Show r yr ST k = i r yy ll1j lIf 1 r oft m T C v l QD b E l I tl h r lQ 11 S8 lJl y t v t l < IfM i jt j bl r > 1 < iti sl1t 7 i Y j f I i tii > ii iUt f i 4 i r 1J1 t t c 4 r t f 1 f l = L = r I = I oil > l j II j I < 10 C 1 to t t 1 t lflf tcJ M xe r ° r a tl y r 4 4 j + 4 A 1 f ° r ° a y rba a EY C O J NSW MACNINkS 1 + 6 C V TP EXT to a goodly supply of j I turkeys tho most Important Impor-tant requisite for a successful 1 suc-cessful Thanksgiving Is a J plentiful measure of cranberries e cran-berries of just tho proper I1 tart flavor As well have a Thanksgiving dinner I without turkey as without d r the appetizing cranberry sauce However the people E of the United States have l scant cause to worry because be-cause of this feature of F their holiday menu It has been years since a failure of the cranberry crop was a reported nnd cranberry growers have been so rl Increasing their productive areas that despite tho Increase In demand due to the countrys Increase In population and other Influences there continues to be year by year a pretty lavish supply of the crimson berries and most seasons find them available at very reasonable reason-able prices Cranberries like so many of the other good things of life are distinctively American delicacies cranberries grow wild In cacies To bo sure some other quarters of the globefor Instance In Europe but It Is only In the United States that they have been cultivated as an article of food Even here the growing of cranberries Is confined largely to three stales Massachusetts Massachu-setts New Jersey and Wisconsin How Important Impor-tant an Industry It Is may be surmised however pqliil q y from tho fact that the a > 4 od much as raspberries Cape Cod district In Massachusetts l or strawberries are Mas-sachusetts the greatest P fi t x rJgP picked and most of tho cranberry region I on the NE t cranberry picking was globe sends to market as done by women and children chil-dren Tho Cranberry many as onethird of a King used to hire as million barrels of cran + many as 1100 pickers berries In a single F season r on his great bogs Jon t The average person Is ° Capo Cod and tho pickers wont to term all berry x pick-ers many of whom Jour areas patches but cran yam distances neyed long ratf N rss as4 r a berries do not grow In camped out on tho LONDINfi JRRRELS OF CRIlN PRIES patches but In bogs bogs during the picking tn a trrriffErof eRR and no may ha aiti ftftft The ft tow om mlsed from the name most of these tracts are located adjacent to rivers or lakes or ponds BO that they can be flooded In the late autumn au-tumn and kept under water until spring The berries grow on a vine which nestles close to tho ground In a perfect tangle and save for keeping out the weeds and battling with the Insect pests which are numerous the cranberries cranber-ries do not require very much cultivation or attention until harvest time approaches In the autumn Then the cranberry grower must look forward to a period of anxiety a careful serious ser-ious scrutiny of the weather He must keep close watch on the weather for If a frost comes ere the crop Is harvested It will work sad havoc unless the grower has been forewarned fore-warned and flooded his bog or built great bonfires bon-fires to keep up the temp 1ture In years gone by the t Rrvestlng of cranberries cranber-ries was done solely by the hand picking moth oLoIoooIooLolsrtoIoo1ol 010010 I I 01 season L UU past luw years however has witnessed a revolution Now almost all cranberries are picked by the aid of machines and because It Is tiresome work manipulating these machines It has come about that most of the women and children have been forced out of the Industry and the task Is largely In the hands of men the more skillful of whom receive from 3 to 5 per day The picking machine most extensively used has the appearance of a huge wooden scoop the bottom of which Is made up of a row of metal bars tipped with sharp prongs and set close together In operation this scoop Is shoved with some considerable force Into the tangle of cranberry vines and then Is drawn upward up-ward and backward with the result that the vines which have been caught slip between tho metal bars but leave the berries which are too large to pass through the openlngu as do the vines and ln consequence are stripped from + + + + + 01 I 11 14 > I of d J their stems and remain in the scoop whence they are transferred to the tray which each picker pick-er has close at hand An export picker with n machine will do tho work of from half a dozen to a dozen hand pickers The cranberries as picked on tho bogs are placed in huge wooden boxes nnd transferred to a nearby frame building where they are passed through a machine known as n separator separa-tor which takes out all the leaves twigs nnd other foreign matter Then they are sorted for the elimination of any bad or wormeaten berries ber-ries and finally are placed In barrels which are hauled away to railroad yards to be loaded Into cars to tho tune of from 220 to 210 barrels to the car refrigerator cars being used exclusively exclu-sively Up to the present time cranberries lave been sold In bulk but this year sees an Innovation Innova-tion in the appearance of evaporated cranberries for which are claimed all tho advantages of evaporated evap-orated peaches or apples and In the Introduction of cranberries put up In pasteboard cartons Bearing cranberry bogs of the most desirable desir-able kind cost from 600 to 1200 per acrO but In a bumper year a grower may get his money back the first year and during tho worst year the Industry has known in a decade most of the growers made from 10 to ID per cent on their Investment and that too In spite of tho fact that cranberries were so plentiful that they brought only 2 a barrel whereas 5 to 7 a barrel bar-rel Is accounted an average price and there have been years when a famine of cranberries sent the price up to 10 per barrel tFd 3 d 3 srt F F 3 h Fi F t 9a v p q a p l l1 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