54 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



Each picker is provided with a printed punch card, 

 which is usually either written with the picker's name 

 or punched with his number. Along the margins of 

 the card various numbers are printed, and these are 

 punched with a conductor's punch by the foreman 

 as the baskets are delivered. Each picker retains his 

 own punch card all the while, and is solely responsible 



Strawberry Bill Fruit Farm Berry Ticket. 



I agree to pay at end of season to the picker 

 boee number appears hereon, siibject to, Rales 

 1 Back, the amouiit punched out on-thia card. 

 No Transfer. 



GEO. A. DAVIS, Pro. 



FIG. 13 — ANOTHER FORM OK PUNCH CARD USED BY 

 MR. DAVIS 



for it. In some fields it is customary to issue a fresh 

 card every morning. In other places the cards and 

 the work are of such a nature that the same card will 

 record the pickings for several days or for a whole 

 week. 



Without presuming to offer any new scheme, we 

 may point out that none of these systems is perfect. 

 If some device could be arranged whereby the foreman 

 and the picker could quickly secure duplicate records 

 of each parcel of fruit delivered it would come nearer 

 the ideal system. Something like a railway train con- 

 ductor's cash-fare ticket might answer. This would 



