CHAPTER XXIII. 



PICKING AND MARKETING. 



(Continued.) 



The ticket system and the punch must go. TIM. 



I FORMERLY used tickets or cards, containing num- 

 bers, and a punch, to keep accounts with pickers* 

 but the past season I tried the system recom- 

 mended by John M. Btahl, in the Farm Journal, and 

 liked it so well that I would not think of returning 

 to the old way. It works like a charm, the pickers- 

 are satisfied, and it is no trouble. I think Mr. Stahl 

 had his plan, which is in use about Quincy, 111., first 

 printed in the Country Gentleman. 



A bulletin board is erected just outside of the door 

 of the receiving and packing room. For each day a 

 paper is prepared, to be tacked on the bulletin board. 

 Heavy book paper of the required size can be got at 

 almost any job printing establishment. This paper 

 is ruled with lines half an inch apart, and horizontal 

 when the paper is on the board. Along the left margin, 

 there is a space ruled off for the 

 numbers, next for the names of the 

 pickers, and then a dozen or more 

 spaces in which to put down the 

 number of quarts brought in by 

 each picker. (See cut). Every 

 picker has a number. This is im- 

 portant ; let the pickers be referred 

 to by their numbers, not by their 

 names. 



