho oi 01 bottom bollom They should bo lined with burlap to bruisinG and a short Iron hook be i to lo the to tIm the from rom thc limbs so Its ag to lo enable the thc picker to u uso both Ilia The great cat advantage In Iii the tho thoI basket I Hn find largely In ill the tho fact fuet I that J If the apples are carefully placed place In the tho same th are an not bruised The TIte worst objections I have to tIe me ale that th they aTI not nol so NO handy I II I 38 the tho suck sucic and that care careless I les less pickers erl arc dIsposed to toss tOMS up ap I pies Into them ms as thc they et upon the ground or 01 hung upon a Linb a few feet awo away My 1 lonce Is that apples I rout the table and Immediately placed d 4 In cold storage it the they are arc to be put I Into cold storage will give glo by far the I III better bettel results I II Tills method ad adds s two to 10 four I f months month to tIm tho keepInG qualItIes or of tue tho I You rou cannot afford to let your OUI fruit flUH lie under to the tr trees s oi 01 in a l bull or two or three weeks r YOU OU barrel Every days s delay el In P packIng anti and andI shipping will cost you ou money and quIll II It In fruIt and if IC iou ou are nol hot the thelo I I lo hoer el tile tho party parl who buys bUs it IL Is Fruit grown In a warm latitude or harvested durIng a warm September or October must lie he quIckly handled But when properly handled at picking time timea a I have hae Sll suggested th there rc will not bo be much room for A good barrel batrel Is essential If you ou wIsh to store storo your our fruit have It keep vell I and sell ell Vo Ve suffer rom from lack of good cooperage I A barrel I is the best and tho better belter IL Is made the better beller results you wIll have There will be less loss shrinkage of fruit from Crom rats and mice 1 nod ld other othe causes In Iii my orchard J I havo hao eight and six sorters and In ench gang A Rood good strong table tuble eon construct constructed ed cd 0 of light stron strong material Is pro IHO provided vided I ed This table Is set In tim tho center or of sIx sIxteen teen trees sometimes it C tho thic fruit Is ond the trees lire aro very south the table in hI set In the center of twenty four foul or trees Four or sic I rowe are aro forward at olice and the thO table Is along the Collier center rows and set In the middle or of the square at cach move moe moer r i usually have havo ono one man that nulls iiII the tho hoops the thc hea head liners anti and takee out tho heads of barrels as It h In and lit III t the e i and Inspection of fruit mi t iii stol C If yo You have hac good fruit anti It Is wOIth mone In the to Lo arrant you In so iO doln doing you should make mako two bl grades des one a strictly No 1 or 01 fancy sr grade le and which take fruIt that h I slightly but good or 01 immediate Ul use termed No 2 In the market Usually It will PU pay as well 0 or better betterto to lo nell noll this No 2 fru l to the he or the elder mill instead of put It In expensive en Ie and to this add the cost of freight und anti getting no and not il as ch us as you would have realized d In bulk bu I k Another r a age In to the cl cider CI mill or 01 evaporator Is it that you OU tRite take it oUt of lie tho marlot o of green reen fruits and transfer It Into another of drIed 1 fruit where It does docs nol lint come Into competitIon with your our good green reen fruit Thee the tho barrels with good od cOlored or of cen sIze pu hut t lii In a abat bat basketful of another ot of similar fruit on In top of the racers then till III I your you barrel with 81 apples tree free blemIsh 01 holes or of a JIe not lint than two and Inches In dinni for Ben DavIs Duls and or two and for tOI Settle the fruIt In the he barrel n as each ench Is emptied in b 13 slinking the tue barrel This Is very er as your fruit will viII he e tight in III thc barrel anti requIre less pressing ln of oC the head md and conso conse less bruisIng of the fruit WhIm hen No o 2 fruit ItS is hacked it be f ce with No iu 2 fruit lifter the Js Is full ull md and thic fruIt well wehl shaken 11 dowil adjust th apples on top so hint the they are arc as nearly level as H will insure equal pressure throughout the barrel will wIl I prevent your oUt fruit being bruised unequally and will I present a 0 better helleI appearance on being beinS opened and the fruit will hUe Ies slack as a result of a Cow ow months In III cold storage or stamp nume of oC tile the apple appleon on the tho fact face end of tim the barrel No N I 1 fruit should also be stamped wIth your own name On your OUI No 2 fruIt leave lello your name oil but the name or of orthe the apple Whon lion shIpping to a house the they will furnish you ou a numbered stencil which will anS a l In Iii place of your numo namo for fOl them to malto malo returns b by In n hauling apples to lo the car cai carand and In In lity the on Oil the side liever stand stan oti end CULl 1 If you wish tIle the fruIt to remain tight l In the tho barrels I |