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ing receptacle. After it becomes rusty, it may best be dis- 
carded. One advantage of a tin pail is that a foreman 
or superintendent could tell for quite a distance whether 
his men were handling the fruit carefully or not by the 
amount of noise made in the pail. In many of the 
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a b 
Fig. 7—DESIRABLE FRUIT PICKING LADDERS 
a—Pointed rung ladder; b—three-legged step-ladder. 
Western states deciduous fruits, such as peaches, plums, 
ete., are picked in these pails. 
There are also to be found on the market various 
types of special picking tools. These are usually ar- 
ranged on some kind of a pole or long handle with a 
basket or cuplike affair on the end to catch the fruit 
and remove it from the tree. Sometimes there are 
little knives to cut off the stems of the fruit; occasion- 
