. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. had actually brought up in floats from 5 to 20 per cent of the total crop of a bog. Vine Setting Machine Robert Pierce, in talking on the mechanical setter he developed for L. B. Handy (pictures and descrip- tion in October issue of CRAN- BERRIES) said the vines thus set were alive last fall and he was eagerly looking forward to seeing how they were this spring when the water got off. About 12 acres were set last year, and it is ex- pected to set as many more this year. He told how a 5 or 6 man crew operated the machine, which was
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. had actually brought up in floats from 5 to 20 per cent of the total crop of a bog. Vine Setting Machine Robert Pierce, in talking on the mechanical setter he developed for L. B. Handy (pictures and descrip- tion in October issue of CRAN- BERRIES) said the vines thus set were alive last fall and he was eagerly looking forward to seeing how they were this spring when the water got off. About 12 acres were set last year, and it is ex- pected to set as many more this year. He told how a 5 or 6 man crew operated the machine, which was an Ariens-Tiller, with disks and rolls adapted to the rear. The two most important men were the two who broadcast the vines in front; a third rode the machine to give it added weight, helping out on the turns, while two or three more followed, raking up the vines which were not set for re- use. He said it would set an acre a day at a labor cost of $50 an acre. A Jari power scythe was used for mowing the vines, he said, and this seemed much pref- erable to hand mowing, cutting the vines evenly and leaving them in good condition for regrowth. Overhead Irrigation Mr. Waite exhibited and told of three sizes of sprinkler heads, from the "Giant" down, saying sprinkling in the East is still ex- perimental, but he was inclined now to the belief that smaller heads did the best job. It has been esti- mated, he said, that losses from frost flowage might run from 10 up to 50 per cent and this might be eliminated by the sprinklers. Besides frost control he empha- sized the value of the irrigation when needed, and that the sprink- lers might work into insect control by packing down the sand after a PDB application. He mentioned the amount of dry acreage which now has no frost protection, the use of these on bogs which were out of level so that parts could not be reached by flowage. He described his own successful use of sprinklers for frost protection on his own bog last fall, and
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