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better he can take care of his business. Having put a 

 woman in charge of the sorters he can go into the sorting,' 

 }*hed and look around. If he sees that the baskets are not 

 full enough, or are too full, or that the sorting is not don ; 

 r"ght, he does not have to hunt up the one that made the 

 mistake, but simply call the attention of the woman in 

 charge to the error. She looks after it. Tf a customer 

 comes and wishes to buy a few l)askets of peaches he can 

 .iust say, "The lady will wait on you." He can then go into 

 the orchard and look around. If he finds that a tree has 

 been skipped, that the peaches are being picked too green, 

 or not close enough, or are being too roughly handled, or 

 again if he wants a gang of men to go somewhere else to 

 work, he simply has to tell the foreman who looks out for 

 the rest. In this way a man can handle an enormous 

 amount of work. While men who have large gangs of men 

 working all the year roimd have a system, we who have a 

 large gang of men for only a few weeks are apt to handle 

 them in a slipshod way. 



Buy your baskets early, that is, just as soon as the 

 Winter is far enough advanced so that you are reasonably 

 sure of a crop. So to get the hauling out of the way and 

 have the baskets on hand. Then too they are generally a 

 little cheaper at this time, than at harvest time. While 

 harvesting keep close watch of your stock of baskets and 

 the amount of peaches to be picked. If you see that you are 

 going to run short order more just as soon as possible. For 

 sometimes, it is difficult to get baskets at this season. If 

 you have not baskets enough to hold the crop, and cannot 

 get them, then you must let the peaches rot on the ground, 

 and you have had the expense, labor and anxiety all for 

 nothing. Better carry over 1000 baskets than be a hundred 

 short. 



In some fields, the trees, especially apple trees, are bad- 

 ly damaged by deer. The writer built a fence around an 

 eleven acre field, using woven wire 55 inches high at the 

 bottom and put two barbed wires about a foot apart on top 

 making the fence about 6 1-2 feet high, putting the posts a 



