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Table VII. — Imperfections in the work of five picking crews doing good work as compared 
with five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. 
Class of imperfections. 
Five good 
crews. 
Five poor 
crews. 
Five good 
crews. 
Five poor 
crews. 
Clipper cuts 
Long stems. 
Fulled 
Per cent. 
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3.6 
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Per cent. 
24.8 
7.9 
Per cent. 
0.8 
6.4 
1.2 
Per cent. 
7.2 
32.1 
6.7 
Along with the inspections of the work of the crews and the individual pickers, an 
attempt was made to demonstrate the practicability of training workmen to use more 
care. The workers of the Bureau of Plant Industry kept in close touch with the 
foreman of a representative picking crew, taking pains to indicate to him the scope 
and character of the inspections which it was desirable for him to make. In Table 
VIII and figure 9 are shown the results of work of this character. The first inspection 
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9. — Diagram illustrating the percentage of imperfections found during three inspections of one 
picking crew ranging from three to seven persons, showing great improvement. 
was made on January 14, when the crew consisted of four men, the average of imper- 
fections at that time being 5.4 per cent clipper cuts and 9.9 per cent long stems. The 
importance of careful work was urged upon the foreman and crew, and when on Janu- 
ary 20 a second inspection was made, a very material decrease was found in the per- 
centages of imperfections. The crew had been increased to seven by that time, and 
the average of clipper cuts was 0.9 per cent and of long stems 5.1 per cent. After an 
additional demonstration of the effects of rough handling, no examination of the work 
of the crew was made until March 4, when the third and last inspection of the season 
was made. The average percentages of the seven pickers composing the crew on 
that date were lper cent clipper cuts and 0.6 per cent long stems. An examination 
of the work of the different individuals shows that one man (picker No. 4) was doing 
practically all of the clipper cutting, his average being 6.4 per cent; it will also be 
noted that his average of long stems (2.8 per cent) was greater than that of any of the 
other pickers. If it was impossible for this workman to improve the character of his 
picking he should have been discharged. Without him the average percentage of 
clipper cuts would have been reduced to 0.7 per cent and of long stems to 0.5 per 
cent. 
