Tools and Conveniences of the Year'. 



375 



use of which is obvious from the cut.- 



Popular Gardening, 

 254, 255. 



P O TATO- 



Scoop.-- (Fig. 

 29.) A handy 

 scoop made 

 by Bissell & 

 T h o r n h i 1 1, 

 Melford, 

 Mich. It can 

 also be used 

 as a potato- 

 sorter. —Rural 

 New - Yorker, 

 373- 



Fig. 30 



p; Fruit-Sorter. — (Fig. 30.) The illustration 

 shows a California machine for sorting or- 

 anges and other fruits. (See Annals for 1889, 

 183 \ and Annals for 1890, 257, for other 

 sorters.) — Rural New-Yorker, 421. 



Orange - Sorter. — (Fig. 31.) Shows one 

 of the many fruit and potato-sorters now 

 upon the market or devised by ingenious 

 growers. — Popular Gardening, 215. 



Ingenious 

 Fruit- Picking 

 Contrivance . — 

 An ingenious 

 fruit-picking con- 

 trivance has been 

 invented by Ed- 

 ward D. Stodder, 

 of San Francisco. 

 It is a light, dou- 

 ble, wheelbarrow- 

 ladder, which can 

 be folded up or 

 elevated at any 

 angle at will. An 



