. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANHERR^ KAKING CONTEST—1937 Jesse Mike, a Winnebago Indian (checkered shirt), won the championship of Central Wisconsin marshes by rakingr ten field boxes (about 40 quarts each) in 20 minutes on the Gaynor Cranberry Co. Marsh, near Cranmoor. Photo by Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. and H. Spencer, with 160 acres, 8 miles of ditches, and housing for 100 pickers. Nearly all of these cranberry holdings were in the town of Au- rora, Waushara County, most of them on the large marshland which extended from the Tarey property on the nor
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANHERR^ KAKING CONTEST—1937 Jesse Mike, a Winnebago Indian (checkered shirt), won the championship of Central Wisconsin marshes by rakingr ten field boxes (about 40 quarts each) in 20 minutes on the Gaynor Cranberry Co. Marsh, near Cranmoor. Photo by Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. and H. Spencer, with 160 acres, 8 miles of ditches, and housing for 100 pickers. Nearly all of these cranberry holdings were in the town of Au- rora, Waushara County, most of them on the large marshland which extended from the Tarey property on the northwest to that of Sacket on the south. There were smaller marshes along Barnes Creek. Since Berlin, in Green Lake county, was the shipping center, this is the name usually mentioned in connection with this industry. But if Berlin got the credit, Aurora got the tax money. We find in the records of this town that on July 10, 1873, it was decided to assess the best cranberry properties at 815,000, and to grade the others in accordance with the prr ious year's crop. On the basis of such figu i; as are available the productio!^ the Berlin area appears to havr )een approximately as follows: 870, 10,000 barrels; 1871, 20,00 bar- rels; 1872, perhaps 30,000 I els; 1874 (a preliminary estimate as picking started), 30,000 barrels; 1879, 16,000 barrels; 1881, 6,000 barrels; 1882, 5,000 barrels; 1883, "a very poor crop"; in 1884, 3,000 barrels. According to the Courant cranberry picking occupied only three or four days in 1884. Cold figures seventy years old can give little idea of the general excitement attending this typical American boom. A somewhat more vivid picture may be drawn from the files of the local news- paper, the Berlin Courant, in which everything relating to cran- berries was considered news. On September 12, 1869, we read, "Cranberry picking has com- menced in this locality, and every available man, woman, and child has been set to work by the cran- berry
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