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In April	134 orders
In May	201 "
In June	221 "
In July	244 "
In August	510 "
In September	271 " for regular help
	1144 " " hoppickers
Total for 5½ mo.		2725

The limit of expenditures fixed
by the General Salary Ordinance
of last spring was adequate
until the middle of August,
when the business began to grow
so rapidly that one person
could not properly attend to it;
but, as no appropriation was
made for help one was em-
ployed until the influx of orders