Ed Castillo, 12, left, and Kent Bradshaw, 13, from Salem, walking with strawberry carriers. Ed picked 18 carriers and Kent 16 in one six hour day, at 42 cents per carrier. L.W. Scoggin Farm, Grand Island district of Yamhill County.
Mr. and Mrs. William Rick, Baker, picking at the Mitoma hopyard near Independence. They are old timers and have been picking each season for 30 years. He is 77; she, 72; $12 per day.
Robert W. Every, OSC Extenison Entomology Specialist is shown operating sprayer on sheep for ticks on a south Benton County farm. The nozzles were held close to the fleece in order to get skin deep penetration with the DDT solution. The sheep are loosely confined in a holding pen to facilitate spary coverage.
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.
Mrs. Elsie Hill, Route 3, Junction City, Oregon, spent the summer driving a tractor at the Benton County Flax Grower's Cooperative plant near Monroe, Oregon.