Excerpt from The Blueberry Maggot in Washington CountyAlthough the berries, which are picked with a rake similar to that used for gathering cranberries, are under favorable condi tions as firm and clean as hand picked fruit, usually more or less foreign matter is collected in the process Of raking. It is a com mon though not a universal practice to winnow the berries in the field for the purpose Of eliminating such leaves and other foreign material as can be blown out by the hand-power winnowing machine. The fruit is then poured into wooden boxes, and taken to the canneries. Before it is packed, it is subjected to a more thorough winnowing in a power-driven machine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.