198 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIP]TY. 



Mr. Lash : Oh^ yes. And the Winesaps ought to be picked 

 by the 10th of October. 



A Member : The Winesap is gathered before the Ben Davis, 

 is it? 



Mr. Marshall: It ought to be. 



A Member: Does that always happen? 



Mr. Marshall : Not alAvays. Our apples do not ripen even 

 at all, the last picking is in November. 



Q. If they are ripe will they get on the ground? 



A. Well, they will if there is a wind, they just commence 

 to get loose. 



Mr. Howard: You haven't told us how you disposed of 

 your wind-falls. 



Mr. Marshall : We sold them to a Kansas firm. 



A Member: You used your regular men, then, in picking 

 them up? 



Mr. Marshall: That didn't take very many, the gi'aders 

 put the culls in the baskets and the wind-falls were picked 

 and placed in piles. Another thing in orchard work you 

 should have is some tarpaulins. They will save you hustling 

 around to protect apples left in the orchard. 



Mr. Atkinson : Did j^ou haul the bulk apples in baskets? 



Mr. Marshall : Yes, sir, the picking and hauling to town 

 is really all there is to it. If you put them on the ground it 

 costs something to pick them up and you don't luive to do that 

 if you have baskets enough, I will tell you another thing, 

 you couldn't expect to dispose of, every year, cull apples so 

 easily. It worked this year all right, but we Avouldn't count 

 on it next year. We would put those cull apples in a car and 

 run them out West and sell them with apples that had not 

 been sprayed. They are just about like them, and we get 

 them out where they have always been buying such apples. 



Prof. Emerson : I want to say that the apples that were 

 culled out would compare with the apples shipped from south- 

 eastern Nebraska, where the Avhole crop was taken and sold 

 from the orchard. 



