PICKING, PACKING, AND MARKETING 77 
some form of bookkeeping should be carried 
out so that each worker will receive full 
credit for the number of boxes picked. The 
system of a tallyman, who has each picker’s 
name, and marks against these names the 
number of boxes picked, has not proved 
satisfactory, because of the lack of confidence 
in the tallyman by the pickers. 
The method of giving checks which have 
numbers from one to ten on them, denoting 
the number of boxes received, has proved 
quite satisfactory. These checks can be 
again exchanged for checks of higher denom- 
ination as 20, 30, 40, 50, etc. The great 
advantage of this method is that each one 
of the pickers keeps his own books and is paid 
according to the amount of checks turned 
in on the day of settling accounts. Pickers, 
however, are liable to lose the checks which 
causes some misunderstanding at times. 
Tags which have numbers from 1 to 50 
printed on them, which are punched as the 
picker turns in the full boxes, are found to 
be the best system to date. 
Pickers are generally paid by the box, and 
the more experienced the worker, the larger 
the income. Some sections pay one cent 
