The principles of fruit-growing . very reason, for all that are lost donot have to be redeemed. Several growers, there-fore, have designed tickets which can be tied tothe person by a string, which bear the pickersname, and in which the numbers are cancelled hya punch. Two good styles are shown, half-size,in Figs. 88 and 89. In the latter are twostyles of punch marks, representing different fore-men. Other growers abolish all ticket systems out-right, and keep a book account with each picker ;and, what is better, they pay by the pound. Asmall, flat-topped grocers scale may be taken to theshed i
The principles of fruit-growing . very reason, for all that are lost donot have to be redeemed. Several growers, there-fore, have designed tickets which can be tied tothe person by a string, which bear the pickersname, and in which the numbers are cancelled hya punch. Two good styles are shown, half-size,in Figs. 88 and 89. In the latter are twostyles of punch marks, representing different fore-men. Other growers abolish all ticket systems out-right, and keep a book account with each picker ;and, what is better, they pay by the pound. Asmall, flat-topped grocers scale may be taken to theshed in the berry field. Each picker is numbered,and he picks in an eight-pound or ten-pound Climax Accounts tvitli PicJcers, 399 grape basket. As lie comes to the shed, he slips hisnumber into the basket on a bit of card or splint,and he sees the basket weighed and the credit given;or, if the picker has no suspicions, the foreman maygather the baskets from the field. Growers generallypay 2 cents a quart for raspberries, or cents a. Fig. Pickers tag.
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