FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 3 
picker, who is not familiar with the fruit as a rule, will 
not be able to tell when the seeds are mature. 
Some varieties have seeds that are very dark when 
the picking time arrives, other kinds have white or 
slightly colored seeds, and to use these as a guide, one 
would need to be familiar with all of the different kinds 
of fruit. Also, in regard to the color of the fruit: it 
has often been said that red fruit should get a high 
Fig. 2—HARVESTING PEACHES IN GEORGIA 
color before harvesting. This is true only in a general 
way, because a fruit that is highly colored in one sec- 
tion of the country may be more or less lacking in color 
in others. Take, for example, the common Baldwin; in 
the north this is a very highly colored fruit, but as you 
go south into the warmer states, it becomes almost a 
green apple. 
