CRANBERRY 



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running it through a fanning mill ; and some growers find it an 

 advantage to put all the berries through the mill before they go to 

 the hand screeners. A screen is a slatted tray about six feet long 

 and three and a - half wide at one end and tapering to about ten 

 inches at the other, with a side or border five or six inches high.* 

 The spaces in the bottom between the slats are about one -fourth 

 inch wide. The screen is set upon 

 saw-horses, and three women stand 

 upon a side and handle over the 

 berries, removing the poor ones and 

 the leaves and sticks, and worki 

 the good ones towards the 

 small and open end, where 



Fig. 109. 

 Early Black. 



they fall into a re- 

 ceptacle. The berries 

 are barreled directly if 

 they are not moist, but 

 if wet they are first 

 spread upon sheets of 

 canvas old sails being 

 favorites and allowed 

 to remain until thor- 

 oughly dry. 



The cultivated cranberry is a native 

 of our northern states. It was first cul- 

 tivated about 1810, but its culture had 

 not become general until forty or fifty 

 years later. The berries naturally vary in size and shape and 

 color, and three general types, named in reference to their 

 forms, were early distinguished the Bell, the Bugle and the 

 Cherry. These types are represented in Figs. 109 to 111, respec- 

 tively. As late as 1856 there appears to be no record of any partic- 

 ular named varieties aside from these general types. But there 



*Shown in Fig. 105, Principles of Fruit-Growing." 



