FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATION'S 7 



from, the trees and are then picked up and dried in the 

 sun. Prunes are handled in the same way. Almonds 

 and other nuts are allowed to fall naturally from the 

 trees, or in some cases the almonds are knocked off from 

 the trees and gathered in large canvas sheets spread 

 under the trees. Grapes for shipping long distances are 

 picked by hand, bunches being removed with a shears. 



Fig. 4. "KNOCKING ALMONDS," SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CAL. 



Those that are dried for raisins, or go into the wine and 

 grape juice industries, are pulled off more or less roughly 

 from the vines. 



Persimmons are usually allowed to hang on the trees 

 until frost, because before this time they are so astrin- 

 gent that they have no particular market value. In the 

 Gulf states many of the persimmons dry on the trees 



