56 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



the foreman merely keeps account of the time. Apples 

 are sometimes picked by the barrel, however, and in 

 that case it is best simply to furnish each picker with 

 a piece of chalk, directing him to mark his number 

 on each barrel picked. When the barrels are hauled 

 into the packing or storage shed the foreman's account 

 can then be made up from the numbers. When apples 

 or pears are picked by the bushel, by the basket, or in 

 any similar way, the record may best be kept by one 

 of the systems described above. 



In the management of pickers it will be found of 

 the utmost importance to assign each one to a given 

 row or tree, and require him to pick it clean. All sorts 

 of serious difficulties arise if the least neglect of this 

 precaution is allowed. 



