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apple tree than any number of fruit-picking machines. 

 Professional grafters do not depend upon elaborate lad- 

 ders ; they climb. The fruit picker should do the same. 

 It may not be easy work, nor safe for fine shirts, but it is 

 rapid and successful, nevertheless. 



When one basket is full it is handed down and another 



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Fig. 11.— PICKER. Fif?. 12.— PICKER. Fiar. 13— hook. 



one returned. A bag strapped on one's back, in the 

 manner used for sowing grass seed, is usually a nuisance 

 in a tree, although it may be handy on a step-ladder. 

 The more one practices the more he will be surprised 

 with his ability to reach apples on the ends of limbs. 

 There will be some, however, which he cannot reach. If 

 there are no apples on the ground, nor any wheat or oat 



