. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Vast DuBay, with some of the buildings in the far distance. (CRANBERRIES Photo) up for 100 acres, but this plan was increased to the present acreage. DuBay is planted mostly to Searles, plus 18 acres of McFarlin and last year there has been planted 10 acres of the new hy- brid of Stevens. Also have been planted 8000 trees of Black Hill Spruce and several thousand of Norway Pine on the property. In the building of DuBay no necessary cost to achieve the finest possible cranberry marsh was omitted and there were con- sultations with e
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Vast DuBay, with some of the buildings in the far distance. (CRANBERRIES Photo) up for 100 acres, but this plan was increased to the present acreage. DuBay is planted mostly to Searles, plus 18 acres of McFarlin and last year there has been planted 10 acres of the new hy- brid of Stevens. Also have been planted 8000 trees of Black Hill Spruce and several thousand of Norway Pine on the property. In the building of DuBay no necessary cost to achieve the finest possible cranberry marsh was omitted and there were con- sultations with experts, such as Dr. Malcolm N. Dana of the University of and Ten acres of the marsh were built on sand and the others on raw peat. At DuBay all the beds are larger than the Wis- consin average of 100 wide by 800 feet long. 3^ beds are 150 feet wide by 900 and four are the same width but a majestic 1500 feet long. Water Supply Excellent DuBay's watsr supply is very, very good. The supply from the lake is handled by two 25,000 gpm Peerless pumps and one Murray. There is also a supple- mentary reservoir with a pump- house to pump the water in and off again, giving one flood for the back 18 beds to assure quick coverage for frost protection. All of this was planned at the start. At present there are Rain Bird Sprinkler heads on 25 acres, and more are planned to replace the former method of covering by flood. At what might be called the head of the huge marsh is a little village of attractive white structures with the surround- ing grass clipped. One is a large warehouse, 60 by 160 feet of two stories. There are two homes for the foreman and another worker. DuBay, like many other Wis- consin marshes has a complete machine shop, this one 40 feet by 120 feet. There any kind of repair work and building of new equipment can be done. The maintenance work is super- vised by Harry Kees, who has been at the marsh since its in- ception. Manager at DuBay is Harold Mezera,
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