78 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
a box for picking strawberries, other places 
pay two cents, and in a great many districts 
one and one half cents is paid. From care- 
fully worked out figures the latter amount 
is the average price for picking in the many 
strawberry sections. Pay day comes at 
the end of the season as a rule, as the pickers 
are retained better by paying but once; or, 
if paid weekly, one quarter to one half the 
pay is retained. 
The average picker, in my experience, will 
pick from thirty to forty quarts in the morn- 
ing—that is, from 9 to 12 o’clock. One 
report from New Hampshire states that a 
young woman of sixteen picked one hundred 
quarts in six hours. 
PACKING 
As the full boxes are brought from the field, 
they are given to the packers. The packers 
should not be in the full sunlight, but in 
the shade of a tree, under a tent or tem- 
porary building, or in a permanent build- 
ing. The strawberries when received should 
be placed in a cool room where the tem- 
perature can be held at 50 degrees, or, in 
case this is not possible, they should be 
