56 FIELD NOTES ON APPLE CULTURE. 
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 
Fig. 11.—PicKEr. Fig. 12.—Ptcker. Fig. 18.—H0oK. 
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 1t 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 
