Show fancy apples for market trade only for a fancy markets market apples should d tie be picked in baskets care being taken at all times not to bruise the fruit or puncture the skin the commercial apple crop Is usually picked in picking bags or aprons the tha apples should not be allowed to fall a long distance into the c container and the picker should not let his picking bag or apron bounce from round to round of the ladder when defending dec ending fleas enable care should be ba exercise exer vise in in dumping the fruit into the barrels boxes or on the packing table fruit should always be removed from the tree by means of a sideways twist the practice of pulling off fruit spur and all Is to be avoided as it may 1 reduce the number of spurs sufficiently to affect later crops |