REPORT OF CRANBERRY SUBSTATION FOR 1916. 199 



In partial confirmation of the evidence presented above, that scoop- 

 picking is not especially harmful to the keeping quality of cranberries, a 

 recital of the experience with 14 bushel crates of Early Black berries 

 picked with scoops in two different ways from narrow alternating par- 

 allel and adjacent strips of vines is here included. In picking seven of 

 these crates the scoops were allowed to fill to a considerable extent as usual 

 before emptying, the berries churning back and forth as they accumulated. 

 With the other boxes the berries were not allowed to collect as they were 

 picked, but were poured out of the scoops after each pull through the 

 vines. The results of the storage of this fruit are shown in Table 8. The 

 churned berries kept as well as the unchurned. The crates were examined 

 by the "nine-sample" method. 



Table 8. — Picking Test. — The Scoop-churning of Berries during the 

 Process of Picking does not materially affect Keeping Quality. 



4. Relative Keeping Quality of the Upper and Under Berries of the Vines. 

 — The three tests to determine this were carried out as indicated by 

 Table 9, the results showing rather conclusively that the berries most 

 exposed to sun and wind during their growth are considerably better 

 keepers than those produced under the protection of the vines. Moreover, 

 the top berries were much more highly colored and averaged considerably 

 larger in size than the others when picked. 



These berries were aU picked by hand under the supervision of the 

 writer, who did much of the work himself. They were stored in quart 

 cans. 



