. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. THESE photos by CRANBERRIES correspondent Carolyn Caldwell show the experi- mental silt bog being prepared. definitely not ; Silt particles, half the size of [hourglass sand, will pass through a sieve with 100 holes per square inch. Used as a lining for cran- berry bogs, the fine particulate matter compacts to form an almost impervious layer that will hold water. The result, Carr beUeves, is a situation similar to that of a peat bottom bog. This particular bog is being built on upland, 10 feet above the water source. It m
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. THESE photos by CRANBERRIES correspondent Carolyn Caldwell show the experi- mental silt bog being prepared. definitely not ; Silt particles, half the size of [hourglass sand, will pass through a sieve with 100 holes per square inch. Used as a lining for cran- berry bogs, the fine particulate matter compacts to form an almost impervious layer that will hold water. The result, Carr beUeves, is a situation similar to that of a peat bottom bog. This particular bog is being built on upland, 10 feet above the water source. It may not need as much frost protection as lowland bogs do. The bog is designed so that one pump is needed to feed the five sections. "WE OWN THE WATER, the land, the silt, the sand," Carr said. "So when you add up all our assets, why not?" Carr said his company's plans have met with "almost universal concurrence" in Lakeville. "Before we had to leave topsoil and plant (continued on next page). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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