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THE PRESIDENT : Hoav many barrels do you think a 

 man ought to pick in such an orchard as you have ? 



MR, MUNSON: On my own anywhere from 15 to 20 

 barrels a day, but he could pick half from the ground or a 

 step-ladder and we wouldn't use any ladders over 12 feet, I 

 believe. 



A MEMBER: My experience is that the ordinary man 

 won 't pick ten barrels from high trees. They are more apt 

 to pick about six. You would have to pay him $2 a day. 



MR. MUNSON: On one I lease, the apples take a 20- 

 foot ladder to pick, and a few take a 25-foot ladder, and two 

 J ears ago the rain came while we were picking, and I put 

 my men in and picked in the rain, which is iiot ^ery good, 

 but we had to do it. And if they didn 't pick an average of 

 ten barrels a day, it seemed that something was wrong,- and 

 I took opportunity to go and see what it was, and they aver- 

 aged ten barrels a day. 



THE PRESIDENT : Mr. Munson had charge of the 

 work on our farm the first year we set it, and I think he can 

 get more work out of a man than any other man I ever saw, 

 and still keep on first-rate terms with his men. 



MR. CLARKE: We pay wages by the day and not by 

 the barrel, at the rate of $1.60 a day, and it costs something 

 like 26 or 27 cents a barrel to pick the 30-year old trees and 

 over. 



]\IR. JENKS : The same question came up for answer in 

 Rochester last week. Many of the fruit-growers answered, 

 15 cents. Professor Hedrick said it was always 15 cents 

 until this year, when because of the big crops and labor be- 

 ing plentiful, it was 121/2 cents on the average for Western 

 New York conditions. 



THE PRESIDENT: In our neighborhood in Franklin 

 County, in Buckland, they have a man who picked 100 bar- 

 rels in a day. That is a sworn statement. It makes a dif- 

 ference how you pick. ..j: I was' told h^e 'went over the same 

 trees shortly afterwards, and got forty barrels more. I 

 imagine it depends upon whether you are picking without 



