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than five boxes; shade the fruit as soon as picked. Girls and 

 women preferred to boys; do not allow talking' by the pickers; give 

 gum to remedy eating. A number is given to each picker, and his 

 stand has the same number. Two to four pickers to each row. 

 Use a good smart girl for packing, who reports any bad picking. 

 All fruit should be picked with short stem and calix, as it gives a 

 better appearance in the box, that for distant market greener than 

 for a near at hand, market. 



A table was shown for using in the field, arranged with a cloth 

 shade that could be tilted at any angle either way and high enough 

 not to interfere with the person sorting and packing. The price 

 paid per box for picking was 1 '4 cents regular, and adding J4 cent 

 at end of season to all pickers who remained through the season. 

 The full carriers are gathered by one boy, who will attend to fifteen 

 pickers. Empty quarts are used while carriers are being emptied. 

 The overseer does not carry crates; his business should be to over- 

 see the picking, that the bed is picked clean and no inferior fruit 

 put in the bottom of the boxes. Color blindness is a defect that 

 some pickers cannot overcome — such should be dismissed. 



Warneld was thought better than Bubach. 



Raspberries. — Nemaha thought to be better than Older, Marl- 

 boro better than Cuthbert, somewhat depending on kind of soil. 

 The first is adapted to clay loam soils, the latter to sandy loam soils. 

 Price of picking was discussed, varying from 1*4 to 1J2 cents per 

 quart, some reserving the extra %. cent to be paid at end of sea- 

 son to all pickers that have staid through the picking season. One 

 reported 158 quarts for a day's picking, and eighty quarts in five 

 hours by another — to do this fruit must be extra fine. 



Average price paid by the day was $1.20 for best pickers. 



Why girls were preferred to boys was, as a rule, they were bet- 

 ter pickers and easier to manage. Question was asked at what 

 point do you dismiss pickers and for what cause? Answer: Dis- 

 honesty in filling boxes, disobedience; dismiss the third time de- 

 tected. Reformatory measures should be used with the most ex- 

 pert pickers. Willingness to learn should at all times be consid- 

 ered. Some growers hire ten and twelve boys by the day, using 

 them pulling weeds and other work when not gathering fruit, add- 

 ing pickers by the quart in the rush of the season. 



The next paper on the program was by that experienced orchard- 

 ist and small fruit grower, A. L. Hatch, from Sturgeon Bay, on 

 "Implements for Small Fruit Culture." These consist largely of 

 such as are used in the growing of farm crops, adding a disk har- 

 row for covering weeds and manure in preparing the land for 



