GATHERING AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLES. 



293 



Pig. 118. 



Carrying Winter Apples in Baskets. When apples are 

 gathered within two or three minutes' walk of the fruit- 

 room, the most convenient manner of conveying the fruit 

 is to let two men carry two large basketfuls, as represent- 

 ed by the accompanying engraving (Fig. 118), as they will 

 be able to carry 

 two large bas- 

 kets of apples 

 in this manner 

 more easily than 

 to lift them to 

 their shoulders. 

 It will be under- 

 stood by the en- 

 graving .that a 

 spar of timber, 

 like a strong 

 pitchfork handle, 

 is put through 

 the handles of 



each basket. If Carrying two large baskets of winter apples. 



the way is smooth, one person may take two large baskets 

 on a wheelbarrow. Still another good way to convey ap- 

 ples to the fruit-room is to set a dozen baskets on a large 

 stone-boat. Winter apples should not be poured from one 

 basket into another, nor be dumped into a wagon-box and 

 jolted over a rough way, as all such rough handling will 

 bruise them more or less, and thus hasten their decay. 



Plucking from Tall Trees. In many instances, apple-trees 

 grow so tall that the limbs are not sufficiently strong to 

 bear a small boy in the tree, nor on a ladder resting against 

 it, unless the top is supported with guy-ropes. An orchard- 

 ladder should have its lower ends shod with iron, in the 

 form of a sharp wedge, to enter the ground readily, and to 



