. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. improvement, such as cleaning up the weeds, sanding, consistent in- sect control, using modern meth- ods; taking advantage of the latest in research. Dusting has been by both straight-wing plane and 'copter. Arthur feels that insect control from the air is superior to ground work. Ground dusters he believes, cause too much damage to growing berries. Better Ways of Cranberry Growing In his operations Arthur tries to do things as mechanically as possible. "One of the problems in cranberry growing, as I see it, is to get away fro
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. improvement, such as cleaning up the weeds, sanding, consistent in- sect control, using modern meth- ods; taking advantage of the latest in research. Dusting has been by both straight-wing plane and 'copter. Arthur feels that insect control from the air is superior to ground work. Ground dusters he believes, cause too much damage to growing berries. Better Ways of Cranberry Growing In his operations Arthur tries to do things as mechanically as possible. "One of the problems in cranberry growing, as I see it, is to get away from the slow hand labor when ever mechanization will do the job as well or at least ap- proximately as well as far as qual- ity is concerned. Labor is too dif- ficult to obtain. We must keep looking for more efficient ways to properly care for our properties. There must be quicker and easier methods of doing some of the back- breaking jobs connected with the growing of ; He re- Right—Arthur shows one of his Summer cottages. Below, the Handy's home at Patuisset. CRANBERRIES Photo) ferred, then particularly to his sanding program. He sands with a sand tractor, which has a front-end loader, that is, a hydraulic bucket which scoops sand directly out of the sand banks. He sets un a sand screen on a stand and drives the truck in under this, to avoid extra handling. He does not drive the truck out on the bog directly on the vines, as many were doing in Massachusetts this past Fall, but more cautiously uses planks for the wheels. With a. 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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