. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. David Mann factures the Darlington, says the Darlington will be ready to meet any water harvest demand. In dry harvest the berries are picked either in regular harvest boxes or in cloth bags. In Wisconsin the Getsinger picks in fibre glass "boats," which float on the surface. These are attached to the picker. The boats are another Wisconsin development. Once filled, two or three boats, each of which holds about three barrels, are towed to the shore where the drier is in operation. The towing at Mann's was done by a garden
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. David Mann factures the Darlington, says the Darlington will be ready to meet any water harvest demand. In dry harvest the berries are picked either in regular harvest boxes or in cloth bags. In Wisconsin the Getsinger picks in fibre glass "boats," which float on the surface. These are attached to the picker. The boats are another Wisconsin development. Once filled, two or three boats, each of which holds about three barrels, are towed to the shore where the drier is in operation. The towing at Mann's was done by a garden tractor owned by George Rounsville of the Station staff. He is also a grower and uses it in his own bog work for wheeling off berries and other jobs. In dry picking, boxes are wheeled ashore on wheelbarrows or brought in by "jalopies" or other types of "bog ; With the well-proven (in Wisconsin) wet raking picker system and the tractor anlsthod of getting the berries to the shore where the novel portable drier was located for that particular harvest ooeration, there came the problem of getting the berries from the boat and up into the drier hopper. Mann has a caterpiller tractor bulldozer which he used in bog work, making roads and so forth. Again with the assistance of Mr. Turgeon, a fork lift was devised. This again is generally following the Wisconsin pattern. The fork is made to fit over the boats and the entire boat and contents are lifted to above the hopper, the boat is tilted and the berries are spilled into the hopper. In the developing of the portable drier Mann sought assistance from the Cranberry Station staff which has had considerable experience in making driers at the Station. Prof. John "Stan" Norton, in charge of the Station mechanical engineering department,- and his assistant Milton Paine, gave much advice from their experience. Norton, Rounsville and Paine as- sisted in this .experimental wet har- vest method at the Mann
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