. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Wm. F. Huffman (Continued from Page 7) outfit. This pumping system, as well as bringing in water, can also be used for drainage and pumping the water back to its source. In wet seasons such a far-siglited ar- rangement could prove of great value in keeping ths water table at any desired level, and of course in event of flood could be used to prevent injury. There are also two gravity outlets for drainage. So outstanding and interesting is this pumping system that a sec- tional view drawing and descrip- tion is given separately on t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Wm. F. Huffman (Continued from Page 7) outfit. This pumping system, as well as bringing in water, can also be used for drainage and pumping the water back to its source. In wet seasons such a far-siglited ar- rangement could prove of great value in keeping ths water table at any desired level, and of course in event of flood could be used to prevent injury. There are also two gravity outlets for drainage. So outstanding and interesting is this pumping system that a sec- tional view drawing and descrip- tion is given separately on the fol- lowing page. Mr. Huffman, for all of his prac- ticability, is also something of the experimenter and visualisl, al- though you only gather this indi- rectly from his talk. One thing, however, which shows this is that he has laid out a miniature cran- berry marsh for his own experi- mental purposes, constructed on the usual Wisconsin development plan. Here the beds are only about 25x50 feet each. On sec- tions he has set out McFarlins, Seai'les, "Mammoths", and "Vose's Prides," both the latter ear'y, but now mostly neglected Massachu- setts varieties. There is also a bed of what he calls "Pure McFar- lins," that is McFarlin vines which have not been mixed at any time with natives, as are many of the Wisconsin McFarlins. There is also a bed of selected wild native vines. In all there are a dozen of these model, experimental beds. The whoe miniature marsh is ir- rigated and flooded in the Wis- consin manner. "I call this the smallest bog in the world," Mr. Huffman says. "It is, in a way, my plaything, but I expect there will be some serious work done on these beds. Careful records are being kept. Something worthwhile may come from tests on this little ; Lover of Trees Mr. Huffman's tree planting plans are along this same line of broad vision of looking to the fu- ture. He sees no reason why trees in great numbers cann
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