. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Device Used in Raking Berries <*"-c *«*H "**»*. FLOATER BOAT AT SOUTH CARVER BOG Floater Boat Helps Salvage Cranberries Device Collects Surplus Brought To Surface By Flooding Bogs. Featured among the many mech- anical devices used at the Ellis D. Atwood 300-acre cranberry planta- tion in South Carver, Mass., was a floater-boat, 12 feet square, equipped with a paddle wheel and steered by a man, this craft being used in the final collecting of cranberries. Mr. Atwood, who first intro- duced it in New England from New Jer
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Device Used in Raking Berries <*"-c *«*H "**»*. FLOATER BOAT AT SOUTH CARVER BOG Floater Boat Helps Salvage Cranberries Device Collects Surplus Brought To Surface By Flooding Bogs. Featured among the many mech- anical devices used at the Ellis D. Atwood 300-acre cranberry planta- tion in South Carver, Mass., was a floater-boat, 12 feet square, equipped with a paddle wheel and steered by a man, this craft being used in the final collecting of cranberries. Mr. Atwood, who first intro- duced it in New England from New Jersey, reports the floating- crop has increased 100 percent over the former method. As it paddles around, bringing the cran- berries to the surface, to be gath- ered into a net, it resembles the Mississippi River flat boat. "Floats" are the berries that come to the surface on water- covered bogs. Flooding the bogs is done soon after the crop has been picked. The water then is Two drained off. Later, the bogs again are flooded to protect them against frost and the vines becoming killed by Winter blasts, While the harvesting season which began in September pro- ceeded, work of repair to this large acreage was in progress. Surplus vines, left by the cran- berry scoop, broken or torn by the teeth, were gathered and carried away from the bog. One other prominent cranberry grower has a special machine which picks up the vines, to be sold to nurseries. All of this indicates the degree of efficiency the industry has at- tained. The vines removed, the bogs are ready for new food, fer- tilizer and sand, which is trans- ported by means of a miniature train over the several miles of cranberry bogs and then spread by men. That done, the plum colored vines go to sleep, while the roots gather minerals all Winter to put forth the energizing berry for an- other year. Activities at Mr. Atwood's mod- el storehouse and screenhouse, built at a cost of more than $40,- 000, and completed in
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