. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. PICKING STRAWBERRIES I'' HE strawberry picking season will soon be here. The illustration on this page shows a portion of an 11 acre patch of Straw- berries on thr fruit farm of Mr. J. O. Duke, of Olinda, Ont., with the pickers at work. " I employed 25 to 40 pickers each day," writes Mr, Duke to The Horticulturist. " They were j^laced under a foreman, who saw that the berries were picked right and that the rows were picked clean, each picker Jiaving a row to herself, which was thor- oughly done l)efo
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. PICKING STRAWBERRIES I'' HE strawberry picking season will soon be here. The illustration on this page shows a portion of an 11 acre patch of Straw- berries on thr fruit farm of Mr. J. O. Duke, of Olinda, Ont., with the pickers at work. " I employed 25 to 40 pickers each day," writes Mr, Duke to The Horticulturist. " They were j^laced under a foreman, who saw that the berries were picked right and that the rows were picked clean, each picker Jiaving a row to herself, which was thor- oughly done l)efore another was given. The rows were numbered, and as each row was taken the number was placed in a 'book oppo- site the name of tne picker. " 1 this method a great advantage to keep the pickers on their own rows. There are always some pickers who, if not watched, will run all over the patch. Each picker is provided with a carrier holding six (|uart boxes, and is instructed to pick into all the six at once and not to fill one box at a time, to be careful not to have any holes in their baskets, and that the berries 'must be put in carefully and compactly. " The fruit is packed in crates holding 24 quart Idoxcs for shipping. I pay two cents a box. I grow the earliest ripening varie- ties and find Mitchell's Early. Bedar Wood and Crescent about the 'best. They don't grow heavy crops of fruit, but catch the early market. For a late berry Williams is hard to beat, being very firm and very pro- ductive, though late. Being one of the first growers in Canada each season to pick ber- ries I always find a market at satisfactory prices to the east and ; Pine Twigs For Currant Worms THE use of pine twigs to keep off the worm from currant and goosel>erry bushes is recommended by Mr. T. R. Pat- tillo, of Bridgewater, N. S. " Some years ago," he writes, " I read an article bearing on the subject from the pen of a lady amateur gardener who had suc- c
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