398 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
time, this precaution is not so essential as it is in 
falls which are dry, bright and warm. 
Keeping records with the pickers.—There are va- 
rious methods of keeping accounts with berry pickers. 
Perhaps the commonest mode in large patches is a 
simple ticket, like Fig. 87, which is given to the 
picker in exchange for the 
| berries which are delivered. 
| There are tickets of various 
| denominations, the figures rep- 
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resenting quarts, so that any 
number of quarts can be rep- 
resented by combinations of 
tickets. These tickets are so 
often lost that they may soon 
Fig. 87. Pickers ticket, Come to be a nuisance, al- 
though some growers prefer 
them for this very reason, for all that are lost do 
not have to be redeemed. Several growers, there- 
fore, have designed tickets which can be tied to 
the person by a string, which bear the picker’s 
name, and in which the numbers are cancelled by 
a punch. Two good styles are shown, half-size, 
in Figs. 88 and 89. In the latter are two 
styles of punch marks, representing different fore- 
men. Other growers abolish all ticket systems omt- 
right, and keep a book aceount with cach picker ; 
and, what is hetter, they pay ly the pound. A 
small, flat-topped grocers’ seale may be taken to the 
shed in the berry field. Kach picker is numbered, 
and he picks in an eight-pound or ten-pound Climax 
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