. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CRANBERRY (iROWING 35 HARVESTING Cranl^erry liarvesting generally begins about Labor Day and continues till about October 20 (Fig. 30). The harvest period is so short that many growers, especially if the season is late, have to begin when the fruit is only partly colored. Early Black berries keep i)est if they are picked before they are fully red. They usually should be gathered the second week in September. The later Howes are picked, the better they keep; it is often best to gather them late in Septembe
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CRANBERRY (iROWING 35 HARVESTING Cranl^erry liarvesting generally begins about Labor Day and continues till about October 20 (Fig. 30). The harvest period is so short that many growers, especially if the season is late, have to begin when the fruit is only partly colored. Early Black berries keep i)est if they are picked before they are fully red. They usually should be gathered the second week in September. The later Howes are picked, the better they keep; it is often best to gather them late in September, but they should be left on the vines till the second week in October where bog conditions allow it. Other Massachusetts varieties are harvested as follows: Black Veil, the first week in September; McFarlin, P>ugle, Centerville, and Centennial, the second or tliird week in October. The berries grow sweeter and larger as they ripen, so the later they are jjicked, the better the sauce the\' make and the greater the yield. Cranberries should be gathered only when the vines are dry. A frosty night compels the flooding of unpicked areas, and usually little harvesting can be done the next day. Berries picked late in the afternoon keep better than those gathered in the heat of the day. Cranberries were picked by hand at first, and it took an army to gather the crop. Some hand picking is still done on the Cape (Fig. 31 A), but it is an expensive and probably unwise practice except on thin or poorly anchored vines where scoops do too much harm. Small l)ut etTective devices known as "snaps" (Fig. 31 P>) are often used to gather the fruit on new or sparse vines. Power machines (Fig. 31 C) have been used considerably but are not widely favored. The Cape Cod and Wisconsin crops are now picked mostly with scoops (Figs. ,^2 and 33 B). Hand picking is more common in New Jersey. Fair. Fig. 32. Scooping Cranberries, in sometimes scoods fifteen barrels. Please note that these im
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