PICKING AND MARKETING. 



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In wet weather, pick every day ; in fair, every other day. 

 Keep three grades, each by itself. First hunt up persons that 

 are willing to pay a fancy price for a fancy article, and they are 

 R. D. McGEEHAN to be found, lots of them. Sell the second 

 to grocers or fruit stands, and the third sell at home for what 

 you can get for them or use yourself, or feed to hogs. Take to a 

 cool, airy cellar as soon as they are picked. Always ship in the 

 evening if possible, so they will travel during the night. la. 



GEORGE J. KELLOGG Pickers by the day are most profitable; 

 they pick better and less fruit spoiled and more satisfactory. 



G. S. BUTLER Pick dry ; handle as little as possible ; pack at 

 once and market early. Conn. 



Pickers should never be allowed to walk over the beds or 

 handle berries except by the stem, which should be pinched off 

 one-half to three-quarters of an inch from the berry and the ber- 

 H. E. McKAY ries carefully placed in the boxes. Good super- 

 intendence in the field is better than sorting and packing in the 

 packing house. Select the best method of transportation rather 

 than low rates. Miss. 



WM. HOOVER Berries intended for shipping long distances 

 should be but half ripe, and all small berries and culls thrown out. 



Col. 



WM. JACKSON I pick no small or unsound berries. 111. 



I do not object to picking berries when 

 J. R. HAWKINS wet, they will soon dry 

 when put under cover if there is a good 

 circulation of air. N. Y. 



Be as honest as you can. Do not allow 

 pickers to put any trashy, rotten or green 

 berries in the box. To avoid this I find 

 W. C. WILSON that it is absolutely 



necessary to have a superintendent in the 

 patch and directly among the pickers. 

 Use clean new boxes. We use nothing J- R - HAWKINS 

 but gift boxes here, costing $2.10 per thousand. 111. 



A P. SAMPSON We pay two cents a quart. Kach picker has a 

 stand holding six boxes. Mass. 



