. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. minutes actual spraying time to spray an acre of bog. This re- quires three men, the driver, and two men to move the plank from section to section and to refill the 50 gal. tank after every twc acres. Most of the sections on our bogs are four rods wide, therefore, we made a folding boom with a thirty- three foot spread, so that a section is completed in one trip around. The boom is in three separately controlled sections with a quick- acting master control valve. We can do a five, fourteen, nineteen or thirty-three foot swath. The
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. minutes actual spraying time to spray an acre of bog. This re- quires three men, the driver, and two men to move the plank from section to section and to refill the 50 gal. tank after every twc acres. Most of the sections on our bogs are four rods wide, therefore, we made a folding boom with a thirty- three foot spread, so that a section is completed in one trip around. The boom is in three separately controlled sections with a quick- acting master control valve. We can do a five, fourteen, nineteen or thirty-three foot swath. The sprayer has a nylon roller low- pressure pump, run by a five-horse Briggs and Stratton engine. We use our 200 gal. high pressure sprayer to mix the spray and to supply the smaller sprayer. Last year I put Zineb (fungicide) in two applications over all my bogs. The labor cost was only $ per acre. We have a special body that .ve use when we wheel ofl!" in clean- ing ditches. This is made of a sheet of plywood with 8 inch sides and one end. It has the same roller skate wheels underneath for easy dumlping. Mornings when the bog is wet or on rainy days when there is no picking, my men clean the ditches, putting the dirt in piles on the bog. After it dries, we take it off in the jalopy. All we have to do to dump it is to pull out a pin and roll o'T the body. Last fall, we cleaned about 2V2 miles of ditches by this method at a very reasonable cost. For crossing ditches and going on and off the bog, Ave r^e 2::" i-^h oak plank, 12 feet long. We carry loads up to about 1500 lbs. Using this machine on the bog for the past five years has s'.iown that very little damage is done to the vines, as long as you do not go over tlie same tracks more than twice. When cri>ssing ditches and going off the bog, we move the plank every two or three trips. Full Crop After Sanding Bog sanding is done by Model A Fords that back out onto the bog, loaded, on 8 inch plank. Trucks. Showing Sp
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