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were about ninety yards long, sloping downward from 

 some large trees at the top of the garden to moist land 

 at the bottom. The soil is good, rich sand, that produced 

 annually good crops of vegetables. The pickers began 

 at the top near the trees, at seven o'clock in the morning, 

 each taking a row, leaving one row unpicked ; by eleven 

 o'clock, they had picked two-thirds of the way down the 

 two rows, and by that time the fruit on the upjDcr end 

 of the remaining row was softened half way down it by 

 the heat and drouth, the thermometer standing at 90° in 

 shade at the house. The parts of the rows on the lower 

 or moister end were not softened. The softened goose- 

 berries appeared very similar to the softened cranberries, 

 and it struck me at once that they were made soft from 

 exactly the same causes. That is, extreme high summer 

 temperature, with an absence of the necessary moisture 

 for the functions of the plant producing them^ and per- 

 haps the light in the direct rays of the sun." 



NEW JERSEY STANDARD PACKAGES. 



Tlie standard cranberry packages of New Jersey are of 

 the following sizes : 



Boxes or Orates — Bushel, Sy^ xl2x22 inches, inside 

 measure. 



Barrels, inside measure — Diameter head, IG'/^ inches ; 

 diameter bilge, ISy^ inches ; depth, 25yg inches. 



Heads should be made of seasoned material only. 



