New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-28
THE BLACKBERRY TRADE IN KEN
TUCkH.
.o,,..nord,nce of IN. Cipcivpau Gazette.

Corr, spcLcsBre oil the ClsclpDau HtIets~.
MiITos Trimble Co., n.y., July ~, 1879.
When you and your readers sit down at your tables,
tske your NE paper in your band and eat freely OK
black berries in zone OF the many shapes IN which
they ready for the pslate, do you ever ~ooder
where go many come from, did you ever think that
men Of your city invest, this year, IN tner pdr-
Chase, al least $iOOOO.
THIS (lrinDl.l County probably turns out more ber
ries than any other place OF its size IN me World d
I'll this year the farmers have generally been accus
tone 10 spe ak Of the brier as the farmers pest
20 little did they know of the ways of Providence, ~ho
in giving them this failing crop, has put ready to
baUd without toll of cultivation crop which this
year brings them in a larger income than would tue
-au . space Of ground plon'.d IN wheat at NJ cents
per busbel Wax from this town to Bedford, AMI
even that brsrch on. TO Palmyra On the one SIDE, or
10 Halls IandiLy the Utner aud 80 long as the Tree
stone fotma,lo lasts there the brers running with
berries, bearing them down in all sorts OF entanse-
ments. . .
On the ten nile line between this and Bedford there
are ten buyers in Bedford there are two; az Palmyra
three; beyond Bedford two aud III the vicinity of afs
Landing ore. There feS others wno VISIT points
the ny-r but these DO 10 gres amount OF business
Thse buyers agents Of uteTers IN Cincinn-ti
who receive two dollars each per day, for receiving
the berries and Shipping them. Generally these men
are owters Of btiei pstches of their own. Tney are
authorized TO pay at tots time thirty cents per bucket
for oil b. rries taken in but at tue commencement o
the sesson, when the ripe berries were more scarce
upon the bushes. as hgh sixty cents was paid, and
two days later, f"Tty cents. 80
VIII captain Of one ssduu, Nuieu
show how the tu,ne-s il managed AZ all then will
make uD the figures 70 show The extent OF the outlay
The buyer, whose business sm going to explain,
several patches OF berries; one he reserves tor
the picking VI bis tan iy all of which from the
mother VINO well nigh ity years of age, down
10 the youngest Guild, are out III that field. Beside
these, he has in other patches, their own and their
neigbbors, II pickers. Tnese start OUT at break OF
day and pick until about ~ O'Clock, when the sun
beiI very hot the berry does not sand so well
when pich ed during the cooler hours. Men, women
and cbliIen shoulier their buckets, carry them
TO the receiver who empes them into tho stands each
crau er Of which holcs burbei AM one peck. the
number Of bucket. ore set down 10 the plckers
creoit al the rate Of 80 cents per bucket, and occa
sionally when u bu k,t If extra-sized berries are
brsugh; in additional five cents is added 10 ts cost
NagOLs come along and bring the stands t. the
river at this point, shere each day between ana
FIVE O'Clock there can be .een from hundred 10 one
hundred and hity stands and half stands equal To
about 500 bushels of berries, which daily shipped
H. the evening sou'e picking Is again DONE the ber
mes beng brought IN the following uornlDg. On En-
dsy evening aud Saturday picking is doIe, tor the
that the packet dVes no. run on Saturday TO
your city.
was pr. sent on Friday at the payrg Of the pickers
Al no les than stand, and found upon Inquiry
that the pickers collectively 81 each earned about -
per diem. This yields from 81 20 to - ~ u each
picker 10 the resul, of their days exertons. Oae
ian ly received for the weeks picking 81 and over
Not baa wages fOr children " MAKE.
= ward Bedford tue farmers nave only TINS year
got INTO the Du-hes me cohsequsuce VI "uci u 'ha'
they very liberal ana they soF their pr ,kers TO
pluck the fruit, and make no charge therefor; but
down Nearer this place, aLeTe every rpsnUg berry Is
watched and puckcd n II Il black, the pickers
pay i've cents per bucket 10 the Ct the patch,
80 ttsi he las Lot only profit made by the picking
Of bic own family, bu. the eJdrOnal clear prOhs Of
about Is cents per bu.hel berries, which,
.lseTmg there has been ID coet Of cultivation, add
that there ,uFey Of the crop, Is Lot BAL Inc
season las,- tJom iyur " siX weess.
All the buying here, nearly al Of il, being for two
or thee fims in On ,nnat | have been enabled to
come pretty Igh The b. OF the sie. There
are in al. "a receivers At cost Of - per day, 2J
picker averaging 70 receive - ~ per day; 1auer
averaging 10 receive a - per day; freight 10
st4Lds Of Crasers per day at 81, making daily out
lay in each payable weekly Of s69 90 or f1 to- sea
sUl is usual length. equal 10 s2p beJ all OF which
IL expected within ta- county, except shout fi,WO.
Add 10 the total sOut the Occa-ionai eX peldt Tres
Tor premium buckets, aai We have total expeIditure
Of about $500.