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old garden hose aud split it and put it right over the top 

 edge of the basket and put a gunn3' sack in the bottom. Did 

 you cushion your baskets, Mr. Mincer? 



Mr. ]Mincer: Yes, I lined them all. 



Mr. Marshall : What was your plan? 



Mr. Mincer: AA'e lined our baskets with a double thickness 

 of burlap. We took about 3 thicknesses and tacked on the 

 top edge of the basket. 



A Member: Did you try it with rubber? 



Mr. Mincer : I didn't try it but I know a grower who did. 

 He said he had very good luck with it. It seemed like as nice 

 a cushion as you could get, of course anything soft is a 

 cushion. 



Mr. Dickinson: What kind of a basket did you use? 



Mr. Marshall : We used just a common round bottom 

 basket. A little half bushel basket with a bail. 



Mr, Dickinson : Then you didn't use the regular crescent 

 sluiped basket made for picking. Yours was not crescent 

 shaped, just a little half bushel basket? 



Mr. Marshall : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Dickinson : There is a picking basket crescent shaped 

 and that is the kind we thought vou used, 



Mr. Marshall : This one we used is the same kind of a (me 

 that they use at Hamburg and Thillicothe, We got them 

 from that section. It is a regular apple picking basket. 



Mr. Davidson : It is not a crescent shaped basket where 

 you hitch a strap over your slioulder and the basket stands 

 right in front of the man? 



Mr. Marshall : No, our boys put a wire hook on them, I 

 believe a fellow could pick a little faster in one of those 

 baskets, A fellow might pick a little faster in one of those 

 jackets. But our men had no trouble at all, some picking SO 

 bushels a day. A good many didn't run over 60 bushels a 

 day, and some went down as low as 40 bushels, but those fel- 

 lows, of course can't pick apples. We had some old men there 

 that were afraid to climb on the ladders and we had some 



