CRANBERRY GROWING 



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for ornamentals. Dry bogs should be picked with snaps and be raked early the 

 following spring, for the less the vines are disturbed in the fall, the less liable 

 thev are to winterkill. 



Fig. 33. 

 Special Wheelbarrow for Taking Boxes of Berries from a Bog. It is better than it looks. 

 A Cranberry Scoop. A picker can work steadily with one of these till it is nearly full. It 

 holds about half a bushel. 



STORAGE 



The berries are stored in the packing house (screen house) in the picking boxes 

 as they come from the bog (Fig. 35 A). The building, if tightly constructed, 

 should be kept close shut on damp and on warm days and be well aired on cold 

 nights, with fans if necessary. It should have capacity to hold two-thirds of the 

 maximum crop expected from the bog and a proper supply of shipping boxes 



