PICKING 



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require to be furnished with three sets of numbers: 

 one to give the picker's number, one for the date, and 

 one for the number of quarts or baskets delivered. 

 This would be somewhat complicated, since it would 

 require three punchings and the removal of the picker's 

 duplicate slip for each delivery of packages. Still this 

 system might be. adapted to suit certain circumstances 

 very nicely. 



It ought to be remarked that frequent pay days 



SIMPSON'S IMPROVED TALLY SYSTEM 



For Tallying Be.rries, Hops, Milk, Etc 

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are very desirable, no matter what system of accounting 

 is followed. The opportunities for losing tickets or 

 for making various mistakes are so numerous that 

 every occasion should be taken for preventing such 

 difficulties. With pay day coming as often as once a 

 week mistakes can be more easily discovered and recti- 

 fied. If payment can be made at the end of every 

 day it is still better. The memory of the foreman and 

 of the picker, taken jointly, is worth something then. 

 Apple pickers usually work by the day, and peach 

 and plum pickers often do. In such circumstances 



