# ORANGES AND OLIVES

ORANGES AND OLIVES Produced: 1922 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Orange trees are first started as ‘seedlings’ in which the desired ‘budding or grafting’ may be made later. The largest groves are in California.” Orange grove - worker grafting. “Water from the snowcapped Sierra Nevada is carefully measured before it is used to irrigate the orange grove.” Car on snowy country road, three men having snowball fight - water flowing into ditch from storage tank. “The balmy climate of the orange land attracts many tourists in winter.” Tourists pick oranges. “The blossoms, green fruit and ripe oranges are found on the tree at the same time.” Close-up of blossoms and fruit. “The orange tree is small and pickers never climb into the tree to harvest the fruit.” Pickers on ground and on ladder. Picker places fruit in canvas bag slung over his shoulder - close-up of hands clipping orange from branch. “Oranges are picked by hand and put gently into a bag to prevent bruising. These bags hold about 100 of the fruit.” Workers pose, one throws oranges. “Mexican and Japanese pickers harvest the California orange crop.” Workers pose. “At the packing house the oranges are cleaned and sorted. A machine washes and scrubs the golden fruit.” Oranges travel along conveyor belt. “Oranges are sorted by machinery. The best grade is the heaviest fruit.” Sorting machinery in operation. “Fruit imperfect in color or form is hand sorted.”…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1922
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-348)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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