. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. developed two pruners, one with revolving cutters which cuts slightly diagonal to the path of travel, the other is a specially huilt cutter bar which raises the i-unners before cutting them. Something entirely new to us were "stilts" (shoes with a wooden bottom to which were fastened pegs about 2V2 inches long). These were worn by everyone going on the bogs to prevent damage to the Electric Alatm toi liot,t. The cover over alarm is raised or removed when in use. Lumbering is a very important industry in Oregon a
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. developed two pruners, one with revolving cutters which cuts slightly diagonal to the path of travel, the other is a specially huilt cutter bar which raises the i-unners before cutting them. Something entirely new to us were "stilts" (shoes with a wooden bottom to which were fastened pegs about 2V2 inches long). These were worn by everyone going on the bogs to prevent damage to the Electric Alatm toi liot,t. The cover over alarm is raised or removed when in use. Lumbering is a very important industry in Oregon as we all know, but we were impressed by the size of the logs being hauled on the highways to the lumber mills which seemed to be everywhere. The mini- mum wage in the lumbering busi- ness is two dollars per hour, which makes cranberry bog labor very expensive and hard to obtain. While in Oregon I heard, saw and pictured much more than can be included in this issue of Cran- berries. Next month Long Beach and Grayland Washington and a lit- tle about Vancouver bogs will be discussed. NCA Bookkeeper Accused of $53,000 Larceny An employee of National Cran- berry Association, Mrs. James Wood, of Thompson Street, Middle- boro, bookkeeper and stenographer, has been accused of the lai'ceny of $53,000 from that co-op. She was Twenty-two. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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