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From: Geoffrey Tolle [mailto:Gtolle0709@wowway.com]
 I understand that the best way to collect them is a big sheet and a 
> good tree shaking every couple of days. Certainly hand picking is slow 
> and covers only a small portion of the tree.
>
Exactly what I did this year.  My 11-yr old daughter & I spread tarps beneath 
the two Illinois Everbearing trees; I shook out all I could, and put her up 
in the tree to climb up and shake some limbs that I couldn't get moving very 
well.  Then, we just picked up the fruits from the tarps, put 'em in our 
pails, and went to the house with 'em.

Seems like I remember Doc L. telling me he had a Pakistani colleague who said 
they always saw an epidemic of broken limbs - on the people, not the trees - 
during mulberry season, from folks falling out of the trees while picking 
&/or shaking.

Lucky