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giving an empty one, and a ticket. This enables the pickers to 

 keep tlieir pkices, and saves a great deal of careless moving 

 around on the bed. The overseer should pass around fre- 

 quently among the pickers and see that they are doing their 

 work right, examining their partly filled boxes often, and look- 

 ing after their rows to see if picked clean. If the pickers are 

 o-etting scattered so as to make it inconvenient to wait upon 

 them, those whose rows are ahead should be placed on the row 

 or rows that are behind — right opposite where they are — and 

 work back until they meet, then each should take his own row 

 again. The overseer will find time to case the berries ready 

 for market, and have them put in a cool place as soon as full 

 cases are gathered. When through picking for the day, count 

 the tickets of each picker, and place the number, with the 

 price paid per quart for picking, in pickers' account-book, to 

 his credit. 



MARKETING. 



If feerries are picked in the middle of the day they should 

 be cobled through before forwarding, if possible, by placing 

 them in a cool, dry cellar. They should be carried on springs, 

 and handled witli care, and forwarded to fruit dealers that have 

 a good retail trade, and who will not rush off a large quantity 

 at a low price, just for the sake of selling at a good profit a lot 

 of cans or some other stock which they may happen to have. 

 I find it the fairer way, both for the grower and dealer, to send 

 the berries regularly through the season, giving the dealer 

 power to fix the price from day to day, with the unde-rstanding 

 that he is to sell at the top of the market in his locality, and 

 that he is to receive a certain per cent, on the selling price. 

 He must also send weekly statements of his sales. If the 

 market should get overstocked at any time at some of the 

 places shipped to, most dealers will gladly release a grower for 

 a few days on a part or the whole of the, regular shipment if 

 wished, and the surplus can be sent to those that are not over- 

 stocked. A home market should not be overlooked, and the 

 grower should use his own judgment some, as he will know 

 the c-^udition of the market. 



