76 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



receptacle, the split-wood strawberry box, 

 holding about a quart, being the most com- 

 monly used. Each picker should have four 

 or six of these boxes, and for convenience 

 in carrying them should have a picking 

 stand. This stand can be home-made, con- 

 sisting of a tray of sufficient size to hold 

 the number of boxes required, mounted on 

 four short legs, holding the tray off the 

 ground, to prevent injury to the fruit or the 

 plants and doing away with spilling of the 

 boxes gathered. 



A handle of either part of a barrel hoop, 

 or heavy wire, firmly attached to the sides 

 of the tray for convenience in carrying, is 

 also valuable. With one of these trays and 

 six boxes, the pickers can grade the berries 

 into three or more classes : 



First grade: extra large selected berries; 

 Second grade: medium size berries; Third 

 grade: culls. If the pickers are careful in 

 this matter of grading and picking with 

 hulls attached to berries, the boxes can be 

 placed from the pickers' trays into the crates 

 for shipment. 



As each picker brings in his full boxes 

 of strawberries, it is highly important that 



