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Table VII. — ■Im'perfections in the vjork of five picking crews doing good vjork as compared 

 with five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. 



Class of imperfections. 



1910-11 



Five good 

 crews. 



Five poor 

 crews. 



1911-12 



Five good 

 crews. 



Five poor 

 crews. 



Clipper cuts 

 Long stems. 

 Pulled , 



Per cent. 

 1.4 

 3.6 



Per cent. 

 8.9 

 24.8 



Per cent. 

 0.8 

 6.4 

 1.2 



Per cent. 

 7.2 

 32.1 

 6.7 



Along with, the inspections of the work of the crews and the individual pickers, an 

 attempt was made to demonstrate the practicability of training workmen to use more 

 care. The workers of the Bureau of Plant Industry kept in close touch, with the 

 foreman of a representative picking crew, taking pains to indicate to him the scope 

 and character of the inspections which, it waa desirable for Mm to make. In Table 

 VIII and figure 9 are shown the results of work of this character. The first inspection 



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Fig. 9. — Diagram illustrating the percentage of imperfections found during three inspections of one 

 picking crew ranging from three to seven persons, showing great improvement. 



■was made on January 14, when the crew consisted of four men, the average of imper- 

 fections at that time being .5.4 per cent clipper cuts and 9.9 per cent long stems. The 

 importance of careful work was urged upon the foreman and crew, and when on Janu- 

 ary 20 a second inspection was made, a very material decrease was found in the per- 

 centages of imperfections. The crew had been increased to seven by that time, and 

 the average of clipper cuts was 0.9 per cent and of long stems 5.1 per cent. After an 

 additional demonstration of the effects of rough handUng, no examination of the work 

 of the crew was made until March 4, when the third and last inspection of the season 

 was made. The average percentages of the seven pickers composing the crew on 

 that date were Iper cent cUpper cuts and 0.6 per cent long stems. An examination 

 of the work of the different individuals shows that one man (picker No. 4) waa doing 

 practically all of the chpper cutting, hia average being 6.4 per cent; it will also be 

 noted that his average of long stems (2.8 per cent) was greater than that of any of the 

 other pickers. If it was impossible for thia workman to improve the character of his 

 picking he should have been discharged. Without him the average percentage of 

 clipper cuts would have been reduced to 0.7 per cent and of long stema to 0.5 per 

 cent. 



