CRANBERRY GROWING 



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Fig. 35. 



A. Picking Boxes Full of Cranberries Stacked in a Screen House. 



B. An Up-to-date Screen House, with part of a bog in the foreground. 



PREPARATION OF THE BERRIES FOR MARKET 



The first shipments usually go out within a week after picking begins, in early 

 September, and that part of the crop that is handled as fresh fruit is nearly all 

 sold by Christinas. Many prefer to take the lower prices which the earlier ship- 

 ments usually bring and get rid of their berries promptly. Their fruit does not 

 suffer the shrinkage that late-shipped berries do, and the cost of sorting is much 

 less. Some, however, prefer to take these losses and gamble for higher prices. 

 This has been increasingly risky in recent years. 



