86 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



Four-basket size, twelve for 60 cents; six- 

 basket size, twelve for 75 cents; eight-basket 

 size twelve for 75 cents. 



4. Checks, tags, or some good system of 

 tallying boxes picked by the pickers is 

 essential. 



Tags should have blank space for writing 

 in the grower's name, picker's name, date 

 issued, and price per quart. When the 

 picker brings the berries into the packing 

 house or shed, the grower or tallyman 

 simply punches out the printed figure cor- 

 responding with the number of quarts de- 

 livered. Five hundred printed on No. 6 

 shipping tags cost ^2.25; one punch costs 

 40 cents. 



5. Tent, shed, or packing house, contain- 

 ing a sorting table and room for pre-cooling 

 the fruit. This packing place need not be 

 expensive, but can consist of a simple shelter, 

 which will hold off the sun's rays and permit 

 of the cooling of the fruit. The sorting table 

 can be home-made; two wooden horses and 

 some boards, smooth side up, make a prac- 

 tical table. 



6. A spring wagon to transport the fruit 

 from the packing shed to the station is 



