. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. He has Christmas vacations when he can do winter work, ice sanding (when there is ice) brush clearing, etc. He has the spring or Easter vacation when he can prejiare for the coming season. He has weekends. One long after- noon after school he and "Mac" who is nearly as big as his father, picked 237 harvest boxes. The one period that really bo- thers him in his tight school teaching-cranberry growing sched- ule is the picking season. Schools are mostly in session then. He harvests with a Western picker, which he owns, his
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. He has Christmas vacations when he can do winter work, ice sanding (when there is ice) brush clearing, etc. He has the spring or Easter vacation when he can prejiare for the coming season. He has weekends. One long after- noon after school he and "Mac" who is nearly as big as his father, picked 237 harvest boxes. The one period that really bo- thers him in his tight school teaching-cranberry growing sched- ule is the picking season. Schools are mostly in session then. He harvests with a Western picker, which he owns, his son, assisting and Mrs. Raymond, Mary and Marg-c winnowing on the shore. His vines are unusually short, es- pecially at Great Herring, due to pruning by the picker. He likes short vinees. He would like to have a few more Howes to extend the season longer — the Blacks mature "all in a ; Ha;--. Portable Irrigation His Great Herring begs were originally built from laurel swamp and he considers them dry. He has a portable irrigation system, Ames, with which he can cover two acres at a time. He has used this during droughts when sum- mers have been dry, but didn't have to this year with the well- spaced rains in Southeastern Massachusetts. The only bogs he can flow for frost are those at Great Herring and here he has a St. Jacques pump tc get the water up from the stream at Great Herring. On the others he can do nothing for frost, although they have spring- fed winter flowage. He has used the system successfully for frost protection. He does his own frosting, hik- ing down over the read from Braintree, which he "makes" in about an hour; he can put on a frost flow in about four hours. He believes in heavy use of fertilizer and then giving the bogs a good soaking. He is an enthu- siast in the belief in bees for pollination and has his own col- onies. "He's a real bee man," Mrs. Raymond observes. Machinery Minded He believes in the use of modern ma
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