. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 35 A. Picking Boxes Full of Cranberries Stacked in a Screen House. B. An Up-to-date Screen House, with part of a bog in the foreground. Cranberry Crowing In Massachusetts and on warm days and be well aired on cold nights, with fans if necessary. It should have capacity to hold two-thirds of the maximum crop expected from the bog and a proper supply of shipping boxes and shocks, as well as room to sort and pack the fruit. A building of one floor, 40 by 70 feet, is large enough for a 12-acre bog. Open sheds are cheap and make go
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 35 A. Picking Boxes Full of Cranberries Stacked in a Screen House. B. An Up-to-date Screen House, with part of a bog in the foreground. Cranberry Crowing In Massachusetts and on warm days and be well aired on cold nights, with fans if necessary. It should have capacity to hold two-thirds of the maximum crop expected from the bog and a proper supply of shipping boxes and shocks, as well as room to sort and pack the fruit. A building of one floor, 40 by 70 feet, is large enough for a 12-acre bog. Open sheds are cheap and make good storage. Cellars are less satis- factory except in protection from freezing. The most modern cran- berry storages (Fig. 35 B) are lined with insulating materials to maintain a moderate temperature. Cold storage for this fruit is prac- ticable. The berries keep best at a temperature of 35° F. but they color best at from 45° to 50°. They keep and ship better after cold storage than after common storage. Preparation of the Berries for Market The first shipments usually go out within a week after picking- begins, in early September, and the crop is nearly all sold by Christ- mas, though the growers often hold some fruit till after mid- winter. Many prefer to take the lower prices which the earlier ship- ments usually bring and get rid of their berries promptly. Their fruit does not suffer the shrinkage that late-shipped berries do, and the cost of sorting is much less. Some, however, prefer to take By HENRY J. FRANKLIN Research Professor in charge of the Cranberry Station, East Wareham ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture for the photographs reproduced in Figures 5 and 6, also for Fitrure 16: to the American Cranberry Exchange for the photographs used in Figures 2. 3. 7, 9C. 30, 31. 34, 35 and 37: to Cranberry Canners, for the photographs used in Figures 1 and 40 : and to the New Jersey Agricul- tural Expe
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