THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



And when I am done with the straw for 

 the berry covering I foric it over into the 

 rows of raspberries, which is a great benefit 

 to them. Then, too, the raspberries make 

 a fine siiade in which to set your crates and 

 boxes of strawberries to protect them from 

 the hot rays of the sun. 



Last season and the season before I set 

 out a new patch of berries of about two 

 acres and I see Mr. Beatty is taking my 

 plan of setting them out or advocating it, 

 and that is by setting the berries four feet 

 apart in rows and planting potatoes be- 

 tween, which is I think an excellent plan 

 where one has as fine a soil as I have. 

 In that way I do not lose the use of the 

 ground for one season, and when I am 

 working the potatoes I am working the 

 berries also. Your potatoes, if you plant 

 the early varieties, can be dug and the 

 ground all leveled down in plenty of time 

 for the berries to run out as far as you 

 want them, and if there are any grubs they 

 will most likely be in the potato hill and 

 you will find them. And woe to the grub 

 when 1 see him! Then, too, I had some 

 late-hatched chickens and I put the old 

 hen's coop near where I was digging the • 

 potatoes and those little chicks were soon 

 busy helping me kill grubs. 



By the way, if W. H. R., Cascade, 

 B. C, would put a few hens with little 

 chickens in his strawberry patch they will 

 clean out the cut-worms. Those little 

 chicks will be out of their coop at the 

 break of day and gather up the worms 

 before they have time to get back into 

 the ground. The worms do their work 

 at about day-break. 



I am putting quite a large quantity of 

 ashes on my berry ground, which I think 

 is very beneficial, and it is an enemy to 

 the white grub. I am intending setting 

 out some 8,000 plants of different kinds 

 this spring and think the most of them 

 will be thoroughbreds. If I can help any 

 one in giving them any pointers in the line 

 of growing berries of either kind — straw- 

 berries or raspberries — I want to do it. 



Quasqueton, Iowa. 



Picking and Marketing Strawberries 



HOW shall I handle my pickers.' is 

 the question that comes to us fre- 

 quently at this season of the year. 

 The Strawberry has in the past had some- 

 thing to say on this subject. Herewith 

 we publish the method outlined in Rural 

 New-Yorker by H. W. Jenkins, an ex- 

 tensive grower of strawberries in Missouri. 

 Mr. Jenkins says: 



"Picking and marketing strawberries is 

 a business of itself and requires a man of 

 energy with the skill and genius of a Jap- 

 anese major-general to manage success- 

 fully a gang of pickers on the one hand 

 and a lot of impatient customers on the 

 other. 



"My pickers are each given a number, 

 their names and numbers entered on a 

 pass book, and each is required to sign his 



name to a printed berry ticket containing 

 printed rules, which specify that all work 

 shall be done quickly and neatly. No 

 fussing, swearing or playing is allowed in 

 the berry field, and 25 per cent of wages 

 held back till the close of the season. 

 Anyone discharged for misconduct or who 

 quits the job before the work is finished, 

 loses the 25 per cent. On going to work 

 each picker is furnished with a picking 

 stand and seven quart boxes and also given 

 printed slips containing their number, one 



of which the picker is required to deposit 

 in the bottom of his box. This way each 

 picker's berries can be identified and traced. 

 This keeps them all on their guard to do 

 good work. When the boxes are filled, 

 the pickers bring their berries to packing 

 shed and get their credit, which is always 

 punched in their tickets kept by them. 

 When the amount of $1 is punched, then 

 a new ticket is issued. 



"An overseer stays with the pickers at 

 all times and every row begun must be 



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