182 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



A NEW METHOD. 



Marshall Bros, of Arlingon have instituted a new method in 

 connection with the use of fiat tables. The graders are paid by I he 

 bushel for all apples graded. A record is kept by means of cards of 

 different colors. Each grader has a color and places a card in every 

 bushel basket of graded fruit. These are collected by the foreman as 

 the baskets are emptied. All cards for each separate grade are thrown 

 together, therefore the number of bushels of each grade sorted by each 

 man can be ascertained by counting the cards of his color in each grade, 

 i. e. Mr. A, whose color is yellow and who has ten cards in the first 



Flat table at Marshall Bros., Arlington. 



grade, fifteen in the second and five in the third, will have sorted 30 

 bushels of apples. In keeping a record of the culls each man has a 

 card tacked to the table, and each time a basket of culls is emptied 

 the foreman punches the ticket. By paying for the sorting of all 

 grades, any tendency to run poor fruits into the grades is obviated. 

 Any poorly graded or bruised fruit can be traced directly back to the 

 grader who did the poor work. 



Mr. Geo. Marshall states that his men do much more and better 

 work under this system than under any other he has used. The cost 

 of packing per barrel by this method was as follows: 



