Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — A Machine to Pick Cranberries. [ARTICLE]

A Machine to Pick Cranberries.

The latest invention of a labor saving machine is that of an apparatus for picking cranberries. A harvester of cranberries who uses his hands to pick the cranberries can make only from $3.50 to $3 per day; but by employing the cranberry picking machine he can make from $5 to $9 a day. Unluckily, however, the owners of the cranberry marshes suspect the machine harms the cranberry bushes, and many of them will not permit it to be used.—New York Telegram.