CRANBERRY STATION. 



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Table 7. — The Number of Cultures of Different Fungi obtained from 

 Decayed Berries frorn Sprayed Areas and their Unsprayed Checks. 



' In each case cultures were made from twenty rotten berries. 



Keeping Tests with the Pride Variety. 

 As the Pride is the most productive cranberry variety and is not widely 

 groA\Ti, knowledge of the keeping quality of its fruit is desirable. In a 

 test made in a previous year this variety seemed .superior to the Early 

 Black and not greath' inferior to the Howes. In 1919 a shipping test was 

 conducted, Early Black berries being provided by the station, three Pride 

 lots by B. F. Vose, L. B. Handy and the Federal Cranberry Company, 

 respectively, and two Howes lots by C. R. Rogers. Each lot consisted of 

 one barrel of berries. All the fruit was separated, screened and packed 

 under uniform conditions at the Carver packing house of the New England 

 Cranberry Sales Company. It was shipped to Washington, D. C, and 

 there stored and examined under the direction of Drs. Shear and Stevens. 

 The results appear in Table 8. 



Table 8. — Residts of Keeping Test of Cranberries, 1919. 



[The berries were screened at Xorth Carver October 16, received at Washington, D. C, October 

 24, and stored at a temperature of 40 to 50° F. until the date given. Note that the Early Blacks 

 and the first lot of Prides were sorted a week before the rest.] 



