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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
March, 1919 
CRANBERRY CULTURE 
Edited by Mrs. S. N. Whittlesey, Cranmoor, Secretary Wisconsin 
Cranberry Growers Association 
A typographical error occurred 
in the article of Miss Lyda M. 
Huyck, published in the February 
issue, that to those unversed 
would be very misleading. In the 
paragraph, “We will continue 
with our well proven net pick- 
ing” — “net” should read “wet.” 
Net picking is impossible. Wet 
picking means the method of harv- 
esting now, approved by some 
growers, of raking on the water. 
This is done by taking one section 
at a time flooding it deep enough 
to float all the berries, when they 
can be easily and quickly scooped 
or raked from the vines. Larger 
scoops or rakes can be used — 
fewer berries are lost, and a great 
many more can be gathered in a 
day than with the dry raked 
method, making the expense of 
getting them far cheaper. As 
but few berries can be put in a 
crate a great many drying crates 
are needed to facilitate rapid dry- 
ing. It is in the drying or curing 
of these water raked berries that 
the danger lies. The few who 
have seemingly mastered the art — 
and it is an art — are very strong 
adherents — -while the objectors 
are so fearful of injury to the 
keeping quality of the berry, and 
so averse to moisture, they will 
not have a berry taken from the 
vine till every particle of dew 
even is dried off. At the present 
time the water-raked method is 
the much debated question among 
the Wisconsin cranberry growers. 
AVe are pleased to note that 
among the twenty-eight exhibitors 
at the Horticultural convention at 
Madison, Jan., 1919, nine of them 
were cranberry peoeple. With 
the exception of E. G. Dano, of 
Tomah, all were from Cranmoor 
Station and Township. 
Our Mr. E. G. Dano, of Tomah, 
is still a sufferer from injuries, re- 
ceived in early January, when a 
passenger engine struck the 
buggy in which lie was riding. 
With a broken collar bone, broken 
ribs, badly scratched face and neu- 
ritis developing later, he has cer- 
tainly had something to endure. 
AVith the mental and physical 
strain over the injured, Mrs. Dano 
must also have endured some- 
thing. 
Chas. A. K. Rankin, a young 
cranberry grower of Corvallis, 
Wash., and a member of this asso- 
ciation, was recently stationed at 
Pelham Bay Park, and while on 
leave, called and lunched with 
Mr. A. U. Chaney in New York 
city. Air. Rankin walked out of 
the University of AVashington into 
the U. S. Navy the first day of the 
war and has convoyed many 
troops, beside the ship Tuscania 
on her fatal voyage — while on the 
U. S. Steamship South Dakota. 
Air. R. C. Brown, a jeweler and 
optometrist of Riverhead, N. Y., is 
also a grower of Long Island 
Cranberries, with bogs at Calver- 
ton. AVitli his check for annual 
dues Air. Brown writes : “We have 
had personally a very successful 
year, due to a normally good 
crop, and the prevailing high 
prices since Thanksgiving. We 
still have about 50 barrels left to 
ship, which will be cleaned up in- 
side of a couple weeks’ time. AVe 
are getting $25.00 for some of 
them. AVe have had a long period 
of wonderful record prices. In 
the long history of our bog, and 
during my father’s time from 1875 
there have never been any such 
wonderful prices or returns.” 
It is true that never before did 
prices soar as they have this sea- 
son. That there is still the demand 
and people willing to pay, shows 
that the Cranberry is coming into 
its own, and will be considered not 
only a luxury but a staple prod- 
uct. 
AVith the passing away of Airs. 
Daniel Rezin, Sr., another break is 
made in the ranks of the cran- 
berry people. For more than 
twenty-five years Air. and Airs. 
Rezin and their three sons and one 
daughter have been owners and 
cultivators of cranberry marshes. 
— at one time all in Cranmoor 
township. Since Mr. Rezin ’s death 
in 1913 Airs. Rezin has spent her 
time with her children at their 
marsh homes. Of late years Rich- 
ard and Airs. S. A. AYarner were 
located at Warrens, Wis., Daniel, 
Jr., at Warrenton, Oregon, Robert 
still at Cranmoor, where, for the 
last three years Airs. Rezin made 
her home — the greater part of 
this tjme confined to her bed, a 
nearly helpless but patient suffer- 
er. Release came Sunday morn- 
ing, February 9, 1919. Funeral 
services were held at St. John’s 
Episcopal church in Grand Rap- 
ids, with interment at Forest Hill 
cemetery. The pall bearers were 
B. P. Clinton, Jacob Searls, AI. 0. 
Potter, A. E. Bennett, Edward 
Kruger and S. N. AVhittlesey, all 
old time friends. 
