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Fig. 120. 



Fig. 121. 



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not be reached in any other 

 manner. Then, by providing 

 a common grain-bag hung over 

 one shoulder, as shown by Fig. 

 120, one can climb around in a 

 tree-top with half a bushel of 

 apples, pears, or other fruit, 

 much more conveniently than 

 if the fruit were in a basket. 



Portable Staging. The il- 

 lustration given below (Fig. 



121) represents a Style of port- Plucking apples and putting them in 



a grain-bag hung over one shoul- 



able staging, which will be der. 



found exceedingly convenient when plucking any kind of 



fruit. It consists of 

 two light ladders, about 

 eight feet in length, hav- 

 ing a strong board, say 

 four feet long and fifteen 

 inches wide, secured to 

 the top of each lad- 

 der with small carriage- 

 bolts. Nails would be 

 liable to break when the 

 staging is moved about. 

 The rounds should not 

 be more than a foot 

 apart. If preferable, 

 pieces of boards may be 

 employed as treads in- 

 stead of rounds. Let 

 pieces be bolted in the 

 form of the letter X, 



Convenient portable fruit-ladder and staging, from the top of One leg 



