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If your help knows there is some one around to direct them, even 

 if they understand what they are to do, they will go at their work with 

 more interest. You can keep your help hetter satisfied and keep them 

 longer, by having your work well systematized, and let them think they 

 are expected to carry out their portion. A worker likes to know they 

 are appreciated and a kind word is a little thing but will work wonders 

 sometimes in accomplishing better and more satisfactory results. 



We have had as many as 85 packers in the cherry work. We have 

 never missed but one morning of being there when the seven o'clock 

 bell rung. Don't ever leave your help alone, they will not work as 

 well. Mr. Eose has often said to me when I did not feel able to go 

 to the packing house: ''Can't you bring your rocking chair and sit 

 where they know you are and where you can dictate the work?" Be 

 very firm and decided with the workers but don't nag them. 



In Alabama I have started to the field with 125 negroes following 

 along, laughing and joking about their little Boss, "She don't carry 

 a gun or club." When Mr. Rose started his berry work in the South, 

 the Southerner said, "You will have to carry a gun or club, for the 

 nigger will have to be knocked down a couple of times before he will 

 work good." We never had any trouble, kept our help, picked our 

 herries in better shape than some of the fields where they worked their 

 help at the point of the gun. We loaned our negroes one day to an 

 adjoining berry grower. During the day Mr. Rose and I went over to 

 see how they were getting along. When we came near where they 

 were picking berries they expressed a delight at seeing us and when 

 asked how they were getting along, said : "We don't like this boss. He 

 carries a gun. We like you-alls better." We assured them that the 

 boss would not hurt them if they worked all right, and then we started 

 back. We had only gone a half-mile when we looked back and there 

 came every one of our negroes. We stopped and when they came up 

 we persuaded them to go back and finish the day, but they said: "No, 

 sail ; Ave will work for you-alls but we don't Avork over there no more." 

 We saw Iioav they felt about it so told them, "All right go back to 

 their cabins and Avork for us in the morning." Kindness, even with 

 the negro, got our work done better than a club. 



We never hire our day help for any one piece of work. Then they 

 can not complain if they are changed from one job to another, if I need 

 more packers, I call them from the pickers and if the foreman needs 

 more pickers I send the packers out to help him. We have had girls 

 Avork 8 and 10 j'ears in the fruit work. They enjoy it and will plan from 

 one year to another, what they are going to do, and have their money 

 spent, in their minds, a year ahead. Always be interested in each 

 worker, study them to knoAv what part of your work they are best 

 adapted to. You may have a person that seems a failure at one thing 

 and may make a splendid hand at something else. Our foreman 

 brought a man from the orchard to me at the packing house and said: 

 "Can you use him here, I can't use him in the orchard. I set him to 

 nailing packages, and he did fine work the rest of the season. 



Just a word to the woman that has some money to invest and con- 

 templates launching out in fruit-work. Be careful in selecting a loca- 

 tion, if possible get near enough some town or shipping point Avhere 



