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Pickers should pick with stems on, especially if fruit is large. 

 CHARLES WRIGHT This is hard to get done, especially in a 

 field where several hundred pickers are at work. Del. 



A. M. PURDY For long shipments pick every day to have firm 

 fruit. N. V. 



GEORGE F. BEEDE Pick in the cool of the day. Small mar- 

 kets near home are the best. N. H. 



The fruit should be graded in picking, being careful to pinch 

 off the berry rather than pull. In topping the basket the berries 

 E. W. REID should all be turned with the stem down and 

 point up. It makes the fruit more attractive and commands 

 better prices. O. 



ANDREW WILLSON Be careful to have the berries clean and as 

 uniform in size as possible. O. 



A. W. SLAYMAKER Pick only the best and market in clean 

 packages. Del. 



Build packing shed in centre of the patch. Have an overseer 

 BENJ. BUCKMAN of pickers to every twenty to forty pickers. 

 Use carriers containing six contingencies. Some send their ber- 

 ries too far. 111. 



BENJ. M. SMITH Pick early in the morning, and get them to 

 the consumer as early as possible. Mass. 



Picking should be done as early in the day as possible. None 

 T. J. DWYER but well ripened fruit should be put on the 

 market. It pays well to grade fruit, discarding that which is 

 small, irregular or soiled. N. Y. 



Have your baskets and crates neat and clean ; fill baskets so 

 they will go in the market slightly rounded. A few fresh 

 leaves laid on the top of the boxes sometimes add to their attrac- 

 EUGENE WlLLETT tiveness. Do not hide all the berries but 

 be sure they do not all come on top. If you have not private 

 customers find an honest commission merchant and stick to him ; 

 and if you deliver your own fruit, stand a few hours in front of 

 his store while your stock is being disposed of. It will pay. 



N. Y. 



