SHIPMENT OF RED RASPBERRIES. 9 
vesting season in the various yards where they are doing the picking. 
They usually remain until the end of the blackberry season, some- 
time in September. Some of these people return from year to year, 
but most of them have had no previous experience. This results in 
some very poor work as regards both sorting and handling. Each 
picker is provided with a 2-cup carrier attached to the waist and 
when the cups are full they are transferred to 6-cup field carriers 
provided with handles. (Figs. 10 and 11.) These 6-basket carriers 
when filled are carried to the receiving sheds, where the berries are 
sorted and crated. (Fig. 12.) Usually each picker is assigned to 
a particular row or rows and is held responsible for the harvesting 
of a certain portion of the row or yard. A foreman or the grower 
lic. 8.—Red raspberries trained in accordance with the divided-row system, the canes 
being tied to wires on either side or held in place by an outside wire. Topping may 
be practiced, if desired. 
supervises the picking, instructing each picker as to the kind of ber- 
ries to be picked and how to pick them. At the receiving shed the 
grower or receiver does more or less sorting by cups, placing the 
cups containing what are considered shipping berries into shipping 
crates and cups with berries too ripe for shipping into cannery crates. 
The shipping quality is determined by the appearance of the fruit in 
the box as regards its degree of ripeness and firmness, the fruit never 
being emptied out for resorting or grading. The final determination 
of the shipping fruit is, however, made by the association inspectors, 
and it is not unusual for berries put in shipping crates by the grower 
to be rejected and sent to the cannery when inspected at the associa- 
tion receiving station. 
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