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for grading fruit, and said by the inventor to be the only one 

 which is adapted to both green and dried fruit. Made at San 



Jos6, CaHfornia 



Fruit Sorter 

 (Fig. 19)— A 

 simple device 

 which sorts the 

 fruit by allowing 

 the small speci- 

 m e n s to fall 

 through the 

 wire screen as 

 the cylinder is turned. — Rural New-Yorker, ^go. 



California Fruit Fitter. — (Fig. 20.) A machine com- 

 pleted late in 1889, and put upon the rnarket in California 

 early this year. It cuts and pits the fruits. — California Fruit 

 Grower, April 5, 216. 



Almond Huller. — (Fig. 21, page 259.) A California ma- 

 chine. '' A man, with a boy to feed, will hull two tons of al- 

 monds in a day, 

 formerly the 

 work of eight or 

 ten men. It con- 

 sists of irregular 

 hardwood slats, 

 fastened to an 

 endless belt. 

 Bars underneath 

 it are set on spir- 

 al springs, which 

 can be geared to 

 any size of al- 

 mond. Those 

 nuts that pass 

 through un- 

 hulled are 

 picked dut and hulled by hand. Very few shells are broken 

 in a day's work." — C. H. S., in Rural New-Yorker, y2g. 



Potato Sorters. — (Figs. 22-25). Figs. 22 and 23 (page 

 260) show patented devices, the former being the Hoover and 



