. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Showing: the third heavy duty sand spreader d esigned and built by Mr. Hannula. (CRANB'ERRIES Photo) He Designs, Makes Cranberry Equipment And Then Lets Anyone Copy It By Clarence J. Hall Oiva A. Hannula, South Carver. Mass., believes future of Massachusetts cranberry industry is in mechanization —operates 23 acres. His hobby is the designing and making of Cranberry equipment. Or perhaps hobby is the wrong word to use because he is very serious about the importance of this vv'ork. He says, "We've just got to mechanize the indu
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Showing: the third heavy duty sand spreader d esigned and built by Mr. Hannula. (CRANB'ERRIES Photo) He Designs, Makes Cranberry Equipment And Then Lets Anyone Copy It By Clarence J. Hall Oiva A. Hannula, South Carver. Mass., believes future of Massachusetts cranberry industry is in mechanization —operates 23 acres. His hobby is the designing and making of Cranberry equipment. Or perhaps hobby is the wrong word to use because he is very serious about the importance of this vv'ork. He says, "We've just got to mechanize the industry or we will go under. The cost of labor will eventually put us out of business if we don'; He spends all his spare time at this business and has a number of pieces of cranberry equip- ment to his credit. He is Oiva A. Hannula of Huckleberry Corner, South Carver, Massachusetts. _ He is a grower in his own right, producing good crops. He uses the equipment in his own business and rents and sells it to others. Anyone Can Copy Mr. Hannula never patents any of his inventions. He is perfect- ly v»rilling to let any grower co^iy a piece of equipment he has de- signed. He is willing to let them come and see it and then copy it. His only bone of contention is that someone -may "steal" a design and then patent it himself. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts May 27, 1918, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Han- rnia. H:s father was a machinisc ty trade and later an agricultural- :?!; so he comes naturally by his r-'echanical ?bi',ities and to the fact he has taken up a form of ^riculture, cranberry .fjrowing for the chief means of his liveli- hood. His father was a mechanic at Harrington & Richards arms man- ufacturer at Worcester. While he was very small they moved to East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where they ran a dairy farm. That was where he got his schooling. Hannula first became interested in cranberries in 1935 when he was 17, which was when he came to S
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