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Cranberry picking machine, 1946

Original Collection: Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photograph Collection (P 120)

 

Item Number: P120:2189

 

Image Description: One type of cranberry harvesting machines becoming popular in Coos County bogs is a vacuum. Jim Olson, Bandon Grower, foreground, used two of these machines when harvesting his 2 1/2 acre bog. Olson's bog yielded around 800 quarter-barrel boxes per acre.

 

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Uploaded on July 27, 2011
Taken circa 1940