An overseer is needed for every twenty-five pickers, to see that the work is properly done, each in his or her own place, and that all are picking clean from the vines, and from the “bottom;” that is, picking from the ground all scattering berries. Measures holding six quarts are the most convenient size, and the usual price is ten cents per measure, each picker using generally two measures and so saving time, as the berries must be carried to the “Tally.” The pickers are all known by numbers, and as they go to empty their measure they report “Number (5),” one or two measures, as the case may be, the Tally repeating each number and tally, as a precaution against mistakes. On some bogs checks are given thus: “Good for ten cents, South Sea Co., F. Crocker, Hyannis, Treas.;” and such checks are current coin during “Cranberry time” for supplies at the stores. Again, others provide themselves with a large amount of dimes, and so “pay off” as each measure is delivered. Berries, after being picked, should be put in slatted boxes holding about one bushel each, as being the most convenient size to handle, and then put away for at least twenty-four hours to cool off, as prevention against the almost immediate process of decay if this is not done. BARRELLING. After being thoroughly cooled they are put in screens about ten feet long, three feet wide at the upper end, and six to eight inches at the lower end, from which, under the careful eye of an expert “screener,” they are “run” into a barrel set ready to receive them. Four or five screeners about each screen remove all trash and unsound berries, and sometimes the light-colored ones, which are held to “color up,” or packed separately and marked “Light.” As the barrels are being filled, they should be thoroughly shaken, at least three times; then, when the uninitiated packer thinks he has got the barrel full enough, it needs from four to six quarts more, when, with a screw, press the berries firmly down into the barrel. The barrels now properly headed and nailed, carry the berries in shape to command the highest price for which their grade may warrant. It _pays_ to pack the fruit as _solid_ as possible, since, whether sound or otherwise, a full barrel will _sell_ when one lacking one inch or more of berries will command little attention. * * * * * WEST HARWICH, MASS., Oct. 19, 1891. In the spring of 1890 I bought an acre of cranberry bog that had been set about 30 years, and was so run down as to bear only about 10 barrels per year. I immediately applied 400 pounds of Bradley’s Fertilizer, and received the first year a crop of 22 barrels. Last spring I applied 600 pounds of same Fertilizer, and have just gathered 40 barrels of nice berries, making an increase of 30 barrels a year on one acre by the use of Bradley’s Fertilizer, equal to 300 per cent. gain.