76 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
receptacle, the split-wood strawberry box, 
holding about a quart, being the most com- 
monly used. Each picker should have four 
or six of these boxes, and for convenience 
in carrying them should have a_ picking 
stand. This stand can be home-made, con- 
sisting of a tray of sufficient size to hold 
the number of boxes required, mounted on 
four short legs, holding the tray off the 
ground, to prevent injury to the fruit or the 
plants and doing away with spilling of the 
boxes gathered. 
A handle of either part of a barrel hoop, 
or heavy wire, firmly attached to the sides 
of the tray for convenience in carrying, is 
also valuable. With one of these trays and 
six boxes, the pickers can grade the berries 
into three or more classes: 
First grade: extra large selected berries; 
Second grade: medium size berries; Third 
grade: culls. If the pickers are careful in 
this matter of grading and picking with 
hulls attached to berries, the boxes can be 
placed from the pickers’ trays into the crates 
for shipment. 
As each picker brings in his full boxes 
of strawberries, it is highly important that 
