86 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
Four-basket size, twelve for 60 cents; six- 
basket size, twelve for 75 cents; eight-basket 
size twelve for 75 cents. 
4. Checks, tags, or some good system of 
tallying boxes picked by the pickers is 
essential. 
Tags should have blank space for writing 
in the grower’s name, picker’s name, date 
issued, and price per quart. When the 
picker brings the berries into the packing 
house or shed, the grower or tallyman 
simply punches out the printed figure cor- 
responding with the number of quarts de- 
livered. Five hundred printed on No. 6 
shipping tags cost $2.25; one punch costs 
40 cents. 
5. Tent, shed, or packing house, contain- 
ing a sorting table and room for pre-cooling 
the fruit. This packing place need not be 
expensive, but can consist of a simple shelter, 
which will hold off the sun’s rays and permit 
of the cooling of the fruit. The sorting table 
can be home-made; two wooden horses and 
some boards, smooth side up, make a prac- 
tical table. 
6. A spring wagon to transport the fruit 
from the packing shed to the station is 
