. Cirtus fruits under irragation. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. 22 y^ -w ^â r% -r^ -»-â »â / OllKU^ TKUli^ UlMJl^K IKKlLiAliUlN ^Z6. Fig. 15 The picking receptacle generally used in the West is a bottom- less bag of the style shown in Fig. 13. These bags are padded and are held closed by fastening the ring to the hook, as shown in the illustration. They are carried over the shoulder, as shown in Fig. 14, and are emptied by unhook- ing the chain, which allows the fruit to pass out of the bottom. From the bags the fruit is emptied into picking, or lug, boxes, one of which is shown in Fig. 15.
. Cirtus fruits under irragation. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. 22 y^ -w ^â r% -r^ -»-â »â / OllKU^ TKUli^ UlMJl^K IKKlLiAliUlN ^Z6. Fig. 15 The picking receptacle generally used in the West is a bottom- less bag of the style shown in Fig. 13. These bags are padded and are held closed by fastening the ring to the hook, as shown in the illustration. They are carried over the shoulder, as shown in Fig. 14, and are emptied by unhook- ing the chain, which allows the fruit to pass out of the bottom. From the bags the fruit is emptied into picking, or lug, boxes, one of which is shown in Fig. 15. When emptying a bag of fruit, the bottom of the bag should be placed down into the box, allow- ing the bag to rest directly on the bottom of the box. The chain is unhooked and the bag is gently pulled away from the fruit. The fruit should not be permitted to fall or drop into the box. The picking boxes are of such a size that three boxes of loose fruit will usually make about two boxes of packed fruit. The boxes are made with cleats above the ends in order that they can be filled and then be piled one above the other without injury to the fruit. For picking lemons, use is made of rings such as those illus- trated in Fig. 16. These are for the purpose of determining the size of fruit to remove. Rings are made in different diam- eters, the common sizes being 2J, 2|, and 2f inches, inside diameter. The ring to use depends somewhat on the time of year, the larger rings generally being used in winter and the smaller ones in simi- mer. This is because lemons are in greater demand in simi- mer than in winter and are, consequently, not given time to attain larger size. The ring is held in the hand, as shown in Fig. 17. When determining 8ZO /"^ T rr\ 1-^ f T r^ ^iii^xj^ TKUllb IRRIGATION 23. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations ma
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