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half a box, yoa punch the card every time a carrier is brought in ; if 

 you want to pay a cent a box, I use mauilla cards — take a manilla card. 

 This year we made it a rule that if our pickers would 8ta>y with us as 

 long as we wanted them, we would pay a cent and a quarter a box, 

 provided our berries netted us less than $1.75 a crate; if more than 

 $1.75, we paid a cent and a half, and if they got tired or fired they got 

 a cent a box. 



On a shipping tag you can get five rows of figures from the top 

 to the bottom of the card, making an addition of six on one card and 

 nine on the other, and still have room on the right hand of the card 

 for additions of 1, 2 and 3 for odd boxes ; during the season, if a picker 

 wants a dollar or two, the cards will show whether there is that much 

 due him, and if he has picked that many boxes, we give it to him and 

 punch in the center of the card the number of even dollars. 



By adopting this plan we have had less trouble than we ever had 

 before, and there is no book-keeping about it, the accounts are always 

 footed up, and it is very much less trouble than any system I have 

 ever tried. I intend to get an electrotype of the form so I can print 

 the cards very cheaply. 



By Mr. Zink — I have tried to reduce this matter of picking to a 

 system, and while I may not have it down to a system yet, I at least 

 have it on a much better plan. I have my pickers numbered from 1 up 

 to as many as I have and I have my bandies numbered, and then I 

 have a man mark the boxes as they come in with the number of the 

 person, and when a person comes in, for instance it is 23, I will have 

 him turn the box over and mark it 23, and no matter whether it is a 

 half day or half hour I can go to any box that is there and tell just 

 who picked it, and if there is any better way of detecting any fraud I 

 want to know it. 



Question : Do you mean to say you have each box of berries emp- 

 tied out and the box marked and the berries put back in ? 



No, sir; I have my man just hold the box up this way and mark 

 the number right on the bottom and I can go there and lift the box 

 and look under there and see just who picked it. 



Mr. Gilbert — I would like to call attention to the Babbit rasp- 

 berry I am growing; it is very productive and one of the best shippers 

 that I know of. They will arrive in good shape at Iheir destination 

 over almost any distance you want to send them. 



Mr. Murray — I am with Mr. Gilbert ; I think that is an Iowa berry ; 

 it makes a good grower in Iowa; it has proved more productive than 

 the Hopkins and one that will sell better, I saw them in Iowa side by 

 side, the treatment was identical, and I wouldn't be positive about the 



