The Thoresons had the only commercial orchard in Port Oneida during the 1920’s - ‘40’s, with about 75 cherry trees.  Leonard remembers them as a “nuisance”.  You had to spray them around the same time when you needed to be getting your hay in.  This was done with a hand-pumped barrel sprayer.  It was always hard getting pickers.  The Thoresons recruited women & kids from neighboring farms, but everybody was busy at that time.  The cherries were taken to Lake Leelanau or to D.H Day’s Glen Haven Cannery.  At the Cannery they were unloaded onto a beam scale.  “Oh man, it was so hot in there from that old boiler, and all that steam, and the cans were running on the rack with all the rattle & clatter—I didn’t like that.”