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The Principles of Fruit-growing 



senting quarts, so that any number of quarts can be 

 represented by combinations of tickets. These tickets are 

 so often lost that they may soon come to be a nuisance, 

 although some growers may not object to them for this 

 reason, for all that are lost do not have to be redeemed. 

 Some growers, therefore, have designed tickets that can 

 be tied to the person by a string, bearing the picker's 

 name, and in which the numbers are cancelled by a punch. 





Fig. 147. Picker's tag. 



Fig. 148. Picker's tag. 



Two good styles are shown, half-size, in Figs. 147 and 148. 

 In the latter are two styles of punch marks, representing 

 different foremen. 



Other growers disregard all ticket systems outright, and 

 keep a book account with each picker; and, what is better, 

 they pay by the pound. A small, flat-topped grocers' 

 scale may be taken to the shed in the berry field. Each 

 picker is numbered, and he picks in an eight-pound or 

 ten-pound Climax basket. As he comes to the shed, he 



