. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. and last year harvested 25,200 barrels. The ten-year average for Washington is but 12,480. Fig. 37. Screen-House Scene. A floor truck loaded with picking: boxes full of berries at the right in the foreground. Four extra blowers and elevators, in the center, feeding a battery of eight separators at the left. Rows of shipping boxes at the right in the rear. bese losses and gamble for higher irices. This seems to have been icreasingly risky in recent years. In preparation for market, the erries first go through a separa- or. There are
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. and last year harvested 25,200 barrels. The ten-year average for Washington is but 12,480. Fig. 37. Screen-House Scene. A floor truck loaded with picking: boxes full of berries at the right in the foreground. Four extra blowers and elevators, in the center, feeding a battery of eight separators at the left. Rows of shipping boxes at the right in the rear. bese losses and gamble for higher irices. This seems to have been icreasingly risky in recent years. In preparation for market, the erries first go through a separa- or. There are several makes of hese machines. Those used on ^ape Cod and largely elsewhere Figs. 36 and 37) have a hopper at he top to receive the berries, a lower to clean them of chaff, sev- ral bounding boards to separate he decayed from the sound fruit, nd a grading device. Much of the fruit of the early hipments is often so sound that t may be packed for shipping as t comes from the separator. Most f the berries, however, must be and-sorted. Women do this work, nostly on moving belts, in a veil - lighted and comfortably rarm room which is walled off rom the cooler storage and pack- ng rooms. The berries pass hrough this sorting room too [uickly to warm up much. Sort- rs are paid 25 cents an hour. It is best not to sort or pack the lerries on wet days, for they col- Bct moisture in damp weather and .re more likely to rot in transit if hey are packed moist. The fruit ras formerly shipped mostly in larrels, but now the quarter-barrel box is used almost entirely. The cranberry barrel contains about 90 dry quarts, its dimensions being fixed by law. The containers must be shaken well and the berries heaped slightly and pressed down in packing so that they may not come to market "slack- ; Slack-packed berries are shunned by the trade because they lack in quantity and their keeping quality is impaired by thrashing. (To be continued) Fresh from the Fields (Continued from Page 3
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