10 BULLETIN 960, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
to 1.2 per cent of the volume of either lot of the berries in the test. 
If the difference seems small, it should be remembered that the lots 
were identical and their treatment the same, except that they were 
placed in the drying crates somewhat differently. Moreover, during 
the early part of the test, the weather conditions were so favorable for 
drying that even the carelessly handled lots dried very quickly. 
The injury resulting from permitting cranberries to remain wet 
after picking is more clearly shown by two tests in which the berries 
were kept wet for several days. In the first test one lot of berries 
was dried as soon as possible after harvesting; a second lot from the 
same section harvested on the same day (September 17, 1920) was 
kept wet over night, then dried in good condition; a third lot from 
this section was kept wet for three days. The third lot showed more 
than three times as many rotten berries as the first. A similar test 
was carried out the following week. Three lots of berries harvested 
on September 25 from the same section were handled as follows: 
One lot was dried as soon as possible, the second lot was permitted 
to remain wet in the picking crates over night, and the third lot was 
left in the picking crates for two days. In this test, as in the pre- 
vious one, the lot which remained wet for the longest time showed 
markedly inferior keeping quality. The results of these tests are 
given in Table VI. 
TABLE V1.—Average wee quality of cranberries from the same section, treated in 
different ways after water-raking. 
Spoiled berries 
(per cent). 
Treatment. Se 
Nov. 5-6,| Dec. 14, 
1920. : 
Lot 1, September 17: 
Dried as soon as OSSD TC 2 Eats yes See RU a ede he cl ae an ge a NY 4.5 16.0- 
LY a Py ELAN Ebel aA Bis a lag Ua A. I pl aA ao vc VO alt aN ee 11.9 21.7 
ICeptiwetenree Cavs se Foo. Sk PN ee ci eR Pe gee sew ae ey Pawo aes 
Lot 2, September 25: 
ried as soon as possible Ss Ne le i eh Rs adel es SR See ali eae yee eed | a ares 5 
GED ESWEEROGE MLCT Gays Saris ae CNOA ERIS oe Ey PR a ag SOD ese a 
ACO WOtst WO GAVSS: 4. SOUS vce tia cd ou mek dnrcloe | aOR Ue el eae Gy Scrat hee eae at | 15.0 
Long-distance shipments, to Washington, D. C., and to San Jose, 
Calif., of commercially handled water-raked and hand-picked berries 
from Beaver Brook, Wis., gave somewhat conflicting results, but in 
general confirmed the results of the more careful tests chat under 
the conditions in 1920 there was very little difference in keeping 
quality between hand-picked berries and those which had been 
water-raked and dried under favorable conditions. 
One comparative test of hand-picked and water-raked berries was 
made in which the water-raked berries were dried in the storehouse. 
In this case the water-raked berries showed inferior keeping quality, 
