. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Device adapted for bogs Wipe a^ray your iveeds By JOHN S. NORTON (EDITOR'S NOTE: Stan, as Norton's friends call him, constructed the weed wiper and carriage he describes below. Norton, the country's only full time research engineer in cran- berries, has been at the Massachu- setts Cranberry Experiment Station since 1957. Several Massachusetts growers have built wipers similar to the one Norton describes.) The rope-wick type weed wiper, developed by researchers at the University of Missouri and at the USDA Research Unit at Stonevill


. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Device adapted for bogs Wipe a^ray your iveeds By JOHN S. NORTON (EDITOR'S NOTE: Stan, as Norton's friends call him, constructed the weed wiper and carriage he describes below. Norton, the country's only full time research engineer in cran- berries, has been at the Massachu- setts Cranberry Experiment Station since 1957. Several Massachusetts growers have built wipers similar to the one Norton describes.) The rope-wick type weed wiper, developed by researchers at the University of Missouri and at the USDA Research Unit at Stoneville, Miss., has been adapted for use in controlling tall weeds on cran- berry bogs. THE APPLICATOR assembly consists of a 3-inch diameter PVC pipe about 10 feet in length with a series of rope wicks inserted in holes in the side of the pipe. The pipe is capped on both ends and a removable filler plug is installed in the top of the pipe. The wick material is soft woven, nylon rope V2-inch in diameter. Each piece of wicking is about 18 inches long and the two ends are inserted in holes in MASSACHUSETTS GROWERS Financial assistance is available for Scholarships and for Hospital and Medical care for Cranberry Growers, their Employees and the families of both when financial need can be shown. For information contact: URANN FOUNDATION Box 1788 Brockton MA 02403 Telephone 588-7744 **••*•*•••••••••••. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ M ¥ Since 1933 fGage-Wiley&Co.,lnc. STOCKS & BONDS Members of theSICPC ^ 40 Court Street, Plymouth, Mass. 02361 "^ 617-746-3322 Call Toll Free m Mass 1-800-242-0263 ¥ the pipe about 8 inches apart. This leaves about 5 inches of wick dangling into the pipe at each hole. Two parallel rows of wicks are installed along the length of the pipe. The holes in the two rows are staggered so that the wicks in one row wUl overlap the short spaces between the ends of adjacent wicks in the other row. Rubber grommets are used to seal the space be


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