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replies of berry growers was 2,493 quarts. 

 One gave his yield (which must have 

 been on a small patch and amply multi- 

 plied) as 9,600 quarts, whilst another 

 confessed to but 576 quarts. A good 

 yield for the second crop is 3,000 quarts, 

 or 90 to 100 bushels per acre. Willis 

 P. Rogers tells me that his largest field 

 crop of Ohio, the third year after plant- 

 ing, was 16,000 quarts on four acres, and 

 a half acre of this land was not up to 

 the standard. From extensive inquiries 

 of evaporator men, however, I find it to 

 be a general opinion that the average 

 crops of the country, one year with an- 

 other, will not exceed 1,200 quarts per 

 acre, or 300 pounds of dried product. 



Harvesting. 



The harvesting of the crop costs too 

 much. The price paid by evaporating 

 men this year for Ohios and Greggs was 

 4^ and 5 cents a quart, yet the grower 

 generally had to pay 2 cents a quart for 

 picking. Here is an advantage of the 

 Gregg, for pickers can generally do as 

 well in picking it for ijA cents as in 

 picking the Ohio for 2 cents. To les- 

 sen the cost of harvesting and to over- 

 come the difficulty of securing pickers in 



Fig. 903.— Berry Harvester, 



Fig. 902. — Poor Casks, with High 

 i.atekals. 



remote places, the berry harvester 

 has come into use. This 

 is a canvas tray, made by 

 stretching the cloth over a 

 light wooden frame about 

 three feet wide and four 

 or five feet long. At the 

 bottom, the frame projects 

 upwards at right angles to 

 the body of the frame to 

 a distance of five or six 

 inches, to catch the berries 

 as they fall upon the canvas. 

 A wooden shoe or runner 

 is placed on the bottom of 

 the apparatus to allow the 



