Left to right: R. C. Burkhart, Lebanon, retiring president of the organization; Albert Julian, Lyons, newly elected president; H. A. Lindgren, veteran extension animal husbandman; and Arnold Ebert, farm program director of KOAC.
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.
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.
