. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. y^. â "â¢^ CRANBERRIES PHOTO no older than 12 or 13, during summer vacations. He attended Woi'cester Academy in 1909-'10, then returned home to give his at- tention to the cranberry business. He had active charge of the Sraith- Fuller-Hammond and personal Hammond bogs under the super- vision of his father. Often he was left in supervision in later years when Irving went to Florida for winter months. He learned cranberry growing the hard way, doing actual ditching, sanding, frost flooding, insect con- trol, harvestin
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. y^. â "â¢^ CRANBERRIES PHOTO no older than 12 or 13, during summer vacations. He attended Woi'cester Academy in 1909-'10, then returned home to give his at- tention to the cranberry business. He had active charge of the Sraith- Fuller-Hammond and personal Hammond bogs under the super- vision of his father. Often he was left in supervision in later years when Irving went to Florida for winter months. He learned cranberry growing the hard way, doing actual ditching, sanding, frost flooding, insect con- trol, harvesting, shippingâany- thing and everything. He had di- rect charge of the building of bogs âas the Bullock bog in Assonet, now owned by Carl W. Illig, Jr. He has been in the cranberry business all his life, with two or three brief exceptions, one being when he went to the Fore River Shipyard at Quin- cy in the first World War. Carleton today, although only 54, because of this early start in cran- berrying can !ook back upon a relatively long experience and is amazed by changes taking place. Since his cranberry years began when he was so young, he can eas- ily remember when but scant atten- tion was given to insects. "We had fireworm and girdler and fruitworm", he says. "But we sprayed on'y now and then and we didn't know anything about dust- ing. We hadn't even heard of the bluntnosed leafhopper and false blossom. I can remember as a boy that one of my jobs was to go out in the early evening and light the torches on the Onset bog. These torches were to attract, and so de- stroy the fireworm millers flying Ten SMALLEY BOG SCREENHOUSE around. The torches were kero- sene cups with a wick on poles stuck over the ; Onset Boy Had Windmill He recalls, rather indistinctly because of his extreme youth, when this Onset bog was one of the few bogs (anywhere in the cranberry industry) which was supplied with water by a windmill. Ihis mill at Hammond's bog pumped wat
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