LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1 Picking Apples in a Large Orchard ..Frontispiece 



2 Harvesting Peaches in Georgia 3 



3 A "Drying Floor" for Prunes, Santa Clara Valley, 



Cal .. G 



4 "Knocking Almonds," Sacramento Valley, Cal. . . 7 



5 Fruit Picking Receptacles 13 



6 A Fruit Picking Bag 11 



7 Desirable Fruit Picking Ladders 12 



8 A Convertible Step-Ladder 13 



9 A Home-Made Picking Ladder for Low-Headed 



Trees , 14 



10 Type of Picking Ladder Used in the Northwestern 



States 15 



11 Field Fruit Box or "Lug Box" 16 



12 Convenient Wagon for Moving the Fruit from the 



Orchard 16 



13 A "Three Decker" Fruit Wagon for Long Hauls. . 17 



14 A Combined Orchard and Delivery Wagon for 



Small Orchards 19 



15 A Band of Apple Pickers in Maine 20 



16 A Packing-House and Storage Cellar 23 



17 Floor Plan of Packing Room 24 



18 Delivering Peaches to a Private Packing-House in 



Georgia 25 



19 Central Packing-Houses for Oranges in Southern 



California 26 



20 A Corner in a Packing-House 27 



21 Packing and Grading Table 32 



22 Sizing Board for Fruit Grading 33 



23 Grading Fruit in a Western Cannery . . , . , , 34 



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