. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. berry is affected at the blossom oikI, appearing as a type of scald which seems to be associated with a hot, dry season and a heavy bottom crop. As can be seen from the table, it appeals to be more serious on some bogs than others. In one sample 97% of bad ber- ries was due to this trouble. Many of the seald areas are rather small and such berries pass through the mills and are missed during sorting, especially when the defect is on the underside of the berry as it is carried along on the sorting table. Soft : Only r
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. berry is affected at the blossom oikI, appearing as a type of scald which seems to be associated with a hot, dry season and a heavy bottom crop. As can be seen from the table, it appeals to be more serious on some bogs than others. In one sample 97% of bad ber- ries was due to this trouble. Many of the seald areas are rather small and such berries pass through the mills and are missed during sorting, especially when the defect is on the underside of the berry as it is carried along on the sorting table. Soft : Only rarely do soft, scaiu'ed berries get over the jumps of the mills and those few which get onto the sorting table can easily be seen and discarded. On the other hand, the soft, but plump frozen berries can bounce over the jumps and are extremely difficult to spot on the sorting table, since as they move along on the conveyor about the only way they can be detected is on the basis of a slightly off-color from the usual cranberry red of sound colored fruit. The larger number of frozen berries this sea- son can be correlated with the lateness of the harvest and bog temperatures of 26''F. or below. rru's-'iH Ferries: It is really astounding how cranberries can stand the abuse they receive from handling until they reach the ulti- mate consumer. If one examines 100 berries under a magnifier, at least 95 of them will show me- chanical bruises of one sort or another. True, many cannot be detected with a naked eye, yet they are present and in many in- stances they serve as portals of entrance for fungal invaders. Such bruises are incurred during rak- ing, dumping of the rakes into the picking lugs, throwing the lugs into the trucks, jolting over the dykes to the warehouse, dump- ing the berries from the lugs into slatted crates or into the hopper of a machine drier, jostling of the berries during the drying process, filling of the storage crates and stacking for storage, hauling and dumpin
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