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Show HANDY ORCHARD STEPLADDER Wooden Appliance of About Eight Feet in Length Will Permit Picker to Reach Fruit. About eight feet Is the length of this step ladder. An eight-foot ladder will permit the picker to reach high enough to reach all of the fruit on a low headed fruit tree, except that which grows on the top central branches. There Is a good deal In selecting the material for a ladder, w7rites Herbert Her-bert A. Shearer In the Orchard and urcnard Stepladder. Farm. It should be light, but It must be safe. It is easy for the picker to break a leg If the ladder should break. The stringers should be made of straight-grained wood that does not split easily. Basswood or spruce meet the requirements about as well as anything, but there are varieties of pine that make good ladders. The rungs should be of hickory, oak, swamp elm or some similar timber that will not break off short without splintering. If a ladder round silvers or splinters it won't break down suddenly. sud-denly. The si ringers of this ladder need not be heavier than V8 by 3 Indies, tapered to two Inches at the top. provided pro-vided that the wood Is tough and straight grained. To make a fancy ladder both the stringers and ' the legs should be tapered. |