APPLE GATHERING.
{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
Every farmer knows how important sound
fruit is to the manufacture of good cider;
but, nevertheless, very little pains are taken
TO secure this quality. Ordinarily the APP
Piles are beat or shaken from 'recs, and fall
to the ground bruised or materially injured.
If, when so collected, they be Immediately
ground, they do not yield as much juice as
they would if carefully gathered, and suffer
ed to sweet and mellow; and if they be kept
nnly for a short time, the bruised apples in
part rot or perish, and when worked yield
less juice, and impart bad favor to the CT
der.


Now all these results from bad manage
ment may be easily and cheaply obviated
by merely using a canvass funnel, sufficient
ly large TO receive the fruit when perfectly
ripe, as it is shaken off the trees.


This funnel should be slit in one place
from top to bottom, so as to allow Of its a.
laption to the object in view; when PLACED
around the tree, this slit should be lacet
up, and the other part should be secured
with poles, SO as to allow the fruit whicl
falls within the funnel, to roll gently down il
heap at the trunk of the tree.


This contrvance would save much labor
and prevent the fruit from becoming injur
ed.