Dickie Nash, 14, left, from Cromwell, Oklahoma, picking beans on the John Grenz place near Jefferson in Linn county. John Grenz Jr. is with him. Dickie batches an lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 lbs in one day.
The rubber vacuum tube in Jim Olson's hands carries a powerful suction generated by a motor-driven fan. As the end of the tube is moved rapidly back and forth among the vines, the cranberries are knocked loose and drawn into the machine through the vacuum.