Keeping Tally on Pickers 
There are two systems of keeping tally , 
on the number of bushels of peas picked 
in the green pea section of this country. 
Both give satisfaction in their respective 
sections to both the pickers and the grow¬ 
ers. In this immediate vicinity the grow¬ 
ers use cardboards l^x^Mn. in size. On 
each is printed the grower’s name and 
amount picked, that is, one-half bushel. 
Each picker takes a row of peas and picks 
into a box holding half a bushel. As fast 
as the box is filled it is emptied into the 
bushel baskets in which the peas go to 
market, and the picker receives his bit of 
cardboard from the manager. These J 
cardboards are kept in the pocket or ; 
pinned to the blouse with a safety pin. 
They may be presented to the grower at 
any time for redemption. The only ob¬ 
jection to this system comes from the 
viewpoint of the picker. Tickets are often¬ 
times kept for two or three weeks, and 
some are lost, thus making a loss to the 
picker. Pickers sometimes become care¬ 
less, leaving tickets in their lunch boxes, 
where they are found by dishonest pick¬ 
ers. who enrich themselves at another’s 
expense. 
The other system used in this section 
entails a certain amount of bookkeeping. 
Large cardboards 3x1 V* in. or express 
tags are given out as the pickers arrive. 
Each picker signs his name to his ticket 
and as fast as the half-bushel boxes are 
filled the manager punches the ticket. 
Each grower has a punch with a differ¬ 
ent design, so there is little chance for 
complications to arise. These tickets 
may either be retained by the picker un¬ 
til redeemed, or turned in each night to 
be credited on the manager’s records. 
With berry picking, which is not as ex¬ 
tensive as the pea picking, both these sys¬ 
tems are used in their respective sections 
with success. No metal tags are used in 
this section to my knowledge. x. H. T. 
For a number of years, while in the 
business of growing small fruits, we used 
small cardboard tickets, each represent¬ 
ing a certain number of quarts of berries 
picked. For the purpose of rendering 
them even more readily distinguished 
than by the numbers printed thereon, the 
tickets were of different colors. This | 
plan worked out quite well. The only 
objection was that these small tickets 
were quite easily lost, and the loss of one 
or more tickets by a picker seemed some¬ 
times to suggest to other pickers that 
they. too. had lost, one or more of the 
well-earned bits of cardboard. It was 
interesting and amusing to note that the 
tickets promptly became a form of cur¬ 
rency in small dealings among the pickers, 
and were even accepted as cash at a small 
general store not far distant. 
However, later on we adopted the plan 
of having heavy manila paper cards of 
“shipping-tag” form and dimensions print¬ 
ed with columns of different figures. 
These tags were furnished to each picker 
as needed, his name being written in a 
blank space left for this purpose. These 
tags were tied to the pickers' carrying- 
frames. As a picker came to the packing 
house to deliver a frame of berries, a 
number on the card corresponding to the 
number of quarts brought in would be 1 
marked with a ticket punch. This very 
simple system was even more satisfac¬ 
tory than the separate, different colored 
tickets, and reduced to a minimum the 
danger of losing smaller bits of card¬ 
board. These perforated records of the 
number of quarts picked were not trans¬ 
ferable. therefore were not made use of 
as currency. Each picker on pay day 
presented his own cards and received the 
total amount of his earnings for the week. 
Ohio. F. H. BALLOU. 
In picking cherries the way I have 
liked best, the nickers pick by the pound, 
and we weigh the cherries once or twice a 
day. usually at noon and night, and give 
them a ticket, we keening a duplicate 
ticket. In picking raspberries by the 
quart I used to use tickets similar to milk 
tickets. W. P. ROGERS. 
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