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Mr. Briggs. There are many kinds of machines for picking 

 apples. There is a long pole with an adjustment on the end for detach- 

 ing the apple and a bag to receive it. The object of it is to prevent 

 climbing out on the limbs and knocking and shaking the apples off. 

 That may be a good instrument to have ; bat I have never seen 

 anything that I thought it would pay me to adopt for this work. 



Mr. Blossom. In the first place in picking, all the wind-falls 

 should be removed from the ground before any are taken from the 

 tree, because if you leave them until the apples are picked from the 

 tree you will have a bad mixture on the ground. All the machine 

 that I have ever seen that is fit to go into an apple tree to pick 

 apples is the human hand attached to an honest careful man. 



H W. Brown. I have a hundred crates made out of laths, on 

 purpose to use in picking apples. I carry them into my orchard 

 and distribute them around. I have mj' apples. No. I's, sorted in 

 the orchard and then put into these crates. The crates will hold a 

 bushel. When the crates are filled I take them in ray spring wagon 

 to the house and carry them into the cellar. I lay down an old quilt 

 or comforter in the bin and turn the first crate-full on to that ; then 

 raise it carefully and place it on top and turn the next crate-full on 

 to it, and so work until the bin is full. When I visited my Baldwin 

 bins last I did not find any rotten apples. 



Mr. Pope. This Talman Sweet, taken from the exhibition table, 

 which I hold in my hand, was not handled roughly, simply dropped 

 into the basket, and yet you can see the ditference between it and 

 this other, which was carefully handled. A barrel of them handled 

 as this latter one was, will bring at least a dollar more in the market 

 than a barrel of those which are dropped into the basket when they 

 are picked. I came home one night, and the boys had packed some 

 Kings to send to Boston. I looked at them and was not satisfied 

 with the sorting. The next morning I helped them re-sort the 

 Kings, and put up two barrels of No. I's and one barrel of No. 2's 

 from the three barrels which they had packed for No. I's. I sent 

 them on, and they sold for $4 a barrel. My neighbor heard of it 

 and sent his Kings to Boston to the same party. They arrived a 

 few days later, and sold for $2 a barrel. 



