Irulegi Irratia
II-118a
- Record: II-118a
- Piece: A03
- Time: 00:11:20 - 00:26:40
- Themes: nutrition: cherries
- Summary: In a good year they have gathered up to two tons. If the cherry tree loses its flowers, it will not give any fruit. The best year was 1960. The two brothers and the father and a young boy would be all day picking the cherries. They would begin in the middle or the end of May and would finish in the middle or end of June. They would begin very early in the morning. Because in the afternoon you pick less as you don’t have the same strength. It is very bad for the varicose veins and every year someone would suffer that. They would be up the tree until the buyer came. They would be at the same work all month. If it rained they did not pick them. Now the cherry has disappeared from there. Whenever there was a good year, the earnings were very good. When it was the season for picking there was money in everyone’s pocket. The cherry pickers, the dealers, everyone would gather in the tavern in the evening.The cherries were not treated with anything.Sometimes they had to go to the very top of the tree but if it was very difficult the cherries were left there without breaking the branches. They would try to hold the branches down with cords and ladders.His father made ladders and everyone had his own. The cherry from Itsaso is good but now nobody goes that business. The cherry there was like the grape is to Bordeaux.
