. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "Maggi" Goddard is a real cranberry "man". (CRANBERRIES Photo) machine was pretty rough on the untrained vines," says Harrison, "but somebody had to provide acreage for experimentation if machine picking was to ; Others offered acreage later on the same year. Another and very important step towards the future is, that the Goddards have been the first and only grov/ers to use "bulk" delivery of cranberries to the pro- cessing plant. This was in 1958 and to the Ocean Spray Plant a
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "Maggi" Goddard is a real cranberry "man". (CRANBERRIES Photo) machine was pretty rough on the untrained vines," says Harrison, "but somebody had to provide acreage for experimentation if machine picking was to ; Others offered acreage later on the same year. Another and very important step towards the future is, that the Goddards have been the first and only grov/ers to use "bulk" delivery of cranberries to the pro- cessing plant. This was in 1958 and to the Ocean Spray Plant at Onset. They were fortunate to pick up three trailer dumps and two "Horses" which had been especially made for a collector of garbage who failed, and were like new. These could hold 250 barrels of cranberries each. The body was lined with plywood so that the berries would not come in contact with metal. They had screenhouses then at both bogs, but had the misfortune to have two fires in rather rapid succession in which both were burned. The one at Middleboro has since been replaced, and con- sists of a one-story two-level cement block building, which can easily be converted to the handling of "Bulk" cranberries when and if needed. Plans have been made to con- struct a repair shop and garage on the old foundation at Beaver Dam. They were screening their own fruit. The berries were carried ashore in the picking bags from the Westerns and dumped in the hoppers, run through the separat- ors and hand screened. Then a conveyor belt carried them direct- ly into the body of the trucks. No hands touched the berries except in screening, and no boxes wera necessary. "Bulk" Handling This made big savings in labor and in time, also eliminated ; Ernest continues. "At the Onset plant the berries could be handled in several ways. There was a modern 40-foot Fairbanks scale which automatically printed the weights and on which I could drive the truck
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