. Industries of to-day. rietor. He looked skeptical. I tell you, he said, cranberry pickets are just like all the rest of theworld. Some wouldnt take a berry to save theirlives, and others lie awake nights to think howto fill up their measures. Some will slyly take a new measure and dentin the bottom, and others have a way of givingthe measures a shake so as to toss the berriesup and make five quarts look like six. Humannature is mighty human on a cranberry bog! Berry picking has its champion workers, someof whom average over two hundred quarts aday, and there is a well-supported tradition tha
. Industries of to-day. rietor. He looked skeptical. I tell you, he said, cranberry pickets are just like all the rest of theworld. Some wouldnt take a berry to save theirlives, and others lie awake nights to think howto fill up their measures. Some will slyly take a new measure and dentin the bottom, and others have a way of givingthe measures a shake so as to toss the berriesup and make five quarts look like six. Humannature is mighty human on a cranberry bog! Berry picking has its champion workers, someof whom average over two hundred quarts aday, and there is a well-supported tradition thatone nimble-fingered individual once distinguished [so] A Crop of Cranberries himself by picking three hundred and fifty quartsin that length of time. Such workers show the concentration commonto all champions. They seldom speak, but bendover the vines, giving their entire attention tothe matter in hand. Even at noon, when thepickers sit about on the grass eating their din-ners from baskets and pails, these more zealous. ^ ^^^-^^ Picking Cranberries members of the band are unwilling to spare thehalf or three quarters of an hour allotted to themeal, but seize a hasty bite and run back to are certain points of honor to be observedon the meadow, one of which relates to that oper-ation known as picking under the lines. A craftyand overreaching worker may see and covet agoodly growth of berries on his neighbors pre-serves ; but though it be side by side with his [51] Industries of To-Day own, he may not, under penalty of remonstrancemore forcible than pleasant, reach under for a slyhandful. One such offense might be punishedand forgiven, but a repetition of it would causehim to be ostracized by his fellows, who wouldever after refuse to pick in his neighborhood. The berries are screened, or separated fromleaves and foreign substances, by means of asimple, box-shaped arrangement, presided overby women, or, with the more enterprising owners,by a clumsy-looking but most inge
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