Grading Machines. — Tlie experience of 



of the Northwest in marketing is such 

 that we are conipelled to admit that 

 ■we have to put up a high-class prochicl ; 

 varieties of apples that have quality, 

 that are not grown extensively in the 

 East, making our pack uniform and our 

 grade perfect. There is no one factor 

 that is so much help in securing uni- 

 formity of size in grading and packing 

 as the grading and sizing machine. 

 Several makes are on the market which 

 have been tried out and have proved 

 their efliciency and economy. It is the 

 opinion of many growers that by using 

 a good grader 5 to 10 cents per box can 

 be saved in the packing house. When 

 an orchard produces 2,000 boxes or 

 over, according to the size of the crop, 

 a grading machine can be paid for in 

 one or two years, at the same time 

 doing the work more efTiciently and 

 quicker. The apples will bring better 

 prices. 



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Economy in Harvesting. — The apple 

 growers last year either made no money 

 or lost money, consequently they have 

 to strive this year, as the situation 

 looks fair for good prices, to make 

 enough money to produce a fair aver- 

 age income for last year and this year. 

 WTiile the situation looks reasonably 

 good for fair prices it will be necessary 

 for the grower to endeavor to save as 

 much as possible in every way. Al- 

 ready attention has been called to the 

 grading machine as a saver, to picking 

 receptacles and ladders. Growers 

 should aim to secure careful pickers 

 and good packers, paying them fair 

 prices for the work, endeavoring to be 

 economical as possible in every way. 

 So much money saved is just as good 

 as so much money made. 



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Picking Ladders. — It is false economy 

 on the part of the grower to en- 

 deavor to get along with an insulTicient 

 supply of good ladders. Too fre- 

 quently we see apple growers with old 

 ladders that are rickety. Every once 

 in a while a picker falls otY the ladder 

 with a bucket of apples, bruising half 

 a box. Other growers, to save buying 

 ladders allow the pickers to climb up 

 in the trees, frequently shaking off 

 enough apples to pay several times the 

 cost of a good ladder. In addition to 

 this, when a grower allows a picker to 

 climb in a tree it is barked and more 

 or less permanently injured. 



Apple Boxes. — Every grower should 



haul out boxes according to his crop 

 estimates, at the earliest possible mo- 

 ment, making them up ready for use 

 when the harvesting .season begins. 

 .\nother important reason for doing 

 this is that frequently the boxes that 

 come from the mill are more or less 

 wet and will not dry out knocked 

 down, but if made up and i)iled in the 

 packing house they will dry out. 

 Apples will keep better when packed 

 in thoroughly dry boxes llian wet 

 boxes. 



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