. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. From Sea To Shining Sea (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in- stallment continued from our October issue in which Dr. Chandler tells of Oregon bog practices, differing from those in the East and Wisconsin.) By F. B. CHANDLER We ferried from Astoria, Oregon across the Columbia River to Wash- ington and then drove to Long Beach arriving there about noon. 1 stopped at the Cranberry Blue- berry Station early in the afternoon and found Prof. Crowley on a near- by bog. The bogs in the Long Beach area are very flat and the uplands are not
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. From Sea To Shining Sea (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in- stallment continued from our October issue in which Dr. Chandler tells of Oregon bog practices, differing from those in the East and Wisconsin.) By F. B. CHANDLER We ferried from Astoria, Oregon across the Columbia River to Wash- ington and then drove to Long Beach arriving there about noon. 1 stopped at the Cranberry Blue- berry Station early in the afternoon and found Prof. Crowley on a near- by bog. The bogs in the Long Beach area are very flat and the uplands are not much higher than the bogs. The bogs usually have board or plank dikes which are used at harvest time when the bogs are flooded for water picking. Frost is controlled with sprinklers which are also used for irrigation. The bogs are built on peat which is usually not over eight feet deep. Most of the bog holdings in Ore- gon and in Washington are family sized operations which vary from 2 to acres. However, Cranguyma at Long Beach is an exception, and I very much enjoyed seeing it with Dr. Clarke and Mr. Glenn as guides. This property is very large, con- taining about 100 acres of produc- ing bog, about 100 acres being pre- pared for cranberry culture and another hundred which can be put into cranberries. This property has ample reservoirs for its acreage. The bearing acreage at Cranguyma is all in one piece with five miles of standard gauge railroad so lo- cated in the bog that most of the work is done from it. Eleven hun- dred sprinkler heads are used to protect this bog from frost. The water comes from a lake on the property through a pump house which is capable of delivering about 6000 gallons per minute. Part of the fertilizer is applied through the sprinkling system. The mains of the sprinkling system also supply water for harvest. Cranguyma also has large plant- ings of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and an exceptional collection of rhododendrons. In ad- dition,
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