. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "BANKWALL" a typical old-fashioned Maine Farm H omestead. (CRANBERRIES Photo) the water from Shaker brook. He built "boxes" or tunnels under the dike and into each individual bed, so they could be flowed, one after the other, for picking. Where the water spilled into the beds he built pits lined with stone to pre- vent wash, and in these it "boiled up". He also built his outside dikes with rocks at the bottom for strength. Built Bog on Slant The whole bog was built on a slant so the water could run off
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "BANKWALL" a typical old-fashioned Maine Farm H omestead. (CRANBERRIES Photo) the water from Shaker brook. He built "boxes" or tunnels under the dike and into each individual bed, so they could be flowed, one after the other, for picking. Where the water spilled into the beds he built pits lined with stone to pre- vent wash, and in these it "boiled up". He also built his outside dikes with rocks at the bottom for strength. Built Bog on Slant The whole bog was built on a slant so the water could run off at the lower end and his berries could be carried by it on their way to the "factory" eventually. Raking was done by a crew of half a dozen or so men. Wearing hip rubber boots, they raked the berries off the vines with steel rakes with wooden handles, like a garden rake. The teeth were blunt, presumably to avoid as much bruising as possible. Vines were always raked in one direction. With the berries raked off, the fruit was "boomed" along down the bed to the lower end. This was done with a plank, 25 or 30 feet lonj,', 10 inches high, set on edge. This "boom" was operated by three men, two with harnesses over their shoulders with drags attached to dogears at both ends of the plank, to pull it ahead. A third man walked behind to steady the boom, and so the fruit was floated down. From the lower edge of the bed the berries were floated into the outer ditch or canal and again down to the lower edge of the bog at the mill. The Cranberry "Factory" This mill, or part of it, to speak a'-curately, was set astride the brook itself. There was a water wheel, turned by the brook. The wheel drove an endless canvas belt which at intervals had dippers or buckets to scoop up the fruit. This belt went to the top of the mill, which was three stoi'ies high across the back, and in dimensions about 40x20 feet. The berries were taken dripping wet to this top r
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