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A Simple Fruit Picking Ladder 
One dot* not have to be picking apples 
long before discovering that the ordinary 
ladder is not sufficient to bring all the 
fruit within convenient reach. This re¬ 
sults in much acrobatic stretching and 
slow work, and some take chances in 
risky settings of the ladder. There are 
tripod ladders on the market, and at not 
too high prices, hut somehow the farmers 
do not have them when picking time 
comes around, although they frown at the 
heavily loaded limbs just out of reach, and 
wish they had something that they could 
climb upon to get the fruit without shak¬ 
ing the tree. 
Last year I made a five-foot tripod 
step-ladder, hut that did not get the sky¬ 
scrapers. What was needed was a regu- 
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Fruit Picking 1.udder in Position 
lur ladder that would stand alone. Now 
I have solved the problem with such ridic¬ 
ulous ease that I want my fellows to 
share in the benefit. All I did was to take 
two 10-ft. strips of wood. 2x2 in., and 
free from defects, and connect them at the 
end with a stout hinge. When in use the 
device is erected like an inverted V. and 
a 14-ft. ladder of the common type is set 
against it. the point of the V entering one 
of the higher interspaces of the ladder, 
while the sides of the ladder find rest and 
support about one foot away from the 
point. Of course it would be rather 
awkward to make the set-up single-hand¬ 
ed, but that difficulty is readily overcome 
by supporting the ladder temporarily in 
the chosen position by means of a 7-ft. 
tree prop, whereupon the V can he placed 
as leisurely as may he desired. 
A hinged V is better than a stiff one, 
for on rough ground there is flexibility in 
choosing resting points for the feet. An¬ 
other advantage is that it collapses to 
portable form. I note further that it is 
a much easier matter to get both feet of 
the ladder solidly upon the earth when 
working with the A' than when resting 
against limbs, and there is an agreeable 
feeling of stability in the whole structure. 
A 20-penny nail driven half way into the 
V on each side at the point where the lad¬ 
der naturally comt* to rest helps support 
the ladder and relieves rlie sides from the 
wedging apart effect of which some might 
disapprove. JUNIUS T. TIANCHETT. 
New Hampshire. 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
Our two trees of King David and 
Delicious produced more than oO bushels 
of good fruit. So heavily laden were they 
that I do not expect any fruit from them 
next year. This is the price that one 
pays for not thinning closely, and I sur¬ 
mise that tin’s is not all the evil con¬ 
sequences. I believe such a tremendous 
draft upon their vitality will have a weak¬ 
ening influence upon the vitality of the 
trees for several years. The apples were 
put at once into cold storage, where they 
will be left until Winter aud then mar¬ 
keted gradually in small quantities. (Hu- 
cold storage manager is very amiable. 
He permits those having fruit in storage 
to come and remove any portion of it 
they please, even to very small quantities' 
for family use. A business man told me 
that lio^uow bought a* family supply of 
apples in the Fall ABpicking time and 
stored them, tnking^^m out in basket! 
lots during the Winter as family needs 
requ 
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’IH1 t [M ill, nilULUL.-^^lIl OUl 111 UttSKtH]- 
during the Winter as family needs P 1 
lired. He considered this method | 
•li cheaper and more satisfactory in I 
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