20 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 



berries it is customary to pay l 1 /^ cents a quart; in 

 Michigan, about the same ; while in New England states, 

 2 cents is often paid. In the case of the raspberry or 

 blackberry, often as high as 3 or 4 cents a quart is paid. 

 Keeping Records. Where berries or fruit are picked 

 by the quart it is necessary to have some system of 

 keeping records. This is usually done by means of 



Fig. 15. A BAND OF APPLE PICKERS IN MAINE 



tickets. Small pasteboard tickets, on which are printed 

 the various number of quarts, are handed out to the 

 pickers as they bring in their carriers of berries. Some 

 of the tickets have several numbers marked around the 

 border and a place in the center to write the picker's 

 name, and as the berries are brought in, the super- 

 intendent or foreman punches out the number corre- 

 sponding with the number of quarts brought. 



This method has not always proved satisfactory be- 



