. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . Lemon Pickings. Season 1910-11Orchard of Mr. N. D. Mussey Pool Date Lug-boxes Pounds 1 Sept. 19 76 3,698 2 Oct. 19 60 2,880 3 Nov. 17 289 13,852 4 Jan. 3 520 24,470 5 Feb. 1 832 39,415 6 Alfir. 18 1,122 50,906 7 May 3 1,120 51,350 8 May 30 196 9,268 9 July 21 298 14,224 10 Aug. 30 52 2,506 Total 4,565 212,569 The method of picking lemons from the trees is much thesame as with oranges except that the use of the ring andconsequent searching about in t
. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . Lemon Pickings. Season 1910-11Orchard of Mr. N. D. Mussey Pool Date Lug-boxes Pounds 1 Sept. 19 76 3,698 2 Oct. 19 60 2,880 3 Nov. 17 289 13,852 4 Jan. 3 520 24,470 5 Feb. 1 832 39,415 6 Alfir. 18 1,122 50,906 7 May 3 1,120 51,350 8 May 30 196 9,268 9 July 21 298 14,224 10 Aug. 30 52 2,506 Total 4,565 212,569 The method of picking lemons from the trees is much thesame as with oranges except that the use of the ring andconsequent searching about in the foliage among fruit ofall sizes makes picking slower and more expensive. Es-pecial care should be used to prevent dead twigs and othertrash from falling into the picking sacks as the weight of 304 Citrufi Fndis the lemons against such objects in handling will causescratches in the skin. In some sections special pickingsacks with closed tops are used to ])revent this. In thistype of sack the fruit is introduced at the side near thetop. For hauling to the packing-house the growers generallyuse a factory-made wooden wagon with steel skeins. Fig. 115. — Two-story lemon packing house, Glendora, California. on which they place a wide flat rack usually about 8 feetwide and 14 feet long. The racks are made locally andare set on the gears over bolster springs. It is not un-common to see a string of three or more of these wagonshooked together and being drawn by the gas tractorwhich is used for cultivating the orchards. Lemons differ from oranges also in being valued fortheir acid rather than for their sugar content. A green Picking and Packing Lemons 305 lemon therefore is better than a yellow tree ripe oneprovided it is fully sized and mature. For these reasonslemons are picked altogether according to size rather thancolor. The pickers carry wire rings which are slipj)ed overeach lemon, and every fruit which fails to pass through thering is picked. In summer aring2| inches in diam
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