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the undertaking with a will and strong determination that 

 it is a noble and interesting pursuit, worthy of all the push 

 and attention we are able to give it. Believing that to 

 grow or handle the fruit successfully on a large scale it 

 needs to have the undivided attention of the proprietor, not 

 only in the early part of the season when the vitality and 

 vigor of the growth are among the necessary essentials for 

 the thorough development of the fruit, strict attention is 

 necessary from the early spring till autumn, and no one 

 can afford to neglect this branch of the business who have 

 adopted it as their line of business, and in the line of fruit 

 culture, we may truly say, who loves his work and im- 

 proves his time may shrewdly jerk in many a dime. 



We do not feel inclined to write anything on an im- 

 aginary way to handle or market our fruit. Our aim is 

 to have it practical not theoretical, and you will pardon 

 me if I give you my mode of procedure, not that I con- 

 sider my mode perfect. I think there is something in a sys- 

 tem. We will take it for granted that we have not over- 

 looked the sure signs of the approaching harvest which is 

 near at hand, and have made our arrangements for handling 

 the crop by having our .boxes and cases procured and made 

 up ready; our carriers also ready, and our picking all ready 

 in order, our pickers engaged; and here comes a class who 

 are very essentially co-partners with the proprietor in the 

 care oi, and picking the fruit. An average picker is not one 

 who wish to mingle or to be too intimately associated with, 

 yet I claim that when they come to your place in the morning 

 ready to go to work at your bidding when you meet them 

 have a good word for them. A good morning said to them 

 will cause a good feeling to prevail between you and your 

 help. Though this may seem as a very little matter yet in 

 the interest and care which they take in the picking and 

 care of your fruit you will see the effects of kindness, and 

 by thus doing you can impress upon the average Young 

 America that after they have begun picking that playing and 

 mischief are to be dispensed with. Each of my pickers is 

 supplied with a hand-carrier holding six boxes, also a tin 

 box — which is attached by a string or strap around their 



