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Q ù'K iW ~KLWHavest ime in Local Orchard 3OWMANVILLE, ONTARIO. SEPTEMBER 27.,1978 SECTION TWO 1Ilrt King of the core, O. K. Osbourne, watc 'hes over a display of choice nunmber one appies sponsored by the Durham Growers Association at the Orono fail fair.. Growers Race Against Tiqume And lColdWetr to Bring in rTLheir Cropes You need two hands that move contîinualiy i f you really want to make a good icker. Joyce Rowe of Bowmanviiie is one of the best. Mrs. Martin Gerrits sorts and bags the apples grown on her orchard. Having ie faciliies to bag and weigh the appies saves time reports owner Martin 'errits. Vi McQuin has been picking apples for over il years andsays she does it for tlfe exercise. Watching Vi ciimbwu and down fromn her perch above this tree is il the convincing anyone needs. Eve lost paradise for ladders. Because the Storage a bite of one, moms are semi-dwarf is short and Most of this year's Orchard owner Rob Carruthers dumps a picking famous for them and wide, app'les can be crop will go into storage basket full of apples into a large bin where the ap- one a day will keep the picked without the aid of for use during the win- pies are graded. doctor away. Any way ai ladder. ter and spring months. you Peel, slice, bake or Not only does the Sealed in a controlled - juice them, apples are semi-dwarf alleviate atmosphere vault the Ontario's favorite fruit. picking and pruning apples are 'put to sleep' ' There are some 50 ap- problems, but it also by gas. When the " pie orchards scattered produces a better miarket is ready for the between Pickering and produact. In the old or- apples their color and Port Hlope and during chards fruit on the bot- taste wili be as good as the next few weeks ail 50 tom of the tree saw littie if they'd just been k ~~ wili becomne beehives of sunlight and was picked off the trees. activity as their owners therefore not as The majority of --. >..- race against time, the developed as the appies growers in this area -~- < weather and the scar- on top. Apples grown on store their crops in City of help to bring semi-dwarf trees tend to Newcastle in. a co-op their crops to market. be more evenly storage faciiity run by Seasonal Jobs dvlpd the farmers themseives. Becus apl pckngAithough the semi- But some, like Martin is seasonal work, fin- dwarf is haîf the size of Gerrits have eliminated ding labor is one the old appie tree it the extra step of tran- '<~S- pones cd d produces just as much sporting the crop by ower oud o fruit. Graduaiiy orchard building a bagging and without. Joe Cuddahee owners are phasing out storage faciiity right on of the Canada Farm the' older trees and the farm. Labour Pool admits that replacing them with This year Mr. Gerrits while he can get an or- semi-dwarf stock. will place some 27,0000 chard owner enough Six Week Season bushels in storage. And heip lhe cannot make The season for picking that's more than enough pickers stay, on the job. apples depends a great apples to supply ail the Mr. Cuddahee says deai on the weather and apple pie, juice and some will stay a month, i ogl i ek sauce for the entire...... aweek or even a day, ln.Atog ih population of the Town , many of them disap- frost adds a touch of of Newcastle. pearing after only one color to the appie, a ad Poo days work neyer to be severe frost wili Story an Phts heard from again. severely damage them. The bough of this semi-dwarf tree sinks frm he Orchard own'sr Var- If an apple,.is picked by Lynne Ainsworth weight of Che appies. tin Gerrits reca Ils that immediateiy foilowing a one year he.had over frost the fingerprints of C~ ~ ~ $1,500 worth of appies the picker wili be im- lying on the ground bedded in the apple because he couldn't get says Mr.- Cuddahee.- enough pickers. Apple grader Orvilie Who signs up for an Osbourne has been 1 aple picking job? Just grading and sorting ap- about anybody says Mr. pies for 55 years. Once Cuddahee whose job it is the owner of a 90-acre to find out how much orchard Mr. Osbourne help each orchard now hires himself out as 4 owner requires for the a grader for- the season. duration of the picking Skilled Workers season. Sorting through - And if you think it's an a bin that when fiiled f easy job, you're wrong. will contain 26 bushels Apple pickers have to be Mr. Osbourne separates ~ skiiled workers. With s0 the C grade apples from much work to be done the fancies. Wîth Ž and littie time to do it, thousands of appies at the picker must keep hiÈigriseeydy $ y' ' ' both hands in perpetuai Mr. Osbourne has to motion. As one hand have a keen eye and plucks the apple from quick hand to pick the the tree the other is bad from the good. placing a second apple Apples are graded ac- in a basket. This routine cording to color and continues until the size. A fancy appie con- picker fis the basket. tains 30 per cent red anersiialaheiercolor, w hile a C grade anoherskil te pcke >contains 15 per cent must quickly acquire clr nappie that has ~- \'- because a mispiaced either- falien to the foot can easily resuit in ground or measures iess '--- a fali. than 2 1/4 inches in '.. The introduction of diameter goes for juice - semi-dwarf trees about "There's a market for haif the size of the older everything if you can, apple trees is slowly find it, " remarks grader Les Coombs working at Carruther's Orchard sorts the apples into three grades. Wilà changing the need for Les Coomnbs. hghtniîng speed he picks and piucks the juicers, the smallest apples, from the grade A - -------