Photograph
Building Cranberry Bog with T-20 Crawler Tractor
| Men building a cranberry marsh using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on the farm of Oscar O. Potter. The tractor is pulling a "turnover scraper". Original caption states: "Oscar Potter has 36 acres under production, his brother, Guy Potter, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, has 65 acres. Their father was also a cranberry raiser. In his time, cranberries grew wild in this section, producing about 8 to 10 barrels to the acre. The finest wild plants were selected, transplanted, again and again culled until the best varieties were obtained. The old system was to plant them the same as other crops, paying no particular attention to the terrain of the soil. Once planted they live forever if not frozen or baked out. As better varieties have developed, old marshes have been destroyed and new plants set." |
| Image ID: | 59747 |
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| Creation Date: | 1937 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Warrens |
| County: | Monroe |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 446, Page 28 |
| Original Dimensions: | 9.25 x 7.25 inches |
| A much longer caption is with the original image, going into the history of the matter, the soil, Potter's purchasing, and the work he and his sons have done. |
| Manual work |
| Cranberries |
| Cranberry industry |
| Plowing |
| Tractors |
| Hats |
| Work clothes |
| Croplands |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Agricultural implements |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Automobiles |
| Farmers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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