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crops can be scoop-picked for from 60 to 90 cents a barrel. Heavy crops 

 have sometimes been scooped for 9 cents a barrel, but they can hardly be 

 gathered so cheaply, even under the best conditions, without great waste, 

 too much of the fruit being left under the vines when the scoopers are 

 rushed, especially when the crop is heavy. Fully a fifth of the whole Cape 

 crop is left on the bogs in this way. 



To have the pickers work steadily, without haste and with as little waste 

 as possible, is a good rule. If help is scarce and water supplies are low, 

 however, it sometimes is best to pick the crop hastily to save it from frost, 

 great though the waste. The speed with which scooping should be done 



Fig. 

 Special Wheelbarrow for Taking Boxes of B 

 A Cranberry Scoop. A picker can work st 

 It holds about half a bushel. 



from 

 with 



Bog. It is belter than it looks, 

 le of these till it is nearly full. 



