Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 14. Drying berries out of doors. three to four feet wide are made of matched boards. Anarrow strip is nailed around the edge of each tray toprevent the berries from rolling off. The trays restupon long horses made of scantling, to hold them at aconvenient height from the ground. A little block istacked across each corner of the trays, so that at nightor in case of a shower they can be stacked up on top ofeach other and covered with boards or canvas. Thisis
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 14. Drying berries out of doors. three to four feet wide are made of matched boards. Anarrow strip is nailed around the edge of each tray toprevent the berries from rolling off. The trays restupon long horses made of scantling, to hold them at aconvenient height from the ground. A little block istacked across each corner of the trays, so that at nightor in case of a shower they can be stacked up on top ofeach other and covered with boards or canvas. Thisis of necessity a slow way of drying, and the cost oflumber for trays to handle a large crop would be an 78 BUSH-FBUITS item of considerable expense. One of the chief objec-tions to the method is the large number of flieswhich it calls to the scene, the attentions of which donot tend to render the fruit more appetizing. Indeed,those who are familiar with the method are oftenprejudiced against all dried raspberries. Sun-dried. Fig. 15. Drying berries in a forcing-honse. raspberries are usually cpioted about one cent a poundbelow evaporated berries, but consumers can never besure which they are getting. It is possil^le that thesetrays might be covered with fly netting, but this wouldincrease the time needed for dr^ang, and would alsonot wholly obviate the difficulty, unless the nettingwas held above the fruit, for if laid directly uponit the netting would only aid the flies. A singleattempt to dry blackberries under glass when coveredwith netting proved such a failure, inducing so muchmore molding than without the netting, that there is OTHER METHODS OF DRYING 79 much doubt as to whether it would prove satis-factory. Drying Under Glass.—kx^o^h^r method employed bythose who have greenhouses for the winter forcing- ofvegetables, is to utilize the space under glass duringthe berry season for this purpose. Fig. 15 is repro-duced from a photograph taken in a forcing-house onthe farm o
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