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on either side wore 10 trees lonj^ from east to west. One picker was 

 assigned to each tree of the row across the block, thus making ten 

 pickers on each side of the drive, or twenty in all, and an extra man was 

 assigned as superintendent of the twent}' pickers, to see that all instruc- 

 tions were carefully carried out. Every man was instructed to leave 

 all fruit he picked l)eneath the tree from which it w^as gathered, pick- 

 ing boxes having Ix^en previously distril)uted for this purpose. 



The work of picking began at the south end of the experiment 

 block. When the fruit which was sufficiently matured had been 

 gathered and placed in the boxes beneath a tree, the picker proceeded 

 to the next tree north, thus following the same north-and-south row 

 until he had passed entirely through the block, and when each man 

 had thus completed his north-and-south row the entire })lock had })een 

 picked over, the fruit l^eing beneath the trees from which it came. 

 The first and second pickings were conducted in this manner, but the 

 second was not begun until after the first was completed and the 

 gathered fruit had lieen removed from beneath the trees. 



The process of collecting the fruit of the first picking began as soon 

 as the pickers had completed an east-and-west row and had proceeded 

 to the next row toward the north. Four men were employed to collect 

 and weigh the peaches — two to collect the fruit in the orchard and 

 two to weigh, count, and keep the records. The fruit was brought 

 from the east and from the west to the central driveway on a low plat- 

 form wagon drawn by one horse. The boxes of fruit gathered from 

 the 10 trees of each experiment row were piled at the side of the 

 driveway, close to the last tree of the row. The boxes of fruit from 

 each tree were also distinguished by means of cards bearing the 

 number of the tree from under which the boxes were taken (PI. X). 



The weighing began as soon as the fruit fi'om the 10 trees of an 

 experiment row had been piled at the side of the central drive. Plat- 

 form scales were placed on a level base close to the fruit boxes, and 

 the fruit from each tree of the row was weighed separately. The gross 

 weight was recorded for each tree, as well as the number of picking 

 boxes. The average weight of the picking boxes used was afterwards 

 carefully determined, and from these data the net weight of fruit was 

 ascertained and tabulated for each tree of each row of the block. 

 After the weight of fruit for each tree of an experiment row was thus 

 learned, 100 pounds of peaches were weighed out from typical ])oxes 

 of several tress of the row. The number of peaches in this 100 pounds 

 of fruit was then ascertained by counting, the number being recorded 

 with the other data for the row. The fruit of all the experiment rows 

 was weighed and the average size of the peaches determined b}^ count- 

 ing, as here indicated. 



Following close after the weighers came five or six sorters. These 

 men graded the fruit, according to the requirements already outlined, 

 into three classes — one for an Oakland cannerv, one for a Chico can- 

 nery, and a third class for drying. These three classes constituted 



