e if care is not exercised.

My own experience after using both is in favor of the sack. If care is
used no more bruising will be done than with the basket, and it is far
more expeditious. Both hands are at liberty for use in the picking. The
sack should not be shifted about, and the picker should not be allowed
to lean against the rungs of the ladder with the filled sack between.
The sack should be lowered into the picking crate so that the apples
have no drop in emptying the sack. Pointed ladders are the best for tall
trees and less liable to injure the tree or turn turtle and upset the
picker.

A packing house is essential if best results are to be obtained, but
many growers use the canvas-covered table in the orchard, picking and
packing the product from sixteen to thirty-six trees at a sitting, and
then moving the table to the next center, and in this way the entire
orchard. In good weather this is not so bad as might seem, but at times
the sun is very hot, or sudden showers saturate everything, and in the
late fall the weather is too cold and frosty for comfort. On the whole,
therefore, a good sized packing house or shed built at a convenient
place in or near the orchard is the more desirable method of handling
the crop. This building must be large enough to give room for a sorting
table three feet wide by sixteen or more feet in length, or, better
still, room for an apple grading machine of best pattern, which will
occupy about three feet by twenty feet. There should be a space on one
side or end of the building for unloading the bushel crates with which
all well regulated orchards should be equipped, when they come from the
orchard. These crates can be stacked up four or five deep, and there
should be adequate room for these based on necessities. There should be
room for at least a day's supply of apple barrels and a place to cooper
them up by driving the hoops and nailing same. There should be enough
room to face and fill barrels and head them up and to stack up enough
for half a day's hauling ahead.

The size of this building will depend upon whether you are barreling 100
barrels per day or 1,000 barrels. For the former a building 28x20 feet
will answer very well. For the latter amount 60x100 feet would be none
too large. This building should have skylights in the roof. I build
these of ordinary greenhouse sash about 3x6 feet, usually putting in two
of these in each building on the north or east side of the