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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6063port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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perienced men oaii harvest a.s many berries as 30 hand packers - if the lalter could bs rounded r.) when needed. Four men picked 1500 pounds of second picking Rancocas ber- ries in 8 hours. The miachine is powered by a 7 h.p. aircooled gasoline driven comipressor that supplies four air hoses swung from a long alum/inum 'boom to the picking guns. The gun, with a built-in vibrator, has four pointed rubher fingei's. It is rubbed along the branches of the bushes and shakes the berries into a canvas cart placed beneath the bush. /A further description is that the berries are then transported to the packing house where they are placed into a sorting machine. There the leaves, green fruit anl soft berries and other chaff, are separated from the good berries by vibration and air blast. The gocd berries piass over a conveyor belt, where girls remove the few green beiTis that get by the machine. Mr. Bowker is quoted as saying the machine will sort 900 pounds of berries per hour land does not remove the "bloom from the fruit. The picking miachine and sortei- costs $2800. Although the ma- chine works best on Rubel and Jersey varieties because they fall easier, it was found to work ef- ficiently on all varieties. It is be- lieved the bushes should he pruned to accomodate the machine. All low, inside bushes should be cut out. Mr. Bowker believes that three pickings can be gotten from the machine, but the fruit sihould he allowed ito get a little riper than in hand picking. The miachine is manufactured by the Blueberry Equipment Comipany of Grand Junicrfcion, Michigan. There were three other ma- chines in use in New Jersey this summer besides that of Mr. Bowker which he purchased out- right as an independent grower. The three were purchased by the Blueberry Cooperation Associa- tion of New Lisbon for experiment. Two were used on the Haines & Haines fields at Hog Wallow, Chatswortlh and the other by Ger- ald Critoerson at Buddtown.
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New Ocean Spray Director Gerald M. Potter of Wisconsin (CRANBERRIES Photo) New Wisconsin Director Has Mass. Experience Gerald M. Potter, a new Wis- consin director for Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. has had Mass- achusetts experience. In 1929 he spent one summer working under the late Dr. Henry J. Franklin at Massachusetts CranbeiTy Ex- periment Station, East Wareham and also at Dr. Franklin's bog in Lowell. After harvest he worked for a time under Carl Urann run- ning the float machine at East Wareham. Mr. Potter was foorn m Cran- moor Township, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin February 15, 1908 the son of the late Oscar Potter, prom- inent Wisconsin grower and Eva (Bennett) Potter. His fathei- at the time was employed by the Lester Cranberay Company. His family mioved to Warrens, when he was four and bougiht the present Potter marsh. He attended Warrens High School and Stout Institute at Menomomie, Wiscon- sin. In 1930 he was married to Lila Gillette of Warrens and they moved to Fife Lake, Michigan, where he managed a marsh for the Walton Cranberry Association for three years. He then went into partnership with his father and built a 10-acre marsh at Tomah. That marsh was sold to George Bennett and he worked for three and a half years during World War II at Badger Ordnance Works Kin?

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