206 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 180. 



The table shows that the results of this test stronglj^ confirmed those 

 of the first two, giving striking evidence of the harmful effect of excessive 

 moisture among cranberries in storage. 



7. Effects of Admixtures of Vines and Leaves on Cranberry Keeping. — 

 The four series of tests in this connection were carried out as show^n in 

 Table 12. The fruit was picked with scoops and was stored in bushel 

 picking crates. The crates were examined by the "nine-sample" method. 



The table shows that these tests gave convincing evidence of the harm- 

 ful effect of an admixture of unattached cranberry leaves in the storage of 

 the fruit. They also indicated that the berries keep as well with the ad- 

 mixture of vines and leaves attached, commonly obtained in scooping, 

 as any way. The entire removal of the vines and leaves, aside from the 

 injury done in the process, however, seems to do no harm. 



8. Berries separated with Hay den and with White Machines and Berries 

 screened xvithoxd separating compared as to Keeping Quality. — The berries 

 used in these two series of tests were handled throughout in the same way. 

 The three lots of fruit in each series came from the same source, individual 

 crates of berries as they came from the bog being divided as evenly as pos- 

 sible into three separate parts by successive pourings into barrels to pro- 

 duce them, care being taken to handle the berries of the different lots as 

 nearly alike as possible. As there was no White separator in working 

 order in East Wareham at the time, all this fruit was carted in open barrels 

 in a farm wagon (without springs) to the Makepeace screenhouse at 

 Wareham, two of the lots of each series being there run through Hayden 

 and White separators, respectively. The berries were received into barrels 

 from both the Hayden and the White machines, those of the fii'st box (the 

 "good" box) also being used in the test in the case of the former. The 

 berries of all the lots were carted back in the open barrels to the station 

 screenhouse, where they were hand-screened, the fruit in all cases being 

 received into picking crates placed close to the mouths of the screens and 

 being stored in those crates. The arrangement and results of these tests 

 are shown in Table 13. The "nine-sample" method was used in examining 

 the crates. 



