Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-04
Cranberries -Improved Method
Handling the Fruit.
From the Berlin Conrant

It is doubtless very low and safe
estimate that there viii be shipped from
Berlin this fall 10000 barrels of cram
berries. Some estimates have been
made as high as 10000 Cranberries
have already been sold in this market
as high as SO per barrel.
Sacketb has this season erected on
his marsh cranberry store and pack
ing house. Its dimensions are IA
feet by 48, and four stories in height
with a lookout from above the roof,
The floor of each story above the first
is divided up by bins Is feet square,
for the reception of the berries.
The berries are taken from the marsh
in small open cars, some nine feet in
length. These cars filed with berries
are run to the end of the store house,
and then raised by Rudy's Patent Hoist
ing Machine, which IS so constructed
that one man can raise a car loaded in
two minutes TO the level of the floor
of the fourth story, and thence there is
a track for the car the length of the
building. In each side of a car there
is slide opening to allow the berries
to escape into the bins on either side OF
the track. There are spouts from the
bins on the upper story passing to the
bins on the third story, and from the
third to the second story, and thence
the berries are taken by spouts to the
first floor where the packing is done.
The berries are left IN the bins from a
week to ten days to cure for proper
condition to put III barrels.
Mr.. Sackett has had some two miles
Of track constructed in sections some
twelve feet IN length. There are two
boards running lengthwise Of each sec
ton held in place by cross ties, made
also Of boards. Above the cross ties
are track rails made Of scantling. The
ends of the scantling are cut on inter,
so that when the sections are put down
the track is sufficiently firm for the pur-
pose intended. The parts Of a section
are fastened together with nails. Thus
constructed, the track can be moved
with rapidity to any place on the marsh
Besides the straight sections there are
bent sections for turning curves Sack
ett's system Of taking the berries from
the marsh, putting them into bins, and
taking them thence to the packing
house seems il every way to be conven-
lent and economical.
Heretofore he has taken the
berries in boats through the bitches
filed with water to the store house.
By that arrangement the marsh was
during time of picking wet, now it can
be kept comparatively dry
We called at Sackett's on Thursday
afternoon, There were then about six
hundred pickers on the ground. The
quantity picked by each individual va
ries from one to three bushels per day.
A walk across q marsh satisfied us
that Lu Forbes, and Mr. Bridge of the
firm Of Bridge & Simmons, have a good
thing in the way of a cranberry marsh
They have this summer ditched $40
acres. The thrift Of the young vines
since the ditching bespeaks large IL
C me IN few years. This marsh Is
quite free from common grass, sage
grass, and everything aside from cram
berry vines.
Forbes s. Bridge have just succeeded
In getting a fine fountain on the hard
land near their marsh, by boring about
Il feet, near this they have put up a
small building for the accommodation
of pickers. There are this season some
berries on their marsh, which they are
now gathering.
Dr.. D. Forbes, has ITS acres Of marsh
adjoining that OF Forbes and Bridge,
which has net been ditched. The
same dam floods the whole.
The township of Aurora in few
years must become one Of the most
wealthy in the state. There is now q
good deal of productive cranberry land
IN that township.