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BIGGIE BERRY BOOK. 



Pay pickers at the end of the season, aud pay those who 

 stand by you after the berries get small a half-cent per quart 

 more than transients. This will hold them together as long as 

 TlM you want them. L,et the last picking be for halves 

 half for you and half for the pickers. Small berries must stay 

 at home ; the markets want large berries. Use a spring wagon 

 only to haul berries. Pa. 



Berries should be picked, as far as possible, when the vines 

 are dry ; all soft berries thrown out. They should be handled as 

 little as possible. Take a light hold of berry with thumb and 

 finger, give it a little twirl, pulling from where the berry is fast 

 to the ground. Never pull backwards, as you will split the stem 

 H. S. TIMBRELL and destroy the young berries. In look- 

 ing for berries never bear down on the foliage, but always run 

 the hand under and lift up. In this way the foliage is kept in 

 good shape. In the beginning of the picking season there should 

 be great pains taken to preserve the foliage and green fruit, 

 Women make the best pickers. Round up basket well, and 

 market as near home as possible. N. Y. 



I would pick the berries as soon as the people would buy, even 

 though they were white on one side, and I would pick off every- 

 A. I. ROOT thing in the shape of a berry, no matter whether 

 it was sold, given away, or thrown away. Never let berries get 

 overripe on the vines. O. 



