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Fruit People
Wilson, Charles Morrow | September 11, 1929 issue

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Winters come and spring follows. So also do the fruit people, who trail along with the caravan of seasons. Seasons merge and the years congeal, but the pickers keep coming, in motley and deft-fingered armies, guided by the sun and stars, following down the infallible rainbow of bigger crops and better pickings. Speaking relatively, the strawberry people are the most numerous and diverse of the outfit. This season the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that there are six hundred thousand transient berry pickers in the Gulf States and Middle East alone, and that the national total of fruit people would be twice that number.

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FRUIT; BERRIES; STRAWBERRIES; SEASONS; UNITED States. Dept. of Labor; UNITED States
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