. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. General view of Proc tor & Schwartz dehy drator, inspection ta bles, and elevator ti finishing bins. MAKEPEACE "CRANNIES // Improved Plant At Wareham, Mass., Processed for Armed Forces—Probably First in Commercial Cranberry De- hydration. By C. J. HALL The practice of drying cranber- ries or other fruits and vegetables is one of the oldest methods of preserving them for future use. The American Indians and the an- cients knew the art of keeping foods by drying in the sun. One of the inost up-to-date examples of cranberry d
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. General view of Proc tor & Schwartz dehy drator, inspection ta bles, and elevator ti finishing bins. MAKEPEACE "CRANNIES // Improved Plant At Wareham, Mass., Processed for Armed Forces—Probably First in Commercial Cranberry De- hydration. By C. J. HALL The practice of drying cranber- ries or other fruits and vegetables is one of the oldest methods of preserving them for future use. The American Indians and the an- cients knew the art of keeping foods by drying in the sun. One of the inost up-to-date examples of cranberry dehydration, com- bined with compression, has been going on this past fall and winter at the re-modelled and re-equipped plant of the A. D. Makepeace Com- pany at Wareham, Mass. The process is nothing new for the A. D. Makepeace Company, for as far as has been established there was no commercial cehydra- tion prior to the work of this company, beginning in 1909. At least no record of anything earlier has yet been found. This first at- tempt was with a kiln drier, but in 1911 a tunnel type drier was de- signed by the Company and is the first tunnel drier known to have been built in this country unless a vague story of an earlier prune drier in Oregon is verified. The story .of this early dehydra- tion is an interesting one and will be sketched in a little later, and also extremely interesting is the dehydration and compression pro- cess which was carried on this fall and winter. This was the preparation of "Crannies" for the U. S. armed forces. Makepeace's "Evaporated Cran- berries" have been wide'y known to civilian trade for many years, but about ten years ago this name was changed to "; Since that time this brand has repre- sented their whole, dehydrated cranberries. About 161,000 lbs. of them have been prepared for the Quartermaster General's office (which also supplies the Navy), be- ing done under a sub-contract for Cranberry Canners
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