The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-20
WORK IN fHB BERRY BEEf
4 SEASON Ar PICKING IN
TEXAS AND MISSOURI.

NmHDa MWIlLNLM-u9E W8aa ENHANA4TN
maze Nor upleasaas-Family Partics
me LASsans % Farm MovssaSe'
Last ssasoa my three children and !
made enough money by Picking straw
berries in the West 20 pay the mortgages
ON our farm. We are going back agai5
this year 10 get enough 20 paint the houss
and buy new farming implemsnts.
The apsaker was Pennsylvania woman
whose husband died q fsw yearU ago
leaving her With ave children and moRt-
Gagged farm.
I'VE begin in TEXAS and follow shc
berry harvest north through southwest
srn Missouri she said. The usual price
paid for pickinG u ~ cents quart
which 10 Q cents the tray and - csuaS ne
crate. This 10 mors than u seema. fcr
GOOD picker can easily make - OF %
day. am the poorest picker In my parry
ard have never earned les than %
day. Ny daughter and younRese son
have developed very ninble nngsrs ana
the latesr part Of the summer. aftsr we
struck Missouri. they came within Too
cents Of - six days out Of every Week.
The life % thu berrypicker In shs Wese
10 very different from what ] had en-
pecsed. An the pickers live In tsnts. am
In one place whsge we picked there was
n villaas Of neafiy fifty tents. The tenes
were pitched in such q way a. 20 form
s.rssss: sna 4, ~ g.. ~ r;sha "A mads o,siss
80 ~ sS,.ns' mere are always one OF
10y 80. - 80, IsmonS1a. ma
.,,.sr "a ss,.h H. AN Ia hou0ht. anma-
times there In . nerry .go-round ans
shooting gallery where the young people.
-il. - J. "a .r,i.,., tk,@Fuuaavoa A tho Ow-
waIk GUY 40 sny s -
"a 80 - chIis,ren aor,e ttms % ma
Is - - -. s.i,d coone In from The berry
800 - -.,,,k al nv heSl1. holpinR M
nI - .Gi.- "a ,1her dons@~1io
49,. s. -, s.c,..s~~rv ev~n In tent hfo. The
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o 800 "u'" =,
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