. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. These photos show the "jalopie" fertilizing method as employed on the bog of Mr. Sherman. Details of the machine may be seen in these front and rear views. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Less Than $ Per Barrel "Last year, I picked my bogs, carted my berries off, trucked them to the packing house, boxed and stacked the berries, the bogs were pi-uned at the time they were pick- ed by the picking machines, prun- ings taken off the bog; in fact all my fall work was done for less than one dollar per barrel. With machines was the
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. These photos show the "jalopie" fertilizing method as employed on the bog of Mr. Sherman. Details of the machine may be seen in these front and rear views. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Less Than $ Per Barrel "Last year, I picked my bogs, carted my berries off, trucked them to the packing house, boxed and stacked the berries, the bogs were pi-uned at the time they were pick- ed by the picking machines, prun- ings taken off the bog; in fact all my fall work was done for less than one dollar per barrel. With machines was the only way this could be accomplished. "This spring I had a 13 Vz ft. fer- tilizer spreader made by the Hay- den Separator Co. for my little tru^k and that also was a real labor saver. Two men (one driving and the other refilling) one morn- ing put on 22 bags of fertilizer in 1% hours. Normally, it takes us about two weeks to put on our fer- tilizer by two men, this year this job was done in about two days. "We are now experimenting with a Buffalo Turbine mist sprayer and dust blower for spraying insecti- cides and fungicides on our bogs, and it looks very promising. It puts on the insecticides very even- ly, without doing any damage to our vines, as we can blow out about 200 ft. from shore. If this works out the way I think it will, we will have a road across the larger pieces and will be able to do them completely in very little time. "All industries and most other types of farming are using ma- chines to great advantage. Why not do the same in growing cran- berries ? "With bog labor getting scarce and the prices of berries going down, we must lower costs of pro- duction through ; Mr. Sherman is clerk and treas- urer of Cape Cod Cranberry Co- operative, Inc., of Plymouth. The man who makes hay while the sun shines won't have to lift an umbrella when it rains. There's no way to tell how big a man is until you know where his influence is go
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