WHAT KINDS OF POTATOES HAVE PROVED VALUABLE? 225 



against is not to get too much seed in the ground. The same 

 rule holds good with potatoes as it does with corn. If you 

 plant too many kernels in a hill you will get small ears; and it 

 is the same way with potatoes, if you put in too much seed the 

 potatoes will be small. 



Mr. Bunnell: Is the Beauty of Hebron as early as any? 



Mr. Walker: Yes, it is as early as any potato. The Early 

 Ohio grows hollow like the old Peachblow. A large mealy 

 potato will grow hollow, but the Hebron never gets hollow. 

 So far as mealiness is concerned, I have never discovered any 

 difference. 



A METHOD OF KEEPING' ACCOUNTS WITH BERRY 



PICKERS. 



A. G. LONG, EXCELSIOR. 



There are various methods of keeping accounts with pickers, but 

 most of them are very crude and unsatisfactory, both to the grower 

 and to the picker, and a system in which the responsibility is 

 equally divided between the employer and the employe, and in 

 which there can be no question as to the correctness of the account, 

 is the one which would seem the most desirable to employ. 



While in the fruit growing business I made use of a method de- 

 scribed below, and, while employing from twenty-five to thirty 

 pickers daily during the berry season, there was not a single com- 

 plaint made as to the reliability of the account. 



A common shipping tag is used, the printing of which costs 

 about $1.50 per thousand. The letters from "A" to "H" are employed 

 to designate the numerals from 1 to 8. The line of figures down 

 the center of the card is an index or key to the letters, and should 

 never be punched. 



A cheap ticket punch, costing 50 cents, is used, and every time a 

 picker brings a carrier of fruit to the packing house the number of 

 boxes he has picked is punched out of the ticket (which is tied to a 



