. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. STORY OF A MAN WHO "PIONEERED" US INTO "PICKING MACHINE" AGE "Rudy" Hillstrom of the West has fought since 1946 that there must be a change in harvesting—Has crossed the country 37 times and is familiar in every cranberry area This is the story of a pioneer, growing seasons. Without harvest- The stcry of a man who in the past 9 years has done, beyond a doubt, most to revolutionize the cranberry harvest from manual labor to mechanization. Many others have been important, but he had the vision, the energ
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. STORY OF A MAN WHO "PIONEERED" US INTO "PICKING MACHINE" AGE "Rudy" Hillstrom of the West has fought since 1946 that there must be a change in harvesting—Has crossed the country 37 times and is familiar in every cranberry area This is the story of a pioneer, growing seasons. Without harvest- The stcry of a man who in the past 9 years has done, beyond a doubt, most to revolutionize the cranberry harvest from manual labor to mechanization. Many others have been important, but he had the vision, the energy to pull through the inertia and skep- ticism to bring us into the full cranberry picking machine age now. And it was none too soon that picking machines were available ing devices the 1956 crop nright have remained unpicked in part. Picking machines have been dreamed cf, even made small use of since shortly after the Civil War. But never until the past three or four years have harvest- ing machines come in general use, become the commonplace. There were probably up to a thousand, maybe a few more pick- ing machines of all kinds in use this fall, this including the so- in quantity. Labor costs have been called "egg-beaters" of the West upping steadily. Labor has been Coast and even the cumbersome getting scarcer. This past fall suction pickers. There are no most growing regions had late readily-available exact statistics. Certainly a rising 50 percent of the total crop was so harvested, perhaps up to 70 percent. Per- centage was certainly high in nunrbers of growers, although some of the larger in the East have continued to depend mainly en scooping; the smaller grower hasn't and couldn't. Within a few years' time scoop harvesting will be the exception, all but extinct, it seems beyond question. But this is the story of a pio- neer, a man out of the West, not the East, where cranberry grow- ing started, a man with the con- viction, the plausibility of a natural sal
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