. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. berry Growers' Association, Cam- den, New Jersey, and hopes it may be possible to show the films and to appear at Massachusetts cran- berry club meetings, also Wiscon- sin, if any arrangements can be made. "Joe" Stankavich also hopes to be in the East with the films. The machine has been demon- strated at the Washington State Bog, Long Beach, during the har- vest season, and Mr. Crowley said that while the machine need- ed some further improvements it was the "best picking machine he had seen so far.' Trials have bee
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. berry Growers' Association, Cam- den, New Jersey, and hopes it may be possible to show the films and to appear at Massachusetts cran- berry club meetings, also Wiscon- sin, if any arrangements can be made. "Joe" Stankavich also hopes to be in the East with the films. The machine has been demon- strated at the Washington State Bog, Long Beach, during the har- vest season, and Mr. Crowley said that while the machine need- ed some further improvements it was the "best picking machine he had seen so far.' Trials have been held on bogs in the Coos Bay area in Southern Oregon. The first field test was on the three acre bog of Kaye J. Howard at Hauser. Mr. Howard is quoted as saying that he had sev- eral varieties on this bog and all were picked with success. Under good conditions the machines, Joe Stankavich says, has picked half a barrel in 38 seconds, but this was in heavy fruit. The machine has harvested an acre in eight hours. Passage of the machine over the vines is said not to injure uprights or injure next year's crop in any way. The machine is made of aluminum, weighing about 150 pounds. It is self-propelled by a %th horsepower 4-cycle gasoline motor. One man guides it, while another takes care of the filled boxes. A swath about two feet â wide is picked at a continuous walking speed. The machine uti- lized aluminum to a great extent. Since the picking last fall there have been several changes Instead of one model there are now three. One is mounted on wheels alone, one is half-tracked, e., a belt running over wheels, and a third is a track-laying tor. The reason for the three drives is the amount of ground tension needed. For ordinary scooping berries, a wheel alone is felt to give sufficient traction, but for some types which have heavy vine growth with matted runners more traction is needed, hence the tractor. The main features of the ma- chine, Mr. Hillstrom says, quoti
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