European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse By Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau the Dawn to dusk business of harvesting apples is nearly clone and the worker is climbing Down Ore hard ladders with it l another Load Slung in his Waist Pouch. In in or or live Days the worker will the or in Jork Neir the t the River and move to the suburbs of Hamburg Whit h forms the Eastern Border of Germany s largest ont ent ration of fruit growers. An average of 200,000 tons of fruit mostly apples ire picked h year in the Altes land according to an official with the fruit growers testing Bureau in Fork. Fruit has been a Way of life for centuries in this District which encompasses nearly 31,000 acres and 6 million Trees South of i Fie r Ibe Between the cities of Stade and Hamburg. Beginning in late september and stretching to the end of october workers Are in the or hards from 7 . Until 5 p.m., rain or Shine. Sweet and soul Herries Peers and plums Are also harvested in the Alles land but apples account Lor nearly 80 pert end of the total fruit prod lion. Crates bulging with apples stand behind the neatly kept farmhouse in Neuenfeldt the of be owners rebuilt in 1980 to resemble its 17th-Century prod i lessor. This year s Harvest on the62-Jrre farm yielded less than in the previous year. But the Overall prom turn in the area was ii a
