. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Showing one ot tne nearly weedless bogs of the MacLeiians. note sharp sided ditch. (CRANBERRIES Photo) —we think it is best. We clean our ditches by hand and we sand, using wheelbarrows and manual labor in spreading. We fertilize, use a lot of 5-10-5. We do not have to get vine growth as the bottoms are peat and not ; Archie and his brothers agree that important in cranbeiTy grow- ing is "to do the right thing at the right ; That applies to weeding, use of chemicals, ferti- lizers or anything else. "Ti
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Showing one ot tne nearly weedless bogs of the MacLeiians. note sharp sided ditch. (CRANBERRIES Photo) —we think it is best. We clean our ditches by hand and we sand, using wheelbarrows and manual labor in spreading. We fertilize, use a lot of 5-10-5. We do not have to get vine growth as the bottoms are peat and not ; Archie and his brothers agree that important in cranbeiTy grow- ing is "to do the right thing at the right ; That applies to weeding, use of chemicals, ferti- lizers or anything else. "Timing is ; He continued, "We had rather lose sleep any frost night, than flow when it is not necessary. We have a certain temperature which we watch and we don't start put- ting the water on until that point is reached. We hold off until the last possible minute and then if conditions are still dangerous we do flood. We seldom leave water on two or three days. We take it off and put it back. We have a relatively good water supply at all points. We were a little short in the drought of 1957, but we usually have ; All three were born in Hanson, where their father, as well as a cooper was retired as chief engi- neer of the Hanson plant. Cran- berries and cranberry growing were nothing unknown to them. Ai'chie puts in all his spare time, evenings, week-ends, holi- days, working on his bogs. He has a full-time man, as does Capt. Ernest. Nonnan is now doing his own work. Archie has always lived in Hanson, except when he put in the four years in the ma- rines, from 1923 to 1927. He was attached to the famous old U. S. S. Rochester, then based at Balboa in Panama. He was on what he calls "banana" duty covering much of the Caribbean Islands and South American ports For a time he served as assistant warden at the Naval Prison at Brooklyn. It was because of this marine training that he became acting chief and almost complete staff of the Hanson poli
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