. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Another, larger, boat-type screen on the right, and small wooden packing boxes, a roll of picker's tickets, and two snap boxes for hand picking. historical districts in the country. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Braddock mans a small museum up the road from the store, and he began to devote himself exclusively to the labor of collecting along with his painting business in 1952 when he sold his bogs at Ned's Brook on Center Street in Carver. Having been associated with the cranberry business since early childhood, Harold inevitably stored up a
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Another, larger, boat-type screen on the right, and small wooden packing boxes, a roll of picker's tickets, and two snap boxes for hand picking. historical districts in the country. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Braddock mans a small museum up the road from the store, and he began to devote himself exclusively to the labor of collecting along with his painting business in 1952 when he sold his bogs at Ned's Brook on Center Street in Carver. Having been associated with the cranberry business since early childhood, Harold inevitably stored up an excellent collection of cranberry paraphernalia. In that upper room are old pruning rakes which were used to cut the runners when there were no machines to do the pruning as they picked. The vines were carefully gathered with a circular motion of the rake and pushed to the edge of the bogs where they were collected and used to pack around the foundations of houses as insulation against cold winter temperatures. Two long-handled cranberry scoops are part of the collection. The older of the two has wooden teeth that were painstakingly carved from the same piece of glued to the boxes which were shipped to market, and the not-so- plentiful wooden labels which were wired onto smaller boxes and used at an earlier date than the paper labels. Harold held up a 6-quart hand- picker's pail, and reflected on the days when he picked cranberries as a child. "Every picker would get a ticket for every bushel of cranberries that he had picked. They could be cashed in for money at any time. Those tickets were like ; Now they sit in a big roll, gathering dust, and with not much value except to remind us of more primitive days, when growing and harvesting the bright red berries was a much longer and more tiresome task than it is today. P"*P. 7 of the 102 brass stencils in Braddock's collection. wood that forms the bottom of the scoop. Thus, if one of the teeth broke, it would
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