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step ladder with a flat top, where baskets may be placed, is very 
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Fri it Ladders. 
Some fruit often hangs at the top of long branches and out of 
the reach of the pickers. One common way of 
getting them down consists in dislodging them by 
means of a long pole. It generally happens 
that such fruit is knocked about and bruised beyond 
recognition. In order to reach these outlying fruits, 
various kinds of fruit-picking devices are used, two 
of which are here illustrated. 
This picker consists of a long pole armed at 
the end with a V-shaped hook, which pulls the 
fruit from the stalk; a canvas hose 
stretched round a hoop fastened 
underneath the picker conveys 
the fruit to, the hand, one fruit 
only being allowed to come down 
the bag at a time. 
The second design is another 
ingenious one, which any tin- 
smith can make. It should, for 
the sake of lightness, be made 
caren of tin-wire. In that ease, the fruit 
delivery sack. is delivered to the picker by taking 
down the contrivance. 
Wire Picker. 
