. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 32. Scooping Cranberries One man sometimes scoops fifteen barrels day i'th of the whole Cape crop is left 1 the bogs in this way. To have the pickers work stead- without haste and with as little aste as possible, is a good rule, help is scarce and water sup- ies are low, however, it seme- mes is best to pick the crop hastily to save it from frost, great though the waste. The speed with which scooping should be done also depends on the crop and on prices; $5 a barrel justifies rapid scooping unless the crop is heavy; but $8 or
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 32. Scooping Cranberries One man sometimes scoops fifteen barrels day i'th of the whole Cape crop is left 1 the bogs in this way. To have the pickers work stead- without haste and with as little aste as possible, is a good rule, help is scarce and water sup- ies are low, however, it seme- mes is best to pick the crop hastily to save it from frost, great though the waste. The speed with which scooping should be done also depends on the crop and on prices; $5 a barrel justifies rapid scooping unless the crop is heavy; but $8 or more with an average crop calls for careful work. (To be continued) Pilgrims Heartened (Continued from Page 17) liich they had brought with them id which had become diminished most to the vanishing point by e length of the voyage. It was the beginning of winter id the cranberry alone had sur- ved the late frosts and furnished e acids necessary for recovery om the scurvy. Scurvy was a sease from which many of the Igrims were suffering, caused by diet consisting almost exclusively salted meat, and one from which 1 sailors in those days suffered iring protracted voyages. So, gathering as much of this uit as could be found room for their pockets and pouches, the :plorers returned to their little ip in Provincetown harbor bring- g back with them the only edible suit of their searchings, except r the Indian corn, or maize, a pply of which was found buried a cache at Truro, about ten iles from where their ship lay at ichor. Finally, settling at Plymouth, across the bay from Provincetown, the Pilgrims endured the long hard winter, scantily subsisting upon the meat of the deer and the wild turkey shot or trapped in the for- est and upon clams from the sea- shore. In the Plymouth region, too, cranberries grew, but the coming of winter covered them with snow and by spring they had been frozen and thawed and unfit for consumption. With the spring came the time for the planting of the meagr
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