. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. perienced men oaii harvest many berries as 30 hand packers - if the lalter could bs rounded r.) when needed. Four men picked 1500 pounds of second picking Rancocas ber- ries in 8 hours. The miachine is powered by a 7 aircooled gasoline driven comipressor that supplies four air hoses swung from a long alum/inum 'boom to the picking guns. The gun, with a built-in vibrator, has four pointed rubher fingei's. It is rubbed along the branches of the bushes and shakes the berries into a canvas cart placed beneath the bush. /A furt
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. perienced men oaii harvest many berries as 30 hand packers - if the lalter could bs rounded r.) when needed. Four men picked 1500 pounds of second picking Rancocas ber- ries in 8 hours. The miachine is powered by a 7 aircooled gasoline driven comipressor that supplies four air hoses swung from a long alum/inum 'boom to the picking guns. The gun, with a built-in vibrator, has four pointed rubher fingei's. It is rubbed along the branches of the bushes and shakes the berries into a canvas cart placed beneath the bush. /A further description is that the berries are then transported to the packing house where they are placed into a sorting machine. There the leaves, green fruit anl soft berries and other chaff, are separated from the good berries by vibration and air blast. The gocd berries piass over a conveyor belt, where girls remove the few green beiTis that get by the machine. Mr. Bowker is quoted as saying the machine will sort 900 pounds of berries per hour land does not remove the "bloom'' from the fruit. The picking miachine and sortei- costs $2800. Although the ma- chine works best on Rubel and Jersey varieties because they fall easier, it was found to work ef- ficiently on all varieties. It is be- lieved the bushes should he pruned to accomodate the machine. All low, inside bushes should be cut out. Mr. Bowker believes that three pickings can be gotten from the machine, but the fruit sihould he allowed ito get a little riper than in hand picking. The miachine is manufactured by the Blueberry Equipment Comipany of Grand Junicrfcion, Michigan. There were three other ma- chines in use in New Jersey this summer besides that of Mr. Bowker which he purchased out- right as an independent grower. The three were purchased by the Blueberry Cooperation Associa- tion of New Lisbon for experiment. Two were used on the Haines & Haines fields at Hog Wallow, Chatswortlh and the other by Ger- ald
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