. Success with small fruits . cket, which is cashed at thepaying-booth after the days work isover. The pickers, therefore, receivetwo cents for every quart of good,salable berries. If green, muddy, ordecayed berries are brought in, theyare thrown away or confiscated, andincorrigibly careless pickers are drivenoff the place. Every morning, thebuyers take out as many tickets ofthese three values as they think theycan use, and are charged with the sameby the book-keeper. Their voucher forall they pay out is another ticket, onwhich is printed Forty-five quarts,or just a crateful. Only Mr. Youngand
. Success with small fruits . cket, which is cashed at thepaying-booth after the days work isover. The pickers, therefore, receivetwo cents for every quart of good,salable berries. If green, muddy, ordecayed berries are brought in, theyare thrown away or confiscated, andincorrigibly careless pickers are drivenoff the place. Every morning, thebuyers take out as many tickets ofthese three values as they think theycan use, and are charged with the sameby the book-keeper. Their voucher forall they pay out is another ticket, onwhich is printed Forty-five quarts,or just a crateful. Only Mr. Youngand one other person have a right togive out the last-named tickets, and by night each buyer must haveenough of them to balance the other tickets with which he was chargedin the morning. Thus, thousands of dollars change hands through themedium of four kinds of tickets not over an inch square, and by meansof them the financial part of gathering the crop is managed. In previous years, these tickets were received the same as money. A Picker. I40 Success ivitJi Small Fruits. by any of the shops in the city, and on one occasion were Young now has his own printing-office, and gets them up in a waynot easily imitated, nor does he issue them until just as the fruit beginsto ripen. He has, moreover, given authority to one man only to cashthese tickets. Thus there is little chance for rascality. He also requires that no tickets shall be cashed until the fields haveall been picked over. Were it not for this regulation, the lazy and the bummers would earn enough merely to buy a few drinks, then slink
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