[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating story…thanks for posting. Can the stat that workers are expected to pick 12,000 pounds of apples per day be right? That doesn’t seem humanly possible!

I ran my own hobby orchard do about a dozen apple, pear, plum, peach and apricot trees. It was so much work and I finally realized that my fruit was no better than the local fruit stand that I gave it up and pulled out the trees. Just thinning the apples in early March became a full-time chore over two weekends!

My great grandfather, his wife, and their kids ran a modest fruit ranch in southern BC. I found their fruit orchard census from 1920 not long ago. I sure got an appreciation for what they did after running my few trees.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Can the stat that workers are expected to pick 12,000 pounds of apples per day be right?

No.

Not if he is talking per person and assuming a eight hour day.

If you are talking a 12 hour day it is possible depending on the types of apples you are picking.

If you know how to do it, you are picking juice apples and they are large apples you can pick a bin full in about an hour. A bin is about a thousand pounds of apples.

If you are picking eating apples and they are small it takes about an hour and a half for a good picker to pick a bins worth.

[FreshPrince]

Interesting list of apples. Never heard of several of them...

BTW how does on post an image in the reply?

[FreshPrince]

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[thecodont]

Thanks for posting this bit of history. Grimes Golden? Nice old varieties.