THE KADOTA FIG 



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We prefer 3-legged ladders, not to exceed 4 feet in height, for picking. 



With experience will come care in the handling of the fruit. We break 

 the fig from the limb, by bending it in the opposite way from which it grows. 

 Cotton gloves are used after two or three days, as the milk of the stem will 

 cut the fingers. Keep gloves well washed. Scour baskets every night. 



Never pinch or squeeze a fig but judge by color what to gather. Handle 

 with extreme care. Pick but one fig at a time and place carefully in the 

 backet. 



Pick each tree every other day or every third day and gather all ripened 

 fruit every picking and keep trees clean. 



Picking 



In my June and August crops this season (1919) my pickers averaged 

 around 400 pounds daily to each man, yet 700 pounds were often gathered 

 by one picker. My trees are 6 years past in age, and by heavy pruning for 

 several seasons I have gotten them in fair shape for gathering, and have in 

 a measure overcome the original mistake of high pruning of tree when first 

 planted. 



When my pickers come to the packing shed with a load of fruit, they 

 weigh up their baskets, chalk on the chart their weight of fruit, and each night 

 the tonnage gathered is reckoned up and each picker credited with his indi- 

 vidual tonnage, and as I paid pickers by the hour and also a bonus of j/J cent 



Another 5^ year old Kailotn, not properly pruned first three years. Take 

 note of the wasted energy in the pruning; and poor shape of tree still. 



