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number of the picker, the price paid a quart, the date on 

 which it ends and the cash paid at the close of that week. 

 If the picker loses his weekly ticket, the grower has the 

 daily tickets to check it. Each picker should be required 

 to write his name on the weekly ticket in ink ; then if it 

 is lost, no one else can col- 

 lect on it, for the name 

 cannot be erased without 

 detection. Some growers 

 make the ticket payable 

 to the picker whose name 

 is written on it, so that no 

 one else can collect on it. 



Another satisfactory 

 method is to give the 

 picker a ticket, and retain 

 a duplicate, of a different 

 color, at the packing shed. 

 When the picker comes in, 

 the two are placed together 

 and punched; there can 

 be no dispute thereafter as 

 to the number of boxes 

 delivered. 



Prices. 



Fig. 15. — The Wallace 

 Picking Record, daily ticket. 



Berry 



How often to pay off is mainly a matter of expediency. 

 Some pickers require a weekly settlement ; others can be 

 carried to the end of the season. In some of the large 

 shipping districts the growers issue aluminum "strawberry 

 money" which is accepted at face value by local stores. 

 If the picker is paid in full each Saturday, he may not re- 

 turn on Monday. A better way is to withhold one-quarter 



