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under whicli is placed a barrel to receive the perfect ber- 

 ries. Some half a dozen people are allotted to each of the 

 larger screens, with one at each end. A crate containing 

 a bushel is dumped in at the large end of the screen, and 

 the vines and poor berries thrown out, the white berries 

 collected and put into separate pans, and the well colored 

 fruit passes out at the smaller end, or mouth, into the 

 barrel placed there to receive it. When the barrels are 

 filled they are set at one side, and if required for imme- 

 diate shipment the head, pressed down by means of a 

 screw, is inserted, when the barrels are ready for the 



Fig. 14. — BOG-HOUSE. 



teamster to take them to the depot. The berries are us- 

 ually set in the Bog-House, or under canvass, for twenty- 

 four hours before they are screened, in order to cool them 

 thoroughly before barrelling. 



THE BOG-HOUSE. 



The buildings needed for the accommodation of the 

 pickers and the fruit are : first, the Bog-House. The 

 size of the house will of course depend upon the extent 

 of the bog J one of ten or twelve acres would require a 



