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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6063port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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cranberry grower who did not like the system and wanted to sell. He blocked up the holes, and put in sprinkler heads, both Buckner and Rainbird. The system was first pow- ered by gasoline but he now uses electricity. The water comes from wells which he drilled himself. He is now satisfied with the system. He has renovated and replanted some of the bogs. For mstance, the Cashing bog was mostly Howes, but he now has it two-thirds in Early Blacks. The big Waterville bog is about half Howes and about half Early Blacks. His bogs are mostly flowed by pow- er, but there is some gravity at the Waterville bog. There are four gaso- line pumps. Does Own' Work He has frosted, sanded, dug weeds and done all kinds of bog work. He is a busy man on frost nights, taking care of his own bogs and goes to the Waterville bog in Middleboro and directs. There is a foreman there, Francis Dunham and two workers. Regarding the possible trend to- ward water picking in the East he says, "If I was 25 years younger, I might be interested in this, as I believe it is perhaps more efficient. But my own and many Massachu- setts bogs are so out of level that I think it would take a big invest- ment to get them flat enough so that we can pick a large acreage by this system as they doin Wisconsin. I can't see it for myself, yet, any- how." Mechanical Harvest The Meharg and the Raymond' Meharg properties are now all me- chanically harvested. Together, Ray- mond and Meharg own four Darling- tons and three Westerns. Meharg says they do most of the picking with the DarUngtons. "For one thing, most any operator can run a Darling- ton, but a Western requires more skilled work. And, as the Darlington does not prune like the Western there is no need to have a cleaner hlower on the shore, unless the bog is very weedy. They own four model A sand spreaders and two new-type sanding machines made by Oiva A. Hannula of South Carver, with the oversized tires, a big rubber-tired tractor and a clamshell for ditch cleaning and a bulldozer and truck. Also one spray truck. But now most of the spraying is done by straightwing airplane done by Aerial Sprayers, Inc. of Marsh- field. A lot of weed spraying has been done with the new weed kiUer, Simarzine, perhaps 50 acres in all. Liked Eatmor Service When Meharg was operating alone his berries were sold through the now defunct New England Cranberry Sales Company and the American Cranberry Exchange, later Eatmor Cranberries, Inc. "It was a bad day when that organization was dissolv- ed," he says. "They knew how to sell a lot of cranberries as fresh fruit." Now all the crops are sold through Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. About four years ago Meharg be- gan working for Plimouth Planta- tions, Inc., the reconstnicted Ply- mouth village of the 1620s. He is em- ployed in maintenance. He works five and a half days a week. However, he still does frosting and works all his spare time on the bogs. Plymouth plantations is only a short distance from the Meharg home on Clifford Road and Eel River, where the Mayflower II, will eventually be permanently at anchor may be seen from the Meharg yard. He lives in ^^^^fc
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A load of vines for setting being hauled from bog to bog. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Eight

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