C. H. Gould. 



39$ The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



time, this precaution is not so essential as it is in 

 falls which are dry, bright and warm. 



Keeping records with the pickers. There are va- 

 rious methods of keeping accounts with berry pickers. 

 Perhaps the commonest mode in large patches is a 

 simple ticket, like Fig. 87, which is given to the 

 picker in exchange for the 

 berries which are delivered. 

 There are tickets of various 



6 denominations, the figures rep- 



resenting quarts, so that any 

 number of quarts can be rep- 

 resented by combinations of 

 tickets. These tickets are so 

 often lost that they may soon 



though some growers prefer 



them for this very reason, for all that are lost do 

 not have to be redeemed. Several growers, there- 

 fore, have designed tickets which can be tied to 

 the person by a string, which bear the picker's 

 name, and in which the numbers are cancelled by 

 a punch. Two good styles are shown, half-size, 

 in Figs. 88 and 89. In the latter are two 

 styles of punch marks, representing different fore- 

 men. Other growers abolish all ticket systems out- 

 right, and keep a book account with each picker ; 

 and, what is better, they pay by the pound. A 

 small, flat -topped grocers' scale may be taken to the 

 shed in the berry field. Each picker is numbered, 

 and he picks in an eight -pound or ten -pound Climax 



