SHIPMENT OF RED BASPBEEBIES. 



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the car-lot season are, as a rule, too ripe to stand long-distance 

 shipment. 



PICKING. 



The picking is done by men, women, and children, most of whom 

 come from neighboring towns and cities and camp during the har- 

 vesting season in the various yards where they are doing the picking. 

 They usually remain until the end of the blackberry season, some- 

 time in September. Some of these people return from year to year, 

 but most of them have had no previous experience. This results in 

 some very poor work as regards both sorting and handling. Each 



FlO. 10. — Picking red raspberries at Sumner, Wusli. Mote the rank growth of new 



canes. 



picker is provided with a 2-cup carrier attached to the waist and 

 wlnii tin- mps are full they are transferred to 6-cup field carriers 

 provided with handles. (Figs. LO and 11.) These 6-basket carriers 

 when filled are carried to the receiving sheds, where (he berries are 

 sorted and crated. (Fig. L2.) Usually each picker is assigned t<> 

 a particular row <<r rows and is held responsible for the harvesting 

 of ;i certain portion of the row or yard. A foreman or the grower 

 supervises (lie picking, instructing each picker us to (he kind of ber- 

 i ie to be picked and bow to pick them. At (he receiving shed (he 

 grower or receiver does more or less sorting by cups, placing (lie 

 cup-, containing whal are considered shipping berries into shipping 



