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liere who would like to l)ring up a question or ask anything 

 to get further information ? 



A MEMBER: About that partridge question, one of mv 

 neighbors has had success w'ith a shot-gun. 



THE CHAIRMAN : I think that is probably an answer 

 to the question, although it seems too bad to have to kill 

 them if we could find some other wny out of it. I do not 

 know as I can, I have had the question asked before. 



A MEMBER: I would be interested to know from Pro- 

 fessor Sears what sort of a bag was used, and their methods 

 in picking. 



PROF. SEARS : The bags they had, as you might ex- 

 pect, were all sorts. A common one was a bag made, I 

 should judge, from the common two bushel grain sack. I 

 i-'hould .judge manufacturers took that and added a snap on 

 (lie side of the bottom which could be snapped into a ring on 

 the front end of the bag. "When he got it full and was 

 ready to empty it. took it off his neck, unsnapped this, and 

 the apples went out the lower end of the bag. This was 

 the most popular type. I saw it everywhere from British 

 Columbia to California. And then there Were all sorts of 

 modifications ; plain, ordinary bags, and various other 

 types. 



A MEIMBER: Was any damage done to the apples 

 tiropping them into a bag? 



PROF. SEARS : t should say the greatest damage would 

 ])e done in moving around through the trees and bumping 

 them against the ladder. I am aware there are a lot of 

 1 ags used in our country here. I have talked with our 

 growers who have used them any number of times. Some, 

 oJ' course, think they are all right. But a great many 

 growers admit that they may damage the apples if they 

 are not carefully handled. They say that when they use 

 the bags themselves they never damage the apples but that 

 1 heir. hired men might damage them more or less. I have 

 always thought a bag ought not to be used ; at the same 

 time, 'w'fhen you find good, practical growers using it, it is 



