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IRUIT ancf ORNAMENTAL TREES 
Maloney Trees are guaranteed true to name and free from disease by one of the largest growers in New 
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low the usual shipment. Be sure and get your order iu early so as not to be disappointed. g 
We recognize our responsibility to the fruit growers and we have this year 
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big or none too small for us to handle personally. W® prepay transportation /B^mTrees £ Plants I 
charges on all orders for over $7.50. 
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DANSVILLE’S PIONEER NURSERIES 
Dansville, N. Y. 
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Free Catalog of TREES.SHRUBS. ROSES bVINE S 
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'Horticultural Notes 
Picking Apples While Wet 
A problem that puzzled me a great deal 
during the last apple picking season was 
how to reduce the ime lost in the morn¬ 
ing waiting for the dew to dry off the 
apple before picking. It was generally 
about noon before we felt that the apples 
were dry enough to pick. That seems 
like a great waste of time when help is 
scarce and there is so much to do. We 
utilized the mornings packing what had 
been picked the day before, but that job 
could just as well have been left till the 
picking was all done. As it was, about 
75 barrels of our Rome apples were frozen 
on the trees and are now rotting on the 
ground. What amount of damage would 
he done if the apples were picked while 
wet with dew? Is there a practical way 
of drying ‘them off after picking? Is 
“sweating” caused by picking the apples 
while wet? What damage is done by 
apples “sweating” in the barrel? What 
is the general practice of commercial 
growers? B. A. Y. 
New York. 
No damage is done if apples are picked 
while wet with dew. Our own practice 
is to begin work by scattering through the 
orchard 600 open-slat bushel crates. The 
pickers use hags, from the bottom of 
which the fruit is dumped into the crates. 
When filled, these are taken, 40 or 50 at 
a load, to the packing-house, where they 
are run through a grader and barreled. If 
the apples are wet when picked, they dry 
out rapidly in the open crates. If we 
had waited for trees and apples to dry 
before beginning our picking, we should 
have apples on the trees now. sharing 
the fate of R. A. Y.’s Rome Beauties. 
“Sweating” is not caused by picking the 
apples while wet. It is merely a condens¬ 
ation of moisture from the surrounding 
air. Apples drawn in from the orchard 
perfectly dry and cold' will sometimes 
begin to “sweat” in the warmer atmos¬ 
phere of the packing-house, just as a 
pitcher of ice water in a warm room 
gathers moisture on its outer surface. 
Apples taken out of a refrigerator, where 
they have been held at a temperature of 
31° or 32° F. show this to a marked 
degree. But in or out of the barrel, it 
does no harm, and corrects itself as soon 
as the temperature becomes equalized. 
Orange Co . N. Y. CYRUS w. SHAW. 
I have never known any injury to re¬ 
sult in picking apples when wet. It is 
well known that apples require consider¬ 
able moisture in storage in order to keep 
well. Prof. Cole at Amherst once told 
me that the best apple storage he knew 
of in Massachusetts, was one where the 
temperature and moisture were regulated 
by a spring running through the cellar, 
which kept it moist. I have known of 
people who prefer to put apples into their 
cellar moist, believing that they kept 
better. Of course, other sections or cli¬ 
mates may work entirely different, where 
it would he inadvisable to pick anples 
while the dew is on hut so far as I know 
in this locality no one waits for the dew 
to he off before picking. J. H. putnam. 
Franklin Co., Mass. 
Commercial growers cannot afford to 
wait until the dew has dried from the 
apples, and consequently during the har¬ 
vest season the pickers start work at 
seven o’clock or at the usual time. I 
have'heard of some growers who furnish 
their pickers with rubber or oilskin suits 
to use during wet weather. As far as my 
observations go. I have never been able 
to detect any difference in, the keeping 
quality of fruit which was picked when 
wet over that picked when'dry. The dis¬ 
advantage of picking apples when they 
a’-e wet is that they do not handle as 
nicely in grading and packing. Apples 
which are picked when wot can be packed 
without the bother of trying to dry them 
before packing. Commercial growers pay 
no attention to “sweating,” a term which 
is unite frequently used, but which in 
roah'ty does not need to be considered. If 
apples are harvested and then put into 
storage or eooled rapidly the question of 
“sweating” does not enter into the work 
flt all. S. P. HOLLISTER. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
We know of no way to overcome the 
disadvantages of this situation. We seek 
to find some special work for the wet 
morning hours, and for lack of this we 
have simply to go ahead and pick. It is 
not a nice job. and more or less dirt will 
eling to the apples, giving them a dull and 
mussy appearance when packed. How¬ 
ever, for this reason we do avoid gather¬ 
ing our finest apples when in a wet con¬ 
dition, but get varieties and qualities 
that are of least value. We just pick 
them in barrels and let them dry as they 
will. Small crate containers would prob¬ 
ably be preferable on account of the 
ventilation. As to “sweating,” this is 
the result of change of temperature and 
hastens the mellowing or ripening process 
•>nd indicates the importance of getting 
the fruit in proper storage as speedily as 
possible. w. s. teator. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
During a mi ruber of years’ work among 
commercial apple growers of southern 
Ohio, I have observed that there are few 
who delay operations of picking, grading 
and packing the fruit on account of dew 
on the trees and apples early in the morn¬ 
ings. Nor have I ever heard of any ill 
results arising from this practice. I 
should perhaps state, however, that the 
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