. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. In overall charge of the pilot op- eration is Maynard Holmes, Mano- inet, who is in charge of product- ion for National. The entire experiment was first brought up by fresh fruit shrink- age of NCA fruit, and, of course, iill growers and shippers have al- ways had this problem. It was first brought up by Chester Rob- bins, Onset, chairman of NCA's ways and means committee, and approved by NCA directors and Ambrose E. Stevens, general man- ager. Mr. Robbins says this experiment may open up unexpected avenues to better storage of fre
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. In overall charge of the pilot op- eration is Maynard Holmes, Mano- inet, who is in charge of product- ion for National. The entire experiment was first brought up by fresh fruit shrink- age of NCA fruit, and, of course, iill growers and shippers have al- ways had this problem. It was first brought up by Chester Rob- bins, Onset, chairman of NCA's ways and means committee, and approved by NCA directors and Ambrose E. Stevens, general man- ager. Mr. Robbins says this experiment may open up unexpected avenues to better storage of fresh cran- berries, and lead to entirely new lines of thought, even in market- ing. Nine-Man, Six-Step Handling System A complex handling procedure, using nine men eight hours a day, was barely able to move the quan- tity of berries needed to keep the machines supplied. The six steps nreant duplicated handling and wasted time and energy: (1) half- barrel containers were filled man- ually with frozen cranberries in the freezer; (2) these containers were stacked on 20-box carts; (3) the carts were placed on a truck; Airborn Cranberries A man-hour saving, in cranberry storage, which Mr. Stevens says is now proving its worth, is an air conveyor system for freezer berries whidi has been in operation at the Onset, Massachusetts plant since 1956. A second similiar sys- tem installed in freezer storage at the North Hai-wich, Massachu- setts NCA plant was in use this past fall. A description of berries are "airborne" at the Onset plant is here given. The air-conveying system has provided a 90% reduction in the cost of handling frozen cran- berries. The streamlined system, which moves the berries from a storage freezer to the piant where "Ocean Spray" products are made, needs only two m'en working half time to supply the 1,000-barrel a day capacity of the canning ma- chines. In addition, berry damage formerly caused by the use of shovels and hand labor has been cut in h
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