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Spring  Tips 

For  Cranberry  Growers 

Issued   hy  Massachusetts 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 

1.  The  early  spring  pests  are, 
:r  soon  will  be,  showing  up  on 
jogs.  These  include  cutworms, 
panworms,  leafhoppers,  fire- 
worms,  Sparganothis  fruitworm 
and  weevils.  The  Sparganothis 
fruitworm  can  be  detected  by 
careful  examination  of  loosestrife 
or  the  new  cranberry  tips  for 
webbing.  Weevils  overwinter  as 
adults  and  are  active  whenever 
temperatures  reach  70  degrees  or 
above.  If  these  pests  are  con- 
trolled in  May  or  June,  particu- 
larly those  that  have  a  new  or 
second  brood,  they  very  seldom 
create  a  problem  later  in  the 
season. 

2.  This  is  a  good  time  to  treat 
brush,  poison  ivy  and  brambles 
on  the  uplands  using  one  of  the 
brush  killers,  silvex  or  2,4-5-T. 
These  should  be  mixed  with  water 


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year  because  of  the  damage  to 
turf. 

3.  Stoddard  solvent  or  stoddard- 
kerosene  treatments  following 
late  water  should  be  completed 
within  5  days  after  the  flood  has 
been  withdrawn  or  within  8  days 
if  kerosene  is  used  alone.  Less 
damage  will  occur  to  the  vines 
if  temperatures  are  below  65 
degrees  when  these  oils  are  ap- 
plied. 

4.  Casoron,  alanap-3,  Chloro- 
IPC  and  simazine  should  not  be 
applied  after  withdrawal  of  the 
late  water  flood  as  vine  and  crop 
injury  will  result. 

5.  Many  bogs  will  benefit  from 
an  application  of  fertilizer,  es- 
pecially where  heavy  crops  are 
harvested.  Some  bogs  that  have 
had  casoron  treatments  either 
last  fall  or  this  spring  may  look 
"hungry"  and  should  be  fertilized. 
Don't  forget  to  touch  up  the 
thin  or  weak  spots  by  going 
around  with  a  bucket  of  fertilizer 
and   using  it. 

6.  Get  out  and  walk  your  hogs, 
you  will  be  surprised  at  the  num- 
ber of  little  things,  both  good  and 
bad,  that  you  will  notice  on  your 
inspection  trips. 


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GELSTHORPE   SPEAKS 
TO    CAPE    COD    FARM 

BUREAU  AT  SANDWICH 

The  Spring  Meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Farm  Bureau,  held  at 
South  Sandwich,  Mass.  on  April 
20,  heard  an  address  by  Edward 
Gelsthorp,  executive  vice-presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of 
Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 
The  meeting  was  preceded  by  a 
family-style  covered  dish  supper. 


IMPORTANT 
NOTICE 

Effective  Immediately 

CRANBERRIES 
MAGAZINE 

has  a  new  mailing  ad- 
dress to  be  used  for  all 
correspondence  and  re- 
mittances as  follows: 

Cranberries  Magazine 

Box  70 

Kingston,  Mass. 

02360 

Deadline  for  copy  will  be  the  lOth 

Publication  date  will  be  the  15th 

of   each   month. 


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Mass.  Crapberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEAAORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


We  have  had  some  very  inter- 
esting people  stop  by  and  visit 
with  us  at  the  Station  the  past 
several  weeks.  Two  of  our  friends 
from  British  Columbia,  Norman 
Holmes  and  Donald  May,  spent 
some  time  with  us.  They  report 
that  the  cranberry  business  is  go- 
ing very  well  out  there  and  that 
much  new  acreage  is  being 
planted.  They  expect  the  bearing 
acreage  to  double  in  the  next 
three   or  four  years. 

Another  visitor  from  Canada, 
Orville  Johnson  of  Ontario  also 
paid  us  a  visit.  Mr.  Johnson  has 
several  acres  of  bearing  bog  and 
is  planning  to  build  another  four- 
teen acres  in  the  near  future. 

We  had  a  very  interesting  and 
informative  visit  with  two  visitors 
from  Africa  the  week  of  April 
25-29.      The     two    men,     Edward 


Manu-Boafo  and  Emmanuel 
Asante  are  from  the  country  of 
Ghana.  This  country  was  formerly 
known  as  the  Gold  Coast  and 
was  under  British  rule  for  over 
100  years,  it  became  independent 
in  1957.  Both  of  these  men  are 
Senior  Technical  Officers  with  the 
Cocoa  Research  Institute  in 
Ghana.  They  are  in  the  United 
States  for  a  period  of  three 
months  under  the  sponsorship  of 
the  Agency  for  International  De- 
velopment.   The  purpose  of  their 

visit  was  to  observe  the  Agricul- 
tural Extnsion  Education  program 
in  action  so  that  they  could 
return  to  Ghana  and  better  com- 
municate ideas  to  the  farmers. 
We  gave  them  the  grand  tour 
of  the  industry  and  introduced 
them   to   cranberries. 


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PRUNERS  POWER  WHEELBARROWS 

RAKES  WEED  TRIMMERS 

FERTILIZER  SPREADERS  -  Large  and  Small 


For  Further  Information  Gall . . . 


F.  P.  CRANDON 
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The  month  of  April  averaged 
two  degrees  a  day  below  normal 
in  temperature.  By  the  end  of 
the  month  Early  Blacks  were 
starting  to  "green  up"  and  we 
estimate  that  bogs  are  about  10 
days  behind  normal  development. 
Temperatures  were  consistently 
cool  throughout  the  month  with 
the  period  of  the  27th  to  the 
30th  extremely  cool  and  raw 
during  the  day.  Rainfall  totalled 
only  1.51  inches  or  about  Vs  of 
our  average  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion. Nearly  75  percent  of  the 
months'  total  occurred  during 
the  last  9  days  of  the  month. 

We  are  pleased  to  ref)ort  an 
increase  in  the  number  of  sub- 
scribrs  to  the  frost  warning  ser- 
vice which  is  sponsored  by  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers  As- 
sociation. We  have  214  subscrib- 
ers to  date  compared  to  205  a 
year  ago.  The  donations  to  the 
telephone  answering  service  are 
also  up  over  last  year,  which  is 
very  good.  There  are  two  answer- 
ing devices  at  the  Station,  both 
are  hooked  up  on  the  same  line 
so  that  when  one  is  in  use  the 
other  will  take  over  and  give  the 
message.  This  save  time  and  in 
some  cases  several  re-dailings. 
Up  until  May  3rd  2  frost  warn- 
ing had  been  issued. 


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Telephone     295-3530 

READ  CRANBERRIES 


'Good  Faith'  Purchase 
By  Cranberry  Growers 

Purchase  of  a  three-acre  tract 
of  land  adjacent  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Experimental  Station  in 
East  Wareham  has  been  an- 
nounced by  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association,  as  a 
"good  faith"  gesture  to  benefit  the 
industry. 

The  land  will  eventually  be 
turned  over  to  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  for  anticipated  ex- 
pansion of  the  Experimental 
Station  complex.  Growers  have 
benefited  from  experimental  work 
done    at    the    site    since    1910. 

A  proposal  has  been  introduced 
for  the  state  to  spend  $100,000  to 
match  available  Federal  funds 
for  enlargement  of  the  Experi- 
mental Station's  facilities.  On 
March  15,  approximately  200 
growers  from  all  areas  were  rep- 
resented at  the  State  House,  Bos- 
ton, for  the  hearing  of  Bill  S57 
which  has  been  filed  by  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Farm  Bureau  for  a  con- 
stitutional amendment  permitting 
the  assessed  value  of  land  used 
for  agriculture,  to  be  based  on 
the  land's  use  and  not  its  po- 
tential use. 


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1965  Best 
Season  For 
Cape  Cod  Co-Op 


Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Cooper- 
ative, Inc.  had  a  sizeable  gain  in 
1965  crop  pool  earnings,  making 
it  the  best  season  since  the  Coop- 
erative started  marketing  cran- 
berries in   1950. 

Members  were  told  at  the  an- 
nual meeting  the  1965  crop  pool 
earned  $16.66  per  barrel  up  25% 
from  the  previous  season's  pool; 
that  a  highly  favorable  market 
for  all  the  cranberries  the  Co-op 
can  get  is  well  assured  for  '66 
and  this  can  be  expected  to  build 
up  in  the  future. 

Elected  directors  and  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year  are:  R.  Bruce 
Arthur  of  Plymouth,  President; 
Harold  A.  C.  Bumpus  of  Plym- 
outh, Vice-president;  Orrin  G. 
Colley,  of  Duxbury,  Treasurer  and 
Clerk;  Charles  E.  Pratt,  Robert 
D.  Williams,  and  Waino  E.  Wainio 
all  of  Carver,  Directors. 


June  25  is  Date  of 
Washington  Cranberry 
Field  Day 

The  date  of  the  annual  Field 
Day  of  Coastal  Washington  Re- 
search and  Extension  Unit  this 
year  is  set  for  Saturday,  June  25th 
at  the  Station  at  Long  Beach.  The 
session  opens  at  10  A.M.  Speakers 
will  discuss  a  number  of  topics 
related  to  cranberry  growing. 
There  will  be  a  smoke-baked  sal- 
mon lunch,  provided  by  the  4-H. 
Growers  are  asked  to  attend  and 
bring  their  friends. 


Farm  Credit  Service 

Box  7,  Taunton,  Mass.,  02781 
Tel.   617  824-7578 


Production  Credit  Loans 
Land  Bank  Mortgages 

OfRce — 362,   Route   44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 


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FOUR 


Issue  of  May   1966 -Volume  31,  No.   1 

Cranberries  is  published  monthly  by  Comor  Publishers,  P.O.  Box  70,  Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.  Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year. 
Application  for  re-entry   at   Plymouth,   Mass.   P.O.   pending. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


MASSACHUSETTS 

April,  although  the  first  full 
month  of  spring,  began  on  a  cool 
note,  with  cloudy  days  and  fre- 
quent   light    showers. 

Although  it  seemed  chilly,  the 
first  six  days  of  April  were  pre- 
fectly  normal  for  that  period  of 
the  year.  But  the  period  was  woe- 
fully lacking  in  precipitation. 
What  showers  there  were  scarcely 
dampened  the  ground,  with  so 
much  more  precipitation  badly 
needed. 

On  the  8th  there  were  April 
showers,  sufficient  to  wet  the 
ground,  but  still  not  enough  to 
relieve  the  continuing  drought  or 
to  fill  ponds  or  reservoirs  for 
spring  frost    control. 

Easter  Sunday,  April  9th  was 
no  day  for  the  new  Easter  finery 
in  the  cranberry  region.  The  day 
was  cloudy  and  raw  with  a 
shower  in  the  evening. 

Although  spring  seemed  to  be 
late  this  year,  that  was  no  hin- 
derance  to  spring  bog  work.  A 
great  deal  of  work  was  going 
on,  including  building  of  new 
acreage  and  bog  rebuilding, 
mostly  on  a  relatively  small 
scale,    however. 

By  the  15th  the  deficiency  in 
temperatures  had  reached  a  total 
of  21  degrees  for  the  month.  But 
of  greater  importance  was  the 
lack  of  precipitation.  One  thing, 
the  raw,  cloudy  nights  had  meant 
that  frost  has  been  kept  down 
or    away. 

That  the  drought  had  not  been 
broken  in  spite  of  slight  gains 
in  precipitation  above  normal  for 
January  and  February,  was  be- 
coming   evident.     A    few    towns 


were  issuing  summer  water  con- 
servation so  early  in  the  year, 
so  tight  was  the  situation  be- 
coming   again. 

The  latter  part  of  the  month 
started  with  more  springlike  days 
and  more  sun,  but  the  dryness 
continued.  By  the  19th,  the  Mass. 
hohday  of  "Patriots'  Day,"  the 
deficiency  of  rainfall  in  1966  was 
about  three  inches.  The  burning 
index  in  the  woods  was  dan- 
gerously high  and  on  that  day 
there  were  nearly  300  woods  fires 
in  the  Bay  State. 

On  the  night  of  21st  there  oc- 
curred a  fairly  heavy  shower 
that  recorded  .22  of  an  inch  at 
Mass.  Cranberry  Station,  enough 
to  help  slightly,  but  not  really 
make  much  impression  on  the 
drought. 


The  first  real  rain  of  the  month 
took  place  on  the  24th,  this  being 
an  all-day  storm  of  intermittent 
but  soaking  rain.  It  totalled 
rather  generally  about  half  an 
inch. 

There  was  rain  again  on  the 
28th  but  much  less  than  that  of 
the  24th.  It  was  a  cold  rain  and 
there    was    some    sleet  mixed    in. 

On  the  last  day  of  April  there 
was   again   rain. 

The  total  jor  April  was  only 
1.53  inches  as  recorded  at  the 
Cranberry  station,  while  the  av- 
erage for  April  is  3.85.  There 
was  every  sign  of  the  Great 
Drought  going  into  its  fifth  year. 
It  could  be  a  bad  year  for  frosts 
in  the  state  this  spring  season. 
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no  means  recovered  during  the 
winter  from  the  extremes  of  last 
season.  Growers  were  alarmed 
because  of  probable  May  and 
June  frosts  and  a  great  number 
who  could  have  dug  extra  water 
holes,  even  up  to  half  an  acre 
in   extent. 

April  had  proven  to  be  a  cooler 
as  well  as  drier  month,  the  30 
days  ending  with  a  minus  54, 
or  almost  one  degree  a  day  be- 
low the  norm.  This  had  held 
back  the  vine  development  and 
vines  were  still  rather  cold  re- 
sistant into  the  first  of  May.  For 
that  reason  no  frost  warning 
had  been  issued  at  all  during 
April. 

This  cold,  however,  would  have 
a  good  effect  and  coupled  with 
the  dryness,  tends  to  improve  the 
keeping    quality. 

As  of  the  first  week  of  May 
bogs  were  late  in  development 
by  about   ten    days. 


OREGON 

Most  of  the  month  of  April 
was  above  freezing.  There  were 
only  three  nights  with  tempera- 
tures below  32  degrees  (April  28 
with  28  — April  19  with  27  and 
April  20  with  28).  All  of  these 
would  have  caused  injury  to  the 
new  crop  if  it  had  not  been  for 
the    use    of    sprinklers. 

Seven  growers  in  the  area  are 
installing  sprinklers  this  spring. 
These  are  of  the  automatic  type. 
The  growers  are  finding  that  in- 
termittent sprinkling  is  adequate 
for  frost  protection;  that  is,  15 
minutes  on  and  15  minutes  off. 
This,  obviously,  is  a  means  of 
conserving  water  supply. 

By  the  end  of  April,  the  buds 
were  well  advanced,  bud  set  was 
good.  Growers  were  looking  for 
a  good   production   year. 

Roy  Peters  of  Bandon,  has  pur- 
chased the  Ed  Gunswalt  property. 
This  is  a  bog  of  about  seven 
acres.  He  plans  to  triple  the 
acreage  with  the  next  two  years. 
— Ray  Bates,  Bandon 


MORE  Weather  News  on  Page  26 


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NEW  JERSEY  GROWERS  REARRANGING 
BOGS  FOR  WATER  PICKING 

by  FREDERICK  A.  MAHN  and  WILLIAM  H.  O'DONNELL 
Soil  Conservation  Service,  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey 

New  Jersey  cranberry  growers  are  changing  to  the  new  water  method 
of  harvesting  their  crop.  To  make  the  change  from  the  customary  method, 
however,  they  have  had  to  divide  their  bogs  into  small  units.  For  this 
changeover,  they  are  receiving  technical  help  from  the  USDA  Soil  Con- 
servation Service  through  their  local  soil  conservation  districts.  At 
present,  a  bog  size  of  4  to  5  acres  seems  best  for  the  type  of  water 
picker  used  in  New  Jersey.  With  this  size,  a  crew  of  3  or  4  men  can 
pick,  float  and  remove  the  cranberries  in  one  day. 


The  SCS  is  helping  New  Jersey 
cranberry  bog  owners  reorganize 
their  water  management  at  an  in- 
creasing rate.  SCS  technicians 
discuss  ideas  with  the  more  active 
growers  to  keep  abreast  of  man- 


agement practices  so  that  dike 
construction  and  bog  layout  can 
be  compatable  with  the  new 
water-picking  method  and  other 
mechanization  taking  place  in 
cranberry    production. 


In  most  dike  construction,  a 
coro  trench  is  dug  to  expose  min- 
eral soil.  In  this  way,  the  dike 
has  a  firm  foundation  and  there 
is  less  chance  of  water  seeping 
under  it.  Sand  is  trucked  in  and 
smoothed  out  by  dozer  to  make 
the  dike. 

Usually  before  the  sand  is 
trucked  in,  a  2-inch  layer  of  vine 
growth  is  removed  from  the  area 
that  will  be  covered  by  the  new 
dike.  This  material  is  laid  aside. 
After  the  dike  has  been  built,  it 
is  placed  on  the  sides  of  the  dike. 
In  New  Jersey  this  procedure  is 
called  "turfing."  The  turf  keeps 
the  sides  of  the  dikes  from  wash- 
ing back  into  the  bog. 

Dikes  are  normally  designed  to 
be  1  foot  higher  than  winter  flood 


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elevation.  They  are  usually  de- 
signed to  be  12  feet  wide  at  the 
top.  Their  side  slopes  are  designed 
to  be  IV2  (horizontal)  to  1  (ver- 
tical). SCS  men  put  up  grade  and 
width  stakes  so  that  the  growers 
know  when  the  dikes  are  properly 
built. 

There  appears  to  be  a  little 
more  sand  movement  and  slough- 
ing of  slopes  of  new  dikes  where 
the  turf  is  placed  so  it  overlaps 
"shingle  fashion."  This  slough- 
ing is  lessened  if  the  turf  is 
placed  flat  against  the  sides  of  the 
dike. 

Some  dikes  are  built  with  a 
dragline.  As  the  machine  digs  the 
core  trench  and  adjacent  ditches, 
it  can  place  the  surface  material 
along  the  edge  of  the  dike  and 
thus  turf  by  machine.  The  mate- 
rial for  dragline-built  dikes  usu- 
ally comes  from  borrow  ditches, 
which  are  built  parrallel  to  the 
dike.  This  type  of  construction  is 
best  where  one  side  of  the  dike 
will  not  be  used  as  a  bog. 

Turfiing  around  structures  is 
usually  lain  "brick  fashion"  with 
and  offset  of  1/4  to  1/2 -inch  for 
each  layer  as  the  wall  is  built  up. 
In  this  way  the  wall  of  turf  leans 
into  the  dike  to  lessen  the  danger 
of  collapse. 

When  new  dikes  are  built,  ad- 
ditional water-control  structures 
are  needed.  The  water  control 
structures,  or  trunks  as  they  are 
called  are  usually  built  of  timber. 
Three  construction  methods  are 
used: 

1.  Built  in  place. 

2.  Built  next   to   the   site,   then 
Ufted  into  place. 

3.  Built   next   to   the   site,   then 
dragged  into  place. 

The  second  method  appears 
easiest  if  a  crane  is  available.  If 
a  trunk  is  dragged  into  place,  the 
structure  may  be  damaged  and 
there  is  a  chance  of  pulling  sand 
into  the  trench.  When  this  hap- 
pens, the  trunk  may  not  be  low 
enough  or  it  might  be  cocked  and 
not  level. 

The  first  method  seems  to  be 
best  when  a  crane  is  not  avail- 
able. Only  a  few  inches  of  water 
should  be  allowed  to  remain  in 
the  trench  in  which  the  trunk  will 
be  built.   The  water  that  remains 


SCS  technician  checks  height  of  new  dike. 

USDA  —  Soil  Conservation  Service  Photo 


can  be  used  to  aid  in  leveling  the 
bottom  of  the  trench.  At  times, 
growers  build  the  bottom  of  the 
trunk,  lift  it  into  place  and  then 
complete  the  trunk. 

Several  years  ago,  SCS  techni- 
cians made  a  trial  planting  of 
weeping  lovegrass  with  a  jute 
mesh  protection  on  a  dike  that 
has  been  turfed.  The  grass-mesh 
cover  resisted  sloughing  caused 
by  wave  action.  This  method 
might  prove  a  worthwhile  dike 
stabilization  practice  until  native 
plants  can  get  established  on 
newly  built  but  unturfed  dikes. 
Weeping  lovegrass  cannot  grow 
in  drainage  conditions  found  in 
cranberry  bogs. 


A  great  number  of  growers  are 
leveling  their  bogs  before  replant- 
ing them.  This  has  been  done  by 
bulldozer  or  earthmover,  depend- 
ing on  how  much  earth  has  to  be 
moved.  SCS  tchnicians  use  a 
fairly  simple  method  for  deter- 
mining the  desired  elevation  of 
the  bog  to  be  leveled  —  an  eleva- 
tion at  which  quantity  of  earth 
to  be  filled  equals  the  quantity  to 
be  removed  from  high  areas. 

Many  of  the  bogs  at  the  new 
cranberry-blueberry  experimental 
tract  at  Lake  Oswego,  New  Jersey 
were  leveled  to  "pooltable"  per- 
fection with  a  land  leveler  after 
a  bulldozer  had  completed  the 
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growers  should  seriously  consider 
using  land  levelers  for 

1.  Easier     ground     water     level 
control  in  their  bogs. 

2.  More  even  growing  and  ma- 
turing  berries. 

3.  Ease  of   operating  the  water 
picking  machines. 

Many  of  the  new  dikes  are 
presently  being  built  parrallel  to 
each  other.  They  are  being  placed 
200  feet  apart  or  at  multiples  of 
200  feet  (400  or  600  feet)  so  that 
additional  parrallel  dikes  can  be 
built  at  a  future  date.  The  indus- 
try is  becoming  mechanized  and 
growers  seem  to  be  anticipating 
more  mechanization  in  the  future. 
Many  of  them  feel  that  parallel 
diking  would  best  fit  into  any 
future  development  in  the 
industry. 

Dams  for  water  storage  reser- 
voirs are  more  complicated  than 
the  relatively  low  dikes  that  sep- 
arate bogs.  Soil  Conservation  Ser- 
vice technicians  design  the  dams 
so  that  the  runoff  water  from  a 
25-year  frequency  storm  will 
safely  pass  through  a  pipe  spill- 
way and  an  emergency  spillway. 
The  normal  cranberry  trunk  has 
been  altered  so  that  it  can  be 
used  as  the  pipe  spillway.  Pres- 
sure-treated creosoted  wood  is 
usually  used.  The  emergency 
spillway  is  a  specially  designed 
channel  around  the  end  of  the 
dam.  This  channel  is  designed  to 
carry  from  90  to  95%  of  the 
storm  flow.  In  this  way  the  pipe 
spillway  can  be  made  relatively 
smaller.  SCS  also  specifies  side 
slopes  and  height  of  the  dam.  A 
core  trench  is  required  under  the 
dam  to  reduce  settlement  and 
water  loss  from  seepage. 

It  is  best  to  seed  dams  with  an 
adapted  plant  cover  to  prevent 
erosion.  Kentucky  31  fescue, 
weeping  lovegrass  and  sericea  les- 
pedeza  have  been  specified  for 
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APPEARS   IN   S.W.   OREGON 

Cranberry  growers  of  South- 
western Oregon  were  warned  at 
the  end  of  April  of  the  appear- 
ance of  Blackheaded  fireworm  on 
the  bogs  by  Coos  County  Agent 
Fred  Hagelstein.  He  said  the  tiny 
insect  is  hard  to  find  as  it  works 
in  the  growing  tips  or  unopened 
buds,  and  later  webs  leaves  and 
buds  together.  Crop  losses  could 
be  serious,  he  said,  and  recom- 
mended proper  controls  be  ap- 
plied promptly. 


Warm  temperatures  immedi- 
ately after  pollination  are  favor- 
able to  good  set  and  good  size  of 
blueberries,  report  Knight  and 
Scott  of  the  USDA,  with  Coville 
variety  especially  affected  ad- 
versly  by  cool  temperatures  and 
improved  by  provisions  for  cross- 
pollination. 


The  rest  period  of  cranberries 
can  be  broken  by  temperatures 
below  45°  F.  for  2500  hours,  re- 
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where  3300  to  3500  hours  com- 
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additional  observation  that  the 
non-fruiting  "umbrella  bloom" 
commonly  thought  of  as  frost  in- 
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Cranberry  Club  Talk 

by  WILLIAM  E.  TOMLINSON,  Jr. 

(Ed.  Note:  Charts  referred  to  in 
this  article  are  printed  in  the 
center  spread  of  this  issue  of 
Cranberries.) 

There  are  several  changes  in 
the  Cranberry  Insect  and  Disease 
Control  chart  this  year.  I  am 
going  to  amplify  on  these  as 
well  as  on  some  of  the  other 
recommendations  that  have  not 
been  changed  but  need  stressing. 
Injury  by  concentrate  sprays 
plagues  us  some  every  year. 
Note  No.  4  indicates,  I  hope,  that 
with  concentrate  sprays  at  certain 
times  when  the  growth  is  new 
and  very  tender  and  the  weather 
is  hot  and  humid  you  can  almost 
depend  on  some  evidence  of  in- 
jury, no  matter  how  carefully 
applied.  If  you  realize  that  some 
spotting,  blotching  or  redden- 
ing of  new  uprights  and  small 
berries  can  occur  without  ma- 
terial injury  to  the  crop,  you 
won't  need  to  press  the  panic 
button   so   quickly. 

You  will  notice  that  gypsy  moth 
caterpillars  have  been  added  to 
Note  No.  8  with  the  same  count 
as  cutworms.  Also  in  No.  8  we 
would  suggest  rather  than  taking 
50  sweeps  that  you  take  several 
sweeps  of  25  and  average  them  to 
get  you  counts  of  50.  In  this 
way  you  can  sample  more  bog 
more  quickly,  have  insects  in 
less  battered  condition  for  iden- 
tification and  collect  less  debris 
to  have  to  sort  through  to  find 
the  insects  collected.  In  this 
same  note  there  is  the  admoni- 
tion to  make  weevil  counts  when 
temperatures  are  at  least  70  de- 
grees. Actually  on  most  any  day 
in  the  spring  when  the  sun  is 
bright  and  the  wind  is  not  blow- 
ing hard  the  temperature  in  the 
vines  is  70  degrees  or  more  and 
weevils  are  active  if  they  are 
present,  so  don't  wait  for  the 
temperature  in  the  shade  on  the 
side  of  your  house  to  reach  70 
before  checking  for  weevils  or 
it  may  already  be  later  than  you 
think. 

The  side  benefits  of  the  insec- 
ticidal  root  grub  applications  has 
been  placed  in  Note  No.  9  rather 


than  in  the  insects  controlled  by 
applications.  Girdler  and  tip- 
worm  are  more  cheaply  and  just 
as  effectively  controlled  by  other 
applications. 

A    new    note    has    been    added 
this  year  (No.   10)    which  is  con- 
cerned     with      deterioration      of 
stored   pesticides   and   disposal   of 
unused  pesticides  and  empty  con- 
tainers.   Many  pesticides  lost  po- 
tency or  formulations  breakdown 
when    stored    for    any    length    of 
the  Dormant  to  Delayed  Dormant 
time,  particularly  when  subjected 
to      extremes      of      temperatures, 
either    hot    or    cold.     Particularly 
suspect   should  be   dust   formula- 
tions    containing    malathion     and 
partially    used     emilsifiable    con- 
centrate or  flowable  formulations. 
When  disposing  of  any  unused 
cencentrate  or  dilute  pesticide  or 
empty   containers   there   are  defi- 
nite rules   and  regulations  of  the 
Pesticide    Board    that    are    to    be 
observed.   Though  as  farmers  you 
are    not    required    to    be   licensed 
to  apply  pesticides,  you  are  sub- 
ject to  all  other  rules   and  regu- 
lations   of    the    Pesticide    Board. 
Also   of   importance  to  remember 
is   the    fact    that   empty   pesticide 
containers    are    not    empty    even 
though  you  may  have  rinsed  them 
out    rather     carefully.      There    is 
always  some  residue  left  in  them 
so  if  you  discard  them  carelessly 
they  not   only   are   unsightly,   but 
they    can   be   dangerous    and   you 
are  breaking  the  law   as  well. 

Every  year  after  August  is 
well  under  way  the  question  al- 
ways seems  to  come  up  about 
what  can  be  used  for  late  fruit- 
worm  or  Sparganothis  and  not 
get  into  trouble  with  residues 
at  harvest  on  the  day  after  La- 
bor Day;  or  how  long  will  I 
have  to  wait  before  I  harvest  if 
I  apply  X  pounds  of  "Y"  insec- 
ticide today?  It's  on  the  chart 
in   Note   No.    11. 

You  will  notice  that  the  Dor- 
mant to  Delayed  Dormant  insec- 
ticide and  summer  flood  recom- 
mendations are  strictly  grub  con- 
trol oriented  in  this  year's  chart. 
Tipworm  and  girdler  are  better 
controlled  by  other  applications 
and  cranberry  scales  have  not 
been  a  problem  on  care  for  bogs 
since     the     general     adoption     of 


phosphate      insecticides      on      the 
bogs. 

Many  of  you  have  probably 
noticed  that  large  white  grubs 
are  not  as  well  controlled  as 
cranberry  root  grubs  are  by  the 
aldrin  or  dieldrin  applications. 
They  can  apparently  tolerate 
more  than  the  root  grubs  can. 
However,  it  does  control  small 
white  grubs  and  is  of  value  in 
retarding  reinfestation  by  them, 
so  I  feel  that  it  is  a  worthwhile 
recommendation. 

In  the  recommendations  with 
the  V2  inch  Growth  to  Hook  Stage 
you  should  notice  that  this  ap- 
plication is  recommended  as  a 
regular  blanket  control  measure. 
It  is  aimed  almost  specifically  at 
tipworm  which  you  will  recall  I 
felt  is  the  cause  of  more  crop 
loss  than  most  growers  realize 
and  to  have  consistently  good 
production  it  must  be  controlled. 
Gypsy  moth  caterpillars  have 
been  added  to  this  section  be- 
cause they  should  be  controlled 
while  still  small  and  before  they 
destroy  the  terminal  buds. 

We  have  added  a  Hook  stage 
to  5%  Bloom  category  to  the 
chart  this  year  which  is  aimed  at 
blunt-nosed  leafhopper,  any  in- 
sects that  may  have  been  missed 
and  to  get  in  another  shot  at 
tipworms  before  bloom  becomes 
general  and  the  temptation  to 
spray  overcomes  your  concern  for 
pollinators.  Remember,  without 
pollinators  you  won't  get  a  crop 
even  of  you  have  perfect  control 
of  everything  from  frost  to  fruit- 
worm. 

The  fruit  rot  sprays  at  5% 
Bloom  to  Mid-Bloom  have  not 
been  changed.  Remember  that 
two  applications  are  necessary 
for  results  and  that  the  second 
application  can  be  delayed  and 
combined  with  the  first  fruit- 
worm  application. 

In  this  Late  Bloom  stage  we 
have  added  girdler  to  the  list 
of  insects  active  at  that  time. 
Under  materials  in  this  section 
we  have  put  back  Diazinon  for 
Sparganothis  control  where  you 
are  doing  your  own  ground 
spraying  and  for  areas  where 
parathion     should    not    be    used. 

Continued  on  Page  18 

FIFTEEN 


1966  Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart 

This  scbedale   Is  Intended   to   furnUb   feneral   rMomme  ndatlons.    More   detailed    Information    majr    be    obtained 
from  tbe  Cranberry  Experiment  Station,  East  Warebam,  Ma^sacbosetts. 

NOTES 

1.  rEOVTDE  ADEQUATE  DRAINAGE  or  rccommeDdfttlofM  below  rtc  of  qoestloaftblc    Tmlae. 

t.  APTLT  THE   EXACT  QUANTmES  ot  chrnilc*lj    rcoommended    to  meuared   u>ckj  and  ftt  the  IndJcAted  times.    One  aq.  rod  eqoAla  1«4  ft  aq.    One  »ere  eqo&lj  IH  »q.  roda. 

S.  WASH  EQUIPMENT  with  •o«p  uid  water  ImioedlJitelr  alter  aainc    Bliiac   wltb  UDmoaU  solatloD  after  oalof  hormone  type  herblddca. 

^  BAND  WEEDING  la  often  practlc&l  wltb  acattcred  rreen  and  woody  weeda  If  roota  ar«  r«moTc4. 

I.  MOWING  of  Don-woodr  weeds  help*  to  prcTCnl  ahadlnc  uid   redac«a  accd  formation. 

•.  LATE  WATER  caaaca  a  feoeral  redaction  of  annual  grhott.    If  held  ontll  June  S.  and  If  tcmperatnrea  are  blfh.  imall  brambles  are  osoallr  killed. 

7.  Kain  most  follow  tba  application  of  Iron  salfate,  aimastoe,  Caaoron  and  Chloro-I7C  within  4  daja,  or  the  bof  must  be  sprinkled  wltb  water  to  make  them  effeetlTe. 

t.  IRON  SULFATE  (ferrou)  in  exccaa  of  20  Iba.  per  tq.  rod  majr  kill  newlj  mI  Tinea  or  matnro  Tinea  when  tber  hare  been  tmadtd  within  IS  months.    If  9  paxU  of  Iron  sulfate 

are  mixed  with  1  p&rt  of  salt,  rain  or  sprlnklUif  la  imiMiwaai j 

9.  SPOT  TREATMENTS  are  often  oecesaarr  In  subsequent  jears  aa  a  foUow^ap  to  these  control  incaasrea. 

1«.  CHLOBO-IPC  mar  be  nacd  at  15  lbs.  per   acre  before   late  water  from  mid-March  lo  April   10. 

CAUTIONS 
1.     CHEMICALS  not  refistered  for  nse  on  cranberries  must  not  be  used. 
£.     SIMAZINE  must  be  sprayed  evenly  with  contlnuoos  agitation  Dslnf  ibe  recommended  amounts.   An  overdose  may  injure  vines  or  crop.    Tbin  or 

weak  vines  and  new  plantlnfs  one  week  to  tbree  years  old  are  very  susceptible  to  injury.   In  the  spring  use  a  pre-emergence  spray.    May  be  used 

safely  in  successive  years. 

3.  VINES  SPRAYED  WITH  Oil.  are  highly  Inflammable.   All  broadcast  treatments  are  likely  to  reduce  tbe  crop  and  may  Increase  sensitivity  lo  low 
temperatures. 

4.  CASORON  applications  by  reflation  must  be  at  least  12  months  apart. 

5.  Herbicide  use  makes  vines  more  liable  to  injury  and  crops  may  be  reduced. 


TIMING 


WEEDS 


RECOMMENDATIONS 


February 

and 

March 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


2,4-D — 2,4,5-T  -  1  gal.  ester  brush  Idller  (4  lbs.  acid  equivalent  per  gal.)  In 
50  gals,  kerosene  or  No.  2  fuel  oil.  Wet  thoroughly.  Will  control  scrub  oak, 
bullbrler,  poison  Ivy,  pitch  pine,  etc. 


GREEN  SCUM 


COPPER  SULFATE  -  Distribute  evenly  on  Ice  or  In  bog  flowage  4  lbs.  of 

crystals  per  acre-foot  of  water.   May  kill  flsh. 


Cut  Grass.  Manna  Grass,  Shore  Grass,  Aster, 
Flalntaln,  Needle  Grass,  Nut  Grass,  DuUchlum, 
Pitchfork,  Mud  Rush,  Haircap  Moss,  Royal 
Fern,  Bracken  Fern,  Sensitive  Fern,  WUd 
Strawberry,  Marsh  St.  John's  Wort,  Summer 
Grass,  Blue  Joint,  Loosestrife,  WUd  Bean, 
Hawkweed,  Wool  Grass,  Cotton  Grass,  Rag- 
weed, Fireweed,  Spike  Rush,  Horsetail,  Sorrel 


CASORON  -  4*^^  granular.  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Apply  In  March  or  early  April 
to  avoid  high  temeperatures.  -  May  be  used  before  late  water  from  mid- 
March  to  April  10.     (See  Caution  4  and  Note  7) 


DODDER,  CORNGRASS, 

WARTY  PANIC  GRASS,  CRAB  GRASS 


CASORON  -  4%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Use  just  before  bud  break. 


SUMMER  GRASS 

CUT  GRASS 

SOME  UPLAND  GRASSES  ON  BOG 


CHLORO-IPC  -  2096  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre  or  SIMAZINE  -  4Vi  lbs. 
80%  WJ.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre.  Apply  by  May  1.  (See  Note  10  and 
Caution  2  and  5). 


March 
to 

Mid  -  May 


RAGWEED,  PITCHFORKS,  WARTY  PANIC 
GRASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


SIMAZINE  -  3%  lbs.  80*  W.P.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre.  Apply  only  from 
mid-April  through  first  week  of  May.    (See  Caution  2). 


HAIRCAP  MOSS,  SORREL, 
HAIRY  PANIC  GRASS 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre. 
and  Caution  5). 


By  May  1.    (See  Note  10 


CORN  GRASS,  BARNYARD  GRASS, 
CRAB  GRASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  50  lbs.  per  acre  on  first  year  planting.   100 
lbs.  per  acre  on  mature  vines.  Late  April  to  bud  break.   (See  Caution  5). 


CBLORO-irc  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Use  Just  before  bud  break. 


POVERTY  GRASS,  CAREX  SPP, 
WOOL  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  600-800  gals,  per  acre. 


RUSHES,  ASTERS,  GOLDEN  ROD 


STODDARD  SOLVENT 

a  spot  treatment. 


500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals,  per  sq.  rod).  Primarily 


SPHAGNUM  MOSS 


IRON  SULFATE  -  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.   (See  Note  8). 


NUT  GRASS,  CUT  GRASS,  MUD  RUSH, 
NEEDLE  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH,  CORN  GRASS 


ALANAP  3-4  gals,  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre  or  109t  granular  80  lbs. 
per  acre.  Do  not  use  after  first  week  in  May.  Best  results  where  bog  sur- 
face is  wet  before  application.  Blossoms  may  be  Injured  at  temperatures 
under  32^  F  after  application. 


After 

Late  Water 
(When  winter  flood 
is    not    withdrawn) 


LOOSESTRIFE,  CUT  GRASS 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  -  Mix  1  part  Stoddard  to  1  part  water  white  kero- 
sene, 600  gals,  per  acre.   Apply  within  5  days  of  withdrawal  of  the  flood. 


WOOL  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH,  CAREX  SPP. 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  800  gals,  per  acre.   Drain  late  water  May  25. 
Treat  within  8  days  when  temperature  Is  below  65  degrees  and  bog  is  well 


Mid -May 
and 
June 


TRIPLE  AWNED  GRASS 


SMALL  BRAMBLES  ON  SHORE 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  400  gals,  per  acre.  Apply  when  temperature 
is  below  65  degrees. 

SILVEX  -  1  gal.  ester  formulation  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  in  50  gals,  water, 
300  gals,  per  acre. 


ROYAL  FERN,  CINNA.MON  FERN 


IRON  SULFATE  AND  SALT  -  9  to  I  and  apply  small  amount  to  each  plant. 
(See  Note  8). 


SENSITIVE  FERN,  FEATHER  FERN 


IRON  SULFATE  -  35  lbs.  per  sq.  rod  or  small  amount  to  each  plant.    (See 
Note  7  and  8). 


June 
and 
July 


MARSH  ST.  JOHN'S  WORT, 
CINQUEFOIL,  ASTERS 


IRON  SULFATE  -  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.   (See  Note  7  and  8). 


DITCH  WEEDS 


DALAPON  85%  -  '/a  lb.  In  5  -  6  gals,  water  per  1000  sq.  feet  of  ditch;  will 
control  cat-tatis,  bur-reed,  grasses,  sedges,  and  rushes,  or  No.  2  FUEL  OIL, 
for  grassy  weeds,  drain  ditches  and  wet  thoroughly. 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


2,  4,  5-T  -  IVz  teaspoons  per  gal.  water  or  1  Vi  pints  per  100  gals,  water  of 
low  volatile  ester  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  will  control  poison  ivy,  wild  cherry, 
maple  sprouts,  grapevine,  and  possibly  other  broadleaved  weeds.  Avoid 
drift  onto  bogs  or  DALAPON  SS".  -  20  lbs.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre,  for 
poverty  and  switch  grass. 


In  the  Fall 

alter 

Harvest 


Cut  Grass,  Blur  Joint,  Aster,  Wool  Grass,  Cot- 
ton Crass.  Mud  Rush,  Marsh  St.  John's  Wort. 
Summer  Grass,  Loosestrife,  Needle  Grass,  Nut 
Grass,  Ragweed,  Sphagnum  Moss 


CASORON  -  4'S"  granular  100  lbs.  per  acre.   Do  not  apply  until  after  No- 
vember 1.   Avoid  temperatures  above  60°F.    (See  Caution  4) 


SL.MMER  GRASS 


SIMAZINE  -  5  lbs.  80'-   W.P.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre;  or  CHLORO-IPC 
20%  granular,  50-75  lbs.  per  acre.   Do  not  apply  after  November  1. 


SORREL 


GOLDEN  ROD.  WILD  ROSES 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Do  not  apply  after  Nov.  1. 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  - 

a  spot  treatment. 


500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals,  per  sq.  rod).   Primarily 


POVERTY  GRASS,  SWITCH  GRASS 


DALAPON  85%  -  10  lbs.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre.   Will  reduce  following 
crop,  especially  on  Early  Black.   Do  not  apply  after  November  1. 


WARNING 

"All  pesticides  mentioned  in  this  publication  are  registered  and  cleared  for  the  suggested  uses  in  accordance  with  sUte  and  federal  laws 
and  regalatlon.s.   Where  trade  names  are  used  for  Identification  no  product  endorsement  is  implied  nor  is  discrimination  intended." 

MOST  PESTICIDES  ARE  POISONOUS.  READ  AND  FOLLOW  ALL  DIRECTIONS  AND  SAFETY  PRECAITTIONS  ON  LABELS.  HANDLE 
CAREFl'U.Y  AND  STORE  IN  ORIGINAL  CONTAINERS  WITH  CO.'MPLETE  LABELS,  OUT  OF  REACH  OF  CHILDREN,  PETS  AND 
UVESTOCK. 


iKURl  bjr  Uie  Eltenalon  Service.  A.  A,  Spleloian.  Dnn  tna  Dlrtclor.  In  furlhrr%Ti»  ot  Acu  ot  M»y  8  ind  June  30 
l»H;  Ualvtriltj  of  MuBchuntti.  Unllnl  StUo  Depkrtuicnt    of  Agrlcullure.  and  County  Extension  Services  cooperaUng. 


SIXTEEN 


1966  Cranberry  Insect  and  Disease  Control  Chart 

This  chart  Is  Intended  to  furnish  general  recommendations.  More  detailed  Information  may  be  obtained  from  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station,  East  Wareham,  Massachusetts 


NOTES 


1.  HOLDING  WINTER  WATER  (1)1  May  20-25  ooncentnlca  emerKenM  of  all 
Insects  and  controls  false  amiyworm,  yeltow-headed  fireworm  and  may 
control  or  reduce  frDltworm.    Favors  catworm   InfcBtatlon. 

X,     BEFLOODING 

a.  Aboat  May  IS  for  10  hoan,  controls  false  armrworm  and  blosaom  worn. 

b.  About  June  I  and  12  for  10  boors  controls  {reen  spanwonn,  nnall  bla«k- 
hcaded  &reworm,  spotted  and  black  catwornu  and  armT-worm,  but  Is 
likely  to  INCREASE  FRUIT  ROTS  and   REDUCE  THE  CROP. 

c.  AboDt  May  12  and  boldlnc  U>  July  15-20  kills  all  bueets  but  with  the  Io«a 
of  the  crop. 

d.  Sept.  15-28.  Flooding  for  6  days  every  third  year  dnrlnf  this  period 
dlscoarafcs  flrdler  and   blossom  worm. 

3.  Insecticide  sprays  may  be  applied  by  aircraft,  Kronnd  rig,  or  sprinkler. 

4.  EMULSIFIABLE  CONCENTRATES  (E.C.)  may  Injure  new  growth,  bloom 
and  small  berries,  particularly  In  hot  humid  weather.  Flowabte  formulations 
Or  those  with  XYLENE  type  solvents  are  preferred  because  they  cause  less 
injury. 

5.  FUNGICIDE  CONCENTRATES.  Mix  fuoKlclde  with  water  In  paU  or  tank 
until    a   smooth    suspension    Is    obtained,    then    transfer    suspension    to    *a"V 

Use    Immediately. 

6.  FUNGICIDES  and  COLOR.  It  may  be  necessary  to  deUy  harvest  up  to  19 
days  to  obtain  acceptable  color  when  maneb  Is  used. 

7.  SANDING  and  FERTILIZING.  Provided  blunt-nosed  lea/hopper  Is  con- 
trolled, frequent  resandlnf  and  fertilizing  helps  reclaim  bogs  Infected  with 
false  blossom.    Regular  uniform  sanding  helps  check  glrdler  and  tlpworm. 


INSECT  NET.  If  50  sweeps  gather  more  than  9  cutworms,  gypsy  moth  cater- 
pillars or  weevils,  36  spanworms,  or  S  blnnt^nosed  le&fhoppen,  treatment  la 
necessary.   Make  weevil  counts  when  temperatures  are  at  least  70*. 

GRUB  CONTROL.  Rates  of  application.  (May  also  control  (Ipworm,  gtrdlcr 
and  cranberry  weevil  In  year  of  application). 


Amomit  per  100  ftla. 
when  applied   at   the 
rat«  of  1,000  gala,  per 
a«re  to  ftve: 
FormulatkiD                          S    Iba.             10   Iba. 

Amotmt  of  Oranolar 
Aldrin  or  Dleldrln  to 
tire; 
Formolatlon      S  lbs.            U  Iba. 

Aldrin  E.  C.  conlalnliv 

2  Iba.  per  (al.                              1  gt.            t  qta. 

Dleldrln  E.  C.  oonUlnbic 

IS  Iba.  per  g^l.               1  1/3  qta.      2  2/3  qta. 

i%             100  Iba. 
10%               50  lbs. 

:•«  iba 
IM  Iba. 

10.  Pesticides  may  deteriorate  In  storage.  It  b  usually  not  advisable  to  use 
held-over  chemicals.  Always  follow  regulations  of  the  Pesticide  Board  when 
disposing  of  unused  chemicals  and  empty  containers. 

11.    TOXICANT  per  acre  and  Minimum  Time  — Last  Application  to  Barrest 


Aldrln   OiS    lbs. 
Carbaryl    (Sevin) 
DDT   6.0    lbs.    

3.0  iba." 

.  21  diya 

.     1      - 
.  35      " 

.    1      '• 
21     •■ 

Ferbam   6.8    Iba.    

Malalblon   2J   lbs.  

M»neb   IS   lbs.    

Parathlon  0.8  lbs.      

1.0    lbs.      

30  dan 

3      " 

10      - 

Dl.lzinon   3.0    lbs. 
Dleldrln    1.25   lbs. 

15      - 

3t      " 

Timin 


S 


Pests 


Recommendations 


Dormant 
To 

Delayed   Dormant 


ROOT  GRUB 
WHITE   GRUB 


ROOT   GRUB 
WHITE   GRUB 


Apply  10  lbs.  actual  DIELDRIN  or  ALDRIN  per  acre.  Dry 
form  may  be  applied  alone  or  combined  with  fertilizer  up  to 
10  days  before  bloom  or  after  harvest.  Apply  spray  as  soon 
as  bog  is  well  drained  and  before  the  growth  Is  Yz"  long  or 
after  harvest  is  completed.  Apply  before  rain  or  water  In 
thoroughly  if  possible.    (See  Notes  4  and  9) 


Drain  bog  thoroughly  from  early  April  to  May  12.  Reflow 
May  12-July  20.  Keep  well  flooded.  If  cutworm  infestation 
develops  spray  CARBARYL  (SEVIN)  2  lbs.  actual  or  PARA- 
THION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre  or  S?.  CARBARYL  or 
lO'?.  DDT  +  27.  MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.  (See  Notes 
2c,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


New   Growth 


Up    to    1/2    Inch 


WEEVIL 


FIREWORMS 

CUTWORMS 

SPARGANOTHIS    FRUITWORM 

GVPSV  MOTH 


Spray  DIELDRIN  E.  C.  (1.5  lbs.  per  gal.)  1  pt.  or  ALDRIN 
E.,C.  (2  lbs.  per  gal.)  1  pt.  per  acre;  or  l"/2%  DIELDRIN 
DUST  25-35  lbs.  per  acre.  ALDRIN  or  DIELDRIN  may  be 
combined  with  CARBARYL  or  PARATUION  for  weevil.  (See 
Notes  1,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


Spray  CARBARYL  (SEVIN)  2  lbs.  actual  or  DIAZINON  3  lbs 

actual  or  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre;  or  S'l 
CARBARYL  or  10%  DDT  +  2'"»  MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per 
acre.   (Notes  1,  2,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


I/t    Inch    Growth 

To 

Hook   Stage 


New    Growth    Insects 
GREEN    SPANWORM 
TIPWORM 


Spray  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre  or  dust  10% 
DDT  +  2""  MALATHION  50  lbs.  per  acre.   Apply  every  year 
as  a  blanket  control  for  all  insects  before  bloom.  - 
(Notes  1,  3,4,  7,  8  and  10) 


Hook  Stage 

To 

.*^^  Bloom 


All    Insects    through    Hook    Stage 


BLUNT -NOSED    LEAFHOPPER 


GIRDLER 


See  appropriate  control  measures. 


CARBARYL  or  PARATHION  or  DDT  +   MALATHION  as  for 

New  Growth  Insects. 


10%  DDT  +  2%  MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.    Repeat 

if  necessary.    (See  Note  7). 


5'o    Bloom 

To 
Mid  -  Bloom 


FRUIT  ROTS -One  application  ineffective. 
Repeat  about  2  weeks  later  or  combine  with 
first   late   bloom   spray. 


80'"r  MANEB  or  761  FERBAM  9  lbs.  plus  suitable  sticker  in 
25-100  gals,  water  per  acre  by  ground  rig;  or  in  13  gals,  water 
per  acre  by  aircraft.  Avoid  applying  insecticides  during 
bloom  if  possible.    (See  Notes  2b,  5,  6  and  10) 


Late    Bloom 

Repeat  in   10   days 

for  Fruitworms 


CRANBERRY    FRUITWORM 
SPARGANOTHIS    FRUITWORM 
BLACK -HEADED    FIREWORM 
BLUNT -NOSED    LEAFHOPPER 
WEEVIL 
GIRDLER  MOTHS 


Spray  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  or  CARBARYL  2  lbs. 
actual  or  DIAZINON  3  lbs.  actual  per  acre  or  lO"?.  DDT  +  2% 
MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.  Make  egg  count  every  3 
or  4  days  until  August  10  on  Early  Blacks  and  until  August 
20  on  Howes.  2  unhatched  and  unparasitized  fniitworm  eggs 
to  100  berries  calls  for  treatment.  Do  not  wait  for  appearance 
of  red  berries.   (See  Notes  1.  3,  4,  8.  10  and  11) 


Altci-  Fruit   Set 


GIRDLER  LARVAE 


10%  DIELDRIN  granules  10  lbs.  per  acre  or  lO^t  DDT 
MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.   (Notes  7,  10  and  11) 


Sept.    26 

To 

Oct.  1 


GIRDLER 


Flood  6  days  (with  late  berries  on  vines  if  necessary). 
(Notes  2d  and  7) 


'■.\!I  pi-slitides  mentioned  in  this  publication  are  registered 
and  cleared  for  tlie  .suggested  uses  in  accordance  with  state 
and   federal  laws  and  regulations.    Where  trade  names  are 


used  for  identification  no  product  endorsement   is  implied 
nor  is  discrimination  intended." 


WARNING 


■MOST   PESTICIDES    ARE   POISONOUS.    READ    AND    FOLLOW    ALL  DIRECTIONS  AND  SAFETY   PRECAUTIONS    ON    LABELS.    HANDLE    CAREFULLY 
AND   STORE    IN   ORIGINAL    CONTAINERS    WITH    COMPLETE    LABELS,  OUT  OF  REACH  OF  CHILDREN,  PETS  AND  LIVESTOCK*.    Avoid  drift 
cnta  forage  areas.    Do  not  apply  to  streams  or  ponds. 

PARATHION  b  extremely  danserous.    Repeated  exposnre  to  it  and  other  phosphate  trpc  tnacctleldca  nur,  wlthoat  symptoms,  locreu«  snsceptfhiUtr  to  pho«- 
pliate  pobonln;.   Stay  of!  bofs  at  least  48  hoars  after  application.   Post  Parathlon  treated  bor>- 

I.MPORTANT:     Before  using  Parathlon  obtain  a  supply  of  atropine  tablets  for  enier|;enc7  use    (obtainable  only   with   physicians   prescription). 


Issued  by  the  Extension  Service.  A.  A.  Splelman,  Dean  and   Director,  in  furtherance  of  Acts  of  May  8   and  June  30, 
1914;  University  of  Massachusetts.  United  States  Department  of  Aerlculture.  and  County  Extension  Services  cooperating. 


SEVENTEEN 


CRANBERRY  TALK— Continued 

Under  recommendations  you 
should  note  that  the  suggested 
fruitworm  egg  count  is  now  2 
unhatched,  unparasited  eggs  per 
100  berries  and  counts  should 
continue  on  Early  Blacks  until 
August  10  and  on  Howes  and 
other  "lates"  until  August  20. 

This  egg  count  reflects  more 
efficient  materials  and  methods  of 
control,  better  prices  for  berries 
and  the  tendency  in  recent  cool 
summers  for  egg  laying  to  string 
out  most  of  the  summer  with  the 
result  that  there  may  never  be 
a  count  of  3  or  4  per  100  berries 
but   serious  infestations   develop. 

After  Fruit  Set  is  a  new  cate- 
gory for  girdler  control.  This  is 
aimed  at  the  small  larvae  and 
either  dieldrin  granules  or  a 
DDT  bearing  dust  may  be  used. 
The  DDT  and  malathion  is  listed, 
but   DDT   alone   will   do  the   job. 

To  stress  the  time  proven  prac- 
tice of  a  6  day  flood  before  Oc- 
tober 1  for  girdler  control,  we 
have  placed  this  on  the  chart  as 
a  regular  category.  This  should 
be  done  every  third  year  or 
so,  with  late  varieties  still  on  the 
vines  if  necessary. 

Finally,  in  the  Warning  notices 
that  pesticides  should  be  stored 
in  the  original  containers  with 
complete  labels.  This  label  in- 
formation could  mean  the  differ- 
ence between  life  and  death  in 
an    emergency. 

This  past  summer  I  kept  track 
of  the  girdler  moths  caught  in 
the  blacklight  traps  at  the  State 
Bog  and  the  Peterson  Bog  in 
East  Wareham.  The  flight  period 
was  from  June  8  to  August  19, 
a  period  of  72  days.  Peak  flights 
were  on  June  30  and  July  on 
both  bogs.  However,  bogs  are 
susceptible  to  girdler  attack  as 
soon  as  the  female  moths  have 
mated  because  they  lay  their 
eggs  in  the  trash  on  the  bog  floor 
and  if  conditions  are  suitable, 
larvae  will  develop  starting  in 
June  with  the  first  moth  and 
continue  until  flight  ends  about 
mid-August. 


Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 

Farm  Bureau's  Legislative  Bill 
Number  S-177  to  extend  the 
mileage  of  Farm  Plates  to  fifty 
miles  was  signed  into  law  by 
Governor  Volpe.  This  law  be- 
comes effective  ninety  days  after 
the  Governor  signs  the  bill  which 
will  be  July  28,  1966.  The  dis- 
tance that  a  farmer  may  travel 
is  the  fifty  mile  radius  from  his 
farm.  Eacr  farmer  should  deter- 
mine his  outer  limits  of  operation 
and  maintain  strict  control  over 
this  limit. 

Your  Farm  Bureau  Legislative 
Agent  will  continue  to  watch  for 
any  indications  which  would  re- 
strict use  of  the  Farm  Plates  as 
it  relates  to  hauling  Cranberries 
to   the   processing   plant. 

Senate  Bill  Number  S-57  which 
is  the  petition  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Farm  Bureau  Federation 
for  an  Legislative  Amendment  to 
to  the  Constitution  permitting  the 
assessment  of  "Open  Lands"  in- 
cluding land  used  for  agriculture 
at  a  value  related  to  its  use  was 
reported  out  of  Committee  with 
an  "ought  not  to  pass"  report.  At 
the  hearing  of  this  bill  on  March 
15th,  more  than  two-hundred 
Farm  Bureau  members  from  the 
entire  state  packed  Gardner  Audi- 
torium in  Boston  to  indicate  their 
support  for  this  legislation.  As  a 
result  of  this  unfavorable  report 
the  Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau 
Board  of  Directors  decided  to  de- 
lay action  on  this  legislation  until 
the  next  session  of  the  General 
Court  and  possibly  consider  other 
avenues  of  completing  this  project. 

During  the  next  several  months 
all  farmers  should  make  their 
views  known  to  legislators  and 
constantly  remind  them  of  the 
practical  need  for  this  legislation 
to  Masachusetts.  Of  course,  all 
was  not  lost  by  this  attempt 
since  we  have  support  of  more 
legislators  and  focused  attention 
to  this  problem. 


The  Sales  Tax  Bill  has  passed 
and  the  agricultural  exemptions 
requested  by  Farm  Bureau  were 
accepted  as  part  of  the  law.  Farm 
Bureau  members  have  received 
all  the  information  concerning  ex- 
emptions and  the  changes  to  these 
exemptions. 

Governor  Volpe's  office  announ- 
ced on  May  5th,  that  Lorenzo  D. 
Lambson  of  Southwick,  Massa- 
chusetts has  been  appointed  to 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
University  of  Massachusetts.  Mr. 
Lambson,  a  shade  tobacco  farmer, 
is  very  active  in  Farm  Bureau 
activities  presently  serving  on  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Farm  Bureau  and  a 
member  of  the  Budget  Committee. 
In  addition  to  the  Commissioner 
of  Agriculture,  Charles  McNamara, 
who  serves  on  the  Board  of 
Trustees  as  an  ex-officio  member, 
Mr.  Lambson  is  very  interested 
in  the  educational  and  research 
programs  which  serve  agriculture 
through  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

It's  very  important  that  Farm 
Bureau  work  for  good  legislation 
at  the  General  Court.  However, 
the  watchdog  activities  of  Farm 
Bureau  in  preventing  bad  legis- 
lation from  becoming  law  is  vi- 
tally important.  A  very  bad 
piece  of  legislation  to  agriculture 
was  Senate  Bill  S-361  which 
would  permit  the  taking  of  farm 
land  including  Cranberry  Bogs 
by  use  of  the  law  of  "Eminent 
Domain"  by  the  Conservation 
Commission.  As  mentioned  before 
Farm  Bureau  is  for  conservation 
but  they  are  against  laws  which 
would  place  farmers  in  on  un- 
compromising position. 


Bowers  and  Thompson  of  USDA 
report  a  hormone  which  when 
applied  to  pupae  of  some  insects 
keeps  them  from  growing  up  and 
maturing  —  causing  them  "to  live 
out  their  days  as  youngsters, 
without  reproducing  themselves" 
—  another  step   in   insect   control. 


eighteeh 


really  the  berries  for. . 


sprmkler  irrigation 


BEAN. 


solid  set  bog  irrigation  systems 

John  Bean  Shur-Rane  solid  set  bog  systems  are  ideally  suited  to  meet  the  needs  of  any 
cranberry  grower.  Minimimi  gallonage.  Special  VA"  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
lightweight,  low-cost  aluminum  tubing.  Easy,  twist-of-the-wrist  coupling  action.  Wide, 
flat  footpads  keep  sprinklers  upright.  Also  available:  conventional  portable  systems  and 
Sequa-Matic  automatic  sequencing  systems  for  crops  and  lawns. 

see  your  authorized  shur-rane  distributor  or  write  factory  for  information 


MASSACHUSETTS 

Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
&  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  &  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  inc. 
Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  COi 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


n  AGRICULTURAL  EQUIPMENT 

m  JOHN  BEAN  DIVISION 


Lansing,  Michigan 


NINETEEN 


AMERICAN  CRANBERRIES  ON  DISPLAY 

AT  EUROPE'S  MOST  IMPORTANT  FOOD  FAIR 

Orrin  G.  Colley,  President,  Cranberry  Institute 
In  Attendance  at  Opening  in  the  Netherlands 

(Special   to  Cranberries  Magazine) 


American  Ambassador  William  Tyler,  who  represents  his  country  in 
the  Netherland,  samples  traditional  American  cranberry  juice  at 
the  U.  S.  Food  Exhibit  of  the  ROKA  '66  International  Food  Fair  in 
Utrecht  which  opened  a  five-day  run  April  25.  At  his  right  is  Orrin 
Colley  of  South  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  President  of  the  American 
Cranberry  institute,  who  came  to  Holland  to  help  boost  cranberry 
imports  from  the  U.S. 


American  cranberries  got  spe- 
cial display  at  one  of  Europe's 
most  important  shows  which 
opened  at  Utrecht,  the  Nether- 
lands, April  25  for  an  expected 
40,000  food  buyers  from  Holland 
and  neighboring  North  European 
countries.  Cranberries  were  a 
feature  of  the  U.  S.  Food  Ex- 
hibit sponsored  by  the  U.  S. 
Department  of  Agriculture  as 
part  of  the  ROKA  '66  Internat- 
ional Food  Fair,  a  traditional 
Dutch  show  attracting  the  food 
trade  from  Great  Britain,  Bel- 
gium, Denmark,  and  Germany 
as    well    as    Holland. 

Buyers  sipped  glasses  of  the 
sparkling  red  cranberry  juice 
and  sampled  America's  traditional 
cranberry  sauce  as  they  got 
acquainted    with    the   zesty   cran- 


berry flavor  only  recently  fa- 
miliar to  North  Europeans. 

Somewhat  similar  red  berries 
do  grow  in  Northern  Europe  but 
are  not  in  the  popular  category 
of  cranberries  in  the  United 
States.  The  cranberry  display 
here  represents  a  concerted 
American  effort  to  tell  the  Eur- 
opeans more  about  the  refresh- 
ing qualities  and  festive  scarlet 
coloring   of  U.   S.   cranberries. 

The  big  push  is  on  cranberry 
jelly  and  sauce  and  the  new 
product — cranberry  orange  relish. 
Juice  sales  promotion,  hoped  for 
in  the  future,  awaits  European 
consumer  reaction. 

The  U.S.  Exhibit,  opened  by 
Dutch  Minister  of  Agriculture 
B.  W.  Biesheuvel,  stresses  cran- 
berries    along     with     five     other 


American  food  commodities  with 
promising  possibilities  of  in- 
creased exports  from  the  U.S.  to 
this  part  of  Europe.  Also  fea- 
tured are  raisins,  rice,  Florida 
citrus  fruit,  poultry  and  fresh 
fruits  and  vegetables  shipped  by 
jet  airliner  from  the  West  Coast, 
Florida  and  Hawaii  to  the  Neth- 
erlands. Cooking  demonstrations 
keyed  cranberries  to  the  chicken 
and  turkey  on  exhibit  —  a  boost 
for  the  berries  in  view  of  the 
expanding  market  here  for  U.S. 
frozen  poultry. 

Trans-World  Airlines  is  spon- 
soring the  exhibit  of  fresh  fruits 
and  vegetables  —  29  different 
items  all  of  the  perishable  type. 
Sharply  lowered  air  freight  rates 
across  the  Atlantic  prompt  the 
interest  in  this  promotion.  The 
appeal  in  Europe  is  the  avail- 
ability of  top  quality  fresh  pro- 
duce all  year  round,  taking  ad- 
vantage of  America's  agricul- 
tural and  marketing  efficiency 
and  its  sub-tropical  growing 
areas. 

Orrin  Colley,  of  South  Dux- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  President 
of  the  American  Cranberry  In- 
stitute, was  on  hand  to  discuss 
cranberry  imports  to  the  Eur- 
opean buyers.  The  Institute,  al- 
ready encouraged  by  zooming 
cranberry  juice  sales  in  the  U.S., 
notes  significant  boost  of  cran- 
berry sales  here  in  the  last 
year  or  two.  Cranberry  imports 
in  Great  Britain  were  double  last 
year  what  they  were  the  year 
before.  They  are  also  up  con- 
siderably in  Belgium.  The  Apr.  25 
show,  with  its  scores  of  buyers 
lining  up  for  cranberry  samples, 
puts  American  cranberries  "in 
touch  with  the  Dutch." 


FRUIT   TALK 

Insects,  too,  have  their  illnesses 
and  their  nutritional  disturbances 
so  entomologists  are  studying 
these  weak  spots  (even  encour- 
aging illness)  and  then  striking 
the  pest  at  its  weakest  moment. 

Bees  have  been  induced  to 
carry  disease-controlling  antibio- 
tics to  the  blossoms  when  they 
visit  in  their  polinating  rounds 
to  aid  set. 

(American  Fruit  Grower) 


TWENTY 


cutworms 


^j^^Y-r^r^ 


fireworms 


CARBARYL  INSECTICIDE 


fruitworms 


Japanese 
beetles 


CONTROLS 

CRANBERRY 

INSECTS 


leafhoppers 


You  get  better,  safer  insect  control  by  using 
SE VIN  in  your  cranberry  bogs.  SEVIN  insecticide 
destroys  cutworms,  fireworms,  fruitworms,  Japanese 
beetles  and  leafhoppers,  including  the  leafhoppers 
that  spread  false  blossom  disease.  And  the  relatively 
low  toxicity  of  SEVIN  provides  fewer  drift  and 
residue  problems  to  humans,  livestock  and  fish.  Order 
SEVIN  today.  Union  Carbide  Agricultural  Products, 
270  Park  Avenue,  New  York,  N.Y.  10017. 


!Sk.« 


UNION 
CARBIDE 


AGRICULTURAL 
PRODUCTS 


Sevin  is  the  registered  trade  mark  of  Union  Carbide  Corporation  for  carbaryl  insecticide. 


TWENTY-ONE 


RAINBIRD  SPRINKLER  HEADS 
FLEX-O-SEAL  IRRIGATION  PIPE 

Aluminum  and  light  weight  steel  irrigation  pipe 
in  all  conventional  lengths  and  diameters. 
Rainbird  sprinkler  heads  for  any  bog  setup. 

VEG-ACRE  FARMS 

Forestdale,  Cape  Cod,  Mass. 

Tel.  428-6719 

(Supplying  irrigation  equipment  to  growers  since  1944) 


The  Elizabeth  Blueberry 

The  New  Jersey  Cultivated 
Blueberry  Council,  Inc.,  a  non- 
profit agricultural  organization, 
was  organized  recently  to  pro- 
moted the  development  of  new 
blueberry  varieties. 

It  has  just  named  a  variety  de- 
veloped by  the  late  Miss  Eliza- 
beth White  of  Whitesbog.  A  de- 
scription of  the  variety  follows: 

This  cultivated  bluebery  was 
developed  by  Miss  Elizabeth 
White,  the  famed  pioneer  of  blue- 
berry culture.  Hitherto  known 
as  the  3850-A,  this  variety  has 
been  grown  successfully  as  a 
commercial  variety  at  Whitesbog 
(N.J.)  for  several  year. 


HELICOPTER  PEST  CONTROL 


ins  ^irwaus 

NORWOOD,  MASS.  I 

DUSTING   and   SPRAYING 


RAY    MORSE    &    SON.    AGENTS 


TEL.    295-1553 


The  Elizabeth  blueben-y  ripens 
in  the  mid  to  late  season.  It  has 
an  unusually  long  picking  season, 
stating  at  about  the  same  time 
as  the  Berkeley  and  continuing 
through  most  of  August.  It  is  a 
very  large  berry,  about  equal  in 
size  to  Herbert  and  surpassing 
Bluecrop.  It  maintains  its  large 
size  well  and  there  are  only  slight 
reductions  in  size  with  each  suc- 
cessive picking.  The  cluster  is 
very  loose  and  the  scar  is  small. 
It  is  extremely  easy  to  pick  and 
no  difficulty  has  ever  been  en- 
countered getting  these  berries 
picked   by   hand. 

The  color  of  the  berry  is  me- 
dium blue,  resembling  that  of 
Blueray.  Its  dessert  quality  and 
flavor  are  excellent.  It  is  very 
sweet   and  aromatic. 

The  berry  is  a  good  producer, 
perhaps  not  as  good  as  Bluecrop, 
but  very  dependable.  It  is  a 
red-wooded  variety  which  ap- 
pears to  have  the  hardiness 
usually  associated  with  such 
similar  types  as  Rancocas  and 
June.  It  is  about  as  vigorous  as 
Coville  and  has  a  form  and 
spreading  upright  growth  pattern 
similar  to  that  of  Coville. 


TWENTY-TWO 


The  Elizabeth  blueberry  has 
done  well  is  solid  block  plantings. 
The  berries,  even  in  late  pick- 
ing, are  well  seeded,  indicating 
that  its  blossoms  are  attractive 
to    bees. 

The  Elizabeth  berry  has  not 
demonstrated  any  weakness  in 
commercial  shipments.  It  has 
good  quality  as  a  frozen  berry. 
It  is  quite  easy  to  propagate  from 
hard  wood    cuttings. 

The  Blueberry  Council  recom- 
mends the  Elizabeth  for  trial 
only.  This  plant  should  not  be 
planted  to  very  sandy  soils.  It 
appears  to  thrive  best  on  mod- 
erately  peaty   soils. 


Thunder  Lake  Reports,,, 

Thunder  Lake,  Wis.  has  just 
received  several  new  varieties  of 
cranberries  from  Mass.,  which  they 
will  propogate  and  build  up  in 
order  to  determine  their  value 
under  Wisconsin  conditions.  Al- 
together, Thunder  Lake  has  ap- 
proximately 50  varieties,  which 
is  the  largest  number  of  varieties 
any  Wisconsin  grower  has,  and  a 
good  many  of  them  are  still  in 
the   experimental   stage. 


Many  of  the  growers  of  ber- 
ries who  deliver  to  Cranberry 
Products,  Inc.,  Eagle  River,  Wis., 
have  gone  into  the  use  of  Chloro 
IPC  for  weed  control,  prior  to 
this  year  had  used  little  of  it. 
They  believe  it  has  excellent  pos- 
sibilities for   weed  control. 

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Frank  H.  Cole 

Prominent    in    Mass.    Cranberry 
Industry 

Frank  H.  Cole,  senior  member 
of  Cole  family  of  Carver,  Mass., 
prominent  in  Massachusetts 
cranberry  growing,  passed  away 
April  17  at  a  nursing  home  in 
Plymouth. 

Mr.  Cole  was  76.  His  forebears 
came  to  America  on  the  May- 
flower. He  was  the  eighth  gen- 
eration to  head  the  Cole  Box 
Mill  operation  in  North  Carver 
until  the  business  was  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1947.  At  that  time  the 
business,  which  consisted  largely 
of  the  manufacture  of  cranberry 
containers  was  reputed  to  be  the 
oldest  continuous  family  business 
in  the  country,  having  been  op- 
erated by  the  Cole  family  for  250 
years. 

As  well  as  being  a  cranberry 
grower  and  box  manufacturer, 
Mr.  Cole  served  as  Carver  Select- 
man from  1928  to  1934  and  was  a 
Carver  school  committee  member 
from  1947  to  1959.  He  also  served 
as  a  member  of  the  town  finance 
committee.  He  was  a  parishioner 
of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  North  Carver,  in  which 
section  he  made  his  home  on 
High    Street. 

He  was  a  life-long  Republican 
and  served  at  various  times  as 
chairman  and  treasurer  of  the 
Carver  Republican  Town  Com- 
mittee. He  was  a  long  time  mem- 
ber and  former  president  of  the 
Carver  Old  Home  Day  Associa- 
tion. 

Among  his  many  charitable  in- 
terests he  served  as  fund  raiser 
for  the  Jordan  Hospital  in 
Plymouth  and  St.  Luke's  Hos- 
pital in  Middleboro,  Boy  Scouts, 
Cancer  Fund  and  Infantile  Pa- 
ralysis efforts.  He  also  con- 
tributed to  local  sports  organi- 
zations. 

Of  late  years  in  semi-retire- 
ment he  devoted  much  time  to 
world   peace    efforts. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  Mrs.  Flor- 
ence J.  (Shaw)  of  North  Car- 
ver,    a     daughter,    Helen    J.     of 


Washington,  three  sons,  Theron 
M.  of  Holden  and  Springfield, 
Ohio  and  Bradford  H.  of  Carver 
a  newspaper  reporter  writing  of- 
ten on  cranberry  subjects  and 
Lawrence  S.,  a  cranberry  grower 
and  former  director  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.,  and  six 
grandchildren. 


Carleton  D.  Hammond 

Carlton  Delano  Hammond,  a 
prominent  cranberry  grower  of 
Pt.  Independence,  Mass  died  on 
April  20.  Mr.  Hammond  was  75. 
Death  followed  a  long  illness  at 
Pondville  Hospital  in  Norfolk. 

Mr.  Hammond  was  born  in 
Wareham  and  was  a  lifelong  resi- 
dent of  that  town.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Smith-Hammond 
Company.  He  was  a  long-time 
member  of  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Association.  He 
had  attended  Wareham  schools 
and  was  a  graduate  of  Worcester 
Academy.  He  attended  Onset 
Community  Church. 

He  was  the  son  of  the  late 
Irving  C.  Hammond,  an  early 
grower  of  the  Wareham  region 
and  very  prominent  in  cranberry 
affairs.  He  leaves  a  widow 
Jeannette  (Hunter)  Hammond,  a 
son,  Carleton  D.  Hammond,  Jr. 
of  Walpole,  who  was  for  many 
years  interested  in  cranberries 
and  for  some  years  was  general 
manager  of  the  Wisconsin  Cran- 
berry Sales  Company  of  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids,  Wisconsin,  a  brother, 
Robert  C.  Hammond  of  East 
Wareham,  a  much  respected  and 
active  grower,  three  sisters,  Mrs. 
Margaret  Tatlow  and  Miss  Ethel 
Hammond  both  of  Pt.  Indepen- 
dence and  Mrs.  Edmund  Staples 
of  New  Bedford,  several  grand- 
children and  several  nieces  and 
nephews. 


Antonio  F.  Baptist 

Antone  F.  Baptist  of  Middleboro 
Road,  West  Wareham,  Mass,  a 
cranberry  grower,  died  April  26th 
at  Tobey  Hospital,  Wareham.  He 
was  81. 


Born  in  Fogo,  Cape  Verde  Is- 
lands he  had  lived  in  Wareham 
for  about  65  years.  He  was  self- 
employed  as  a  cranberry  bog  op- 
erator. He  was  a  communicant  of 
St.  Anthony's  Church  of  West 
Wareham. 

He  left,  besides  a  widow,  Mrs. 
Fingincia  Dos  Ris  Baptist  two 
sons,  Theodore  and  August,  both 
c1  East  Wareham  and  three 
daughters,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Mattos 
of  Wareham,  Mrs.  Mary  Sox  and 
Mrs.  Alice  Chenly,  both  of  Prov- 
idence; 26  grandchildren  and  one 
great   grandchild. 


HUMPHREY    INVITED 
SPEAKER  AT  CO-OP  MEETING 

Vice  President  Hubert  H. 
Humphrey  has  been  invited  to 
address  the  American  Institute  of 
Cooperation  meeting  scheduled  at 
Colorado  State  University  July 
31 -Aug.  3,  according  to  AIC 
President  J.  K.  Stern,  Washing- 
ton, D.   C. 

Stern  said  there  is  a  "strong 
possibility"  that  Humphrey  will 
speak  at  the  institute's  final  ses- 
sion on  Wednesday  evening,  Aug. 
3.  Some  3500  persons,  including 
about  1000  young  farmers  and 
rural  youth  from  50  states  are' 
expected  to  attend.  Theme  of  the 
meeting  will  be  "Cooperatives: 
Progress  by  Design." 


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Personal 

Clarence  J.  Hall,  retiring  editor 
and  publisher  of  CRANBERRIES, 
is  taking  this  opportunity  to 
thank  the  many  friends  from 
all  cranberry  areas  who  have 
written  in  regarding  the  change, 
many  to  say  they  felt  the  mag- 
azine has  been  been  of  great 
value  to  the  cranberry  industry 
over  the  past  30  years. 

Also  to  those  who  have  ex- 
pressed best  wishes  for  its  con- 
tinuance and  for  their  willing- 
ness to  send  in  news  which 
they  beUeve  will  be  of  great 
interest  to  others  within  the 
industry. 


MALATHION  "BOMBS" 
USED  IN  INDIANA 

More  than  700,000  acres  of 
northwestern  Indiana  were 
sprayed  by  insecticide  from  four 
multi-engine  airplanes  late  in 
April  in  an  intensive  effort  to  stop 
the  westward  spread  of  the  cereal 
leaf  beetle  into  the  wheat  pro- 
ducing heartland  of  the  United 
States   and   Canada. 

The  beetle,  which  sometimes 
destroys  entire  fields  of  grain  in 
Europe,  was  first  identified  in 
the  U.S.  in  1962  in  Michigan.  It 
had  spread  to  47  counties  of 
Michigan,  Indiana  and  Ohio  a 
year  later  and  was  reported  in 
141  counties  of  those  states  last 
fall. 

The  spraying  with  four  ounces 
of  malathion  (a  chemical  well 
know  to  cranberry  growers)  per 
acre  was  done  cooperatively  by 
the  Indiana  Department  of  Natu- 
ral Resources,  the  Illinois  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  and  the 
U.   S.  Department  of  Agriculture. 


Washington  State  Bog 
Uses  Bees  for  Pollination 

Dr.  Carl  Johansen,  Washington 
State  University,  who  for  the  past 
four  seasons  has  been  studying 
bees  in  cranberry  growing  has 
reached  several  conclusions. 

He  finds  that  tests  on  the  State 
bog  at  Long  Beach  have  shown 
that  the  pollination  of  cranberries 
by  bees  leads  to  considerable  in- 
creases in  yields.  Wind  as  a  fac- 
tor in  cranberry  pollination  has 
been  highly  overated. 

Development  of  the  use  of 
honey  bees  on  cranberries  in 
Coastal  Washington  appears  to  be 
the  most  promising  way  of  ob- 
taining pollination.  From  the 
above  information  it  is  evident 
that  you  can  get  along  with 
natural  pollination,  but  you  will 
have  a  higher  yield  if  you  have 
bee  hives  at  your  bog  during  the 
blooming    period 


NEW    JERSEY 


Wisconsin  Order 

Independent  growers  and 
cranberry  marketing  companies 
reported  sales  of  416,503.9  bar- 
rels, remitting  $8,330.08  in  as- 
sessments under  cranberry  mar- 
keting order  provisions. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELJ)S 

Continued  jrom  Page  6 

WASHINGTON 

There  is  still  plenty  of  water 
in  the  Pacific  Northwest,  even 
though  April  was  drier  than  usual. 
Rainfall  for  that  month  was  only 
2.63  inches.  The  total  for  1966 
so  far  is  34.03,  compared  with  a 
total  of  40.39  for  1955.  April  of 
'65  registered   7.03   inches. 

Temperature    for    April    main- 
tained a  mean  high   of  55.77   de- 
grees,   and    a  mean    low    of    42.5. 
The   high  for   the   month   was    78 
on   the   4th,  but  there   were  four 
days   from   the   15th   through   the' 
18th  that  gave  some  trouble  with 
frost    danger.     The    temperatures 
ranged   from   23    to    28.     Most    of 
the   growers  in  Washington   have 
automatic     sprinklers    which    are 
set   for   34,   so   it   is   believed   the 
necessary  protection  was  achieved. 
With  the   first   of  two  fertilizer 
applications     going    on     in     May 
and  the  process  of  getting  fungi- 
cide    applications,     growers     are 
busy    and    are    hoping    for   good 
weather     for     a     lot     of     outdoor 
work  to  be  done. 


Although    rainfall    occurred    on 
6    of    the    last    7    days    of   April, 
and    9    out    of    the    last    12    days, 
the  month  of  still  must  go  down 
in    the    records    as    one   that    was 
drier  than  normal.  The  total  rain- 
fall for  the  month  was  only  3.29 
inches,    which    is    .12    of    an    inch 
less    than    normal.     The    rainfall 
for  the  first  four  months  of   1966 
now  totals   12.72  inches,  which  is 
.45   of  an  inch  deficient  from  the 
norm.      The    pattern     of     rainfall 
during   the    first    four    months    of 
1966   varies  very  little  from  that 
of     1965     and     1964,     both     bad 
drought  years.    In  1965  the  quar- 
ter total  was  11.87  inches  and  in 
1964  it  was   15.34.    May  was  ex- 
tremely   dry   in   both   of  the   last 
two    years  —  only   .47   of   an   inch 
in   1965   and   .36   in    1964.    So  far 
in  May  we  have  received  almost 
as    much    rainfall     (.27)     as    oc- 
curred   in    the    entire    month    of 
the  two  previous  years. 

It  was  the  coldest  April  in  the 
3-year  weather  reporting  history 
at  the  Laboratory.  The  mean  av- 
erage was  47.2  degrees,  which  is 
4.7  below  normal.  The  previous 
record  was  in  1940  when  it  av- 
eraged 47.5  degrees.  The  mini- 
mum temperature  for  the  month 
was  24  degrees  on  the  1st  and  the 
maximum  was  80  on  the  21st. 
There  were  7  other  days  in  the 
20's.  There  were  only  11  days 
during  the  month  when  the  tem- 
perature rose  to  60  degrees  or 
above. 

The  winter  flood  has  been 
drawn  from  a  very  few  bogs  as  of 
the  end  of  April.  Most  growers 
are  planning  on  removing  water 
on  May  10th.  This  is  dictated  in 
large  measure  by  the  low  water 
supplies  in  cranberry  reservoirs. 
The  level  of  water  in  reservoirs 
of  most  bogs  is     below  normal. 

The  Frost  Warning  System  will 
be  operated  as  in  previous  years 
with  headquarters  at  the  Cran- 
berry and  Blueberry  Laboratory. 
Growers  get  the  frost  prediction 
for  cranberry  bogs  through  an 
answering  service  tape  by  calling 
the  Laboratory  phone.  There  will 
be  daily  messages  about  an  hour 
after  sunset.  On  days  of  imminent 
frost,  there  will  also  be  messages 
at  noon  and  at  6  p.m. 


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Spotlight  on  Suppliers  .  . 

PILGRIM  SAND  AND  GRAVEL,  INC. 


The  casual  driver  traveling 
down  Brook  Street  in  Plympton, 
Massachusetts  would  probably  be 
unaware  that,  just  a  few  hundred 
yards  off  the  road,  lies  the  modern 
bustling  plant  of  the  Pilgrim  Sand 
and  Gravel,  Inc. 

In  the  simple,  well-appointed 
office  of  this  progressive  organiza- 
tion we  spoke  with  Mr.  Irving 
Minott,  Jr.,  office  manager,  who 
explained  that  this  young  com- 
pany was  fovmded  on  the  preface 
that  "service"  is  most  important 
in  their  field.  "There  are  several 
firms  in  this  area  offering  sand 
and  gravel"  Mr.  Minott  was  quick 
to  mention,  "but  the  service  they 
offer  is  not  always  the  best.  We 
at  Pilgrim  have  always  strived  to 
see  that  our  customers  are  given 
the  service  they  have  a  right  to 


expect,  along  with  quality  they 
can  depend  on."  "We  always  have 
at  least  one  hundred  thousand 
tons  of  washed  sand  on  hand  and 
plenty  of  equipment  to  load  and 
deliver  it  to  nearly  any  point  in 
the  state." 

Pilgrim  Sand  and  Gravel,  under 
the  guidance  and  leadership  of  its 
young  President  and  Treasurer 
Al  Giovanella,  Jr.,  supplies 
washed  sand  and  aggregate  to 
local  contractors,  concrete  plants 
and  asphalt  plants  in  this  area. 
Many  towns  use  Pilgrim's  service 
and  the  Commonwealth  of  Mass. 
is  numbered  among  its  customers. 
They  take  great  pride  in  the  fact 
that  they  have  never  knowingly 
lost  a  customer  due  to  dissatis- 
faction. 


Mr.  Minott  explained  that  Pil- 
grim has  been  supplying  bog  sand 
to  cranberry  growers  for  some 
time  and  has  convinced  these 
growers  that,  contrary  to  the 
opinion  of  many  cranberry  people 
in  this  area,  washed  sand,  along 
with  the  addition  of  fertilizer,  if 
necessary,  is  more  economical 
and  effective  to  use  than  screened 
sand.  Most  important,  washed 
sand  does  not  contain  weed  seed 
and  is  more   time   saving  to   use. 

Well  equipped  with  three  dozen 
dump  trucks  (both  ten- wheelers 
and  trailers),  two  four-yard  load- 
ers, one  three-yard  loader  and  a 
shovel,  they  can  and  will  "go 
anywhere"  in  order  to  supply 
their  customers  with  the  finest 
bog  sand. 


Viev\/s    showing    one    of    Pilgrim    Sand's 


trailer  dunnp  trucks  unloading  delivery  of 


washed    sand   at    Atwood    Bogs,    Carver. 


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more  sprinklers?   Is  everything  in  shape  for  frost  warnings? 

PCA  loans  are  helping  many  cranberry  growers  get  the  sprinkler 
equipment  repaired  or  installed.  Sprinkler  financing  is  just  part  of  the 
service  PCA  can  give  you  responsible  cranberry  growers.  PCA  is  inter- 
ested in  providing  the  money  you  need  for  new  equipment,  sanding,  bog 
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fitted  to  your  income. 

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PCA  office  this  week,  and  a  representative  will  drive  out  to  your  place 
and  explain  the  advantages  and  savings  to  you.   No  obligation,  of  course. 


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ISSUE  OF  MAY,   1966 
VOL.     31  -NO.     1 


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Established    1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Wareiiam,    Mass. 


In  the  last  issue  of  CRANBERRIES,  Josh  Hall 
spoke  of  "the  end  of  our  era  in  cranberries,"  re- 
lating to  the  end  of  his  thirty  years  as  publisher 
of  this  magazine. 

We,  the  new  publisher  and  editor,  would  like  to 
regard  it  as  the  beginning  of  our  era  in  cranberries. 

During  the  past  thirty  years  this  magazine  has 
become  the  bible  of  the  cranberry  industry.  This 
has  been  no  easy  task.  It  will  be  no  easy  task  to 
progress  from  this  point  —  but  we're  going  to  try! 

Our  plans  for  the  future  include  several  innova- 
tions, some  of  which  will  be  obvious  —  others  not 
so  obvious. 

You  will  be  seeing  and  reading  pretty  much  the 
same  types  of  stories  and  features  that  have  be- 
come a  part  of  the  cranberry  grower's  life.  In 
addition,  we  hope  to  make  CRANBERRIES  a 
magazine  of  interest  to  the  entire  family  by  add- 
ing departments  for  the  ladies  and,  eventually, 
even  to  include  something  of  interest  to  the  young 
people  in  the  family. 

Needless  to  say  that  this  can  be  only  be  accomp- 
lished with  the  cooperation  of  you  —  the  readers 
of  this  magazine.  The  interest  you  show  in  the 
future  of  CRANBERRIES  will  greatly  determine 
the  extent  of  our  forward  progress.  Frankly  — 
we'd  like  nothing  better  than  to  hear  from  you 
regarding  any  idea  you  might  have  which  you 
feel  would  add  to  the  effectivenes  of  our 
publication. 

As  you  probably  noticed  in  the  last  issue,  we 
are  going  to  attempt  to  get  the  magazine  out  to 
you  by  the  15th  of  each  month.  We  feel  strongly 
that  his  will  help  keep  our  news  items  and  fea- 
tures more  current  and  allow  both  our  readers 
and  advertisers  to  receive  their  copies  during  the 
middle  part  of  the  month  of  publication.  For  ex- 
ample, you  will  be  receiving  this  issue  (May) 
close  to  the  middle  of  the  month  of  May  rather 
than  late  in  the  month  or  even,  as  sometimes  hap- 
pens, early  in  the  following  month.  This  may  not 
seem  important,  but  we  feel  it  will  make  for 
much  better  planning. 

Since  this  editorial  was  meant  to  simply  whet 
your  appetite,  and  since  we  want  some  of  our 
plans  to  be  a  surprise  (a  pleasant  one,  we  hope) 
we'll  end  it  by  repeating  that  we  want  "our"  mag- 
azine to  be  "your"  magazine.  Won't  you  let  us 
know  how  you  feel  about  this  —  soon  ? 

THIRTY 


Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

Editor 

DONALD   CHARTIER 

30  Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 


CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 

Eagle  River 

Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 


Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 


Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 


New    Jersey 

P.   E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


How  long  before 

the  mailman  brings  your 

cranberry  check? 


Growers  who  sell  to  Dean's  Indian  Trail  get  an  advance  on  their  estimated 
crop  at  the  beginning  of  harvest.  They  get  a  second  payment  when  they 
ship  dxiring  the  season,  and  a  final  payment  at  a  later  date. 

There's  this,  too.  Dean's  Indian  Trail  is  a  well-known,  highly  respected 
company.  We  have  strong  advertising  and  merchandising  programs  designed 
to  seU  cranberrry  products.  And  we  have  a  dedica- 
tion to  making  them  the  best. 

If  you'd  like  to  do  business 
with  a  company  like  this,  write  us 
a  note.  You'U  probably  get  an  ans- 
wer before  your  cranberry  check! 


Dean's 


hvdixmJiwuill 

p.  O.  Box  710  •  Wisconsin  Rapids,  Wisconsin  54494 


THIRTY-ONE 


FRESH  FROM  THE  FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  26 

WISCONSIN 

The  southern  half  of  Wiscon- 
sin was  generally  frost  free  by 
April  8,  but  several  deep  areas 
remain  in  the  north  central  and 
north  west  parts  of  the  State. 
The  top  6  to  8  inches  of  soil  in 
these  areas  is  frost  free  but  the 
next  20  to  25  inches  contain  frost. 
The  deepest  frost  was  45  inches 
reported  in  Chippewa  County, 
40  inches  in  Barron, '  36  inches 
in  Lincoln,  32  inches  in  Oneida 
and  30  inches  in  Douglas  and 
Taylor. 

Seasonably  mild  weather  pre- 
vailed on  the  last  days  of  March 
with  daytime  temperatures  well 
into  the  40's  or  50's  and  night  time 
readings  at  freezing  or  slightly 
below.  The  heavy  snow  cover 
deposited  over  the  northwest  by 
the  storm  of  March  22-23  melted 
in  an  orderly  fashion  leading  to 
little  or  no  flooding.  Rain  and 
snow  mixed  on  March  31  and 
April  1  mostly  affected  the  nor- 
thern half  of  the  State  with  pre- 
cipitation generally  less  than 
three  quarters  of  an  inch.  Up  to 
7  inches  of  new  snow  fell  in 
the  extreme  north  central  coun- 
ties. 

The  first  ten  day  of  April  were 
generally  cloudy,  windy  and  cold. 
Persistent  snow  flurry  and  light 
shower  activity  with  brisk  nor- 
therly winds  delayed  the  advent 
of  spring  weather.  Daily  tem- 
peratures across  the  State  ranged 
between  lows  in  the  middle  20's 
and  highs  in  the  low  40's  on  most 
days.  Precipitation  from  the  snow 
squalls  amounted  to  less  than 
one  tenth  of  an  inch  at  most 
points.  Runoff  continued  slow 
without  flooding  due  to  the  cold, 
cloudy  weather. 

Alternate  periods  of  cloudy  and 
sunny  skies  prevailed  during  the 
week  of  the  24th.  The  weather 
was  on  the  cool  side  with  night- 
time temperatures  near  freezing 
or  slightly  below  on  most  days 
throughout  the  state.  Highest 
temperatures  of  about  70  degrees 
occurred  on  the  24th  and  25th. 
Between  1/4  and  V2  inch  precipi- 
tation fell  at  most  stations  pri- 
marily on  the  26th  and  27th.  Up 
to  5  inches  of  new  snow  was  re- 

THIRTY-TWO 


ported   in    the    extreme   north   on 
the  26th. 

Additional  rain  fell  on  the  29th 
with  the  weather  turning  sunny 
and  cool  over  the  weekend. 

Cranberry  Order 
Grants  $7,350 

Wisconsin's  cranberry  mar- 
keting order  will  allocate  more 
than  $7,000  for  research  and 
frost  warning  services,  accord- 
ing to  D.  N.  McDowell,  director 
of  the  Wisconsin  Department 
of    Agriculture. 

The  order  will  grant  $5,000 
for  cranberry  research  conducted 
by  the  University  of  Wisconsin 
horticulture  department,  and 
$2,350  for  the  frost  warning  serv- 
ice of  the  U.  S.  Weather  Bureau. 

McDowell  distributes  cran- 
bery  order  funds  upon  recom- 
mendations by  the  order's  ad- 
visory  committee. 

Committee  members  are 
Bruce  Potter  of  Camp  Dauglas, 
Tony  Jonjak,  Hay  ward,  and 
Donald  Duckart,  Wisconsin  Rap- 
ids; Keith  Bennett,  Warrens,  and 
Charles  Lewis  of  Shell  Lake. 

The  state's  cranberry  grow- 
ers adopted  the  market  order 
in  July  1965,  which  provides  for 
two  cents  from  each  barrel  of 
berries  sold  to  be  used  for  frost 
warning  service  and  UW  horti- 
culture  department   research. 


Dean  Foods  First 
Quarter  Sales  Up, 
Earnings  Down 

Dean  Foods  Company  earned 
46<'  per  share  on  sales  of  $37.3 
million  dollars  during  the  quarter 
ended  March  31,  1966.  Sam  E. 
Dean,  Chairman,  announced  the 
quarter  results  at  the  share- 
holders' meeting  Thursday,  April 
28,  1966,  at  the  company  head- 
quarters  in  Franklin   Park,  111. 

Net  sales  were  $37.3  million  as 
compared  with  $19.5  million  for 
the  same  period  a  year  ago  (up 
91%).  Net  income  was  $346,00.0, 
down  18%  from  $422,000  in  1965. 
Earnings  per  share  also  declined 
from  57(+  in  1965  to  46(J  in  1966. 

Summary  figures  announced  by 
Mr.  Dean  include  the  operations 
of   Bowman  Dairy   from   January 


20,  1966,  the  day  after  it  was  ac- 
quired by  Dean  Foods.  Also,  the 
figures  have  been  restated  to  in- 
clude the  result  of  operations  of 
Liberty  Dairy  Company,  the  ac- 
quisition of  which  is  a  pooling  of 
interest. 

In  commenting  on  the  reduced 
earnings,  Mr.  Dean  pointed  to 
significant  increases  during  1966 
in  the  cost  of  raw  milk  in  the 
Chicago  Area.  Also,  ligation  over 
the  announced  acquisition  of  Bow- 
man Dairy  Company  continues 
and  Dean  consequently  has  been 
unable  to  effectively  consolidate 
the  two  operations  as  planned,  he 
said.  Sales  of  Dean  Foods  Com- 
pany, exclusive  of  Bowman  Dairy 
Company,  however,  "were  higher 
for  the  quarter  over  1965. 


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correspondence  and  re- 
mittances as  follows: 

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Box  70 

Kingston,  Mass. 
02360 

Deadline  for  copy  will  be  the  lOth 
Publication  date  will  be  the  15th 


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Ocean  Spray  Announces 
Executive   Promotions 

Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 
announces  the  promotion  of  three 
executives:  Fresh  Fruit  Sales 
Manager,  Gilbert  Beaton;  Stanley 
D.  Benson,  Sales  and  Traffic  De- 
partment; Dale  L.  Johnson,  Mid- 
western Sales  Manager. 

Gilbert  Beaton  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  new  position  of 
Director  of  Grower  Services  ac- 
cording to  Edward  Gelsthorpe,  Ex- 
ecutive Vice-President  and  Gen- 
eral  Manager. 

In  his  new  post  with  Ocean 
Spray,  Mr.  Beaton  will  strengthen 
communications  between  the  fast 
expanding  company  and  its  grow- 
er-members. Having  been  asso- 
ciated with  the  cranberry  indus- 
try all  his  life,  he  is  highly 
qualified  for  this  position.  Before 
joining  the  company  in  1956,  as 
Assistant  Director  of  Marketing, 
Mr.  Beaton  was  in  charge  of 
growing  operations  for  the  John 
J.  Beaton  Company;  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  Beaton  Distributing  Ag- 
ency; Eastern  Manager,  Eatmor 
Cranberries,  Inc. 

Effective  immediately  Stanley 
D.  Benson  will  assume  responsi- 
biUty  as  Eastern  Sales  Manager 
for   fresh   fruit.    Mr.   Benson   has 


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Ocean  Spray  from  the  New  Eng- 
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Assistant  Eastern  Sales  Manager 
for    Eatmor. 

Dale  L.  Johnson,  who  is  sta- 
tioned in  the  Wisconsin  Rapids 
office  of  Ocean  Spray,  assumes 
responsibility  as  Western  Sales 
Manager  for  fresh  fruit.  Mr. 
Johnson  joined  Ocean  Spray  nine 
years  ago  when  he  was  appointed 
Wisconsin  Area  Manager.  Pre- 
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in  the  chemical  division  of  Swift 
&  Company  and  instructor  in  the 
Columbus,  Wisconsin  school 
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SAUCE  PACK 
UP  iN  1965 

The  annual  report  of  the  Na- 
tional Canners  Association,  Wash- 
ington showed  that  the  total  pack 
of  cranberry  sauce  for  1965  was 
6,383,441  actual  cases.  This  was 
above  the  pack  of  the  preceding 
year  which  was  5,946,729.  The 
report  is  from  a  summary  of  all 
reports  to  the  Association  from  all 
canners  who  packed  whole  and 
cranberry    sauce. 

It  shows  that  less  than  half  of 
the  1965  crop  went  as  sauce. 


NEW  BULLETIN   DESCRIBES 
CRANBERRY  WEED  CONTROL 

A  new  bulletin  that  discusses 
the  use  of  CASORONr  dichlobenil 
weed  killer  for  controlling  weeds 
around  cranberry  plants  is  avail- 
able from  Thompson-Hayward 
Chemical  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 

Printed  in  two  colors,  the  bul- 
letin discusses  the  use  of  the 
company's  CASORON  broad  spec- 
trum weed  killer.  It  deals  with 
such  things  as  the  application 
timing,  application  economy,  the 
weeds  that  are  controlled  by  this 
product,  etc. 

Copies  of  the  bulletin  titled 
"CASORON  For  Weed  Control 
In  Cranberries"  is  available  by 
writing  to  Thompson-Hayward 
Chemical  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 
66110. 


Attention  Growers ! ! 

for 
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weed   control 

we    offer 
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TWO 


Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEAAORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


Personals 
Drs.   Bert   Zuckerman   and  Wes 

Miller  were  in  Ardsley,  New  York 
on  May  16  and  17.  They  were  in- 
vited by  Geigy  Chemical  Co.  to 
discuss  their  findings  on  diazinon 
persistence  and  breakdown  in 
cranberry  soils  and  water  supplies. 
Dr.  Frederick  Chandler,  Profes- 
sor Emeritus,  left  on  May  31  for 
Nova  Scotia.  Fred  will  be  making 
a  survey  of  the  area,  as  a  consul- 
tant for  the  Canadian  government, 
for  possible  locations  to  establish 
cranberry  bogs.  He  will  be  away 
about  six  weeks. 

Spring    Clinics 

A    series    of    cranberry    clinics 

were  held  at  Hanson  the  morning 
of  May  24,  at  the  State  Bog  the 
afternoon  of  May  24  and  at 
North  Harwich  the  afternoon  of 
May  25.    Prof.  Tomlinson  presen- 


ted a  talk  on  spring  insects  and 
their  control.  Prof.  Norton  presen- 
ted information  on  frost  protec- 
tion, irrigation  and  pesticide  ap- 
plications using  low  gallonage 
sprinkler  systems.  Dr.  Cross  dis- 
cused  a  variety  of  subjects  in- 
cluding weather  conditions  and 
keeping  quality.  The  writer  talked 
about  late  spring  and  early  sum- 
mer weed  control. 

Keeping  Quality 

The  final  keeping  quality  fore- 
cast was  released  June  3  and  is 
as    follows: 

Weather  conditions  to  date  give 
us  9  points  of  a  possible  16  in 
favor  of  good  keeping  quality 
cranberries.  Based  on  this  point 
system  the  prospect  is  excellent 
for  very  good  keeping  quality  in 
the  1966  Massachusetts  crop.  Also 
favorable  is  the  fact  of  very  little 


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PRUNERS 


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frost  flooding  to  date.  It  would 
appear  advisable,  however,  for 
growers  to  use  fungicide  treat- 
ments on  bogs  which  have  a  ten- 
dency to  produce  weak  fruit,  or 
to  use  fungicides  where  a  heavier 
than  normal  fertilizer  program 
has  been  used.  If  June  continues 
the  cold  temperature  trend,  it 
will  fortify  the  good  quality 
forecast. 

Frost 

The  spring  frost  season  has  not 

been  too  active  so  far,  with  9 
warnings  released  during  May 
and  one  on  April  26.  This  com- 
pares with  15  warnings  for  the 
same  period  in  1965  and  11  in 
1964.  These  figures  include  both 
afternoon  and  evening  warnings. 
Frost  damage  has  been  extremely 
light  this  spring  with  no  estimates 
of  any  damage  as  yet.  The  coldest 
bog  temperatures  occurred  on  the 
night  of  May  10  with  a  range  of 
16  to  23  degrees  and  on  May  15 
with  a  range  of  22  to  27  degrees. 
With  both  April  and  May  below 
normal  in  temperature,  bogs  were 
still  retarded  and  most  buds  were 
in  the  "cabbage  head"  stage  on 
Memorial  Day. 

Weather 

Temperatures  for  May  averaged 

out  about  11/2   degrees  a  day  be- 
Continued  on  Page   15 


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CHOICE  OF 
IRRIGATION 

SUCTION  EQUIPMENT 

ABC    •    UTILITY 
WRITE: 


W.  R.  AMES  CO. 

Dept.  CR-1 
451 1  E.  Osborne  Ave.  •  Tampa,  Florida 

Phone:626-1154 
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Phone:  262-1000 


THREE 


Come  on 

up  the 

ladder 

with  us 


Things  look  pretty  good  for  the  climb. 

We've  got  products  that  are  tops.  A  fine 

name  in  Dean's  Indian  Trail.  A  lot  of 

ambition.  And  a  willingness  to  try  new 

ideas. 

To  a  grower  this  is  important.  With 
Dean's  Indian  Trail  you  get  an  ad- 
vance on  your  estimated  crop  at  the 
beginning  of  harvest.  You  get  a 
second  payment  when  you  ship 
during  the  season,  and  a  final  pay- 
ment at  a  later  date. 

And  there's  this  most  impor- 
tant factor  in  our  program  for 
growers.  It  links  you  with  a 
well-known,  highly  respected 
company  with  strong  adver- 
tising and  merchandising 
programs  that  sell  cranberry 
products.  And  more  each 
year. 

Dean's  Indian  Trail . . . 
the  big  new  name  in  the 
cranberry  business. 


Dean^ 


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p.  O.  Box  710  •  Wisconsin  Rapids  •  Wisconsin  54494 


FOUR 


Issue  of  June  1966- Volume  31,  No.  2 

Cranherrxes  is  published  monthly  by  Comor  Publishers,  P.O.  Box  70,  Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.  Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year. 
Application   for  re-entry   at   Plymouth,   Mass.   P.O.   pending. 

Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


May  began  with  more  sun  than 
cloudy  April,  but  the  minimurh  of 
rain  continued.  There  was  a  light 
shower  on  the  night  of  the  4th, 
but  the  drought  was  still  a  major 
worry  of  the  growers. 

Cool  with  High  Winds 

Although  sunny,  the  month  was 
still  cool  and  with  much  high 
wind,  which  was  a  dry  wind  and 
added  to  the  danger  of  forest 
fires,  for  which  there  was  a  high 
burning  index.  On  the  night  of 
the  4th  a  warning  for  frost  was 
sent  out  from  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion, this  being  for  "probably 
frost  in  coldef  places.  Minimum 
temperature  20  degrees."  No 
frost  developed. 

Light  rain  fell  again  on  the  6th 
and  the  following  night  brought  a 
frost  warning  of  "rather  danger- 
ous frost,  Minimum  21  degrees." 

But  clouds  suddenly  came  in 
followed  by  rain.  This  developed 
into  the  best  rain  in  a  long  time, 
1.81  inches  being  recorded  at  the 
State  Bog. 


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May  Cool 

The  weather  continued  cool 
and  unsettled,  it  seeming  to  be  a 
repeat  of  cold  April.  The  minus 
degrees  from  average  on  the  9th 
was  a  big  19,  or  slightly  more 
than   two  degrees   a   day. 

First   Real    Frost    Scare 

May  9th  was  one  of  the  coldest 
on  record  for  that  date.  On  that 
night  growers  narrowly  escaped 
a  very  damaging  frost  in  view  of 
the  water  shortage.  The  evening 
forecast  was  for  "A  Very  Danger- 
ous Frost,  if  the  wind  dies.  Mini- 
mum 16  to  17.  Tolerance  of  Early 
Blacks  at  the  State  Bog,  21."  But 
the  wind  fortunately  did  continue 
to  blow  until  about  4:30  or  5  until 
which  temperature  plummetted. 
The  general  average  was  20  to  23, 
but  with  two   lows  in   cold   spots 


of  17  being  reported.  It  was  con- 
cluded there  was  actually  little 
if  any  loss  that  harrowing  night. 

During  the  middle  of  the  month 
there  were  showers  and  drizzle, 
more  resembling  April  than  May. 
None  of  these  was  of  real  conse- 
quence in  relieving  the  lack  of 
precipitation  until  the  19th  when 
there  was  substantial  rain.  The 
temperature  rose  into  the  60's 
briefly,  but  the  month  continued 
to  be  abnormally  cold.  On  the 
20th  this  had  reached  a  deficiency 
of  88  degrees  for  the  month  to 
that  date. 

From  about  the  20th  of  May 
the  prevailing  winds  got  out  of 
the  east  and  ceased  bringing  in 
cool  air  from  over  the  cold  ocean. 


Continued  on  Page   12.    -— 


AGENT   FOR 
WIGGINS  AIRWAYS 


BOG 
SERVICE 


AGRICULTURAL 
CHEMICALS 

HAND  SPRAYERS       -       TOOLS       -       POWER   EQUIPMENT 
AUTHORIZED     BRIGGS    AND    STRATTON    SERVICE    CENTER 

R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 

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FIVE 


Bog  By-Products  for 
Home  Garden  and 
Soil  Building 

by  F.  B.  CHANDLER 

Professor  Emeritus 

When  a  cranberry  bog  is  built 
or  rebuilt  there  are  various  by- 
products from  the  operation 
which  may  be  useful  in  or  around 
the  home  garden,  or  of  value  in 
improving  the  general  soil  struc- 
ture. These  may  seem  to  have 
little  or  no  monetary  value  at 
first,  but  careful  consideration 
will  show  that  there  are  many 
ways  in  which  these  by-prod- 
ucts may  be  used  to  good  ad- 
vantage. 

Clearing    Land 

Usually  there  are  many  trees 
that  must  be  removed.  If  the 
area  is  a  cedar  swamp,  the  small 
trees  may  be  used  for  bean  poles, 
fence  posts,  etc.,  in  gardening. 
The  large  trees  have  many  uses, 
such  as  furniture  and  shingle:. 
The  more  common  types  of  trees 
found  in  bog  areas  are  ever- 
greens and  hardwoods.  If  small 
evergreen    trees    are    cut    in    the 


fall  or  early  winter  they  may  be 
sold  as  Christmas  trees,  larger 
evergreens  make  good  box  logs. 
Some  of  the  boughs  may  be  used 
to  protect  shrubs  from  heavy 
snow  or  winter  injury.  Small 
hardwoods  can  be  sold  as  pulp- 
wood  and  the  larger  trees  used 
for  fireplace  logs  or  lumber.  Any 
stones  that  are  removed  may  be 
used  in  rock  gardens,  stone  walls, 
fireplaces,    walks,    terraces,    etc. 

Levelling 

When  levelling  or  grading  the 
bog  there  may  be  some  excess 
peat,  this  can  be  used  in  various 
ways  either  commercially  or 
around  the  home.  It  can  be  in- 
corporated into  sandy  soils  to 
increase  the  organic  matter, 
used  when  planting  shrubs,  ap- 
plied to  foundation  plantings, 
mixed  with  sand  or  other  light 
soils  for  potting  soil,  or  baled 
and  sold.  The  sod  or  turf  may 
be  cut  into  squares  and  piled 
around  flumes,  culverts  or  dikes 
to  prevent  soil  erosion.  The  turf 
may  also  be  used  on  steep  slopes 
as  a  form  of  retaining  wall. 

Bog  Maintenance 

The  general  maintenance  of  the 
bog   includes   the   periodic    clean- 


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for  irosf  control 
and  irriqafion 

SOLID   SET   BOG 

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ing  of  ditches.  The  material  re- 
moved niay  be  peat  or  a  mix- 
ture of  sand,  peat,  muck  and 
other  decayed  matter.  The  ditch 
cleanings  may  be  used  as  land 
fill  or  in  many  of  the  ways  de- 
scribed in  the  paragraph  above. 
Pruning  is  another  cultural  prac- 
tice that  is  done  on  many  bogs. 
The  vines  removed  by  the  prun- 
ing operation  may  be  used  as  a 
mulch  to  prevent  winter  dessi- 
cation  or  heaving  in  perennial 
gardens.  These  vines  may  also 
be  sold  for  use  as  planting  stock 
for    new    bogs. 

Harvesting 

After  harvesting,  the  bog  should 
be  flooded.  The  water  aids  the 
vines  to  recover  from  the  mech- 
anical damage  caused  by  the  har- 
vesting operation.  Berries  lost  in 
harvesting  and  dead  leaves  and 
vines  that  have  accumulated  on 
the  bog  surface  will  float  on  the 
water.  This  debris  is  called 
"trash"  and  should  be  removed. 
If  allowed  to  accumulate  on  the 
bog  it  provides  an  ideal  location 
for  insects  to  overwinter,  causes 
surface  root  growth  which  dries 
out  easily  and  is  generally  detri- 
mental to  the  vines.  The  "trash" 
may  be  used  as  a  mulch  or  com- 
posted and  used  in  gardens.  There 
is  one  person  in  Massachusetts 
that  collects  this  bog  "trash," 
composts  it  and  sells  it  in 
quantity. 

People  in  other  sections  are 
selling  these  By-Products  to  gar- 
deners to  improve  the  soil.  If 
you  will  write  me  at  the  Cran- 
berry Station,  East  Wareham, 
Mass.  telling  me  how  you  are 
selling  —  bulk  or  by  ton,  price 
etc.,  I  will  keep  a  record  and 
let  others   know   about  it. 


New  Publication 

The  following  recent  publication 
is  available  free  for  the  writing. 
Maine  Blueberry  Recipes.  Avail- 
able from  Cooperative  Extension 
Service,  University  of  Maine, 
Orono,  Maine. 


SIX 


"WHITEY"  WEITBRECHT  CONSIDERS  HIS  BOGS 
A  LABOR  OF  LOVE 

by  DONALD  CHARTIER 

Thomas  Stone  Weitbrecht  literally  "flew"  into  the  cranberry 
business.  "Whitey,"  as  he  is  known  to  most  people,  for  many  years 
operated  an  aerial  spraying  service  covering  the  area  from  New  Jersey 
to  Canada,  and  using  as  its  base  the  Marshfield  airport  which  Whitey 
owned  and  operated  for  many  years  until  he  sold  it  in  1963.  Since 
the  sale  of  the  airport,  Whitey  has  limited  his  spraying  activities 
to  the  Cape  area  and  has  been  successfully  servicing  some  of  the 
leading  growers,  large  and  small,  throughout  this  section  of  the 
country. 


It  was  through  this  work  that 
he  became  interested  in  cran- 
berries. It  was  now  not  just  a 
matter  of  spraying  bogs  for  insect 
control.  It  was  fast  becoming  a 
labor  If  love  for  Whitey  and  he 
made  it  a  point  to  learn  all  that 


he  possibly  could  about  the  in- 
dustry which  he  was  servicing. 
After  attending  many  meetings  of 
cranberry  growers  and  seeing 
what  a  "great  group  of  people" 
they  are,  Whitey  decided  that  he 
would  look  into  the  possibility  of 
buying  a  bog  of  hi-^  own. 


But,  first  let's  find  out  a  bit 
more  about  Thomas  "Whitey" 
Weitbrecht.  Born  in  Montana 
some  forty-six  years  ago,  he  mi- 
grated to  the  East  at  an  early 
age.  In  1935  he  joined  the  United 
States  Coast  Guard  where  he  be- 
came a  pilot  and  served  with  this 
organization    until    1947. 

In  1940,  while  stationed  at  Floyd 
Bennett  Field  in  New  York, 
Whitey  married  Miss  Catherine 
Kohan.  They  are  the  parents  of 
tv/o  children,  a  son,  Thomas  Jus- 
tin, 24,  who  is  currently  employed 
as  a  mechanic,  and  a  daughter, 
Lana  Lee,  18,  who  graduates  this 
month  from  Cambria  Heights 
High  School  in  Carrollton,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

In  1963,  Whitey  bought  a  three 
acre  bog  from  Colburn  Wood,  Jr., 


Section      of     the     Weitbrecht     bog      showing 
sprinkler      system.       Note      portion      of      the 


Weitbrecht  house  showing   at  center  right  of 
photo. 


SEVEN 


Weitbrecht  house  at  left,  helicopter 
hangar  just  visible  at  center  and 
pump  house  and  garage  at  extreme 
right  of  photo.  Taken  fro:^  oppo^i+e 
shore  of  Lout  Pond,  Plymouth,  /\Aa"~.s. 


Close-up  view  of  pump  house. 


"Whitey"  shown  standing  beside  ^^^^^ 
his  Bell  helicopter,  in  front  of  l^i^"* 
hangar. 


EIGHT 


built  a  very  handsome  ranch 
type  home  nestled  in  a  pine  grove, 
overlooking  Lout  Pond  in  Plym- 
outh, Massachusetts.  In  addition 
to  the  Weitbrecht  home,  and  lo- 
cated in  the  same  area,  are  a 
garage,  pump  house  and  the 
second  most  important  building 
on  the  grounds,  the  hangar  which 
houses  the  specially-built  Bell 
helicopter  with  which  Whitey 
earns  his  livelihood,  as  we  men- 
tioned earlier  in  this  article, 
spraying    cranberry    bogs. 

Whitey  told  this  writer  that  his 
yield  last  year  was  approximately 
100  barrels  per  acre.  He  added, 
"We  sanded  the  bogs  this  spring 
and  expect  a  better  crop  this 
year."  He  has  a  temporary 
sprinkler  system  on  one  section 
of  the  bogs  at  the  present  time 
and  is  currently  making  plans 
to  install  a  permanent  sprinkler 
system  for  the  entire  bog.  "I'm 
a  great  believer  in  the  sprinkler 
method  of  frost  protection,"  he 
stated.  The  bogs  are  planted 
with  Early  Blacks  and  Howes 
and,  as  Whitey  put  it,  "a  few 
gone   native." 

For  insect  control  he  uses  para- 
thion  which,  needless  to  say,  he 
sprays  himself.  Regarding  the 
spraying  of  chemicals  for  insect 
control,  he  emphasized  that  he  is 
seriously  concerned  about  the 
problems  encountered  by  the 
apiary  men.  It  seems  that  many 
bog  owners  believe  that  it  is 
necessary  to  place  the  hives  as 
close  as  possible  to  the  bogs  for 
best  results.  "In  doing  so," 
Whitey  states,  "they  risk  the 
loss  of  many  valuable  bees  and 
even,  with  the  use  of  certain 
types  of  chemicals,  the  entire 
hive."  He  has  been  told  by  the 
people  who  raise  bees  that  it 
is  not  necessary  for  the  bees 
to  be  within  a  few  feet  of  the 
bogs  as  they  have  been  shown 
to  travel  some  distance  to  the 
bog.  Whitey  mentioned  that  his 
hives  are  several  hundred  yards 
from  the  bogs  and  he  has  had 
no  problem  with  them  being 
placed  that  far  away.  Since  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  areial 
spraying  of  bogs  for  some  12 
years,  he  knows  of  what  he 
speaks.     "Bog    owners   who    place 


their  hives  close  to  the  bogs  make 
it  difficult  for  the  helicopter  or 
plane  to  do  the  best  possible  job 
since  it  must  "skip"  the  area 
closest  to  the  hives  so  as  not  to 
spray  the  chemical  too  close  to 
the  hive.  This  leaves  the  bog 
area  closest  to  the  hives  either 
unprotected  or  not  well  enough 
protected." 

He  stated  that  he  hopes,  in  the 
near  future,  to  "meet  with  other 
spray  men  and  apiary  men  and 
bog  owners  in  order  to  try  to 
arrive  at  a  solution  to  this  prob- 
lem, which  is  more  serious  that 
most  bog  owners  realize." 

In  addition  to  the  installing  of 
a  permanent  sprinkler  system, 
Whitey's  plans  include  expanding 
his  acreage  to  ten  acres  as  time 
goes  on.  This  he  feels,  "is  about 
all  that  can  be  efficiently  handled 
on   a  part-time  basis." 

Whitey  is  fortunate  in  that  his 
charming  wife  Catherine  is  very 
much  interested  in  both  the  cran- 
berry bogs  and  the  aerial  spray- 
ing business  and  is  very  helpful 
to  him  in  his  work.  Mrs.  Weit- 
brecht is  also  a  licensed  pilot 
and  has  a  great  deal  of  flying 
time  to  her  credit. 

After  the  cranberries  are  put 
away  for  the  season,  Whitey 
heads  south  with  Mrs.  Weitbrecht 
to  —  where  else?  —  Florida  where 
he  indulges  in  his  very  favorite 
pastime  —  deep    sea    fishing. 

All  is  not  play  while  he  is 
in  Florida  since  he  spends  some 
of  his  time  as  a  flying  instructor 
with  the  Burnside-Ott  Flight 
School. 

When  asked  about  his  hobbies 
he  included  bog  work  as  a 
"hobby,"  not  that  he  does  not 
take  it  seriously,  but  rather  that 
he  enjoys  the  work  so  much 
that  it's  more  like  a  hobby  than 
a  job  —  and  it's  a  pleasant  change 
from  his  regular  line  of  endeavor. 

In  summing  up  his  feelings 
about  being  a  new  bog  owner, 
Whitey  remarked  that  he  found 
"something  about  the  bogs  that 
is  peaceful  and  tranquilizing,"  and 
and  that  he  hopes  to  be  able 
to  stay  in  the  business  for  "a 
long  time  to  come."  To  this  may 
we  say  —  "we  hope  so,  too, 
Whitey." 


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Application  on  June  20 

A  demonstation  meeting  on 
equipment  and  methods  of  ap- 
plying liquid  fertilizers  through 
irrigation  systems  will  be  held 
June  20  at  6:30  P.  M.  at  David 
Mann's  bog,  Head-of-the-Bay 
Road,  Buzzard's  Bay,  Massa- 
chusetts. The  Mass.  Farm 
Bureau  is  the  sponsoring  agency 
and  will  place  directional  signs 
for  visitors  unfamiliar  with  the 
location. 


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Cranberry  Clinic  Notes 

The  staff  of  the  Cranberry  Ex- 
perimental Station  in  East  Ware- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  held  a  series 
of  three  cranberry  clinics  on  May 
24,  and  25. 

Your  publisher  and  editor  were 
able  to  attend  the  meeting  on 
May  25  at  the  Ocean  Spray  Pack- 
ing Plant  in  North  Harwich. 

Following  are  a  few  jottings 
made  at  this  clinic.  When  we 
arrived.  Prof.  Bill  Tomlinson  was 
speaking  of  possible  trouble  with 
girdler  on  bogs  which  were  not 
re-sanded  or  on  which  trash  was 
allowed  to  accumulate.  He  said 
he'd  been  asked  about  possible 
overdosing  when  using  sprinklers 
to  apply  chemicals.  The  answer 
was  that  there  has  been  no  indi- 
cation of  injury  or  harm  and  that 
there  was  plenty  of  leeway.  Also 
mentioned  was  that  anything  rec- 
ommended by  the  USDA  can  be 
applied  through  sprinklers  as  long 
as  proper  care  is  taken  when 
handling  these  chemicals.  Bill 
emphasized  that  Malathion  should 
not    be    used    against    spag   .    .    . 


since  they  thrive  on  it.  Instead 
Diazinon  is  good.  After  Bill 
had  answered  questions  from  the 
audience,  "Dee"  Demoranville, 
who  acted  as  a  sort  of  master-of- 
ceremonies  for  the  meeting  in- 
troduced Stan  Norton  who  spoke 
on  low  gallonage  sprinkler  sys- 
tems. Stan  stated  that,  as  far  as 
he  has  heard,  most  sprinkler  users 
are  very  much  satisfied  with 
them.  Used  in  time  (which  seems 
to  be  the  key  phrase)  they  offer 
good  protection.  Since  the  plants 
are  now  more  tender,  they  need 
more  protection.  Growers  must 
"stay  on  top"  of  the  temperature 
situation  —  know  the  temperature 
at  all  times  and  not  wait  until 
the  tolerance  is  reached  before 
using    sprinklers. 

Stan  mentioned  the  importance 
of  irrigation  at  this  time  of  year. 
He  suggested  that  growers  not 
start  too  late.  Take  soil  samples 
and  moisten  if  necessary  —  no 
less  than  V2  inch  per  application. 
He  said  that  sprinkling  for  one 
hour  once  or  twice  a  week  is  not 
enough.  Should  apply  V2  inch 
twice  a  week  if  you  have  a  deep- 


root  system.  Stan  made  a  passing 
mention  of  a  new  fertilizer  being 
manufactured  at  the  Bridgewater, 
Mass.  plant  of  the  Farm  Bureau. 
It  has  been  used  on  four  acres  of 
thi:  State  bog.  He  said  we'd  be 
ilea  ring  more  about  this  at  a 
later  date. 

Asked  what  had  the  best  effect 
on  fungi  —  irrigation  in  the  early 
morning  or  in  the  late  evening, 
Stan  said  that,  perhaps,  the  late 
evening  irrigation  was  more  fav- 
orable, but  that  it  was  question- 
able. 

On  applying  fungicides  through 
.sprinkler  systems  Stan  explained 
the  following  formula:  In  order 
to  assure  that  you  have  cleaned 
the  fungicides  out  of  your  system 
after  spraying  do  the  following: 
with  the  system  operating  under 
full  pressure,  put  in  Fermate  for 
a  few  seconds  and  figure  the 
length  of  time  it  takes  to  get  to 
the  last  sprinkler  head.  Then,  put 
fungicide  into  the  system  and, 
after  the  fungicide  has  been  ap- 
plied, allow  the  system  to  run 
water  for  the  same  length  of  time 
it   took  to  get  to  the  last  head. 

Irv  Demoranville,  Cranberry 
Specialist  at  the  East  Wareham 
Station,  spoke  of  the  control  of 
weeds.  He  stated  that  new  weed 
killers  can  not  be  used  after  late 
water,  due  to  vine  injury.  He  sug- 
gested oils  and  that  owners  get 
bogs  drained  thoroughly  before 
using  weed  controls.  After  water 
has  been  withdrawn  you  have 
eight  days  during  which  to  use 
kerosene.  No  longer  than  that 
and,  if  possible,  less  than  eight 
days  is  better. 

If  you  use  a  kerosene-Stoddard 
mixture,  use  only  up  to  five  days 
after  withdrawing  water.  Remem- 
ber that  temperature  is  also  a 
factor.  Bogs  are  more  sesitive  to 
temperature  changes  after  appli- 
cation. 

Oils  may  be  used  until  new 
growth  starts.  On  thin  areas  it  is 
recommended  that  a  light  applica- 
tion of  kerosene  —  not  over  400 
gallons  to  the  acre  before  V2  inch 
growth  of  new  grass.  A  fine  spray 
with   pump  can   is   recommended. 


TEN 


No  iron  sulphate  should  be  used 
on  newly-sanded  bogs  within  18 
months.  Fuel  oil  should  be  used 
in  dry  ditches.  Dalapon  in  stand- 
ing water  as  long  as  weeds  show 
through  the  surface.  This  is  no 
good  on  floating  weeds,  however. 
It  is  a  good  time  to  use  Silvex 
on  brambles  on  shore.  Use  one 
gallon  Silvex  to  100  of  water 
sprayed  wet  at  the  drip  stage. 
For  switch  grass  on  shore  try  Dal- 
apon —  twenty  pounds  in  water 
to  the  acre.  Use  Stoddard  on 
grass  after  late  water.  The 
quicker  it  is  put  on  after  late 
water,  the  better  the  results. 

To  conclude  the  program.  Dr. 
Cross,  Director  of  the  Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  in  East  Ware- 
ham,  touched  on  the  benefits  of 
the  sprinkler  system  of  frost  con- 
trol and  irrigation  and  the  outlook 
for  the  cranberry  crop  in   1966. 

On  sprinkler  systems.  Dr.  Cross 
reiterated  what  he  has  said  many 
times  and  what  growers  have 
been  learning  for  themselves 
recently  —  that  sprinklers  have 
pfoven  their  effectiveness  and  are 
fast  growing  in  popularity 
throughout  the  cranberry  growing 
areas.  Dr.  Cross  also  explained 
that  the  difference  between  the 
1965  estimated  yield  of  650,000 
barrels  and  the  actual  yield  of 
745,000  barrels  was,  at  least  in 
part,  due  to  the  increased  use  of 
sprinklers.  It  is  estimated  tha'E 
there  will  be  possibly  5000  acres 
in  Massachusetts  under  sprinklers 
by  summer  this  year. 

Regarding  the  1966  outlook  for 
the  cranberry  industry,  Dr.  Cross 
said  quite  confidently,  that  this 
area  is  capable  of  producing  an 
all-time  high  crop.  He  said  that 
barring  frost  within  the  "next 
three  weeks"  —  the  yield  could 
pass  900,000  barrels. 

He  also  stressed,  as  did  Stan 
Norton,  that  the  grower  not  wait 
until  he  is  within  2  or  3  degrees 
above  tolerance  to  begin  sprink- 
ling. Waiting  too  long  in  order  to 
save  water  may  not  allow  suitable 
protection.  Dr.  Cross  also  sug- 
gested the  use  of  smaller  nozzles 

Continued  on  Page  23 


Cutting  the  ribbon  to  open  Ocean  Spray's  new  Cranberry  House 
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Ralph  D.  Tedeschi,  president,  Tedeschi  Realty  Corporation;  Edwin 
T.  Moffitt,  Ocean  Spray's  Director  of  Retail  Sales;  far  left,  Mrs. 
Hazel  Porter,  assistant  manager,  and  far  right,  James  E.  Gotham, 
Jr.,  manager,  Hanover  Cranberry  House,  and  back  row  left,  Mrs. 
Frances  Florinda,  manager  of  the  Onset  Cranberry  House.  The 
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The  second  Cranberry  House  to 
be  opened  by  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  within  a  year  was 
launched  oflflcially  on  Monday, 
May  23,  in  Hanover,  Mass.  It  is 
the  third  in  the  Southeastern 
Massachusetts  resort  and  cran- 
berry areas  now  being  operated 
by  Ocean  Spray.  The  fourth 
Cranberry  House  will  open  in 
Falmouth  in   early  June. 

The  new  Cranberry  House  is 
located  in  the  Tedeschi  Shopping 
Center,  on  Route  53,  adjacent  to 
the  Boston-Cape  Cod  Expressway, 
Routes  128  and  3,  and  to  139, 
South  Shore  resort  area  route. 

Edwin  T.  Moffitt,  Director  of 
Retail  Sales  for  Ocean  Spray,  was 
host    at    the    opening    ceremonies. 


by  Ralph  Tedeschi,  President  of 
Tedeschi  Realty  Corporation, 
Rockland. 

The  new  Cranberry  House,  like 
its  predecessors  in  Onset  and 
Orleans,  Mass.,  features  cranberry 
specialties  in  its  lunch  and  dining 
areas,  at  its  bakery  and  in  its 
gift  shop.  The  Cranberry  Houses 
are  proving  highly  effective  in 
promoting  new  cranberry  products 
and  new  cranberry  serving  ideas, 
according  to  Mr.  Moffitt,  with 
resultant  benefits  to  both  cran- 
berry growers  and  the  cranberry 
growing  area  in  general. 

James  E.  Gotham,  Jr.,  of 
Middleboro,  is  the  manager  of  the 
Hanover  Cranberry  House.  Mrs. 
Donald  F.  Porter  of  Hanson,  is 
assistant  manager,  and  Mrs. 
Claire  Haney  of  Whitman,  is 
fountain  manager.  The  head  cook 
is  Donald  Berry  of  Weymouth. 


ELEVEN 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  5 
They  turned  suddenly  southerly, 
bringing  up  tropical  air.  Tem- 
peratures rose  at  times  into  the 
70's.  But  there  were  also  humid 
days,  the  first  of  1966. 

Good    Rainfall    For   May 

May  28th  brought  the  heaviest 
rain  in  many  a  moon,  a  good 
soaker  which  poured  down  stead- 
ily almost  all  day  and  the  best 
part  of  this  was  the  rain  was 
heaviest  where  it  was  needed  in 
New  England,  particularly  in  the 
cranberry  area.  A  total  of  2.27 
inches  was  recorded  at  the  Cran- 
berry Station,  East  Wareham.  But 
at  Orleans  on  the  Cape,  more 
than  three  inches  fell  and  it  was 
also  heavy  in  the  Kingston-Han- 
over area. 

Total  for  the  month  as  recor- 
ded at  the  Station  was  6.20  inches. 
This  was  just  about  double  the 
normal  rain  for  May  which  is  3.18 
inches. 

No  Spring  Frost  Loss 

On  the  night  of  May  30th.  Dec- 
oration Day,  there  was  a  frost 
warning,  but  clouds  hung  around 


most  of  the  night.  There  had 
been  many  nights  when  the  fore- 
cast had  figured  around  30.  Thero 
were  no  frost  losses  put  down  for 
May  as  was  the  case  for  April. 
There  remained  June  to  get 
through  as  far  as  frosts  were 
concerned. 

However,  in  this  cold  spring 
of  frequent  cloudiness  the  crop 
development  was  still  about  two 
weeks  behind.  But  with  no  frost 
loss  and  the  excellent  precipita- 
tion the  month  of  May  went  down 
in  the  book  as  good  for  cran- 
berries. 

Bud    "Terriffic" 

The  bud  was  described  as  "ter- 
riffic," expectations  were  becoming 
sounder  for  a  big  crop  this  fall, 
in  spite  of  the  fact  1965  had 
brought  the  third  largest  on  rec- 
ord for  Massachusetts. 


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early  blueberries  which  were  in 
the  peak  of  bloom.  Cool  rainy 
weather  during  the  pollinating 
period  also  was  adverse.  Tem- 
peratures in  some  blueberry  fields 
went  as  low  as  16  degrees  un- 
officially. On  the  upland,  at  the 
Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Labor- 
atory, a  low  of  26  degrees  was 
recorded  in  the  weather  shelter. 
This  was  the  lowest  temperature 
ever  recorded  during  the  entire 
month  of  May  in  the  37-year  re- 
cording history  at  this  site.  For- 
tunately cranberries  escaped 
damage  as  most  of  the  bogs  had 
the  winter  flood  on  and  early 
drawn  bogs  had  sufficient  water 
for  flooding. 

The  mean  temperature  for  the 
month  of  May  was  59.2  degrees, 
which  is  3.6  degrees  below  nor- 
mal. 

Anxious    Time  for   Cranberry  Growers 

The  end  of  the  month  was  an 
anxious  one  for  cranberry  growers. 
There  were  frost  calls  on  the 
nights  of  May  29th,  30th,  31st, 
June  l?;t  and  2nd  —  temperatures 
on  cranberry  bogs  ranged  from 
the  lowest  of  27  degrees  on  May 
30th  to  the  highest  of  38  degrees 
on  May  29th.  It  is  believed  that 
damage  from  these  frosts  was 
very  light  as  most  growers  had 
ample  warning  and  the  supply  of 
water  was  adequate. 

Plenty    of    Rain 

May  was  a  very  rainy  month. 
There  was  rain  on  13  days  and 
the  total  rainfall  for  the  month 
was  4.79  inches,  1.02  over  nornial. 
So  far  in  1966  the  total  rainfall 
adds  up  to  17.51  inches.  This  is 
considerably  better  than  the  first 
five  months  of  the  past  two 
drought  years;  15.70  in  1964  and 
12.89  in  1965.  As  a  result  of  this 
rainfall,  water  supply  on  most 
cranberry  properties  appears  to 
be  ample  although  there  is  still 
a  lot  of  catching  up  to  be  done 
to  make  up  for  the  accumulated 
deficiency  over  the  past  three 
years. 

Bogs    Behind    Normal 

As  of  today,  June  3rd,  cran- 
berry growth  is  considerably  be- 
ing the  normal  stage  for  this 
time  of  year.  Most  bogs  drawn  on 
May  10th  have  very  little  new 
growth  of  uprights. 


TWELVE 


A  PROGRESS  REPORT  OF  TRACE  ELEMENT 
STUDIES  ON  CRANBERRIES 

by  PAUL  ECK,  Associate  Professor  of  Pomology 

Department  of  Horticulture  and  Forestry 
Rutgers,   the   State  University,    New   Brunswick,    N.    J. 

Talk  presented   at  the  95th  Annual   Winter   Meeting   of   the 
American  Cranberry  Growers'  Association,  Pemberton,  N.  J. 


Little  information  on  the  re- 
quirements or  the  response  of  the 
cranberry  to  the  trace  elements 
iron  (Fe),  zinc  (Zn),  manganese 
(Mn),  copper  (Cu),  boron  (B), 
or  molybdenum  (Mo)  is  available. 
Before  any  effort  is  made  to  de- 
termine the  critical  levels  and  re- 
quirements for  these  elements  in 
the  cranberry,  it  was  considered 
desirable  to  first  test  for  a  re- 
sponse to  these  elements  in  the 
field.  More  detailed  experiments 
in  controlled  sand  culture  studies 
would  then  be  planned  for  those 
elements  showing  field  responses. 
Experimental    Procedure 

Two  years  age,  field  experi- 
ments were  initiated  on  a  com- 
mercial cranberry  plantation  in 
Burlington  County.  Six  trace 
elements  at  two  levels  (none  and 
added)  were  applied  in  a  facto- 
rial design  in  the  following  forms: 


Table  1.     Trace 

element 

source 

and    amounts  added    to 

cranberries    (1) 

ppm  of 

Source 

Ibs./A. 

element 

NaFe  chelate 

50 

3.0 

Na2Zn  chelate 

7 

0.5 

Na2Mn  chelate 

1.67 

0.1 

Na2Cu    chelate 

1.54 

0.1 

Na2B4O7.10H2O 

8.8 

0.5 

Mo03 

0.32 

0.1 

(1)  Zero  level  =  no  trace  element 
added. 

Iron,  zinc,  manganese  and  cop- 
per were  added  in  the  form  of 
commercially    available    chelates. 

(2)  Boron  and  molybdenum  were 
applied  as  oxides.  The  dry  form 
of  trace  elements  was  mixed  with 
talc  and  spread  on  the  plots  by 
hand.  Total  number  of  berries, 
weight  of  berries,  cup  count, 
grams  per  berry,  and  per  cent 
fruit  rot  were  recorded  at  harvest. 


Results    and    Discussion 

Effect  on  total  nuviher  of  ber- 
ries harvested.  Data  showing  a 
significant  interaction  between 
boron  and  molybdenum  for  total 
berries  harvested  for  the  1963 
and  1964  seasons  is  shown  in 
Table  2. 


(2)    Courtesy    of    Geigy    Agricul- 
tural Chemicals. 

Table  2.  Cranberries  harvested 
per  sq.  ft.  for  1963  and 
1964  (Average  of  16 
plots). 


Treatment 


1963 


1964 


-B-Mo 

—  B  +  Mo 
+  B  — Mo 
+  B+MO 


79 
95 
99 

85 


76 

111 

96 

93 


The  smallest  yields  in  both 
years  occurred  in  the  plots  re- 
ceiving no  B  or  Mo.  Increasing 
either  B  or  Mo  while  the  accom- 
panying element  remained  at  the 
low  level  resulted  in  a  positive 
yield  response.  Increasing  both  B 
and  Mo  had  a  relatively  smaller 
effect  on  yield.  One  possible  ex- 
planation for  this  interaction  be- 
tween B  and  Mo  may  be  in  the 
competition  for  uptake  by  the 
plant  since  both  these  elements 
are  absorbed  as  anions.  Data  from 
the  second  season  shows  that 
added  Mo  had  the  greatest  effect 
on  yield  when  low  B  was  present. 

The  trace  elements  play  an  im- 
portant role  in  the  enzyme  sys- 
tems which  are  involved  in  en- 
ergy transformations,  and  assimi- 
lation processes  which  occur  in 
the  plant.  Boron,  for  example,  is 
believed  to  be  important  in  pollen 
physiology  and  therefore  may 
have  a  direct  bearing  on  fruit  set. 
Also,  it  is  known  that  B  is  in- 
volved    in     the     translocation    of 


sugars  in  the  plant  and  may 
therefore  influence  berry  develop- 
ment directly.  Molybdenum  is 
believed  to  be  involved  in  nitro- 
gen transformations  within  the 
plant,  and  therefore  levels  may 
become  critical  in  areas  of  max- 
imum nitrogen  assimilations  as 
occurs  in  the  newly  pollinated 
cranberry  flower.  No  evidence 
exists,  however,  of  the  interaction 
of  these  two  elements  within  the 
plant.  The  present  data  on  the 
cranberry  suggests  that  some  in- 
terrelationship as  effects  fruit  set 
and/or  berry  development  may 
exist  between  B  and  Mo. 

Effect  on  berry  yield  and  weight. 
Significant  interactions  between  B 
and  Mo  were  also  observed  in  the 
weight  yield  from  the  treatment 
plots.  In  addition,  a  significant 
interaction  between  Mn  and  Cu 
was  observed    (Table  3). 

Table  3.  Total  weight  of  berries 
harvested  per  sq.  ft.  for 
1963  and  1964  (Average 
of  16  plots). 


Treatment 


Grams  per  sq.  ft. 
1963  1964 


—  Mn  — Cu 

—  Mn  +  Cu 
+  Mn  — Cu 
+  Mn+Cu 


70 

87 

66 

69 

61 

67 

84 

89 

A  balance  between  Mn  and  Cu 
appears  to  be  important  as  in- 
fluences cranberry  production. 
When  either  Mn  or  Cu  were  in- 
creased when  the  other  element 
was  kept  low,  yields  were  de- 
pressed, however',  when  both  Mn 
and  Cu  were  increased,  yields 
went  up. 

Manganese  takes  part  in  many 
oxidation-reduction  reactions 
within  the  plant,  and  is  believed 
to  be  involved  as  a  cofactor  in 
specific  enzyme  systems  respon- 
sible for  certain  energy  transfor- 
mations. Copper  is  believed  to  be 
involved  in  the  respiration  proc- 
esses and  related  in  some  way  to 
chlorophyll  synthesis  or  function- 
ing. Several  copper-containing 
enzymes  have  been  found  in 
plants.  The  existence  of  an  im- 
portant balance  between  these 
two  elements  in  the  plant  has 
never  been  demonstrated.  It  is 
known     that     toxic     quanties     of 


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either  of  these  elements  can, occur 
in  plant  tissue.  There  may  bt^  a 
buffering  effect  by  these  two  par- 
ticular elements  upon  one  another 
within  the  plant  thus  preventing 
a  toxic  response.  Another  theory 
could  involve  an  antagonism  be- 
tween the  two  elements  which 
would  be  manifested  in  the  rela- 
tive uptake  of  the  ions. 

Effect  on  berry  weight.  A 
significant  interaction  in  the 
weight  per  berry  was  observed 
between  Mn  and  B  treatments 
(Table   4). 


Table  4. 

Weight  of  berry 

in  gms. 

/berry 

for     1963     and 

1964 

(Average 

of     16 

plots). 

Treatment 

1963 

1964 

-Mn-B 

0.81 

0.84 

—  Mn  +  B 

0.74 

0.81 

+  Mn  — B 

0.77 

0.79 

+  Mn+B 

0.79 

0.8? 

ADDRESS  (RFD). 


_ZONE- 


-STATE. 


An  elemental  balance  between 
Mn  and  B  appears  to  be  the  im- 
portant factor  in  determining  the 
weight  of  the  individual  cranberry 
fruit.  When  both  Mn  and  B  were 
low  or  high,  the  largest  fruits 
resulted.  Again  the  possible  inter- 
relationships between  two  trace 
elements  appears  to  be  the  most 
important  factor  to  consider.  If 
we  assume  that  field  grown  cran- 
berries possess  low  levels  of  the 
trace  elements  essential  to  plant 
growth  —  levels  perhaps  even  at 
the  critical  stage  —  than  alteration 
of  the  existing  balance  between 
the  different  elements  may  be  a 
critical  factor  in  evaluating  the 
response  of  the  cranberry  to  minor 
element  applications. 

Conclusions 

Sufficient  responses  to  trace 
elements  have  been  shown  to 
warrant  a  more  detailed  examina- 
tion of  the  reactions  and  inter- 
actions that  have  occurred.  Crit- 
ical levels  and  optimum  ranges 
and  balances  need  to  be  deter- 
mined for  those  trace  elements 
which  have  given  field  response. 
Concurrent  with  this  type  of  re- 
search, a  survey  of  commercial 
plantings  for  trace  element  con- 
tents would  be  valuable. 


FOURTEEN 


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TO  MEET  YOUR  REQUIREMENTS 

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We  have  been  designing  and  manufacturing  irrigation 
equipment  for  over  one  quarter  century. 

COMPLETE  SYSTEMS  —  pumping  units,  pumps,  power  imits, 
sprinklers.    Aluminum  or  steel  fittings  made  to  order. 
Write  or  call  for  literature  and  details. 

Wisconsin  representative: 

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Box  38 

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SOMERSET,  WISCONSIN  54025 
(formerly  WIthrow,   Minnesota) 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

low  normal,  with  the  first  half  of 
the  month  cool  every  day,  a  warm 
spell  between  the  20th  and  25th 
and  then  cool  again  the  last  3 
days.  Precipitation  for  the  month 
was  a  very  pleasant  surprise  with 
a  total  of  6.20  inches.  This  is 
nearly  double  the  30  year  average 
at  the  Cranberry  Station.  Over 
one-half  of  the  total  occurred  in 
two  storms,  the  heaviest  on  May 
28  with  2.27  inches  and  the  other 
on  May  19  with  1.56  inches.  The 
rainfall  was  heaviest  on  Cape  Cod 
and  extreme  southeastern  Massa- 
chusetts, Boston  having  about  1 
inch  total  from  both  storms  and 
only  2.66  inches  for  the  entire 
month.  We  have  to  go  back  to 
December  27  and  28,  1964  to  find 
a  storm  at  the  Cranberry  Station 
with  more  precipitation  than  the 
2.27  inches  recorded  on  May  28 
and  29  and  all  the  way  back  to 
May  1963  to  find  a  month  with 
larger  total  precipitation. 


Insects 

Insect  activity  has  been  light 
so  far  due  to  the  cool  spring.  A 
few  blossom-worms,  cut  worms 
and  fireworms  are  showing  up 
and  Sparganothis  fruitworm  and 
tip  worm  are  just  getting  started. 
A  few  gypsy  moth  caterpillars 
were  found  on  a  bog  in  Carver 
the  other  day. 


1965  Production  Over 
A  Million  Barrels 

Report  of  Tony  Briggs,  Man- 
ager of  the  Cranberry  Market- 
ing Committee  to  handlers  show 
that  1,399,956  barrels  were 
acquired  in  the  crop  of  last 
fall,  and  of  this  a  total  of  309,- 
013  barrels  sold  fresh,  1,010,- 
169  went  to  processing  and  the 
shrinkage  totalled  80,774. 

The  total  going  to  processing 
has  steadily  increased  during 
the  same  period. 


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Telephone  295-0024 


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WAREHAM 


The  total  on  hand  on  May 
1  was  110,350  barrels  processed 
and  in  freezers  314,166  barrels 
for  a  total  of  424,516  barrels  in 
the  "pipe  lines"  for  the  start  of 
the   marketing   season   of    1966. 

FIFTEEN 


CRANBERRY    FERTILIZER    CHART 

(REVISED   FEBRUARY   1964) 

This    chart    should    be    considered    as    a    guide    or    a    tool    suid    should    be    used    only    with  judgment.      Some    bogs    have 

high    production    without    the    use    of    fertilizer    while    others    have    low    production    in    spite    of  fairly    heavy    appUcations    of 

fertilizer.    More    detailed    information    may    be   obtained    from    the    County    Elxtension    Service    or  from    the    Cranberry    Experi- 
ment   Station,    ELast    Wareham,    Mziss. 


General  Notes 


1.  GOOD  DRAINAGE  AND  IRRIGATION  are  essential  for  best  re- 
sponse from  fertilizer.   Many  bogs  are  operated  too  wet. 

2.  OFF-COLOR  similar  to  nitrogen  deficiency  may  be  caused  by 
insect  or  disease  injury. 

3.  BEST  QUALITY  FRUIT  will  be  obtained  with  a  1-2-1  ratio. 
Where  vine  growth  is  desired,  a  1-1-1  ratio  may  be  used. 

4.  APPLY  DRY  FERTILIZER  ON  DRY  VINES  ONLY.  Careful  hand 
spreading  gives  the  most  selective  application.  Split  applica- 
tions usually  give  better  results  but  the  benefit  may  not  justify 
the  added  cost,  unless  it  is  a  heavy  application. 


5.  UREA  AND  DI-AMMONIUM  PHOSPHATE  may  be  applied  with 
insecticides.  Urea  supplies  only  nitrogen,  therefore  phosphorus 
and  potash  should  be  applied  to  provide  a  1-2-1  ratio.  For 
example,  applying  200  lbs.  of  super  phosphate  and  40  lbs.  of 
muriate  of  potash  for  every  40  lbs.  of  Urea  gives  a  1-2-1  ratio. 

6.  SUSCEPTIBILITY  TO  SPRING  FROST  INJURY  is  not  increased 
by  fertilizer  applied  early  in  spring  or  in  the  fall. 

7.  KEEPING  QUALITY  may  be  impaired  by  excessive  use  of  nitro- 
gen because  of  resulting  shading  and  higher  moisture. 

8.  Sprinkler  systems  may  be  used  to  apply  fertilizer  but  unless 
distribution  is  uniform  fertilization  will  not  be  uniform.  The 
system  should  be  checked  before  using  it  to  apply  fertilizer. 


Table  1.  Fertilizer  to  replace  the  nutrients  removed  by  an  average  crop. 


Average 

Crop  in 

barrels 

per  Acre 


50 
75 
100 
150 
200 


Pounds  of 
Nitrogen 
removed 
per  Acre 


12 
18 
23 
36 
46 


Pounds  of  Fertilizer  per  Acre  to  Replace  Nitrogen  Removed  by  Crop 


1-1-1  Ratio 


1-2-1 
Ratio 


1-21/2-1 

Ratio 


7-7-7 


172 
258 
330 
515 
686 


10-10-10 


120 
180 
230 
360 
460 


16-16-16 


75 
112 
144 
224 
288 


10-20-10 


120 
180 
230 
360 
460 


13-34-10 


93 
137 
176 
277 
355 


Table  2.  Fertilizer  Recommendations  for  Producing  Cranberry  Bogs 

Remarks 

Types  of 
Vines 

When  to 
apply 

How  to 
apply 

Grade 

Amount 
Sq.  Rod                     Acre 

NO  NITROGEN  for 

0-25-25 

1  lb.  4  oz. 

200  lbs. 

Vigorous  Vines 

Uprights 

Broad- 
cast 

0-20-20 

I  lb.  9  oz. 

250  lbs. 

When  the  new  uprights  are  over 
2    inches    long,    the    production 

over 
2  inches 

Prefer- 
ably in 

on 

0-14-14 

2  lbs.  3  oz. 

350  lbs. 

may  be  low  because  of  excessive 

AprU 

dry 

Super 

vine  growth.  This  fertiUzer  should 
not  stimulate  growth  of  vines. 

long 

vines 

phosphate 
Normal  20' ^ 

1  lb.  9  oz. 

250  lbs. 

20  pounds  of  NITROGEN 

New 

per  Acre  for  Normal  use. 

uprights 
1  to  11/2 
inches 

April 

7-7-7 

1  lb.  13  oz. 

286  lbs. 

Vines  with  new  uprights  1  to  IV2 
inches  usually  have  fair  to  good 
color  and  good  production.    This 

or  June 
or  July 

as 
above 

10-20-10 
13-34-10 

1  lb.  4  oz. 
0  lb.  15  oz. 

200  lbs. 
154  lbs. 

fertilizer  is  only  to  maintain  the 
fertility. 

long 

or  Oct. 

16-16-16 

0  lb.  12  oz. 

125  lbs. 

40  pounds  of  NITROGEN 
per  Acre  for  Weak  Vines. 

Vines  with  new  uprights  less  than 

New 

uprights 

less 

Same 
as 

Same 
as 

7-7-7 
10-20-10 

3  lbs.  10  oz. 
2  lbs.  8  oz. 

572  lbs. 
400  lbs. 

1  inch  usually  have  poor  color  of 
foliage  and  low  production.   Such 

than 

above 

above 

13-34-10 
16-16-16 

1  lb.  15  oz. 
1  lb.  9  oz. 

308  lbs. 
250  lbs. 

vines  will  respond  to  fertilizer. 

1  inch 

Issued  by  the  Intension  Service,  A.  A.  Spielman,  Dean  and  Director,  in  furthe^nce  of  Acts  of  May  8  and  June  30, 
1914;  University  of  Massachusetts,  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  County  Extension  Services  cooperating. 


Note  —  The  above  fertilizer  chart  is  only  intended  as  a  guide  as  fer- 
tilizer  usage   is   pretty   much   an    individual    practice. 

This  chart  and  those  printed  in  the  center  section  of  May  'Cranberries' 
are  made  up  specifically  for  Massachusetts  cranberry  growing   areas. 


SIXTEEN 


really  the  berries  for. . 


solid  set  bog  irrigation  systems 

John  Bean  Shur-Rane  solid  set  bog  systems  are  ideally  suited  to  meet  the  needs  of  any 
cranberry  grower.  Minimum  gallonage.  Special  IW  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
lightweight,  low-cost  aluminum  tubing.  Easy,  twist-of-the-wrist  coupling  action.  Wide, 
jflat  footpads  keep  sprinklers  upright.  Also  available:  conventional  portable  systems  and 
Sequa-Matic  automatic  sequencing  systems  for  crops  and  lawns. 

see  your  authorized  shur-rane  distributor  or  write  factory  for  information 


MASSACHUSETTS 

Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
&  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  &  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  Inc. 
Highland,  Nev;  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


AGRICULTURAL  EQUIPMENT 

JOHN  BEAN  DIVISION 

)  Lansing^  Michigan 


SEVENTEEN 


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Ibp  Quality 


USED. CARS 


Repairs  on  all  makes 

Specializing  in 

Chrysler-built  cars 

Chrysler  -  Plymouth 
Valiant  and  S/mco 

SALES   and   SERVICE 


Robt.  W.  Savary,  Inc. 

East   Wareham,    Mass. 
Telephone    295-3530 

READ  CRANBERRIES 


XS»>»#V»S^< 


Farm  Credit  Service 

Box  7,  Taunton,  Mass.,  02781 
Tel.   617  824-7578 


Production  Credit  Loans 
Land  Bank  Mortgages 

• 

OfRce — 362,   Route   44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager 


■  «^«^#^#^#^#^#^«^#^»^^4 


"PHIL"    GIBBS    TO 
PLYMOUTH    COUNTY 
BOARD   OF   TRUSTEES 

Plymouth  County  Extension 
Service  announced  last  month  the 
naming  of  two  new  members  to 
the  County  Board  of  Trustees. 
They  are  Arthur  Chaffee,  Jr.  of 
Bridgewater,  a  dairyman  and 
Phillip  H.  Gibbs  of  South  Carver, 
a  prominent  cranberry  grower. 
Mr.  Gibbs  has  recently  served  as 
president  of  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Association  and 
has  been  active  in  various  cran- 
berry activities. 

He  succeeds  Robert  Hammond, 
of  East  Wareham  also  a  cranberry 
grower  who  has  served  on  the 
board  for  the  past  six  years. 


BULLDOZERS 
CRANES 


LOADERS 
TRUCKS 


EQUIPPED    TO    HANDLE 
YOUR   BOG    NEEDS 


LOUIS    LECONTE 


P  &  L  CO. 


CARVER,  MASS. 


866-4402 


Africans  to  Visit 
Massachusetts  Farms 

Sixteen  Africans  will  visit  with 
farm  families  in  Massachusetts. 
They  come  from  Kenya,  Nigeria, 
Zambia  and  Malowi  where  their 
professional  positions  are  compar- 
able to  Soil  Conservation  workers 
and  County  Agricultural  Agents 
in  this  country. 

These  African  guests  will  leave 
the  University  of  Massachusetts 
for  a  three  week  assignment  in 
different  counties  throughout  the 
State. 

As  guest  of  the  Plymouth  Coun- 
ty Extension  Service  will  be  Sutsr 
Chemweno  from  Kenya.  Mr. 
Chemweno  is  a  Technical  Assis- 
tant to  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture 
in  Nairobi  and  his  work  deals 
with  Soil  Conservation,  animal 
husbandry,  grasslands  and  ad- 
visory works  on  cash  crops  such 
as  wheat,  potato,  onion  and  maize. 
He  also  is  involved  in  4-K  Clubs 
which  are  comparable  to  our  4-H 
Youth   work. 

Mr.  Chemweno  will  be  with  the 
Plymouth  County  Extension  Ser- 
vice at  the  Court  House  in  Brock- 
ton from  Monday,  May  23rd 
through  Friday,  June  10th.  He 
will  have  a  busy  schedule  during 
this  time  visiting  farm  families  to 
observe  simple  farm  practices  and 
farm  skills  that  may  be  taught  to 
his  people  back  in  Kenya;  how- 
ever, time  permitting,  Mr.  Chem- 
weno will  be  speaking  to  different 
service   organizations. 


EIGHTEEIU 


The  big  co-ops  are  co-operating 
again.  Diamond  Walnut  Growers, 
California  Canners  and  Growers 
and  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries  are 
starting  a  co-operative  warehous- 
ing and  distributing  system  to  in- 
crease efficiency,  give  better  cus- 
tomer service,  and  lower  over-all 
costs.  Sun-Maid  Raisin  Growers 
and  Sunsweet  Growers  will  par- 
ticipate to  some  extent.  Under 
investigation  by  Diamond  Cal 
Can  and  Ocean  Spray  is  the  pos- 
sibility of  joint  marketing  in  cer- 
tain areas  where  they  might  be 
able  to  do  a  better  job  collectively. 
—  Fruit-O-Scope 


CARBARYL  INSECTICIDE 


cutworms 


fireworms 


•v*" 


fruit^orms 


Japanese 
beetles 


CONTROLS 

CRANBERRY 

INSECTS 


leafhoppers 


You  get  better,  safer  insect  control  by  using 
SEVIN  in  your  cranberry  bogs.  SE VIN  insecticide 
destroys  cutworms,  fireworms,  fruitworms,  Japanese 
beetles  and  leafhoppers,  including  the  leafhoppers 
that  spread  false  blossom  disease.  And  the  relatively 
low  toxicity  of  SEVIN  provides  fewer  drift  and 
residue  problems  to  humans,  livestock  and  fish.  Order 
SEVIN  today.  Union  Carbide  Agricultural  Products, 
270  Park  Avenue,  New  York,  N.Y.  10017. 


UNION 
CARBIDE 


AGRICULTURAL 
PRODUCTS 


Sevin  is  the  registered  trade  mark  of  Union  Carbide  Ck)rporation  for  carbaryl  insecticide. 


NINETEEN 


Thompson-Hayward 
Adds  Five  Men 

Thompson-Hayward  Chemical 
has  added  five  men  to  its  Agri- 
cultural-Chemical Division  mar- 
ket development  staff.  They  will 
be  responsible  for  Thompson- 
Hayward's  research  and  market 
development  activities  of  new 
pesticide  compounds  in  various 
parts  of  the  country. 

"The  appointment  of  these  five 
men  marks  an  expansion  of 
Thompson-Hayward's  activities  in 
applied  research  and  development 
of  new  pesticide  compounds," 
said  Harold  Howard,  vice  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the 
company.  He  added,  "Our  com- 
pany's market  development  efforts 
are  also  expanding  and  the  recent 
introduction  of  CASORNr  dich- 
lobenil  weed  and  grass  killer  is 
a  development  of  this  new  T-H 
marketing    group." 

Javies  Taylor 

James  Taylor  has  been  appoin- 
ted manager  of  research  and  mar- 
ket development  for  the  south- 
eastern U.  S.  region.  He  will 
work  out  of  Thompson-Hayward's 
Gainsville,  Florida  office. 

Prior  to  this  promotion  Mr. 
Taylor  was  a  member  of  the 
Thompson-Hayward  research  and 
development  group.  He  joined  the 
company  in  1963. 

A  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Florida  with  advanced  study  in 
horticulture,  Mr.  Taylor  is  espe- 
cially familiar  with  horticulture 
crops  in  the  southeastern  U.  S. 
area.  Prior  to  joining  Thompson- 
Hayward  he  worked  with  the 
extension  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Florida. 

Frank  E.  Phipps 

Frank  E.  Phipps  has  been  ap- 
pointed regional  market  develop- 
ment representative  for  the  north- 
western U.  S.  He  will  work  out 
of  Tigard,  Oregon. 

Prior  to  joining  Thompson-Hay- 
ward last  year,  Mr.  Phipps  was 
with  Geigy  Chemical  Company 
as  a  sales  representative  and  be- 
fore   that    was    with    the    Oregon 


State  University  farm  corps  de- 
partment as  a  weed  control 
technician. 

A  1959  graduate  of  Oregon 
State  University  with  a  B.  S.  de- 
gree in  agronomy,  Mr.  Phipps 
majored  in  weed  control  science. 

John  B.  Plant 

Also  named  a  regional  market 
representative  was  John  B.  Plant. 
He  will  cover  the  southwestern 
area  of  the  U.  S. 

Prior  to  joining  Thompson-Hay- 
ward, Mr.  Plant  was  also  associ- 
ated with  Geigy  Chemical  Com- 
pany as  a  sales  and  technical  rep- 
resentative. Before  that  he  was  a 
sales  representative  with  L.  H. 
Butler  Chemical  Company  and 
California    Chemical    Corporation. 

Mr.  Plant  completed  both  his 
graduate  and  post  graduate  studies 
at  Utah  State  University  in  Logan, 
Utah. 

Larry   Livengood 

Larry  Livengood  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  market  development 
representative  in  Thompson-Hay- 
ward's   Gainsville,    Florida    office. 

Mr.  Livengood  is  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Illinois  and  prior 
to  joining  Thompson-Hayward 
was  with  Dow  Chemical  Corpo- 
ration and  the  Florida  Agricul- 
tural Supply  Company  in  Jack- 
sonville, Florida. 

Charles  Reed 

Also  appointed  a  market  devel- 
opment representative  in  the 
north  central  U.  S.  is  Charles 
Reed.  Mr.  Reed  is  a  1960  graduate 
of  Kansas  State  University  in 
Manhattan,  Kansas,  and  prior  to 
joining  Thompson-Hayward 
worked  for  Sommers  Brothers 
Seed  Company  in  Topeka,  Kansas, 
and  later  the  California  Chemical 
Company's    Ortho    Division. 

He  has  been  employed  by 
Thompson-Hayward  since  1962. 

Thompson-Hayward's  general 
offices  are  located  in  Kansas  City, 
Kansas.  The  company  has  33 
branch  offices  throughout  the 
country  and  produces  and  mar- 
kets a  diverse  line  of  industrial 
agricultural  feed  and  laundry 
products. 


Final  Mass.  Keeping 
Quality  Forcast 
Is  Much  Improved 

Final  keeping  quality  forecast 
for  the  Massachusetts  1966  crop 
showed  considerable  improvement 
over  the  preliminary.  This  was 
issued  by  Irving  G.  Demoranville 
of  the  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station  June  3.  It  showed  9  points 
out  of  a  possible  16  and  indicated 
the  prospect  is  excellent  to  very 
good. 

The    report    follows: 

The  final  keeping  quality  fore- 
cast was  released  June  3  and  is 
as    follows: 

Weather  conditions  to  date  give 
us  9  points  of  a  possible  16  in 
favor  of  good  keeping  quality 
cranberries.  Based  on  this  point 
system  the  prospect  is  excellent 
for  very  good  keeping  quality  in 
the  1966  Massachusetts  crop.  Also 
favorable  is  the  fact  of  very  little 
frost  flooding  to  date.  It  would 
appear  advisable,  however,  for 
growers  to  use  fungicide  treat- 
ments on  bogs  which  have  a  ten- 
dency to  produce  weak  fruit,  or 
to  use  fungicides  where  a  heavier 
than  normal  fertilizer  program 
has  been  used.  If  June  continues 
the  cold  temperature  trend,  it 
will  fortify  the  good  quality 
forecast. 


Washington  Field  Day 
June   25 

According  to  the  Cranberry  Vine 
the  Coastal  Washington  Research 
and  Extension  Unit  will  be  hold- 
ing its  Annual  Field  Day  on  June 
25,  1966.  The  affair  is  scheduled 
to  begin  at  10:00  A.M.  and  will 
last  throughout  the  day.  In  ad- 
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TWENTY-ONE 


Washington  Canal  May 
Still  Injure  Cranberries 

Optimistic  report  on  the  pro- 
posed inland  waterway  from  II- 
waco  to  Olympia  was  given  at  a 
public  meeting  in  the  Long  Beach 
school  May  16  by  E.  C.  Pewters, 
acting  director  of  the  Washington 
state  canal  commission.  The  pre- 
sentation was  sponsored  by  the 
American  Association  of  Univer- 
sity Women. 

Pcv/tcr.s  expressed  confidence 
the  canal  will  be  found  econom- 
ically fonsible  although  many  de- 
tails and  problems  are  still  to  be 
worked  out.  While  he  did  not 
foresee  an  industrial  boom  for  the 
peninsul."^,  he  did  stress  the  im- 
pact from  the  recreational  use  of 
the   canal. 


The  director  admitted  the  canal 
could  bring  an  end  to  the  Willa- 
pa  Bay  oyster  industry  and  was 
uncertain  what  would  happen  to 
the  cranberry  industry.  Those  suf- 
fering losses  as  a  result  of  the 
project  will  be  reimbursed  and 
this  is  included  in  the  estimated 
cost  of  the  project,  he  added. 

Actual  engineering  will  be  done 
by  the  Corps  of  Engineers,  Pew- 
ters explained,  and  they  will  work 
out  designs  to  protect  private 
interests  as  far  as  posiblc.  Lin- 
ing of  the  canals  through  cran- 
berry land  is  being  considered  to 
prevent  any  harmful  change  in 
the  water  table. 

The  Canal  Commission's  studies 
will  be  concluded  in  September 
and  the  Engineers  will  then  spend 
from  a  year  to   18  months  deter- 


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mining  costs  and  engineering 
feasibility.  It  would  be  possible  to 
begin  actual  construction  on  one 
portion  of  the  waterway  within 
three   years,    Pewters    said. 

The  speaker  showed  maps  of 
the  /routes  being  considered  for 
the  canal.  Three  locations  are 
being  studied  between  the  Colum- 
bia River  and  Willapa  Bay.  Cost 
of  this  section,  including  a  tidal 
gate,  would  be  about  $30,000,000. 
The  gate  is  needed  because  of  a 
sixfoot  differential  between  the 
river  and  the  bay. 

Eight  different  routes  have  been 
proposed  for  the  section  between 
Willapa  and  Grays  Harbor.  No 
lock  or  tidal  gate  will  be  neces- 
sary and  the  cost  is  estimated  at 
$28  million.  A  new  route  has  been 
found,  leading  into  Puget  Sound, 
which  will  eliminate  the  need  for 
many  locks  and  reduce  the  cost 
to  about  $28  million. 

While    it    is    proposed    to    have 
a  35-foot  canal  and  channel  from 
the  Columbia  river  to  Grays  Har- 
bor,   it    is    posible    that    the    ship 
canal  would  be  only  on  the  nor- 
thern sector,  with  a  14-foot  barge 
canal    at    the    Ilwaco    end.     The 
deep  canal  would  be  250  feet  wide 
at    the   bottom    and    500    feet    at 
the    top,    while    the    barge    canal 
would  be  only  250  feet  at  the  top. 
With  river  navigation  extended 
all  the  way  to  Lewiston  by  1971. 
Pewters   forecast    14   million   tons 
of    freight    a    year    would    move 
over  the  canal,  which  would  pro- 
vide   an    inland    waterway    from 
Lewiston  to  Alaska,  a  distance  of 
1900  miles.    The  savings  in  freight 
would   be  $1   a  ton. 

Pewters  answered  many  ques- 
tions from  the  audience  and  said 
the  commission  is  anxious  to 
know  all  problems  and  adversi- 
ties, so  they  may  be  considered 
in   their   studies   and  report. 


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CRANBERRY    CLINIC  NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    11 

on  well-designed  systems  to  cut 
down  on  water  consumption. 
Even  though  the  sprinkler  heads 
may  turn  only  once  every  four 
minutes,  this  is  considered  ade- 
quate. Twenty  gallons  per  acre 
per  minute  is  enough  water  pro- 
vided it  is  used  in  time. 

In  closing  the  session,  Dr.  Cross 
made  mention  of  the  difficulties 
being  encountered  with  the  Food 
and  Drug  Administration  in  the 
clearance  of  the  use  of  certain 
chemicals  for  cranberries.  This 
is  a  result  of  the  1959  scare  which 
proved  so  costly  to  the  growers 
and  which,  indirectly,  is  still 
plaguing  them  in  regard  to  chem- 
ical  clearances   for   cranberries. 


K.  B.  Colton,  72 
Ex-Broker  and  Cranberry 
Grower,   Dies 

Kingsley  B.  Colton,  72,  of  1366 
N.  Dearborn  St.,  died  recently  in 
Passavant   hospital. 

Mr.  Colton  was  a  stock  broker 
in  Chicago  prior  to  and  for  a  time 
after  World  War  I,  in  which  he 
was  a  naval  lieutenant.  He  be- 
came a  cranberry  grower  in  Wis- 
consin after  World  War  I  and 
maintained  homes  in  Chicago, 
Winnetka,  and  Springbook,  Wis. 
Surviving  are  his  widow,  Dorothy 
Peacock  Colton;  three  daughters, 
Mrs.  Josephine  deLoys  of  Win- 
netka, Mrs.  Diana  Goggin  of 
Chicago,  and  Mrs.  Pamelia  Jef- 
fery  of  Baltimore,  and  two  grand- 
children. 

Services  were  held  at  St. 
Chrysostom's  Episcopal  Church. 


Ocean  Spray  Cranberries  has 
upped  its  ad  budget  from  $4  mil- 
lion in  1965  to  $4.5  million  this 
year  —  mostly  to  test  and  intro- 
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under  test  are  preserves  and 
frozen  concentrates. 

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TWENTY-THREE 


Plant-Parasitic  Nematodes  in 
Cranberry  Marshes  in  Wisconsin 


By  D.  M.  BOONE  and  K.  R.  BARKER 

Department   of  Plant  Pathology 

University  of  Wisconsin 


A  survey  of  cranberry  marshes 
in  Wisconsin  for  the  presence  of 
plant-parasitic  nematodes  was 
made  during  1965.  Soil  samples 
were  taken  from  the  beds  in 
seven  marshes  in  April  and  May, 
and  50  samples  were  taken  from 
23  marshes  in  ten  counties  in 
August.  Altogether,  48  separate 
cranberry  beds  were  sampled. 
Although  there  had  been  no  re- 
ports of  damage  to  vines  that 
could  be  attributed  to  nematodes, 
the  apparent  importance  of  nema- 
todes to  cranberries  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  Jersey  pointed 
to  a  need  for  information  as  to 
the  kinds  and  numbers  of  nema- 
todes in  Wisconsin  marshes  that 
might  be  of  potential  importance 
to  the   crop. 


The  soil  samples  were  taken  to 
a  depth  of  six  inches.  The 
nematodes  were  extracted  from 
the  soil  by  a  combination  sieving 
and  Baermann  funnel  technique. 
They  were  collected  and  then 
examined  under  microscopes  to 
determine  the  numbers  of  each 
kind   present. 

Plant-parasitic  nematodes  were 
found  in  88%  of  the  samples. 
However,  most  of  them  were  of 
kinds  that  ordinarily  do  not 
cause  much  injury  to  plants.  The 
most  harmful  ones  present  were 
members  of  the  genera  Hemi- 
cycloiophora,  called  sheath  nema- 
todes, Helicotylenchus,  called 
spiral  nematodes,  and  Tricho- 
dorus,  called  stubby  root  nema- 
todes. The  sheath  nematodes  were 


found  in  only  nine  of  the  48 
cranberry  beds,  the  spiral  nema- 
todes in  nine,  and  the  stubby  root 
nematodes  in  but  two.  With  few 
exceptions,  the  number  of  each 
kind  was  usually  small  (1-200/qt. 
of  soil)  in  each  sample  compared 
to  the  concentration  of  nematodes 
necessary  to  cause  noticeable  in- 
jury. Therefore,  most  beds  were 
relatively  free  from  the  most 
harmful  nematodes. 

Nematodes  that  might  cause 
minor  injury  to  the  vines  were 
most  common.  These  were  mem- 
bers of  the  genus  Tylenchus.  They 
were  found  in  39  of  the  48  beds, 
but  the  concentration  in  each 
sample  was  relatively  low.  Aty- 
lenchus  and  Leptonchus,  which 
are  suspected  of  being  plant  para- 
sites, were  found  in  a  few  beds 
in  low  numbers,   also. 

In  adition  to  the  plant-parasitic 
nematodes,  there  were  predaceous 
forms,  that  feed  on  other  nema- 
todes or  other  microscopic  animals 
or  plants.  These  were  members 
of    the    genera    Trilohus,    Monon- 


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TWENTY-FOUR 


HOW  PCA  MONEY 

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their  planned  expenses  from  chemical  orders  right  through  harvesting 
costs. 

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chus,  Dorylaimus,  and  Prismato- 
laimus.  They  occurred  in  very 
high  numbers  in  most  of  the  beds 
and  may  have  been  partly  respon- 
sible for  the  low  numbers  of  the 
plant-parasitic   forms. 

Compared  to  the  findings  of 
Zuckerman  and  Coughlin  (1960) 
in  Massachusetts  and  of  Bird  and 
Jenkins  (1964)  in  New  Jersey, 
harmful  nematodes  in  cranberry 
marshes  were  much  less  preva- 
lent in  Wisconsin  than  in  these 
other  states.  In  fact,  the  species 
Trichodorus  christiei,  which  Zuck- 
erman (1961)  and  Bird  and  Jen- 
kins (1964)  considered  to  be  the 
most  important  parasitic  nematode 
to  cranberry,  was  not  found  in 
this  survey  in  Wisconsin. 

There  is  yet  the  posibility  that 
if  samples  were  taken  at  other 
times  of  the  year,  higher  popula- 
tions of  the  plant-parasitic  types 
might  be  found.  Zuckerman  et  al. 
(1964)      found     that     populations 


fluctuated  during  the  season  in 
Massachusetts  and  that  they  were 
low  in  number  in  August. 

Although  this  survey  has  shown 
that  these  are  plant-parasitic 
nematodes  in  cranberry  marshes 
in  Wisconsin,  they  do  not  appear 
to  be  prevalent  enough  to  be  of 
economic  importance  in  most 
marshes  in  the  state.  Perhaps  as 
cultural  practices  change,  such  as 
the  increasing  use  of  sprinkler 
systems  in  lieu  of  flooding,  the 
populations  of  nematodes  will  be 
affected. 

At  present,  the  only  control 
measures  that  seem  necessary  are 
those  regarding  the  prevention  of 
spread  of  nematodes  at  the  time 
of  propagation  of  new  beds.  Here, 
vine  cuttings  should  be  taken  only 
from  beds  where  the  vines  appear 
vigorous  and  healthy,  and  should 
be  free  from  trash  and  soil  that 
might  be  harboring  potentially 
damaging  species. 


Literature     Cited 

1.  Bird,  G.  W.  and  W.  R.  Jenkins. 

1964.  Occurrence,  parisitism 
and  pathogenicity  of  nema- 
todes associated  with  cran- 
berry. Phytopathology  54:- 
677-680. 

2.  Zuckerman,  B.  M.    1981.    Para- 

sitism and  pathogenesis  of 
the  cultivated  cranberry  by 
some  nematodes.  Nematol- 
ogica  6:135-143. 

3.  Zuckerman,    B.    M.,   and    J.   W. 

Coughlin.  1960.  Nematodes 
associated  with  some  crop 
plants  in  Massachusetts.  Mass. 
Agr.  Expt.  Sta.  Bull.  526 
30  pp. 

4.  Zuckerman,    B.    M.,    S.    Khera, 

and  A.  R.  Pierce.  1964.  Pop- 
ulation dynamics  of  nematodes 
in  cranberry  soils.  Phytopath- 
ology 54:654-659. 


TWENTY-FIVE 


6<lJt>sJal5 


ISSUE  OF  JUNE,   1966 
VOL.     31  -NO.    2 


Oi^^«*^''*V^ 


ABOUT   BEES 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  you  will  notice  a 
paragraph  in  an  article  (Weitbrecht  Story) 
in  which  a  grower  who  is  also  engaged  as  an 
aerial  sprayer,  comments  on  the  use  of  bees 
in  regard  to  cranberry  pollination. 

It  is  coincidential  that,  in  our  mail  a  few 
days  age,  we  received  a  copy  of  "Cranberry 
Vine,"  a  monthly  publication  of  the  Wash- 
ington State  University  and  USDA  Coopera- 
tive Extension  Service,  written  by  Azmi  Y. 
Shawa,  Extension  Area  Cranberry  Agent,  in 
which  he  states  that  Dr.  Carl  Johansen  has 
studied  pollination  of  cranberries  for  four 
seasons,  especially  on  bumble  bees. 

Since  not  too  much  has  been  written  re- 
garding bee  pollintion  we  take  this  means  of 
elaborating  on  Dr.  Johansen's  findings. 

Dr.  Johansen  has  concluded  that  nest 
boxes  for  colonization  of  the  bumble  bee  pol- 
linators of  cranberries  were  developed  with 
moderate  success.  However,  best  results  were 
obtained  in  warm  sunny  seasons  when  pol- 
lination was  least  critical. 

Cage  tests  on  a  bog  at  the  Research  Unit 
have  shown  that  bee  pollination  of  cranber- 
ries leads  to  considerable  increases  in  yields. 
Wind  as  a  factor  in  cranberry  pollination 
has  been  highly  overrated. 

Development  of  the  use  of  honey  bees  on 
cranberries  in  Coastal  Washington  appears 
to  be  the  most  promising  way  of  obtaining 
pollination. 

From  the  above  information,  it  is  obvious 
that  you  can  get  along  with  natural  polhn- 
izers  but  you  will  have  a  higher  yield  if  you 
have  bee  hives  at  your  bog  during  the  bloom- 
ing period. 

Dr.  Johansen  concludes  his  report  by  stat- 
ing that  two  hives  per  acre  are  required. 


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WISCONSIN  SEES  SMALL  CROP 

Due  to  the  extreme  cold  in  Wisconsin  — 
the  coldest  in  many  years  — a  small  crop 
is  expected.  Our  old  friend  Vernon  (Goldy) 
Goldsworthy  writes,  "While  I  doubt  if  any 
(berries)   have  frozen,  it  is  surely  going  to 


Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

30  Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 


CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 

Eagle  River 

Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 


Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 


Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 


New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


make  for  a  late  season  and  a  small  Wisconsin 
crop,  I  am  sure,  as  we  just  will  not  get 
the    size." 

This  seems  to  be  the  plight  of  the  growers 
in  that  area.  Winters  in  the  upper  midwest 
have  long  had  a  reputation  for  being  severe 
but  this  year  seems  to  have  been,  if  not 
the  coldest  on  record,  quite  close  to  it. 


TWENTY-SIX 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

WASHINGTON 

May  weather  in  the  cranberry 
area  of  Long  Beach  was  drier 
and  cooler  than  normal.  Pre- 
cipitation for  the  entire  month 
was  only  2.67  inches  as  measured 
at  Cranguyma  Farms.  A  year 
ago  the  May  total  was  3.49.  So 
far  in  1966  rainfall  has  totalled 
only   33.31    inches. 

Temperatures  ranged  from  a 
high  of  72  degrees  to  a  low  of 
32   on  the  seventh. 


KINGSTON,  MASS.  GROWER 
EARNS  AWARD 

The  Plymouth  Conservation 
District  has  announced  that  at 
its  Annual  Meeting  in  December, 
the  1965  Conservation  Award 
winner  was  Mr.  Domingo  Fer- 
nandes,    local    cranberry    grower. 


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TWENTY-SEVEN 


FRESH    FROM    THE   FIELDS 

Continued    jrom    Page    12 

WISCONSIN 


Month   Cold 

The  weather  during  the  month 
of  May  was  cold  and  dry  and  as 
of  the  first  of  June,  many  of  the 
vines  still  have  their  winter  color 
and  very  little  growth.  There 
were  many  cold  nights  in  May, 
even  up  until  the  first  of  June 
when  the  temperature  was  down 
to  about  20  degrees,  but  it  ap- 
peared there  was  very  little  in- 
jury as  the  growers  had  plenty  of 
water  and  the  vines  were  not  too 
far  advanced. 

Cooler  weather  returned  for  the 
first  week  of  June  with  average 
temperatures  5  to  9  degrees  be- 
low normal.  Light  frost  occurred 
somewhere  in  the  state  every 
morning  through  the  first  when 
the  weather  finally  warmed  up. 
Scattered  light  rain  fell  at  most 
stations  late  on  the  second  and 
heavy  rain  occurred  on  the  third. 

The  weekend  was  warm  and 
humid  with  temperatures  ranging 
between  highs  in  the  80's  and 
lows  near  60  in  most  areas.  Bene- 
ficial rains  soaked  many  of  the 
previously  dry  central  and  north- 
ern counties  on  Saturday. 

The  budding  was  good  all  over 
the  state,  and  so  far  there  has 
been  no  injury  from  frost  or 
weather  conditions.  The  main 
worry  of  the  growers  is  the  late- 
ness of  the  season,  estimated  to 
be  about  two  weeks  late. 

Some  planting  in  Wisconsin  had 
to  be  abandoned  this  year  because 
there  was  not  enough  help  avail- 
able to  do  it.  In  fact,  another 
worry  of  the  growers  at  present 
is  a  shortage  of  help  which  be- 
comes more  acute  each  day. 
Considerable  marsh  work  that 
should  have  been  done,  such  as 
planting  and  ditching  has  been 
curtailed  because  of  the  lack  of 
help,  its  almost  sure  that  the 
expansion  of  new  acreage  in  Wis- 
consin will  be  seriously  curtailed 
because  of  the  lack  of  labor. 

TWENTY-EIGHT 


No  Wild  Blueberries  This  Year 
The  wild  blueberries  were  fro- 
zen almost  100%  because  of  the 
cold  weather  we  have  been  hav- 
ing, so  there  will  be  very  few 
wild  blueberries  in  Wisconsin 
again  this  year.  There  are  thou- 
sands of  acres  of  blueberries  in 
Wisconsin  but  they  usually  freeze, 
and  this  year  certainly  has  been 
no  exception. 

Babcock  Plant  Nearing  Completion 
The  new  plant  of  Ocean  Spray's 
at  Babcock  is  proceeding  rapidly 
and  it  is  a  boom  to  the  growers 
in  that  area,  particularly  in  view 
of  the  labor  shortage  that  has  de- 
veloped, as  the  growers  now  do 
not  have  to  worry  about  a  labor 
shortage  in  their  area,  as  the  ber- 
ries will  be  taken  to  the  receiving 
station  wet  in  pallet  boxes  or  in 
trucks. 


Thunder  Lake  Reports... 

Thunder  Lake  Marsh,  Wise,  is 
getting  a  small  shipment  of  lin- 
gonberries  in  from  Alaska  for 
planting  as  the  initial  planting 
which  was  received  from  Dr. 
Dana  of  the  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin   has    done    exceptionally  well. 

Mr.  Norman  Holmes  of  British 
Columbia  recently  visited  in  Wis- 
consin and  took  back  some  vines 
of  the  Stevens  variety  to  British 
Columbia  which  will  be  of  suf- 
ficient volume  to  plant  several 
acres. 

Thunder  Lake,  also,  in  addition 
to  selling  both  Ben  Lears  and 
Stevens  to  some  of  the  Wisconsin 
growers  has  made  a  shipment  to 
Charles  Larocque  at  Drummond- 
ville,  Quebec  who  will  plant  sev- 
eral acres  of  Stevens  this  spring, 
which  seems  to  be  the  coming  va- 
riety, as  it  is  an  excellent  juice 
berry  and  a  good  whole  sauce 
berry. 

Hector  Carslake  was  also  a 
recent  visitor  in  Wisconsin  and  he 
manages  Cascade  Foods  Canning 
operations  in  New  Westminister, 
British  Columbia  and  does  con- 
siderable  canning    of  cranberries. 


Cranberry   Products 
Gift  House  Open 

Cranberry  Products,  Inc.,  Eagle 
River,  Wise,  has  opened  its  gift 
house  as  of  the  first  of  June  and 
the  enlarged  addition  makes  it 
possible  to  carry  a  much  larger 
selection  of  cranberry  and  other 
specialty  items  grown  in  Wiscon- 
sin. The  new  juice  equipment  is 
now  being  installed  and  should 
be  ready  to  operate  shortly  after 
the  first  of  July. 


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Peninsula  Produces 
Tons  of  Cranberries 

A  short  feature  on  Cranberry 
growing  appeared  in  the  annual 
vacation  issue  of  the  Ilwaco 
Tribune,  Washington  on  June  1. 
The    article   follows: 

The  peninsula  often  called  the 
"Cape  Cod  of  the  West,"  offers 
tourists  one  of  the  few  opportun- 
ities to  see  cranberries  growing. 
Massachusetts,  New  Jersey,  Wis- 
consin and  Oregon  are  the  only 
other  cranberry  producing  states. 

Approximately  300  acres  are  in 
production  with  yields  varying 
from  7,500  to  25,000  pounds  per 
acre,  according  to  the  bog  and  to 
growing  conditions.  Last  year's 
crop  totaled  nearly  2,000,000 
pounds. 

Indians  were  harvesting  cran- 
berries when  Lewis  and  Clark 
arrived  in  1805,  but  the  crop  was 
not  produced  commercially  until 
until  1883.  Most  bogs  are  small 
(2  to  15  acres)  but  Cranguyma 
Farms  has  120  acres  in  production 
at  Long  Beach. 

In  early  days  cranberry  harves- 
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tually synomonous.  Hand-operated 
rakes  with  long  wooden  teeth 
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the  moisture  in  their  bog  soils. 
This  is  the  period  of  growth 
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water  is  of  great  important  to 
the  cranberry  plant.  Conditions 
have  not  reached  a  danger  point 
yet,  but  a  few  hot  days  without 
rain  could  change  the  picture. 
Cranberry  vines  require  about 
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Opened  By 
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The  fourth  Cranberry  Honse 
operated  by  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  was  opened  Thurs- 
day A.M.,  June  16,  in  Falmouth, 
Massachusetts.  Its  location  on 
Main  Street  and  Route  58,  puts 
it  on  a  direct  route  from  Boston 
and  points  West  and  South  to  the 
Falmouth  and  other  Cape  Cod  re- 
sort areas,  and  to  Martha's  Vine- 
yard   and    Nantucket     Islands. 

Edward  Gelsthorpe,  Executive 
Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ger, Ocean  Spray,  cut  the  cran- 
berry-red ribbon  at  the  opening 
ceremonies,  assisted  by  Edwin  T. 
Moffitt,  Director  of  Retail  Sales. 
Guests  were  Falmouth  Selectmen, 
Antone  Mogardo,  Chairman  of  the 
Board;  Francis  L.  Hankinson, 
Chairman,  Board  of  Assessors; 
John  D.  Mello,  Jr.,  Chairman, 
Board  of  Public  Welfare,  and 
Myron  Madeiros,  prominent  bus- 
inessman of  the   town. 

Cranberry  Juice  Cocktail  and 
Cranapple  were  served  from  five- 
foot  champagne  glasses  carved  in 
ice  by  Ocean  Spray  baker,  Donald 
Casey,  under  the  direction  of  the 
head  baker,  Normande  H.  Bar- 
rette. 

Mrs.  Edna  Hilliard  of  Falmouth 
is  manager  of  the  new  Cranberry 
House.  Cranberry  specialities  are 
featured  in  the  red  and  gold 
dining  room,  lunch  bar,  gift  shop, 
bakery,  and  frozen  food  section. 
The  dining  room  seats  70  and  the 
lunch  bar,  eighteen.  Hours  are  8 
to  8,  seven  days  a  week. 

Falmouth  Cranberry  House  is 
the  second  opened  by  Ocean 
Spray  in  less  than  a  month.  The 
other  Cranberry  Houses  are  in 
Hanover,  Orleans  and  Onset, 
southeastern  Massachusetts. 


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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry   Specialist 


Personals 

Prof.  Stan  Norton  attended  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  American 
Society  of  Agricultural  Engineers 
held  in  Amherst,  Massachusetts, 
the  week  of  June  27,  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Irrigation  System 
Design  Committee  for  this  organ- 
ization. 

Daniel  Brown,  a  recent  gradu- 
ate of  New  Bedford  High  School 
and  winner  of  first  prize  in  the 
New  Bedford  Science  Fair,  will 
be  working  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  this  summer.  Danny  will 
work  under  the  direction  of 
Dr.    Devlin    on    several    projects. 

Frost 

There  were  a  total  of  13  frost 
warnings  released  during  the 
spring  of  1966  as  compared  to 
22  in  1965  and  18  in  1964.  This 
includes  afternoon  and  evening 
warnings.     Frost      damage      has 


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been  very  light,  probably  one 
half  percent  or  less  of  the  crop. 
We  wish  to  thank  both  George 
Rounsville  and  Kenneth  Roche- 
fort  for  their  excellent  work  in 
frost  forecasting  this  sp  r  i  n  g  . 
These  fellows  do  the  job  night 
after  night  and  their  work  is 
greatly  appreciated.  We  are  also 
indebted  to  the  weather  observ- 
ers, telephone  distributors,  radio 
stations  and  the  U.  S.  Weather 
Bureau  personnel  for  the  part 
they  play  in  this  service  which 
is  sponsored  by  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry     Growers     Association. 

Annual    Meeting 

The  79th  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  Cape  Code  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers Association  will  be  held 
Tuesday,  August  23  at  the  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station  begin- 
ning at  10:00  A.M.  The  program 
is  largely  complete  at  this  time 
and    will    include    machinery    and 


equipment  exhibits,  guided  tours 
of  the  State  Bog  and  a  chicken 
barbeque  at  lunch.  After  lunch, 
there  will  be  a  short  business 
meeting,  a  talk  by  Dr.  David  W. 
Robinson  of  Ireland  and  the 
crop  report  by  Mr.  Byron  S. 
Peterson  of  the  Crops  Reporting 
Service . 

Crop    Prospects 

From  all  reports  and  obser- 
vations it  appears  that  Massachu- 
setts has  another  heavy  bloom. 
Most  bogs  are  looking  excellent 
and  the  casoron  treatments  have 
been  quite  effective  generally. 
We  have  the  potential  for  another 
large   crop. 

We  want  to  urge  growers  to 
cooperate  with  the  New  England 
Crop  Reporting  Service  by  mail- 
ing their  crop  estimates  in  Aug- 
ust to  Mr.  B.  S.  Peterson.  A 
large  number  of  reports  makes  a 
more  accurate  estimate  possible 
and  adds  to  the  value  of  this 
service. 

Insects    and    Weeds 

The  first  fruitworm  moth  was 
caught  in  Prof.  Tomlinson's 
black-light  trap  on  the  evening 
of  June  12,  this  is  later  than 
last  year  but  about  the  usual 
time  as  compared  with  other 
years. 

Large  number  of  girdler  moths 
(Continued   on    Page    6) 


CRANBERRY  GROWERS 

Now  Unloading  - 1  Carload  Redwood  Flume  Lumber 

2x4  2x6  2x8  2x10 

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Our  Middleboro  yard  has  been  closed  as  a  retail  yard. 

Our  complete  stock  of  Redwood  is  now  at   our  East 
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on  the  map! 


We  mean  it.  We  want  a  map  full  of  growers.  Good  growers  for  Dean's  Indian 
Trail.  Men  who  like  the  way  we  do  business. 

Suppose  you  make  the  map  at  Dean's  Indian  Trail,  then  what?  For  one,  you 
get  an  advance  at  the  beginning  of  harvest  on  your  estimated  crop.  You  get  a 
second  payment  when  you  ship  during  the  season,  and  a  final  payment  at  a  later 
date.  For  another,  your  crop  will  go  into  the  finest 
cranberry  products  made.  For  a  third,  you'll  be  tied  in 
with  a  well-known,  highly  respected  company. 
A  company  with  strong  advertising  and 
merchandising  programs  to  sell  cranberry 
products. 

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FOUR 


Issue  of  July  1966  — Volume  31,  No.  3 

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MASSACHUSETTS 

June    Starts    Cool 

June  began  with  the  same 
cooler-than-normal  trend  of  April 
and  May.  There  were  also  fre- 
quent and  highly-localized  light 
showers.  But  this  was  June  and 
the  temperature  began  to  get 
warmer.  At  the  end  of  the  first 
week  the  month  was  a  plus  7 
and  no  longer  a  minus  as  it  had 
been   all   spring. 

Mid  May  was  rather  unset- 
tled and  although  there  were  a 
few  hot  days  there  were  many 
chilly  ones.  The  weather  in  gen- 
eral was  scarcely  the  "perfect" 
days  of  June.  On  the  10th  there 
came  a  deluging,  drenching  rain. 
The  precipitation  was  from  one 
to  three  inches  over  the  cran- 
berry area  but  the  State  Bog 
recorded  only  1.13  inches.  This 
was   a    very    helpful    storm. 

June  Frost  Warning 
A  cranberry  frost  warhingwas 
issued  on  the  11th,  "possible  frost 
with  minimum  28  to  29.  Toler- 
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Development    Still    Behind 

Although  bogs  were  beginning 
to  "look  good,"  some  development 
was  still  behind  schedule  in  this 
backward    season    of   \1966. 

Adding  to  the  less-than-perfect 
days  of  June,  Hurricane  Alma, 
which  had  been  spawned  a  week 
before  off  Yucatan  in  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico,  whirled  through  the 
Caribbean,  and  hit  the  West  coast 
of  Florida,  went  through  Georgia 
and  out  into  the  Atlantic  and 
proceeded  north,  passing  over 
Cape  Cod  on  June  13th.  But  by 
that  time  Alma,  the  earliest  hur- 
ricane on  record  was  no  longer 
a  hurricane  or  even  a  tropical 
storm  and  she  brought  only  light 
rain      and     light     winds     to     the 


cranberry  area.  But  she  recalled 
memories  of  other  hurricanes 
which  in  the  past  had  caused 
much  havoc,  including  damage  to 
bogs  particularly  in  close  to  shore 
bogs  on  the  Cape  and  in  New 
Jersey. 

She  added  a  little  still-needed 
precipitation  to  the  drought  area 
and  fog  and  some  drizzle  the 
following  day.  On  that  day  the 
humidity  reached  a  high  degree 
and  there  was  high  heat  which 
was  not  especially  good  for  the 
coming    crop. 

In  this  unsettled  month  of 
June,  the  month  started  colder 
than  normal  then  became  warmer 
than  normal  but  by  the  15th 
was  back  to  cooler  again  by  sev- 
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on  the  other  hand  might  tend 
to  improve  the  keeping  quality. 
June  Ends  Warm 
During  the  latter  part  of  June 
summer  came  with  a  bang  and 
the  month  ended  not  far  from 
normal,  but  slightly  on  the 
warm  side.  This  began  to  push 
the  crop  development  to  normal 
in  timing  whereas  all  spring  it 
had   been  retarded. 

Rainfall  Off 

Rainfall,  however  was  again 
deficient,  the  total  for  June  being 
only  1.71  inches  as  recorded  at 
Cranberry  Station.  Normal  for 
June  is   3.21   inches. 

Blossom  was  showing  up  by 
June  first  and  by  the  fourth  the 
vines  were  in  full  bloom,  and 
this  was  reported  as  very  good. 
Bumble  bees  were  plentiful  to 
aid  pollination,  and  of  course 
many  growers  had  rented  colonies 
of  honeybees  as  well. 

July    Starts    With    Heat    Wave 

July  opened  very  hot  and  hu- 
mid with  a  bright  hot  sun.  A 
real  heat  wave.  The  3rd  and  4th 
of  July  were  real  scorchers,  the 
humidity  reaching  a  high  un- 
comfortable degree.  Then  on  the 
night  of  the  fourth  cold  Canadian 
air  spread  over  New  England 
a^d  the  temperature  dropped  to 
a  comfortable  60-70,  with  low 
humidity. 


Blossom  Looked  Fine 
So  with  the  spring  frost  sea- 
son behind  with  no  important 
damage,  the  bloom  very  good, 
prospects  for  a  large  1966  pro- 
duction continued  to  be  excellent. 
Only  trouble  was  that  bogs  again 
were  getting  to  be  rather  dry 
and  more  rain  was  definitely 
needed. 

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MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

have  been  noted  on  many  bogs 
during  June,  this  pest  has  been 
on  the  increase  in  recent  years 
because  of  our  dry  summers.  Bill 
Tomlinson  advises  that  the  di- 
eldrin  or  DDT  treatments  listed 
on  the  Insect  Control  Chart  give 
good  control  of  the  larval  or 
worm  stage.  These  treatments 
should  not  be  applied  when  the 
bog  is  in  bloom.  Bill  also  warns 
that  growers  should  be  alert  to 
possible  infestations  of  fruit- 
worm  and  Sparganothis  fruit- 
worm. 

Dalapon  may  be  used  until  the 
end  of  July  for  treating  ditch 
weeds  or  poverty  grass  and 
switch  grass  on  shore.  Fuel 
oil  is  also  helpful  for  weed  con- 
trol in  dry  ditches.  Shores  and 
dikes  may  be  sprayed  with  a 
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Weather 
June  was  a  warm,  dry  month, 
with  temperatures  averaging  1  Vz 
degrees  a  day  above  normal. 
The  first  half  of  the  month  was 
cool  and  the  last  half  hot.  Rain- 
fall totalled  only  1.71  inches  at 
the  Cranberry  Station  which  is 
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of  the  total  precipitation  for  the 
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SIX 


MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  D.  ROBERTS,  WEARY  OF 
'BIG  CITY'  LIFE,  TAKE  UP  CRANBERRY  GROWING 

By  CLARENCE   J.   HALL 

Couple  Have  Nearly  70  Acres  at  Back  River  Falls 
Wisconsin,   and    Plan   More.    Roberrs   Has   Produced 
Innovations  in  Cranberry  Growing.    Both  Have  Been 
in  Government  Service. 


John  Roberts,  Mrs.  Roberts  and  daughters  Kay  and  Nina 

"We  were  weary  of  big  cities,  and  confining  indoor  work,"  said 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Daly  Roberts,  "and  we  wanted  an  outdoor  life  and 
were  attracted  to  cranberries  as  a  means  of  achieving  such  a  life." 
Also,  Mr.  Roberts  had  "grown  up"  near  the  berry  producing  area  of 
Wisconsin  Rapids,  so  was  not  exactly  unaware  of  the  cranberry 
industry.  Mr.  Roberts  is  a  forceful  individual  who  goes  after  what 
he  wants. 

Today,  Mr.  Roberts  is  President  of  the  Perry  Creek  Cranberry 
Corporation,  with  40  acres  of  old  production  and  22  in  new  planting; 
100  acres  in  all  in  property.  At  present  Roberts  is  preparing  30  acres 
additional  to  be  planted  in   1967. 

Mr.  Roberts  and  his  lovely  family  live  in  a  beautiful  new  white 
house  which  is  very  nicely  landscaped.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  raise 
Registered  American  Saddle  Bred  horses  and  have  3  registered  labra- 
dor  dogs.  Mr.  Roberts  may  be  aiming  for  something  of  the  life  of  a 
country  squire. 


An  Old  Property 

The  Roberts  marsh  is  one  of  the 
oldest  of  the  properties  in  the 
State,  going  back  to  1887,  started 
by  Henry  Gebhardt  and  en- 
larged to  40  acres  by  Henry  and 
his  son  Phillip,  and  by  Fred 
Lange.  Following  Henry's  death, 
his  widow  and  two  children, 
Phillip  and  AHce  Gebhardt  oper- 
ated the  property  and  when 
Phillip  passed  away  his  Mother 
sold  her  interest  to  Fred  and 
Gladys  Lange.  Fred  Lange  died 
in  1956  and  in  1957  Mr.  Roberts 
acquired  the  property  from  Alice 
Gebhardt  and  Gladys  Lange. 

In  1951  Mr.  Roberts  acquired 
the  Louis  Wysocki  marsh  at  Hay- 
ward,  Wisconsin  —  a  property 
then  of  7  acres.  In  the  10  years 
he  owned  this  marsh,  he  doubled 
its  size,  and  shipped  a  10  year  av- 
erage production  of  187  bbls.  per 
acre.  Mr.  Roberts  believes  this  is 
some  sort  of  10  year  record. 

While  he  owned  this  marsh,  he 
developed  a  new  bog  at  Gordon, 
Wis.,  planting  22  acres,  and  scalp- 
ing 40.  This  is  now  owned  by 
Tony  Jonjak,  a  leading  figure  in 
Wisconsin  Cranberries. 

The  Hayward  property  is  now 
owned  and  operated  by  David 
Lyman,   Mr.   Roberts'   nephew. 

The  Perry  Creek  Cranberry 
Corporation  property,  at  Black 
River  Falls,  is  planted  to  Howes, 
Early  Blacks,  McFarlins,  Metallic 
Bells,  Pennants,  some  Stevens 
and  Searles.  His  new  plantings 
are  Searles  and  Howes.  For  a 
water  supply  he  depends  upon 
Perry  Creek  and  four  reservoirs. 
They  vary  in  size  from  15  to  one 
hundred  acres. 


Marsh   All    Sprinkled 

The  entire  marsh  is  under 
sprinklers,  Shur  Rane,  with  about 
600  heads.  Roberts  has  %"  Ber- 
keley pumps  and  three  Interna- 
tional engines  of  250  HP  each. 
A  fourth  unit,  with  a  Ford  indus- 
trial Engine,  powers  a  5"  pump 
and  is  used  on  new  plantings.  Be- 
tween these  units  he  can  pump 
7400  gallons  of  water  per  minute. 


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Roberts  is  a  Distributor  for 
Shur  Rane  Irrigation  systems, 
John  Bean  Division,  Food  Ma- 
chinery Corporation,  Lansing, 
Michigan  and  San  Jose,  Califor- 
nia. He  installs  systems  for  other 
growers,  doing  all  his  own  engin- 
eering and  construction  layout. 
Mr.  Roberts  has  specialized  in 
frost  irrigation  work  for  cran- 
berry growers  and  has  developed 
with  John  Bean  Division  and  on 
his  own,  a  number  of  new  tech- 
niques and  arrangements  of  valves 
and  piping  best  suited  for  Wis- 
consin Cranberry  growers  sprin- 
kler problems.  Possessing  such  a 
large  system  of  his  own,  he  is 
very  cost  conscious  and  endeavors 
to  develop  systems  with  these 
economics  in  mind. 

Some  of  his  new  plantings  are 
on  peat  and  some  on  sand.  For 
the  peat  plantings  he  plants  di- 
rectly on  the  raw  peat,  but  he 
sands  later  as  he  believes  in  the 
use  of  sand.  He  has  plenty  of 
available  sand  on  his  property. 
Some  of  his  new  plantings  have 
beds  1500'  long,  containing  6  plus 
acres  per  bed. 

Does   His  Own    Bog   Work 

Roberts  is  his  own  foreman  and 
his  own  frost  manager.  He  tends 
his  horses  himself;  he  had  two  at 
the  time  of  the  interview,  having 
recently  sold  two  fine  mares.  He 
has  five  employees.  He  harvests 
his  crop  wet  with  three  Case 
picking  machines,  using  steel  har- 
vest boats,  and  can  pick  6-7  acres 
a  day.  He  uses  a  Niagara  ground 
duster  and  John  Bean  sprayer,  for 
fungicide  work  and  pest  control. 
Roberts  is  proud,  as  are  seemingly 
so  many  other  Wisconsin  growers 
to  possess  a  fine  machine  shop. 

Roberts  likes  to  do  as  much  of 
his  own  work  as  he  can,  particu- 
larly at  frost  time.  "You  have  to 
watch  a  sprinkler  system,"  he 
says,  "just  as  you  do  any  mechan- 
ical device." 

Own    Frost   Alarm    System 

Roberts    has    developed    a    new 

type  of  frost  alarm  system,  using 

three   thermo  couples,    instead    of 

thermometers.    He  has  them  pre- 


A  view  of  the  large,  white  Roberts  Home  at 
Perry  Creek  Cranberry  Corporation. 


Roberts  uses  an  International  Engine  and  Pump 
to   supply   his   complete   sprinkler   system 


The  Roberts'  warehouse  on  the  property  at  Black  River  Falls 


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set  at  35°  any  one  of  which  ring 
a  loud  bell  at  his  home  when  this 
temperature  is  reached  on  the 
marsh.  The  preset  controls  are 
located  in  the  vines  themselves, 
one  a  half  mile  from  his  home. 
"These  are  not  expensive  alarm 
devices,  in  my  judgement,  and 
place  frost  alarm  devices  within 
the  reach  of  any  grower,  insofar 
as  cost  is  concerned,"  he  avers. 

Mr.  Roberts  has  introduced  a 
number  of  innovations  to  the  cran- 
berry industry  and  last  year  de- 
veloped a  berry  dumping  bin  to 
feed  cranberries  without  bruising 
of  any  nature,  from  trucks  into 
degrassing  machines  and  dryers. 
This  unit  is  hydraulically  powered 
and  handles  three  tons  of  fruit 
at  one  time.  Controls  are  all 
electric  push  button  and  the  bin 
and  degrassing  unit  and  dryer  are 
all  operated  by  one  woman  em- 
ployee at  harvest  time. 

Lately  he  has  developed  a  new 
type  pruner  and  a  prototype  har- 
vesting machine,  both  of  which 
show  much  promise  for  use  in 
the  future. 

Perry  Creek  Cranberry  Cor- 
poration owns  a  good  deal  of 
equipment,  all  designed  for  spe- 
cific use  in  cranberry  raising. 
There  are  four  trucks,  backhoe, 
front  end  loader,  tour  tractors, 
ditch  cleaners,  trimmers,  mowers, 
forklift,  two  planters  and  as  al- 
ready stated  a  complete  machine 
shop.  The  berry  packing  facility 
consists  of  five  sorting  mills  and 
two  cellophane  of  polylines  and 
the  property  can  pack  750  to  1,000 
24-1  lb.  packages  of  fresh  fruit 
daily  in  season. 

Roberts  gets  about  100  bbls.  per 
acre  in  production  from  his  old 
acres,  but  for  the  past  three  years 
his  crop  has  been  curtailed  by 
hail.  He  complained  in  a  Law  Suit 
three  years  ago,  alleging  a  certain 
chemical  had  injured  his  produc- 
tion in  that  season.  He  was  the 
victor  in  this  suit  as  reported  in 
a  recent  issue,  being  awarded 
$24,000  in  damages  to  his  crop. 
The  issue  is  being  decided  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Wisconsin. 


His  Career 
Roberts  was  born  in  Wisconsin 
in  1918,  his  father  John  Roberts, 
being  a  lawyer  in  Wisconsin 
Rapids.  Mr.  Roberts,  Sr.  is  90 
years  of  age  and  still  engaged  in 
the  active,  every  day  practice  of 
his  profession.  John  D.  went  to 
grade  and  high  school  in  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids.  Then  he  attended 
Ripon  College,  Ripon,  Wisconsin. 
There  he  majored  in  Economics 
and  received  a  BA  degree.  He 
also  attended  summer  school  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison,  where  he  took  some  law 
courses. 

In  1941  he  entered  the  U.  S. 
Army  as  a  private  and  attended 
Officers  Candidate  School  at  Fort 
Benning,  Georgia.  He  came  out  of 
World  War  II  with  the  rank  of 
Major.  He  served  in  England, 
Scotland,  Holland,  Belgium  and 
France.  He  saw  much  action.  He 
was  in  the  London  Blitz,  Battle 
of  the  Bulge  and  landed  on  the 
beaches  of  France  at  D  day  plus 
3.  Later  he  was  Commandant  of 
Troops  at  Antwerp,  Belgium. 

He  holds  the  Purple  Heart  and 
Cluster,  Bronze  Star,  French  Croix 
de  Guerre,  Legion  of  Merit,  Order 
of  Leopold  from  the  Belgium  gov- 
ernment. He  thus  has  compiled  a 
distinguished  war  record.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  in  Decem- 
ber  1945. 

While  in  service,  in  1942,  he 
married  Miss  Ruth  E.  Will  of 
Wisconsin,  the  marriage  having 
taken  place  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
She  had  also  attended  Ripon 
College  where  she  majored  in 
Mathematics,  Chemistry  and 
Physics. 

The  most  attractive  and  dimin- 
utive Mrs.  Roberts  also  had  an 
unusual  career  in  business.  While 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1942,  she 
worked  for  the  FBI  in  Crypto- 
graphy. Her  duties  in  this  de- 
partment were  decoding  and  en- 
coding of  messages  and  code  an- 
alysis. In  1943  she  transferred 
to  the  Applied  Physics  Laboratory 
of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  do- 
ing research  work  on  the  prox- 
imity VT  fuse.  The  proximity  fuse 


involved  a  miniature  radio  re- 
ceiving and  sending  device,  moun- 
ted in  the  warhead  of  a  projec- 
tile. Johns  Hopkins  University 
performed  this  work  under  con- 
tract with  the  Office  of  Scientific 
Resean^h  and  Development, 
headed  by  the  eminent  Vannevar 
Bush.  For  this  effort  Mrs.  Roberts 
was  honored  and  given  the  "Re- 
search and  Development  Award" 
by  the  Bureau  of  Ordinance,  U.  S. 
Navy  Department. 

Following  John's  discharge  from 
service,  he  worked  for  five  years 
for  the  U.  S.  Government;  for  a 
time  as  a  civilian  Administrator 
for  the  Navy  Department  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  then  four 
years  as  an  Advisor  on  Veterans 
Affairs  in  Wisconsin.  At  that  time 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roberts  were  living 
in  Washington,  D.  C.  They  are 
the  parents  of  two  daughters,  Kay 
13,  and  Nina  5. 

In  1954,  Roberts  went  to  work 
for  Ocean  Spray  and  set  up  their 
office  in  Wisconsin  Rapids.  While 
he  was  in  this  position  as  State 
Manager,  from  1954  to  1957 
Ocean  Spray  tonnage  in  the  State 
increased  from  about  10,000  bbls. 
to  over  150,000. 

Roberts  was  one  of  the  prime 
movers  in  forming  the  Jackson 
County  Association  of  Cranberry 
Growers  and  is  now  its  President. 
The  purpose  of  the  organization 
is  to  promote  the  general  interest 
and  welfare  of  the  county 
growers.  This  is  the  only  County 
Association  of  Cranberry  growers 
in  Wisconsin.  He  is  a  past  Direc- 
tor of  Ocean  Spray;  from  1954  to 
1957  he  was  a  member  of  the  Co- 
op's Executive  Committee  and 
during  these  same  three  years 
was  a  member  of  the  Cranberry 
Institute.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Wisconsin  Advisory  Committee  for 
Ocean  Spray. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  local 
Lions  Club,  of  the  Veterans  of 
Foreign  Wars,  and  a  past  member 
of  the  Elks. 

This  aggressive  younger  grower 
of  Black  River  Falls  is  strong  for 
quality  fruit  and  for  shipping  as 
much  fresh  as  possible.  Normally, 
this  is  about  one  half  of  his  crop. 


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Production  Of  Highbush  Blueberry  Pollen  And  Its 
Germination  in  Vitro  As  Affected  By  pH  And 
Sucrose  Concentration 

By  G.  W.  EATON 

Division    of    Plant    Science,     The    University    of    British   Columbia 

Vancouver,  British  Columbia 


Merrill  (2)  allowed  pollen  from 
several  highbush  blueberry  (Vac- 
ciniuvi  corymhosmn  L.)  varieties 
to  germinate  in  sucrose  solutions 
of  several  concentrations  and  con- 
cluded that  higher  concentrations 
(up  to  12%)  of  sucrose  favored 
germination.  The  varieties  were 
Rubel,  Cabot,  Adams,  Pioneer, 
and  Harding.  Wood  and  Barker 
(3)  obtained  maximum  germina- 
tion of  35%  with  fresh  lowbush 
blueberry  pollen  (Vacciniuni  an- 
gustifolium  Ait.)  after  24  hours 
on  0.5%   agar  and  13.5%  sugar. 

Aalders  and  Hall  (1)  reported 
varying  degrees  of  male  sterility 
in  clones  of  the  lowbush  blueberry 
but  there  seems  to  be  no  such  re- 
port for  the  highbush  blueberry. 
The  present  study  was  undertaken 
to  obtain  further  information  on 
the    germination    requirements    of 


the  highbush  blueberry  and  to 
obtain  information  on  tetrad 
abortion. 

The  pollen  used  in  this  experi- 
ment was  collected  from  six  high- 
bush blueberry  varieties.  The 
proportions  of  abortive  and  nor- 
mal tetrads  were  determined  from 
samples  mounted  in  acetocarmine. 
Germination  media  were  pre- 
pared containing  5%,  10%),  15%, 
and  20%  sucrose.  The  initial  pH 
of  the  sucrose  solutions  was  be- 
tween 6.2  and  6.3.  Some  of  each 
sucrose  solution  was  then  adjus- 
ted to  pH  4.0,  5.0,  6.0,  and  7.0  by 
addition  of  either  HCI  or  NaOH 
as  required.  All  media  contained 
25  p. p.m.  manganese  (supplied  as 
manganese  sulfate)  and  36  p.p.m. 
boron  (supplied  as  bofic  acid). 
The  treatments  were  in  4  x  4  fac- 
torial  arrangement   with   the   va- 


rieties providing  six  complete 
blocks,  and  200  normal  tetrads 
being  an  experimental  unit.  Pollen 
was  germinated  on  depression 
slides  over  moist  filter  paper  in 
petri  dishes  at  26-28°  C  for  17 
hours.  Tetrades  which  produced 
length  greater  than  the  tetrad 
at  least  one  pollen  tube  with 
diameter  were  classified  as  ger- 
minated. 

Weymouth,  Berkeley,  and  Ran- 
cocas  shed  noticeably  less  pollen 
than  Jersey,  Dixi,  and  Pemberton. 
The  six  varieties  fell  into  the 
same  two  groups  on  the  basis  of 
tetrad  abortion  (Table  1).  Pem- 
berton and  Weymouth  similarly 
fell  into  these  groups  on  the  basis 
of  germination  (Table  2).  Va- 
rieties differed  (P  =  .001)  in  tet- 
rad germination  (Table  2).  Pem- 
berton had  70.6%  while  Wey- 
mouth had  only  5.5%  germination. 
The  remaining  varieties  were  in- 
termediate in  germination  and  did 
not  differ  significantly  (P  =  .05) 
from  each  other. 

There  were  highly  significant 
differences  (P  =  .001)  in  tetrad 
germination  among  pH  levels. 
Considering  all  six  varieties  to- 
gether, only  pH  4.0  significantly 
(P  =  .05)  reduced  germination. 
The  significant  variety  x  pH  in- 
teraction indicated  that  the  va- 
rietes  differed  in  their  response 
to  pH  (Table  3).  With  the  ex- 
ception of  Weymouth  there  was 
much  less  germination  at  pH  4.0 
than  at  any  higher  pH.  There 
were  no  significant  differences  be- 
tween pH  5.0,  6.0,  and  7.0  for  the 
varieties  Pemberton,  Berkeley, 
and  Dixi.  Jersey  and  Rancocas 
had  significantly  higher  germina- 
tion at  pH  5.0  than  at  7.0.  There 
was  significantly  higher  germina- 
tion with  15  and  20%  than  with 
5%    sucrose    (Table   4.) 

Germination  of  highbush  blue- 
berry pollen  tetrads  required  a 
medium  somewhat  similar  to  that 
used  (3)  for  the  lowbush  blue- 
berry. Increasing  the  sucrose  con- 
centration above  the  range  used 
by  Merrill  (2)  did  not  result  in 
significantly  different  germinabil- 
ity.  As  with  some  lowbush  blue- 
berry  clones    (1)    highbush   vari- 


TEN 


eties  differ  in  their  tetrad  abor- 
tion. In  germinating  highbusli 
blueberry  pollen  one  should  gen- 
erally use-,  a  medium  with  pH  be- 
tween pH  5  and  7  and  sucrose  con- 
centration above  10%.  Sources  of 
variation  in  germinability  re- 
vealed here  should  be  kept  in 
mind  in  planning  further  experi- 
ments on  blueberry  pollen  germi- 
nation and  in  interpreting  the 
results  of  such  experiments. 

Acknowledgements 

The  author  is  indebted  to  Miss 
A.  M.  Jamont  for  technical  assis- 
tance. This  study  was  supported 
by  a  grant  from  the  National 
Research  Council  of  Canada. 


1.  Aalders,  L.  E.  and  Hall,  I.  V. 
1963.  The  inheritance  and 
berry.  Mich.  Agr.  Expt.  Sta. 
morphological  development 
of  male  sterility  in  the  com- 
mon lowbush  blueberry,  Vac- 
ciniuvi      angustifoliura      Ait. 

Can.  J.  Genet.  iCytol  5,  380-383 

2.  Merrill,  T.  A.,  1936.  Pollin- 
ation of  the  highbush  blue- 
Tech.  Bull.  15. 

3.  Wood,  G.  W.  and  Barker,  W. 
G.  1964.  Preservation  of 
blueberry  pollen  by  the 
freeze-drying  process.  Can. 
J.   Plant  Sci.   44.   387-388. 


Table  1.     Production  of  normal  lelrads  in  flowers  of  highbush  blueberry  varieties 


\'ariet>- 

Jerse\- 

Dixi        Pemberton 

Weymouth 

Berkeley     Rancocas 

Normal  tetrads  {%)        94 
Standard  error                        2  . 4 

92                 90 

2.7               3.0 

83 
3.6 

80                  73 
4.0               4.4 

Table  2.     Germination 

of  pollen  tetrads  of  highbush  blueberr>'  varieties 

Variety 

Pemberton      Berkele\-        Jerse\- 

Rancocas 

Dixi        Weymouth 

%  germination*                      70.6 

39.8             37.5 

30.1 

26.9               5.5 

♦Each  percentage  is  based  upon  the  3200  normal  tetrads  tested  at  four  levels  of  pH.  and  four  concentrations  oi 
ucrose.  Means  underlined  did  not  differ  significantly  (f  =  .OS)  according  to  Duncan's  new  multiple  range  test, 
s 

Can.  J.  Plant  Sci.  Vol.  46  (1966) 

Table  3.     Effect  of  pH  on  germination  (^c)  of  highbush  blueberry  pollen  tetrads 


pH 

Variety 

4.0 

5.0 

6.0 

7.0 

We^■mouth 

0.3a 

8.6a 

3.3a 

7.9a 

Pemberton 

0.0 

91.6a 

92.5a 

98.5a 

Berkelev 

0.0 

61.9a 

43.1a 

54.1a 

Dixi 

0.0 

29.4a 

35. 5o 

43.0a 

Jersev 

0.0 

71.1  b 

40.6a6 

38.2a 

Rancocas 

0.0 

52.0a 

41.0a 

26.5 

All  varieties 

(av.  of  24  counts) 

0.02 

52.8a 

42 .  7a 

44.7a 

Note:  Means  in  the  same  row  sharing  the  same  letter  did  not  differ  significantly  (P  =  .05)  according  to  Duncan's 
new  multiple  range  test.  Each  percentage  is  based  upon  the  800  normal  tetrads  tested  at  four  sucrose  concentrations. 


Table  4.     Effect  of  sucrose  concentration 

on  the  germination  of  highbush 
tetrads 

bl 

ueberry  pollen 

%  sucrose  concentration 

5 

10                                15 

20 

%  germination*                      28.8 

32.2                          39.1 

40.0 

FRESH    FROM    THE   FIELDS 

Continued    from    Page    5 

NOVA    SCOT/A 

Dr.  F.  B.  Chandler,  retired 
cranberry  specialist  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Cranberry  Station  has 
been  hired  by  the  federal  gov- 
ernment of  Canada  and  the  pro- 
vincial department  of  agriculture 
and  marketing  (Province  of  Nova 
Scotia)  to  conduct  an  economic 
survey  of  the  cranberry  industry 
in  eastern  Nova  Scotia.  Dr. 
Chandler  arrived  in  Canada  in 
late  May  and  has  already  had  an 
impact    on   the   industry. 

Mr.  E.  L.  Eaton  who  was  re- 
sponsible for  research  and  ex- 
tension on  the  cranberry  indvis- 
try  up  to  1961  was  recently 
presented  with  a  certificate  by 
Mr.  D.  L.  Parks,  the  Deputy  Min- 
ister of  Agriculture  for  Nova 
Scotia,  in  recognition  of  his  long 
and  faithful  service  to  agricul- 
ture. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eaton  are 
now  living  on  the  family  farm  at 
Upper  Canard,  Kings  County, 
Nova  Scotia.  One  of  their  sons, 
Dr.  George  Eaton,  is  Professor  of 
Horticulture  at  the  University  of 
British  Columbia*  and  is  car- 
rying out  research  on  cranberries 
and  highbush  blueberries  in 
British   Columbia. 

'■'Ed.  Note:  Cranberries  is  pleased 
to  carry  an  article  by  Dr.  Eaton 
on  this  subject,  and  found  on 
page    10    of   this   issue. 


1111 


*Means  underlined  by  the  same  line  did  not  differ  significantly  (P  =  .05)  according  to  Duncan's  new  multiple 
range  test.    Each  percentage  is  based  upon  the  4800  normal  tetrads  of  six  varieties  tested  at  four  levels  of  pH. 


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Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 

The  following  is  an  article  writ- 
ten by  Mr.  S.  S.  Garjian,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau  Federation  which  I  knew 
would  be  of  interest  to  Cranberry 
growers.  Mr.  Garjian  is  a  large 
poultryman  with  an  annual  pro- 
duction of  over  three  million  eggs. 
Over  90%  of  his  production  is 
sold  to  retail  customers  at  the 
farm.  Mr.  Garjian  is  well  versed 
on    Marketing. 


ADDRESS  (RFD). 
CITY 


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-STATE. 


Bargaining   Power  For    Farmers 
By   S.    S.  GARJIAN 
Farmers     bargaining     for     the 
products  they  produce  is  the  an- 
swer to  higher  net  income. 

Several  years  ago  the  member- 
ship recognized  the  need  for  an 
expanded  service  program  to 
strengthen  the  marketing  and 
bargaining  position  of  farmers 
end  ranches. 

New  and  improved  marketing 
methods  are  needed  to  secure 
higher  net   iiicoma   for  producers. 

At  the  American  Farm  Bureau 
Feredation  annual  meeting,  dele- 
gates urged  Farm  Bureau  to  give 
marketing  and  bargaining  pro- 
grami   high    priority. 

American  Agricultural  Market- 
ing Association  and  State  Market- 
ing Association  have  been  organ- 
ized to  help  farmers  and  ranchers 
determine,  earn  and  obtain  the 
full  market  values  for  farm  com- 
modities, to  aid  in  orderly  mar- 
keting, to  expand  markets  and 
promote  the  sale  of  commodities 
in  domestic  and  foreign  markets, 
and  to  initiate  and  provide  special 
services  for  growers. 

Farm  Bureau  believes  that  mar- 
keting power  can  best  be 
achieved  thru  the  market  price 
system.  By  this  system  the  sup- 
ply and  demand  becomes  the  pri- 
mary factors  in  determining  the 
true  market  value  for  agricul- 
tural commodities.  Prices  should 
relate  to   realistic   market   values. 


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At  the  present  time  2  million 
farms  produce  ninety-five  per 
cent  of  the  output.  The  average 
farm  capital  investment  in  1964 
was  $51,000.  It  is  estimated  that 
by  1975  it  will  be  about  $75,000. 
Hit  or  miss  marketing  methods 
will  not  pay  for  or  warrant  huge 
investments. 

Marketing  patterns  will  change 
more  in  the  future.  Contract  pro- 
duction of  agricultural  products 
is  growing.  These  people  need 
representation  through  their  own 
farm  organization. 

It  is  very  conceivable  that  one- 
half  of  our  agricultural  commod- 
ities will  be  produced  under  con- 
tract by   1975. 

Changes  are  taking  place  in  the 
food  processing  organizations. 
There  are  fewer  buyers,  proces- 
sors and  retailers  in  agricultural 
commodities. 

Consumers  are  more  discrimin- 
ating and  are  buying  more  serv- 
ices with  food  dollars.  Because 
of  the  services  that  the  consumer 
is  demanding,  the  difference  be- 
tween   what    the    consumer    pays 


for  the  products  and  the  price 
that  the  farmer  gets  is  continually 
spreading  and  because  of  this  the 
producer  is  not  getting  the  prices 
he  should  be  getting  even  though 
the  prices  are  rising  to  the  con- 
sumer. I  want  to  emphasize  the 
fact  that  this  may  not  be  true 
with    all    commodities. 

In  concluding  I  might  stress 
that  we  cannot  continually  ask 
for  exemptions  for  farmers  as  a 
special  privilege  in  our  legisla- 
tive halls.  We  must  appreciate 
the  fact  that  we  are  a  minority 
and  to  get  exemption  or  special 
privileges  will  be  more  difficult 
in  the  future. 

Let  us  stand  with  heads  high 
and  bargain  for  the  necessary 
things  needed  in  selling  agricul- 
tural products  through  our  Farm 
Bureau  affiliate  the  bargaining 
association. 


tured  speaker  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Plymouth  County 
Farm  Bureau,  according  to  Mr. 
David  Mann,  President  of  the 
Plymouth  County  Farm  Bureau. 
This  is  a  very  important  meeting 
and  will  be  held  on  August  25, 
1966  and  is  being  held  early  to 
avoid  conflict  from  frost  dangers 
to  Cranberry  growers  which 
would  prevent  them  from  par- 
ticipating in  this  Farm  Bureau 
function. 


All  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
growers  will  be  pleased  to  note 
that  Mr.  Charles  Shuman,  Presi- 
dent of  the  American  Farm  Bu- 
reau  Federation   will  be  the  fea- 


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THIRTEEN 


Objective  Measures 
To   Determine 
Cranberry  Yields 

by  J.  C.  ST.  PIERRE,  Agricultural 
Statistician,  New  Jersey  Crop 
Reporting  Service,  Trenton,  New 
Jersey,  February   10,   1966. 

A  new  approach  to  forecasting 
cranberry  production  is  being 
studied  by  the  New  Jersey  Crop 
Reporting  Service,  a  cooperative 
effort  of  the  New  Jersey  and 
United  States  Departments  of  Ag  - 
riculture,  under  a  special  project 
financed  by  matching  State  and 
Federal  funds  provided  through 
the  Agricultural  Marketing  Act 
of  1946.  This  Service  has  conduc- 
ted surveys  and  made  estimates 
or'  cranberry  production  each  year 
since  1900.  Currently,  within- 
season  forecasts  are  made  as  of 
August  15,  October  1  and  Novem- 
ber 1  in  conjunction  with  the 
national  program  of  the  Crop  Re- 
porting Board,  Statistical  Repor- 
ting Service,  USDA.  Forecasts 
are  timely  guides  in  planning 
probable  requirments  for  labor, 
containers,  storage  facihties,  tran- 
portation  and  promotional  cam- 
paigns. Crop  checks  at  the  end  of 
the  season  are  the  basis  for  final 
reports  on  production,  quantities 
sold  fresh  and  processed,  and 
prices.  These  data  provide  a  his- 
toric series  that  reveal  state  and 
national  trends  important  to  fu- 
ture plans  of  the  industry,  along 
with  "trueing  up"  the  statistical 
model  for   the   seasonal   forecasts. 

In  the  past,  forecasts  in  all 
states  have  been  mainly  based  on 
voluntary  reports  of  individual 
growers'  expectations  obtained  by 
mailed  inquiry,  phone  and  per- 
sonal visits.  These  judgement  re- 
ports are  mostly  based  on  the 
crop's  visual  appearances,  which 
oftentimes  can  be  deceiving,  par- 
ticularly with  cranberries.  In  re- 
cent years,  the  Statistical  Repor- 
ting Service  has  developed  sci- 
entific "objective  yield"  measure- 
ments for  several  crops  including 
corn,  cotton,  soybeans,  and  some 
fruit  and  nut  crops.  Objective 
yield  methods  use  various  physical 
measurements  of  crops  growing 
in  the  field.    These  measures   are 


designed  to  give  a  supplemental 
indication  of  prospective  yield 
that  will  offset  the  inherent  er- 
rors possible  with  judgement  es- 
timates  alone. 

Investigation  of  objective  yield 
techniques  for  cranberries  was 
started  in  New  Jersey  in  1962 
under  the  direction  of  H.  M.  Wal- 
ters, now  head  of  the  Wisconsin 
Crop  Reporting  Service.  The  in- 
itial investigation  was  to  test  an 
old  "rule-of-thumb"  used  by  the 
cranberry  industry  that  one  berry 
per  square  foot  was  equal  to  a 
yield  of  one  barrel  per  acre.  Ber- 
ries were  counted  that  fell  within 
a  one  square  foot  wooden  frame, 
placed  in  a  grid  pattern  of  ap- 
proximately 40  pace  intervals 
throughout  the  test  bogs.  From 
those  counts,  an  average  number 
of  berries  per  frame  (square  foot) 
was  derived  for  each  bog.  The 
average  number  of  berries  per 
square  foot  was  then  compared  to 
the  final  yield  per  ,^cre  for  the 
individual  bogs.  In  1963,  the  sur- 
vey was  repeated  in  the  same 
bogs  with  the  percentage  change 
in  the  average  number  of  berries 
an  additional  indicator  of  proba- 
ble yield. 

Comparisons  of  either  the  av- 
erage number  of  berries  per 
square  foot  or  year  to  year  change 
in  number  of  berries  per  square 
foot  and  final  yield  per  acre 
showed  a  poor  correlation  mean- 
ing that  only  a  rough  idea  of 
probable  yield  could  be  obtained 
by  counting  berries. 

Because  yield  per  acre  is  meas- 
ured on  a  weight  basis  (100 
pound  barrels),  it  was  believed 
that  picking  the  berries  and  ob- 
taining an  average  weight  per 
square  foot  would  overcome  the 
variation  in  berry  size,  the  main 
problem  in  the  counting  method. 
A  significant  improvement  in 
measuring  probable  yield  through 
a  scientific  sample  of  weight  was 
thought  likely  and  was  set  up  for 
testing  in  1964  by  W.  J.  Fluke, 
Statistician  in  Charge  of  the  New 
Jersey  Crop  Reporting  Office  and 
project  leader,  J.  C.  St.  Pierre. 

The  work  done  the  first  two 
years  provided  background  for 
understanding  the  problems  in- 
volved and  for  setting  up  im- 
proved   procedures.     In    1964    and 


1965  the  area  of  study  was  ex- 
panded from  a  few  trial  bogs  to 
the  entire  producing  area  in  New 
Jersey.  A  representative  sample 
of  all  known  harvested  acreage 
in  the  state  was  selected.  The 
frame  consisted  of  30  bogs  in  1964 
and  36  bogs  in  1965.  Berries  were 
picked  from  each  of  four  frames 
per  bog  and  weighed  separately. 
Although  four  frames  per  bog 
may  seem  like  a  small  sample, 
analysis  of  available  data  indica- 
ted that  this  balance  of  frames 
per  bog  and  number  of  bogs  was 
an  optimum  allocation  of  the  re- 
sources available  to  do  the  job. 
Increasing  either  the  number  of 
frames  per  bog  beyond  4  or  the 
number  of  bogs  beyond  36  would 
result  in  diminishing  returns,  in 
terms,  of  more  reliable  averages 
in  relation  to  project  costs. 

The  mid-August  weights, 
grouped  by  method  of  harvest, 
expanded  to  an  acre  equivalent  of 
48.3  barrels  per  acre  and  51.1 
barrels  per  acre  in  1965.  The 
sample  weights  compared  closely 
with  the  estimated  state  average 
yields  of  49.2  barrels  in  1964  and 
53.0  barrels  (preliminary)  in  1965. 
based  on  traditional  estimating 
methods.  It  is  apparent,  however, 
that  this  may  not  always  be  the 
case  as  sizing  of  berries  and  losses 
between  observation  date  and 
harvest  are  large  factors.  Future 
work  may  establish  "normal" 
values  for  these  growth  and  loss 
factors.  Variations  from  this  nor- 
mal could  be  measured  during  the 
growing  season  to  adjust  the  yield 
forecast  at  given  intervals.  Sample 
measurements  indicated  berries 
increased  57  percent  in  weigth 
from  mid-August  until  harvest. 
Harvest  loss  samples  in  1964  and 
1965  average  5.2  percent  in  water 
harvested  bogs,  23.0  percent  in 
Darlington  picked  bogs  and  38.7 
percent  in  hand  scooped  bogs. 
Insect  and  disease  loss  may  av- 
erage 15  percent  or  more  on  a 
state-wide    basis. 

Additional  work  is  needed  be- 
fore an  unqualified  statement  can 
be  made  concerning  the  accuracy 
of  cranberry  objective  yield 
methods.  However,  it  appears 
that  objective  measurements  used 
in  conjunction  with  grower  re- 
ports will  result  in  a  significant 
reduction    in    forecasting    error. 


FOURTEEN 


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BEAN. 


solid  set  bog  irrigation  systems 

John  Bean  Shur-Rane  solid  set  bog  systems  are  ideally  suited  to  meet  the  needs  of  any 
cranberry  grower.  Minimum  gallonage.  Special  V/L"  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
lightweight,  low-cost  aluminum  tubing.  Easy,  twist-of-the-wrist  coupling  action.  Wide, 
flat  footpads  keep  sprinklers  upright.  Also  available:  conventional  portable  systems  and 
Sequa-Matic  automatic  sequencing  systems  for  crops  and  lawns. 

see  your  authorized  shur-rane  distributor  or  write  factory  for  information 


MASSACHUSETTS 

Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
4  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  &  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  Inc. 
Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


AGRICULTURAL  EQUIPMENT 


JOHN  BEAN  DIVISION 


Xiansing,  Michigan. 


FIFTEEN 


Ocean  Spray 
Babcock,  Wise.  Plant 
Nears  Completion 

There  is  an  air  of  anticipation 
and  excitement  in  the  little  town 
of  Babcock,  Wisconsin  these  days. 
It  is  generated  by  the  construc- 
tion of  a  $495,000  cranberry 
processing  plant  for  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,    Inc. 

Babcock  now  has  a  population 
of  about  200,  who  feel  that  this 
new  plant  will  be  a  valuable 
asset  to  their  community.  Though 
this  is  a  small  town,  it  is  not 
small  when  speaking  of  cran- 
berries, since  it  is  estimated  that 
about  75  percent  of  the  Wiscon- 
sin cranberry  crop  is  grown 
within   65   miles   of   Babcock. 

Approximately  100  Wisconsin 
growers  are  members  of  the 
Ocean  Spray  cooperative  which 
will   own   and   operate   the   plant. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  facility 
will  employ  up  to  70  women  and 
14  men  during  the  season  from 
mid-September  to  December  1. 
The  full-time  staff  will  consist 
of  three  men  and  two  women. 
The    annual    payroll    will   be    be- 


tween   50    and    60    thousand    dol- 
lars. 

Scheduled  for  completion  on 
August  1,  the  plant  will  re- 
ceive and  screen  cranberries  di- 
rectly from  the  marshes  which, 
prior  to  that  time,  was  done 
by  each  grower  in  his  own  facili- 
ties. This  will  be  done  in  a  150 
by  200  foot  steel  frame  building 
where  the  cranberries  will  be 
sorted  and  stored  for  shipment 
to  Ocean  Spray  processing  plants 
in  North  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  on 
the  Pacific  Coast. 

It  is  anticipated  that  about  50 
or  so  growers  will  make  use  of 
the  new  Babcock  plant  which 
will  be  ready  to  handle  from  10 
to  15  million  pounds  of  berries 
this    season. 

Also  involved  in  the  new  Bab- 
cock plant  is  the  construction  of 
a  100  by  50  foot  pool,  eight  feet 
deep,  which  will  be  used  as  a 
holding  tank  for  berries  brought 
in   from  the   marshes. 

The  company  offices,  which  are 
now  located  at  321  12th  Avenue 
in  Wisconsin  Rapids,  will  be 
housed  in  a  32  by  64  foot  build- 
ing to  be  constructed  at  the  site 
of   the   new   plant. 


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LOADERS 
TRUCKS 


EQUIPPED    TO    HANDLE 
YOUR    BOG    NEEDS 


LOUIS    LECONTE 


P  &  L  CO 


CARVER,  MASS. 


866-4402 


CORRUGATED 
CULVERT  PIPE 

and 

FLOW  GATES 

Felker  Bros.  Mfg.  Co. 

MARSHFIELD     WISCONSIN 

Area   715   384-3121 


A  Few  Pesfkide 
Safety  Donf's 

Don't  save  or  re-use  empty 
pesticide  containers. 
Don't  leave  mothballs  where 
children  can  find  them. 
Don't  use  a  pesticide  in  the 
home  if  a  gas  mask  is  required 
when  using   it. 

Don't  use  your  mouth  to  blow 
out  clogged  sprayer  lines  or 
nozzle  tips,  or  siphon  a  pesti- 
cide from  a  container. 
Don't  smoke  while  handling 
pesticides. 

Don't    spray    or    dust    outdoors 
when  the   wind  is  high. 
•  Don't     apply     pesticides     near 
wells    where  they    might    con- 
taminate  the   drinking   water. 


SIXTEEN 


SPRINKLER 
SYSTEMS 

PUMPS 

HIGH  CAPACITY 

WELLS 

ROBERTS 

IRRIGATION 

SERVICE 

STEVENS  POINT 
WISCONSIN 


MASS.    DROUGHT 
THREATENS   CROPS 

The  drought  plagued  Massa- 
chusetts growers  are  experiencing 
a  multitude  of  problems  this 
year.  A  mid-June  heat  wave 
(921/2°  in  the  State  bog  shelter' 
on  the  12th)  and  shortage  of 
water  supplies  makes  this  a  criti- 
cal period  as  the  berries  are  now 
setting.  Sprinkler  systems  have 
been  installed  on  many  bogs 
but  60%  of  cranberry  properties 
remain  without  this  valuable 
protection. 

One  apparent  optimistic  note 
is  seen  in  the  fact  that  mammoth 
blossoms  are  in  evidence  with 
bee  population  being  very  good. 
This  coupled  with  sprinkler  pro- 
tection where  available  and  some 
rainfall  should  produce  a  good 
crop    for    1966. 


Ocean  Spray  Land 
Sale  Completed 

The  deed  for  the  sale  of  75 
acres  of  land  in  Middleboro, 
Mass.  Industrial  Park  was  signed 
in  the  Middleboro  Town  Hall  by 
officials  of  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.  and  the  Middleboro 
Board  of  Selectmen  Thursday, 
June  30th. 

The  deed-signing  marked  the 
culmination  of  activities  which 
Edward  Gelsthorpe,  Executive 
Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  Ocean  Spray,  said  began 
18  months  ago  when  it  became 
apparent  that  existing  facilities  of 
Ocean  Spray  were  not  adequate 
to  handle  the  increased  produc- 
tion of  the  company.  In  four 
years,  Ocean  Spray's  sales  have 
jumped  from  $27,000,000  to  over 
$50,000,000   a   year. 

The  plant  development  will 
take  place  in  two  stages.  The  re- 
ceiving, screening  and  fresh  fruit 
packing  facilities  will  be  ready 
by  September  1967;  it  is  planned 
to  have  the  processing  facilities 
completed  by  1969.  The  new 
plant  in  Massachusetts  is  part  of 
a  nation-wide  Ocean  Spray 
expansion    program. 


follow 

the 
leader 


Once  again  Buckner  Sprinklers  rate  as  the  number  one  agricul- 
tural irrigators.  When  tested  for  uniform  water  disbursement, 
Buckner  Sprinklers  led  the  field  with  the  highest  Coefficient  of 
Uniformity  (CU).  Buckner  high  CU  means  more  uniform  crop 
growth,  greater  profit  per  acre.  And  Buckner  design  and 
exacting  production  standards  assure  sprinklers  with  a  long, 
trouble-free  life.  For  only  Buckner  has  the  patented,  sand-proof 
GDG  Bearing  for  thousands  of  extra  maintenance-free  hours. 
Only  Buckner  gives  you  over  fifty  years  of  Buckner  sprinkler 
manufacturing  experience.  Follow  the  leader.  Irrigate  with 
Buckner— world's  leading  sprinkler  manufacturer.  See  your 
Buckner  Dealer  or  write: 

Buckner, 


®  INDUSTRIES,  INC. 

P.O.  BOX  232,  FRESNO,  CALIFORNIA  93708 


SEVENTEEN 


^so) 


Kerosene 

Solvenf 

Spraying  Equipment 


ESSOTANE 

PROPANE 

GAS 


PROPANE  CARBURETION 
INSTALLED  -  SERVICED 


BULK     and     CYLINDER     GAS     SERVICE 


HALLS  ON  CARIBBEAN 
VACATION 

Clarence  J.  and  Edith  S.  Hall, 
your  former  editors  and  pub- 
lishers have  been  on  a  Caribbean 
vacation.  They  flew  to  the  re- 
cently -  independent  islands  of 
Trinidad  and  Tobago,  off  the 
coast  of  Venezuela,  South  Amer- 
ica. They  were  surprised  to  be 
served  turkey  and  cranberry 
sauce  (from  Nova  Scotia)  on  both 
islands.  The  manager  of  their 
hotel  at  Tobago,  a  Dane,  knew 
of  and  liked  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berry   Juice    Cocktail. 


INC. 


JOSEPH    BALBONI  &   SONS 


Telephones 
585-4541  —         585-2604 


62    MAIN    STREET 

KINGSTON,    MASS. 


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DR.  CROSS  INVITED  TO  JAPAN 

Dr.  Chester  E.  Cross,  director 
of  Mass.  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station,  East  Wareham,  Mass. 
has  received  an  invitation  by  the 
University  of  Hokkaido,  Japan, 
to  spend  spend  45  days  as  cran- 
berry   consultant. 

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DOH'l  BOG  DOWN  NOW, 
VISIT  PCA  FOR  YOUR 

HARVEST  MONEY 

Most  responsible  growers  want  money  to  increase  their  flexibility  as 
harvest  comes  close.  With  PCA  money  available,  you  can  meet  unforeseen 
expenses.  You  can  sell  to  your  own  advantage.  You  can  utilize  labor  to 
harvest  right  and  clean  up  your  fall  work,  make  repairs  and  get  in  shape 
for  next  season. 

The  low  cost  of  PCA  money  works  hard  for  you,  too.  Simple  interest  only 
for  the  number  of  days  you  actually  use  the  money  and  only  on  the  unpaid 
balance  give  you  real  operating  room.  See  for  yourself  how  you  can  profit 
through  harvest  with  PCA  Harvest  Money. 


PRODUCTION  CREDIT 
ASSOCIATIONS 

MAUSTON 
ANTIGO 
LUCK 
MEDFORD 


WAUSAU 

BARRON 

TOMAH 

RICE    LAKE 

MARSHFIELD 

LADYSMITH 

STEVENS    POINT 

BLACK    RIVER    FALLS 

EIGHTEEN 


SPOTLIGHT  ON  SUPPLIERS 


Kingston  Oil  &  Gas.,  Inc. 


Just  after  the  turn  of  the 
century,  a  young  immigrant 
named  Joseph  Balboni  arrived  in 
the  United  States  from  his  native 
Italy.  This  young  man  of  17 
settled  in  the  picturesque  little 
town  of  Kingston,  Massachusetts, 
only  a  mile  or  two  from  Plym- 
outh Rock,  the  historic  landing 
place  of  the  Pilgrims  nearly  three 
centuries   before. 

Thirteen  years  after  coming  to 
this  country,  this  young  man  who 
had  been  working  in  iron  found- 
ries, realizing  the  need  for  de- 
pendable fuel  suppliers,  estab- 
lished the  Kingston  Oil  Company. 

In  1948  the  company  expanded 
to  include  LP-gas  distribution. 
Believing  that  cylinder  deliveries 
were  important  to  their  business, 
Leon  Balboni,  treasurer  of  the 
company,  stated,  "Cylinder  de- 
livery will  always  have  an  im- 
portant place  in  our  business. 
Cylinders  are  the  only  answer 
to    efficient    service    of   LP-gas   to 


our  customers,  particularly  those 
summer  residents  of  our  Cape 
Cod  area." 

Two  years  ago  Kingston  Oil 
and  Gas  completed  a  new  and 
modern  bulk  plant  with  the  most 
up-to-date  equipment  obtainable. 
With  the  addition  of  this  plant 
the  Balbonis  are  able  to  offer  the 
finest  service  available  to  the 
people  of  the  area.  This,  inci- 
dentally, includes  many  of  the 
area   ci"anberry    growers. 

From  their  offices  at  62  Main 
Street,  Kingston,  Mass.,  the 
Kingston  Oil  and  Gas  Company, 
Inc.,  also  supplies  Esso  solvents, 
kerosene  and  spraying  equipment 
to    the    area    cranberry    growers. 

Since  the  death  of  their  father 
in  1962,  both  Balboni  brothers, 
Leon  and  Robert,  who  is  vice 
president  of  the  firm  and  spends 
most  of  his  time  on  dispatching 
and  field  supervision,  have  con- 
centrated   on    making    known    to 


the  local  cranberry  growers  that 
they  are  in  an  excellent  position 
to  supply  them  efficiently  and 
economically  with  any  of  their 
fuel,  solvent  and  spraying  sup- 
plies   and    equipment. 

Located  as  they  are  in  the 
heart  of  the  Massachusetts  cran- 
berry growing  industry,  they  are 
able  to  offer  quick  and  efficient 
service  to  growers  throughout  the 
area. 

"We  are  gratified,"  said  Leon 
Balboni  recently,  "that  many 
Cape  cranberry  growers  have 
shown  enough  confidence  in  our 
company  that  they  have,  in  turn, 
told  their  fellow  growers  about 
our  services.  This,  of  course,  is 
the  very  best  kind  of  advertising." 

The  Balbonis  make  an  effort  to 
keep  up  with  the  latest  develop- 
ments in  chemicals  being  used  by 
the  cranberry  industry  so  that 
they  may  better  serve  their 
grower    customers. 


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NINETEEN 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued    from    Page    11 

NEW    J  E  RS  EY 


June  Ends  Torrid 
Although  the  month  of  June 
ended  in  a  torrid  heat  wave,  the 
average  temperature  during  the 
month  at  the  New  Lisbon  Weath- 
er Station  was  71.0  which  is  just 
about  normal.  The  seven  days  of 
90  degree  weather  which  occurred 
in  the  latter  half  of  the  month 
were  balanced  out  by  seven  days 
in  the  first  half  of  the  month 
when  the  temperature  dropped 
down  to  the  forties. 

Drought    Still    Serious 

The  pattern  of  drought  was  re- 
sumed again  during  June.  Only 
2.36  inches  of  rain  fell  during  the 
month  or  about  IVz  inches  below 
normal.  The  total  rainfall  for  the 
first  six  months  of  1966  is  19.87 
inches.  Although  this  is  only  one 
inch  less  than  normal,  drought 
conditions  are  considered  serious 
in  the  cranberry-blueberry  area 
of  New  Jersey.  Most  of  the  rain 
has  fallen  in  the  non-growing 
months  and  the  28  inch  deficiency 
carried  over  from  the  past  three 


years  has   left  water  resources  at 
critical    levels. 

Heat  Causes  Concern 
An  extremely  severe  heat  wave 
during  the  latter  half  of  June 
and  early  July  is  causing  much 
concern  to  blueberry  as  well  as 
cranberry  growers.  Many  blue- 
berry bushes  are  dessicating  as  a 
result  of  the  heat.  Temperatures 
were  well  above  100  degrees  in 
the  fields  on  July  3rd,  4th  and 
5th.  Official  readings  in  the 
weather  shelter  on  these  dates 
were   98,    101    and    100   degrees. 

Blossom   Late 

It  is  too  early  to  tell  about 
cranberry  crop  prospects  this  sea- 
son. Blossoming  is  considerably 
later  than  normal  and  as  of  July 
7th  the  peak  of  bloom  had  not 
yet  occurred  on  many  bogs.  New 
growth  is  more  lush  than  normal, 
probably  the  result  of  heavy  rain- 
fall in  May.  Black  headed  fire- 
worms  are  becoming  more  of  a 
problem  on  New  Jersey  bogs, 
particularly  those  which  are 
drawn  early.  The  flight  of  girdler 
moths  is  very  heavy  and  is  caus- 
ing some  concern. 


Distributor  For 

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866-4545 


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295-3737 


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TO  L.  P.  GAS 

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2.  No  Pilferage 

3.  Saves  on  Spark  Plugs 

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FOR   A    DEMONSTRATION    CALL    US 
TODAY 


WASHINGTON 


June    Warm 

June  weather  on  the  coast  was 
exceptional  in  that  we  had  a 
terrifically  hot  day,  June  15th,  a 
high  of  94  degrees  registered  at 
the  Coastal  Washington  Research 
and  Extension  Unit.  There  were 
higher  temperatures  read  at  pro- 
tected places  and  the  growers 
did  some  thinking.  Many  used 
the  sprinklers  from  80  degrees  on 
which  was  just  about  all  day 
since  the  temperature  reached  80 
degrees  about  10:00  A.M.  and  it 
was  still  90  degrees  at  5:00  P.M. 
We  also  had  two  low  periods 
with  frost  on  the  fourth  and  the 
24th.  Again  the  growers  used  the 
sprinklers  since  the  buds  are  very 
tender  now.  Due  to  several  cir- 
cumstances some  growers  had 
extensive  damage  due  to  frost 
injury.  Automatic  sprinklers  cer- 
tainly pay  off  when  unexpected 
lows    hit. 

The  mean  high  for  the  month 
was  63.5  degrees  and  the  mean 
low  47.83.  The  precipitation  total 
was  2.28  inches  for  the  month 
with  a  total  for  the  year  to  date 
of  39.04  inches.  The  1966  total 
through  June  was   44.90  inches. 

Crop    Prospects   Excellent 

Following  a  tour  of  the  Gray- 
land,  North  Beach  and  Long 
Beach  areas.  Extension  Agent, 
Azmi  Y.  Shawa  feels  that  the 
over  all  prospects  are  for  a  bum- 
per crop.  The  fiowers  are  a  mass 
in  most  all  the  bogs  and  unless 
something  unexpected  comes 
along,  the  harvest  should  be 
heavy. 


MANY    GROWERS    TURN    OUT 
FOR    CRANBERRY   FIELD    DAY 

Valuable  information  for  cran- 
berry growers  was  provided  120 
people  who  attended  the  annual 
field  day  at  the  Coastal  Washing- 
ton Research  and  Extension  Unit 
in  Long  Beach  June  25.  A  spe- 
cial feature  was  a  baked-smoked 
salmon  luncheon  served  by  the 
South    Bend  4-H    group. 


TWENTY 


"I   PAINT  WHAT   I  LIKE." 


Agway  offers  proven  pesticides 
for  Complete  Crop  Protection 


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\      Place  Orders  with- 

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Agway 


HARRY  T.  FISHER,  JR. 


Tel.  Micidleboro  947-2133 


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PROVEN  PESTICIDE  APPLICATION  BY  HELICOPTER 


Call:   HARRY  T.   FISHER,  JR. 

an  independent  distributor 
of  Agway  pesticides 


The  best  source  of 
cranberry  pesticide  Helicopter  operated  by 

control  materials  and  „,  -    -,  , 

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application  service  -  '  ' 

Thomas  "Whitey"  Weitbrecht 
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VOL.   31  -NO.   3 


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THE  VERSATILE  BERRY 

It  seems  we  all  like  to  reminisce  once  in 
a  while.  It  was  during  one  those  moments 
of  reminiscing  a  few  days  ago  that  my 
thoughts  turned  to  cranberries,  naturally, 
and  I  began  to  realize  what  a  truly  versatile 
berry  we  are   working   with. 

I  won't  tell  you  my  age  but  I  remember, 
though  vaguely,  when  my  mother  would 
buy  several  pounds  of  whole  fresh  cran- 
berries and  then  spend  many  hours  over 
a  hot  stove  making  cranberry  sauce  for  our 
rather  large,  cranberry-loving  family.  She 
would  measure  and  stir  and  measure  again 
and  taste  and  then  wait  for  the  sauce 
to  cook  for  the  necessary  length  of  time 
so  that  her  family  could  enjoy  the  whole- 
someness  and  nourishment  of  home-made 
cranberry    sauce. 

Of  course,  as  time  has  a  habit  of  doing, 
things  change.  It  is  no  longer  necessarv  for 
the  housewife  to  work  so  hard  and  long  to 
turn  out  "home-made"  cranberry  sauce. 
What  with  new  processes  and  automatic 
equipment  —  and  the  experienced  people  to 
operate  them  —  you  can  go  to  the  nearest 
super  market  or  corner  store  and  buy,  right 
off  the  shelf,  cranberry  sauce  "like  mother 
used  to  make." 

But  now,  in  addition  to  cranberry  sauce, 
many  other  cranberry  products  are  being 
offered  to  the  public.  Some  of  these  are 
cranberry  preserves,  jellies,  the  very  popu- 
lar cranberry  juice  cocktail  and  yes,  even 
cranberry  ice  cream  plus  others. 

The  point  I'm  trying  to  make  is  — how 
many  of  the  growers  realize  that  there  is 
a  reason  for  this  more  general  usage  of 
cranberries?  The  obvious  benefits  of  the 
increase  in  the  number  of  cranberry  prod- 
ucts need  no  elaboration.  The  old  '^law  of 
supply  and  demand  holds  forth  in  this 
industry  as  it  does  in  any  other. 

Without  the  "behind-the-scenes"  work  of 
many  people,  agriculturists,  research  scien- 
tists, chemical  engineers,  marketing  people, 
there  would  not  be  this  demand  and,  there- 
fore, the  grower  would  find  it  difficult,  if 
not  impossible  to  get  a  decent  price  for  his 
crop. 

There  are  those  people  who  work  tire- 
lessly to  find  new  products  and  new  markets 
for  these  products.  One  very  fine  example 
of  these  new  products  and  their  impact  on 

TWENTY. 7WO 


Established     193  6     by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Wareham,    Mass. 

Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

30  Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 

Eagle  River 

Wisconsin 

Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


the  industry  was  touched  upon  in  a  guest 
editorial  in  the  March,  1965  issue  of  CRAN- 
BERRIES, when  George  C.  P.  Olsson,  Presi- 
dent of  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.  stated 
"New  and  agressive  management  at  Ocean 
Spray  with  the  subsequent  promotion  of 
Cranberry  Juice  Cocktail  on  a  national  basis 
has  been  a  giant  step  forward.  This  plus 
the  introduction  of  new  product  lines  has 
enabled  the  industry  to  use  all  the  cran- 
berries   harvested    in    1963    and    1964." 

It  should  be  gratifying  to  the  grower,  large 
or  small,  to  know  that  someone  —  someone 
he  doesn't  even  know  —  is  working  to  find 
new  and  better  markets  for  the  cranberries 
he  will  harvest  this  fall. 


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beetles  and  leafhoppers,  including  the  leafhoppers 
that  spread  false  blossom  disease.  And  the  relatively 
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TWENTY-THREE 


FRESH    FROM   THE   FIELDS 

WISCONSIN 


The  season  is  about  ten  days 
late,  but  there  has  been  some 
nice  growing  weather  lately,  and 
if  the  weather  conditions  continue 
to  be  good,  the  lateness  can  be 
made  up  by  the  time  of  harvest. 

Hail    Damage    Up 

First  brood  fireworm  are  now 
practically  finished  and  the  grow- 
ers have  now  finished  dusting  or 
spraying.  The  hail  damage  in  the 
Tomah-Warrens  area  has  been 
estimated  at  50%  on  200  acres. 
Some  of  the  growers  had  as 
much  as  75%  while  others  had  a 
25%  loss,  but  the  average  for  the 
area  was  around  50%.  This 
would  mean  a  loss  of  10,000 
barrels  figuring  a  yield  of  100 
barrels  to  the  acre. 

In  addition,  there  has  been 
some  frost  scattered  throughout 
the  state,  and  though  the  damage 
isn't  serious,  several  thousand 
barrels  have  now  been  lost. 

Wisconsin  had  some  extremely 
warm  weather  the  last  of  June 
with  the  result  that  the  berries 
seem  to  be  almost  normal  for  that 
time  of  year.  Even  in  the  nor- 
thern part  of  the  state  some  beds 
are  in  full  bloom  which  is  about 
normal. 

Bumble    Bees    Scarce 

Most  of  the  state  finds  that  the 
bumble  bee  population  is  way 
down  this  year  so  the  growers  are 
relying  more  and  more  on  honey 
bees,  which  they  can  rent  for  $15 
a  swarm.  A  swarm  takes  care  of 
two  acres  as  a  rule. 

Because  of  the  heat  and  dry 
weather,  considerable  progress  is 
being  made  by  those  growers  who 
are  getting  ready  for  planting 
next  year.  However,  the  shortage 
of  help  is  a  limiting  factor. 

New  Marsh  Development 
The  Cardinal  Cranberry  Com- 
pany at  Manitowish  Waters  was 
sold  recently  to  Frederic  Bartling 
and  there  is  a  new  cranberry 
development   going  in    at    Fifield, 


Wisconsin  that  will  be  quite  large 
and  should  be  one  of  the  finest 
cranberry  properties  in  Wisconsin 
once   it   is  developed. 

Weather 

The  week  of  June  5th  was 
mostly  cloudy,  cool  and  wet. 
Warm  and  humid  weather  with 
thunderstorms  and  showers  per- 
sisted throughout  the  state  into 
Monday.  Much  needed  rain  fell 
in  northern  and  western  sections. 
After  the  7th  the  weather  turned 
decidedly  cooler  with  light  frost 
or  near  freezing  temperatures  on 
the  10th.  Scattered  thunderstorms 
returned  to  the  south  on  the  11th. 

Mostly  cloudy  and  cool  weather 
continued  with  average  weekly 
temperatures  3  to  6  degrees  below 
normal.  Beneficial  showers  and 
thunderstorms  occurred  through- 
out the  state  on  the  11th  and  I2th 
though  rainfall  amounts  varied 
sharply  within  districts.  Only 
scattered  light  sprinkles  were  re- 
ported from  Monday,  June  20,  to 
Friday  afternoon  when  very  lo- 
calized showers  again  material- 
ized. A  few  reports  of  heavy 
downpours  and  hail  were  received. 

Summer  arrived  in  earnest 
during  the  week  of  the  19th  on 
the  tail  of  southerly  winds  which 
brought  warmth  and  high  humid- 
ity to  the  state.  A  very  persistent 
weather  pattern  with  nearly 
cloudless  but  hazy  skies  prevailed 
during  the  week.  Little  or  no 
precipitation  managed  to  fall 
from  the  humid  air  mass. 

The  hot  and  humid  weather 
continued  until  the  26th,  when 
slightly  cooler  and  drier  air 
moved  in  from  the  northwest. 
A  few  scattered  showers  occurred 
over  the  northwest  on  Friday,  the 
24th,  and  in  the  southwest  on 
Saturday   evening,   the   25th. 

Growers'   Meeting  July   28 

Mark  July  28  on  your  calendar. 
Summer  meeting  of  the  Wiscon- 
sin State  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  will  be  held  at  Olson 
Brothers,  Warrens,  Wisconsin,  at 
9:00  A.M. 


Cranberry  Products 
Adds  New  Equipmenf 

Cranberry  Products,  Inc.,  is 
installing  their  new  juice  equip- 
ment which  consists  primarily  of 
a  DeLaval  Separator  and  are  also 
putting  in  two  Groen  kettles  for 
whole  cranberry  sauce,  which 
from  preliminary  tests  looks  like 
this  equipment  will  make  a  very 
superior  sauce,  as  they  are  so 
constructed  to  handle  the  ber- 
ries with  the  minimum  of  rough 
treatment. 


U.  S.  Cranberry  Growers 
Voted  for  Continuance 
of  Marketing  Order 

599  Favor— Only  67  Opposed 

Cranberry  growers  of  the  U.S. 
have  voted  to  continue  the  mar- 
keting agreement  and  marketing 
order  regulating  the  handling  of 
cranberries.  In  a  referendum 
conducted  by  USDA's  marketing 
and  consumer  service,  500 
growers,  or  more  than  89  per- 
cent of  those  voting  favored  this 
continuation.  This  accounted  for 
more  than  67  percent  of  produc- 
tion represented  in  the  balloting. 

Sixty  -  seven  growers  voted 
against  this  still  -  controversial 
matter.  Provisions  of  the  mar- 
keting agreement  and  order  be- 
came effective  August  15,  1962 
after  hearings  in  all  areas  which 
are  still  remembered.  The  pro- 
gram is  designed  to  help  stab- 
ilize cranberry  prices  of  the 
crop  grown  in  Massachusetts, 
Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New 
Jersey,  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Min- 
nesota, Oregon,  Washington  and 
Long  Island  in  New  York,  or  in 
fact    anywhere  in    this   country. 

Referendum  of  growers  by  bal- 
lot must  be  conducted  on  each 
even-numbered,  or  every  two 
years  to  see  if  the  growers  wish 
the  order  continued  or  termi- 
nated. 


TWENTY-FOUR 


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Ben  Lears  $750  Ton 
Stevens  $1000  Ton 

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B.S.    &   M.S. 

University  of  Wisconsin 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Fees    Reasonable 

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JERSEY'66  BLUES  CROP 
SLIGHTLY  DOWN 

Grower  reports  to  the  New 
Jersey  Crop  Reporting  Service 
indicate  the  1966  bkieberry 
crop  ^^^ll  total  1,917,000  trays. 
This  production  would  be  3 
percent  less  than  last  year  but 
10  percent  above  the  1960-64 
average. 

Acreage  harvested  this  season 
is  expected  to  decline  about 
500  acres  to  7,100.  This  marks 
the  second  consecutive  year 
the  long  term  upward  trend  in 
liarvested  acreage  has  been 
i'lten-upted.  Growers  are  re- 
planting fields  that  contained 
less  productive  varieties  or 
drought  damaged  bushes  and 
abandonment  of  marginal  acre- 
age  continues. 

Growers  reports  indicate  an 
additional  1,000  acres  of  blue- 
berries that  will  not  be  harvest- 
ed in  1966  -  750  acres  not  yet 
of  bearing  age  and  250  acres  of 
bearing  age  bushes  that  will 
not  be  harvested.  Yield  per 
acre  is  expected  to  average 
about  270  trays  this  year,  com- 
pared to  260  trays  per  acre  in 
1965  and  tlie  five-year  aver- 
age of  242  trays. 


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Temperatures  in  the  low 
20's  the  nights  of  May  10th  and 
11th  damaged  early  varieties, 
mainly  Weymouth,  and  delayed 
start  of  harvest.  Damage  ranged 
from  fight  to  severe  in  various 
locations.  Mid-season  and  late 
varieties  such  as  Jersey,  Coville, 
Rubel  and  Berkeley  were  not 
damaged,  however,  and  are  de- 
veloping   excellent    crops. 


Cranberry  Labels 

Wanted  as  a  gift  or  trade, 
"labels"  from,  Eatinor,  Ocean 
Spray  and  independents  from  all 
cranherry-growing  regions;  with 
the  exception  of  one  label,  can, 
in  return,  furnish  all  copies  of 
all  Wisconsin  brands  to  any  in- 
terested parties. 

Like  the  Silver  Dollar,  these 
labels  are  fast  disappearing,  and 
should  be  garnered  for  museums 
and  such. 

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Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 

Making  Farm  Bureau  policy 
is  the  Tuost  important  task  to 
be  performed  by  Farm  Bureau 
members  throughout  each  or- 
ganized County  Farm  Bureau 
in  the  United   States. 

Policies  of  County,  State  and 
National  Farm  Bureau  are 
initiated  and  developed  by 
Fanu  Bureau  members  at  the 
County  level.  Recommendations 
from  commodity  and  other  dis- 
cussion groups  within  the 
County  Farm  Bureau  are  the 
survey  of  opinion  furnished  to 
the  County  Policy  Development 
Committee.       This      committee 


uses  these  recommendations  as 
a  guide  in  preparing  the  pro- 
posed resolutions  for  considera- 
tion at  the  County  Annual 
meeting.  Members  have  the 
privilege  and  obhgation  to  alter 
any  resolution  in  line  with 
thinking  of  the  Farm  Bureau 
members  in  attendance.  After 
consideration  a  nd  adoption, 
resolutions  become  pohcy  on 
issues  which  apply  within  the 
county  and  are  recommenda- 
tions on  state  and  national  is- 
sues. 

County  recommendations  on 
state  and  national  issues  are 
forwarded  to  the  State  Resolu- 
tions Committee  composed 
largely  of  County  Presidents 
and  other  persons  selected  to 
serve  by  the  State  President. 

This     committee    reviews    all 


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recommendations  and  after 
careful  study,  it  prepares  a 
report  for  consideration  by 
county  delegates  attending  the 
state  armual  meeting.  State 
policy  is  determined  at  the  state 
meeting  and  recommendations 
are  then  made  to  the  American 
Farm  Bureau  Federation  on 
national  policies. 

When  the  resolution  is  fully 
understood  and  apphed  to 
problems  of  farmers  in  an  or- 
ganized fashion,  the  solution  is 
within  reach  and  serves  the 
purpose  of  the  majority  of 
Farm  Bureau  members. 

Annual    Meeting,   Thursday,    August    25 

The  Cranberry  commodity 
committee  of  the  Plymouth 
County  Farm  Bureau  is  going 
to  make  the  following  recom- 
mendations to  the  Resolutions 
Committee  iis  to  some  needs 
of  cranberry  growers  during 
the  coming  year.  If  you  cran- 
berry growers  from  Plymoutii 
County  think  these  recommenda- 
tions are  desirable,  you  should 
attend  the  Plymouth  County 
Annual  Meeting  at  Leach's 
Grove,  Rtes.  18  and  28,  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.  on  Thursday,  Aug- 
ust 25,  1966  at  6:30  P.M.  to 
help  determine  Farm  Bureau 
policy  on  these  issues.  Tickets 
for  the  Chicken  Bar- B- Que 
dirmer  are  available  from  David 
Mann,  President  of  the  Plym- 
outh County  Farm  Bureau. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the 
Plymouth  Coimty  Fann  Bureau 
is  where  the  total  membership 
will  discuss,  change  and  vote 
on  these  recommendations  as 
follows : 
1.   V(ui(lalls7n  and  Trespass  Laws 

Due  to  widespread  vandalism 
on  fann  propei-t\'  resulting  in 
loss  of  crops  and  personal  prop- 
erty BE  IT  RESOLVED  that 
steps  be  taken  to  increase  the 
penalties   for  violators. 

Whereas  farms  having  farm 
ponds  and  other  attractive  nuis- 
ances bring  in  unwanted  ties- 
passers  BE  IT  RESOLVED 
tliat  a  law  be  enacted  to  have 
the  liability  removed  from  the 
lando\\Tier  should  a  tiespasser 
be  injured  in  any  way  on  the 
property. 


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Continued  on  Page  23 


Mass. 
Cranberry 
Station 
S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist: 


Weather 


July  was  a  hot,  dry  month, 
ne  tempexature  averaged 
ightly  more  than  one  degree 

day  above  normal  with  very 
jw  cool  days.  Total  rainfall 
)r  the  month  was  only  0.64  in- 
hes  with  over  one-half  com- 
ig  on  tlie  28th.  This  is  less 
lan  25  percent  of  the  average 
ad  we  are  now  seven  inches 
elow  average  for  the  year  1966. 
t  was  the  driest  July  at  the 
Iranberry  Station  since  1952. 
Ve  have  had  less  rain  during 
me  and  July  this  year  than  we 
id  last,  and  to  further  com- 
licate  matters  there  were  25 
lys  in  July  when  the  maximum 
jmperature  in  the  weather 
lelter  exceeded  80  degrees  as 
Mnpared  with  16  days  in 
ily,  1965. 


The  crop  prospect  for  Mass- 
achusetts was  excellent  on  July 
1st  and  is  stiU  very  good  on 
August  1st,  but  it  is  starting  to 
fade  some.  The  crop  will  fall 
off  more  if  we  do  not  get  some 
worthwhile  rain  soon. 
Reminder 

Remember  that  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  tlie  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association  will 
be  held  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion beginning  at  10  A.M.  on 
August  23.  This  is  a  very  en- 
joyable meeting  and  everyone 
has  a  fine  time. 

Guest    Columnist 

We  have  some  thoughts  on  a 
most  appropiate  subject  by  Dr. 
Chester  Cross. 

THE   CASE    FOR    WATER    HARVESTING 
Massachusetts,    1966 

During  the  twenty  years 
since  World  War   II,   the   U.S. 


cranberry  industry  has  known 
more  years  than  not  when  the 
market  for  its  products  was  smal- 
ler than  its  production.  To  assist 
in  the  consumption  of  more 
cranberries,  several  programs 
were  developed  and  imple- 
mented to  raise  better  quaHty 
cranberries  to  harvest  and  han- 
dle the  fruit  more  carefully  for 
the  preservation  of  quality 
and  finally  through  market- 
preparation  and  in-transit  stud- 
ies to  leam  and  adopt  methods 
that  would  assure  the  consumer 
of  good  quality  cranberries 
when  purchasing  them  at  re- 
tail level  throughout  the  coun- 
try. Despite  these  efforts  to  re- 
tain or  increase  the  level  of 
consiunption  of  fresh  fruit  cran- 
berries the  percentage  of  the 
national  crop  sold  fresh  has 
steadily  declined  from  about 
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Growers  who  sell  to  Dean's  Indian  Trail  get  an  advance  on  their  estimated 
crop  at  the  beginning  of  harvest.  They  get  a  second  payment  when  they 
ship  dm'ing  the  season,  and  a  final  payment  at  a  later  date. 

There's  this,  too.  Dean's  Indian  Trail  is  a  well-known,  highly  respected 
company.  We  have  strong  advertising  and  merchandising  programs  designed 
to  sell  cranberrry  products.  And  we  have  a  dedica- 
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WHAT   PRICE    LABOR? 
The  thought  uppermost  in  the  minds  of  grow- 
ers   when    harvest    time    rolls    around    is    the 
availabihty  —  or  lack  of  it  —  of  labor. 

Hopefully,  the  cranberry  industry  will  not 
be  as  bothered  by  this  problem  as  growers  of 
rther  crops  but  it  seems  highly  unhkely  that 
some  areas,  at  least,  will  not  have  difficulty 
to  some  degree  in  hiring  an  adequate  number 
rf  capable  workers. 

The  most  bothevsome  thing  about  this  situa- 
tion is  the  fact  that  the  federal  government, 
.specifically  the  Bureau  of  Employinent  security 
of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Labor,  has  in  the 
past  turned  down  formal  requests  by  growers 
of  such  crops  as  tomatoes,  sweet  com,  aspara- 
gus to  hire  off-shore  or  braccero  laborers.  The 
excuse  given  was  that  the  bureau  felt  that  not 
enough  effort  had  been  made  to  obtain  suf- 
ficient domestic  labor.  Last  year  every  criteria 
was  met  so  as  to  eliminate  this  as  a  possible 
excuse.  Still,  Secretary  of  Labor  Wirtz  failed 
to  obtain  the  needed  supplemental  labor  with 
the  resulting  crop  loss  estimated  at  near  $7 
million. 

Cases  have  been  reported  where  some  grow- 
ers of  crops  were  offering  experienced  domes- 
tic workers  as  much  as  40  percent  above  the 
regular  piece  rates  in  order  to  lure  labor- 
ers away  from  the  harvest  of  other  crops. 

The  Secretary  of  Labor's  failure  to  furnish 
adequate  labor  has  disturbed  growers  all  across 
the  country.  Another  disturbing  factor  has  been 
the  administration's  stated  concern  over  rising 
food  costs. 

It  seems  logical  to  assume  that,  if  permitted 
to  function  without  governmental  interference, 
the  law  of  supply  and  demand  would  almost 
certainly  result  in  an  adjustment  of  prices. 

Governmental  advice  to  the  buying  public 
to  restrict  purchases  of  food  products  could 
be  seen  to  result  in  the  curtailment  of  planted 
acreage. 


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CLARENCE   J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

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Washington 

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Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment  Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

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New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


The  question  seems  to  be  —  will  Secretary 
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crops  when  producing  acreage  has  been 
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Nutsedga  (Nutgrass) 

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Wideieaf  grass 

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MASSACHUSETTS 

July    Begins   Hot   and    Humid 

Following  the  extreme  heat 
and  humidity  of  the  Fourth  of 
[uly  Holiday  period,  July  6th 
wought  an  all-day  drizzle  to 
the  cranbeny  area,  which  was 
^ery  helpful  to  the  bogs,  even 
though  precipitation  was  slight. 
One  weather  man  coining  a 
word  called  the  period  "Drys- 
mal."  By  early  July  the  pre- 
cipitation deficiency  was  not 
as  great  as  in  the  great  drought 
Df  last  year  but  still  about  3 
inches  short  of  normal,  which 
coupled  with  the  dryness  of  the 
past  four  years,  made  condi- 
:ions  drier  than  desirable. 

Trouble    Acute    by    July    13 

July  continued  to  get  hotter 
and  more  humid  until  a  point 
of  crisis  was  reached  on  the 
13th  because  of  the  heat  and 
continued  lack  of  rain.  That 
day  brought  92  degrees  in  the 
shelter  at  the  State  Bog  and  the 
rainfall  for  July  to  that  date 
had  been  only  one  12th  of  an 
inch.  The  excess  of  degrees  in 
heat  for  the  month  had  reached 
a  total  of  55.  Growers  who  had 
sprinklers  were  keeping  them 
In  use,  but  for  many,  water  sup- 
plies were  beginning  to  get 
short.  Of  course,  the  sprinkling 
also  was  very  costly.  But  it 
was  a  necessity.    For  the  many 


acres  which  did  not  have  sprink- 
lers the  situation  was  naturally 
much  worse.  The  Mass.  blue- 
berry crop  had  been  badly  dam- 
aged by  that  time. 

The  intense  heat  situation 
was  reheved  on  the  15th,  when 
cooler,  Canadian  air  moved  in- 
to New  England  and  temper- 
atures and  especially  humidity 
dropped  very  appreciably.  But 
lack  of  rain  continued  to  take 
its  toll.  Temperatures  were 
higher  than  normal,  until  the 
19th,  when  there  came  a  dras- 
tic change  in  temperature,  but 
not  much  in  the  drought  situ- 
ation. On  the  afternoon  and 
night  of  that  day  New  England 
was  alerted  to  thunderstorms 
and  possible  tornados,  as  cool 
simimer  polar  air  moved  in. 
There  were  no  tornadoes  which 
are  extremely  rare  in  the  six- 
state  area,  but  there  were  thun- 
derstorms and  showers.  But  few 
of  these  were  in  the  cranberry 
area,  except  on  the  western 
fringe  and  little  in  the  main 
cranberry  area,  that  is  Hanson, 


the  Carvers,  Wareham  and  the 
Cape  where  the  drought  is  the 
worst.  Total  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  was  only  .004  inch. 

Drought    Loss    Estimated    at    50,000   Bbls. 

So  severe  is  the  drought  that 
on  the  20th  Dr.  Cross  of  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 
estimated  the  loss  then  as  per- 
haps 50,000  baiTcls.  The  change 
from  torrid,  humid  tempera- 
tures was  so  great  that  on  the 
night  of  the  20th  a  report  of  34 
degrees  came  from  a  Carver 
cranberry  bog.  The  weather 
was  so  cool  as  to  suddenly  be 
almost  too  cool. 

The  use  of  sprinklers  contin- 
ued, a  necessary,  but  costly  and 
as  this  is  the  fifth  year  of  the 
dry  spell,  some  growers  were 
running  out  of  water.  Another 
bad  feature  was  that  with  the 
emphasis  on  sprinkling  other 
work  which  should  have  been 
accomplished  was  perforce  ne- 
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July   Rain    Only    64th    of    an    Inch 

July  dragged  to  an  end  \vith 
precipitation  as  recorded  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  as  only  64tli 
of  an  inch  of  rain.  Average  for 
July  is  3.21.  Thus  the  long 
drought  continues  and  that  it 
is  "picking  cranberries"  is  no 
longer  in  doubt.  Dr.  Cross  es- 
timates that  perhaps  75,000  bar- 
rels have  been  lost,  whicli 
would  amount  to  about  a  mil- 
lion-dollar loss  to  Massachu- 
setts growers.  Earlier  estimates 
were  for  a  Mass.  crop  of  850,- 
000  to  900,000  barrels  for  the 
Bay  State,  a  huge  production. 
Now  the  feeling  aroimd  is  that 
production  will  not  equal  that 
of  last  year  which  was  715,000 
barrels. 

Month    Also    Hot 

The  temperatures  for  the 
month  averaged  about  one  and 
two-third  degrees  above  nor- 
mal. There  was  also  a  record 
breaking  amount  of  sunshine 
hours,  about  75  percent  of  pos- 
sible maximum.  Tliis  is  good 
news  for  the  crop  of  1967. 
There  was  also  a  lot  of  wind 
through  most  of  July  which 
aided  cross -pollination  and  also 
stimulated  bee  activity,  both 
honey  and  bumble  bee.  There 
were  also  few  hours  of  fog 
dm'ing  the  month. 

Size  of  Coming  Crop 

With  only  about  foiu-  weeks 
remaining  until  harvest,  grow- 
ers are  getting  cirrious  as  to 
how  big  the  U.  S.  crop  will  be. 
Last  year  the  total  was  1,314,- 
500  barrels,  the  largest  on  rec- 
ord. It  seemed  earlier  that  this 
figure  would  be  met  and  even 
exceeded.  But  the  eastern 
drought  is  continuing  into  its 
fifth  year.  Hurt,  as  in  Massa- 
chusetts, also  are  all  New  Jersey 
crops.  There,  too  the  lack  of 
rain  has  been  b.  d.  South  Jersey, 
however,  had  a  healthy  precipi- 
tation on  the  19th  when  it  wis 
so  badly  needed.  A  total  of  2.07 
inches  was  recorded  at  Pembn- 
ton  during  a  severe  thunder- 
storm.   The  only  relief  in  Mas- 


sachusetts cranberry  area  oc- 
curred on  the  27th.  But  this 
proved  to  be  slight.  This  was 
the  first  really  rainy  day  in 
months.  However,  while  Boston 
and  other  parts  of  Massachu- 
setts got  a  good  soaking,  there 
was  little  again  in  the  main 
cranberry  area.  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion recorded  only  3Sth  of  an 
inch. 

There  will  he  a  lot  of  cran- 
berries this  fall  grow7i  in  Mas- 
sachusetts because  of  favorable 
prior  conditions.    There  was  no 
winterkill   and   no   spring   frost 
loss  to  speak  of,  and  the  blos- 
som   was   "massive."     The    set 
started  out  good,  but  there  was 
rain.    Many  pinheads  have  de- 
veloped   as    a    result.      Shoidd 
August  contiuiie  to  be  extremely 
dry  the  result  on  the  crop  will 
he   "murder"   in   the   words   of 
Dr.  Cross.  Fall  frosts  are  coming 
up   with   a   minimum   of  water 
supply  to  fight  them. 

July  was  a  beautiful  month 
for  the  vacationist,  possibly  the 
best  in  many  summers,  and  as 
a  result  business  in  the  tourist 
industiy  boomed,  and  that  is 
the  chief  industry  for  the  Cape 
Cod  area. 


NEW    JERSEY 


July    Weather     Varied 

July  was  a  month  of  extremes 
in  weather.  There  were  four- 
teen days  during  wliich  the 
temperature  rose  above  90  de- 
grees, the  average  number  of 
90  degree  days  in  July.  Two 
100  degree  temperatures  were 
recorded.  To  balance  this  out, 
there  were  several  cool  nights. 
There  were  twelve  days  in  the 
50's  and  one  in  the  40's.  The 
extremes  were  101  degrees  on 
the  tliird  of  July  and  48  de- 
grees on  the  twenty-first.  The 
latter  reading  was  only  2  de- 
grees warmer  than  the  record 
low  for  July  which  was  46 
degrees,  and  occurred  on  July 
4  th,  1938.  Rainfall  for  July 
totaled  3.62  which  is  about 
7/10  of  an  inch  below  normal. 


Nonnal  rainfall  from  January 
through  July  is  25.12.  In  1966 
for  this  period  we  have  re- 
corded a  total  of  2.3.49  which 
gives  us  a  deficit  of  1.68  so 
far  this  year.  Compared  to  the 
extremely  bad  drought  of  1964 
and  1965  we  are  doing  a  little 
better  in  regard  to  rainfall. 
In  1964  the  January  through 
July  total  was  22.44  inches  and 
in  1965  it  was  only  21.18  inches. 
The  August  2nd  rainfall  to- 
taled only  .12,  but  in  the  im- 
portant cranberry  and  blue- 
berry growing  area  around 
Chatsworth  more  than  an  inch 
of  rainfall  occurred. 

Rainfall    Adequate 

The  rainfall  during  July  was 
quite   adequate   for  cranberries 
and  blueberries.    The  extremely 
warm  period  in  the  early  part 
of  the  month  caused  some  "burn- 
ing" of   foliage   in    blueberries, 
but    adequate    rainfall    in    the 
latter   part    of   the    month    has 
enabled  these  bushes  to  recover. 
The  rainfall  was  timely  for  the 
development      of      newly      set 
cranberries   and   they  have  re- 
cently   made    a    new    spurt    of 
growth.    It  is  still  too  early  to 
estimate  the  cranberry   crop  in 
New  Jersey.    Over  tliree  years 
of  drought  has  hurt  cranberry 
vines    on  many   properties    and 
lowered    the    potential    of    the 
vines   to   produce   heavy   crops. 
Despite  all  this  there  continues 
to  be  improvement  in  the  gen- 
eral   conchtion    of    bogs    where 
there  is   a   plentiful   supply   of 
water    and    where    water    har- 
vesting    is      practiced.      These 
properties  are  expected  to  have 
large  crops  again  in   1966. 


If  the  politicians  keep  on 
"improving"  hving  conditions  in 
this  country  it  is  going  to  reach 
the  point  that  great  men  won't 
be  able  to  find  a  humble  be- 
ginning. 


EIGHT 


WaslGland  Translormed  Into 
Multi-Million  Dollar  Indnstrv 
with  Time.  Mnney  and  Water 


by  JOHN  W.  SCHWEITZER 

Editor's  Note:  The  following  article  was  first  published  in  a  recent  issue  of 
the  St.  Paul  Dispatch-Pioneer  Press,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Although  it  was  written  for 
the  general  public  and  not  specifically  for  cranbery  growers,  we  felt  that  the  content 
would  be  of  such  interest  to  our  readers  that  we  obtained  permission  to  reprint  it. 


With  a  hatful  of  money, 
plenty  of  time,  just  the  right 
land  and  a  proper  water  sup- 
ply you  can  get  in  on  the 
ground  floor  of  Minnesota's 
slowest  -  growing  agricultural 
enterprise  —  cranberry  cultiva- 
tion. 

In  fact,  the  enterprise  has 
been  withering  here  rather  than 
growing.  But  that's  due  for  a 
change. 

The  state,  which  exported 
wild  cranberries  in  pioneer  days, 
now  has  four  acres  of  bog  under 
cultivation  near  Aitken.  It's 
owned  by  John  Ware,  Elgin, 
111.,  and  looked  after  by  his 
father,  according  to  Donald  M. 
Coe,  director  of  the  state  agri- 
cultural department's  division 
of  plant  industry. 

A  second  grower,  John 
Onifer,  who  had  12  acres  near 
Braham,  has  been  out  of  busi- 
ness since  1958.  Emil  T.  An- 
dersen, associate  professor  of 
horticulture  at  the  University  of 
Minnesota,  said  at  the  time 
Onifer  was  getting  about  IVz 
tons  of  berries  an  acre  and  sell- 
ing them  for  10  cents  a  pound. 

In  Wisconsin  there  are  more 
than  4,000  acres  of  cranberry 
marshes  with  an  average  yield 
of  100  barrels  (there  are  100 
pounds  in  a  barrel)  and  last 
year  the  berries  sold  for  14 
cents  a  pound,  Coe  said.  That's 
a  5.5-million-dollar-a-year  in- 
dustry. 

(In  Wisconsin  cranberry 
acres  are  called  marshes;  ev- 
erywhere    else     they're     called 

30gS.  ) 


Cranberry  cultivation  isn't  for 
amateurs,  backyard  gardeners  or 
the  faint-hearted.  Coe  said  it 
takes  at  least  25-30  acres  of  bog 
for  an  individual  and  50-60 
acres  for  an  absentee  owner  in 
order  to  have  a  paying  cran- 
berry farm. 

It  takes  from  $3,000  to  $5,000 
an  acre  for  land  development, 
he  said.  That  includes  the  water 
supply,  diking,  ditching,  dams, 
machinery  and  so  on.  Annual 
maintenance  is  $500  to  $600  an 
acre,  not  including  interest  and 
depreciation,  and  it  takes  three 
to  five  years  before  the  first  crop 
comes  in. 

That  is  $80,000  to  $100,000 
at  a  minimum. 

It  can't  be  just  any  land, 
either.  Cranberries  require  a 
fairly  level  peat  bog  with  peat 
soil  from  8  to  40  inches  deep. 
The  peat  soil  and  the  water 
supply  must  be  strongly  acidic. 

Absolute  water  control,  in- 
cluding the  water  table,  is 
necessary.  The  bogs  are  flood- 
ed for  harvesting,  frost  pro- 
tection and  winter  protection. 
The  water  table  has  to  be  kept 
about  a  foot  below  the  level  of 
the  bog. 

Coe  adds  tliat  growers  must 
be  able  to  flood  or  drain  the 
bog  to  a  depth  of  10  to  12  in- 
ches in  a  matter  of  hours  to 
avoid  killing  the  plants.  That's 
more  than  a  quarter  million 
gallons  an  acre. 

Minnesota  has  extensive  peat 
bogs  and  is  noted  for  its  water 
resources. 


Coe  believes  the  best  bog 
sites  are  probably  in  the  east 
central  part  of  the  state,  south 
of  Duluth  and  east  of  Mille 
Lacs  lake.  High-producing  Wis- 
consin bogs  are  aromid  Hay- 
ward  and  Eagle  River,  he  said. 
An  older,  lower  producing  area 
is  between  Wisconsin  Rapids 
and  Tomah. 

Coe,  who  started  his  career 
as  a  Wisconsin  bog  inspector, 
rediscovered  the  cranberry  in- 
dushy  about  18  months  ago 
during  a  visit  with  some  old 
friends   in   Wisconsin. 

They  told  him  the  cranberry 
supply  would  not  catch  up  with 
the  demand  for  10  years  or 
more  and  that  eastern  producers 
in  Massachusetts  and  New  Jer- 
sey are  being  squeezed  out  by 
industrial    development. 

Coe  mentioned  the  cranberry 
idea  to  his  boss,  Russell  G. 
Schwandt,  state  commissioner  of 
agriculture,  and  last  Nov.  23 
the  two  men  met  with  other 
state  officials  and  several  large 
growers   from   Wisconsin. 

At  that  meeting  Sidney 
Frellsen,  director  of  the  conser- 
vation's division  of  waters,  as- 
sured the  growers  that  rights 
for  water  control  could  be 
worked  out. 

"He  told  them  that  if  we 
could  work  out  water  rights  for 
the  taconite  industry  we  could 
work  out  rights  to  the  cranberry 
growers,"  Coe  said,  "but  it 
would  be  on  a  case-by-case 
basis." 


Continued  on  Page  16 


NINE 


Cranberry  Speckling 
Can  Be  Controlled 


by  DONALD  M.   BOONE  and   LESTER  W.   CARLSON 

(Associate  Professor  and  Research  Assistant,  respectively,  Plant 
Pathology  Department,  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wise.) 


Cranberries  in  Wisconsin  of- 
ten become  speckled  or  spot- 
ted before  harvest  time(Fig.l). 

The  speckles  are  small,  less 
than  one-eighth  inch  in  diamet- 
er, and  are  superficial,  affecting 
only  the  skin  of  the  berry.  They 
may  be  pale  yellow,  tan,  red 
or  black.  The  centers  of  the 
larger  spots  are  often  somewhat 
depressed  and  lighter  colored 
than  the  margins.  Although  the 
speckles  do  not  affect  the  keep- 
ing quality  of  the  berries  appre- 
ciably and  are  not  detrimental 
to  the  quality  of  the  fruit  for 
processing,  they  do  detract  from 
the  appearance  of  the  berries 
packaged  for  sale  as  fresh 
fruit. 


The  speckles  begin  to  appear 
on  the  fruit  in  early  August  and 
increase  in  number  as  the  sea- 
son progresses  so  that  by  har- 
vest time  there  may  be  many 
of  them  of  various  sizes  or 
stages  of  development  on  each 
berry.  They  may  appear  any- 
where on  the  surface  of  the 
beiTies  but  are  most  frequently 
around  the  stem  end.  Most  va- 
rieties of  cranberry  are  affect- 
ed, but  some,  such  as  Searles 
and  some  selections  of  Natives, 
show  more  speckling  than 
others. 

Fungicides  were  very  ef- 
fective in  controlHng  speck- 
hng,  which  indicates  that  the 
speckles  are  mainly  due  to  fun- 


gal infections.  Table  1  showiS 
the  amount  of  control  obtained 
when  maneb  was  apphed  at  j 
different  times  during  the 
growing  season.  The  applica- 
tions made  between  mid-July 
and  mid-August  were  the  most 
effective  in  preventing  the  di- 
sease. Ferbam  and  folpet  were 
also  effective  in  controlling  the 
speckhng. 

Three  fungi  were  found  tO' 
be  associated  with  the  disease^ 
but  one  of  them,  Gihhera  com- 
pacta  (Pk.)  Shear,  is  thought 
to  be  mainly  responsible  for  tlie 
speckling.  This  fungus  also 
causes  spotting  on  the  cranberry 
leaves. 

Fortunately,  the  times  of  ap- 
plication of  fungicides  for 
best  control  of  speckling  aie 
the  same  as  those  recommended 
in  Wisconsin  for  control  of  end 
rot,  the  most  common  berry 
rot  of  cranberry  in  the  state. 
Therefore,  when  the  recom- 
mended schedule  for  control  of 
end  rot  is  followed,  no  extra  ap- 
plications are  necessary  to  pro- 
duce relatively  speckle-free 
fruit.  To  obtain  best  control  of 
both  diseases,  three  applications 
of  fungicides  should  be  made 
at  10-14  day  intervals  beginning 
in   mid-Juy. 


FIGURE  1.     Cranberry  fruit  of  the  Searles  variety  with  speckle  (left) 
and  free  from  speckle  (right). 


TEN 


Table   1.     Fungicidal  control  of  speckle  on   cranberry  fruit. 


Date  of  munch 
application 


Speckles  per  berry'' 
Marsh  1  Marsh  2 


Nonsprayed 


26.8 


73.8 


June  29;  July  10,  20 

July  10,  20,  31 

July  20,  31;  August  10 

July  31;  August  10,  21 

August  10,  21,  31 

August  21,  31;  September  11 


2.5 

31.8 

0.6 

4.3 

0.3 

0.2 

0.4 

1.4 

0.3 

7.7 

13.4 

*Average  number  for  75  berries,  25  berries  from  each  of  3 
replicate  plots  for  each  series  of  applications. 


WILLIAM   ABRAM, 
ELDERLY   WASHINGTON 
GROWER,  DIES 

William  (Bill)  Abram,  85, 
Seaview,  Long  Beach  Penin- 
sula, Washington,  passed  away 
June  23rd  in  Ocean  Beach  hos- 
pital. Mr.  Abram  was  bom 
Sept.  22,  1880  in  Germany  and 
came  to  Minnesota  as  a  young 
man.  He  married  his  wife 
Augusta  in  January,  1904  at 
Crown,  Minnesota  and  they 
established  their  home  there. 
The  Abrams  came  to  Seaview 
in  1926  where  he  had  a  cran- 
berry bog  and  operated  a  gas 
station     until     his     retirement. 

He  is  smrvived  by  his  wife 
Augusta,  a  daughter,  Mrs. 
Gladys  Nelson,  both  Seaview; 
three  brothers,  Herman  and  Ray 
of  Seaview  and  August  of  Zim- 
merman, Miim.;  a  sister  Mrs. 
Joe  Beier  of  Portland;  grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Baker 
of  Seaview,  and  three  great 
grandchildren. 


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ELEVEN 


Gamma  Irradiation 


J>y 


Wm   J.   Bramlage 


When  man  learned  to  release 
the  tremendous  forces  of  atomic 
energy  his  first  use  of  that  power 
was  to  build  a  bomb — the  Atomic 
Bomb.  But  before  the  first  bomb 
was  exploded,  he  was  already 
dreaming  of  harnessing  these 
same  atomic  forces  for  peaceful 
uses. 

Among  the  forces  produced 
from  radioactive  materials  are 
gamma  rays.  These  are  highly 
penetrating  rays  with  the  ca- 
pacity to  kill  living  cells  of  both 
plants  and  animals.  Scientists 
soon  learned  to  apply  controlled 
doses  of  these  gamma  rays  to  kill 
unwanted  or  dangerous  cells,  and 
this  is  the  basis  for  using  radio- 
active   materials    to    treat    cancer 


patients.  Similarly,  attempts  have 
been  made  to  kill,  through  ir- 
radiation, the  fungi  and  bacteria 
that  cause  decay  of  food.  It  is 
this  aspect  of  irradiation  that  we, 
as  agriculturists,  are  personally 
concerned. 

Much  work  has  been  done  on 
food  irradiation,  and  we  fre- 
quently find  articles  in  the  news- 
papers and  magazines  giving 
glowing  accounts  of  the  use  of 
these  "magic  rays"  to  preserve 
food  indefinitely  —  without  re- 
frigeration. Indeed,  there  have 
been  some  notable  successes: 
irradiated  bacon,  requiring  no 
refrigeration,  may  soon  be  on  the 
market;  irradiated  potatoes,  that 
won't  sprout,  are  now  being  sold 
n  Canada;  and  research  continues 
to  look  promising  for  retarding 
spoilage  of  fresh  strawberries 
through  irradiation.  However, 
most  of  the  press  reports  have 
been  unduly  optimistic,  for  food 
irradiation  is  beset  with  severe 
problems. 

To  sterilize  a  food  product, 
that  is,  to  kill  all  the  bacteria 
and  fungi  on  and  in  it,  requires 
a  massive  dose  of  radiation.  Such 
doses  very  often  not  only  kill 
the  microbes,   but   also   cause   se- 


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food.  Dreams  of  replacing  can- 
ning and  refrigeration  with  ir- 
radiation have  been  largely 
abandoned  because  of  the  failure 
to  prevent  these  changes.  A 
notable  exception  to  this  prob- 
lem, however,  is  bacon,  which 
tolerates  a  sterilizing  dose  of 
radiation  without  undergoing 
change. 

When  we  consider  irradiation 
of  fresh  fruits,  we  run  into  an- 
other immense  problem.  Unlike 
processed  foods,  fresh  fruits  are 
living  organizisms,  and  so,  they 
as  well  as  bacteria  and  fungi 
can  be  killed  by  gamma  rays. 
All  living  cells  are  not  equally 
susceptible  to  these  rays,  so  our 
only  hope  is  that  we  can  seri- 
ously injure  or  kill  disease-caus- 
ing organisms  without  seriously 
injuring  the  fruits.  Fortunately 
some  of  the  most  serious  disease- 
causing  fungi  are  among  the 
most  radiation-sensitive  organ- 
isms. These  are  the  PenicilliuTn 
species,  which  cause  blue  mold 
of  apples  and  blue  and  green 
molds  of  citrus;  Botrytis  cinerea, 
which  causes  much  of  the  decay 
of  strawberries;  and  Monilinia 
fructicola,  which  causes  Brown 
Rot  of  peaches  and  plums.  These 
fungi  can  be  injured,  though  not 
completely  killed,  by  relatively 
light   doses   of   radiation. 

But  unfortunately,  even  such 
light  doses  prove  to  be  quite 
injurious  to  most  fruits.  Al- 
though the  fruits  are  not  killed 
by  such  doses,  they  are  changed. 
Most  fruits  are  softened  by  the 
treatment,  and  sometimes,  as 
with  grapes  and  pears,  very 
times  affected:  peaches  are  made 
greatly  softened.  Color  is  some- 
redder,  while  plums  are  some- 
times prevented  from  turning 
blue,  and  pears  develop  a  mot- 
tled green-and-yellow  instead  of 
a  yellow  color.  But  most  serious 
of  all,  irradiated  fruits  often 
fail  to  develop  their  normal  flavor 
during  subsequent  ripening.  Since 
fresh  fruits  are  prized  for  their 
characteristic  flavors,  a  loss  of 
these  flavors  is  a  prohibitive  ef- 
fect  of    a    treatment. 


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Another  form  of  injury  to 
fruits  is  a  reduction  of  their 
normal  resistance  to  disease- 
causing  fungi.  Since  light  doses 
of  radiation  do  only  injure,  not 
kill  the  fungi,  this  is  a  very 
serious  problem.  If  irradiated 
fruits  are  stored  for  an  extended 
period  after  treatment,  they  very 
often  develop  more  decay  than 
non-irradiated  fruits,  for  in  time, 
the  fungi  recover  from  the  treat- 
ment while  the  fruits  do  not. 
Also,  if  the  fruits  become  re- 
contaminated  with  fungi,  their 
resistance  to  these  organisms  is 
less  than  that  of  unirradiated 
fruits.  This  means  that  radiation 
could  not  be  used  prior  to  a  long 
storage  period;  its  use  would  be 
restricted  to  a  short  time  before 
the  fruits  would  be  used,  such  as 
for  a  reduction  of  decay  during 
immediate    marketing. 

Another  problem  is  expense. 
An  irradiation  facility  is  a  very 
expensive  piece  of  equipment, 
and  one  that  requires  great  skill 
and  elaborate  precautions  for  op- 


eration. Although  it  has  been 
found  that  sprouting  of  potatoes 
can  be  prevented  by  a  very  light 
dose  of  radiation  and  without 
other  injury  to  the  tubers,  only 
in  certain  situations  would  irradi- 
ation of  potatoes  be  economical, 
at  least  at  the  present  stage  of 
technology.  Such  a  situation  now 
seems   to   exist  in   Canada. 

So  it  can  be  seen  that  there 
are  many  problems  confronting 
fruit  irradiation.  But  conspicu- 
ously missing  from  this  list  of 
problems  is  the  one  that  im- 
mediately comes  to  mind  in  a 
discussion  of  irradiation.  Irradi- 
ation does  not  make  the  fruits 
radioactive.  The  gamma  rays  are 
the  product  of  a  radioactive 
source.  They  are  not  themselves 
radioactive,  nor  do  they  make 
the  objects  they  strike  radioac- 
tive. Irradiated  foods  are  not 
radioactive! 

Numerous  experiments  have 
been  made  on  many  different 
kinds  of  fruits  under  many  types 


of    conditions.     In    these    experi- 
ments, only  one  fruit  has  consis- 
tently responded  well  to  irradia- 
tion,  and  that  is  the  strawberry. 
The    market    life    of    strawberries 
is   usually   extended   2-3   days   by 
irradiation,  without  injury  to  the 
fruit.     For    a    fruit    as    perishable 
as  strawberries,  this  extension  of 
market    life    is    quite    significant. 
Research    is    continuing    on    this 
crop,  and  it  is  quite  possible  that 
in  the  near  future  irradiated  ber- 
ries will  be  arriving  on  our  mar- 
kets   from    California.     California 
offers  a  unique  potential  for  this 
operation,     for     its     largest     pro- 
duction area  has  a  harvest  period 
of    at    least    3-4    months,    with    a 
fairly  uniform  volume  of  produc- 
tion    during     this     period.      This 
produces    an    economic    situation 
that    cannot    be    matched    in    the 
East. 

It  is  likely  that  the  encourag- 
ing results  from  irradiation  of 
strawberries  and  potatoes  will 
continue  to  stimulate  research  on 


THIRTEEN 


ways  to  treat  other  fresh  fruits 
and  vegetables.  However,  the 
great  sensitivity  of  most  fresh 
produce  to  gamma  rays  will  im- 
pose severe  restrictions  on  radi- 
ation usage.  In  addition,  the  great 
expense  of  a  radiation  facility 
will  impose  additional  economic 
restriction  unless  future  techno- 
logical break-throughs  can  greatly 
reduce  its  cost.  We  can  expect 
to  continue  reading  in  the  popu- 
lar press,  glowing  accounts  of 
the  use  of  "magic  rays"  to  pre- 
serve foods,  for  this  is  fertile 
ground  for  journalists,  but  such 
reports  should  be  met  with  a 
healthy  skepticism.  Irradiation 
is  certainly  no  cure-all  for  post- 
harvest   diseases   of   fruits. 


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wrote  an  article  tor  the  school 
newspaper  stating  that  he  felt 
the  school's  spirit,  student  gov- 
ernment and  social  prowess  was 
far  below  its  academic  excel- 
lence, and  that  he  was  willing 
to  accept  the  challenge  to  bet- 
ter this  condition  during  his 
year  as  student  body  president. 
Lakeside    is    a    prep    school. 


Cape  Cod  Growers 
Meet  August  23 


The  79th  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers Association  will  be  held 
Tuesday,  August  23  at  the  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station  begin- 
ning at  10:00  A.M.  The  program 
is  largely  complete  at  this  time 
and   will   include   machinery   and 


FRANK  O.  GLENN'S  SON 
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Dick  Glenn,  a  senior  at  Lake- 
side School  For  Boys,  Seattle, 
and  the  son  of  Mr.   and   Mrs. 

Frank    Glenn    of    Long    Beach,  equipment    exhibits,  guided    tours 

won    an    election    for    student  of  the  State  Bog  and  a     chicken 

body  president  over  two   other  barbeque   at  lunch.    After   lunch, 

candidates  recently.  there    will    be    a    short    business 

Frank    Glenn     is    a    leading  nieeting,  a  talk  by  Dr.  David  W. 

Washington    Cranberry    Grower  Robinson     of     Ireland     and     the 

and  prominent  in  the  industry,  crop     report    by     Mr.    Byron  S. 

Dick,    who  is    a   member    of  Peterson   of  the  Crops  Reporting 

tile  private  school's  rowing  crew  Service . 


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Fig.  1  T-MULZ,  when  mix- 
ed with  a  pesticide,  immediate- 
ly causes  an  emulsion  that  can 
be  mixed  with  water  for  appli- 
cation. 


Thompson-Hayward 
Announces  Expanded 
Line  of  Emulsifiers 

An  expanded  line  of  emulsi- 
fiers for  agricultural  chemicals 
has  been  announced  by  the  In- 
dustrial Division  of  Thompson- 
Hayward  Chemical  Company. 
Called  T-MULZ  emulsifiers, 
they  are  used  in  formulating  a 
broad  spectrum  of  insectcides 
and  herbicides. 

T  -  MULZ  emulsifiers  are 
available  in  versatile  matched 
pairs  for  handling  the  major 
part  of  emulsification  require- 
ments. This  enables  the  form- 
ulator  to  minimize  his  raw  ma- 
terial inventory.  For  hard-to- 
emulsifv  toxicants,  a  specialty 
line   of'  T-MULZ  is    available. 

In  addition  to  its  brand  of 
emidsifiers,  Thompson  -  Hay- 
ward  also  offers  a  technical  ser- 
\'ice  facility  for  customizing 
emulsifiers  to  meet  special  ap  • 
plications. 

Additional  infomiation  about 
the  Thompson-Hayward  emul- 
sifiers, for  agricultural  chem- 
icals is  available  by  writing  to 
Thompson-Hayuard  Chemical 
Company,  52(X)  Speaker  Road, 
Kansas  City,  Kansas  66110. 


FOURTEEN 


How  Cranberries 
Feed  Tbeir  Young 


By   G.  L.   GRANGER 


Cranberries  are  a  very  closely 
affiliated  family.  The  Father  takes 
an  active  interest  in  the  care  and 
preservation  of  the  home  environ- 
ment during  the  pre-natal  period 
of  the  expectant  mother.  He  is 
,  constantly  on  the  guard  against 
the  invasion  of  the  Cranberry 
Beatles. 

The  cranberry  Beatle  is  the 
natural  enemy  of  the  young  new- 
born Cranberry.  They  land  upon 
the  habitat  of  the  Cranberries, 
making  many  loud  noises.  They 
shake  and  tremble  while  making 
unusual  sounds  and  often  cause 
great  trauma  to  the  young  Cran- 
berries who  become  frightened 
at  these  strange  noise  and  violent 
shaking.  The  young  Cranberries 
often  go  into  shock,  shrieking  and 
swooning  whenever  the  Cranberry 
Beatles  attack. 

It  is  during  these  early  days  of 
the  new  born  Cranberries  that  the 
feeding  of  the  Cranberry  is  most 
important.  The  Mother  Cranberry 
is  easily  irritated  and  it  is  the 
Father's  duty  to  see  that  the 
Mother  is  not  unduly  upset.  If 
the  Mother  becomes  upset  she  re- 
fuses to  nurse  the  young  Cran- 
berries, and  they  soon  become 
anemic.  If  you  have  ever  seen 
Cranberries  that  were  not  a  deep 
beautiful  red  but  rather,  a  light 
sickly  yellow,  it  was  because  they 
were  not  properly  fed.  This  was 
probably  due  to  the  fact  that  their 
Mother  had  failed  to  give  them 
the  food  they  required. 

At  feeding  time  the  Mother 
Cranberry  gathers  her  young  ones 
around  her.  Sometimes  this  is 
difficult  for  her  to  do  as  the 
Cranberry  Beatles  may  be  at- 
tacking the  home  nest  and  the 
young  Cranberries  start  shrieking 
and  swooning  so  that  they  do  not 
hear  the   call   to  dinner. 

The  Mother  Cranberry  calls 
her  young  by  rolling  gently  back 
and  forth  on  her  twig,  making 
soft  sounds  much  like  that  which 


a  catapillar  makes  while  crawling 
up  a  blade  of  grass. 

Only  Cranberries  can  hear  the 
sounds  of  the  Mother  Cranberry 
calling  her  young.  Doctor  I.  Ben- 
had  states  this  in  his  thesis.  "A 
Day  in  Cranberry  Land,"  that  the 
song  of  the  Mother  Cranberry 
calling  her  yovmg  to  dinner  is 
very  much  like  the  unfinished  part 
of  Schubert's  "Unfinished  Sym- 
phony." Someone  once  asked  Dr. 
I.  Benhad,  "If  only  Cranberries 
can  hear  the  song  of  the  Mother 
Cranberry,  how  it  was  he  heard 
it."  He  replied  that  in  truth  he 
WAS  a  Cranberry  who  had  spent 
most  of  his   life  in  the  can. 


After  the  young  Cranberries 
have  been  gathered  around  their 
Mother,  the  Father  begins  his 
famous  and  exotic  dance  of  the 
"Balls  of  Fire."  This  dance  has 
been  so  named  because  of  the 
frantic  motions  of  the  Father 
who  moves  so  gracefully  and  fast 
that  it  appears  that  more  than 
one  Cranberry  is  dancing.  Due  to 
the  stress  and  strain  of  the  dance 
the  Father's  blood  pressure  rises, 
giving  him  a  deep  red  appear- 
ance, thus  giving  the  illusion  of 
many  balls  of  fire.  The  purpose 
of  the  dance  is  to  confuse  the 
Cranberry  Beatles. 

It  is  while  the  Father  is  per- 
forming his  dance  that  the  Mother 
Cranberry  feeds  her  young.  This 
is  the  most  difficult  function  the 
adult  female  Cranberry  has  to 
perform.  If  you  do  not  agree,  you 
should  find  yourself  an  orphaned 
Cranberry  and  just  try  to  feed  it. 


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FIFTEEN 


Regional   News   Notes — Continued 

WASHINGTON 


Month     Very     Mild 

The  weather  has  been  average 
for  this  time  of  the  year  with 
the  mean  high  63.77  degrees  F. 
and  the  mean  low  51.35  degrees 
F.  The  actual  high  for  the 
month  was  69  on  the  15th  and 
the  17th  and  the  bog  low  was 
39  degrees  on  the  24th.  The 
precipitation  for  the  month  was 
.54  inches,  and  the  bog  owners 
have  been  doing  some  sprink- 
ling, about  4  hours  a  week  to 
keep  the  moisture  up. 

Astoria    Bridge   Opened 

The  Long  Beach  area  be- 
came a  permanent  link  with  tlie 
Highway  system  with  the  open- 
ing of  the  new  Astoria  Bridge 
across  the  Columbia  River  at 
the  mouth  and  it  htis  been  a 
very  busy  highway  for  the  first 
weekend.  It  does  not  officially 
open  imtil  August  27th  but  due 
to  many  problems  with  the 
ferry  channel  the  bridge  opened 


July  29th  with  one-way  traffic 
guided  through  the  still  work- 
ing crews.  Sunday  4,500+  cars 
and  other  vehicles  went  through 
the  toll  gate.  The  ferries  could 
never  begin  to  handle  this 
amount,  and  of  course  many 
were  just  sight  seeing  on  the 
new  bridge. 


CRANBERRIES   IN  MINNESOTA 
Continued  jrom  Page  9 

Coe  said  he  is  now  working 
with  8  to  10  interested  persons 

—  Minnesota  people  with  boggy 
land  or  money  and  Wisconsin 
growers   who   want   to   expand. 

"There's  not  many  people 
who  want  to  get  into  it."  he 
said.  "And  there  are  fewer  who 
can   afford  to." 

It's     a     long-term     enterprise 

—  but  once  a  bog  is  established 
it  will  last  for  50  to  75  years, 
Coe  said. 


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Edward  Gelsthorpe,  executive' 
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Cranberries,  Inc.  will  be  a  key' 
speaker  during  the  2.3rd  annual  I 
convention  of  the  Florida  Fruit: 
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Miami  Beach.  ' 

The  convention  is  set  for  Sep- : 
tember  19-23  at  the  Americana 
Hotel,  Bal  Harbour.  Gelsthorpe' 
will    make   the    address    during 
the     Florida    Citrus     Breakfast 
sponsored  by  the  Florida  Citrus  i 
Commission  on  Thursdav,  Sept. 
22.  '  ' 

Gelsthorpe  has  been  with 
Ocean  Spray  since  May,  1963 
when  he  left  Colgate-Palmolixe 
Co.  where  he  was  corporate 
\ace  president  and  general  man- 
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SIXTEEN 


UDENTS    VISIT 
ORRIS  BOG 

A  group  of  high  school  stu- 
nts from  Gig  Harbor  last 
inth  visited,  among  other  sites, 
e  cranberry  bog  of  veteran 
ower  Leonard  Morris  at 
)ng  Beach,  Wash.  The  tour 
"the  students  was  a  new 
iproach  to  the  learning  of 
story. 

About  25  students  were  in 
e  group  and  a  photo  of  the 
cup  at  the  MoiTis  property 
peared  on  page  one  of  the 
,vaco    (Washington)    Tribune. 


3NGRATULATIONS 
WASHINGTON 

Azmi  Shawa,  head  of  the 
estem  Washington  Coastal 
cperiment  Station  at  Long 
ach  and  Mrs.  Shawa  are  be- 
g  congratulated  on  the  birth 
their  third  cliild  on  July  11. 
16  child  has  been  named 
'cma. 


Dng  Range  Project 
lay  Add  2,000  Acres 
f  Cranberry  Land  at 
Dng  Beach,  Wash. 

A  long  range  project  which 
uld,  among  other  benefits, 
ovide  2,000  new  acres  of  cran- 
rry  land,  is  under  consider- 
ion.  This  would  be  accom- 
ished  by  the  building  of  a 
im  at  Bear  River  and  a  16,000 
re-foot  reservoir.  The  pro- 
"t  would  require  the  appro - 
iation  of  Federal  grants  and 
ans,  the  county  and  local  ex- 
■nditures.  The  project,  if  ap- 
oved,  could  not  be  completed 
at  least  an  estimated  10 
ars,  and  the  cost  might  be  in 
e  neighborhood  of  11  million 
illars.  The  project  which 
Duld  aid  the  whole  Long 
^ach  peninsula  was  broached 
it  month  in  a  meeting  at  Sea- 
3w.  The  group  voted  to  del- 
ate authority  to  County  Com- 
ssioner  Eldred  Pentilla,  Com- 
ssioner  Marion  Vanderpool 
d  the  mayors  of  Long  Beach 
d  Ilwaco  to  get  the  project 
derway. 


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growth,  greater  profit  per  acre.  And  Buckner  design  and 
exacting  production  standards  assure  sprinklers  with  a  long, 
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SEVENTEEN 


ELECTRONIC  DIET -Dave  Quail,  left,  Tempe,  Arizona,  cowboy  for 
Spur  Feeding  Company,  and  Benny  Riggs,  who  helps  run  family 
feeding  operation  near  Chandler,  Arizona,  wait  at  computer  console 
for  print  out  of  answer  to   beef  feeding   problem   they   submitted. 


A  ReDort  On  Use  Of 
ComDuters  in  Anriculhre 


Modern  argriculture's  latest 
tool  —  for  the  mind  instead  of 
the  hand  —  is  the  electronic 
computer. 

Students  of  agriculture  at 
Arizona  State  University  are 
learning  to  apply  computers 
and  develop  bigger  and  better 
crops  and  cattle,  in  a  course 
given  for  tlie  first  time  tliis  year. 

The  instructor  is  an  agricul- 
tural economist  who  once  "fed" 
the  entire  state  of  Pennsylvania 
into  a  computer  to  analyze 
usable  land  area.  He  is  ASU's 
Professor  of  Fann  Management 
Dr.  Jim  Becker. 

Dr.  Becker  uses  a  GE-225 
general  puq^ose  computer  at 
the  University  to  digest  and 
calculate  farm  and  ranch  in- 
formation in  the  time  it  takes  to 
flick  a  light  switch. 

EIGHTEEN 


At  ASU,  students  in  Dr. 
Becker's  farm  and  ranch  organ- 
ization course  are  programming 
existing  faniis  and  stock  feed- 
ing operations,  hypothetical 
farms  of  the  future,  range  allot- 
ment, farm  expansion,  nutrient 
and  crop  comparisions,  even 
feasibihty  of  Kiising  wild  bron- 
cos for  rodeo  stock  contractors. 

Everything  today  is  influ- 
enced by  computers— from  main- 
taining bank  records  to  design- 
ing farm  machinery.  It  all  can 
be  symbolized  by  matliematics, 
the  language  of  computers. 
Fanners  directly  use  advantages 
of  data  processing  for  account- 
ing and  problem  solving. 

Farming  is  big  business  and 
accurate  records  must  be  kept 
for  the  Internal  Revenue  Ser- 
vice and  for  banks  which  fi- 
nance   most    large     operations. 


Computers  handle  these  chores 
'luickly     and     cheaply. 

Problem  solving  represents 
a  gigantic  challenge  with  re- 
sults contingent  only  on  tlie 
energy  and  ingenuity  of  the 
inquirer.  Intelligent  use  of 
computers  can  provide  valuable 
information  on  feeds,  livestock, 
liousing,  crops,  cattle,  machin- 
ery budgeting  —  all  aimed  at 
maximum  profit  and  minimum 
cost. 

Experiment  stations  and 
feeders  have  compiled  vast 
quantities  of  information  on 
biology  and  nutrition  over  the 
years.  Total  digestible  nutrients, 
digestible  protein,  dry  matter 
and  other  factors  have  been 
figured  for  just  about  any  feed. 

Many  questions  arise  in  areiis 
where  less  information  exists. 
If  cotton  is  in  a  bind,  to  what 
crop  should  a  farmer  switch? 
Can  he  make  money  on  hogs 
even  if  he  has  never  raised 
them? 

Much  of  the  burden  of  pro- 
viding information  is  placed 
squarely  on  the  farnier.  Gener- 
ally, if  he  has  succeeded  in  one 
area  he  will  succeed  in  anotlier. 
But,  computer  analysis  of  his 
resources,  peildnent  actixaties, 
teclmical  and  economic  factors 
can  provide  a  reasonable  pic- 
ture of  anticipated  profits  or 
losses. 

ASU  agriculture  students  iire 
challenged  to  obtain  pertinent 
data  by  conducting  thorough 
interviews  and  literature  search- 
es for  existing  and  projected 
conditions.  They  gather  needed 
information  on  crop  yields, 
acreage,  labor,  allotments,  costs, 
equipment,  size  and  quality  of 
stock,  etc. 

A  student  may  spend  days 
preparing  a  linear  programming 
problem  which  the  computer 
may   solve   in   a  minute. 

For  instance:  Gi\en  the  labor, 
cost,  and  net  profit  for  one  acre 
of  corn,  oats,  wheat,  and  barley 
(as  shown  in  the  accompanying 
chart)    the    computer    simulta- 


neously  analyzes  and  projects 
the  figures  for  a  120- acre  farm 
with  1200  hours  of  available 
labor  and  $2,500  capital. 

Although  com  is  the  high 
value  crop  ($63  net  per  acre), 
compared  Avith  barley  ($41 
net),  the  c-omputer  takes  into 
account  given  factors  of  yield, 
labor,  cost,  etc.  It  suggests  all 
but  20  of  the  120  acres  be  plant- 
ed to  barley,  the  remainder  to 
corn  for  a  net  profit  of  $5,360. 

It  would  take  extensive  fig- 
uring by  hand  to  arrive  at  the 
correct  allotment  even  though 
this  is  a  relatively  simple  prob- 
lem for  the  computer.  The  more 
information  available,  the  better 
the  solution  whether  it  is  a  low 
cost  feed  ration,  machiner}' 
package,  or  plan  for  a  model 
farm. 

ASU  Junior  Benny  Riggs, 
who  helps  run  a  family  stock 
feeding  operation  near  Chand- 
ler, used  figures  from  published 
tables  of  nutrients  to  program 
a  "least-cost"  feed  ration. 

From  experience,  he  knew 
cattle  would  not  eat  what  the 
computer  suggested  from  the 
way  he  initially  set  up  the 
problem.  Benny  restricted 
poundage  of  some  ingredients, 
added  others  such  as  barley 
and  molasses,  and  re-ran  the 
whole  problem  through  the 
GE-225  computer  in  ASU's 
Computer    Center,   i 

He  is  now  applying  the  re- 
sults in  the  family  business. 
Cattle  are  consuming  the  com- 
puterized diet,  and  costs  are  be- 
ing reduced. 

Vitamin  A  was  thought  to 
increase  even  previously  good 
results  in  cattle  feeding,  says 
Benny.  But,  benefits  of  the  vi- 
tamin were  considered  out  of 
proportion  to  the  high  cost  for 
the  small  amounts  consumed. 
So,  Vitamin  A  was  not  being 
used   extensively. 

However,  the  computer,  com- 
paring diet  nutrients,  deduced 
Vitamin  A  results  would  justify 
its  expense.  The  computer  was 
correct. 

Dr.  Becker  teaches  his  stu- 
dents —  who  include  rodeo  per- 
formers, cowboys  for  stock  feed- 


ers and  full-time  farmers  —  the 
basics  of  computer  use,  empha- 
sizing they  need  not  be  electron- 
ics engineers  or  mathematicians 
to  operate  them.  Fundamen- 
tally, a  computer  is  a  calculat- 
ing tool  only  as  effective  as 
its   operator. 

Some  students  may  not  be  in 
a  position  to  actively  use  com- 
puters when  they  graduate. 
Even  so,  they  have  learned  a 
valuable  lesson  appHcable  to 
any  situation:  how  to  recognize, 
obtain  and  organize  information 
needed  to  solve  a  problem. 


state  entomologist  from  1922 
to  1927.  He  was  manager  of 
the  state  fair  flower  show  from 
1927  to  1951  and  treasurer  of 
the  Wisconsin  Horticultural  so- 
ciety from  1927  to  1958. 

He  was  editor  of  the  Wiscon- 
sin Horticultm-e  magazine  in 
1927  and  was  a  member  of  the 
editorial  staff  of  the  Journal  of 
Economic  Entomology  from 
1952  to  1958. 


Ernest  L   Chambers 

Ernest  L.  Chambers,  69,  re- 
tired state  entomologist  and  for- 
mer chief  of  the  plant  industry 
division  of  the  Wisconsin  agri- 
culture department  died  at  hiS' 
summer  home  near  Sturgeon 
Bay,  Wisconsin. 

Mr.  Chambers  headed  the 
Wisconsin  plant  division  from 
1927  to  1961  when  he  retired. 
Before    that,    he   was    assistant 


PERSONAL 

Oiva  Hannulla,  South  Carver, 
Mass.  cranberry  grower  spent 
part  of  July  touring  Wisconsin 
cranberry  marshes  and  talking 
with  their  owners.  He  was  very 
impressed  by  the  mode  of  op- 
eration, versatility  and  general 
agressiveness  of  Wisconsin  grow- 
ers. Mr.  Hannulla  found  many 
young  second  and  third  gen- 
eration people  all  able  to  op- 
erate varying  types  of  farm 
machinery.  Before  returning 
home  he  also  toured  Hudson 
Bay,  Canada. 


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%  cup  tliinly  shced  celery 
Vs  cup  finely  chopped  onion 
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(Makes  6  servings) 
3  cups  fresh  cranberries 

1  cup  water 

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orange  juice 
IVz  cups  sugar 
V'i   cup  butter  or  margarine 

2  teaspoons  grated  orange  rind 
Pinch  of  poultry  seasoning 

6  Cornish  game  hens 
Salt  and  pepper 
Combine  cranberries,  water  and 
orange  juice  concentrate  in 
saucepan;  cook  over  medium 
heat  until  cranberries  begin  to 
pop.  Remove  from  heat  and 
stir  in  sugar,  butter,  orange  rind 
and  poultry  seasoning. 
Sprinkle  hens  inside  and  out 
with  salt  and  pepper.  Truss 
and  place  on  rack  in  shallow 
roasting  pan.  Roast  according 
to  package  directions.  About 
30  minutes  before  hens  are 
done,  brush  liberally  with  cran- 
berry mixture.  Continue  to 
baste  with  cranberry  mixture 
every  5  minutes  until  hens  are 
done. 


The  teen-age  boys  on  the 
comer  enjoyed  offering  little 
Tommy  a  choice  of  a  nickel  or 
dime,  and  he  inevitably  chose 
the  larger  coin  —  the  nickel. 
He  usually  went  to  tlie  corner 
store   and    spent   it    on    candy. 

"You're  not  that  dumb."  the 
storekeeper  said  one  day.  "You 
know  the  smaller  coin  is  worth 
more  than  the  bigger  one." 

"Course  I  do,"  Tomy  replied, 
"But  the  first  time  I  take  the 
smaller  one  I'd  be  killing  a 
good  thing." 


jest 

for 
fun! 


A  little  old  lady  was  going 
through  customs  at  San  Fran- 
cisco. An  inspector  asked  her 
what  was  inside  a  bottle  in  her 
valise. 

"Holy  water,"  she  replied  in 
a  thick  Irish  brogue. 

The  inspector  uncorked  the 
the  bottle  and  took  a  swig. 
"For  Pete's  sake,"  he  exclaimed, 
"This  is  Irish  Whiskey." 

"Saints  be  praised!"  exclaimed 
the  old  lady.    "It's  a  miracle." 


A  man  went  to  the  doctor  to 
see  if  there  was  a  cure  for 
snoring.  The  doctor  asked, 
"Does  it  bother  your  wife?" 
To  which  the  man  replied, 
"No,  it  just  embarrasses  her.  It's 
the  rest  of  the  congregation  it 
disturbs." 


CRANBERRY  COLA 

( Makes  about  4  servings ) 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  cliilled 
1  bottle   (16  oz.)   carbonated 

cola-flavored  beverage,  chilled 
Lime  wedges  and  orange  slices 

Combine  equal  parts  of  cran- 
berry juice  and  cola-flavored 
beverage  in  tall  glasses.  Add 
ice  and  garnish  with  lime 
wedges  and  orange  slices. 


CRANBERRY   QUEEN    BEE   SODA 

(Makes  about  4  servings) 

1  pint  vanilla  ice  cream 
Vs  cup  honey 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  chilled 
Place    a  small    scoop    of   ice 

cream  in  each  glass  and  top 
each  scoop  with  about  1  tea- 
spoon honey.  Add  another  small 
scoop  of  ice  cream  to  each  glass 
and  top  with  remaining  honey. 
Fill  glasses  with  cranberry  juice 
and  serve  with  straws  and  long 
spoons. 


CRANBERRY  SPRITZ 

(Makes  4  servings) 

2  cups  cranberry  juice  cocktail, 

chilled 
2  cups  drink  mixer,  chilled 

(quinine  water,  bitter  lemon, 
ginger  ale,  Tom  Collins 
mixer,  or  club  soda) 

Combine  equal  parts  of  cran- 
berry juice  and  drink  mixer  in 
taU  glasses.  Add  ice  and  gar- 
nish with  fresh  fruit  slices  or 
wedges,    if    desired. 

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m%  of  the  total  in  1948-1950 
to  about  25%  in  1965.  Tlie  ap- 
peal of  ready-to-serve  proc- 
essed foods,  and  the  more  recent 
enthusiasm  for  cranberry  juice 
are  responsible  for  the  increas- 
ing demand  for  processed  cran- 
berries, and  tlie  reduced  inter- 
est in  fresh  fruit. 

Many  of  the  arguments  in 
fa\'or  of  diy  harvesting  lose 
their  cogency  if  the  berries  do 
not  need  to  be  stored  for  long 
periods  for  eventual  shipment 
as  fresh  fniit.  It  is  estimated 
tliat  by  1967,  over  half  the  total 
national  crop  \\n\l  be  sold  as 
juice,  and  the  berries  used  in 
juice  manufacture  are  best 
frozen  and  thawed  before  ex- 
traction; and  most  commercial 
sauce  can  be  as  well  made 
from  frozen  fruit  as  from  fresh. 
Since  tliis  is  the  prevaiHng  sit- 
uation, and  since  the  berries 
for  processing  and  those  for 
fresh  sliipment  command  es- 
sentially the  same  price,  grow- 
ers increasingly  seek  to  avoid 
the  shrinkage  losses  of  stored 
dry  fresh  fruit,  and  the  very 
sizeable  losses  of  the  diy  har- 
vest operation. 

Massachusetts,  with  its  tra- 
ditional concern  for  the  fresh 
cranberry  market,  is  the  last  of 
the  five  cranberry-producing 
states  to  take  up  water  harves- 
ting. In  1965  Massachusetts 
sent  car  lots  of  fresh  cranberries 
to  23  terminal  markets  in  USA, 
Wisconsin  shipped  to  9,  Wash- 
ington to  4  (all  West  Coast), 
and  New  Jersey  to  1.  Tliere 
is  no  record  of  a  "car  lot  un- 
load" from  Oregon.  All  the 
states  but  Massachusetts  now 
harvest  most  of  their  cranbeny 
crop  in  water.  It  is  noteworthy 
tliat  in  New  Jersey  where  the 
conversion  to  water  harvesting 
took  place  in  the  last  few- 
years,  the  crops  of  1964  and 
1965  have  shown  a  sharp  50% 
rise  over  the  previous  year. 

Experimental  work  condvicted 
at  the  Cranberry  Station  over 
the  past  five  yen's  has  shown 
that  on  State  Bog  plots  the 
crops  harvested  in  water  av- 
eraged 40%  greater  than  tliose 
from  equal  areas  harvested  dry. 


Part  of  tliis  increase  (and  pos- 
sibly the  larger  part)  is  at- 
tributable to  the  hardest  of 
nearly  all  the  berries  raised. 
Tlie  balance  of  the  increase  is 
surely  accoimted  for  by  the 
reduced  mechanical  damage  of 
the  water  harvest  both  to  the 
vine  tops  (which  appear  to  be 
so  little  disturbed  by  the  op- 
eration that  it  is  hard  to  dis- 
tinguish the  harvested  and  un- 
harvested  vines  viewed  from 
the  shore  of  the  bog)  and  to 
the  cranberry  roots  which  are 
pulled  less  when  machine  heads 
are  set  high  to  skim  off  the 
floating  fruit  near  the  water 
surface. 

Because    of    the    great    vari- 
ability    in    vine    density    from 
bog  to  bog,   and  from   spot  to 
spot   within    a    bog,    it    is    very 
difficult  to  measure   the   actual 
loss  of  cranberries  in  dry  har- 
vesting on  Massachusetts  cran- 
berry   bogs.     Scoop    harvesting 
was    notoriously    inefficient  and 
especially     so     when     scoopers 
were  paid  "by  the  box."  Care- 
ful  measurements    have    shown 
that  sometimes  one-third  of  the 
total    crop    failed    to    get    into 
harvest  boxes.    Macliine  picking 
has  tended  to  improve  the  ef- 
ficiency of  the  harvest,  and  this 
is    more   evident    on   bogs    that 
have   been   regularly   har\^ested 
with  the  same  type  of  machine 
for  several  years  in  succession  — 
for   in   this   way   the   vines   be- 
come "trained"  and  lie  combed 
and    less    snarled.      But   vines 
thicken     with     successive     ma- 
chine harvests,  and  the  increas- 
ing use  of  fertilizers  to  produce 
heavier  crops  combine  to  make 
a  "clean"  harvest  difficult  if  not 
impossible.     With   careful,    de- 
liberate operation,   either  Wes- 
tern    or    Darlington     machines 
can    usually    be    used    to    pick 
the    crop    dry   with    -a    loss    of 
only    10%   or    15%    of   the    crop. 
But  it  is  uncommon  to  be  able 
to  hire  this  carefully-conducted 
hai-vest  with  the  result  that  few 
f^rowers   argue   when   a  loss   of 
20-25%  is   averred   as   the  state 
average   diy-harvest  loss.    The 
Darlington    machine    especially 
appears  to  lose  efficiency  on  our 


heaviest  crops,  even  when  the 
effective  width  of  the  harvest 
swath  is  cut  to  one-half  the 
machine   width. 

Until  a  new  dry  picker  is 
designed,  built  and  tested,  the 
cnly  assured  means  of  redu- 
cing or  eliminating  these  heavy 
losses  lies  in  flood  picking.  Sev- 
eral trials  have  been  made  of 
flood  picking  in  Massachusetts 
in  the  past  and  always  with  at 
least  two  strikes  against  it:  1. 
the  bogs  selected  for  the  test 
were  not  built  for  such  a  har- 
vest, 2.  the  test  was  made  in 
the  context  that  half  of  all 
fruit  harvested  must  be  sold  as 
fresh  cranberries,  and  3.  the 
relatively  slow  utihzation  of  the 
fruit  required  that  it  be  dry 
on   delivery    to    the    shipper. 

Several  factors  combine  to 
discourage  the  Massachusetts 
grower  from  giving  serious 
consideration  to  water  harves- 
ting. In  average  or  drier  than 
average  years,  water  suppUes 
are  too  low  in  September  and 
October  to  flood  the  bogs  at 
will.  Tliis  is  surely  the  case 
with  half  the  present  acreage 
in  the  state.  Another  and  re- 
lated problem  is  the  large 
size  of  many  individual  cran- 
berry bogs.  Individual  flood- 
ing areas  vary  often  from  20 
to  90  acres  between  dikes. 
Many  of  these  large  flooding 
areas  are  from  one  to  four  or 
five  feet  out  of  grade,  and 
no  machinery  has  yet  been 
devised  for  picking  cranberries 
in  water  much  over  18  inches 
deep.  Even  where  the  grade 
is  near  level  on  a  large  bog,  the 
investment  in  macliinery  and 
the  recruitment  of  a  labor  force 
large  enough  to  harvest  and 
handle  the  crop  in  a  one  or 
tsvo-day  period  would  be  im- 
practical if  not  impossible. 

Plagued  as  we  are  by  con- 
tinuing drought,  I  would  sug- 
gest that  Massachusetts  grow- 
ers think  seriously  about  pick- 
ing a  few  small  bogs  in  water 
where  water  supplies  are 
ample.  Tliis  \\'Ould  ha\e  great 
advantages:  1.  It  would  give 
the  growers  and  their  neigh- 
bors some  valuable  experience 


TWENTY-TWO 


in  the  diflBculties  of  the  op- 
eration, 2.  it  would  demon- 
strate on  a  commercial  scale 
whether  or  not  the  increased 
crop  harvested  could  reason- 
ably cx)ver  the  increased  costs 
of  equipment  and  labor  and  3. 
it  would  demonstrate  (as  no 
amount  of  written  or  spoken 
words  could)  the  advantage  to 
the  cranberry  vines  of  being 
spared  the  mauling  and  mechan- 
ical breakage  of  the  dry  harvest 
operation. 

Some  Massachusetts  growers 
are  preparing  for  new  plantingsi 
next  spring.  Because  of  present 
bog  values,  and  projected 
values  as  far  as  we  can  see, 
it  is  important  and  worthwhile 
to  grade  these  new  pieces  as 
nearly  level  as  skill,  time 
and  effort  can  make  them.  Be- 
cause the  productivity  of  smal- 
ler bogs  is  in  general  greater 
than  that  of  larger  bogs,  I  would 
suggest  that  growers  construct 
dikes  to  make  the  flooding 
areas  no  larger  than  five  acres. 
This  should  facilitate  flooding 
and  irrigation  operations  and 
would  provide  a  convenient 
size  for  flood  harvesting  as 
this  develops  in  the  future. 


1.  Depreciation   of   Cranberry 


Bogs 


ful    chemicals    to    speed    their 
clearance  through  the  Food  and 

Drug   Administration.  A     change     in    the    Internal 
BE    IT    RESOLVED    that    a  Revenue  Code  to  allow  a  land- 
Research     Advisory    Committee  owner   the  option   of   deprecia- 
composed    of    growers    be    es-  ting  cranberry  bogs  in  the  same 


FARM  BUREAU 

Continued   from   Page   2 
2.  Ways    of    Strengthening    the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 

The  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station  is  more  vital  than  ever 
today,  for  growers  cannot  le- 
gally experiment  with  new 
chemicals  until  they  have  been 
cleared  for  use. 

Also,  with  the  shortage  of 
available  manpower  and  in- 
creased costs  of  production,  it 
is  vital  that  new  cultural  meth- 
ods of  producing  and  harvest- 
ing cranberries  be  developed. 
Therefore,  BE  IT  RESOLVED 
that  applied  research  at  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 
receive  greater  emphasis. 

Futher,  BE  IT  RESOLVED 
that  a  new  position  of  assistant 
to  the  Director  of  the  Experi- 
ment Station  be  created.  His 
responsibiHties  might  well  be 
to  closely  supervise  the  applied 
research  and  follow  up  on  use- 


tablished  to  act  as  a  liaison  be- 
tween the  Experiment  Station 
and  growers.  This  Committee 
will  keep  the  Station  informed 
of  problems  facing  growers 
and  will  be  kept  informed  at 
regularly  scheduled  meetings 
as  to  progress  on  specific  pro- 
jects. 

In  addition  to  the  above 
resolutions  presented  to  the 
committee  for  their  recommen- 


manner    as    cattle,    apple   trees 
and      factories. 

2.  Migrant  Workers 

All  agricidture  gets  a  black 
eye  from  the  annual  sensational 
stories  about  exploited  labor. 
Most  of  these  newspaper  ar- 
ticles center  around  photographs 
of  housing.  Recently,  such  an 
article  appeared,  which  centered 
around  housing  that  had  not 
been  used  for  over  20  years, 
dation  to  the  membership  for  We  might  consider  tearing  down 
consideration,  the  following  our  abandoned  shacks  which 
were  presented  for  discussion  make  such  photographs  pos- 
and    possible    future    action.  sible. 

De    J.    FISH 

CRANE,  DRAGLINE  and 
BULLDOZER  SERVICE 

EXCAVATIONS 

LAND  CLEARING 

DITCH   CLEANING 

SUMP  HOLES 

CANALS 
WAREHAM  BROCKTON  587-0824 

295-0506  BROCKTON  586-0550 


SHAWMUT    GLASS 


Representing 

KNOX  GLASS,  INC. 


25   EAST  STREET 
CAMBRIDGE  41,  MASS. 


TWENTY-THREn: 


Pictured  here  is  Cranberr/  Producfs,  Inc.  entry  in  the  Eagle  River, 
Wisconsin  Fourth  of  July  parade.  Directly  behind  the  float  is  a 
partial  view  of  the  new  cranberry  picking  machine  currently  being 
manufactured    in   Warrens,   Wisconsin. 


Regional   News   Notes — Continued 

W  I  "^  C  O  N  S  I  N 

Hot,  liTimid  weather  started 
the  month  \\ath  temperatures 
averaging  well  above  normal. 
Hi  eh  temperatures  in  the  90's 
;md  lows  in  the  60's  were  the 
rule  on  most  days.  Shower  ac- 
tivity was  light  and  scattered  as 
skies  remained  sunny  and  hazy. 
Most  rain  fell  in  western  counties 
where  weekly  amounts  of  V2  to 
1  inch  were  common. 

Hot  and  muggv  weather  pre- 
vailed over  the  Holiday  week- 
end. Shower  activity  became  a 
little  more  widespread  on  the 
3rd  and  4th.  More  generous 
rain  fell  on  the  5th  as  squall 
lines  in  advance  of  a  cold  f  ont 
moved  across  the  state. 

Continued  hot  and  humid 
early  in  the  week  of  the  10th 
followed  by  cooling  rain  on  the 
13th.  There  were  a  few  100- 
102  temperature  readings  in  tlie 
central  part.  The  southwest  re- 
ceived cpiite  heavy  precipitation 

TWENTY-FOUR 


together  with  some  hail  and 
damaging  winds. 

July  16  and  17  was  generally 
cool  and  pleasant  but  the  18th 
turned  hot  and  humid  with  a 
few  more  showers.  Tempera- 
tures averaged  slightlv  below 
normal  in  all  parts  of  the  state. 
Nighttime  temperatures,  in  par- 
ticular, were  cool  on  several 
days  with  the  mercury  dropping 
into  the  30's  in  the  north  and 
low  40's  in  the  south  on  the 
20th  and  21st.  A  low  reading 
of  26  degrees  was  recorded  in 
the  Mather  c-ranberry  bogs  on 
the  morning  of  the  20th.  No 
measurable  precipitation  fell  at 
most  stations  outside  of  the 
northwest  sections  where  some 
good  1  to  2  inch  amounts  fell 
in  showers  on  the  18th. 

A  slow  warming  trend  with 
temperatiu-es  into  the  90's  began 
tJie  25th.  No  precipitation  oc- 
curred over  the  weekend  of  the 
23d  and  24th.  Sprinkling  and 
flooding  has  been  necessary  in 
some  locations  for  frost  pro- 
tection 


Personal 

Vernon  Goldsworthy,  presi- 
dent of  Cranberry  Products,  Inc., 
Eagle  River,  Wisconsin,  and 
Mrs.  Goldsworthy  were  July 
\isitors  to  Massachusetts.  On 
tiie  way  East  they  stopped  at 
NcAvbury,  Michigan,  where  the 
University  of  Michigan  has  an 
experimental  cranberry  plot. 
In  Drummonsville,  Province  of 
Quebec,  the  Goldsworthys  vis- 
Hed  the  bogs  of  Charles  La- 
Uocque,  who  is  continuing  to 
make  further  additions  to  his 
cranberr)^  properties.  \\^hile  in 
Massachusetts  they  visited  with 
acquaintances  in  the  Cranberry 
area,  the  Mass.  Cranberry  Ex- 
periment Station  and  the  pub- 
lishers of  Cranberries  magazine. 


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A  record  National  cranberry 
crop  of  1,557,800  barrels  is 
forecast  for  1966,  8  percent 
more  than  last  year's  crop  and 
20  percent  above  the  1960-64 
a\erage.  This  forecast  is  based 
on  conditions  as  of  August  15. 
Larger  crops  than  last  year 
are  forecast  for  all  the  cran- 
berry producing  States  except 
New  Jersey. 

In  New  Jersey,  a  crop  of 
141,000  barrels  is  in  prospect, 
down  8  percent  from  the  1965 
crop,  but  34  percent  larger 
than  average.  Water  was 
drawn  from  the  bogs  later 
than  usual  because  of  cold 
iweather  in  May.    This  reduced 


the  bloom  in  some  bogs  but 
set  was  generally  good.  Hot, 
dry  weather  has  limited  sizing 
of   berries. 

The  Massachusetts  crop  is 
placed  at  800,000  barrels,  9 
percent  more  than  last  year, 
19  percent  above  average  and 
only  5,000  barrels  less  than  the 
record  crop  of  1960.  Growing 
conditions  were  nearly  ideal  in 
all  respects  until  about  mid- 
July.  The  cranberry  belt  has 
been  exceptionally  dry  since 
early  July  and  earlier  prospects 
have  deteriorated. 

Washington  bogs  got  ofiF  to  a 
good  start  in  the  spring.  The 
crop  is  expected  to  total  95,000 
barrels,  up  44  percent  from 
last  year  and  15  percent  larger 
than  average.  Generally  the 
set  was  good  even  though  cold, 
wet  weather  occurred  during 
the  early  bloom  period. 

The  Oregon  crop  is  forecast 
at  44.800  barrels,  up  7  percent 
from  last  year  and  26  percent 
above  average.  Although  un- 
protected bogs  were  damaged 
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Growers  Association  August  23, 
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mittee at  its  annual  meeting 
the  following  day  voted  there 
be  no  "set-aside"  of  the  1966 
crop,  the  largest  on  record  as 
forecast  by  the  USDA  annual 
report.  This  figure  predicted 
was  1,557,800  barrels. 

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gan Airport  Motel  was  one  of 
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that  this  large  crop  could  be 
disposed  of  at  satisfactory  re- 
turns to  the  growers  and  that 
there  would  be  an  "orderly 
market." 

It  was  further  voted  that 
the  carry-over  for  the  coming 
year  be  increased  50,000  bar- 
rels to  250,000  barrels.  An- 
other indication  of  the  "good 
times"  the  cranberry  industry 
is  now  enjoying.  This  carry- 
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Most  of  those  present  agreed' 
that  the  estimated  crop  was  a 
realistic  one  and  would  be 
achieved  when  harvest  is 
started  shortly  after  Labor 
Day,  as  usual. 

Based  on  a  IVz  percent 
shrinkage  as  is  customary  the 
entire  crop  to  be  marketed 
was  expected  to  be  1,400,745 
barrels,  which  is  150  barrels 
higher  than  was  set  for  the 
1965  crop. 

The  current  carry-over  or  in- 
ventory was  placed  at  259,077 
barrels  and  that  this  would  be 
reduced  to  213,780  by  Sept.  1, 
attesting  to  the  continuing  good 
demand  for  cranberries.  This 
carry-over  consists  of  102,758 
of  processed  and  156,319  in 
freezers.  They  voted  erower 
assessments  for  operating  the 
order  be  continued  at  ^/^ 
cent  per   barrel. 

Committee  member?  attend- 
ing included:  Mass.,  George  C. 
P.  Olsson,  president  of  Ocean 
Spray  and  committee  chair- 
man; John  C.  Decas.  Wareham, 
Dec'is  Bros.  Distributing  Co.;  , 
New  jersey,  Tosenh  Palmer,  i 
Hammonton;  Walter  Z.  Fort, 
Pemberton;  Wisconsin.  Clar- 
ence A.  Searles.  Wisconsin 
Kapids;  from  the  West  Coast. 
Frank  O.  Glenn,  Jr.,  Long 
Be-^ch,  Washington. 

Alternates:  Maurice  Make- 
neace,  Wareham  .^nd  John  N. 
Decas,  Wareham,  Mass.;  J.  Gar- 
field DeMarco,  Hammonton,  New 
Tersev.  Absent  were  alternates, 
T.  Roizers  Brick,  New  Jersey, 
Frederick  W.  Barber.  Wiscon- 
sin and  Robert  0"imW,  Gray- 
land,    Wa.shington. 

The  session  re-elected  of- 
ficers, chairman,  Mr.  Olsson;  ^ 
Ben  G.  Pannkuk.  former  pres- 
ident of  Indian  Trail,  Wiscon- 
sin, vice  president:  John  C. 
Decas,  secretary.  They  ^^^ll 
;ilso  again  comprise  the  execu- 
tive   committee. 

Anthonv  R.  Briggs  was  re- 
elected Committee  Manager. 
All  elections  were  for  a  term 
of  two   years. 

Representing  the  USDA  were 
George  B.  Dever  and  Robert 
Forni. 

Continued  on  ?age  22 


TWO 


31 


Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORAIMVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 


Drs.  Robert  Devlin,  Bert 
Zuckerman  and  Surindar  Para- 
cer  attended  the  American  Insti- 
tute of  Biological  Sciences  (A. 
I.B.S.)  metings  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maryland  from  August 
15  through  August  19. 

Dr.  Fred  Chandler,  Professor 
Emeritus,  returned  from  a  trip 
to  Nova  Sotia.  Fred  v^as  away 
during  June,  July  and  early 
August  serving  as  consultant  for 
the  Canadian  Government.  His 
main  objective  was  to  make  a 
survey  of  the  Nova  Scotia  area 
relative  to  finding  suitable  sites 
for  cranberry  plantings. 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  has  writ- 
ten a  college  text  book  on  plant 
physiology,  which  has  been 
published  by  The  Reinhold 
Publishing  Company.  Dr.  Dev- 
lin tells  me  that  this  is  the  first 
new  book  in  this  field  to  be 
published  in  the  United  States 
in  the.  last  14  years.  My  con- 
gratulations to  Bob  on  his 
splendid  accomplishment. 

Dr.  Wes  Miller  has  an  article 
pubHshed  in  the  August  issue  of 
the  Journal  of  Economic  En- 
tomology entitled  "Dieldrin 
Persistence  in  Cranberry  Bogs." 
This  article  will  appear  in  Cran- 
berries magazine  very  soon. 

Crop   Estimate 

The  official  crop  estimate  re- 
leased   by   the    New    England 
Crop  Reporting  Service,  shows 
Massachusetts   with   a  prospec- 
tive 1966  crop  of  800,000  bar- 
trels.    This    is  9   percent    larger 
[than  last  year's  crop  of  735,000 
I  barrels    and   19   percent   above 
jthe  5  year  average.  This  is  only 
[5,000  barrejs   less  than  the  re- 
cord crop  in  1960,  so  that  with 
a  little  luck  we  may  estabHsh 
a  new  record.   For  the  rest  of 
the  country,  the  New  Jersey  es- 


timate is  141,000  barrels  down 
8  percent  from  last  year,  but 
34  percent  above  average;  Wis- 
consin 477,000  barrels,  up  8 
percent  from  last  year  and  17 
percent  above  average.  This 
will  be  a  new  record  for  Wis- 
consin. The  Washington  crop  is 
estimated  at  95,000  barrels,  up 
44  percent  from  last  year's  small 
crop  and  15  percent  above  aver- 
age; Oregon  44,800  barrels,  up 
7  percent  from  last  year  and  26 
percent  above  average.  The  na- 
tional crop  is  estimated  at 
1,557,800  barrels,  wliich  wiU  be 
a  record  if  realized,  this  is  20 
percent  above  the  average. 

Frost    Warning     Service 

The  frost  warning  service, 
sponsored  by  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Growers  Association, 
is  in  operation  tliis  fall.  The 
telephone  answering  service  is 
also    very    popular    and    very 


helpful.  Frost  information  is 
recorded  daily  and  growers  that 
are  interested  may  telephone 
Wareham  295-2696  in  the  after- 
noon and  evening  for  the  latest 
reports.  If  you  have  not  con- 
tributed to  this  service,  it  is 
still  not  too  late  to  do  so.  Any 
contributions  will  be  gratefully 
accepted.  Send  your  money  to 
Mrs.  Ruth  Beaton,  Treasurer, 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Asociation,  Jefferson  Shores, 
Buzzards  Bay,  Mass.  There  are 
218  subscribers  to  the  frost 
warning  service  and  consider- 
ably fewer  to  the  answering 
service,  surely  there  are  more 
making  use  of  this  service:  send 
your  contributions  now! 

The  following  radio  schedule 
also  supplements  the  answering 
and  relay  services. 

Continued  on  Page  12 


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ISSUE  OF  SEPTEMBER,    1966     /     VOL.  31_NO.   5 


In  the  course  of  a  recent  mail  communi- 
cation with  a  West  Coast  publisher  and 
friend  of  CRANBERRIES,  I  was  surprised 
to  find  that  he  too  is  having  the  same  basic 
problem  in  publishing  his  weekly  newspaper 
as  we  have  been  having  here  at  CRANBER- 
RIES. 

I  had  mentioned  to  him  that  we  were  hav- 
ing some  difRculty  in  getting  our  readers  to 
submit  news  items  which  would  be  of  inter- 
est to  our  readers.  Short,  informal  items 
which  would  be  written  in  plain  English 
without  frills  and  about  anything  that  would 
pertain  to  their  interest  in  cranberries  and 
the  cranberry  industry.  He  said  that  he  was 
also  trying  to  fret  more  people  to  submit 
news  to  him  but  that,  since  his  newspaper 
covers  a  much  more  limited  area  than  does 
our  magazine  he  does  the  best  he  can  by 
using  the  phone  to  make  his  contacts. 

Can  you  imagine  what  kind  of  phone  bill 
we'd  have  if  we  had  to  resort  to  this  method 
of  getting  the  news. 

But  —  there  has  to  be  a  solution.  What  is 
the  solution  to  this  problem?  Very  simply, 
here  it  is.  We  ask  our  good  friends  across 
the  country  who  are  interested  in  the  cran- 
berry industry  to  submit  items  of  news  for 
publication. 

Don't  let  this  scare  you!  You  don't  have 
to  be  a  writer  to  do  this.  We'll  be  more  than 
haopy  to  re-write  the  copy  you  send  and 
edit  it  for  you.  All  we  would  ask  is  that  the 
information  be  checked  for  accuracy. 

CRANBERRIES  is  your  magazine!  You 
can  help  make  it  more  interesting!  We  in- 
vite your  personal  correspondence.  We  know 
from  experience  that  other  growers  enjoy 
hearing  about  their  fellow  growers  in  other 
areas.  They  like  to  read  what  other  people 
in  the  industry  are  doing.  They  even  like 
to  talk  a  bit  about  what  they're  doing  them- 
selves. This  seems  to  me  to  be  a  good  way 
to  establish  an  exchange  of  ideas — through 
the  pages   of  your  magazine.    Remember  — 


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Editor 

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Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 
Wisconsin 

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Oregon 

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Washington 

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in    Horticulture 

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Massachusetts 

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Director   Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

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Wild  Strawberry 
Asters 
Buckbean 
Hawkweed 
Western  Lilaeopsis 
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Plantain 
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Royal  Fern 

Sensitive  Fern 

Hair  cap  Moss 

Common  Horsetail 

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Rattlesnake  grass 

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Summer  grass 

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Muskrat  grass 

Nutsedge  (Nutgrass) 

Short  Wiregrass 

Wideleaf  grass 

Stargrass 

Woolgrass 

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Dr.  David  Robinson. 

Irish  HorlicullurisL  Soeal(s  to 

Cane  Cod  Cranberry  Gromiers 


Several  hundred  persons, 
members  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Growers  Association 
and  their  families,  enjoyed  a 
rare  treat  at  their  Annual  Meet- 
ing on  August  23  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Cranberry  Experiment 
Station  in  East  Wareham.  They 
heard  a  fascinating  talk,  illus- 
bated  by  slides,  by  Dr.  David 
Robinson,  Director  of  the  Agri- 
culture Institute,  Dubhn,  Ire- 
land. 

Dr.  Robinson  told  the  as- 
sembled group  that  he  was 
happy  to  be  returning  a  visit 
made  by  Dr.  Chester  Cross, 
director  of  the  Mass.  Cranberry 
Experimental  Station  and  his 
family  who  visited  the  Robin- 
sons in  Ireland  last  year. 

A  very  interesting  speaker. 
Dr.  Robinson  explained  that  it 
was  quite  difficult  to  get  exten- 
sion across  to  the  people  of  Ire- 
land. He  went  on  to  explain 
that  horticultural  research  in 
Ireland  really  got  under  way 
in  1958  with  assistance  from  the 
United  States.  In  the  past  the 
Irish  people  had  always  associ- 
ated horticulture  with  luxury, 
hence  there  was  no  great  de- 
mand for  it  until  recently.  There 
seemed  to  be  an  antagonism 
toward  those  who  desired  to 
grow  fruit,  vegetables  and 
flowers.  Now  there  are  three 
research  stations  in  Southern 
Ireland  doing  much  to  intro- 
duce horticulure  into  the 
country. 


Dr.  Robinson  went  on  to 
explain  that,  contrary  to  general 
knowledge,  Ireland  lies  north- 
east of  the  United  States  and 
the  chmate  there  is  always  fairly 
cool.  The  summers  are  quite 
cool  and  the  winters  quite  mild 
—  in  the  forties  —  because  of 
the  Gulf  Stream.  There  is  only 
about  a  twenty  degree  differ- 
ence in  the  summer  and  winter 
temperatures.  This  makes  for  a 
twelve  month  growing  season. 
Unfortunately  tliis  growing  sea- 
son also  applies  to  weeds  which 
are  quite  a  problem  in  Ireland. 
Also,  the  wetness  of  the  land 
does  not  allow  for  cultivating 
macliines.  The  weed  situation 
has  been  drastically  changed  by 
weed  killers.  It  is  estimated 
that  90%  of  the  growers  are 
using  herbicides  in  Great  Brit- 
ain and  Ireland.  They  have  had 
good  results  with  herbicides 
and  have  come  to  the  point 
where  they  do  not  cultivate 
when  there  are  no  weeds.  This 
allows  for  better  soil  structure 
since  the  soil  is  not  disturbed 
by  machines. 

Since  there  is  a  lack  of  fuel 
in  Ireland,  Dr.  Robinson  con- 
tinued, the  vast  amounts  of  peat 
in  Ireland,  which  covers  one 
fifth  of  all  the  land,  is  used  for 
fuel.  This  peat  is  sometimes 
twenty  to  thirty  feet  deep  in 
some  places.  Only  now  is  peat 
being  used  to  any  great  extent 
in  horticulture.  It  is  being 
planned  to  use  peat  on  blue- 
berry and  cranberry  crops. 


A  somewhat  humorus  side- 
hght  to  the  cranberry  story  in 
Ireland  was  told  by  Dr.  Robin- 
son when  he  stated  that  the 
growth  of  cranberries  in  Ire- 
land was  better  than  in  Massa- 
chusetts. The  problem,  how- 
ever, is  that  tliey  do  not  bear 
fruit.  They  are  now  working 
on  this  problem  but  are  still 
not  sure  of  the  answer. 

Speaking  on  the  production 
of  nursery  stock,  he  mentioned 
that  Ireland  can  grow  shrubs 
and  trees  too  tender  for  our 
chmate.  What  with  increasing 
affluence  there  will  be  a 
greater  need  for  this  type  of 
crop. 

Ireland  is  too  far  north  to 
produce  good  crops  of  peaches, 
cherries  and  plums  but  apple 
production  is  of  great  interest. 
Dwarf  apple  trees  are  favored 
in  Ireland  since  they  are  easier 
to  manage  than  the  full  size 
trees.  This  necessitates  plant- 
ing more  trees  but  there  is  a 
saving  in  labor.  Dr.  Robinson 
said  he  felt  that  the  dwarf 
trees  would  perhaps  catch  on 
in  North  America  one  day. 
Small  fruit  size  has  to  be  con- 
tended with  as  temperatures 
are  lower  than  optimum.  When 
grown  in  hothouses  or  when 
the  temperatures  are  increased 
the   apples    grow   much  larger. 

Disease  is  also  a  handicap. 
Leaf  fungi  are  rampant  because 
of  the  dampness  of  tlie  weather. 
With  the  use  of  efficient  con- 
trols good  results  have  been 
obtained  against  grey  mold  in 
strawberries. 

In  conclusion,  Dr.  Robinson 
stated  that  much  progress  has 
been  made  in  the  eight  years 
since  the  country  has  become 
aware  of  the  need  for  horticul- 
tural research.  He  also  ex- 
tended an  invitation  to  those 
listening  who  might  visit  Ire- 
land to  also  plan  to  visit  one  of 
the  research  stations. 

Dr.  Robinson's  presentation 
was  well  received  and  his 
pleasant  wit  and  manner  was 
refreshing. 

SEVEN 


American  Farm  Bureau 
President  Speaks 


Mr.  Charles  B.  Shuman,  Pres- 
ident of  the  American  Farm 
Bureau  Federation  was  the 
featured  speaker  at  tlie  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Plymouth 
County  Farm  Bureau  on  Thurs- 
day, August  26,  1966.  The  meet- 
ing was  held  at  the  Leach's 
Grove,  Route  18  &  28,  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts  with  a 
Chicken  Bar-B-Que  dinner 
starting  at  6:30  P.M.  Mr.  Shu- 
man discussed  current  rises 
in  food  prices  at  the  retail  level 
and  their  effect  on  the  farmer. 

A  grass-roots  farmer,  Presi- 
dent Shuman  farms  a  1013  acre 
stock  and  grain  farm  in  part- 
nership with  his  three  sons  in 
Moultrie  County,  Illinois.  He 
graduated  from  the  University 
of  Illinois  with  honors  in  1928 
and  earned  his  Masters  Degree 
in  Agronomy  with  a  minor  in 
Agriculural  Economics  the  fol- 
lowiiig  year. 


The  leader  of  1,682,000  farm 
and  ranch  families  throughout 
the  United  States,  President 
Shuman  has  been  active  in 
Farm  Bureau  for  over  thirty 
years.  He  has  served  as  Presi- 
dent and  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Moul- 
trie County  Farm  Bureau,  the 
Illinois  Agricultural  Association 
and  was  elected  to  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  American 
Farm  Bureau  Federation  in 
1945  and  assumed  the  Farm 
Biu^eau    Presidency   in   1954. 

Mr.  Shuman  recently  noted 
that  farmers  are  generating  a 
far  greater  measure  of  poHtical 
and  economic  power  through 
increased  participation  in  their 
own  organizations  —  with  rap- 
idly growing  marketing  associa- 
tions  a  principal  case  in  point. 

President  Shuman  was  re- 
cently featured  with  a  cover 
picture  and  story  in  a  weekly 
news  magazine. 


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Now  Open 

EorroR's  Note:  The  following  is 
reprinted  from  the  'North-West. 

Ocean  Spray  Cranberries, 
Inc.,  now  benefits  from  more 
orderly  processing  and  market- 
ing made  possible  by  the  con- 
struction last  fall  of  an  addition 
to  its  plant  at  Markham,  in 
western    Washington. 

The  company  sells  cranber- 
ries both  fresh  and  canned. 

The  new  building,  a  steel 
structure  80  x  170  feet,  with 
controlled  temperature,  was  put 
up  at  a  cost  estimated  at 
$150,000,  including  refrigera- 
tion   equipment. 

It  not  only  helps  in  cooling 
fruit  intended  for  the  fresh 
market  but,  also,  berries  in  cold 
storage  make  it  possible  to  ex- 
tend the  canning  season  instead 
of  having  to  do  all  the  pro- 
cessing immediately  at  harvest. 
It  provides  ordinary  storage, 
too,  during  the  oflF  season  when 
no  fresh  fruit  is  being  held. 
Thirty  thousand  barrels  of  fresh 
cranberries  or  200,000  cases  of 
canned  fruit  can  be  accommo- 
dated in  this  modern  structure. 

Tlie  company,  which  has 
plants  also  at  Onset  and  Han- 
son, Mass.,  Bordentown,  N.  J., 
and  Cliicago,  does  from  18  to  , 
20  per  cent  of  all  of  its  pro- 
cessing at  Markham  and  sup- 
plies from  that  point  all  of  its 
canned  cranberries  that  are 
used  in  13  western  states. 

The  plant  at  Markham,  now 
640  feet  long,  adjacent  to  an 
N.P.  industrial  tract,  handled 
100,000  cases  of  fresh  fruit  and  ' 
1,000,000  cases  of  canned  fruit 
in  1962.  Back  in  1941,  the  first 
year  of  operations,  only  23,000 
cases   were   packed. 

At  first  known  as  tlie  Gray- 
land  Cranberry  Growers'  as- 
sociation, producers  on  the 
west  coast  in  1942  consolidated 
with  Cranbery  Canners,  wliich 
later  beame  the  National  Cran- 
berry Association.  The  name 
was  changed  to  Ocean  Spray  1 
Cranberries,  Inc.,  in  1960. 


EIGHT 


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MASSACHUSETTS 

August    Starts    Dry 

x\ugust  began  with  the  same 
beautiful  summer  weather,  but 
A  ith  less  high  temperatures  and 
far  less  humidity.  But  the 
\\eather  continued  extremely 
dry.  There  was  a  Hght  rain  on 
the  night  of  he  2nd,  but  only 
.002  inches  was  recorded  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  with  a  little 
inore  on  the  outer  Cape  from 
Hyannis  and  Falmouth.  The 
Mass.  crop  potential  continued 
to  fade  away  as  the  long 
drought  kept   on. 

A  great  change  came  to  the 
summer  pattern  on  the  week 
of  August  8.  The  beautiful, 
sunny  weather  gave  way  to 
five  days  of  cloudy  skies.  The 
Sth  brought  light,  but  persist- 
ent rain,  falling  mostly  in  the 
cranberry  area,  where  rain  was 
most  needed.  The  9th  and  10th 
vere  sBghtlv  showery,  but  wide 
scattered.  The  11th  brought  fog 
and  drizzle  as  did  the  12th. 
Total  rainfall  for  the  period 
\\as,  however  only  .26  of  an 
inch  as  put  down  at  the  State 
Bog. 

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I  This  was,  of  course,  helpful 
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was  desperately  needed  and  the 


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five  days  of  miserable  weather 
did  little  to  fill  up  reservoirs, 
which  were  way,  way  down. 
The  rainy  weather  did  however, 
help  the  sizing  of  fruit  a  little 
and  the  weekly  loss  due  to  the 
terrible  drought  was  eliminated 
for  that  period. 

August  Cooler 

On  the  12th  in  the  afternoon 
cool  summer  polar  air  moved 
in  and  the  sun  came  out  again. 
The  period  brought  some  of 
the  most  uncomfortable  humid 
weather  of  the  year,  with  hu- 
midity exceeding  the  tempera- 
ture at  various  times.  The 
month  that  far  was  slightly 
cooler  than  normal,  instead  of 
being  hotter  than  normal  as 
was  the  preceeding  part  of 
the  summer. 

It  was  beginning  to  shape  up 
as  a  harvest  slightly  later  than 
normal  to  be  expected,  perhaps 
about  Sept.  10  as  a  starting 
point.  More  rain  and  colder 
nights  were  needed  for  color 
and  additional  size  of  the  fruit. 


This  spell  of  the  usual  Aug- 
ust "Dog  Days,"  opened  with 
a  small  tornado  in  the  western 
part  of  Massachusetts  and  re- 
ports of  possible  hail,  which, 
fortunately  did  not  materiahze. 

Season   Turning 

But  the  season  was  turning, 
summer  was  about  to  go  into 
fall.  There  were  cool  days  and 
cooler  nights,  which  were  help- 
ing to  add  color  to  fruit.  By 
the  15th  the  month  was  also 
38  degrees  cooler  than  normal. 

The  week  of  the  15th  started 
out  as  a  repeat  of  the  previous 
week.  That  is,  with  drizzle  and 
fog,  but  no  real  heavy  rain. 
Miserable  weather.  The  dismal 
weather,  however,  began  to 
clear  on  the  night  of  August 
16th  with  a  sharp  thunder- 
storm, and  heavy  rain.  This 
brought  .59  of  an  inch  of  pre- 
cipitation as  recorded  at  Cran- 
berry Station,  with  more  or 
less  at  other  points  in  the  cran- 
berry area.  This  was  one  of  the 
better  rains  of  the  entire  sum- 
mer  season. 


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Mid  August  had  some  warm 
and  humid  spells.  For  instance, 
on  the  19th  the  temperatures 
were  in  the  high  80's  and  low 
PO's  with  humidity  in  the  high 
fiO's  and  low  70's.  Very  uncom- 
fortable weather.  But  the 
month  continued  to  be  as  per- 
sistent in  continuing  dry  in  the 
Southeastern  area  as  the  stock 
market  seemed  persistent  in 
becoming  lower.  Growers  who 
had  sprinklers,  and  had  water 
were  using  their  systems. 
Others  were  attempting  to  find 
additional  sources.  What  was 
so  badly  needed,  as  for  so  long, 
was  good  soaking  rain,  possibly 
of  two  or  three  days  duration. 

There  followed  cooler  wea- 
ther with  cool  nights  which 
were  adding  color  to  the  fruit. 

The    Big    Rain 

But,  finally,  as  always  in  the 
case  of  dry  spells  in  the  past, 
there  came  the  day  of  the  Big 
Rain.  This  was  on  August  23 
during  the  meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers' 
Association,  a  day  when  there 
is  almost  always  traditionally 
fine  weather. 

The  rain  came  during  a  live- 
ly thunderstorm,  pouring,  de- 
luging precipitation,  which 
continued  from  afternoon  well 
into  the  night  in  deluging 
showers.  The  Cranberry  Station 
recorded  1.55  inches  for  the 
storm,  Norton  IV2  inches.  Car- 
ver 2,  Plymouth  3,  as  well  as 
Orleans  3  on  the  Cape,  so  it 
was  a  general  rain  over  most 
of  the  cranberry  area.  This 
storm  fTive  not  only  temporary 
relief  to  the  bogs,  but  helped 
to  restore  somewhat  the  ponds 
and  re<:e^voirs.  It  was  a  most 
beneficial   storm. 

Following  the  storm  the  wea- 
ther resumed  its  same  dry  pat- 
tern, but  days  and  particularly 
nights  were  definitely  cooler,  as 
actual  Autumn  was  approach- 
ing. 

The  month  ended  on  a  warm 
and  humid  note.  Hurricane 
"Faith."  tlie  6th  of  the  season 
was  churning  along  up  the 
coast,  possibly  headed  for  the 
Carolinas,  but  its  destination 
known  to  no  one.  It  bore  with 


it  the  potential  of  heavy  rains 
if  it  reached  New  England  and 
also   of  damage. 

August    Drier   and    Slightly   Cooler 

As  for  rain  in  August,  it  was 
again  on  the  short  side.  Total 
precipitation  as  recorded  at  the 
State  bog  was  only  2.58  inches, 
at  Boston  IV2  inches.  The  nor- 
mal for  the  bog  for  August  is 
3.60  inches.  Some  areas  re- 
ceived more  and  some  less. 
This  left  the  water  supplies  at 
a  very  dangerovis  low  for  fall 
frost  protection.  The  month  was 
also  slightly  cooler  than  nor- 
mal by  a  little  less  than  half 
a  degree  a  day.  The  hurricane 
had  gone  out  to  sea  bringing 
none  of  the  much  needed  rain 
and  none  of  the  probable  and 
not-needed   property    damage. 

Berries    Slow    to    Color 

As  September  came  in  it  was 
reported  generally  that  the 
fruit  was  very  late  in  taking 
color.  It  was  not  exp-ected  that 
nicking  would  generally  begin 
before  Sept.  10  or  the  week 
of  Sept.  14th.  As  to  the  size 
of  berries  there  was  some  dis- 
agreement. Some  reported  ber- 
ries as  of  good  size.  There  were 
scattered  instances  of  "pin 
heads"  due  to  the  lack  of  sum- 
mer rain.  In  general  it  might 
be  said  that  late-drawn  bogs 
and  late  varieties  were  of  good 
size. 


NEW    J  ERSEY 

August  was  about  normal  in 
regard  to  temperature  but  was 
much  drier  than  normal  as  the 
drought  pattern  of  the  last  four 
vears  continued.  Rainfall  to- 
taled only  1.08  inches  or  about 
3.60  less  than  normal.  The  total 
from  Tanuary  through  August 
of  1966  now  stands  at  24.57  in- 
ches which  is  5.23  less  than  nor- 
mal for  the  period.  In  the 
extremely  bad  droughts  of  the 
past  two  years  rainfall  for  the 
same  eight-month  period  was 
onlv  1.23  inches  less  in  1964  and 
1.48  less  in  1965.  In  the  import- 
ant growing  season  of  June 
through  August,  1966  had  .58 
less  rainfall  than  1964  and  3 
inches  less  than  1965. 


The  accumulated  deficiency  i 
of  precipitation  from  January  1, 
1963  through  August  31,  1965 
is  28.78  or  roughly  about  eight 
months  of  normal  rainfall.  This 
has  brouht  cranberry  reservoirs 
on  most  New  Jersey  bogs  to  a 
critical  low  level.  Lack  of  water 
is  now  the  main  concern  of 
most  cranberry  growers  in  this 
state. 

Blistering  heat  this  summer 
has  accentuated  the  problem. 
At  the  Cranberry  &  Blueberry 
Lab  Weather  Station  at  New 
Lisbon  the  evaporation  from  the 
standard  evaporation  pan  from 
June  1st  through  August  31st, 
was  19.03  inches  or  about  12 
inches  in  excess  of  the  rainfall. 

There  were  ten  days  of  tem- 
perature in  the  90's  during  Aug- 
ust, which  is  about  three  more 
than  normal  for  this  month.  To 
balance  this  out  there  were  fif- 
teen days  when  the  minimum 
temperature  went  below  60°. 
The  average  temperature  was 
73.9  which  is  onlv  -3  of  a  degree 
above  normal.  Extremes  were 
95°  on  the  31st,  and  49°  on  the 
fourth. 

The  97th  Summer  Meeting  of 
the  American  Cranberry  Associ- 
ation was  held  on  August  25th. 

Jack    St.    Pierre   of  the    New 
Tersey   Crop   Reporting   Service  j 
estimated  that  the  New  Jersey  i 
cranberrv       crop       would      be  J 
141,000  'barrels,    8%    less    than 
last   year   but   34%   larger   than 
average.  Unusually  late  dra\\dng 
of  the  winter  flood  because  of 
the   very    cold    spring    delayed 
extended    blossoming.    The    ex- 
tended    drought     undoubtedly 
was  also  adverse  on  cranberries. 

C.  W.  Mainland  of  the  Rut-  j 
Jiers     University      Horticultural  ' 
Dept.     reported    on    his    work 
with  gibberellin  on  cranberries. 
Experimental      apphcation      in 
1965   caused    a   very    sharp    in- 
crease in  the  percentage  set  of 
berries.  Almost  all  of  the  blos- 
soms set  fruit  and  although  ber- 
ries   were   smaller   than   normal 
the  production  by  weight  in  the 
gibberellin     plots     was     signifi- 
cantly higher  than   in   the   un- 
treated plots.  r 
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TEN 


McCulloch's  New 
Electric  Start  Chain  Saws 
Announced 


The  world's  first  electric- 
starting  chain  saw  has  been  in- 
troduced by  McCulloch  Corp., 
it  was  announced  here  today 
by  W.  B.  Burkett,  vice  presi- 
dent —  engineering  of  the  Los 
j Angeles  power  tool  and  out- 
1  board  motor  manufacturing 
firm. 

The  revolutionary  new  saw 
I  marks  the  first  time  in  history 
'that  a  small,  hand-held  gaso- 
iline  engine  can  be  started  elec- 
itrically  by  a  totally  self-con- 
itained  starter,  generator  and 
battery. 


"This  development  is  sure  to 
revolutionize  the  entire  small 
engine  field,  including  lawn- 
mowers,  edgers,  tillers,  snow- 
mobiles, generators  and  the 
like,"  Mr.  Burkett  said. 

It  will  eventually  put  tlie 
starter  pull  rope  on  the  shelf 
along  with  the  automobile  hand 
crank,"  he  continued. 

The  saw,  designated  the 
MAC  3-lOE,  weighs  under  15 
pounds  and  is  designed  for  cut- 
ting firewood,  triinming  trees, 
clearing  land,  felling  and  buck- 
ing timber  and  pulpwood. 

"Push  button  starting  is  a 
very  real  benefit  to  inexperi- 
enced power  chain  saw  users 
as  well  as  veteran  profession- 
als," Mr.  Burkett  added. 


He  pointed  out  that  the  elec- 
tric-starting chain  saws  can  be 
started  safely  and  easily  up  in 
a  tree  or  in  some  other  pre- 
carious location  for  an  import- 
ant safety  factor. 

The  new  McCulloch  system 
is  an  engineering  breakthrough 
in  miniaturization  and  elec- 
tronics. It  was  developed  by 
McCulloch  working  closely  with 
General  Electric  Co.,  Motorola 
and   Denso   Corp. 

A  small  starter-generator  has 
been  perfected  which  is  inte- 
grated into  the  flywheel  of  the 
engine.  When  starting  the  en- 
gine, a  nickel-cadmium  battery 
pack  supplies  the  necessary 
current  and  when  the  engine 
is  driving  the  starter/generator, 
it  then  recharges  the  batteries. 

The  battery  pack  is  rated  at 
13  volts  and  is  contained  in  the 
handle  of  the  saw.  The  packs 
were  specially  developed  by 
McCulloch  and  GE  and  are 
similar  to  the  type  of  batteries 
in  cordless  electric  knives  and 
toothbrushes,  except  they  are 
designed  for  heavier  duty.  The 
batteries,  it  is  claimed,  will  last 
the  life  of  the   saw. 

One  of  the  most  advanced 
components  in  the  MAC  3-lOE 
is  the  voltage  regulator  system 
concealed  in  the  pistol  grip  of 
the  saw.  It  uses  solid-state, 
semi-conductor  devices  and 
was  designed  by  McCulloch. 

The  engine,  itself,  features  a 
de-stroking  port  (DSP)  whicti 
can  be  started  with  half  the 
effort  required  for  an  ordinary 
engine. 

Technically,  the  de-stroking 
port  is  a  valve  located  near 
the  top  of  the  combustion 
chamber  inside  the  cylinder. 
When  the  MAC  3-lOE  user 
pushes  the  starter  button,  the 
valve  opens  automatically,  re- 
leasing heavy  compression  in 
the  engine.  When  the  engine 
fires,  the  valve  automatically 
closes,  enabUng  full  compres- 
sion to  take  place. 

The  battery  pack  is  said  to 
have  a  crankdown  time  of  ap- 
proximately tliree  minutes,  again 
determined  by  extensive  testing. 
This  compares  favorably  witli 
that  of  an  automobile. 


ELEVEN 


Large  Cranberry 
Crop  Looked  For 

The  agriculture  department 
forecast  a  record  cranberry 
crop  of  1,557,800  barrels  this 
year,  including  477,000  barrels 
in   Wisconsin. 

Such  a  crop  would  be  8% 
more  than  last  year  and  20% 
above  the  1960-'64  average. 

The  department  said  larger 
crops  than  last  year  are  fore- 
cast for  all  the  producing  states 
except  New  Jersey. 

Indicated  production  for  tlie 
other  states  included:  Massa- 
chusetts, 800,000  barrels;  New- 
Jersey,  141,000;  Washington, 
95,000;  and  Oregon,  44,800. 

Dr.  Ray  H.  Roberts 
Honored 

College  Park,  Md.,  Ray  H. 
Roberts,  emeritus  professor  in 
the  University  of  Wisconsin 
department  of  horticulture,  was 
named  a  Fellow  of  the  Ameri- 
can Society  for  Horticultural 
Science  at  the  group's  annual 
banquet  here  August   16. 

The  award  recognizes  Rob- 
erts for  "outstanding  contribu- 
tions   to   horticulture   and   ser- 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    jrom    Page    3 


Station 

Place           A.M. 

F.M. 

Afternoon 

Evening 

WEEI 

Boston         590k. 

103.3 

mg.     2:00 

9:00 

WBZ 

Boston        1030k. 

92.9 

mg.     2:30 

9:00 

WPLM 

Plymouth     1390k. 

99.1 

mg.     2:30 

9:30 

WOCB 

W.  Yarmouth  1240k 

94.3 

mg.     3:00 

9:30 

WBSM 

New  Bedford  1420k. 

97.3 

mg.     3:30 

Annual    Meeting 

9:00 

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its  objectives  of  promoting 
scientific  research  and  educa- 
tion in  horticulture."  The 
award  was  made  in  conjunction 
with  the  63rd  annual  meeting 
of  the  American  Society  for 
Horticultural  Science  at  the 
University  of  Maryland,  August 
14-20. 

Roberts  joined  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin  department  of 
horticulture  in  1915  as  an  ex- 
tension specialist,  and  retired 
as  a  professor  of  horticulture 
in    1960. 

Roberts  lives  at  2215  Hollis- 
ter  Avenue,  Madison,  Wis. 

Dr.  Roberts  has  been  much 
interested  in  cranberry  re- 
search in  Wisconsin  and  has 
made  valuable  contributions  to 
the  industry. 


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The  annual  meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  was  held  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  on  August  23. 
The  crowd  was  estimated  at  be- 
tween 275  and  300  which  is  as 
large  as  any  in  recent  years. 
The  guest  speaker  was  Dr. 
David  Robinson,  Director  of  the 
Agricultural  Institute  in  Kin- 
sealy.  County  Dubhn,  Ireland, 
his  subject  was  "Weed  Control 
in  Soft  Fruits."  Dr.  Robinson 
gave  an  exceUent  presentation 
and  certainly  enhanced  the  rep- 
utation of  Irishmen  as  know- 
ledgeable and  witty  speakers.  I 
enjoyed  him  immensely.  OflBcers 
of  the  association  elected  for  the 
coming  year  were:  "Al"  Pappi, 
President;  "Bob"  Hiller,  1st 
Vice  President;  "Bill"  Atwood, 
2nd  Vice  President;  "Bob"  St. 
Jacques,  Secretary;  and  Mrs. 
Ruth  Beaton,   Treasurer. 

Weather 

The  month  of  August  ^^•as 
slightly  on  the  cool  side  aveag- 
ing  1/2  degree  a  day  belo\\- 
normal.  Total  rainfall  for  Aw^- 
ust  was  2.58  inches  wliich  is 
more  than  IVa  inches  below 
average  at  tlie  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion for  August.  We  are  now 
more  than  8 1/2  inches  below 
average  for  1966  but  3  inches 
ahead  of  the  same  date  in  1965. 
Over  50  percent  of  the  month's  i 
total  occurred  on  August  23rd 
when  1.56  inches  was  recorded 
at  the  Station,  tills  coincided 
with  tlie  Annual  Growers  Meet- 
ing, but  I  doubt  that  anyonel 
was  unhappy  about  having  tc' 
compete  with  die  rain.  Actually, 
this  storm  was  \'ery  spotty,  as 
this  type  is  apt  to  be  in  this 
area,  many  places,  fortunately, 
received  more  than  we  did  witl: 
East  Sandwich  recording  ovei 
2  inches,  FreetowTi,  Plymoutl 
and  some  areas  in  Carver  ov« 


TWELVE 


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We  have  been  designing  and  manufacturing  irrigation 

equipment  for  over  one  quarter  century. 

COMPLETE  SYSTEMS  -  pumping  units,  pumps,  power  units, 

sprinklers.    Aluminum  or  steel  fittings  made  to  order. 

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(formerly  Withrow,  Minnesota) 


3  inches.  Boston,  New  Bedford 
and  almouth  received  less  than 
%  inch. 

Fall    Management 

The  following  suggestions  on 
fall  management  are  offered  for 
consideration:  (1)  It  is  an  ex- 
cellent practice,  where  water  is 
available,  to  flood  bogs  immedi- 
ately after  harvest.  This  gives 
the  vines  a  good  drink  of  water, 
which  helps  revive  them  after 
the  rough  harvesting  operation 
and  allows  broken  vines  and 
other  harmful  trash  to  be  col- 
lected and  disposed  of.  (2) 
Thin  or  weak  areas  of  vines 
on  the  bog  which  are  easily 
seen  during  the  picking  opera- 
tions should  receive  an  appli- 
cation of  fertiHzer.  This  will 
strengthen  the  vines  without 
promoting  weed  growth.  The 
old  bucket  technique  of  walk- 
ing the  bogs  and  spreading  the 
fertiHzer  by  hand  on  areas  that 
need  it,  is  still  a  good  practice. 
(3)  Casoron,  or  any  of  our 
other  approved  herbicides, 
should  be  used  to  clean  up 
weedy  areas.  Allow  the  bog  a 


week  or  ten  days  to  recover 
from  picking  before  applying 
any  herbicide.  Casoron  should 
not  be  used  until  temperatures 
are  cool,  it  is  broken  down  and 
passes  off  into  the  air  very 
quickly  when  temperatures  are 
60  degrees  or  above  and  smaller 
amounts  are  lost  at  tempera- 
tures as  low  as  40  degrees.  (4) 
Girdler,  which  is  becoming  a 
more  common  pest,  can  be  con- 
trolled by  flooding  for  a  5-day 
period  in  late  September,  ap- 
plying a  coat  of  sand  sometime 
before  the  start  of  the  next 
growing  season,  or  by  the  use 
of  aldrin  or  dieldrin.  Root  grub 
can  also  be  controlled  by  using 
aldrin  or  dieldrin.  For  more 
specific  recommendations  on 
using  these  insecticides,  consult 
your  cranberry  insect  control 
chart. 


cent  above  1965  and  7  per 
cent  abov0  the  record  year  of 
1961.  This  should  be  looked 
upon  as  good  by  the  cranberry 
industry  as  a  large  crop  usually 
indicates  no  increase  to  the 
consumers  and  turkeys  and 
cranberry  sauce  traditionally 
go  together,  particularly  at 
Thanksgiving. 


1966  U.  S.  TURKEY 
CROP  IS  UP 

Turkeys  raised  in  the  U.S. 
in  1966  are  expected  by  the 
USDA  to  increase  to  a  total  of 
114.8   bilhon   birds    or    11  per 


NEW    JERSEY    PERSONALS 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaiah  Haines 
of  New  Lisbon  were  recently 
surprised  by  about  50  of  their 
friends  on  the  occasion  of  their 
35th  wedding  anniversary.  Mr. 
Haines  has  long  been  promon- 
ent  in  the  New  Jersey  cranberry 
industry.  He  is  general  manager 
of  the  huge  J.  J.  White  Com- 
pany, 

Walter  Z.  Fort,  manager  of 
the  Growers  Cranberry  Com- 
pany of  New  Jersey  and  current 
president  of  the  American  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association, 
newly  elected  county  comman- 
der of  the  American  Legion  was 
installing  officers  at  a  legion 
ceremony  at  Pemberton. 

THIRTEEN 


Association  Annoai  Meeting 
Very  Successfull  -  Wen  Attended 


The  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  was  held  at  the 
Mass.  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station  at  East  Wareham  on 
Tuesday,  August  23,   1966. 

Though  the  threat  of  rain 
hung  over  the  gathering,  the 
members  and  their  families 
turned  out  several  hundred 
strong  and  spent  tbe  morning 
hours  looking  over  the  equip- 
ment displays  imd  enjoying 
conversations  with  old  and  new 
friends   alike. 

Since  the  possibility  of  rain 
was  anything  but  remote,  the 
chicken  barbecue  scheduled  for 
noon  was  served  earUer  and, 
luckily,  tlie  heavy  rain  held  off 
until  everyone  had  enjoyed  the 
delicious  meal. 

When  the  rain  showers  be- 
gan, before  the  scheduled  hour 
of  the  business  meeting,  it  was 
decided  that,  rather  than  try 
to  move  the  hundreds  of  people 
who  had  gathered  for  the 
meeting  to  the  Wareham  Town 
Hall  as  was  planned  in  the 
event  of  rain,  the  business 
meeting  would  be  moved  into 
the  large  building  in  which  the 
dinner  had  been  eaten.  When 
the  last  of  the  members  had 
finished  eating  the  staff  of  the 
Experiment  Station  cleared  the 
building  of  the  tables  and  re- 
arranged the  chairs  with  great 
dispatch.  At  1:30— the  scheduled 
time  — the  President  of  the  As- 
sociation, Mr.  Alfred  L.  Pappi, 
called  the  meeting  to  order.  He 
introduced  the  Association  Sec- 
retary, William  M.  Atwood, 
who  read  the  report  of  the  last 
meeting.    President  Pappi   then 


Mr.  Pappi  then  asked  Mr. 
Orrin  Colley  for  his  report  on 
cranberry  marketing.  Mr.  Col- 
ley stated  that  the  interest  in 
cranapple  relish  was  growing 
steadily.  The  British  dock  strike 
affected  cranberry  export  con- 
siderably and  the  cranberry 
market  was  slow  in  the  United 
Kingdom.  He  stated  that  cran- 
berries are  at  a  point  where 
they  are  being  accepted  by 
the  middle  class  housewife  in 
the  U.  K.  and  now  the  emphasis 
is  being  placed  on  achieving  the 
acceptance  of  cranberries  by 
the  upper  income  groups.  Mr. 
Colley  mentioned  a  few  prob- 
lems in  marketing  in  the  Lnited 
Kingdom.  These  are  tlie  prob- 
lems involved  in  pioneering  an 
unknown  product.  The  con- 
sumer must  be  educated  to  the 
product  image.  An  awareness 
of  the  value  of  the  product 
must  be  raised  in  the  consumer. 
Expanded  usage  and  marketing 
methods  must  be  developed. 
The  belief  in  long-term  oppor- 
tunities has  led  to  the  sale  of 
from  five  to  ten  million  pounds 
of  berries.  Ocean  Spray  has 
expressed  a  wilHngness  to  ex- 
port more  cranberries  to  tlie 
U.  K.  during  the  next  five 
years.  Increased  awareness  has 
resulted  in  the  sale  of  eighty  to 
one  hundred  thousand  cases  of 
processed  fruit.  Mr.  Colley 
stated  in  conclusion  that  the 
growers  must  be  determined  to 
keep   after    this    market. 

At  this  point  in  tlie  meeting 
two  distinguished  visitors  were 
introduced  to  the  audience. 
They  were  Mr.  Clarence  A. 
Searles,  one  of  Wisconsin's  lar- 
gest growers,   and   Mr.   Ben  G. 


mil  I 

called  on  Mrs.  Ruth  E.  Beaton||||Pannkuk,  head  of  Indian  Trail 
for  the  Treasrurer's  report.  cooperative  of  Wisconsin. 


Bill  Atwood  then  made  a 
brief  statement  regarding  frost 
warning  in  which  he  stated 
that,  naturally,  it  was  impossi- 
ble to  predict  temperatures  for 
each  bog  since  the  physical  lo- 
cation of  the  individual  bog  has 
much  to  do  with  the  tempera- 
ture of  the  bog.  He  suggested 
that  the  bog  owners  should 
have  an  idea  of  the  average 
low  temperature  of  their  own 
bogs  and  make  their  own  de- 
termination of  the  need  for 
protection  from  this  average. 
He  suggested  the  frequent  use 
of  the  answering  service  and 
that  owners  pay  particular  at- 
tention to  the  whole  frost  fore- 
casting service  this  fall. 

Next  to  be  introduced  was 
Dr.  Chester  Cross,  director  of 
the  Mass.  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment Station.  Dr.  Cross  ex- 
pressed his  gratification  at 
seeing  such  a  large  crowd.  He 
spoke  briefly  of  the  purchase  of 
the  Cardozza  property  adjacent 
to  the  Experiment  Station  by 
the  association  and  the  fact 
that  this  property  would  even- 
tually be  given  to  the  station. 
He  also  stated  that  the  bill  to 
erect  a  new  building  at  the 
station  was  at  that  moment 
being  reported  out  of  com- 
mittee. The  proposal  for  the 
$100,000  building  has  been  ap- 
proved by  the  W^ays  and  Means 
committee  and  enactment  was 
expected   soon. 

Dr.  Cross  expressed  his 
pleasure  at  the  growing  sup- 
port of  the  frost  warning  ser- 
vice. He  said  that  it  was  a  good 
thing  that  so  much  water  had 
been  conserved  during  the 
spring  as  a  result  of  this  ser- 
vice since  it  will  surely  be 
needed  now.  He  mentioned  that 
a  few  growers  had  expressed 
concern  over  a  change  at  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 
—  that  they  no  longer  hire 
people  who  come  up  with  new 
chemicals  and  follow  the  results 
each  week  and  then  \\'rite  re- 
ports on  these  results.  Now, 
Dr.  Cross  explained,  the  FDA, 
Audubon,  Fish  and  Wildlife 
and  USDA  people  want  more 
information   than   ever   before. 


FOURTEEN 


chemicals  must  be  registered 
before  they  can  be  used  even 
on  your  own  bogs  and  rules 
must  be  carefully  followed.  He 
also  made  mention  of  the  fact 
that  the  labs  which  enforce 
these  rules  are  now  using  very 
sophisticated  methods  of  check- 
ing. They  are  also  using  new 
methods  of  clearing  chemicals 
for  use  on  bogs.  The  Experi- 
ment Station  has  a  program  of 
basic  and  applied  research  and 
tbey  want  to  know,  and  the 
USDA  insists  on  knowing  what 
happens  to  chemicals  after  they 
are  used.  The  station  teams 
are  working  to  find  the  answers 
to  these  and  other  problems. 

Dr.  Cross  began  mentioning 
the  work  being  conducted  by 
members  of  his  staff.  He  started 
by  mentioning  the  work  Bill 
Tomlinson  was  doing  with  the 
fruitworm.  Bill  has  had  black 
light  traps  on  the  bogs  day  and 
night  and  has  been  analyzing 
the  insects  caught  in  these  traps. 
One  question  he  has  been  try- 
ing to  answer  is  the  life  cycle 
of  the  fruitworm.  Bill  has  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  fruitworm 
miller  to  mate  in  captivity  and 
the  female  to  lay  eggs  in  cap- 
tivity in  season.  If  something 
could  be  found  to  develop  out 
of  season,  a  control  could  prob- 
ably be  developed  and  there 
would  no  longer  be  a  need  for 
poisonous  insecticides.  It  would 
be  nice  to  be  able  to  eliminate 
some  of  the  insecticides  since 
they  are  more  dangerous  than 
seems  necessary  and  are  hard 
to  handle. 

The  work  being  done  by  Stan 
Norton  in  trying  to  develop  a 
better  method  of  dry  harvesting 
was  the  next  topic  touched 
upon  by  Dr.  Cross.  A  long- 
time problem  of  Massachusetts 
cranberry  growers  has  been  tbe 
number  of  berries  lost  in  dry 
harvesting.  In  other  states  water 
harvesting  has  eliminated  this 
problem.  Water  harvesting  is 
sure  to  come  to  Massachusetts 
and,  in  the  meantime  Stan  is 
working  on  a  dry  picking  ma- 
chine which  will  do  the  job 
efficiently  and  with  as  little 
loss  to  the  crop  as  possible.  He 


is  also  working  on  another 
problem  —  labor.  The  use  of 
laborers  to  lift  35-40  pound 
boxes  onto  trucks  is  a  waste 
and  better  methods  will  have 
to  be  developed.  Also,  it  is  well 
known  that  berries  will  not 
keep  well  in  bulk  storage  boxes 
now  used. 

Bert  Zuckerman  who  has  be- 
come an  international  figure  in 
nematology  has  been  doing  a 
fine  job  in  developing  methods 
of  efi^ectively  applying  fungi- 
cides through  sprinkler  nozzles. 
Now,    ^vith     Dr.     Devlin     and 


Just    a    few    of    the    many    CCCGA 


George  Rounsville  he  is  work- 
ing on  the  ring  fungus.  He  is 
also  working  with  Ocean  Spray 
on  the  problem  of  color  in 
berries.  Pigments  are  very  im- 
portant to  cranberry  products. 
Bert  advises  growers  to  leave 
berries  on  vines  until  ripe  to 
insure  a  better  crop  and  to 
improve  the  color.  Bert  is 
using  radioactive  material  to 
find  out  what  happens  to  para- 
thion  when  it  is  on  the  bog. 
These  questions  must  be  an- 
swered for  FDA  people  in  or- 
der to  show  that  parathion  is 
OK  for  use  to  their  satisfaction. 

Dr.  Cross  continued  to  fill 
the  audience  in  on  the  work 
being  done  by  his  staff.  He 
spoke  of  the  station  biochemist 
Wes  Miller.  One  of  the  ques- 
tions Wes  is  trying  to  answer 
is,  what  happens  to  Dieldrin 
after  its  use  on  the  bogs.  Audu- 
bon and  Fish  and  Wildlife  are 
interested  in  the  answer  to 
this  question.  They  want  to 
know  whether  this  chemical 
will  cause  damage  to  birds  and 
fish  when  taken  in  by  them.  It 
has  been  found  that  Dieldrin 
does  not  break  down.  The  an- 
swer to  why  it  does  not  is  also 


at    their    annual    meeting. 


members    enjoying    the    chicken    barbecue        being    researched.     WeS     is     alsO 

trying  to  ascertain  how  long 
Parathion  takes  to  lose  its  tox- 
icity on  the  bog  and  how  long 
it  takes  to  disappear  from  the 
water  in  bog  ditches.  Speaking 
of  another  staff  member.  Dr. 
Cross  said  that  there  -^vas  really 
no  need  to  go  into  detail  on 
the  work  being  done  by  Irving 
DeMoranville.  He  is  not  only 
the  station  cranberrv  expert,  he 
is  also  information  expert  and 
service  expert  and  is  nearly  al- 
ways in  contact  with  one  or 
more  of  the  area  growers.  It 
would  take  too  long  to  elabor- 
ate on  the  work  "Dee"  is  doing 
for    the    cranberry    growers. 

It  was  as  Dr.  Cross  was  men- 
tioning Dr.  Robert  Devlin's  new 
book  that  the  tin  roof  of  the 
building  resounded  with  the 
roar  of  downpouring  rain.  As 
if  on  cue,  the  audience  began 
to  applaud  as  the  much  needed 
rain    came    down.    The    heavy 


Never  too  young   to   start  attending 

CCCGA    meetings.    Happy  young  fellow 

is    Christopher   Alberghini,   son    of   Mr. 

and  Mrs.  Robert  A.  Alberghini  of 

Wareham,   Mass. 


FIFTEEN 


downpour  lasted  for  fifteen  or 
twenty  minutes,  during  which 
time  the  meeting  was  inter- 
rupted. 

When  the  meeting  was  re- 
sumed, President  Pappi  asked 
Mr.  John  Decas  to  give  his 
portion  of  the  1966  sales  pre- 
view. Mr.  Decas  stated  that 
the  market  this  year  was  com- 
mitted, that  there  was  no  rea- 
son to  believe  that  the  crop 
would  be  anything  but  good 
and  that  he  felt  there  would  be 
no  set  aside. 

Bob  Hiller  was  then  asked 
for  his  report  and  said  that  he 
was  very  optimistic.  The  de- 
mand for  one  pound  fresh  fruit, 
he  said,  was  excellent.  The 
sauce  lines  were  good  and 
cocktail  excellent.  Based  on 
analysis  of  the  market  situa- 
tion, he  said  he  felt  that  there 
were  no  unsurmountable  obsta- 
cles in  view  and,  altliough  no 
one  knows  definitely,  all  seems 
to  be  well.  Proper  promotion 
and  cooperation  will  mean  a 
stable  market  and  supply  and 
demand   ratio. 

Mr.  Edward  Gelsthorpe,  Ex- 
ecutive Vice  President  of  Ocean 
Spray  spoke  confirming  what 
the  two  previous  speakers  had 
said  -  that  it  was  going  to  be  a 
good  year.  He  estimated  that 
the  crop  would  be  1,500,000 
barrels  -  100,000  up  from  last 
year.  Mr.  Gelsthorpe  empha- 
sized that  growers  must  be 
aware  of  a  few  problems  —  one 
of  which  is  the  increased  de- 
mand for  processed  fruit.  This 
will  mean  that  more  of  the  crop 
will  go  to  process  than  to  fresh 
fruit.  Another  problem  is  color. 


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Good  color  is  necessary  to  the 
industry.  Tlie  rich,  red  color 
from  nature  itself  is  vitally  nec- 
essary. Color  must  not  need  to 
be  added.  It  is  the  responsi- 
bility of  the  grower  to  produce 
fruit  of  suitable  color.  Some 
imitating  is  being  done  with 
artificial  color  but  this  is  not 
good  for  the  industry.  Another 
pitfall  which  many  growers  fall 
into  is  increasing  acreage  when 
times  are  good.  This  is  not  good 
practice  —  the  law  of  supply 
nnd  demand  must  be  kept  in 
balance,  Mr.  Gelsthome  stated. 

On  the  plus  side  is  the  rapid 
development  of  clinical  work. 
The  acceptance  of  cranberry 
iuice  is  good  for  the  grower. 
The  fact  that  there  will  be  four 
papers  published  before  the 
end  of  this  vear  reinforcing  the 
statement  that  cranberry  juice 
is  good  for  your  health. 

Mrj  Gelsthorpe  concluded  by 
noting  that  the  nation's  econ- 
omy is  in  rough  shape.  Wages 
are  too  high.  Growers  should 
reahze  that  prosperity  does  not 
come  easy  but  must  be  worked 
for. 


Following  Mr.  Gelsthorpe's 
talk  the  nomination  of  officers 
was  held  and  the  following 
were  elected  to  serve  for  the 
coming  year: 

President,  Alfred  Pappi, 
Wareham;  First  Vice-President, 
Robert  Hiller,  Rochester;  Sec- 
ond Vice-President,  William  M. 
Atwood,  Wareham;  Secretary, 
Robert  St.  Jacques,  Wareham; 
Treasurer,  Ruth  E.  Beaton, 
W^areham. 

DIRECTORS  -  Alfred  L. 
Pappi,  Robert  Hiller,  William 
B.  Steams,  WilHam  M.  Atwood, 
Ruth  E.  Beaton,  Philip  H. 
Gibbs,  Louis  Sherman,  Dr. 
Chester  Cross,  Paul  Morse,  An- 
thony R.  Briggs,  Oscar  L.  Nor- 
ton, Gilbert  T.  Beaton,  Robert 
St..  Jacques. 

HONORARY  DIRECTORS 
—  Dr.  Herbert  F.  Bergman, 
Joseph  L.  Kelley. 

Following  the  principal 
speaker  the  event  everyone  was 
waiting  f or  -  the  1966  Crop 
Forecast  —  was  presented  to  the 
growers.  Since  Mr.  Byron  Pe- 
terson of  the  N.E.  Crop  Re- 
porting Service  was  unable  to 
be     present,     the     Association 


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President  introduced  Mr.  Mario 
P.  Alfieri  to  speak  for  him, 
and  give  the  report.  Mr.  Al- 
fieri in  turn  asked  C.  D.  Stevens 
who  had  been  instrumental  in 
estabUshing  the  forecasts  and 
has  since  retired  from  active 
participation,  to  read  the  1966 
Forecast  which  is  as  follows: 
U.S.  Total:    1,557,800  barrels 

1966  1965 

Massachusetts    800,000  735,000 

New  Jersey        141,000  153,000 

Wisconsin  477,000  441,000 

Washington         95,000  66,000 

Oregon  44,800  41,800 

Former  Record  Crop:  1,436,800 

Average:    1,300,120 

Following  the  reading  of  the 
crop  forecast  the  meeting  was 
adjourned. 


Cranberry  Marketing 
Committee  Members 
Named   by  USDA 

Members  and  alternates  of 
the  Cranberry  Marketing  Com- 
mittee were  named  July  29  by 
the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, to  serve  through  July 
31,   1968. 

USDA'S  Consumer  and  Mar- 
keting Service  said  the  com- 
inittee  is  comprised  of  seven 
grower  members  and  alterni^tes. 

The  committee  administers 
the  Federal  marketing  agree- 
ment and  order  for  cranberries 
grown  in  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island,  Connecticut,  New  Jer- 
sey, Wisconsin,  Michigan, 
Minnesota,  Oregon,  Washington, 
and  on  Long  Island  in  New 
York.  One  of  its  main  functions 
is  to  investigate  supply  and  de- 
mand conditions,  then  recom- 
mend to  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture    the    total    quantity 


of  cranberries  which  may  be 
handled  in  normal  marketing 
channels. 

Members  and  alternates,  re- 
spectively,   are: 

District  1  (all  from  Massa- 
chusetts )  —  George  C.  P.  Olsson, 
Plymouth,  and  Maurice  B. 
Makepeace,  Wareham.  John  C. 
Decas  and  John  N.  Decas,  both 
cf    Wareham. 

District  2  ( all  from  New  Jer- 
sey) —  Joseph  H.  Palmer,  Tuck- 
erton,  and  J.  Garfield  DeMarco, 
Hammonton.  Walter  Z.  Fort, 
Pemberton,  and  J.  Rogers  Brick, 
Medford. 

District  3  (all  from  Wiscon- 
sin )  —  Clarence  A.  Searles, 
Wisconsin  Rapids,  and  Ray- 
mond Habelman,  Tomah.  Beh- 
rend  G.  Pannkuk,  Wisconsin 
Rapids,  and  Frederick  W.  Bar- 
ber,   Warrens. 

District  4  (all  from  Wash- 
ington)— Frank  O.  Glenn,  Jr., 
Long  Beach,  and  Robert  H. 
Quinby,   Grayland. 


Use  of  Farm  Plates 
Explained  to  Growers 

At  the  recent  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  in  East 
Wareham,  Mr.  Phil  Good,  Ex- 
ecutive Director  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Farm  Bureau,  clarified 
the  use  of  farm  f)lates  by  cran- 
berry  growers. 

He  stated  that,  in  a  conver- 
sation with  the  Administrative 
Assistant  to  the  Registrar  of 
Motor  Vehicles,  he  was  told 
that  the  use  of  farm  plates  by 
growers  to  transport  their  own 
crops  from  bogs  to  receiving 
station  is  perfectly  permissible. 

He  further  stated  that  he  was 
told  that  agricultural  plates 
must  be  used  if  using  your 
truck  to  transport  any  crop 
other  than  your  own  from  point 
to   point. 

Mr.  Good  said  that  he  hoped 
this  information  would  clear  up 
any  misunderstanding  which 
may  have  arisen  in  regard  to 
this  matter. 


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REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  10 

However  data  taken  in  1966 
showed  that  the  cranberry  up- 
rights in  the  gibberelHn  plots 
produced  considerably  fewer 
blossoms  than  those  in  the  un- 
treated areas. 

Joseph  Palmer  and  Walter 
Fort,  New  Jersey  Representa- 
tives on  the  Marketing  Order 
Committee  reported  that  the 
condition  of  the  market  did  not 
justify  a  set  aside  for  1966. 
Despite  the  record  national  crop 
of  cranberries  anticipated  this 
year  there  was  optimism  in  the 
marketing  pictiue  and  the  opin- 
ion prevails  that  the  huge  crop 
can  be  marketed  at  good  prices. 

Edward  Lipman  reported  on 
the  difficulty  of  the  labor  situa- 
tion and  urged  growers  to  sup- 
port the  New  Jersey  Farm 
Bureau  which  was  ably  repre- 
senting the  farmers  in  various 
labor  hearings. 

WASHINGTON 

The  summer  has  been  a  fine 
one,  with  lots  of  nice  days,  and 


an  offering  of  cool  ocean 
breezes  to  the  tourist  from  the 
hot  inland.  Salmon  fishing  has 
been  fairly  good. 

Summer  brings  many  visitors 
to  the  Coastal  Washington  Sta- 
tion and  for  many  it  is  their 
first  introduction  to  cranberry 
growth,  many  believe  they  grow 
on  bushes.  There  have  been 
visitors  from  as  far  away  as 
Napal,     Philadelphia,     Finland, 

and  from  many  close  areas  also. 
The  cranberry  crop  looks  bet- 
ter each  day,  and  there  is  good 
water  supply,  with  a  promise  of 
some  before  harvest  begins  here 
in  October.  The  rainfall  for 
August  was  1.54  inches,  with 
the  greatest  amount  coming  on 
the  26th  measuring   .96  inches. 

The  temperature  has  been 
warmer  overall  this  month  than 
July  with  the  mean  high  of 
69.19°.  It  has  also  been  a  bit 
cooler  evenings,  also  with  the 
mean  low  of  49.19°,  and  Fall  is 
in  the  air  already.  The  high  day 
was  88°  on  the  20th  and  a  low 
of  36°  on  the  10th  in  the  bog. 


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The  Wisconsin  cranberry  crop 
for  1966  is  forecast  at  477,000 
barrels,  based  on  conditions  of 
early  August,  as  reported  by 
over  two-thirds  of  the  growers 
in  the  industry,  with  three- 
fourths  of  the  producing  bog 
acreage.  Tliis  would  be  about  3 
percent  above  the  previous  re- 
cord crop  in  1961  and  over  8 
percent  more  than  last  year.  The 
production  estimate  includes  the 
crop  for  market  and  also  such 
after-harvest  losses  as  cullage  for 
low  quality,  spoilage,  etc. 

Temperatures  for  the  period 
through  August  16  averaged  5° 
below  normal  in  all  sections. 
Readings  in  the  30's  were  ob- 
served for  5  straight  mornings 
in  the  Mather  cranberry  bogs. 
Evening  readings  in  the  40's 
were  common  in  all  districts. 
Rain  was  adequate  in  northern 
%  of  the  state  with  only  a  trace 
falling  in  the  dry  southwest  and 
south  central  districts.  Cloudy 
cool  weather  conserved  the 
plant  moisture,  but  more  pre- 
cipitation is  needed  in  the 
southern  third  of  the  state.  More 
showers  in  the  north  on  the 
14th  and  15th  with  only  scat- 
tered light  showers  in  the  south. 
Outlook  to  mid-September  — 
Temperatures  and  precipitation 
to  average  near  normal. 

Average  temperatures  for  the 
week  of  Aug.  21-27  from  4  to  6 
degrees  below  normal  through- 
out the  state.  Mostly  cloudy, 
cool  and  rainy  weather  with 
daytime  temperatures  in  the  50's 
and  60's  prevailed  up  to  the 
24th.  Good  soaking  rains  fell 
throughout  the  state  early  in  the 
period  with  western  and  south- 
ern counties  recei\'ing  well  over 
an  inch  of  moisture.  After  the 
24th  the  skies  cleared  and  the 
mercury  rose  into  the  80's. 

The  27th  and  28th  was  sunny, 
warm  and  humid.  A  few  widely^ 
scattered  showers  fell  late  onu 
the  29th.  I 

The    crop     developed    quite 
rapidly  and  the  berries  are  good 
sized  because  of  the  hot  weath- 
er in    July.    The    first    part    of 
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CRANBERRY   HIDEAWAYS 

(Makes  12  Muffins) 
y^  cup  shortening 
¥4  cup  sugar 
2  eggs,  well  beaten 
2  cups  sifted  all-purpose  flour 
5  teaspoons  baking  powder 
1  teaspoon  salt 
%  cup  milk 
1  cup  whole  cranberry  sauce 

( drained ) 

Cream  together  shortening 
and  sugar.  Stir  in  well  beaten 
eggs.  Sift  flour,  baking  powder, 
and  salt  together.  Add  sifted 
dry  ingredients  to  shortening- 
sugar  mixture  alternately  with 
milk.    Blend  thoroughly. 

Fill  greased  muffin  tins  Vs 
full  making  a  hole  in  center  of 
the  batter.  Put  in  one  teaspoon 
of  cranberry  sauce,  then  fill 
tins  about  %  full.  Bake  in  hot 
oven  (400)  for  about  30  min- 
utes.   Serve  hot. 


PEANUT  and  CRANBERRY  RELISH 

(Makes   IV2  cups) 
1  cup  cranberries 
Vs  cup  sugar 
%  cup  chopped  peanuts 
V4  tsp.  salt 
1  small  orange 
1  small  apple 

Put  cranberries  through  food 
chopper  and  mix  with  sugar. 
Cut  the  orange  and  apple  into 
quarters,  remove  seeds  and 
put  through  chopper.  Combine 
nuts    with   all   ingredients. 


Mountaineers  are  noted  for 
their  longevity. 

A  newspaperman  from  an 
eastern  city  was  travehng 
tlirough  a  backwoods  area  when 
he  saw  a  wrinkled,  bent,  old 
man  rocking  on  his  porch. 
Thinking  that  perhaps  there 
might  be  a  good  story  here,  he 
stopped  to  talk  with  the  old 
man. 

"Sir,  I'd  like  to  know  your 
secret   for   long   life?"   he   said. 

"Well,"  replied  the  old  man, 
"I  drink  a  gallon  of  whiskey 
and  smoke  25  cigars  each  day, 
and  go  dancing  every  night," 
replied  the  old  man. 

"Remarkable,"  said  the  re- 
porter, "and  exactly  how  old 
are  you?" 

The  reply  was:  'Twenty- 
seven  years  old." 


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fun! 


A  shoe  salesman  was  stimned 
when  the  shapely  gal  he  had 
been  waiting  on  slapped  his 
face  and  tore  out  of  tlie  store. 

"What  the  blazes  happened," 
roared  the  boss. 

"I  don't  know,"  replied  tiie 
puzzled  clerk.  "All  I  said  to 
her  was  'these  shoes  will  make 
street-walking   a    pleasure'." 


HONEY  ALMOND  CRANBERRY 
COOLER 

(Makes  4  servings) 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  chilled 

%  cup  honey 

y2  teaspoon  almond  extract 

Crushed  ice 

Mint  sprigs 

Combine  cranberry  juice, 
honey,  and  almond  extract;  mix 
well.  Fill  four  glasses  partially 
full  of  crushed  ice  and  add 
cranberry  juice  mixture.  Garnish 
with  mint  sprigs. 


CRANBERRY   BANANA   BOUNCE 

( Makes  4   servings ) 

2  small  ban:mas,  mashed  (about 
1  cup) 

1  pint  lemon  sherbet 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  chilled 

Combine  Ijananas  and  sher- 
bet; beat  with  rotary  beaterj 
or  blend  in  blender  until  mix^ 
ture  is  smooth.  Place  mixture 
in  4  tall  glasses  and  fill  each 
with  cranberry  juice.  Stir  lightly. 
Serve  garnished  wath  banana 
slices  and  fresh  or  frozen  cran- 
berries arranged  on  toothpicks, 
if  desired. 


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Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co. 
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MARKETING-Cont.  from  Pg.  2 
Attending  as  guests  were: 
Leon  April,  New  jersey,  John 
Morellis,  also  of  New  Jersey, 
Orrin  CoUey,  president  of 
Cranberry  Institute,  Duxbury, 
Mr.  Ben  Pannkuk,  Wisconsin, 
Robert  Hiller  of  Marion,  Mass. 
(Pals  Brand),  Gilbert  T.  Bea- 
ton cf  Ocean  Spray  and  James 
A.  Rowse  of  Littleton,  New 
Hampshire,  a  processor.  The 
meeting  is  open  to  the  pub- 
lic by  law. 

The     next     meeting     unless|| 
otherwise  called  will  be  in  Sep- 
tember of  1967. 

There  was  some  discussion 
as  to  delinquent  reporting  of 
cranberry  inventories.  These 
reports  are  due  November  1, 
February  1,  May  1,  and  Aug- 
ust  1. 


NEW  JERSEY  GROWERS   HOLD 
97th    SUMMER    MEETING 

Bright  marketing  prospects 
and  bumper  crops  are  in  store 
for  New  Jersey  Cranberry 
Growers,  according  to  reports 
made  at  the  97th  summer  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Cranberry 
Growers   Association. 

Edward  V.  Lipman,  Chair- 
man of  the  Association's  Legis- 
lative Committee,  said  the  acute 
problem  was  caused  directly  by 
the  unwise  ruling  of  Secretary 
of  Labor  Willard  Wirtz  which 
prohibits  importation  of  foreign 
nationals   for  migrant  labor. 

Other  speakers  on  the  pro- 
gram included  John  C.  St. 
Pierre,  N.  J.  Crop  Reporting 
Service;  C.  W.  Mainland,  Rut- 
gers Horticulturist;  Dr.  John 
Meade,  Rutgers  Extension  Spe- 
cialist in  Weed  Control;  and 
Walter  Fort  and  Joseph  Palmer, 
N.  J.  members  of  the  Cranberry 
Marketing  Order  Committee. 

Following  luncheon  at  the 
Sweetwater  Casino,  where  the 
morning  program  was  held,  the 
group  formed  a  caravan  and 
toured  a  number  of  bogs  in  the 
area.  Tour  included  the  Cavi- 
leer-Fox  Bog,  Weekstown;  Earl 
Hill  Bog,  Bulltown;  Rutgers 
Experimental  Bogs  at  Oswego; 
and  Sim  Place  Bogs,  now  being 
renovated  by  the  new  owners. 

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lounced  by  Edward  Gelsthorpe, 
Executive  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.,  the  na- 
tional cranberry  marketing  co- 
operative. 

Each  of  these  promotions  is 
to  a  position  newly  formed  in 
keeping  with  sales  and  grower 
returns  which  have  doubled 
over  the  past  five  years.  Esti- 
mated    1966     fiscal    sales     will 


be  "slightly  in  excess  of 
$50,000,000,"  according  to  Mr. 
Gelsthorpe. 

Edwin  F.  Lewis,  former  Vice 
President  —  Marketing,  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  new  position  of 
Senior  Vice  President.  In  this 
capacity,  he  is  responsible  for 
vities,  new  product  develop- 
all  world-wide  marketing  acti- 
ment,  and  Research  and  De- 
velopment. His  advancement 
marks  Ocean  Spray's  continued 
expansion    in    distribution    and 


Edwin   F.   Lewis 

Senior  Vice    President 

Ocean   Spray    Cranberries,    Inc. 


product  diversification.  Mr. 
Lewis  came  to  Ocean  Spray  in 
1964  from  Young  &  Rubicam, 
Inc.,  where  he  was  Vice  Presi- 
dent and  Account  Supervisor. 

Richard  Lagreze  was  ad- 
vanced from  Director  of  Oper- 
ations to  Vice  President  —  Op- 
erations. The  increase  in  his 
responsibilities  is  concurrent 
with  the  rapid  growth  of  Ocean 
Spray's  manufacturing  needs. 
He  directs  the  Purchasing  and 
Engineering  Departments  as 
well  as  the  operations  of  five 
processing  plants  and  freezer 
facilities  and  receiving  stations 
in  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada. Mr.  Lagreze  joined  Ocean 
Spray  in  1965.  He  had  been 
associated  with  General  Foods 
Corporation  as  Manager  of 
Corporate  Engineering  Econ- 
omics and  with  Procter  and 
Gamble  as  Group  Production 
Manager. 

Lester  F.  Haines,  former 
General  Sales  Manager,  was 
named  Vice  President  —  Sales 
and  is  responsible  for  all 
phases  of  domestic  sales.  Mr. 
Haines  has  been  associated  with 
Agricultirre  since  the  start  of 
his  business  career.  Prior  to 
joining  Ocean  Spray  in  1957, 
he  was  with  the  American 
Cranberry    Exchange. 

Edward  J.  Gaughan  has  been 
assigned  the  new  position  of 
Vice  President  —  Finance  and, 
in  addition,  continues  as  Assis- 
tant Secretary  -  Treasurer.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  Ocean 
Spray's  financial  department 
since   1956. 

TWENTY-THREE 


REGIONAL  NEWS   NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  18 

August,  however,  was  quite 
cool  with  quite  a  lot  of  rain  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  state. 

Shortages    and    Labor  Problems 

Additional  sprinkhng  equip- 
ment in  Wisconsin  will  be  put 
in  again  this  year  and  growers 
are  already  ordering  the  equip- 
ment for  next  spring  because 
of  the  shortages  which  are  re- 
sulting from  the  war  in  Viet 
Nam.  Certain  sizes  of  pipe  are 
already  becoming  scarce. 

The  biggest  Fall  problem  will 
be  the  lack  of  help  for  harvest- 
ing and  this  will  be  a  problem 
for  all  Wisconsin's  cranberry' 
growers.  Most  of  them  are 
going  to  machine-type  harvest- 
ing which  is  about  twice  as  fast 
in  order  to  reduce  the  labor 
needed  in  the  marshes  for  the 
harvest. 

More    Hail    Damage 

There  was  some  more  hail 
damage  in  August  in  the  cen- 
tral part  of  Wisconsin  which 
will  reduce  the  Wisconsin  crop 
to  some  extent.  Some  growers 
had  severe  damage  but  when  it 
is  averaged  with  the  rest  of  the 
state  crop  it  is  only  about  3%. 

Wisconsin  had  the  best  bloom 
it  has  had  in  years  but  the  set 
was  not  as  good  as  the  bloom 
indicated.  Berries  are  nice  sized 
and  some  of  the  early  varieties 
such  as  Ben  Lears  and  Black 
Veils  are  beginning  to  color  and 
should  be  ready  to  harvest  right 
after  Labor  Day.  Most  harvest- 
ing will  stiirt  about  Sept.  18th 
on  Searles  Jumbos  and  McFar- 
lins. 

Vine     Injury 

Th  state  had  quite  a  bit  of 
injury  from  extreme  hot  wea- 
ther in  July  and  there  is  injury 
scattered  quite  generally 
throughout  the  state.  Because  of 
the  extreme  heat  at  the  time, 
the  vines  were  not  able  to  take 
the  moisture  as  fast  as  the 
plants  gave  it  off.  As  a  result, 
some  of  the  vines  were  killed 
but  this  did  not  show  up  until 
later  as  the  cranberry  and  ever- 
green plants  do  not  turn  brown 
for  two  or  three  weeks  after 
the  injury. 


Mrs.    Howard    Folsom 

Mrs.  Howard  Folsom,  50, 
Green  Lake,  Wis.  died  August 
20  at  a  Madison  Hospital  fol- 
lowing a  lengthy  illness. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
at  10  a.m.  August  24  at  Our 
Lady  of  the  Lake  Catholic 
Church,  with  burial  in  the 
Green  Lake  Cemetery. 

The  former  Mary  Klingkam 
was  bom  in  Houghton,  Mich. 
She  and  her  husband  operated 
a  cranberry  marsh  at  Manito- 
wish  Waters. 

Surviving  are  her  husband 
and  two  sons,  Robert,  a  senior 
at  Harvard  University,  and 
Thomas,  a  senior  at  Wayland 
Academy  Beaver  Dam. 


Mrs.  Mark  B.  Moore 

Mrs.  Mark  B.  Moore,  o£ 
Moore's  Meadows,  Tabernacle, 
N.  J.,  died  recentlv  at  her 
home.  She  was  101.  Mrs.  Moore, 
the  former  Ida  C.  Smith,  of 
Indian  Mills,  N.  J.,  operated 
together  with  her  husband,  a 
cranberrv  and  blueberry  busi- 
ness at  Moore's  Meadows  dur- 
ing the  late  1800s  and  early 
1900s. 

Mr.  Moore  died  in  1934,  but 
one  of  his  grandchildren,  George 
D.  Simmons,  still  operates  the 
family  business  at  the  original 
site. 

Services  were  held  at  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey.  Interment 
was  at  the  Junior  O.U.A.M. 
Cemetery. 


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The  Cranberry  Industry  and  Ocean  Spray  are  pretty  near 
the  same  thing. 

In  just  three  years  Ocean  Spray  has  raised  the  average 
return  to  its  growers  by  72%;  the  industry  has  followed 
suit. 

Just  as  important,  Ocean  Spray  has  created  whole  new 
markets  for  Cranberry  Products — and  others  are  just 
around  the  corner. 

This  leadership  in  unprecedented  growth  has  meant  finan- 
cial stability  and  steady  profits  to  Cranberry  Growers  the 
country  over. 


For  information  about  Cooperative  Membership  m  Ocean 
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Canada  Agriculturists 
Visit  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Area 

Through  the  co-operation  of 
Dr.  F.  B.  Chandler,  a  tour  of 
Cape  Cod  cranberry  operations 
\\'as  arranged  for  6  agricultu- 
nrists  from  Nova  Scotia.  The 
tour  included  a  visit  to  the 
cranberry  station  at  East  Ware- 
ham,  the  consumer  outlet  of 
Ocean  Sprav  at  East  Wareham, 
several  cranberry  bogs  and  the 
private  packing  plant  of  Peter 
Lesage  at  Plymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

The  purpose  of  the  trip  was 
to    observe    the    latest    trends 

land  methods  in  cranberry  pro- 
duction with  a  view  to  revital- 

'izing  the  industry  in  Eastern 
Canada.  Those  making  the  trip 
were: 

Mr.  Robert  Murray,  Horticul- 
turist, Nova  Scotia  Dept. 
of  Agriculture  and  Mar- 
keting. 


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Mr.  Donald  Palfrey,  Weed 
Specialist,  Nova  Scotia  Dept. 
of  Agriculture  and  Mar- 
keting. 

Mr.  Derill  Armstrong,  Agri- 
cultural Engineer,  Nova 
Scotia  Dept.  of  Agriculture 
and  Marketing. 

Mr.  Chesley  Lockhart,  Plant 
Pathologist,  Canada  Dept. 
of  Agriculture,  Research 
Branch. 

Dr.  Ivan  Hall,  Botanist,  Can- 
ada Dept.  of  Agriculture, 
Research  Branch. 

Mr.  Murray  Porter,  Crower 
and  Processor  of  Fruits, 
Chipman's  Apple  Products, 
Kentville,  N.   S. 


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Ocean  Spray  Sells 
Out  Early  Blacks 

With  the  completion  of  the 
harvest  of  Early  Blacks,  receipts 
of  this  variety  total  25%  less 
than  last  year.  Consequently, 
because  of  the  brisk  demand 
right  from  the  start  of  the  sea- 
son Blacks  have  been  com- 
pletely sold  out.  Prices  from 
September  30  is  $5.00  a  quarter 
or  $20.00  per  barrel.  This  is 
$1.00  above  last  year's  price. 


Michigan  Cranberry 
Area  Shows  Promise 

Cranberry  bogs  in  the  New- 
berry, Michigan  area  could  av- 
erage a  harvest  of  about  14,600 
pounds  per  acre,  judging  by  the 
yield  in  an  experimental  plot 
near   here. 

The  plot,  under  supervision 
of  the  Michigan  State  university 
extension  office  here,  was  de- 
veloped in  what  is  known  as 
the  Dollarville  marsh,  southwest 
of    Newberry. 


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A  previous  yield  in  the  same 
plot   was   about   11,000  pounds 


an  acre. 

The  berries  would  bring  about 
ISC'  a  pound  in  the  Newberry 
area. 

It  has  been  realized  for  some 
time  that  the  area  is  suitable 
for  growing  cranberries.  In  the 
Whitefish  point  area  30  miles 
northeast  of  here  the  first  set- 
tlers there  in  the  1870's  grew 
cranberries  in  the  numerous 
bogs  on  the  point. 


Robert  E.  Reyda 

To  Serve  Ocean  Spray 

In  Babcock,  Wisconsin 

Robert  E.  Reyda  has  been 
appointed  manager  of  the  new 
receiving  station  built  at  Bab- 
cock,  Wisconsin  by  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberies,  Inc.,  it  was 
announced  recently  by  Lloyd 
Wolfe,  field  manager  for  the 
company. 

In  addition  to  his  duties  at 
the  new  $500,000  plant,  Reyda 
will    be    an    assistant  fieldman. 

His  most  recent  position  has 
been  as  research  assistant  with 
the  DeKalb  Agricultural  Asso- 
ciation, Inc.,  at  Waterman,  111. 
He  was  involved  in  hybrid 
wheat  research  for  two  years 
with  that  firm  and  had  been 
in  the  production  department 
since  May  of  this  year. 

A  native  of  Akron,  Ohio,  the 
27-year-old  Reyda  majored  in 
horticulture  at  Ohio  State  Uni-  T 
versify  and  completed  work  on  ll 
his  master's  degree  in  Decem- 
ber of  1963.  He  served  in  the 
Army  for  two  years  as  an  ar- 
tillery  oflBcer. 


Inflation :  Something  that  cost 
$5  to  buy  a  few  years  ago,  but 
now  costs  $10  to  repair. 


TWO 


Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

i  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 

extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Robert  Norgren  who  has  been 
vidth  us  for  nearly  two  years 
is  leaving  in  mid-October  to 
accept  a  position  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts  in  Am- 
herst. Bob  has  been  working 
under  Bert  Zuckerman  and 
gathering  information  for  his 
doctoral  thesis.  He  will  be  Ex- 
tension Plant  Pathologist  with 
some  teaching  responsibilities  in 
his  new  job.  Bob  is  a  great 
sports  fan  and  we  had  some 
lively  discussions  on  baseball 
and  football.  We  wish  Bob  and 
his  familv  nothing  but  good 
luck  in  their  new  surroundings. 

Drs.  Zuckerman  and  Paracer 
have  published  an  article  in 
the  August  issue  of  the  Plant 
Disease  Reporter.  The  title  is 
Nematophas,oiis  Fungi  and  Pre- 
daceoiis  Nematodes  Associated 
with  Cranberry  Soils  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. This  article  is  a 
progress  report  on  studies  that 
provided  fundamental  informa- 
tion for  further  investigation 
of  possible  agents  for  biological 
control  of  certain  nematodes  in 
CTanberrv  soils. 

Prof.  Bill  Tomlinson  has  an 
article  loublished  in  the  August 
i'jsne  of  the  Journal  of  Economic 
Entomology.  The  title  is  Mating 
and  Revrodiictive  Historif  of 
Blacklight-  Travved  Cranberry 
Fruittvorm  Moths.  This  article 
contains  information  on  mating 
habits  and  sex  ratio  of  fruit- 
worm  moths  captured  in  black- 
light  traps.  Much  of  this  in- 
formation has  been  presented 
by  Bill  at  the  Cranberry  Club 
meetings  the  past  two  winters. 

A  delegation  of  six  people 
from  Nova  Scotia  visited  the 
Cranberry  Station  from  Sep- 
tember 14  to  16.  These  were 
Dr.  Ivan  Hall,  Botanist,  and  Mr. 


Chesley  Lockhart,  Plant  Path- 
ologist, Canada  Dept.  of  Agri- 
culture; Mr.  Robert  Murray, 
Extension  Horticulturist,  Mr. 
Darrell  Armstrong,  Agricultural 
Engineer,  Mr.  Donald  Palfrey, 
Weed  Specialist,  all  of  the  Nova 
Scotia  Dept.  of  Agriculture,  and 
Mr.  Murray  Porter,  a  cranberry 
grower.  These  gentlemen  were 
interested  in  the  culture  and 
marketing  of  cranberries  and 
we  thoroughly  enjoved  talking 
and  traveling  with  them. 

Weather 

The  month  of  September  was 
cool,  averaging  nearly  2  degrees 
a  day  below  normal,  with  w^arm 
temperatures  the  early  part  of 
the  month  and  the  last  10  days 
quite  cool.  Rainfall  totalled  4.80 
inches  which  is  an  inch  above 
the  30  year  average.  Generally 
the      rain      was      distributed 


throughout  the  month  with 
heavy  amounts  occuring  on  the 
4th,  15th,  22nd  and  29th.  We 
are  still  7%  inches  below  av- 
erage for  1966,  but  are  nearly 
5%  inches  ahead  of  1965  at 
this  same  date. 

Harvest 

Some  harvesting  started  on 
September  12,  but  general  har- 
vest did  not  begin  until  the 
16th  or  17th  in  Massachusetts, 
This  is  the  latest  start  that  I 
can  remember.  Even  at  this  late 
starting  date  color  was  not  very 
good  for  the  first  week  of  har- 
vest and  size  was  variable,  gen- 
erally from  average  to  small. 
Top  berries  had  fairly  good 
size  but  under  berries  were 
small.  About  50  percent  of  the 
crop  had  been  harvested  up  to 
October  5.  There  have  been  4 
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WATER   .   .  WATER   .    .   WATER 

The  only  time,  it  seems,  when  people  really 
think  about  water  is  when  there  is  too  much 
or  when  there  is  too  little. 

The  nation's  cranberry  growers  right  now 
are  very  much  concerned  about  water  —  or 
rather  the  lack  of  it. 

We.  in  Massachusetts,  have  been  plagued  by 
several  years  of  drought,  during  which  time 
the  levels  of  our  reservoirs  and  ponds  have 
gone  down  so  sharply  that  one  could  almost 
sit  and  watch  it  drop  What  is  really  alarming 
is  the  fact  that  this  is  not  a  "local"  problem 
but  is  shared  by  nearly  all  the  cranberry 
growing  areas. 

On  a  recent  trip  to  New  Jersey  we  found 
the  same  situation  there.  It  has  become  so 
critical  in  that  state  that  it  is  overshadowing  all 
of  the  other  problems  the  growers  must  con- 
tend with,  and  these  are  many. 

In  New  Jersey,  where  some  of  the  larger 
growers  either  have  or  are  in  the  process  of 
cutting  up  their  large  bogs  to  facilitate  water 
harvesting,  there  is  the  threatening  fact  that 
there  just  may  not  be  enough  water  for  that 
purpose.  One  larger  grower  there  has  begun 
construction  of  new  bogs  in  one  of  the  few 
locations  which  will  give  him  an  adequate 
supply  of  water,   at  least  for  the  near  future. 

Consideration  is  being  given  to  the  use  of 
deep  wells  for  source  of  water.  This,  although 
it  seem  to  be  practical  for  those  growers  who 
are  able  to  aflFord  it,  entails  problems  of  mu- 
nicipal and  state  regulations.  An  ironic  fact  is 
that  the  West  Coast  and  Wisconsin  areas,  where 
there  was  abundant  rainfall  during  the  Spring 
and  early  Summer,  the  cranberry  areas  of  these 
states  got  only  a  minimal  amount  of  this 
valuable  water. 


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If  one  puts  any  credence  in  what  weather 
prognosticators  have  to  say,  the  conditions 
which  have  been  causing  this  extended  period 
of  drought  are  due  to  change,  and  prospects 
are  that  the  country  will  soon  return  to  a  more 
stable  balance  of  wet  and  dry  weather.  Let's 
hope,  for  the  sake  of  the  American  pubHc  in 
q;eneral  and  the  cranberry  growers  in  particu- 
lar, that  this  is  one  of  the  few  times  they 
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MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

general  frost  warnings  released 
from  the  Cranberry  Station  as 
of  October  5.  These  include 
afternoon  and  evening  warn- 
ings. 

Market  Report 

The  first  cranberry  market  re- 
port for  fresh  fruit  was  released 
October  3  from  the  Agricultural 
Marketing  News  Service  tmder 
the  direction  of  John  O'Neil 
in  Boston.  This  will  be  the 
13th  season  that  these  weekly 
reports  have  been  prepared  for 
growers  and  shippers.  The  re- 
ports include  current  informa- 
tion on  the  movement  of  fresh 
cranberries  bv  rail  and  truck, 
price  and  terminal  market  con- 
ditions in  the  leading  cities  in 
the  United  States.  Those  who 
wish  to  continue  receiving  this 
report  should  return  the  neces- 
sary form  to  Mr.  O'Neil.  Any- 
one else  interested  in  this  re- 
port mav  receive  it  bv  writing 
to  the  Af^ricnlhiral  Marketing 
News  Service.  408  Atlantic  Ave., 
Room  70?i  Boston,  Mass.,  re- 
fiuesting  that  his  name  be  ad- 
ded to  the  cranberry  mailing 
list. 

Late  Fall   Management 

The  following  suggestions  on 
late  fall  management  are  oflFered 
to  the  growers  for  their  con- 
sideration. 1)  Woody  plants 
such  as  hardback,  meadow 
sweet  and  bavberrv  should  be 
pulled  out  after  harvest,  this 
will  greatlv  improve  the  pick- 
ing operation  next  season.  2) 
A  potato  dipfeer  can  be  used 
in  the  shore  ditches  to  pull 
ont  nmners  of  small  bramble, 
\'irginia  creeper  or  morning 
p:lory  which  may  be  crossing 
the  ditch  from  shore.  3) 
Casoron®  can  be  applied  at  the 
rate  of  100  poimds  per  acre  for 
control  of  loosestrife,  aster,  mud 
rush,  needle  grass,  summer 
'''-;iss.  rut  paras';,  nut  frrass,  cot- 
ton grass,  marsh  St.  Johns-wort, 
^  i^weed,  blue  joint,  sphagnum 
moss  and  wool  grass.  Casoron 
'^  ould  be  used  in  cold  weather 

SIX 


Year  Round  Favorite 
Cranberries  Becoming 

New   Products  Have  Helped 
Cranberries    Lose    Seasonal 
Image 

The  general  pubhc  has  now 
accepted  the  cranberry  as  a 
year  round  berry. 

This  is  the  opinion  of  cran- 
berry people  and  can  quite 
easily  be  proven. 

Ocean  Spray,  the  leading 
grower  cooperative  in  the 
country,  has  been  responsible 
for  much  of  the  groundwork 
which  was  done  to  bring  about 
this  situation. 


(after  November  1)  preferably 
iust  before  a  rain.  It  is  less 
likelv  to  harm  vines  that  are 
healthy  and  vigorous.  4)  Cas- 
oron and  sand  should  not 
be  applied  in  the  fall  to  bogs 
that  do  not  have  winter  pro- 
tection because  of  the  increased 
«;usceptibilitv  to  winter  injury. 
This  combination  is  also  likely 
to  cause  injury  where  vines 
have  been  weakened  bv  drought 
or  other  causes.  5)  This  is  an 
excellent  time  to  rake  and/or 
prime  the  bog.  also  do  not 
forget  the  trash  flood  where 
water  supplies  are  available. 
These  are  verv  valuable  prac- 
^ces  that  will  keep  the  bog  in 
shape  for  peak  production  next 
vear.  6)  Anv  bog  that  has  not 
received  sand  for  the  past  five 
vears  or  more,  should  be  sanded 
as  soon  as  possible,  preferably 
this  fall  or  winter.  Sanding, 
pnming  and  raking  should  be 
postponed  until  next  spring 
on  those  bogs  that  do  not  have 
water  for  winter  protection  be- 
cause the  vines  are  tnore  sus- 
ceptible to  winter  injurv  fol- 
lo^\^■ne  these  operations.  7)  It 
mi>ht  be  a  ffood  idea  after  the 
fnll  work  is  done,  to  put  in  the 
flume  planks  on  those  bogs  that 
have  drv  reservoirs.  Any  water 
that  can  be  saved  would  be 
helpful  later  on  for  winter  pro- 
tection. 


As  part  of  a  three-year  pro- 
gram aimed  at  taking  the  sea- 
sonal factor  out  of  the  cran- 
berry. Ocean  Spray  has  intro- 
duced new  cranberry  products; 
such  as  cranberry  catsup,  cran- 
berry bread,  cranapple  cocktail 
at  their  Cranberry  houses  ire 
Massachusetts. 

All  this  has  brought  about  a 
possible  shortage  of  the  berry 
where  a  few  years  ago  the  in- 
dustry had  to  dump  more  than 
ten  percent  of  the  crop  in  an 
efi^ort  to  keep  prices  up. 

The  reason  for  this  upswing 
is  really  quite  simple  —  promo- 
tion and  product  development. 
Before  Mr.  Edward  Gelsthorpe, 
Ocean  Sprav's  energetic  and 
progressive  Executive  Director, 
took  over  his  position  there  had 
not  been  a  new  cranberry  prod 
uct  in  decades.  After  taking 
over  his  position,  Mr.  Gelsthorpe 
greatly  expanded  the  product 
development  section  of  the  co- 
operative and  called  in  con- 
sultants to  develop  new  mar- 
keting procedures.  This,  of 
course,  necessitated  an  increased 
advertising  and  promotional 
budget  which  is  now  estimated 
at  approximately  five  milHon 
dollars  a  year. 

The  introduction  of  cranberry 
juice  cocktail  was  the  first  of 
the  new  products  to  be  made 
available  to  the  consumer.  The 
results  of  this  new  approach 
w  a  s  immediately  noticeable. 
This  step  took  cranberries  out 
of  the  seasonal  Thanksgiving 
and  Christmas  market  and  put 
it  on  a  year  roimd  category. 

Ocean  Spray  members  seem 
to  be  in  favor  of  the  ex- 
penditures for  promotion  since 
the  results  are  self-evident  and 
quite  positive. 

It  has  come  to  appear  that 
the  1959  cranberry  scare  has 
turned  out  to  be  the  best  thing 
that  has  happened  in  years  to 
the  cranberry  industry.  It  got 
the  growers  to  thinking  about 
the  necessit}'  of  changing  their 
whole  marketing  approach. 

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\  Glimpse  of  the  Pest: 
Wassacliusens  Cranberry  Growing 


Part    I 


AN   EARLY  HISTORY  OF  MASS.  STATE  CRANBERRY  BOG 


Dr.  H.  J.  EYanklin,  Cranberry 
Expeiriment  Station,  East  Ware- 
ham,  Mass.,  unpublished  tran- 
script of  talk  given  at  the  Walt 
ham  Field  Station,  December, 
1940. 


Prepared  By  Mr.  Silas  A.  Basse 


Among  the  papers  Mrs.  Franklin 
urned  over  to  the  Cranberry  Station 
^hen  she  sold  her  house  was  an 
arly  history  of  the  State  Bog  from 
16  time  the  swamp  was  cleared  in 
891  to  the  time  it  was  purchased  by 
le  state  in  1910.  The  account  was  in 
le  form  of  a  resume  of  the  years 
Titten  by  Silas  Besse,  the  developer 
f  the  property.  To  show  how  far 
/e  have  come  in  pest,  frost  control 
nd  cultural  practices  in  general 
ou  will  find  this  history  of  the  State 
log  interesting.  It  is  edited  slightly 
ar  better  continuity,  but  otherwise 
nchanged. 

The  late  Mr.  Besse  was  a  resident 
f  East  Wareham,  and  after  selUng 
lis  bog  to  the  state  built  another 
1  the  Eagle  Hill  section. 


1891-1893 

Commenced  work  at  bog  June  6, 
891.  Entire  bog  ready  for  sanding 
Lpril  1,  1892.  Vines  set  between 
ipril  25  and  June  11,   1892  -  about 

barrels  to  acre  "Single  setting".  15 


H.  P.  engine  and  18  H.  P.  steam 
boiler  installed  and  BCE(?)  Pump 
for  spring  flowing  of  1893.  Cost  of 
weeding  for  1892— $6.55.  Re-setting 
vines  pushed  out  by  frost  and  where 
first  setting  failed  to  start— 15  bar- 
rels vines  spring  of  1893.  400  lbs. 
fertilizer  put  around  hills  spring 
1893.    Cost— weeding    1893— $6.00. 


1894 


Pump  inadequate  to  protect  from 
late  frosts  1894.  Fruitworms  in  ev- 
idence 1894.  Practically  no  weeding 
expenses  for  1894. 

1895 

Bog  not  under  water  winter  1894- 
1895.  Bog  not  entirely  covered  with 
vines  summer  1895-growth  in  places 
has  been  slow.  Blossom  indicate  500 
to  600  barrels  of  fruit.  Blossoms 
failed  to  "set"  well-perhaps  400  bar- 
rels "set".  No  fu-e  worms,  fruit- 
worms  very  disastrous— fully  30% 
damage.  Had  100  torches  all  night 
for  week  during  blossoming  season 
—  10  inch  plate  smeared  with  tar 
and  molasses  under  each  torch  — 
many  millers  caught  but  few  of 
these  fruitworm  miller.  (3  very  hot 
days  in  September  1895  —  caused 
scald  and  rot  —  lost  fully  70  bar- 
rels from  these  causes.)  Weeding 
1895— $3.00. 


1896 


Weeding  about  $18.00.  Bog  kept 
pretty  wet  all  season.  Pumping  & 
prime,  fuel  and  labor— $129.00.  Water 
from  winter  flowage  seeped  from  bog 
late  in  winter,  put  on  again  in  mid- 
dle of  April  and  held  by  repeated 
Dumpings  till  May  22nd.  Ditches 
mied  3rd  and  4th  of  July.  Pumped 


4  days  in  October  for  frost.  Picked 
309  barrels— Shipped  501  barrels.  No 
rot 


1897 


Bog  not  flowed  during  winter  of 
1896-1897.  Water  put  on  (pumping 
4  days)  April  17th— allowed  to  seep 
away — covered  again  May  14  and 
agam  June  10th.  Heavy  blossom- 
good  "set".  Fruitworms  perhaps 
10%  damage— vines  have  become 
deep  and  thick.  Scald,  blight  or 
fungus  cut  crop  to  505  barrels  picked 
and  59  barrels  out  of  505  taken  out 
by  separator  and  screens  rotten- 
shipped  but  446  barrels.  Weeding 
this  year  $55.00.  Note  how  weeding 
expenses  increased  with  keeping  bog 
very  wet. 


1898 


Bog  uncovered  during  winter  1897 
and  1898.  Black-head  fire  worms  do 
some  harm  this  season— promising 
bud  and  fair  blossom  but  many 
"sets"  dropped  off  shortly  after  set- 
ting. Shipped  but  about  325  Bbls. 
So  many  wormy  rotten  berries  cost 
81c  per  bbls.  to  screen  (and  sepa- 
rate). Vines  have  become  very  deep 
and  luxuriant. 


1899 


Bog  uncovered  all  winter.  Pumped 
little  this  season— once  only  for 
spring  flowing.  Weeding  cost  for 
season  $16.20.  Bloom  promised  fully 
1200  Bbls.  Picked  300.  Loss  by  fruit- 
worm  estimate  150.  Loss  by  other 
worms— (called  them  "bud"  worms) 
—750.  Fruit  decayed  badly  in  house 
this  season.  Vines  deep  and  heavy. 


1900 


Bog  flowed  about  Xmas— water 
froze  solid  and  kept  vines  frozen  in 
ice  all  winter.  Pumping  in  ditches 
during  spring  and  blossoming  sea- 
son. No  injury  from  most.  Tremen- 
dous blossom  and  good  "set".  Put 
all  vines  under  last  of  June  during 
cloudy  and  cool  times.  Bushels  of 
dead  moths  came  ashore.  Weeding 
expense  light.  Crop  about  1040  Bbls., 
but  seems  to  low.  Praticully  no 
fruitworms.  Shipped  806  Bbls.  Aver- 
age. Loss  by  decay  in  house  140 
Bbls.  Loss  by  decay  m  bog  and  ber- 
ries rotten  and  left  on  bog,  to  poor 
to  pick  —  90  Bbls.  Vines  very  deep 
and  "thick." 

SEVEN 


1901 

Bog  uncovered  all  winter.  Winter- 
killed so  very  badly  mowed  greater 
part  of  bog  with  horse-machine. 
Weeding  about  $25.00  this  season  as 
vines  cut  left  room  and  opportunity 
for  weeds.  Light  sanding  for  first 
time  since  bog  built.  2  tons  of  Stock- 
bridge  fertilizer— first  time  fer- 
tilizer used  on  bog.  Practically  no 
crop,  (about  100  Bbls.  )  as  no  vines. 


1902 


Bog  covered  during  winter.  Kept 
on  till  middle  March.  Pumping  to 
keep  ditches  supplied,  no  damage 
from  late  frosts.  No  fertilizer  this 
season.  Vines  in  May  indicated  big 
blossom,  and  was  tremendous  bloom 
and  good  set— but  many  of  top  sets 
failed  to  mature.  1195  barrels  ship 
ped.  Vines  short  and  healthy.  Nc 
rot.  Fruitworm  destroyed  about  5%. 
Light    sanding    in    winter    1902-1903. 


1903 


Bog  fowled  during  winter.  Water 
allowed  to  seep  away  last  March 
and  no  reflowing  till  June.  Pumping 
—ditches  kept  well  filled  during  June 
and  earyl  July— all  blossoms  on 
ditch  shores  destroyed  by  water. 
Weeding  for  season  $6.15.  No  fer- 
tilizer used.  Big  blossom— set  not 
good  as  usually  and  top  set  all  over 


bog  failed  to  mature.  Fruitworm  set  well  as  usual.  Shipped  801  Bbls. 
damage  fully  20%.  580  Bbls.  Shipped.  No  rot.  Very  few  fruit  worms.  Light 
No  rot.  Fall  sanding  quite  heavy.  sand  Fall  of  1904. 


1904 

Bog  kept  about  Vs  submerged 
all  winter.  Pumping— to  keep  water 
in  ditches  during  blossoming  sea- 
son. Weeding  expenses  very  light. 
2  tons  of  fertilizer  used.  Blossom  in- 
dicated  about   1100  Bbls.   Failed   to 


1905 


IRRIGATION  EQUIPMENT 

for  frost  control 
and  irrigation 

SOLID  SET   BOG 

ALL  ALUMINUM 
IRRIGATION  SYSTEMS 

Johns  Manville  Plastic 
Pipe   and   Fittings 

LARCHMONT     ENGINEERING 

LEXINGTON,  MASS.  VO  2-2550 


Bog  about  1/2  submerged  during 
entire  winter— water  seeped  off  by 
last  March.  Pumping  tor  late  frosts 
not  effectual — top  slow — 40  hours  re- 
quired to  submerge  all  vines  vdth 
old  plant.  Vines  in  May  promised 
heavy  blossom.  Late  frosts  destroy- 
ed greater  part  of  crop.  206  Bbls. 
shipped.    Light   sanding— Fall    1905. 


EIGHT 


Part   II 
CRANBERRY  HARVEST- 1900 

by  EUGENE  A.  WRIGHT 
The  following   portion   of   this 
feature    appeared  in    the    SIL- 
VER LAKE  NEWS  (Ma^s.)  and 
is  used  by  permission. 

Times  change  and  so  do  I., 
Put  the  two  together  and  wei 
have  quite  a  change. 

The  cranberry  harvest  then 
as  now  was  a  lot  of  hard  work, 
but  more  went  witli  those  days. 
The  picking  was  done  mostly  by 
hand  and  tlie  pay  was  small, 
but  quite  a  bit  of  social  life  was 
attached  to  it.  The  picking  day 
was  short  and  there  was  con- 
siderable time  in  the  morning  | 
to  visit  with  town  folks.  . 

Pickers     from     neighboring 

towns    were    there    and    gossip] 

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NEW    J  E  RS  EY 

September    Brings    Rain 

The  good  old  fashioned  north- 
easters which  cranberry  growers 
had  hoped  for  returned  to  New 
Jersey  in  September,  The  much 
needed  rains  came  with  them 
and  measured  in  terms  of 
water  in  cranberry  reservoirs, 
the  drought  was  over.  A  total 
of  9.81  inches  of  rain  was  re- 
corded at  the  weather  station  at 
the  Cranberry  and  Blueberry 
Research  Laboratory  in  New 
Lisbon.  It  rained  on  twelve 
days  of  the  month;  on  10  of 
the  last  16  days  and  8  of  the 
last  11  days.  Two  very  heavy 
rains  accounted  for  most  of  the 
precipitation,  3.18  inches  on 
September  14th  and  15th  and 
4.89  inches  on  September  21st 
and  22nd. 


Precipitation   Now  Above  Average 

The  rainfall  in  September  ex- 
ceeded that  which  occurred  in 
the  entire  three  previous  sum- 
mer months  —  7.06  inches.  Sep- 
tember started  out  with  an  ac- 
cumulated deficiency  for  1966 
of    5.23    inches.     Since    normal 


rainfall  in  September  is  3.62 
the  excess  of  6.19  brings  the 
total  for  1966  to  almost  an  inch 
above  normal,  (0.96).  More- 
over, the  rainy  trend  appears  to 
have  continued  into  October. 
During  the  first  two  days  of 
the  month,  1.43  inches  of  rain 
fell.  This  is  about  40%  of  the 
total  normal  rainfall  for  Oc- 
tober. 

In  the  forty-year  history  of 
weather  recording  at  the  Lab- 
oratory this  was  the  second 
rainiest  September.  In  1938  the 
total  was  10.39  and  it  was  a 
year  in  wliich  the  excess  of  rain 
definitely   was    not   needed. 

Month    was    Cool 

In  regard  to  temperature  the 
month  was  considerably  cooler 
than  normal.  The  average  tem- 
perature was  64.5  °F.,  or  about 
three   degrees   below  normal. 


Harvest    Behind    Schedule 

Cranberry  harvesting  was 
slow  to  get  started  this  season. 
Unsatisfactory  color  and  size 
of  berries  and,  in  some  instan- 
ces, the  lack  of  sufficient  water 
for  water  harvesting,  were  the 
main  deterrents.  The  rain  and 
cool  nights  in  late  September 
have  improved  conditions  and 
much  progress  has  been  made 
during  the  past  few  weeks. 
Dry  harvesting  was  still  con- 
siderably behind  schedule  as 
of  October  1st.  The  cranberry 
crop  in  New  Jersey  does  not 
appear  to  be  as  good  in  quan- 
tity as  it  was  in  1965.  At  this 
time  the  140,000  barrel  es- 
timate for  this  State  looks  like 
it  might  be  a  little  high. 


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CRANBERRY  HISTORY 

Continued  from   Page  8 

and  local  news  got  a  going 
over.  The  youth  of  the  group 
got  together  for  a  swim  in  the 
reservoir.  There  was  precau- 
tions about  water  snakes  and 
turtles,  but  somehow  they  were 
more  than  glad  to  keep  out  of 
our  way. 

We  were  socially  hungry  and 
more  than  glad  to  get  together. 

My  first  experience  at  picking 
come  when  I  was  real  young.  I 
recall  going  to  tlie  bog  one  Sep- 
tember afternoon  with  father.  1 
couldn't  have  been  more  than 
six.  I  can't  say  I  picked  too 
many  berries,  but  being  with 
father  I  must  have  picked  a 
few. 

Father  wasn't  the  kind  to  have 
loafers  around.  There  was  a 
fight  that  afternoon.  The  owner 
and  a  picker  got  into  an  argu- 
ment. 

I  cannot  recall  any  of  the 
heated  words.  Most  likely  it 
was  over  underberries  or  vines. 
These  were  the  cause  of  many 
a  squabble  in  the  early  cran- 
berry day.  Somebody  pushed 
somebody  and  I  recall  the 
wrestling  with  two  rolling  into 
a   ditch. 

In  the  light  of  present  day 
vine  pulling  and  underberries, 
it  was  all  over  nothing.  No  one 
was  hurt  much  outside  of  a  few 
wet  clothes  and  a  little  higher 
blood  pressure. 

Distant  pickers  came  to  the 
bogs  by  various  means  of  con- 


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veyances.  A  few  rode  on  bicy- 
cles, but  most  came  by  horse 
and  carriage.  The  horses  were 
tied  to  trees  in  the  woods  near- 
by. A  few  living  at  not  too  great 
a  distance  walked.  Picking  was 
done  into  a  six  quart  pail, 
which  the  picker  dumped  into 
the  box  when  filled  and  received 
a  cardboard  check.  When  five 
pails  had  been  filled  he  could 
exchange  the  single  checks  for 
a  five-measure  one.  Then  fol- 
lowed 16s,  20s  and  the  50. 

The  value  of  the  check  va- 
ried on  different  bogs,  from 
eight  to  10  cents.  Many  of 
them  could  be  used  at  the  local 
stores  for  cash  purchases. 

On  the  Plympton  bog  I 
have  in  mind,  at  times  there 
were  often  150  pickers.  Some 
were  transients  and  only  re- 
mained a  few  days,  and  by  far 
most  of  those  who  started  fin- 
ished the  season,  which  often 
was  not  completed  until  late 
October. 

At  the  end  of  the  picking 
season  a  day  was  set  for  the 
cashing    of    the    checks,    and    1 


never    heard    of    anyone    losing 
out. 

The  work  was  rather  hard  on 
the  fingers  and  knees.  We 
youngsters  picked  until  school 
started.  The  opening  session 
was  delayed  to  give  the  older 
children  a  chance  to  earn  a 
little  money.  Few  of  the  young- 
sters ever  picked  more  than  10 
pails  a  day  and  not  too  many 
that  number. 

Once  in  a  while  an  exception- 
al boy  in  exceptional  picking 
might  pick  25  or  more  pails.  1 
was  not  a  fast  picker  and  did 
well  to  get  as  many  as  nine. 
1  seldom  ever  saw  any  of  the 
money  we  earned.  It  sort  of 
came  back  to  us  in  clothes, 
shoes  and  food.  In  our  family 
there  were  many  mouths  to  fill 
and  not  too  much  extra  money. 

I  must  add  this  did  take 
away  some  of  the  incentive  to 
hustle,  and  I  suspect  many  of 
us  were  more  interested  in  what 
went  on  around  the  bog  than 
how  many  berries  went  into  the 
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TEN 


Most  Areas  Consider 
Weed  Control  to  be  One 
Of  Their  Maior  Proiilems 


Weed  control  is  one  of  the 
most  troublesome  problems 
confronting  the  cranberry 
grower.  Originally  most  control 
was  by  hand  weeding.  Prior  to 
about  1956  (Crowley,  1)  pet- 
roleum products  such  as  paint 
thinner,  kerosene,  and  distillate 
were  used  as  a  general  applica- 
tion during  the  late  dormant 
period  and  as  spot  treatments 
during  the  growing  season.  As 
a  result  of  more  recent  research 
(Doughty,  3),  specific  herbi- 
cides are  recommended  at 
specific  rates,  at  specific  dates 
cf  application,  and  for  specific 
weed  species  or  weed  groups. 
These  herbicides  are  fisted  in 
the  cranberry  weed  control 
chart,  EM  2185,  which  is  re- 
vised   annually. 

Annual  weeds  such  as  smart- 
weed  (Polygonum  sp.),  toad 
rush  or  louse  grass  (Juncus  bu- 
fonis  L.),  or  sand  spurry 
(Spergularia  sp.)  generally  are 
a  distinct  problem  only  on 
young  bogs  not  completely 
vined  over  and  older  bogs 
which  have  vines  killed  or 
thinned  out  so  that  an  incom- 
plete ground  cover  is  present. 
Generally  treatment  with  one 
or  more  of  the  herbicides  re- 
commended for  use  against 
perennial  weeds  will  also  con- 
trol annuals.  Where  annual 
weeds  are  a  problem,  herbicide 
applications  must  be  made  in 
the  spring  prior  to  the  time 
their  seeds  germinate. 

Weeds  in  new  bogs  or  newly 
cleared  areas  may  Be  reduced 
considerably  by  the  use  of  her- 
bicides and  cultural  practices 
before  planting.  Combinations 
of  contact  (dinitro  ompounds, 
endothal,    etc.)     and     systemic 


ants  (sodium  chlorate  or  poly- 
bor  chlorate)  used  for  one 
season  before  the  cranberries 
herbicides  (2,4-D,2,4,5-T  dala- 
pon)  or  temporary  soil  steril- 
are  planted  will  reduce  the 
weed  problem  materially.  If 
the  weed  pests  can  be  kept  out 
of  a  bog  from  the  start,  the 
problem  of  control  is  made 
much  easier  and  more  economi- 
cal. 

Some  of  the  more  trouble- 
some weeds  found  in  Washing- 
ton bogs  are  fall  aster  (Aster 
svhspecatus  Nees ) ,  common 
horsetail  (Equisetum  arvense 
L. ),  large  horsetail  (Equise- 
tum  telmateia  Ehrl. ),  scouring 
rush  (Equisetum  hyemale  L. ), 
yellow  weed  or  loosestrife  (Ly- 
simachia  terrestris,  B.  S.  P.), 
sedges  (Carex  sp.),Tushes(Jun- 
ciis  sp.),  tideland  clover  (Tri- 
folitim  wormskj  oldie,  Lehm. ) , 
grasses  (Gramineae),  willows 
(Salix  sp.)  and  alder  (Alnus 
sp.). 

Other  weeds  may  develop 
from  roots  remaining  in  the  soil 
when  the  cranberry  vines  are 
planted,  or  from  seeds  carried 
onto  the  bog.  The  most  trouble- 
some of  these  weeds  (Crowley, 
1 )  are  dogwood  ( Comus  cana- 
densis L. ),  muckbrush,  (Spirea 
douglasii  Hook),  false  solomon's 
seal  (Smikicina  amplexicaulis 
Desf. ) ,  and  hly-of-the-valley 
or  two-leaved  solomon's  seal 
(Maianthemum  unifolium  dila- 
tatum,  Desf). 

Bogs  less  than  two  years  old 
are  very  susceptible  to  herbi- 
cide injury  until  the  vines  be- 
come set  and  the  roots  become 
established  deeper  in  the  soil. 


Herbicides  should  not  be 
used  or  should  be  held  to  a 
minimum  during  this  period 
and  then  used  only  at  about 
one-half  the  recommended 
rates  for  bearing  bogs.  Field 
trials  have  shown  that  some 
herbicides  that  are  less  injur- 
ious to  the  vines  may  be  ap- 
plied during  the  second  dor- 
mant period.  Treatment  during 
the  dormant  period  produces 
much  less  injury  than  at  any 
other  time  of  the  year.  Appli- 
cation of  herbicides  should  be 
made  before  the  weeds  emerge 
from  the  soil.  This  is  also  true 
of   bearing   bogs. 

Bearing  bogs  may  be  treated 
with  herbicides  that  are  recom- 
mended for  use  (see  EM- 
2185).  Very  few  of  the  herbi- 
cides used  at  the  present  time 
are  a  cure-all  for  all  weed 
pests.  Herbicides,  like  present- 
day  fungicides,  are  generally 
specific  for  certain  weed  groups 
or  types.  For  this  reason  the 
selection  of  a  particular  herbi- 
cide or  combination  of  herbi- 
cides will  depend  on  the  weed 
species  present,  whether  they 
are  annuals  or  perennials,  gras- 
ses or  broadleaf  weeds,  or 
members  of  the  Rush  or  Sedge 
families.  A  combination  of  two 
different  types  of  herbicides 
will  probablv  need  to  be  used. 
Herbicides  that  are  formulated 
specifically  for  these  groups  of 
weeds  shouM  be  used  in  com- 
bination with  a  general  herbi- 
cide. If  the  majority  of  the 
weeds  are  grasses  that  are  hard 
to  control,  use  a  general  herbi- 
cide, such  as  dichlobenil  (Cas- 
oron" ) ,  in  combination  with  one 
formulated  specifically  for 
grasses,  or  one  formulated  for 
broad-leaved  weeds  if  they  are 
the  problem.  Very  little  injury 
will  occur  if  the  herbicides  are 
used  as  directed.  Cranberry 
vines  can  be  injured  by  herbi- 
cide treatment  if  excessive  a- 
:";ounts   are   used. 

Consult  current  weed  control 
charts  for  herbicides,  rates,  and 
application  dates. 

ELEVEN 


Washington 
History  Stodents 

Uistt 
Morris  Boo 


Young   People   Inspect   Morris  Bog 


Photo  Courtesy   Chinock  Observer 


A  group  of  high  school  stu- 
dents from  Gig  Harbor,  Wash, 
this  year  adopted  a  new  ap- 
proach to  learning  history;  that 
of  touring  the  state  by  school 
bus  under  direction  of  their 
science  teacher,  Wm.  J.  Stocklin. 

TWELVE 


There  were  28  students  in 
the  group  who  were  met  at  the 
ferry  by  Tom  Pierson,  engineer 
with  Telephone  Utilities,  Inc., 
who  immediately  started  them 
on  the  tour,  under  sponsorship 
of  the  telephone  company. 


First  stop  for  the  group  was 
at  Fort  Columbia  State  Parks 
Museum  where  they  had  a 
three  hour  visit  with  Frans 
Johnson,  curator,  who  conduc- 
ted a  tour  of  the  premises  and 
made  explanations.  Next  was 
a  trip  to  Sea  view  Motor  Hotel 
where  they  had  dinner  and 
remained  overnight.  During  the 
evening  at  the  hotel,  telephone 
arrangements  were  made  for 
the  group  of  students  to  per- 
form in  various  ways  and  have 
the  program  picked  up  by  KT- 
NT  radio,  Tacoma,  Wash.,  for 
broadcast. 

After  breakfast  at  the  hotel 
the  next  morning,  Pierson 
guided  the  visitors  to  the  Leon- 
ard Morris  cranberry  bog,  and 
to  the  Cranberry  Association 
processing  warehouse.  Morris 
explained  growing  and  handling 
of  cranberries  and  Wilson  Blair 
gave  information  regarding  the 
cleaning,  sorting  and  other  pro- 
cessing of  the  fruit. 

Another  leg  of  the  tour  took 
the  young  people  to  Bendik- 
sen's  cannery  at  Nahcotta  where 
Chet  Strong  spent  two  hours 
explaining  the  o>'ster  industry. 
Next  to  the  engineering  depart- 
ment of  Telephone  Utilities, 
Inc.  in  Long  Beach  where 
Frank  Seeker,  Jim  Ayedlott  imd 
Jim  Howerton,  gave  a  full  run- 
down on  the  automatic  com- 
munications  systems. 

Cape  Disappointment  was 
the  next  stop  where  the  stu- 
dents were  given  first  hand  in- 
formation on  the  Coast  Guard 
operation,  channel  lights,  buoys 
and  the  like,  all  of  which  sent 
the  knowledge  seekers  back  to 
Gig  Harbor  mentally  loaded. 

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'Empty'  Pesticide 
Containers 

"Empty"  pesticide  containers 
are  dangerous  to  have  around  — 
even  for  a  short  time.  Most  of 
then  contained  concentrated  — 
not  dilute  —  pesticides.  Some 
contained  higlily  poisonous  and 
/or  volatile  chemicals. 

It's  too  easy  for  someone  to 
put  food,  feed  or  drink  into  that 
"clean"  pail  or  bottle  that's 
handy! 

You  could  be  legally  liable 
if  someone  is  injured  or  made 
ill  because  you  have  let 
"empty"  pesticide  containers 
stay  around. 

An  "empty"  pesticide  con- 
tainer is  NEVER  empty! 

Did  you  ever  get  all  the  pow- 
dered pesticide  out  of  a  paper 
bag  or  a  drum?  Of  course  not; 
nobody  does! 

Did  you  ever  get  those  last 
few  drops  of  liquid  pesticide 
out  of  a  can,  drum,  pail  or 
bottle?  Not  \vithout  rinsing  and 


even  then  you  didn't  get  out  all 
the  rinse  water;  and  just  rinsing 
does  not  remove  some  pesti- 
cides! 

Common  sense  should  teU 
you  to  get  rid  of  those  "empty" 
pesticide  containers  soon  and  so 
as  to  not  create  a  further  haz- 
ard. 

Here   are  some  guide  Hnes: 

1.  Follow  any  directions  for 
disposal  that  you  find  on  labels. 

2.  Burn  combustible  contain- 
ers (except  containers  of  hor- 
mone-type weed-kiUers,  2,  4-D, 
etc.)  in  a  public  or  commercial 
incinerator  or  place  approved 
by  the  local  Boad  of  Health 
(even  if  on  your  own  land). 
Keep  everyone  out  of  the 
smoke. 

3.  Bury  ashes  from  burning 
and  all  non-returnable  contain- 
ers (after  carefully  breaking, 
puncturing  and/or  crushing)  at 
least  18  inches  or  more  deep  in 
a  public  dump  (notify  the  su- 
pervisor) or  on  private  land 
at  a  site  approved  by  the  local 
Board    of    Health    (ever   if  on 


your  own  land).  Such  a  site 
must  not  be  on  a  public  water 
supply  watershed,  where  any 
streams  may  become  contami- 
nated or  where  the  buried  ma- 
terial is  Hkely  to  be  disturbed. 

CRANBERRY    HISTORY 

Continued  from  Page  10 
Life  of  the  period  was  quite 
simple  in  terms  of  modern  life. 
We  worked  hard,  saw  Httle 
money,  but  we  did  have  a  good 
time.  The  group  always  had 
some  new  stories.  Nearly  al- 
ways someone  could  play  a 
harmonica  fairly  well.  Then 
there  were  penny  pitching 
games.  Gambhng,  I  suppose, 
but  the  stakes  were  not  high. 
Outside  of  the  occasional 
fight  the  group  was  a  peaceful 
one.  There  was  Httle  drinking 
and  no  vulgarity.  Altogether 
the  pickers  were  a  weU  meaning 
group,  trying  to  earn  a  few 
extra  dollars  for  the  long,  cold 
winter  ahead.  We  were  young 
and  hungry  for  adventure,  and 
we  did  get  a  little. 

THIRTEEN 


Report  to  Farmers  on 
U.  S.  Food  and  Fiber 
Commission  Meeting 

The  National  Advisory  Com- 
mission on  Food  and  Fiber, 
meeting  in  New  York  City  July 
14  and  15,  heard  the  farm  pol- 
icy recommendations  of  the 
National  Farmers  Union  from 
President  Tony  T.  Dechant. 
The  Commission  also  heard 
briefinejs  on  a^rricnltiiral  devel- 
f^nment  tlironghout  the  world 
from  Dr.  T-  G.  Harrar.  President 
at  the  BocTcefeller  Foundation 
on  the  balance  of  payments 
problems  from  Undersecretary 
of  the  Treasury  Frederick  Dom- 
ing; and  on  world  population 
trends  from  Dr.  Frank  Note- 
stein,  President  of  the  Popula- 
tion Council. 

Mr.  Dechant  of  the  Farmers 
Union  told  the  Commission  that 
his  orcranization  welcomed  their 
<;tudy  because  the  U.  S.  has  not 
had  any  overall  agrictdtural 
policv  —  only  a  "series  of  im- 
Dro\nsations  to  meet  emergen- 
cies as  thev  come  up."  He  said 
the  Commission's  primary  task 
should  be  to  look  at  the  sort  of 
igriculture  America  should  have 
20  vears  from  now. 

Mr.  Dechant  urged  support 
for  the  family  farm,  saying, 
"We  must  decide,  and  soon, 
vhcther  we  are  to  have  an  agri- 
?ulture  made  up  largely  of  com- 
mercial family  farms,  or  one  of 
huge  vertically-integrated  agri- 
lailtural  factories."  He  said  the 
amily  farm  would  have  to  be 
encouraged  ''specifically  and 
lynamicallv"  through  better 
•redit  facilities,  appropriate  tax 
tnicturc.  and  encouragement  of 
cooperatives. 

He  recommended  that  the  U. 
5.  continue  its  food  aid  abroad. 
Hit  said  such  aid  should  not  be 
ubsidized  by  the  American 
armer,  as  in  the  recent  case  of 
vheat. 

Mr.  Dechant  supported  in 
eneral  the  recommendations  of 
he  National  Commission  on 
^ood  Marketing.  He  also  call- 
d  attention  to  farmer's  need 
or  more  bargaining  power,  and 

OURTEEN 


said  achieving  this  would  usu- 
ally call  for  government  help 
in  the  form  of  marketing  orders 
and  encoiu-agement  of  cooper- 
atives. He  advocated  low  cost 
loans  for  farmer-consumer  pro- 
cessing plans  and  retail  stores 
that  would  sen'e  as  yardsticks. 

Dr.  Harrar,  now  President  of 
the  Rockefeller  Foundation, 
previously  ran  the  Foundation's 
cooperative  agricultural  pro- 
gram in  Mexico.  He  said  he 
is  "cautiously  optimistic"  about 
the  chances  of  the  developing 
countries  expanding  their  own 
food  and  fiber  production  to 
meet  the  needs  of  their  mush- 
rooming populations  —  but  he 
stressed  tliat  it  will  take  tre- 
mendous effort  on  the  part  of 
both  the  developing  and  devel- 
oped nations,.  Dr.  Harrar  said 
the  best  help  the  U.S.  can  offer 
developing  countries  is  that 
which  will  enable  them  to  do 
more  for  themselves. 

The  Foundation  agricultural 
projects  are  all  carried  out  co- 
operatively with  the  govern- 
ment of  the  country,  he  said. 
They  have  three  stages:  mobi- 
lizing the  technology  to  improve 
farming  in  a  region;  making 
sure  that  farmers  have  the  in- 
puts they  need,  such  as  fertili- 
zer and  credit;  and  making  sm"e 
there  are  incentives  for  famiers 
to  produce  more. 

Dr.  Harrar  also  stressed  that 
agricultural  development  pro- 
jects must  be  long-term;  they 
must  continually  train  nations 
to  carry  on  and  expand  the 
work;  and  they  must  look  for 
"multipliers"  —  factors  that  can 
be  adapted  from  one  region  or 
situation  to  fit  another  and 
speed  the  work.  He  sited  a 
Mexican  wheat  variety  which 
tiuTied  out  well  in  Pakistan  and 
India  as  a  multiplier  example. 

Continuing  development  of 
a  nation's  agriculture  depends 
on  national  investment  in  ''ac- 
celerators" —  such  as  more  ed- 
ucation, more  research,  exten- 
sion, improvements  in  transpor- 
tation and  marketing,  and  ade- 
quate credit  facilities,  according 
to  Dr.   Harrar. 


Dr.  Frank  Notestein,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Population  Council, 
New  York,  said  that  even  the 
most  conservative  estimates  of 
world  population  growth  in  the 
next  35  years  show  the  need 
for  increasing  the  world's  food 
and  fiber  production.  Dr. 
Notestein  said  the  lowest  rea- 
sonable forecast  he  could  make 
on  the  world's  population  in 
the  year  2000  would  be  5.1 
bilhon  people  —  56  percent 
more  than  the  present  world 
population  3.3  billion.  The  up- 
per limit,  he  suggested,  would 
be  nearly  7  billion!! 

Two-thirds  of  the  world's 
people  today  are  ill -clothed 
and  malnourished.  Dr.  Notestein 
said,  and  heroic  efforts  will  be 
needed  just  to  maintain  today's 
minimal  standards  in  the  years 
just  ahead. 

Reason  for  the  leap  in  pop- 
ulation is  a  dramatic  reduction 
in  death  rates  throughout  the 
world,  he  said.  As  an  example, 
a  new-born  baby  girl  in  Ceylon 
today  has  as  good  a  chance  of 
reaching  age  60  as  her  counter- 
part in  1920  had  of  reaching 
five. 

Dr.  Notestein  said,  however, 
that  we  had  new  reason  for  opti- 
mism because  of  the  rapid  pro- 
gress now  being  made  in  popu- 
lation planning  —  brought 
about  by  new  technology  and 
greater  awareness  of  the  prob- 
lem in  many  developing  regions. 

Undersecretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury Doming  said  the  U.S.  should 
ex-pand  its  exports  "rather  sub- 
stantially" to  help  maintain  our 
balance  of  payments  in  the 
face  of  heavy  overseas  commit- 
ments, the  need  for  U.S.  capital 
in  developing  countries,  and 
die  increase  in  imports  brought 
on  by  tlie  boom  in  our  domes- 
tic economy. 

He  pointed  out  the  continu- 
ing gowth  in  world  trade,  and 
the  growth  of  potential  markets 
all  over  the  world.  These  fac- 
tors mean,  he  said,  that  the  U.S. 
ought  to  be  able  to  increase  ex- 
ports witliout  displacing  current 
production  from  other  countries. 


25  Bears; 


25  YEARS  AGO:  Items  taken 
from  the  October  1941  issue  of 
CRANBERRIES. 

Massachusetts  is  now  quite 
certain  that  it  now  has  run 
about  ten  percent  over  the  es- 
timate for  Early  Blacks.  The 
Federal  estimate  was  for  about 
430,00  barrels,  of  which  about 
sixty  percent  were  expected  to 
be  Blacks.  Accepting  those  fig- 
ures this  increase  would  bring 
the  Massachusetts  total  up  to  at 
least  455,000. 

Picking  started  in  Masachu- 
setts  about  a  week  earher  and 
there  was  no  let-up.  Labor 
shortage  did  not  develop  to  any 
extent.  Market  has  been  Hvely. 
Weather  has  been  unusually 
good.  Canners  are  offering 
$9.90,    or   a   dollar   and   a  half 


under  the  fresh  fruit  market  for 
berries  run  through  the  separa- 
tor once.  One  canner  alone  ask- 
ing for  20,000  barrels.  Others 
buying  all  they  can  get. 

As  picking  draws  to  a  close 
in  New  Jersey  it  is  feared  that 
the  state  may  not  harvest  the 
forecast  crop  of  92,000  barrels. 
Same  predict  it  will  not  exceed 
80,000  while  others  maintain  a 
crop  closer  to  90,000.  Extreme 
drought  has  been  blamed  for 
the  shrinkage  of  size  of  the  ber- 
ries resulting  in  a  crop  re- 
duction. 

Though  the  quality  of  Oregon 
berries  is  expected  to  be  good, 
the  crop  is  expected  to  fall  short 
of  the  big  crop  of  last  year. 
Picking  began  a  little  earlier 
than  usual. 


GET  15%  MORE  CROP  .  .  .  EASIER 

IF  YOU  HAVE  SPRINKLERS,  YOUR  CROSS- 
DITCHES  ARE  LITTLE  MORE  THAN  A 
NUISANCE  .  .  . 

PUT  UNDERDRAINS  IN  THEM.  FILL  THEM  UP, 
AND  SET  THEM  WITH  THE  DITCHBANK 
VINES  .  .  . 

NO  ADDED  SPRINKLING,  SPRAYING  OR 
DUSTING.  NO  UNPICKED  BANKS.  NO 
DITCH  WEEDS  .  .  .  A/O  NUISANCE. 

p.  S.  If  you  fill  in  with  Caterpillars  or  rubber-tired  equip- 
ment, you  will  damage  more  bog  than  you  add.  Do  it 
with  a  railroad  — you  wouldn't  know  it  had  been  there. 

For  a  railroad  see  Russell  Trufant,   15   Frank  Street,   Middleboro 


Washington  will  harvest  about 
40,000  barrels  this  year.  This 
will  continue  that  state's  great- 
ly increased  yield  of  the  past 
few  years.  Quite  a  few  thou- 
sand barrels  are  expected  to  go 
into  cans.  The  new  Grayland 
cannery  was  expected  to  be 
ready  by  the  latter  part  of  Sep- 
tember. Some  of  the  growers 
from  around  Ilwaco  will  ship 
berries  to  Vancouver  to  the 
Washington  Co-operative  can- 
ner in  that  city  as  they  did  last 
year  (1940). 

By  October  first  many  of  the 
Wisconsin  growers  had  com- 
pleted harvesting  and  growers 
tliere  are  still  sticking  to  their 
estimate  of  100,000  barrels. 
Some  feel  that  this  figure  may 
not  even  be  quite  reached  but 
if  there  is  any  falling  off  it  will 
be  sHght. 

The  harvest  of  Early  Blacks 
in  Jersey  is  now  completed  and 
the  picking  of  Howes  has  be- 
gun. Jersey  berries  this  season 
in  general  are  said  to  have 
pretty  good  color  and  to  be  of 
good  quality.  Picking  has  pro- 
gressed under  some  difficulty  as 
labor  has  been  hard  to  obtain. 

Jersey  has  had  no  rain  since 
the  first  of  August,  that  is  rain 
of  any  consequence.  Reservoirs 
are  at  bottom  and  the  entire 
Southern  section  of  the  state  is 
arrid.  Water  supphes  are  the 
lowest  in  a  long  time.  There 
have  been  some  frost  warnings 
and  growers  have  used  up  wa- 
ter. Some  water  suppHes  are 
entirely  exhausted. 


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The  carriermaterial  is  suppo- 
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It  is  still  not  known  how  well 
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Although  the  treated  cloth 
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REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  9 

MASSACHUSETTS 

September   Alternates  Warm   and   Cool 

Generally  speaking,  Septem- 
ber was  a  cool  month  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, with  the  daily  av- 
erage about  two  degrees  below 
normal. 

The  rainfall,  altliough  nothing 
to  write  home  about,  was 
slightly  above  normal  with  the 
Cranberry  Station  in  East  Ware- 
ham  registering  4.8  inches  dur- 
ing the  month. 

The  "big"  storms  occurred  on 
September  4,  15,  22  and  29. 

The  montli  started  off  warm 
and  alternated  between  cool 
and  warm  with  the  last  ten 
days  a  bit  on  the  cool  side. 

Picking    Starts    Late 

Harvesting  in  Massachusetts 
got  a  later  start  than  usual 
with  the  first  picking  beginning 
on  September  12.  It  was  in  full 
swing  by  September  17. 

Color    Not    Good 

First  picking  showed  color 
was  not  good  and  size  of  fruit 


smaller  than  expected.  Cooler 
weatlier  toward  the  end  of  the 
montli  was  expected  to  improve 
conditions  and  allow  for  bet- 
ter color  and  size. 

Frost  Warning 

Fortunately,  there  has  been 
little  problem  of  frost  damage 
during  the  month  of  September. 
Only  two  warnings  were  issued 
by  the  Cranberry  Station  —  the 
first  on  September  16  and  the 
second  on  September  24.  Frost 
damage  was  practically  nil. 

Harvest  Going  Well 

Considering  the  late  start, 
picking  was  moving  along  very 
well  and  by  October  1  nearly 
half  the  crop  had  been  picked 
and  by  October  10  at  least  sev- 
enty percent  had  been  har- 
vested. 


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According  to  respiration  tests 
being  done  here  at  the  station 
the  local  berries  were  mature 
by  September  15th  but  the 
color  was  not  up  to  market  de- 


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sire,  so  though  the  experimental 
plots  have  been  harvested,  be- 
girming  about  four  weeks  ago, 
the  local  growers  did  not  really 
start  until  the  lOtli.  A  few 
began  about  the  6th  and  Cran- 
guyma  started  about  the  1st. 
Harvest  will  coontinue  until 
about  November  5  with  the 
main  crop  completed  by  the 
last  week  in  October. 

All  indications  so  far  are  for 
a  very  good  return  for  the 
growers'  work  this  year,  the 
berries  are  quite  plentiful.  The 
Ocean  Spray  plant  here,  doing 
the  sorting  work,  began  last 
week,  with  several  truck  loads 
of  berries  sent  from  the  east 
to  supply  the  Markham  plant 
with  berries  for  the  September 
orders. 

Rainfall    Needed 

The  mean  high  for  the  month 
of  September  was  67.47  degrees 
with  a  high  for  the  month  of 
86  on  the  21st  and  another 
warm  spell  the  last  tliree  days 
of  the  month  with  70,  75  and 
80  degrees.  The  mean  low  was 
49.13  degrees  and  a  bog  low 
ot  37  on  the  12th.  We  had 
2.96  inches  of  rain  during  the 
period  with  .77  on  the  17th. 
Rain  was  recorded  on  only  ten 
days,  and  a  period  of  six  days, 
21st  through  the  26th  brought 
only  1.25  inches.  Since  tlie  lo- 
cal Long  Beach  growers  har- 
vest by  flooding  they  are  hoping 
for  some  good  rain  in  the  next 
few  days. 

WIS  CO  N  S  I  N 

About  200  acres  is  being  pre- 
pared for  next  year  but  there 
is  a  shortage  of  planting  stock 
of  Stevens,  Ben  Lears,  and 
Searles  Jumbos.  Growers  pre- 
fer to  plant  Stevens  if  they  can 
as  in  the  long  rim  they  out- 
produce other  varieties  by  15 
to  20%. 

The  harvest  is  now  under 
way  and  it  looks  like  tlie  es- 
timate will  hold  up  prety  much 
to  the  government  estimate. 
Berries  seem  to  be  of  good 
quahty  with  excellent  coloring. 

Continued  on  Page  2A 


Push-Butlon  Age  ol  Spraying 
Arrives  Willi  Tliree-Pliase  Pnwer 


by  WALT  SEABORG 

Electric  motors  have  replaced 
dies  el  engines  for  pumping 
water  on  cranberry  bogs  owned 
by  the  Olson  brothers  of  War- 
rens,  Wisconsin. 

By  switching  to  electric 
power,  Debs  and  James  Olson 
now  enjoy  the  convenience  of 
push-button  operation  for  their 
water  spraying  system.  There  is 
no  need  for  them  to  haul  fuel 
to  their  pumps.  Their  engine 
maintenance  problems  have 
been  solved.  And  electric  power 
does  the  job  for  less  cost. 

The  Olson  brothers  aren't 
alone  in  switching  to  electric 
power  for  pumping,  thanks  to 
the  efforts  of  Oakdale  Electric 
Cooperative  which  last  Novem- 
ber began  building  three-phase 
power  into  the  cranberry 
marshes  of  central  Wisconsin. 
So  far,  26  cranberry  growers 
have  been  connected  to  the 
cooperative's  new  three-phase 
lines.  The  cooperative  has  in- 
vested more  than  $175,000  in 
new  construction  to  serve  the 
cranberry  growers  with  three- 
phase  pumping  power. 

Spraying   is   Faster 

Cranberry  growers  spray 
water  onto  their  bogs  for  two 
reasons,  first  to  prevent  frost 
damage,  and  second,  to  prevent 
drought.  Spraying  is  replacing 
flooding  as  a  means  of  protec- 
ting from  frost  and  drought.  As 
Debs  Olson  explains  it,  "Spray- 
ing is  much  faster  than  flooding. 
With  these  sprinklers,  we  can 


be  protected  from  frost  within 
ten  minutes  after  the  motors  are 
started.  With  flooding,  it  takes 
much  longer  to  get  water  on 
the  cranberries.  Speed  is  impor- 
tant. The  temperature  can  drop 
ten  degrees  in  an  hour. 

"With  flooding,  there  is  al- 
ways the  danger  of  giving  the 
plants  too  much  water.  The 
sprinklers  use  a  lot  less  water 
to  get  the  same  results." 

Each  year,  the  Olson  brothers 
begin  spraying  their  cranberry 
bogs  during  the  first  week  in 
May.  Frost  hits  almost  every 
night  until  about  the  end  of 
June. 

No    Use  Trying    to    Sleep 

"Spraying  is  done  at  night," 
Debs  Olson  says.  "When  frost 
is  predicted  we  have  to  check 
the  temperatures  in  the  bogs 
every  half  hour.  This  means 
driving  around  the  levees  at 
night,  sometimes  in  thick  fog. 
There's  no  use  even  trying  to 
get  any  sleep. 

"When  the  bog  temperature 
hits  33  degrees,  then  we  turn 
on  the  sprayers.  We  get  them 
going  good  before  the  tempera- 
ture hits  32  degrees;  that's  when 
the  damage  occurs.  Tempera- 
tures in  the  20's  are  common 
during  May.  It  has  gone  as  low 
as  26  in  July." 

During  midsummer,  the  frost 
danger  persists,  but  most  of  the 
spraying  is  done  for  drought 
protection.  During  late  sum- 
mer and  early  fall,  the  frost 
danger      becomes      continuous 


a  gam. 


"We  spray  until  October  15," 
Debs  Olson  says.  "By  that  time 
all  of  the  cranberries  have  been 
harvested." 

The  Olson  brothers  raise  60 
acres  of  cranberries.  A  total  of 
3P/^  acres  is  being  sprayed  by 
means  of  two  pumps,  each 
powered  by  a  75-horsepower 
electric  motor.  The  other  28V2 
acres  haven't  been  converted  to 
electrically  powered  spraying 
as  yet.  The  pumps  push  water 
into  8-inch  aluminum  pipes 
which  are  connected  to  pro- 
gressively smaller  pipes  as  the 
network  of  pipes  fans  out  to  the 
sprayers.  Water  comes  from  a 
pond  which  was  formed  by 
damming   a    stream. 

Could    be    Made    Automatic 

Debs  Olson  says  he  has  been 
thinking  about  converting  the 
spraying  system  to  automatic 
control.  "There  is  no  reason 
why  these  sprayers  couldn't  be 
completely  automatic,"  he  says. 
"A  system  of  thermostats  might 
do  the  job."  But  then  he  adds, 
"Even  if  the  sprayers  were 
completely  automatic,  I  would 
probably  watch  them  every 
night    anyway." 

Flooding  is  still  used  for  har- 
vesting the  cranberries.  A  sys- 
tem of  ditches,  levees  and  gates 
controls  the  water  which  flows 
by  gravity  from  the  pond.  When 
the  bogs  are  flooded,  the  cran- 
berries float  to  the  surface  and 
are  harvested  by  special  rake 
type    macliines. 

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1  lb.  lean  fresh  pork,  ground 

2  cups  soft  bread  crumbs 

1  medium  onion,  finely  chopped 

2  teaspoons    Worcestershire 
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Few  drops  Tabasco 
y^  cup  prepared   horseradish 
1  tablespoon  prepared  mustard 
y-2.  teaspoon  rosemary 
Vz  cup  coffee  beverage 

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CRANBERRY 
ORIENTALE    SAUCE 

1  can  (11  ounces)  Mandarin 

oranges 
1  cup  fresh  cranberries 
1  cup  sugar 
Vs  cup  silvered  blanched 

almonds 
1  teaspoon    grated    lemon  rind 

Drain  oranges  and  reserve 
syrup.  Combine  reserved  syrup, 
cranberries  and  sugar  in  sauce- 
pan. Bring  to  a  boil  and  cook 
just  until  cranberries  begin  to 
pop.  Remove  from  heat  and 
add  drained  oranges,  almonds 
and  lemon  rind.    Chill. 

TWENTY 


A  frightened  householder  ex- 
citedly reported  to  poHce  head- 
quarters that  he  had  been 
struck  down  in  the  dark  by  an 
unknown  assailant.  A  rookie 
cop  was  dispatched  to  the  scene 
of  the  crime  to  investigate,  and 
soon  returned  to  headquarters 
with  a  lump  on  his  forehead 
and  a  glum  look  on  his  face. 

"I've  solved  the  case,"  he 
muttered. 

"Amazingly  fast  work,"  his 
superior  complimented.  "How 
did  you  do  it  so  quickly?" 

"I  stepped  on  the  rake,  too," 
explained  the  sad  cop. 


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fun! 


A  sailor  received  a  letter  from 
home  and  a  comrade  was  sur- 
prised to  see  him  pull  out  a 
blank  sheet  of  paper  and  gaze 
intensely  at  it.  Being  curious, 
he  asked  the  reason.  The  reply 
was:  "Me  and  the  wife  ain't 
speaking." 


CRANBERRY 
SPICY  SHORTCAKE 

(Makes  6  servings) 

2  cups  biscuit  mix 

2  tablespoons  sugar 

Va.  teaspoon  nutmeg 

Vz  teaspoon  cinnamon 

%  cup  light  cream 

1  teaspoon  grated  orange  rind 
Cranberry  Orientale  Sauce  or 
Cranberry  Hawaiian  Sauce 

Preheat  oven  to  400° F.  Com- 
bine biscuit  mix,  sugar,  nutmeg 
and  cinnamon.  Add  cream  and 
orange  rind  and  stir  until  well 
blended.  Knead  on  a  Hghtly 
floured  surface.  Roll  out  to  %- 
inch  thickness.  Cut  into  3-inch 
rounds.  Place  on  an  ungreased 
baking  sheet.  Bake  in  hot  oven 
(400°F.)  for  10-12  minutes,  or 
until  golden  browoi.  Cool 
slightly,  then  split  biscuits  and 
fill  with  Cranberry  Orientale 
Sauce  or  Cranberry  Hawaiian 
Sauce.  Top  with  sweetened 
whipped  cream  and  garnish  as 
desired. 


CRANBERRY 
HAWAIIAN   SAUCE 

Makes  about  ^k  cups  sauce) 
1  cup  fresh  cranberries,  ground 
1  cup  drained  canned  pineapple 

tidbits 
^/^  cup  flaked  coconut 
1  cup  sugar 

V%  teaspoon    ground    cloves 
Combine  all  ingredients.    Chill 
for  several  hours. 


ONE  CRANBERRY  HERBICIDE 
DOES  THE  WORK  OF  SEVERAL 

DE-PESTER 

CASOROIN    G-4 


CONTROLS    ALL     THESE    WEEDS 


Broadleaf  Weeds 
Controlled: 

Arrow  leaved  Tear  Thumb 

Beggarticks 

Knotweed 

Loosestrife 

Marsh  St.  Johnswort 

Tideland  clover 

Ragweed 

Sorrel 

Wild  Strawberry 

Asters 

Buckbean 

Hawkweed 

Western  Lilaeopsis 

Marsh  Pea 

Plantain 

Smartweed  (Marshpepper, 

Pennsylvania,  Spotted, 

Swamp  and  Water) 


Important  Miscellaneous 

Weeds  Controlled: 

Bracken  Fern 

Royal  Fern 

Sensitive  Fern 

Hair  cap  Moss 

Common  Horsetail 

Water  Horsetail  (pipes) 

Rushes  (Juncus  spp.) 

Dodder 


Giass  Weeds  Controlled: 

Bluejoint  Grass 

Rattlesnake  grass 

(Manna  grass) 

Summer  grass 

Velvetgrass 

Bent  Grass 
Little  Hairgrass 

Crabgrass 
Rice  cutgrass 


Sedges  Controlled: 

Bunch  grass 

Muskrat  grass 

Nutsedge  (Nutgrass) 

Short  Wiregrass 

Wideleaf  grass 

Stargrass 

Woolgrass 

Cotton  grass 

Needlegrass 

Oniongrass 


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COVERAGE 


John  Bean  Division  recently 
published  a  20-page  2-color  il- 
lustrated Row  Crop  Sprayers 
catalog  covering  its  complete 
line  of  Air  crop,  high-pressure 
and  farm  sprayers. 

Optional  tanks,  booms  and 
pumps  are  also  shown. 

The  Aircrop  section  outlines 
the  10,  20  and  40RC,  air-type 
sprayers  with  210  degree  rotat- 
ing discharge  for  coverage  from 
40  to  90  feet. 

The  high  -  pressure  Royal, 
Royalier  and  Royalette  series 
capacity     show     tank     options 


The  world's  first  electric  start- 
ing chain  saw,  marking  the  first 
time  in  history  that  a  small, 
hand-held  gasoline  engine  can 
be  started  by  a  totally  self-con- 
tained starter  -  generator  and 
battery     combination.      Starter- 


with  from  10  to  60  g.p.m.  pump 
from  150  to  1,000  gallons. 

Farm  sprayers  oflFered  include 
a  125  gallon  model  with  an  op- 
tional meter-flow  pump  and  a 
300  gallon  fiber  glass  model. 

Booms  include  the  HYD  60 
foot  and  48  foot  models  plus 
veeetable  and  all  purpose  units. 

Five  pump  options  including 
the  new  John  Bean  2-stage, 
self-priming  centrifugal  model 
are  shown. 

Write  for  free  catalog  L-1451, 
John  Bean  Div.,  Box  9490, 
Lansing,   Mich.   48909. 

generator  integral  with  fly- 
wheel, push  button  operated. 
Ten  specially  developed  nickel 
cadmium  batteries,  infinitely  re- 
chargeable, encased  in  handle. 
Solidstate  semi-conductor  volt- 
age regulator  concealed  in  pis- 
tol grip.  Ideal  for  woodcutting 
at  home,  on  the  farm,  camp- 
site, in  the  woods,  on  construc- 
tion, pulpwood  cutting,  hne 
clearing,  timber  topping  and  so 
on.  The  electric  starter  is  an  ex- 
ceptional convenience  and  safe- 
ty feature.  Weighs  14.9  pounds. 
Bore  and  stroke  is  1.75  inches 
by  1.375  inches.  Displacement 
3.3.  cubic  inches.  Takes  cutter 
bars  up  to  24  inches  in  length. 


A  new  electric  powered  trac- 
tor mounted  spreader  for  ap- 
plying CASORON®  dichlobenil 
weed  and  grass  killer  is  avail- 
able from  Thompson-Hayward 
Chemical  Company,  Kansas 
City,  Kansas.  Developed  in  co- 
operation with  Virginia  Poly- 
technic Institute  the  spreader 
is  desiged  to  spread  CASORON 
granules  for  nursery  or  fruit 
tree  orchards. 

The  electric  powered  spread- 
er, cafled  the  M-1,  can  be 
mounted  on  either  side  of  the 
tractor  for  band  applications  or 
individual  tree  treatment  or  it 
can  be  mounted  on  the  front 
or  back  of  the  vehicle  for 
broadcast  applications.  The 
spreader  operates  off  the  trac- 
tor's electrical  system  and  is 
available  with  either  a  6  or 
12  volt  electric  motor.  For  ap- 
plications where  vehicles  do 
not  have  electrical  svstems,  the 
M-I  spreader  will  operate  off 
its  own  battery  for  more  than 
a   day   without   recharging. 

The  M-1  spreader  features  a 
natented  free-flow  mechanism 
that  is  extremely  accurate  and 
tjives  a  uniform  distribution  of 
the  CASORON  granules.  The 
spreader  has  a  positive  on  off 
control  and  applies  CASORON 
in  a  15  foot  wide  swath.  A  rheo- 
stat on  the  imit  can  reduce  this 
width  if  desirable. 

Additional  information  about 
the  CASORON  granular  M-1 
spreader  is  a\'ailable  from  the 
-Agricultural  Division,  Thomp- 
son-Havwood  Chemical  Com- 
pany, P.O.  Box  2383,  Kansas 
Citv,  Kansas  66110. 


TWENTY-TWO 


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TAKING  A  TIP  from  the  astronaut's  space  program,  officials  at 
Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.  in  Middleboro  devis'ed  a  count- 
down clock  to  keep  all  involved  aware  of  their  groundbreaking 
date  last  July.  It  worked  so  well  that  they  "reset"  it  for  their 
completion  or  ribbon-cutting  day  next  Summer.  The  new  plant, 
designed  by  the  Boston  engineering  firm  of  Gantaeume  &  Mc- 
Mullen,   will   be  fully  automated. 


YEAR  ROUND'  CRANBERRIES 


Continued  from  Page     6 


They  succeeded  in  getting 
a  man  they  felt  had  the  ability 
to  do  the  job  they  w^anted  done. 
They  sent  for  Mr.  Edward  Gels- 
thorpe  who,  at  the  time,  was 
a  vice  president  of  Colgate- 
Palmolive  Company.  Although 
he  knew  little  about  farming  or 
farm  cooperatives,  he  did  know 
a  great  deal  about  sales.  Time 
has  proven  that  they  sent  for 
the  right  man.  Sales  started 
rising  and  have  been  doing  so 
steadily  since  1963. 

The  Massachusetts  coopera- 
tive sees  no  immediate  prob- 
lems in  marketing  although  they 
are  keeping  an  eye  open  at  the 
higher  rate  of  production  in 
\\isconsin  and  other  areas. 
Ocean  Spray  is  busy  developing 
more  new  products  aimed  at 
keeping  the  once  seasonal 
cranberry  on  the  year  round 
market. 


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Producers   of 

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TWENTY-THREE 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from,  Page  18 

The  central  part  of  the  state 
is  becoming  extremely  short  of 
water  and  some  growers  do  not 
have  enough  water  for  the  win- 
ter flooding  and  a  few  have 
raked  early  because  they  were 
so  short  of  water. 

Buds  sem  to  be  well  along 
and  new  plantings  came  along 
well  this  year  because  of  fav- 
orable growing   conditions. 

The  main  problem  Wiscon- 
sin faces  is  the  shortage  of  help 
for  harvest.  Growers  like  the 
Fenton  Harvester  because  of 
the  increased  capacity  of  it  and 
it  can  harvest  about  three  times 
the  acreage  in  a  day  as  some 
of  the  other  harvesters  can  do. 

The  Ocean  Spray  plant  at 
Babcock  is  now  operating  and 
should  be  a  boom  to  the  grow- 
ers in  that  area. 

Weather 

Warm  summer  weather  re- 
turned to  Wisconsin  after  a 
month  of  below  normal  tem- 
peratures. Average  tempera- 
tures for  the  first  week  in  Sept. 
ranged  from  6  to  9  de^ees 
above  normal.  Skies  remained 
mostly  sunny  with  davtime  tem- 
iieratures  soaring  well  into  the 
80's  or  low  90's.  Verv  humid 
conditions  prevented  tempera- 
tures from  dropping  much  be- 
low the  60-degree  mark  on  most 
nights.  Scattered  showers  and 
thunderstorms  occurred  almost 
dailv  somewhere  in  the  state. 
Rainfall,  though,  was  spotty 
with  a  few  stations  reporting  no 
precipitation  while  neighbor- 
ing areas  got  drenched. 

Tt  was  warm  and  humid  with 
scattered  showers  on  the  3rd, 
turning  much  cooler  and  drier 
on  the  4th  and  5th  wnth  a 
slow  warming  trend  since  then. 
Bright,  sunny  weather  prevailed 
during  the  week  with  daytime 
temperatures  warming  to  near 
the  80-degree  mark  at  the  end 
of  the  period.  Nights  remained 
cool  \vith  lows  mostly  in  the 
40's.  Rainfall,  falling  earlv  in 
the  period,  generally  was  light 
except   for   a    few    amounts   of 

TWENTY-FOUR 


near    an    inch    in    southeastern 
and   northeastern   counties. 

Thermometer  readings  ranged 
from  26  to  86  degrees  during 
the  week  of  the  12th.  Sunny 
and  warm  weather  prevailed 
up  to  the  14th  when  a  cold 
Canadian  air  mass  pushed 
southward  across  the  state. 
Scattered  Hght  frost  with  the 
coldest  areas  in  the  south-cen- 
tral part.  Showers  occurred 
ahead  of  the  cold  air  mass  on 
the  13th  and  14th.  Rainfall 
amounts  ranged  from  about  an 
inch  in  the  north  to  a  tenth 
or  less  in  the  south. 

Temperatures  averaged  slight- 
ly below  normal  for  the  week 
of  the  19th.  Days  were  mostly 
sunny  and  mild  with  highs 
in  the  low  70's  while  nights 
were  clear  and  cool  with  lows 
in  the  30's  or  40's.  No  pre- 
cipitation was  reported  except 
for  a  few  sprinkles  mostly 
near  the  Lake  Michigan  shore 
line  as  an  extensive  rain  area 
passed  south  and  east  of  Wis- 
consin. 

Mostly  cloudy  and  cool  on 
the  24th  with  light  rain.  Sunny 
and  cool  on  the  25th.  Scattered 
frost  throughout  the  state  on 
the  morning  of  the  26th  with  a 
low  of  27  degrees  at  Madison. 
Increasing  cloudiness  and  Hght 
rain  late  in  the  day. 


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WISCONSIN 


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Vines 

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$150  Ton  F.O.B. 

Ben  Lears  $750  Ton 
Stevens  $1000  Ton 


INTERESTED 
IN 
PURCHASING 
WISCONSIN 
CRANBERRY 
PROPERTIES 

Vernon  Goldsworlhy 

B.S.    &   M.S. 

University  of  Wisconsin 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Fees    Reasonable 

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Cranberry-Cherry  Preserves 
Cranberry-Pineapple  Preserves 
Cranberry-Raspberry  Preserves 
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Cranberry  Chilli  Sauce 
Cranberry  Orange  Relish 
Cranberry  Vinegar 
Cranberry  Juice 
Cran-Beri 
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profits,  financial  stability  and  opportunity  to  invest  in  the  pro- 
ductivity of  their  properties. 

The  reason?  Ocean  Spray's  leadership  in  the  marketing  of 
Cranberry  products — old  and  new. 

For  instance,  in  just  three  short  years  Ocean  Spray  has  intro- 
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Upper     Right:     View    of    Cranberry     Research 
bogs,    Oswego,    N.   J. 

Lower  Right:   Entrance  to  Blueberry  Research 
area     showing     Research 
Center  garage. 

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CROP  REPORT 
RY  AREAS 


The  United  States  cranberry 
crop  on  October  was  estimated 
at  1,552,800  barrels,  up  8  per- 
cent from  last  year's  crop  and 
19  percent  above  average,  ac- 
cording to  the  Crop;  Reporting 
Board.  Improved  prospects  from 
a  month  earlier  in  Wisconsin, 
Washington,  and  New  Jersey 
were  more  than  offset  by  re- 
duced prospects  in  Massachu- 
setts. New  Jersey's  crop  is  ex- 
pected to  total  147,000  barrels, 
down  4  percent  from  last  year 
but  40  percent  above  average. 
Expected  production  in  Massa- 
chusetts is  765,000  barrels.  4 
percent  above  last  year  and  14 
percent  above  average.  The 
Wisconsin  estimate  of  491,000 
barrels  is  up  11  percent  from 
last  year  and  21  percent  above 
average.  The  crops  in  both 
Washington  and  Oregon  are 
above  last  year  and  average. 


Start  of  harvest  was  delayed 
in  New  Jersey  because  of  poor 
size  and  color  development. 
Activity  was  further  delayed 
by  rainy  weather.  The  late 
September  rains  and  cooler 
weather  improved  coloring  and 
could  improve  size  of  later  har- 
vested berries.  No  loss  from 
fall  frosts  had  occurred  as  of 
the  first  of  October.  Harvest 
of  the  crop  in  Massachusetts 
was  about  half  complete  on  Oc- 
tober 1,  about  usual  for  the 
date.  The  bulk  of  the  crop 
was  harvested  by  October  15. 
Early  harvested  bogs  had  many 
small  sized  berries.  September 
rains  and  cool  nights  helped 
sizing  and  improved  color  in 
late  bogs.  Water  reserves  are 
now  adequate  and  the  danger 
of  freeze  loss  is  minimal.  Wis- 
consin's harvest  began  Septem- 
ber 15-20,  about  the  usual  time, 
but  considerably  earlier  than 
last  year.  Berries  sized  well  in 
most  bogs,  but  have  been  slow 
in  coloring.  Harvest  got  under 
way  on  October  1  in  Washing- 
ton and  was  expected  to  reach 
peak  activity  by  mid-month. 


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Ocean   Spray   Prices 
Very  Encouraging 

Ocean  Spray  prices  on  late 
fruit  continue  to  advance  com- 
fortably as  the  season  moves 
along.  The  quotation  on  Novem- 
ber 1  to  the  trade  was  $5.65 
for  Late  Massachusetts  Howes 
for  24  1  lb.  Poly  Bags  or  Win- 
dow Boxes,  on  all  orders  no 
later  than  Nov.  11  for  shipment 
prior  to  Thanksgiving.  This 
is  about  $22.60  per  barrel.  Wis- 
consin Sciirles  were  quoted  at 
$5.15.  Washington  McFarlins 
were  sold  out  by  that  date. 


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Norway,  Sweden,  and  Holland, 
when  farmers  can't  have  the 
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nation's  most  important  com- 
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Fire  Destroys 
Cranberry  Properties 

A  three  -  story  screenhouse 
owned  by  Decas  Bros.  Cran- 
berry Company  off  Federal 
Furnace  Road  in  South  Carver, 
Mass.  was  totally  destroyed  by 
fire  the  night  of  Oct.  3.  Loss 
was  set  at  $100,000  and  the 
blaze  was  believed  to  be  of 
incendiary  origin  by  Carver 
Fire   Chief   Homer    F.    Weston. 

The  screen  house  at  the  prop- 
erty known  as  the  Benjamin 
Bog  contained  screening  equip- 
ment, other  cranberry  equip- 
ment and  about  5,000  harvest 
boxes  of  Late  Howes  being 
held  for  the  Christmas  trade. 

The  following  night  a  cran- 
berry pump  house  on  the 
Tweedy  and  Barnes  bog,  Paper 
Mill  Road,  West  Wareham  was 
burned.  This  was  thought  to 
be  an  ill-conceived  Hallowe'en 
prank. 


17  Brokers  Named  to 
Handle  Dean  Foods 

A  group  of  seventeen  food 
brokers  has  been  named  to  rep- 
resent various  food  products  of 
Dean  Foods  Company,  Frank- 
lin Park,  Illinois.  The  appoint- 
ments were  announced  by  C.  C. 
(Dan)  Daniel,  National  Sales 
Manager  for  the  Food  Products 
Division. 

Mr.  Daniels  said  the  appoint- 
ments were  part  of  an  overall 
plan  to  consolidate  the  sales 
efforts  of  the  various  product 
lines  represented  under  the 
Dean  label. 

"These  experienced  brokers 
will  enable  us  to  provide  better 
service  to  our  established  and 
new  accounts,  we  are  happy  to 
welcome  them  to  our  expanding 
organization,"  he  said. 

Last  year  Dean  Foods  Com- 
pany reported  sales  of  $87  mil- 
lion. The  company  produces 
and  markets  a  diversified  line 
of  food  products  in  cities  and 
states  across  the  nation.  It 
also  produces  dairy  products 
for  sale  in  tlie  Midwest  and 
Upper  South. 


TWO 


Mass. 

Cranterrv 

Station 

S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Muhammed  Waseem  is  the 
newest  member  of  our  Station 
group  arriving  in  mid-October. 
He  will  work  with  Dr.  Zucker- 
man  on  nematological  prob- 
lems. Mr.  Waseem  was  born 
in  India  but  is  now  a  Canadian 
citizen  and  came  here  from 
British    Columbia. 

Dr.  DevHn  and  the  author  of 
this  column  attended  the  New 
England  Agricultural  Chemicals 
Conference  in  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  on  October  26. 

Dr.  DevHn  has  published  a 
paper  in  Volume  19  of  Physio- 
logia  Plantarum,  the  official 
pubHcation  of  the  Scandinavian 
Society  for  Plant  Physiology. 
The  title  is  "Stimulation  of  Ab- 
scission of  Petioles  of  Phaseolus 
vulgaris  by  Sucrose  and  Gib- 
berellic  Acid."  This  paper  re- 
ports the  effects  on  leaf  drop 
of  the  addition  of  gibberellic 
acid  or  sugar  solutions  to  the 
leaf  stems  of  bean  plants. 

Drs.  Zuckerman,  Miller  and 
Deubert  have  published  an  ar- 
ticle in  Volume  12  of  Nema- 
tologica.  The  title  is  "Phenyla- 
lanine Deaminase  in  plant  Para- 
sitic Nematodes."  This  deals  with 
enzymatic  breakdown  of  cer- 
tain products  by  some  plant 
parasitic   nematodes. 

Dr.  Zuckerman,  Miller,  Dev- 
lin and  Profs.  Tomlinson  and 
Norgren  have  published  a  paper 
in  the  October  issue  of  the 
Journal  of  Economic  Entomol- 
ogy. The  title  is  "Parathion 
Studies  on  Bean  Growth  in 
Sterile  Boot  Culture."  This 
paper  deals  with  accumulation, 
uptake,  concentration  and  mode 
of  transport  in  the  plant  when 
parathion  was  added  to  the 
soil.    Bean  plants  grown  under 


sterile  conditions  were  used  for 
the    tests. 

Harvest  and   Frost 

The  Massachusetts  cranberry 
harvest  was  virtually  completed 
by  the  end  of  October.  This  is 
about  the  same  as  the  past 
two  years,  even  though  we  were 
at  least  a  week  later  in  starting 
this  year. 

The  frost  warning  service  was 
terminated  for  the  season  on 
November  4.  We  sent  out  20 
general  warnings  during  the 
fall,  with  most  occurring  in 
October.  This  includes  both 
afternoon  and  evening  warn- 
ings and  compares  with  26 
sent  out  last  fall.  Frost  losses 
were  practically  nil  this  year 
with  the  only  cold  night  on 
October  2  with  temperatures 
as  low  as  21  degrees,  October 
12  with  temperatures  as  low  as 


17  degrees  and  October  31  with 
temperatures  down  to  9  degrees. 

The  present  author,  as  well 
as  all  preceding  authors  of  tills 
column,  have  expressed  their 
thanks  to  the  frost  warning 
service  and  to  the  people  "who 
make  it  go."  Although  it  may 
becoming  boring  to  some  of 
our  readers,  it  is  a  gesture  of 
our  appreciation  and  small 
compensation  to  these  dedi- 
cated people.  So  once  again 
we  would  like  to  express  our 
thanks  to  George  Bounsville 
and  Kenneth  Bochefort  who 
calculate  and  formulate  the 
warnings  for  their  very  fine 
work  on  this  most  important 
phase  of  the  operation.  We  are 
also  indebted  to  the  U.  S.  Wea- 
ther Bureau,  our  cooperative 
weather  observers,  the  tele- 
phone     distributors,      the      five 

Continued  on  Pas,e  14 


CRANBERRY  GROWERS 

Now  in  Stock  -  50,000  ft.  Redwood  Flume  Lumber 

2x4  2x6  2x8  2x10 

Square  Edge  or  can  be  matched  on  order  -  Also 

4x4  4x6  6x6  6x8  and  3x8  Timbers 

Our  Middleboro  yard  has  been  closed  as  a  retail  yard. 

Our  complete  stock  of  Redwood  is  now  at  our  East 
Freetown  yard.    Complete  milling  facilities  available. 

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THREE 


How  long  before 

the  mailman  brings  your 

cranberry  check? 


Growers  who  sell  to  Dean's  Indian  Trail  get  an  advance  on  their  estimated 
crop  at  the  beginning  of  harvest.  They  get  a  second  payment  when  they 
ship  during  the  season,  and  a  final  payment  at  a  later  date. 

There's  this,  too.  Dean's  Indian  Trail  is  a  well-known,  highly  respected 
company.  We  have  strong  advertising  and  merchandising  programs  designed 
to  sell  cranberrry  products.  And  we  have  a  dedica- 
tion to  making  them  the  best. 

If  you'd  like  to  do  business 
with  a  company  like  this,  write  us 
a  note.  You'll  probably  get  an  ans- 
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FOUR 


It's  November  and  time  for  Thanksgiving. 

The  cranberries  are  in  the  crates. 

Thanksgiving  has  always  been  a  day  of 
special  meaning   for   cranberry   growers. 

Since  the  days  of  the  Pilgrims,  cranberries 
have  been  a  part  of  the  Thanksgiving  din- 
ner. Ever  since  the  early  days  of  coloniza- 
tion, cranberries  have  been  a  part  of  our 
diet.  It  is  hard  to  think  of  the  traditional 
holiday  feast   without   them. 

The  demand  for  cranberries  is  ever  in- 
creasing and  production  has  exceeded  IV2 
million  barrels  this  year.  There  has  been 
no  lack  of  market  for  the  entire  crop.  This 
alone,  for  the  grower,  is  reason  enough  for 
Thanksgiving.  Since  the  earliest  days  of  the 
cranberry  industry,  it  has  grown  steadily. 
It  has  also  spread  from  one  coast  of  our 
wonderul  country  to  the  other.  It  has 
weathered  many  storms — war,  flood,  drought, 
hurricanes,  economic  and  has  always  gone 
forward  to  greater  heights. 

No  one  need  be  reminded  of  the  disastrous 
"scare"  of  1959. 

In  all  this  time,  cranberry  culture  has 
become  a  highly-developed  science.  Ad- 
vances in  insect  and  weed  control,  among 
other  things,  have  been  responsible  for  im- 
proved crops.  New  and  more  progressive 
methods  of  harvesting  have  resulted  in 
greater  economy  and  more  profitable  opera- 
tion.   The  cooperation  between  the  growers 


ISSUE   OF  NOVEMBER,    1966     /     VOL.    31  -NO.   7 


Established     1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at     Wareham,     Mass. 

Publisher 

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Editor 

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Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 
Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle  River,   Wisconsin 

Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.   E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


and  the  people  of  science  has  greatly  im- 
proved and  shows  signs  of  continuing  to 
do   so. 

It  has  not  always  been  an  easy  road  to 
travel,  but  America's  native  food  .  .  cran- 
berries, has  come  a  long  way.  All  seems  to 
indicate  that  the  road  ahead  will  be  brighter, 

This  is  reason  for  Thanksgiving  ! 


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FIVE 


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DOES  THE  WORK  OF  SEVERAL 

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Broadleaf  Weeds 
Controlled: 

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Beggarticks 
Knotweed 
Loosestrife 
Marsh  St.  Johnswort 
Tideland  clover 
Ragweed 
Sorrel 
Wild  Strawberry 
Asters 
Buckbean 
Hawkweed 
Western  Lilaeopsis 
Marsh  Pea 
Plantain 
Smartweed  (Marshpepper, 
Pennsylvania,  Spotted, 
Swamp  and  Water) 


Important  Miscellaneous 
Weeds  Controlled: 

Bracken  Fern 

Royal  Fern 

Sensitive  Fern 

Hair  cap  Moss 

Common  Horsetail 

Water  Horsetail  (pipes) 

Rushes  (Juncus  spp.) 

Dodder 


Grass  Weeds  Controlled: 

Bluejoint  Grass 

Rattlesnake  grass 

(Manna  grass) 

Summer  grass 
Velvetgrass 
Bent  Grass 

Little  Hairgrass 
Crabgrass 

Rice  cutgrass 


Sedges  Controlled: 

Bunch  grass 

Muskrat  grass 

Nutsedge  (Nutgrass) 

Short  Wiregrass 

Wideleaf  grass 

Stargrass 

Woolgrass 

Cotton  grass 

Needlegrass 

Oniongrass 


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SIX 


Cranberries  Visits  New  Jersey's 
Researcli  Center  at  Osweoo 


by  DONALD  CHARTIER 


One  of  the  highlights  of  our 
recent  visit  to  the  New  Jersey 
cranberry  growing  areas  was  a 
visit  to  the  Blueberry-Cranberry 
Research  Center  at  Oswego. 

This  new  facility,  having  been 
dedicated  in  August  of  1965, 
is  dedicated  to  the  improvement 
of  blueberry  and  cranberry  cul- 
ture through  research  and  to 
the  dissemination  of  new  re- 
search information. 

After  a  very  short  but  very 
interesting  visit  with  Mr.  Phil 
Marucci,  head  of  the  Cranberry 
and  Blueberry  Research  Lab  in 
New  Lisbon,  we  began,  tape 
recorder  in  hand,  our  journey 
of  about  ten  miles  to  the  Os- 
wego site  of  the  new  research 
center.  Phil  carefully  saw  to  it 
that  we  didn't  miss  a  thing  on 
our  way  to  Oswego.  He  pointed 
out  the  Haynes  and  DeMarco 
bogs  and  filled  us  in  on  many 
interesting  facts  about  the  vast 


blueberry  fields  we  passed  along 
the  way. 

As  mentioned  earlier,  we  had 
a  portable  tape  recorder  alcng 
with  us,  which  proved  to  be  in- 
valuable since  we  were  often 
on  the  road  between  locations 
and  could  have  been  unable  to 
make  hand  written  notes.  Phil 
and  his  assistant  at  the  New 
Lisbon  Lab,  Harry  Moulter 
kept  us  constantly  on  the  move 
during  our  two-day  visit,  meet- 
ing bog  owners  and  looking 
over  cranberry  and  blueberry 
properties. 

As  we  turned  off  the  main 
road  onto  a  well-paved  side 
road  which  was  to  lead  to  the 
research  center  we  were  im- 
pressed with  the  layout  and 
location  of  the  bogs  adjacent 
to  Lake  Oswego. 

The  bogs  are  located  on  the 
state-owned  Wharton  tract  in 
Burlington    County  which    rep- 


resents the  approximate  geo- 
graphical center  of  the  blue- 
berry-cranberry industries  in  the 
state  of  New  Jersey.  Soils, 
chmate  and  water  reserves  in 
this  area  are  considered  among 
the  best  available  in  the  state 
for  the  production  of  these 
crops. 

The  facility  was  made  pos- 
sible through  a  generous  grant 
from  the  people  of  New  Jersey 
and  is  a  tribute  to  the  leaders 
of  these  industries  in  recog- 
nition of  their  contribution  of 
time,   eft'ort  and  monies. 

The  following  is  a  trans- 
cript of  the  contents  of  the 
tapes  which  we  made  on  our 
visit  to  Oswego. 

There  are  twenty  bogs,  each 
consisiting  of  a  half  acre  with 
a  dike  road  n.mning  around 
them  and  also  dividing  each 
bog.  Each  bog  has  its  own  inlet 
and  water  can  be  regulated  at 


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SEVEN 


any  depth  wanted  for  experi- 
mental purposes.  All  bogs  are 
of  the  same  dimension.  Most 
are  planted  to  Early  Blacks. 
They  have  been  parcelled  out 
to  various  research  people  —  en- 
tomology, horticulture,  weed 
control,  insect  control,  and  so 
forth. 

All  work  done  on  these  bogs 
is  done  on  an  experimental 
basis  where  everything  can  be 
regulated  exactly.  When  look- 
ing at  the  bogs  from  the  dams 
they  don't  look  like  much.  We 
were  told  that  this  is  the  story 
of  the  cranberry  bogs  in  New- 
Jersey.  When  first  planted  they 
look  like  hayfields  but,  after  a 
while,  the  cranberries  start  to 
take  advantage  and  do  quite 
well. 

It  was  very  noticeable  that 
these    were    fairly    well    estab- 


lished bogs  already  although 
they  had  only  had  two  grow- 
ing seasons.  Though  it  usually 
takes  longer  than  that,  there 
were  actually  a  few  berries  in 
these  bogs. 

On  bog  *1  they  have  not  used 
any  controls.  Phil  explained  that 
it  was  felt  that  one  bog  should 
have  no  controls  since  many 
growers  feel  that  chemicals 
should  not  be  used  and  he  and 
his  people  would  not  be  jus- 
tified in  saying  tJiat  it  wouldn't 
work  unless  they  tried  it.  "Pres- 
sure also  comes  from  the  USDA 
who  try  to  get  us  to  reduce 
our  schedules  of  using  chem- 
icals," Phil  said.  "On  one  of 
our  bogs  we  won't  ever  use  an 
insecticide  until  we've  decided 
that  it  won't  work.  We're  going 
to  give  it  an  honest  try.  We're 
trying,    by    experimentation,    to 


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timing,  we  can  use  less  chem- 
icals." 

One  of  the  bogs  showed,  viv- 
idly, what  one  application  of 
Casoron®  did  for  weed  control. 
Looking  down  the  length  of 
this  bog  there  was  a  very  no- 
ticeable lack  of  weeds,  while 
on  the  other  half  it  had  be- 
come completely  overrun  with 
them.  It  was  explained  that  ex- 
treme care  was  used  to  make  a 
fair  evaluation  of  this  chem- 
ical. 

On  a  third  bog,  Phil  explained 
that  he  was  going  to  try  to 
control  insects  by  flooding  at 
the  proper  time.  "Of  course," 
he  went  on  to  say,  "this  is  an 
old  method  of  insect  control 
but,  since  they  are  after  us 
for  non  -  chemical  methods, 
we're  going  to  try  it." 

Phil  Marucci,  along  with 
others  on  the  staff  of  the  Re- 
search Center,  have  shown 
growers  that  it  doesn't  have 
to  take  five  or  six  years  to  get 
a  cranberry  crop.  The  experi- 
mental bog  isn't  just  a  bog  — 
it's  a  good  bog  and  should  be 
able  to  produce  a  hundred  bar- 
rels per  acre  next  year.  It  had 
about  thirty  or  forty  barrels 
per  acre  at  the  time  of  our 
visit  but  the  fruitworm  had 
taken  a  lot  of  it  — about  thirty- 
five  percent  of  the  crop.  Some 
was  also  taken  by  tip  worm. 

Bogs  No.  2,  3,  4,  and  5  h'^.AC 
been  treated  with  Casoron.  Dif- 
ferent sections  of  each  bog  were 
treated.  It  was  easy  to  see  the 
point  at  which  the  spraying  was 
stopped.  Only  one  application 
was  made  and  yet  the  results 
were  certainly  obvious.  Before 
the  application  the  herbicide 
people  warned  that  Cisoron 
should  not  be  put  on  new  bogs. 
They  were  only  one  year  old 
when  sprayed  but,  since  Phil 
and  Harry  were  anxious  to  get 
rid  of  the  weeds  they  did  about 
one-third  of  each  of  three  bogs. 
The  surprising  thing  was  that 
there  was  no  damage  to  the 
^ines  which  is  what  they  were 
afraid  of  because  general 
opinion  was  that  they  would 
be  damaged.  "What  we  hope 
Continued  on  Poa.e  10 


EIGHT 


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MASSACHUSETTS 

Harvest    Very    Late 

With  a  late  start  this  fall 
harvest  lingers  on  longer  than 
usual  in  the  Bay  State.  While 
the  bulk  of  growers  were  fin- 
ished by  the  last  weekend  in 
October,  about  the  28th,  there 
were  still  a  few  harvesting,  per- 
haps a  dozen,  into  November. 

October    Lacking    in    Rain 

In  spite  of  several  heavy  rains 
the  month  was  deficient  in  rain- 
fall, not  a  good  omen  for  win- 
ter flowing.  Total,  as  recorded 
at  the  State  Bog  was  only  2.86 
inches.    Average  is  3.74. 

Slightly    Colder 

The  month  was  also  slightly 
colder  than  normal  by  about 
half  a  degree  a  day. 

Fall    Frosts 

Fall  frosts  totalled  13.  Two 
of  these  were  in  September. 
There  was  only  slight  and  scat- 
tered  damage. 

November    Begins    Warm 

November  began  on  a  warmer 
note,  with  warm  air  pushing 
up  from  the  South.  The  2nd 
and  3rd  brought  a  heavy  driv- 
ing rain,  almost  hurricane  in  in- 
tensity at  times.  The  storm 
dropped  from  3  to  4  inches  of 
precipitation  over  parts  of  the 
cranberry  area,  building  up 
supplies  for  the  coming  winter 
flooding  of  the  bogs.  Total  rain 
for  the  storm  at  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion was  2.66  inches. 

NEW    J  ERSEY 

Drought   Broken 

The  rainy  trend  of  weather 
which  started  in  September 
continued  through  October. 
Rainfall  in  this  month  was 
again  excessive  with  5.80  inches 
occurring,  which  is  2.55  inches 
more  than  normal.  During  the 
past  two  months  there  have 
been  20  rainy  days   and  a  to- 


tal of  15.61  inches  of  rain  has 
fallen.  The  rain  has  hampered 
cranberry  harvesting  but  was 
of  coiu-se  quite  welcome.  The 
drought  is  now  definitely 
broken.  Rainfall  through  Octo- 
ber in  1966  now  amounts  to 
40.18,  only  3  inches  shy  of  the 
annual  total  and  3.51  inches 
above  to  normal  for  the  10 
months'  period  of  January 
through   October. 

In  regard  to  temperature  the 
October  was  colder  than  nor- 
mal. The  average  temperature 
for  the  month  was  53.9,  about 
3  degrees  below  the  norm. 
Frost  calls  to  cranberry  grow- 
ers were  frequent  throughout 
the  month.  However,  the 
abundant  rainfall  has  restored 
reservoirs  to  capacity  and  there 
was  water  to  use  in  frost  flood- 
ing and  consequently  very  little 
frost  damage  was  sustained. 
The  lowest  temperature  re- 
corded on  cranberry  bogs  was 
13  degrees  on  the  30th. 


Crop   Good 

As  of  October  31st  an  esti- 
mated 85%  of  the  crop  has  been 
harvested.  Sever;il  properties 
were  later  in  1:  vesting  than 
they  had  ever  L  en.  The  crop 
is  good  but  cok :  of  the  ber- 
ries has  been  les  ?  than  desir- 
able in  many  caeses. 


WASHINGTON 

Water    Situation    Eased 

The  Washington  cranberry  har- 
vest received  a  much  needed 
boost  with  5.2  inches  of  rain 
October  19-22.  The  Long  Beach 
growers  were  able  to  get  their 
berries  harvested  with  the  peak 
at  the  Ocean  Spray  plant  com- 
ing the  week  of  the  28th.  The 
crop  has  been  very  good,  better 
than  expected  or  estimated,  and 
various  individuals  have  been 
getting  some  fine  crop  averages. 
Low  temperatures  were  ex- 
perienced the  middle  of  the 
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In  mid-September,  the  pub- 
lisher and  editor  of  Cranberries 
spent  a  hectic  but  extremely  in- 
teresting two  days  visiting 
growers  in  New  Jersey. 

While  on  this  abbreviated 
visit  we  were  privileged  to 
have  been  escorted  on  our 
rounds  by  Mr.  Philip  Marucci, 
director  of  the  Blueberry-Cran- 
berry Research  Lab  in  New 
Lisbon,  and  his  assistant,  Mr. 
Harry    Moulter. 

We  know  that  without  their 
help  we  could  not  have  ac- 
comphshed  half  as  much  as 
we  were  able  to.  We  could 
not  have  had  more  thoughtful 
and  courteous  treatment  that 
we  were  extended  by  these 
gentlemen.  We  appreciate  their 
taking  time  from  their  busy 
schedule  to  show  us  around 
and  introduce  us  to  the  area 
growers. 

We  would  also  like  to  express 
our  thanks  to  Messrs  William 
Haines,  Garfield  DeMarco, 
Isaiah  Haines  and  Walter  Z. 
Fort  for  having  been  so  cour 
teous  to  us  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  our  visit  coincided^  with 
hai-vest  time,  the  growers'  busi- 
est time  of  the  year. 

Incidentally  you'll  be  reading 
stories  of  our  visits  to  these 
New  Jersey  growers  and  in- 
dustry people  in  future  issues 
of  Cranberries. 

Once  again,  many  thanks! 

OSWEGO  STORY 

Continued  from   Page  8 

to   try    now,"    Harry    explained, 

"is  a  pre-planting  treatment  of 

llie  bogs.    Treat  the  soil  before 

we    even    plant    the    vines,    to 

see   if   it  will   do   any   damage. 

These  bogs  won't  be  two  years 

old  until  November  (1966)  and 

they  already  have  a  small  crop 

of   beiTies.     On    a    commercial 

bog  you  don't  think  of  starting 

to  pick  for  at  least  four  years." 

"We've  had  such  good  growth 

and    we   think  it's    because    we 


planted  the  vines  thick  and  they 
were  established  very  quickly." 

This  is  a  point  they  are  try- 
ing to  get  across  to  the  growers. 
They  are  trying  to  convince 
them  that  they  should  plant  the 
vines  thick.  He  also  mentioned 
that  they  had  a  little  difficulty 
getting  the  vines  in  the  ground 
since  the  discs  didn't  have 
enough  pressure  to  put  that 
many  plants  into  the  soil  — but 
they  made  it  and  it  paid  off. 

The     four     bogs     mentioned 
above    were    sprayed    for    fruit- 
worm   and  have  had   three  ap- 
plications for  rot  control  and  it 
has  been  very  effective.    It  was 
noted    that    they    could    have 
had    better    set     but     right    at 
blossom    time,    when    the    bees 
were    active,    they    noted    that 
fireworm   was    getting   into   the 
bogs  and  so  a  decision  had  to 
be  made  whether  to  spray  for 
fireworm  and  lose  the  fruit  or 
not  to  spray.  It  was  decided  to 
try   to    eliminate    the    fireworm 
since   development   of  the   bog 
was    the   main   objective.    If  it 
had  been  decided  not  to  spray 
for   fireworm   they  would  have 
had    iDetter    pollination    and    a 
better  fruit  set.    They  received 
control    of    the    fruitworm  but, 
of     course,      lost     considerable 
amount  of  set.    In  this  respect, 
Harry    pointed    out    that    there 
were  no  hives  of  bees  near  the 
bogs    so    they    had    to    depend 
only    on    wild   bees    to    do    the 
pollinating.      There     had    been 
sufficient  number  of  bees  before 
they   had    started   to    spray. 

Both  Phil  and  Harry  went 
on  to  mention  that  there  would 
be  much  more  to  report  when 
the  other  researchers  who  have 
had  bogs  assigned  to  them  be- 
gin compiling  their  data.  We've 
assured  them  that  Cranberries 
v/ould  be  only  too  happy  to  in- 
clude their  findings  in  its  pages. 
We  had  spent  a  very  busy 
few  hours  by  the  time  we  left 
the  Research  Center  and  we 
were  convinced  that  many 
worthwhile  results  \\'Ould  come 
out  of  the  work  of  Phil  Marucci 
and  Harry  Moulter  and  the 
other  research  people  at  Os- 
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REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  9 

month  which  made  it  necessary 
to  sprinkle.  This  hampered  the 
Gray  land  and  North  Beach 
growers  because  they  dry  pick 
and  had  to  wait  for  the  vines 
to   dry. 

Several  growers  used  mala- 
ihion  2-4  weeks  before  harvest 
as  recommended  and  they  had 
a  good  increase  in  color.  The 
overall  color  was  not  satisfac- 
tory due  to  late  set.  The  har- 
vest was  late  due  to  a  water 
shortage. 

Ideal    Fall    Weather 

Fall  in  Washington  has  been 
most  pleasant  with  warm  days 
and  no  wind  with  a  high  for 
the  month  on  the  4th  of  83 
degrees  and  the  3rd  was  76. 
The  31st  was  a  beautiful  70 
degree  day.  The  mean  high 
for  the  month  of  October  was 
60.45  and  the  mean  low  was 
42.39  degrees  with  the  lowest 
of  32  recorded  on  the  17th  and 
a  bog  low  that  day  of  28.  This 
ended  a  week  of  cold  nights 
and  the  need  of  sprinkling. 

The  total  rain  fall  was  7.65 
inches  with  the  greatest  of  2.5 
inches  on  the  21st.  We  had 
thirteen  days  of  some  precipi- 
tation. The  1965  total  for  Oc- 
tober was  7.69  inches  but  the 
overall  total  to  date  this  year 
is  about  5  inches  short  of  last 
year's  total  to  date  ( 196.5  — 
56.9;    1966-51.73). 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 
Continued    from    Page    3 

radio  stations  and  the  Cape 
Cod  Cranberry  Growers  Asso- 
ciation. 

Weather 

The  month  of  October  was 
only  about  Vz  a  degree  a  day 
below  normal  with  a  few 
cold  days  and  most  of  the 
month  about  average.  Precipi- 
tation totalled  2.86  inches  but 
nearly  all  of  it  occurred  in  two 
storms  on  the  1st  and  the  19th 
and  20th  so  that  the  month  was 
basically  dry  and  sunny.  The 
rainfall  was  slightly  more  than 
V2  inch  below  average  for  the 
month.  We  are  now  8V4  inches 
below  average  for  1966  but 
have  now  exceeded  the  entire 
1965  total  by  2  inches. 


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Department  of  Agriculture  and 
USDA  to  enable  the  former's 
marketing  division  to  analyze 
blueberry  consumption  trends 
and  to  explore  the  potentials  of 
producing  and  processing  more 
lowbush  blueberries  in  Pennsyl- 


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—  Fruit-O-Scope 

FOURTEEN 


1965   NEW  JERSEY  CRANBERRY 
CROP  LARGER  THAN  EXPECTED 

Although  the  lack  of  water 
for  protective  uses  resulted  in 
some  frost  damage,  the  1965 
cranberry  crop  turned  out  lar- 
ger than  had  been  expected 
early  in  the  season. 

The  final  estimate  of  New 
Jersey's  1965  crop  was  159,000 
barrels,  the  largest  since  1937 
when  175,000  barrels  were 
produced. 

An  increasing  number  of 
growers  have  converted  to  the 
wet-pick  method  of  harvesting. 
This,  coupled  with  relatively 
frost-free  springs  and  harvest 
periods  the  past  two  years,  has 
contributed  to  much  better 
yields. 


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TWO  MILLION  TRAYS  IN  1965 

The  1965  New  Jersey  blue- 
berry crop  reached  a  total  of 
1,976,000  trays  of  12  pints  (U 
pounds)  and  was  11  percent 
larger  than  the  previous  year's 
yield.  Following  only  moderate 
winter  damage  to  fruit  buds, 
a  better  set  was  obtained  than 
a  year  earlier.  Persistent  dry 
weather  threatened  the  crop 
but  timelv  earlv  season  show- 
ers  and  the  extended  use  or 
irrigation  on  selected  acreage 
benefitted  yields.  Less  acreage 
was  harvested  in  1965  than  the 
previous  year  marking  the  first 
time  harvested  acreage  has  de- 
clined since  1958.  Prices  re- 
ceived for  the  1965  crop  aver- 
aged $2.95  per  tray,  the  same 
as  in  1961.  The  total  value  of 
the  crop  was  $5,829,000,  up  11 
percent  from  1964  and  23 
percent  above  the  1959-63  av- 
erage and  the  highest  in  14 
years. 


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(The  following  items  were 
taken  from  the  November  1941 
issue  of  Cranberries.) 


The  USDA  crop  estimating 
service  now  figures  the  total 
cranberry  crop  of  the  country 
at  725,100  barrels,  as  against 
the  September  first  forecast 
of  678,600  and  last  year's  (1940) 
total  of  580,100  carrels.  The 
biggest  increase  this  year  is  in 
Massachusetts  which  last  year 
had  a  light  crop  of  332,000. 

•        • 

The  New  Jersey  weather 
during  the  harvesting  season 
continued  "frightfully  dry,"  and 
in  fact  the  total  rainfall  dur- 
ing the  whole  growing  season, 
August,  September  and  Octo- 
ber, was  but  4.8  inches.  The 
berries,  therefore,  failed  to 
achieve  the  size  hoped  for. 
There  was  very  little  water 
available  for  picking  up  floaters. 
Fortunately  for  the  New  Jersey 
growers  was  the  fact  that  dur- 
ing the  fall  season  there  were 
no  severe  frosts  since,  with  the 
water  as  lo'w  as  it  was,  a  severe 
frost  would  have  added  further 
to  their  problem. 

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Wisconsin  last  year  had  121,- 
000  barrels  but  this  year  the 
government  estimates  a  falling 
oflF  to  113,000.  This  might  well 
be  expected  as  that  state  has 
been  bearing  good  crops  for 
several  years  and  the  vines  have 


Farm  Credit  Service 

Box  7,  Taunton,  Mass.  02781 
Tel.   617  824-7578 


Production  Credit  Loans 
Land  Bank  Mortgages 

• 

Office  — :?fi  2.   Route   44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager 


earned  the  right  to  a  little 
rest.  The  latest  figure  from 
that  state  now  indicates  a  crop 
of  99,000  barrels,  or  very  close 
to  the  original  estimate  of 
Vernon  Golds  worthy. 


•     • 


Washington  harvested  this 
year  in  the  worst  weather  it 
has  experienced  since  1920  — 
it  rained  a  good  deal  and  vines 
and  berries  were  wet  a  large 
part  of  the  time.  It  is  expected, 
of  course,  that  these  conditions 
did  not  make  for  a  crop  of 
extra  good  keeping  quality. 
Labor  was  scarce  and  few  sol- 
diers   from    Forts    Canby    and 


Columbia  helped  out  and 
earned  a  few  extra  dollars 
for   themselves. 


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Oregon  is  expected  to  have 
a  slightly  smaller  crop  than  last 
year.  The  estimate  is  for  11,- 
100  barrels,  although  its  out- 
look is  improving  over  what  it 
was  when  picking  was  started. 
This  western  state  the  last  two 
years  has  also  shown  a  much 
bigger  crop  than  the  ten  year 
average  which  is  4,640  bar- 
rels. The  west  is  beginning  to 
come  into  real  importance  as  a 
cranberry  growing  area. 


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Kerosene 

So/venf 

Spraying  Equipment 


ESSOTANE 

PROPANE 

GAS 


PROPANE  CARBURETION 
INSTALLED  -  SERVICED 


BULK     and     CYLINDER     GAS     SERVICE 


Kinadj&n^^ 


INC. 


JOSEPH    BALBONI  H  SONS 


Telephones 
585-4341  —         585-2604 


62    MAIN    STREET 

KINGSTON,    MASS. 


FIFTEEN 


"SOMETHING  FOR  LESS  THAN  FIFTY  DOLLARS?. . .HOW  ABOUT 
TWO  WEEKS  AT  A  CRANBERRY  BOG?" 


SIXTEEN 


Hugh  L.  Williams 
New  President  of 
Sprinkler  Association 

A  Portland,  Oregon  executive 
was  elected  president  of  the 
national  Springier  Irrigation  As- 
sociation,   an    organization    de- 


voted to  the  development  of 
improved  methods  and  the  at- 
tendant conservation  of  water 
and  soil.  Hugh  L.  Williams, 
Irrigation  Division  sales  man- 
ager for  R.  M.  Wade  &  Co., 
Portland,  Oregon  manufacturer 
and  distributor  of  irrigation 
equipment,  was  elected  to  head 
S.I.A.  at  the  annual  national 
conference  in  Corpus  Christi, 
Texas,  on  October  23,  24,  and 
25.  He  succeeds  John  McCavitt 
of  Rainy  Sprinkler  Sales,  Peoria, 
111.,  who  now  becomes  a  mem- 
ber of  the  new  board  of  direc- 
tors. Discussions  of  the  meeting 
centered  on  the  theme,  "Water 
Conservation  through  Sprinkler 
Irrigation." 

Others  elected  as  officers  and 
directors  include:  John  J.  Old- 
field,  Oldfield  Equipment  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  M.  L.  Raw- 
son,  E.  C.  Olsen  Company,  Inc., 
Ogden,  Utah,  James  Rauman, 
W.  R.  Ames  Co.,  Milpitas,  Cal, 
S.  W.  Heinzman,  Heinzman 
Equipment  Co.,  Hastings,  Neb., 
Paul  Hohnstein,  Hastings  Irriga- 
tion Supply  Co.,  Hasting,  Neb., 
H.    Gordon   Johnson,    Irrigation 


&  Power  Equipment,  Inc., 
Greeley,  Colo.,  A.  W.  LaFetra, 
Rain-Rird  Sprinkler  Mfg.  Corp., 
Glendora,  Calif.,  Austin  Miller, 
Sprinkler  Irrigation  Supply  Co., 
Royal  Oak,  Mich.,  Donald  L. 
Sanders,  Gorman-Rupp  Pump 
Co.,  Mansfield,  Ohio,  J.  R. 
Skidgel,  Moist  O'Matic,  Inc., 
Riverside,  Calif. 

Williams  has  been  with  R. 
M.  Wade  &  Co.  for  the  past  10 
years. 

Commenting  on  the  future 
of  agriculture  and  the  world 
wide  shortage  of  water,  Wil- 
hams  stated:  "100  years  ago, 
each  farmer's  production  took 
care  of  4  people;  10  years  ago, 
17  people;  and  today,  33  peo- 
ple —  five  of  which  are  in  for- 
eign lands  .  .  .  I'm  confident 
that  the  necessary  technology 
will  develop  in  agriculture  to 
balance  soil  and  water  manage- 
micnt  to  meet  the  needs  of 
tomorrow.  Retter  utilization  of 
our  present  water  resources  is 
possible;  in  fact,  we  can  save 
up  to  50%  of  the  water  used 
in  agriculture  through  the  use 
of  sprinkler  irrigation." 


PILGRIM  SAND  &  GRAVEL 

Producers   of 

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For  Sand  and  Service  that  Satisfy  .  .  .  Call  Pilgrim 

BOG   SAND   A  SPECIALTY 


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serving  South  Shore  and  Cape  Cod. 


Telephones 
585-3355  -  585-3366     -  585-3377 


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SEVENTEEN 


THANKSGIVING  COBBLER 

1  Vi   cups   cranberries 

6  cups   sliced,  pared  apples 

1  teaspoon   grated   orange   peel 

2  tablespoons  orange  juice 
1^/4  cups  sugar 

2V2  tablespoons   quick-cooking 

tapioca 
y^  teaspoon  salt 
2   tablespoons   margarine   or 
butter 

Topping: 

1  cup  flour 
V2  cup  sugar 

IV2  teaspoons  baking  powder 

¥2  cup  milk 

1/4  cup  shortening 

2  tablespoons  sugar 
1/4  teaspoon  nutmeg 

Combine  washed  and  drained 
cranberries,  apples,  orange  peel 
and  orange  juice  in  large 
bowl.  In  small  bowl  mix  sugar, 
tapioca  and  salt,  then  pour 
over  fruit,  mix  lightly  and  let 
stand  15  minutes.  Turn  into 
oblong    dish,    dot  with    butter. 

Mix  topping,  except  for  last 
two  ingredients,  drop  by  spoon- 
fuls over  fruit,  spread  batter 
to  cover  fruit.  Sprinkle  with 
sugar-nutmeg  mixture.  Bake  at 
350  for  30  minutes.  Serve 
warm  or  cool,  top  with  ice 
cream  or  whipped  cream. 

EIGHTEEN 


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A  society  ior  Absent  Minded 
Professors  was  actually  organ- 
ized in  1942  —  they  forgot  to 
meet  in  1944.    And  disbanded. 


A  Hobby  is  a  lot  of  hard 
work  you  wouldn't  do  for  a 
living. 


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for 

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When  it  came  to  the  naming 
of  the  new  mine,  the  prospec- 
tor's wife  said:  "Will  you  name 
it  after  me  dear?" 

"Yes  darling,  I  will,"  said  the 
prospector.  "Yes,  I'll  name  it  in 
your    honor." 

And  from  that  day  to  this, 
one  of  the  richest  gold  mines 
in  the  Black  Hills  of  South  Da- 
kota has  been  known  as  the 
Holy  Terror. 


For  that   leftover  turkey    .    .    . 

BAKED  TURKEY  HASH 

2  cups  chopped   cooked  turkey 
1  medium  onion,   chopped 

1  raw   potato,    chopped 

2  pimientos,  diced 
2  carrots,  shredded 
1/2  teaspoon  salt 

2  tablespoons   chopped  parsley 
1/2  teaspoon  poultry  seasoning 
1  can    turkey    gravy    and    one 

cup  leftover  turkey  gravy, 

heated 

Combine  all  ingredients  and 
mix  well.  Put  in  IV2  quart  cas- 
serole. Cover  and  bake  in  mod- 
erate oven  (.350)  for  45  min- 
utes. Uncover  and  bake  about 
15  minutes  longer.  Serve  with 
additional   gravy.    Serves  4. 

A  TIMELY  TIP  .  .  . 

To  store  uncooked  turkey, 
remove  store  wrappings  from 
turkey,  put  bird  on  plate  or  tray 
and  cover  loosely  wdth  waxed 
paper.  Store  in  coldest  non- 
freezing  part  of  refrigerator 
for  from  1  to  3  days.  Or  wrap 
turkey  in  moisture-proof  paper 
and  freeze.  Giblets  and  Hvers 
from  each  bird  can  be  frozen 
until  enough  accumulates  for  a 
meal.  Cook  promptly  after 
thawing.    Do  not   refreeze. 


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Dr.  Devlin 
^Has  Book  Published 

Professor  Robert  M.  Devlin 
'of  the  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  has  pub- 
lished a  brilHant  new  text  en- 
titled Plmit  Physiology  which 
brings  into  focus  many  of  the 
most  important  recent  findings 
in  the  field  of  plant  physiology. 
These  findings  have  been  simply 
and  clearly  stated  and  the  ar- 
guments for  and  against  them 
analyzed  with  thorougliness  and 
precision.  The  book  is  divided 
into  eight  areas  of  plant  physi- 
ology, each  area  being  covered 
completely  as  a  single  unit. 
The  sequence  chosen  for  the 
topic  takes  into  account  what 
a  student  needs  to  know  to 
grasp  a  specific  point. 

Highly  significant  research  has 
been  done  on  the  synthesis  of 


starch  and  cellulose,  phloem 
translocation,  photosynthesis, 
mineral  nutrition,  plant  hor- 
mones, photoperiodism,  vernali- 
zation and  dormancy.  The  new 
discoveries  in  all  of  these  areas 
are  fully  discussed.  The  Cal- 
vin cycle,  the  path  of  the 
electron  in  photosynthesis,  the 
recent  work  on  gibberellins  and 
kinetin,  current  thinking  on  the 
macro-  and  micromolecular 
structure  of  the  chloroplast  and 
how  the  chloroplast  functions 
in  the  synthesis  of  ATP  and 
reduced  TPN  are  covered 
thoroughly,  as  is  a  relatively 
new  concept  in  phloem  trans- 
location —  bidirectional  move- 
ment in  the  same  phloem  duct. 

Also  covered  in  detail  are 
findings  —  many  of  them  made 
with  the  use  of  radioactive 
tracing  techniques  —  on  the  ab- 
sorption and  translocation  of 
mineral  salts.  Of  particular  in- 
terest to  students  of  plant 
growth  and  development  are 
discussions  on  the  involvement 
of    gibberellin    and    kinetin    in 


flowering,  vernalization  and  dor- 
mancy, and  the  function  of  the 
photoclirome  pigment  in  photo- 
pericdism  and  dormancy.  Fin- 
ally, protein  synthesis  and  de- 
gradation, an  area  of  almost 
universal  interest,  has  been 
given    careful    attention. 

For  the  student  there  are 
numerous  references  at  the  ends 
of  the  chapters,  suggesting 
sources  of  additional  informa- 
tion. Most  of  the  listed  refer- 
ences are  from  original  papers, 
and  should  help  him  become 
acquainted  with  the  literature 
in  the  field  and  bring  him  into 
contact  with  those  who  con- 
tribute most  to  plant  physiology. 

The  author  has  organized 
the  text  in  such  a  maimer  that 
it  can  be  used  sucessfully  in 
either  the  one-semester  or  the 
two-semester  course.  His  book 
has  been  planed  to  serve  as  a 
basic  text  for  courses  in  plant 
physiology,  and  also  for  selec- 
ted advanced  courses  at  the 
undergraduate  and  graduate 
levels. 


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NINETEEN 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  14 

WISCONSIN 


Harvest    Report 

As  of  November  1st,  the  Wis- 
consin cranberry  harvest  is 
pretty  much  completed.  A  small 
amount  of  berries  are  left  un- 
harvested  by  various  growers 
in  the  state  because  of  the 
shortage  of  help.  These  were 
primarily  left  in  the  cleaning 
up  and  in  the  ditch  edges. 
There  is  some  acreage  of  good 
berries  that  was  not  harvested 
because  of  the  shortage  of  help. 
Weather  was  good  for  harvest 
in  October  until  the  end  of 
the  month  when  it  turned  quite 
cold.  The  beds  were  Hooded 
to  protect  them  from  freezing 
and  growers  had  to  wait  until 
about  noon  for  the  ice  to  melt 
to  allow  the  picker  to  operate. 

New   Acreage 

Considerable  new  acreage  will 
be  going  in  next  spring  — 
probably  about  300  acres.  The 
availability  of  vines  and  the 
shortage  of  help  to  do  the 
actual  planting  and  final  level- 
ing of  beds  may  be  quite  an 
important  factor  in  how  much 
is  planted  next  year.  The  Wis- 
consin crop  may  not  be  as 
good  as  many  of  the  growers 
anticipated  as  the  production 
per  acre  fell  off  10  to  15%  of 
the   anticipated    production. 

Sales  of  cranberries  and  cran- 
bery  products  seem  to  be  ex- 
cellent and  the  final  disposition 
of  tlie  1966  crop  should  be  no 
problem  and  there  should  be 
very  little  carry-over  before  the 
1967  crop  is  ready  for  harves- 
ting. 

First   Good  Rain   in    Six   Weeks 

Fine  Indian  Summer  weather 
prevailed  through  the  early  part 
of  October.  After  the  8th  it 
turned  cooler  and  windy.  Clouds 
and  rain  with  milder  tempera- 
tures moved  into  the  southern 
portion  on  the  12th  and  across 
the  entire  state  by  the  14th. 
The  first  good  soaking  rains  in 


about  six  weeks  fell  in  many 
areas  from  the  12  through  the 
evening  of  the  14th.  Amounts 
of  nearly  3  inches  were  re- 
corded in  the  west  ranging 
down  to  one  inch  or  less  in  the 
east. 

Windy  and  cold  with  snow 
was  the  order  during  the  week- 
end of  the  14th- 16th.  The  17th 
turned   sunny   and  pleasant. 

Outlook  to  Mid-November  — 
temperatures  above  normal  with 
precipitation  near  normal. 

Resume   of   the   Season's   Weather 

The  Growing  season  began 
with  ample  soil  moisture,  both 
surface  and  deep;  first  time  in 
several  years  and  largely  due 
to  heavy  autumn  rains  of  1965. 
Weather  stayed  cool  to  mid- 
June;  not  much  rain  except  for 
a  week  or  so  in  early  June. 
After  mid-June  high  tempera- 
tures in  the  80's  and  90's  char- 
acterized the  next  four  weeks 
with  only  spotty  shower  ac- 
tivity. Tornadoes  and  funnels 
were  reported  throughout  the 
state  on  July  10.  Relatively 
cool  weather  prevailed  after 
mid- July,  2  to  4  degrees  below 
normal  in  August.  Except  in 
the  north  rain  was  scanty  but 
timely  through  August;  Sep- 
tember was  exceptionally  dry, 
many  central  and  southern  are.^s 
getting  less  than  an  inch  in- 
stead   of    the    normal    3    or    4. 

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A  lot  of  people  wouldn^t  know 
what  these  were  if  we  didn^t  put 
an  Ocean  Spray  label  on  them. 


You  know  how  most  people  buy  cranberries  these  days? 

In  cans  and  bottles  aijd  jars.  Jellied  and  frozen  and  squeezed. 

So  hpw^do  they  k  >ow  what  to  buy?  They  look  for  the 
Oban  Ep^  labeiy 

To  millions  of  peo  3le,  Ocean  Spray  means  cranberries. 
4re  buying  mc  re  cranberry  products  than  ever.  Many 


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if  theyfebw-ond. 


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— But  the>  kiiu  v\  the  name.  And  they  know  what  it  stands 

for. 

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632  Main  St.      Acushnet,  Mass. 
WYman  5-0422 


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Irrigation  Systems 
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Dean  Foods  Company 
To  Appeal  F.T.C.  Ruling 

Dean  Foods  Company  will 
appeal  the  Federal  Trade  Com- 
mission ruling  diat  Dean  must 
divest  itself  of  the  operating 
assets  cf  the  Bowman  Dairy 
Company.  The  appeal  will  be 
filed  in  the  U.  S.  Seventh  Cir- 
cuit Court  of  Appeals. 

In  commenting  on  the  dives- 
ture  order,  Sam  E.  Dean  chair- 
man of  the  boar:!  of  Dean 
Foods  Company,   stated: 

"We  just  don't  understand 
what  the  FTC  is  trving  to  do. 
For  many  years  the  Dean  Foods 
Company  has  devotsd  its  ef- 
forts to  pro:!ucing  the  highest 
quality  dairy  producLS  at.  the 
lowest  possible  prices.  To  this 
end.  Dean  has  been  a  leader  in 
developing  new  products,  in 
advancing  production  techniques 
and  in  operating  the  most  ef- 
ficient dairy  plants. 

"Per  capita  milk  consumption 
has  declined  in  the  United 
States.  In  order  to  provide 
American  consumers  with  ade- 
quate nutritional  dairy  products 


extensive  research,  development 
and  quality  control  programs 
of  the  type  which  Dean  has 
pioneered  are  required.  Our 
acquisition  of  Bowman  was  an 
effort  to  maintain  the  volume 
necessary  to  sustain  our  stand- 
ards of  quality  control,  re- 
search and  development. 

"Every  industry  witness  who 
appeared  at  the  FTC's  hearings, 
including  representatives  of 
dairy  processors,  dairy  farmers 
and  retail  grocers,  testified  that 
our  acquisition  of  Bowman  is 
in  no  way  harmful  to  compe- 
tition. In  fact,  the  FTC's  own 
hearing  examiner,  after  evalu- 
ating all  of  the  evidence,  ruled 
that  the  Dean/Bowman  merger 
not  only  would  have  no  ad- 
verse efi^ect  on  dairy  compe- 
tition in  the  Chicago  area,  but 
would  actually  strengthen  it. 

"We  are  confident  that  the 
United  States  Court  of  Appeals, 
upon  a  review  of  these  facts, 
will  uphold  our  position  and 
reverse  the  FTC's  order." 


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THE  FARM  POPULATION 

In  1963-1964,  as  in  most  years 
since  World  War  II,  several 
hundred  thousand  farm  people 
either  stopped  farming  their 
land  or  moved  off  their  farms. 
The  farm  population  dropped 
from  13,367  000  in  1963  to  12,- 
9.54,000   in    1964. 

The  population  on  farms  in 
1964  was  6.8  per  cent  of  the 
national  population.  In  1960 
there  were  15,635,000  people 
on  farms,  8.7  per  cent  of  the 
total   population. 

While  the  U.S.  population  in- 
creased by  more  than  6  per 
cent  between  1960  and  1964, 
farm  population  declined  by  17 
per  cent.  All  age  groups  in  the 
farm  population  were  involved 
in  the  exodus. 

Some  9.9  per  cent  of  farm 
residents  were  at  least  65  years 
old  in  1964,  up  from  8.4  per 
cent  in  1960.  The  national 
percentage  in  196  i  was  9.6  per 
cent. 

Not  so  very  many  years  ago, 
the  farm  percentage  was  always 
lower  than  that  for  the  total 
population  because  older  farm 
people  often  moved  to  town 
when  they  retired.  They  hav- 
en't stopped  doing  this,  but 
young  adults  are  moving  to 
town  so  much  faster  that  the 
proportion  of  older  people  in 
the  remaining  farm  population 
has  risen. 

—  N.   E.  Homestead 


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Dept.  CR-l 

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1001  Dempsey  Rd.,  Milpitas,  Calif. 


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Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORAIMVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 


Drs.  Bert  Zuckerman  and 
Kal  Deubert  attended  the  Amer- 
ican   Phytopathological    Society 


Wareham  of  4.60  inches.  The 
month  started  off  as  tliough  we 
were  going  to  make  up  the 
rainfall  deficiency  for  the  year. 
We  recorded  sHghtly  more  than 


Cash   Receipts 


Meeting    at    the    Pennsylvania      4  inches  the  first   10   days   and 


then  only  Vz  inch  for  the  rest 
of  the  month.  We  are  now 
running  about  6V^"  ahead  of 
last  year  but  about  8^A  inches 
below   average   for  the  year. 


The  following  is  taken  from 
data  supplied  by  Prof.  Lau- 
rence D.  Rhoades  of  the  Dept. 
of  Agricultural  and  Food  Econ- 
omics, University  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Total  cash  receipts  from 
farm  marketings  in  Massachu- 
setts for  1965  was  nearly  167 
million  dollars.  Included  in  this 
figure  is  more  dian  IOV2  mil- 
lion dollars  from  cranberries 
or  6  percent  of  the  total.  This 
puts  cranberries  ahead  of  such 
crops  as  apples,  tobacco  and 
potatoes  in  total  cash  receipts 
to  farmers.  In  fact,  cranberries 
account  for  56  percent  of  the 
cash  receipts  for  all  fruit  crops 
in   Massachusetts  for   1965. 

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State    University   from   Novem- 
ber 2nd  to  4th. 

Weather 

The  month  of  November  was 
definitely  on  the  warm  side, 
ending  up  2  degrees  a  day 
above  normal.  There  were  no 
prolonged  cold  spells  and  the 
lowest  temperature  for  the 
month  was  only  19  degrees. 
There  was  no  snow  recorded 
for  the  month,   but  this   is   not 


Fruit    Productions 


The  November  estimate  of 
the  United  States  cranberry 
production  for  1966  indicates  a 
record  crop  of  over  IVa  million 
unusual  as  the  30  year  average  barrels,  which  is  9  percent 
is  only  V2  inch.  Rainfall  to-  above  last  year,  sour  cherry 
tailed  4.63  inches  which  is  crop  50  percent  below  and 
about  as  close  as  you  can  come  citrus  production  14  percent 
to  the  30  year  average  at  East     above  last  year. 


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More  than  20  years  experience  in  design  and  layout  of  AMES 
SPRINKLER  SYSTEMS.  We  are  available  to  plan  your  sprinkler  system 
for  both  frost  control  and  irrigation.  We  guarantee  the  correct  pressure 
so  necessary  for  the  best  sprinkler  operation.  Our  quotations  are  for 
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for  a  showing. 

CHARLES  W.  HARRIS  CO.,  INC. 

451   OLD   SOMERSET    AVENUE 
NORTH  DIGHTON,  MASS.  02764 

Telephone  824-5607 


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Come  on 

up  the 

ladder 

with  us 


Things  look  pretty  good  for  the  climb. 
We've  got  products  that  are  tops.  A  fine 
name  in  Dean's  Indian  Trail.  A  lot  of 
ambition.  And  a  willingness  to  try  new 
ideas. 
^         To  a  grower  this  is  important.  With 
Dean's  Indian  Trail  you  get  an  ad- 
vance on  your  estimated  crop  at  the 
beginning  of  harvest.  You  get  a 
second  payment  when  you  ship 
during  the  season,  and  a  final  pay- 
ment at  a  later  date. 

And  there's  this  most  impor- 
tant factor  in  our  program  for 
growers.  It  links  you  with  a 
well-known,  highly  respected 
company  with  strong  adver- 
tising and  merchandising 
programs  that  sell  cranberry 
products.  And  more  each 
year. 

Dean's  Indian  Trail . . . 
the  big  new  name  in  the 
cranberry  business. 


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ISSUE  OF   DECEMBER,    1966     /     VOL.  31  -NO.  8 


When  December  comes  you  can  never  tell 
what  weather  it  will  bring  with  it.  The 
greens  of  the  pine  may  be  covered  with  a 
mantle  of  white  —  the  summer  furniture 
which  you  just  forgot  to  bring  in  may  be 
heaped  with  it.  It  may  be  that  Decem.ber 
will  be  breathing  its  icy  breath  while  de- 
ciding whether  or  not  we  will  have  a  white 
Christmas.  Whatever  December  holds  for  us 
we  bid  her  welcome  ! 

With  December  comes  a  warm  feeling — a 
feeling,  unfortunately,  that  too  many  of  us 
have  only  at  this  time  of  year.  There  is  a 
new  glow  to  the  candle,  a  new  feeling 
toward  people,  we  don't  even  seem  to  mind 
being  pushed  and  shoved  while  doing  our 
Christmas  shopping.  There  is  an  added 
sparkle  to  the  tree. 

This  is  a  time  for  pausing  to  reflect  on 
the  true  meaning  of  this  wonderful  day.  A 
time  of  thanksgiving  for  what  we  have  and 
of  thought  of  those  who  do  not  have.  It  is 
a  time  for  reunion,  when  those  of  v/hom 
you  have  thought  many  times  since  last 
Christmas  get  together  again  and  share  the 
joys  of  the  season. 

What  human  being  does  not  derive  as 
much  enjoyment  out  of  Christmas  morning 
as  does  the  child  seeing  the  gifts  piled  high 
under  the  fragrant  tree.  Why  can't  it  always 
be  like  this?  Why  must  it  be  only  for  a  few 
days  or  weeks  during  the  year? 

Some  people  might  think  it  strange  but 
I  know  of  a  highly  successful  gentlemen 
who  does  his  best  to  remember  Christmas 
all  year  round  and  to  practice  the  spirit  of 
the  day  by  keeping,  in  his  bedroom,  all  year 
long,  a  nativity  scene.  This  man  is  no  re- 
ligious fanatic.  lie  simply  feels  as  most  of 
us  do,  that  the  spirit  of  Christmas  should  be 
the  spirit  of  every  day  of  the  year. 

Christmas  is  not  a  tree,  an  ornament,  a 
carol.  It  is  a  feeling,  a  lifting  up  of  our 
thoughts.  It  is  a  feeling  of  happiness  —  even 
though  there  may  be  many  things  that 
trouble  you. 


Established    1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Wareham,    Mass. 

Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

617—585-2310 

Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

30   Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass.   02401 

617—588-4595 

Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle  River,   Wisconsin 

Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.   E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


At  the  risk  of  sounding  like  a  preacher, 
let  me  suggest  that  you  light  a  candle  every 
day  of  your  life.  Not  a  real  candle  on  a 
tree  but  a  candle  in  the  heart  of  someone 
you  know  who  could  use  a  little  encourage- 
ment—  a  word  of  cheer. 

May  this  be  the  very  best  Christmas  you 
have  ever  had.  May  it  last  for  three  hun- 
dred and  sixty-five  days  each  year! 


Cranberries   is   published   monthly   by   Comor   Publishers,  P.O.  Box  70,  Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Pljonouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.    Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year. 


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ONE  CRANBERRY  HERBICIDE 
DOES  THE  WORK  OF  SEVERAL 


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CASORON    G-4 


CONTROLS    ALL     THESE    WEEDS 


Broadleaf  Weeds 

Important  Miscellaneous 

Controlled: 

Weeds  Controlled: 

Arrowleaved  Tear  Thumb 

Bracken  Fern 

Beggarticks 

Royal  Fern 

Knotweed 

Sensitive  Fern 

Loosestrife 

Hair  cap  Moss 

Marsh  St.  Johnswort 

Common  Horsetail 

Tideland  clover 

Water  Horsetail  (pipes) 

Ragweed 

Rushes  (Juncus  spp.) 

Sorrel 

Dodder 

Wild  Strawberry 

Asters 

Buckbean 

Hawkweed 

*C 

Western  Lilaeopsis 

Marsh  Pea 

Plantain 

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Smartweed  (Marshpepper, 

Pennsylvania,  Spotted, 

Se 

Swamp  and  Water) 

Grass  Weeds  Controlled: 

Bluejoint  Grass 

Rattlesnake  grass 

(Manna  grass) 

Summer  grass 

Velvetgrass 

Bent  Grass 

Little  Hairgrass 

Crabgrass 
Rice  cutgrass 


Sedges  Controlled: 

Bunch  grass 

Muskrat  grass 

Nutsedge  (Nutgrass) 

Short  Wiregrass 

Wideleaf  grass 

Stargrass 

Woolgrass 

Cotton  grass 

Needlegrass 

Oniongrass 


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A  STUDY  IN  CHANGE: 
WHITESBOG.  NEW  JERSEY 


by  DONALD   CHARTIER 


In  Februaiy  of  1939,  Clarence 
].  Hall,  tlien  Editor  and  Pub- 
lisher of  Cranberries,  wrote  i  n 
article  which  he  titled  "Wliites- 
bog,  New  Jersey"  and  in  which 
he  went  on  to  highlight  many 
of  its  unique  characteristics. 

In  this  issue  we  would  like 
to  take  a  rather  different  ap- 
proach to  telling  the  story  —  we 
will  make  a  comparison  —  to 
show  you  the  then  and  now 
of  a  typical,  though  rather  large 
cranberry  -  blueberry  operation. 
As  has  just  been  menticned, 
Whitesbog  is  a  large  operation 
and,  in  this  sense,  cannot  be 
considered  typical  of  what  is 
happening  throughout  the  State 
of  New  Jersey.  On  a  smaller 
scale  what  you  will  learn  that 
what  has  happened  at  Whites- 
bog  is  being  repeated  many 
times  by  smaller  growers  in  the 
Garden  State,  and  the  current 
trend  seems  to  indicate  that  it 
will  continue  to  do  so  fcr  some 
time  to   come. 

In  "Whitesbog,  New  Jersey," 
Mr.  Hall  described  it  as  "about 
2000  acres,  of  which  about  500 
acres  are  planted  to  cranber- 
ries and  about  80  acres  to  blue- 
berries. This  would  make  it 
the  largest  bog  within  a  single 
area  in  the  world."  Since  he 
was  speaking  of  a  property 
within  a  single  district,  it  seems 
that  tliis  statement  would  still 
be  true.  "Whitebog  is  the  only 
cranberry  and  blueberry  plan- 
tation which  has  its  own  U.S. 
Post  Office.  Mail  is  addressed 
to  no  town  in  New  Jersey, 
merely  to  Whitesbog."  This  is 
no  longer  true.  The  Post  Office 
has  been  closed  for  some  years, 
as  has  the  general  store  which 
had  for  years  served  the  "50 
year  round  workers  and  nearly 
600  employed  at  harvest  time." 


"Whitesbog  has  always  been 
nctsd  for  its  active  interest  in 
experimentation,  both  in  cran- 
berries and  blueberries."  This 
program  is  continuing  and 
much  progress  is  being  made, 
particularly  in  blueberry  re- 
search and  development.  It  was 
at  Whitesbog,  incidentally,  that 
tae  Darlington  picker  was  de- 
veloped. Tom  Darhngton,  its 
inventor,  is  one  of  the  owners 
cf  Whitesbog. 

'Isaiah  Haines  is  Whitesbog's 
active  resident  foreman,"  wrote 
N^r.  Hall.  It  was  a  pleasure, 
en  OLU-  recent  trip  to  New  Jer- 
sey and  Whitesbog,  to  have 
met  and  talked  with  Mr. 
Haines.  He  graciously  took  time 
off  from  his  very  busy  schedule 
to  show  us  around  and  explain 
the  transition  which  has  had 
to  take  place  in  the  State  of 
New  Jersey  in  recent  years. 
Why  do  we  say  had  to  take 
place?  Because  many  of  the 
New  Jersey  growers  have  been 
forced  to  give  up  much  of  their 
acreage  to  the  State  for  pro- 
grams such  as  the  "Green 
Acres"  conservation  and  beau- 
tification  program.  Such  "im- 
provements" have  cost  the  New 
Jersey  growers  a  great  deal 
of  apprehension  and  has  even 
forced  some  of  them  completely 
cut  cf  business. 

Whitesbog,  for  example,  has 
had  to  sell  its  acreage  to  the 
State.  It  has,  however,  been 
able  to  lease  it  back  from  the 
State  for  a  five-year  period  after 
which  it  will  revert  back  to  the 
State  and  quite  probably  be- 
come a  hunting  and  fishing 
area. 

There  are  now  three  or  four 
hundred  acres  where,  in  1939, 
there   were  500  or  more. 


Mr.  Hall  spoke  of  having 
been  "impressed"  by  the  vast- 
ness  and  attractiveness  of 
Whitesbog.  Twenty-seven  years 
later  a  visitor  would  be  greatly 
disillusioned  at  the  disrepair 
cf  the  bogs.  Mr.  Haines  stated 
that  all  that  was  being  done 
now  was  "just  getting  the  crop." 

Again  quoting  Mr.  Hall's  ar- 
ticle, "Here,  too,  is  what  is 
known  at  Whitesbog  as  the 
'Cranberry  House.'  That  is,  it 
is  the  storehouse,  screenhouse 
and  shipping  department.  It 
stretches  for  no  less  than  600 
feet  and  is  about  forty  feet 
wide  and  has  two  stories  in 
actual  use."  This  screenhouse 
was  partially  destroyed  by  fire 
some  years  ago  and,  due  to  the 
foresight  of  the  individual  who 
designed  it,  two  sections  still 
remain,  the  center  third  was 
lost  in  the  fire  but  the  firewalls 
which  were  built  to  divide  the 
building  into  tliirds  contained 
the  fire  and  saved  both  ends 
of  this  huge  building  from  de- 
struction. 

We  could  go  on  with  com- 
parisons —  the  then  and  now  of 
Whitesbog  —  but  instead,  let's 
take  the  remaining  space  to 
tell  you  about  what  decisions 
have  been  made  there. 

As  Mr.  Haines  explained, 
there  was  a  great  deal  of  con- 
cern as  to  what  was  going  to 
happen  to  Whitesbog.  As  men- 
tioned before,  the  State  had 
acquired  it  as  part  of  the  "Green 
Acres"  program.  At  first  there 
had  been  no  indication  that 
anything  could  be  done  to  save 
the  area  for  cranberry  produc- 
ticn.  Appeals  were  made  to 
the  State  to  reconsider  their 
decision.    Finally  it  was  decided 

Continued  on  Page  17 


SEVEN 


Personal 

Clarence  J.  Hall,  former  ed- 
itor and  publisher  of  Cran- 
berries, recently  underwent  his 
second  operation  in  as  many 
months  at  Tobey  Hospital, 
Wareham.  "J^^^"  ^^^  returned 
to  his  home  and  is  recupera- 
ting satisfactorily.  We  expect 
him  to  be  back  on  his  feet  soon 
and  lending  his  valuable  as- 
sistance as  consultant  to  the 
magazine. 


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Odds   and   Ends 

Farm  land  prices  incre-ased 
an  average  of  8  percent  in  1965 
and  early  1966.  Gains  in  some 
areas  were  as  much  as  12  to 
15  percent.  It  would  seem  tliat 
cranberry  bog  isn't  the  only 
agricultural  land  with  a  high 
price  tag. 

The  fann  population  is  no\\' 
about  6.5  percent  of  the  U.  S. 
population. 


YOUR  CRANBERRY  MAGAZINE  EXTENDS  THE 
GREETINGS  OF  THE  SEASON  AND  THE  VERY 
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ITS  MANY  READERS,  ADVERTISERS  AND  FRIENDS 
WITHIN  THE  CRANBERRY  INDUSTRY.  CRAN- 
BERRIES LOOKS  FORWARD  TO  THE  COMING 
YEAR  WITH  CONFIDENCE  AND  FAITH  IN  THE 
FACT  THAT  CRANBERRY  CULTURE  WILL  CON- 
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EIGHT 


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MASSACHUSETTS 

November    Very  Warm 

November  1966  will  go  down 
as  one  of  the  wannest  Novem- 
bers in  history.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  a  few  verv  cold  days 
during  the  month,  tlie  weather 
was  above  normal.  The  rain- 
fall was  just  about  normal  for 
November. 

First   Snow 

The  first  snow  of  the  year 
fell  on  Saturday,  December  3, 
with  an  accumulation  of  only 
one-half  inch  in  Wareham,  al- 
though the  lower  Cape  area  re- 
ported an  accumulation  of 
about  two  inches  as  a  result 
of  this  same  weather  system. 

December    9    .    .    .    .    70° 

As  this  report  is  written  on 
December  9,  records  are  being 
broken  in  Massachusetts.  The 
record  temperature  for  the  day 
was  64  degrees  in  1924  and 
this  was  broken  with  a  reading 
of  70  degrees  today.  The  70 
degree  temperature  today  also 
broke  the  official  record  of  the 
Massachusetts  Weather  Bureau 
for  the  month  of  December 
which,  up  to  today,  was  69 
degrees. 


NEW    J  ERSEY 


Weather 

The  weather  in  November 
varied  considerably  from  wintry 
to  balmy  conditions  with  the 
Indian  summer  days  prevailing 
over  the  more  severe  type. 
There  were  10  days  during 
which  the  maximum  tempera- 
ture rose  to  above  60  and  3 
days  were  in  the  70  degree 
range. 

Continuing  the  trend  of  the 
last  few  months,  it  rained 
much  of  the  time.  However  11 
rainy    days    accumulated    only 


2.31  inches  of  rain,  which  is 
about  1.15  inches  less  than 
normal.  The  total  rainfall  for 
the  first  11  months  of  the  year 
now  stands  at  42.49  inches, 
only  %  of  an  inch  less  than  the 
average  annual  rainfall  in  this 
region.  The  year  1966  will  un- 
doubtedly have  to  be  re- 
corded as  being  above  average 
in   rainfall. 

The  average  daily  tempera- 
ture in  November  was  47.1  or 
about  one  degree  above  normal. 
The  past  month,  probably 
would  have  been  a  record  for 
warm  weather  in  November  had 
it  not  been  for  a  frigid  spell 
from  the  20th  thru  the  23rd, 
when  the  temperature  plunged 
below  20  degrees  on  four  suc- 
cessive nights. 

Helicopter   Spraying 

Toward  the  end  of  the  month 
a  spell  of  windy  days  interfered 
with  the  helicopter  application 
of  Casoron®  granular  herbicide 
for  weed  control.   As  of  Dec.  2 


more  than  100  acres  had  yet  to 
be  done.  About  500  acres  are 
being  ti'eated  in  New  Jersey 
this  year.  Although  the  per- 
centage of  the  cranberry  acre- 
age treated  in  this  state  is  much 
smaller  than  in  other  areas, 
there  is  a  rapidly  growing  in- 
terest in  Casoron.  Only  200 
acres  were  treated  in    1965. 


WASHINGTON 

Weather 

Winter  has  arrived  in  the 
Washington  cranberry  area  with 
the  advent  of  rain  and  wind. 
The  mean  liigh  for  the  month 
of  November  was  51.93  degrees 
F.  and  the  mean  low  41.13 
with  a  bog  low  of  25  on  tlie 
7th.  There  was  light  frost  on 
November  3  through  the  7th, 
and  again  on  the  10th  and  the 
21st. 

Continued  on  Page  20 


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NINE 


"'WrvACATION  CENTER 


Vernon  Gohlsworthy .  President,  Cranberry  Products,  Inc.,  Eagle  River,  Wis., 
sent  along  these  pictures  to  show  what  is  being  done  in  Wisconsin  to  promote 
an  interest  in  Cranberries.  The  window  pictured  above  was  displayed  at  the 
Wisconsin  Vacation  Center  in  Chicago,  while  the  one  shown  below  was  seen  in 
Mihcaukee.  According  to  information  available  the  promotions  were  successful. 


TEN 


Wisconsin's  New  Water 
Resources  Management 
law  Explained  in  Brief 


The  foUoiL'ing  is  the  first  instalment  of  the  boiled-down  version  of 
the  original  bill  to  control  water  pollution  and  management  of  Wis- 
consin's water  resources.  Much  of  the  information  in  the  report  is 
very  general  and  probably  oversimplified  but,  hopefully,  it  will  pro- 
vide some  background  information  that  will  help  to  clarify  the  bill 
which  went  into  effect  on  August  1,  1966. 

The  series  is  in  three  instalments,  the  next  two  instalments  to  be 
published   in   the   January   and   Feburary   1967    issues    of   Cranberries. 


PART  I 

Wisconsin's  new  water  re- 
source management  legislation, 
which  became  effective  August 
1,  1966,  promises  to  protect  and 
preserve  w  at  e  r  resources 
through  an  integrated,  long- 
range,   comprehensive  program. 

"This  is  a  tremendous  bill 
that  no  other  state  in  the  coun- 
try can  come  close  to  in  terms 
of  a  regulatory  base  for  man- 
aging water  resources,"  says 
Jacob  Beuscher,  water  legisla- 
tion authority  and  professor  of 
law  at  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin. 

Too  often  in  the  past,  water 
legislation  has  grown  up  on  a 
patch- work  basis.  Laws  were 
enacted  and  administered  to 
meet  certain  pressing  water 
resource  problems.  These  laws 
were  adequate,  but  frequently 
lacked  coordination  and  a 
meaningful  approach  to  solve 
long-range  water  resource  prob- 
lems. 

The  new  water  resource 
management  law  is  broad  in 
its  approach,  covering  nearly 
all  aspects  of  water  use  and 
misuse.  Provisions  in  the  la^v 
could  affect  homeowners,  farm- 
ers, recreational  developers,  mu- 
nicipalities   and   industries. 

It  is  designed  to  protect  the 
scenic  and  ecological  values 
of   Wisconsin's    waterways   and 


make    them    safe    for    human, 
fish  and  aquatic  life. 

Integration  of  water  man- 
agement control  agencies  into 
a  single  department  is  perhaps 
one  of  the  strongest  features  of 
the  new  law,  Beuscher  points 
out.  Before  the  law  "was  en- 
acted, Wisconsin  residents  had 
to  find  the  right  agency  door 
to  knock  on  before  they  could 
get  help  with  their  water  prob- 
lems. Finding  the  right  agency 
could  often  be  a  baffling  exper- 
ience for  state  residents. 

Under  the  new  law,  how- 
ever, a  single  agency  —  the  State 
Department  of  Resource  De- 
velopment —  will  serve  as  the 
clearing  house  for  all  water  re- 
source information  and  as  a 
referral  center  for  persons  need- 
ing help  with  water  matters. 

In  addition  to  reorganizing 
water  regulatory  agencies,  the 
law  has  made  some  bold  ad- 
vances in  controlling  quaHty  of 
Wisconsin's    water    resources. 

Previously  Wisconsin's  pol- 
lution control  legislation  was 
primarily  concerned  with  pro- 
tecting streams  from  municipal 
and  industrial  pollutants.  The 
new  legislation  shows  a  broad- 
ened concern  and  focuses  on 
individual  household  pollution 
of  lakes.  Ground  water  pollu- 
tion also  comes  in  for  increased 
attention,  Beuscher  explains. 


The  new  water  regulations, 
thus,  take  a  much  broader  view 
of  water  quality.  The  regula- 
tions are  still  concerned  with 
keeping  waters  healthful  and 
safe,  but  they  are  also  con- 
cerned with  the  problems  of 
over  enrichment  of  lakes  and 
streams. 

Anyone  who  has  ever  fished, 
swum,  water  skied  or  just  been 
near  a  lake  that  is  in  full  algae 
bloom  will  appreciate  the  merit 
of  this  section  of  the  new 
law.  Water  run-off  from  the 
land  and  waste  discharges  may 
be  perfectly  free  from  disease 
producing  organisms,  but  nu- 
trients in  run-off  and  waste 
discharges  can  still  destroy  the 
esthetic  and  recreational  value 
of  a  lake. 

Enrichment  control  means 
a  large  number  of  persons  now 
living  along  lakes  and  streams 
will  be  affected  by  the  law. 
Individuals,  for  example,  must 
meet  certain  installation  and 
operating  regulations  for  septic 
tanks  to  prevent  over  enrich- 
ment of  bodies  of  water.  In 
fact  the  department  can  declare 
"critical  areas"  and  prohibit  the 
installation  of  septic  tanks  in 
them. 


Continued  on  Next  Page 


ELEVEN 


"This  may  seem  like  unneces- 
sary control  for  some  people 
living  next  to  lakes  and  streams, 
but  in  the  long  run,  it  is  the 
only  way  to  protect  those  water 
resources  which  first  attracted 
people  to  them,"  Beuscher  says. 

The  law  also  provides  for  an 
increase  in  water  resource  per- 
sonnel and  gives  these  per- 
sons more  enforcement  powers. 
The  law  gives  financial  assist- 
ance to  municipahties  and  tax 
incentives  to  industries  to  help 
them  clean  up  pollution  prob- 
lems. 

Long-range  planning  for  wa- 
ter resources  use  also  gets  more 
emphasis  in  the  new  law.  This 
planning  will  be  concerned  not 
only  \vith  the  quality  aspects 
of  water,  but  also  with  manag- 
ing water  resources  and  related 
land  areas  for  maximum  public 
benefit.  An  example  of  this 
type  provision  is  one  that  re- 
quires shorelines  and  flood 
plains  to  be  zoned  in  order  to 
protect  bodies  of  water  from 
erosion  and  unwise  develop- 
ment. 

"But  even  with  this  strong 
water  resources  management 
law,  the  people  of  Wisconsin 
cannot  expect  that  the  waters 
of  the  state  will  be  magically 
cleaned  up,"  Beuscher  warns. 
"The  eventual  success  of  the 
law  still  depends  on  how  much 
the  public  is  willing  to  support 
it  with  tax  dollars,  and  on  the 
ability  of  the  state  agencies 
to  carry  out  the  directives  given 
m  it. 


PART  II 

Rapidly  increasing  pressure 
on  the  state's  water  resources 
plus  greater  awareness  of  the 
inter-relationship  between  water 
and  land  use  have  resulted  in 
a  more  integrated  approach  to 
water  resource  management. 


As  a  result  of  this  approach, 
the  new  water  resource  man- 
agement law  reconstitutes  the 
existing  Department  of  Re- 
source Development.  The  de- 
partment now  contains  a  new 
division  of  water  resources  in 
addition  to  the  divisions  of 
planning  and  recreation,  ac- 
cording to  Ed  Brick,  water  re- 
sources specialist  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  water  re- 
sources  center. 

Before  passage  of  the  new 
law,  Wisconsin  managed  its 
water  resources  through  sev- 
eral separate  agencies.  On  Aug. 
1,  1966,  the  new  land  trans- 
fers the  water  quality  functions 
of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
and  the  Committee  on  Water 
Pollution  to  the  new  water  re- 
sources division  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Resource  Development. 
Then  on  July  1,  1967,  the  water 
regulating  function  of  the  Pub- 
lic Service  Commission  will 
also  be  transferred  to  the 
water  resources  division.  The 
law  not  only  transfers  water 
regulatory  functions  to  a  single 
division,  but  also  creates  func- 
tions not  previously  carried 
out  at  the  state  level. 

A  seven  -  man  resource  de- 
velopment board  will  provide 
policy  direction  for  the  de- 
partment. 

The  board  members  recently 
appointed  by  Governor  Knowles 
represent  a  wide  range  of  wa- 
ter interests.  They  are:  Gerard 
Rohlich,  director  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  water  re- 
sources center  O.  J.  Muegge, 
retired  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health;  William  Cart- 
wright,  retired  member  of  the 
Public  Service  Commission; 
John  Potter,  Wisconsin  Rapids 
attorney  and  chairman  of  the 
Governor's  former  committee  on 
water  resources;  John  Strange, 
Institute  of  Paper  Chemistry; 
Douglas  Weiford,  Eau  Claire 
city  manager;  and  Russell 
Lynch,  retired  conservation  jour- 
nalist. 


This  board  selects  the  di- 
rector of  the  Department  of 
Resources    Development. 

In  addition  to  the  pohcy 
board,  the  law  establishes  a 
state  advisory  board  and  up 
to  12  regional  advisory  boards. 
The  regional  advisory  boards 
are  designed  to  increase  aware- 
ness of  the  state's  water  man- 
agement problems,  and  to  re- 
flect more  accurately  the  spe- 
cific needs  and  desires  of  all 
regions  of  the  state  in  devel- 
oping a  comprehensive  state 
water  resources  plan. 

Regions  will  be  estabhshed 
by  the  Department  of  Resource 
Development  on  the  basis  of 
such  factors  as  river  basins, 
watersheds,  population  den- 
sity, economic  factors,  regional 
planning  commissions,  and  geo- 
graphic, geologic  and  topo- 
graphic features.  Considerable 
variation  in  water  quality  and 
use  can  be  expected  in  the 
different    regions    of    the    state. 

Each  regional  board  will  be 
made  up  of  the  Department  of 
Resources  Development  regional 
director,  who  \\'ill  serve  as  ex- 
ecutive secretary;  five  citizen 
members  appointed  by  the 
Governor;  and  tvvo  state  agency 
regional  representatives.  The 
state  advisory  board  will  be 
made  up  of  one  representati\'e 
from  eacli  of  the  regional 
boards. 

In  addition,  a  technical  ad- 
visory committee  will  be  ap- 
pointed to  assist  the  state  ad- 
visory board.  The  committee 
will  be  made  up  of  represen- 
tatives from  four  state  agencies. 

The  widespread  program 
provided  in  the  law  requires 
more  personnel  and  more 
money.  This  money  supports  a 
larger  technical  staff  working 
to  enforce  the  provisions  of 
the  bill  and  preserve  Wiscon- 
sin's valuable  water  resources. 


{To  be  continued  next  ynonth) 


TWELVE 


Third  Quarter  Sales  and 

Earning  Up  At 

Dean  Foods  Company 

Increased  sales  and  earnings 
for  the  third  quarter  of  1963 
were  reported  by  Dean  Foods 
Company,  but  nine  months 
earnings  lagged  behind  the 
similar  period  in  1965. 

Earnings  per  share  for  the 
quarter  ended  September  30 
were  64^,  up  from  530  in  1965. 
Net  sales  increased  from  $20,- 
490,000  in  1965  to  $40942,000 
in    1966.    Net   income   was    re- 


ported   at 
$395,000. 


$487,000,     up    from      WINTER  CLOSES  IN  ON 


For  the  nine  months  ended 
September  30  company  earnings 
were  $1.60,  down  from  $1.77. 
Sales  however,  were  $118,380,- 
C03,  largest  for  any  nine  months' 
period  in  company  history.  The 
large  increase  in  sales  reflects 
the  volume  of  Bowman  Dairy 
Co.,  which  is  included.  Last 
week  the  Federal  Trade  Com- 
mission ordered  Dean  Foods 
Company  to  divest  itself  of 
the  operating  assets  of  Bowman. 
Dean  will  contest  the  ruling  in 
the  U.  S.  Seventh  Court  of 
Appeals. 


WISCONSIN    CRANBERRY   AREA 

The  first  zero  weather  of  the 
season  on  December  1  and  2 
closed  many  of  the  smaller 
lakes  and  streams  across  the 
state.  On  the  4th  a  glaze  and 
sleet  storm,  ahead  of  a  warmer 
airmass,  gave  the  first  light 
snow  cover  to  many  southern 
areas. 


The  United  States  is  the 
leading  soybean  producer  in 
the  world  and  has  been  since 
1946. 


Roby's  Propane  Gas,  Inc. 


CRANBERRY  HIGHWAY 
WEST  WAREHAM,  MASS. 


295-3737 


80FR   irrigation   pumping    unit.    Ex- 
tra   heavy  duty.     Can   be   used    for 

overhead,  underground,  or  port- 
able irrigation  systems.  Pumps 
up  to  2700  GPM;  pressures  up  to 
150   RSI.   Skid  or   trailer  mounted. 


40FW.  A  medium-size  centrifugal 
pumping  unit  with  a  wide  range 
ofvolumes  and  pressures.  Pumps 
up  to  600- GPM;  pressures  up  to 
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THIRTEEN 


Farm  Bureau 
In  Acfion 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm  Bureau  Staff  Assistant 
David  Mann  of  Buzzards 
Bay  was  elected  2nd  Vice  Pres- 
ident of  the  Massachusetts 
Farm  Bureau  Federation  at  the 
46th  Annual  Meeting  of  that 
organization  on  November  16, 
1966  at  Shrewsbury,  Massachu- 
setts. Mr.  Mann  serves  on  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  tlie  Mas- 
sachusetts Farm  Bureau  Fed- 
eration and  is  President  of  the 
Plymouth  County  Farm  Bur- 
eau. 

A  successful  cranberry  grower 
Dave  is  a  member  of  the  Ocean 
Spray  Cooperative  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Advisory  Com- 
mittee. He  is  a  member  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Associa- 
tion and  is  a  supervisor  of 
the  Plymouth  County  Soil  Con- 
servation  District. 

Dave  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  in 
1951  with  a  Bachelor  of  Sci- 
ence degree  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Alpha  Gamma  Rho  fra- 
ternity. 

The  voting  delegates  of  the 
Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau 
Federation  is  the  policy-making 
arm  of  Farm  Bureau.  At  the 
Annual  Meeting  many  resolu- 
tions were  considered  which  af- 
fect cranberry  growers.  Some 
of  these  resolutions  are :  ( 1 ) 
Migrant  and  Puerto  Rican 
workers  (2)  Lack  of  Trespass 
laws  and  Vandalism  on  farms 
and  (3)  more  emphasis  on  ap- 
plied research  at  the  Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  in  Ware- 
ham. 

A  policy  that  all  groups  are 
concerned  about  deals  with  the 
Commonwealth  Service  Corps. 
The  voting  delegates  adopted 
the  followdng  policy:  RE- 
SOLVED that  the  Massachu- 
setts Farm  Bureau  Federation 
protest  the  interference  of  the 
Commonwealth  Service  Corps 
in  areas  other  than  basic  edu- 
cation, hygiene  and  citizenship 
of  migrant  workers.  Mr.  Philip 
Good,    Legislative   Counsel    for 


Farm  Bureau  and  the  Farm 
Bureau  Labor  Committee  have 
been  studying  this  problem 
since   mid-summer. 

A  resolution  presented  to 
Farm  Bureau  from  Plymouth 
County  on  vandalism  request- 
ing that  steps  be  taken  to  in- 
crease penalties  for  violators 
and  that  the  liability  of  Lirm- 
ers  be  limited  due  to  trespass- 
ers. Several  bills  will  be  filed 
in  the  General  Court  to  obtain 
relief  for  farmers  in  this  mat- 
ter. 

Mr.  Orrin  Colley  of  the  Cran- 
berry Institute,  Duxbury  was  a 
featured  panelist  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Massachusetts 
Farm  Bureau.  The  panel  "For- 
eign Trade  as  it  Relates  to  Mas- 
sachusetts Agriculture"  was 
well  attended.  Mr.  Colley  spoke 
of  the  activities  of  the  Cran- 
berry industry  to  solve  their 
marketing  problems  and  how 
Foreign  Trade  assisted  in  the 
solution.  Others  on  the  panel 
included  Mr.  Herbert  Harris, 
Legislative  Counsel  of  the 
American  Farm  Bureau  Fed- 
eration, Washington,  D.C.,  Mr. 
Ed  O'Neill  of  the  J.  P.  SulH- 
van  Company,  Ayer,  Massachu- 


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dent of  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau  Federation  of  Stoughton 
who  acted  as  moderator. 


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FOURTEEN 


25  Wtav^  Sgo 


(The  following  items  were 
taken  from  the  December,  1941 
issue  of  Cranberries.) 


The  1941  crop  of  cranberries, 
which  tlie  New  England  Crop 
Reporting  Service  now  esti- 
mates as  749,200  barrels,  or 
about  150,000  barrels  more 
than  the  ten-year  average,  and 
probably  the  second  largest 
crop  ever,  has  now  largely  gone 
into  the  markets  in  perhaps  the 
best  season  on  record.  The  price 
at  which  the  American  Cran- 
beiTy  Exchange  opened  its 
Lates'  $3.40  a  quarter  barrel, 
held  strong  over  the  Thanks- 
giving market  and  the  berries 
have  sold  at  that  figure  or  a 
little  stronger. 

•         * 

The  New  Jersey  crop,  accord- 
ing to  the  government  figures 
is  88,000  barrels  which  is  no 
change  from  the  estimate  of 
October  1.  The  berries  in  that 
state  were  harvested  somewhat 
earlier  than  usual  due  to  the 
extraordinary  dry  weather  with 
lack  of  water  for  adequate  frost 
control. 

There  was  no  real  labor  prob- 
lem in  the  state  of  Oregon  dur- 
ing the  picking  season  this  year 
(1941),  but  labor  was  scarce 
enough  to  slow  down  opera- 
tions to  some  extent.  The  State 
Employment  oflBce  made  its 
initial  effort  to  be  of  service 
in  placing  pickers  to  the  best 
advantage,  which  aided  the 
growers  somewhat  in  getting 
the  crop  off. 

Farm  Credit  Service 

Box  7,  Taunton,  Mass.  02781 
Tel.   617  824-7578 

• 

Production  Credit  Loans 

Land  Bank  Mortgages 

• 

Office  — nf;2.    Route   44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager 


The  Wisconsin  crop  is  esti- 
mated as  105,000  barrels.  This 
is  a  decrease  from  last  years 
figure  of  121,000  barrels  but 
it  is  well  over  the  last  ten-year 
average  of  68,600  and  shows 
that  Wisconsin  is  apparently 
steadily  clinching  its  position 
as  the  second-largest  producing 
state. 

•     • 

The  cranberry  industry  is 
deeply  shocked  to  learn  of  the 
death  of  Arthur  U.  Chaney, 
president  and  general  manager 
of  the  American  Cranberry  Ex- 
change. He  was  stricken  ill 
on  Sunday,  November  30(  1941 ) 
at  his  residence,  London  Ter- 
race, New  York.  He  was  re- 
moved to  the  Lenox  Hill  Hos- 
pital where  he  died  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  December  22, 
( 1941 ) .    Mr.  Chaney  was  born 


April  16,  1874,  on  a  farm  in 
Clay  County,  Illinois,  and 
spent  his  early  life  in  that 
locality.  Mr.  Chaney  devoted 
his  life  work  to  the  cranberry 
industry,  chiefly  in  the  market- 
ing aspect.  His  name,  when 
the  final  story  of  cranberry 
growing  is  told,  will  have  a 
most  honored  place. 

Massachusetts  is  not  well 
fixed  in  regard  to  its  water 
prospects  for  winter  flooding 
as  yet,  due  to  the  long  drought 
in  the  East.  If  some  long  and 
steady  rains  not  do  come  along 
before  too  long,  some  of  the 
bogs  may  get  hurt.  Bud  for 
next  year's  crop  seems  about 
normal  and  the  usual  fall 
sanding  program  is  going 
ahead. 


(Sso) 


Kerosene 

Solvent 

Spraying  Equipment 


ESSOTANE 

PROPANE 

GAS 


PROPANE  CARBURETION 
INSTALLED  -  SERVICED 


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INC. 


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Telephones  62    MAI.M    STREET 

585-4341  —         585-2604  KINGSTON,    MASS. 


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WHITESBOG, 


NEW   JERSEY 


Continued  from  Page  7 


that,  under  the  condition  that 
it  would  continue  in  cranberry 
production  the  State  would 
lease  it  back  for  a  five-year 
period. 

When  it  was  learned  that  this 
would  happen,  it  at  least  meant 
that  there  would  be  time  to 
plan  for  the  future.  It  was 
quite  obvious  that  these  plans 
had  to  be  made  as  soon  as 
possible. 

The  owners  of  Whitesbog  be- 
gan a  search  for  new  acreage 
which  would  have  the  necessary 
qualities  for  the  establishment 
of  new  bogs.  The  obvious  things 
were  looked  for  —  availability 
of  water  in  sufficient  quantity, 
the  right  type  of  soil,  location 
of  bogs  to  good  transportation 
facihties,    etc. 

Sursprisingly  enough,  they 
found  the  spot  they  were  look- 
ing for  only  a  few  miles  from 
Whitesbog.  After  the  necessary 
tiansactions  were  completed  no 


time  was  wasted  in  beginning 
the  construction  of  the  bogs. 
The  new  bogs  will  be  small 
by  comparison  to  the  old  bogs, 
some  of  which  were  several 
acres  in  size.  The  bogs  now 
under  construction  will  be  ap- 
proximately one  acre  in  size 
and  will  be  set  up  for  water 
harvesting. 

Work  is  progressing  rapidly 
and  it  is  expected  that  some 
of  the  bogs  will  be  planted 
this  year.  The  location  of  the 
bogs,  adjacent  to  a  large  reser- 
voir, makes  for  an  ideal  situa- 
tion insofar  as  water  harvesting 
is  concerned.  The  new  bogs 
are  being  laid  out  somewhat 
similar  to  those  at  the  Oswego 
Cranberry  Research  Center 
which  we  described  in  the  last 
issue.  They  will  be  approxi- 
mately twice  as  large,  however. 

The  State  has  agree  "1  to  per- 
mit the  owners  to  transplant 
vines  from   the   old   Whitesbog 


property    for    use    in    the    new 
area. 

Plans  for  the  new  Whitesbog 
include  housing  for  some  of 
the  workers  and,  while  on  our 
visit,  we  noticed  that  a  well 
was  in  the  process  of  being 
drilled  to  supply  water  to  the 
homes. 

If  spirit  and  enthusiasm  are 
any  indication  of  success,  there 
is  no  doubt,  after  speaking  with 
Mr.  Haines,  that,  although  the 
new  Whitesbog  may  never  at- 
tain the  enormity  and  expanse 
of  the  old,  it  will  be  heard 
from  in  the  industry  for  many 
years  to  come. 

The  way  the  operators  of 
Whitesbog  have  come  tlirough 
the  serious  problems  attending 
a  relocation  and  re-establish- 
ment of  the  bogs  should  be  an 
inspiration  to  others  who  have 
to   face   the   same  situation. 


PILGRIM  SAND  &  GRAVEL 

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SEVENTEEN 


CRANBERRY  PIE 

Pastry    for    double-crust    9-inch 

pie 
4  cups  fresh  cranberries 
IV2    cups   Ught  brown   sugar, 

firmly  packed 
4  tablespoons  light  molasses 
Vz  teaspoon  cinnamon 
2  tablespoons  butter 
V\  teaspoon  salt 

Wash  cranberries  and  cut  in 
halves  (or  chop  coarsely).  Line 
9-inch  pie  pan  with  half  of  pas- 
try. Fill  shell  with  cranberries 
and  brown  sugar.  Dust  with 
cinnamon  and  salt.  Spoon  mo- 
lasses over  all.  Dot  with  butter. 
Cover  with  remaining  pastry. 
Cut  vents  for  steam.  Bake  pie 
ten  minutes  in  preheated  425 
degree  oven.  Reduce  heat  to 
325  degrees  and  continue  bak- 
ing for  about  1  hour.  Serve 
with  vanilla  ice  cream. 

CRANBERRY  ICE 

1  1-pound  can  jellied  cranberry 

sauce 
1  7-ounce  bottle  lemon-hme 
carbonated  beverage 
Beat  the  cranberry  sauce  till 
smooth.    Resting  bottle  on  rim 
of  bowl,  slowly  pour  in  lemon- 
lime  carbonated  beverage.  Mix 
gently  with  up  and   down  mo- 
tion.   Pour  mixture  into  1-quart 
freezer    tray.     Freeze    till    firm. 
Break  into  chunks  \vith  wooden 
spoon    and    place  in    a    chilled 
bowl.     Beat   till   fluffy.     Return 
to   freezer   tray   and   freeze   till 
firm.    Makes  1  quart. 

EIGHTEEN 


aw 


Just  at  twilight  the  vacation- 
ing husband  and  wife  parked 
their  trailer  after  a  400  mile 
drive.  Then  the  ^vife  said,  with 
some  hesitation:  "Honey,  re- 
member that  flat  rock  we  used 
for  a  doorstep  at  last  night's 
stop?" 

"  I  remember  .  .  .  Wliy?" 
"Well  .  .    I  hid  the  door  key 
under  it." 


iest 

tor 
fun! 


If  the  moon  isn't  made  of 
green  cheese,  how  come  there's 
such  a  rat  race  to  see  who  gets 
to  it  first? 


A  child  is  something  halfway 
between  an  adult  and  a  tele- 
vision set. 

There's  one  thing  you  can 
say  for  the  men  in  charge  of 
our  government  —  they're  run- 
ning it  like  nobody's  business. 


PEANUT   &   CRANBERRY   RELISH 

1  cup     cranberries 

Vs  cup  sugar 

1/4  cup  chopped  peanuts 

V4  tsp.  salt 

1  small  orange 

1  small  apple 

Put  cranberries  through  food 
chopper  and  mix  with  sugar. 
Cut  the  orange  and  apple  into 
quarters,  remove  seeds  and  put 
through  chopper.  Combine  nuts 
with  all  ingredients.  Makes 
IV2   cups. 

HAM  LEFTOVER 

7/   ijou   decide   to   have   ham 
for  the  Holidays  instead  of  the 
usual  turkey,  this  is  a  good  way 
to   use  the   leftovers. 
4  cups  cubed  cooked  ham 
3  tablespoons  butter 
V2  cup  water 
V2  cup  sugar 
%   cup  fresh   cranberries 

2  tablespoons  grated  orange 

rind 
Salt  and  pepper  to  taste 

Lightly  brown  ham  in  butter. 
Bring  sugar  and  water  to  boil, 
covered  15  minutes.  Add  grated 
orange  rind  and  seasoning. 
Combine  ham  and  cranberry 
sauce  in  baking  dish  and  bake 
uncovered  at  350  degrees  for 
20  minutes. 

Add  V2  cup  fresh  cranberries 
and  bake  10  to  15  minutes 
longer.  Good  with  candied 
yams,  green  bean  salad  (beans 
and  onions  mixed  with  French 
salad  dressing)  and  hot  corn- 
bread  sticks.  Serves  6,  made 
in    oblong    casserole. 


Wisconsin  'Mossers' 
Lose  Labor  Force  To 
Job  Corps 


-:) 


'  -  C       r»-  - 


Editor's  Note:  The  follow- 
ing article  is  included  in  CRAN- 
BERRIES since  it  was  felt  that 
it  would  be  of  interest  to  many 
growers  who  got  their  start  by 
harvesting  sphagnum  moss  dur- 
ing the  summer  and  selling  it 
to  florists  and  others.  Some  of 
these  are  still  engaged  in  this 
work. 


Wisconsin's  half  million  dollar 
a  year  sphagnum  moss  industry- 
is  suffering  from  a  serious  lack 
of  labor  brought  about  by  the 
attraction  to  the  Job  Corps  of 
workers  usually  engaged  in 
this  harvest  operation.  It  is  es- 
timated that  Wisconsin  supplies 
nearly  ninety  percent  of  the 
world's    supply   of   this    strange 


crop.  Less  than  a  half  dozen 
firms,  located  in  Jackson,  Mon- 
roe, Wood,  Juneau  and  Clark 
counties,  do  the  bulk  of  the 
business. 

Much  of  the  supply  comes 
from  the  Black  River  State 
Forest.  The  contractors  who 
handle  the  harvest  pay  a  fee 
to  swamp  owners.  A  tag  is 
then  affixed  to  the  bales  to  show 
it  is  paid  for.  The  sphagnum 
is  a  simple  plant  which  looks 
like  fern  rather  than  moss.  It 
renews  itself  from  pieces  of 
stem  which  break  off  in  har- 
vesting. 

The  plants  are  pulled  out  of 
the  marshes  by  the  use  of 
forks.  In  the  spring,  as  soon 
as  the  frost  and  ice  leaves  the 


swamps,  the  harvest  begins, 
and  continues  until  November. 
The  soggy  plants  are  taken  off 
the  swamp  by  boats  pulled  by 
a  tractor.  They  are  then  spread 
out  to  dry  and  must  be 
turned  frequently  for  thorough 
drying.  Some  of  the  moss  is 
baled  on  the  site. 

Although  the  development  of 
styrofoam  and  other  synthetic 
materials  have  provided  com- 
petition, florists  still  prefer 
sphagnum.  Sphagnum  moss 
takes  up  moisture  by  capillary 
action,  usually  up  to  twenty 
times  its  own  weight.  This  fact 
makes  it  an  ideal  shipping  me- 
dium for  roses  and  other  plants. 
This  moss  also  is  an  ideal  mulch 
over  the  surface  of  plant  pots. 


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NINETEEN 


REGIONAL  NEWS   NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  9 

Precipitation 

The  total  precipitation  for  the 
month  was  15.10  inches  with 
only  six  days  without  rain  and 
the  greatest  fell  on  the  30th 
with  2.96  inches.  In  the  six 
days  from  November  29  to 
December  4th  12.52  inches  fell. 
Several  places  were  flooded  and 
the  water  stood  for  quite  some 
time. 

'Cranberry    Vine'    Issued 

Washington  growers  should 
carefully  read  the  recently  pub- 
lished Cranberry  Vine  for  ac- 
tivities and  coming  projects  of 
the  area. 


WISCONSIN 


Freezing    Temperatures    Bring    Frost 

Wisconsin  had  an  unusually 
early  freeze-in  which  cut  short 
the  time  to  get  all  the  berries 
in  and  did  not  give  time  to 
finish  all  the  fall  marsh  work. 
It  was  one  of  the  earliest 
set-ins  of  wdnter  that  many  of 
the  growers   can  remember. 

There  is  more  frost  in  the 
ground  this  year  than  there 
was  a  year  ago  but  nothing 
like  that  in  early  December  of 
1964.  Frost  depths  so  far  this 
year  are  the  deepest  in  the 
central  and  north  western  areas 
of  the  state  and  range  generally 
from   2   to    6   inches. 

Snow  cover  has  been  limited 
to  the  northern  part  of  the 
state.  A  year  ago  snow  covered 
the  northern  third  of  the  state 
with  as  much  as  13  to  24  inches 
in    some  places. 

Sprinkler   Systems   Used  to   Melt    Ice 

The  thing  that  is  of  interest 
this  year  is  that  the  growers 
have  used  the  sprinkler  systems 
to  melt  the  flooded  sections  of 
the  marshes  which  were  under 
one  or  two  inches  of  ice.,' 
When  the  marshes  were  fro- 
zen too  much  for  harvesting 
the      sprinkler      systems      were' 


turned  on  when  the  tempera- 
ture got  above  freezing  and 
melted  the  ice  so  the  harvesting 
could  get  under  way.  If  it 
had  not  been  for  the  sprinkling 
systems  it  is  believed  that  quite 
a  considerable  amount  of  the 
crop  would  have  been  left  un- 
harvested  and  frozen  in.  This 
is  something  that  no  one  had 
planned  on  but  is  an  addi- 
tional benefit  of  the  sprinkler 
systems. 

Growers  in  the  central  part 
of  the  state  are  short  of  water 
as  no  snow  reached  that  por- 
tion. Northern  Wisconsin  has 
plentv  of  water  and  all  marshes 
are  flooded.  Central  growers 
are  anxiously  looking  for  a  little 
rain  or  snow  in  order  to  avoid 
vine  injury. 

Weather    Summary 

November  weather  was 
cloudy  and  windy.  Tempera- 
tures averaged  slightly  above 
normal  over  the  south  and 
slightly  subnormal  in  the  north. 
Precipitation  ranged  from  very 
light    in     the     west    to     above 


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Broekton,  Mass.  Business  Manager, 
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Total,    800. 

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normal  in  the  extreme  east. 
Some  snow  fell  across  the  north 
during  the  period  from  Novem- 
ber 9  through  the  11th  and 
again  on  the  20th.  Very  mild 
weather  following  this  latter 
snowfall  melted  the  snow  cover. 
A  very  intense  Great  Lakes 
storm  on  the  27th  and  28th 
dropped  several  inches  of  new 
snow  along  the  immediate  Lake 
Michigan  shoreline  and  in  the 
extreme  northern  counties  bor- 
dering Upper  iMichigan.  Snow 
depths  of  1  to  6  inches  from 
this  fall  were  reported  on  the 
Door  Peninsula  and  in  the 
extreme  north  central  counties 
on  December  2. 


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CROP 
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Production  of  cranberries  in 
1966  was  a  record  high  of  1,- 
582,300  barrels,  up  10  percent 
from  last  year  and  22  percent 
more  than  average.  All  cran- 
berry States  except  New  Jersey 
had  larger  crops  than  last  year. 
Massachusetts  led  with  765,000 
barrels,  nearly  one-half  the  U.S. 
total. 

Massachusetts 

The  Massachusetts  crop  was 
the  third  largest  of  record,  4 
percent  more  than  last  year  and 
14  percent  above  average.  The 
crop  got  off  to  a  good  start 
under  nearly  ideal  conditions 
until  about  mid-July,  when  the 
cranberry  belt  became  excep- 
tionally dry.  However,  late 
August  rains  helped  the  crop. 
Early  harvested  bogs  had  many 
small  sized  berries,  but  Sep- 
tember rains  and  cool  nights 
helped     sizing     and     improved 


color  in  late  bogs.  Acreage  har- 
vested, at  11,600  acres  was  un- 
changed from  last  year,  but  the 
yield  per  acre  was  up  2.5  bar- 
rels  to   65.9. 

New    Jersey 

New  Jersey's  crop  of  144,000 
barrels  was  6  percent  smaller 
than  last  year's  production  but 
37  percent  above  average.  Be- 
cause of  cold  weather  in  May 
water  was  left  on  bogs  longer 
than  usual,  reducing  the  bloom 
in  some  bogs,  but  the  set  was 
still  generally  good.  Hot.  dry 
summer  weather  limited  berry 
size  but  a  good  quality  crop 
was  produced.  There  were 
3,000  acres  harvested,  the  same 
as  last  year,  but  the  yield  per 
acre  dropped  from  51.0  bar- 
rels last  year  to  48.0  ban-els  this 
year. 

Wisconsin 

Wisconsin  produced  a  record 
breaking  491,000  barrels  of 
cranberries  in  1966,  11  percent 
more  than  last  year  and  21 
percent  above  average.  The 
season  started  late  but  favor- 
able July  weather  advanced  the 
crop  to  about  normal  in  the 
southern  area  by  August  15. 
Harvest  started  about  the  usual 
time,    but    considerably    earlier 


than  last  year.  Berries  sized 
well  in  most  bogs  but  were 
slow  to  color.  There  were  4  800 
acres  harvested  this  year,  100 
acres  more  than  last  season.  The 
yield  per  acre  at  102.3  barrels 
is  8.5  bbls.  more  than  last  year. 

Washington  —  Oregon 

Production  of  cranberries  in 
Washington  was  135,000  bar- 
rels, the  second  largest  crop 
of  record,  more  than  double 
last  year's  short  crop  and  63 
percent  above  average.  There 
was  a  generally  good  set  despite 
cold,  wet  weather  at  early 
bloom.  Harvest  got  underway 
on  October  1,  later  than  nor- 
mal. The  acreage  harvested  at 
1,000  acres  remains  unchanged 
from  last  year,  but  the  yield 
more  than  doubled  to  135.0 
barrels  per  acre.  Oregon's  pro- 
duction totaled  47,300  barrels, 
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damaged  by  spring  frosts,  but 
growth  in  protected  bogs  was 
favorable  with  a  heavy  set  and 
good  berry  size.  Some  fall 
frost  damage  occurred.  There 
were  560  acres  harvested  in 
Oregon,  the  same  as  last  year. 
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Deon  Announces  Sale  of 
Michigan  Plant 

Sam  E.  Dean,  Chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Dean  Foods  Com- 
pany, announced  the  sale  of 
Dean  Foods'  Alpena,  Michigan 
distribution  branch  to  McDon- 
ald Dairy,  of  Flint,  Michigan 
for  cash. 

Dean  had  purchased  opera- 
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eration, know  as  Shady  Lane 
Dairy,   in  late   1964. 

Annual  sales  volume  of  the 
location  is  approximately  $750,- 
000.00.  Under  the  terms  of  the 
sale.  Dean  retains  the  right  to 
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buying  groups  in  the  area. 

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plants  at  Fhnt,  Evart,  and 
Saginaw,  and  a  distribution 
branch  at  Kalamazoo.  Dean 
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Cranberries  in  Wisconsin  Rap- 
ids,   Wisconsin. 


CRANBERRY  INDUSTRY 
BRIEFLY  DESCRIBED  IN 
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Massachusetts  residents  will 
be  interested  in  reading  all 
about  their  home  state  in  the 
carefully  prepared  and  illustra- 
ted article  in  the  December 
1966  issue  of  Notional  Geo- 
iiraphic  magazine.  On  page  839 
the  Massachusetts  cranberry  in- 
dustry is  reported  on  and  the 
A.  D.  Makepeace  Co.,  exten- 
sive cranberry  growing  firm  of 
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Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

S  Held  Notes 


by  IRVIIMG  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

The  Cranberry  Station  lost 
a  colleague  and  valued  friend 
in  the  passing  of  Dr.  Frederick 
Chandler,  Professor  Emeritus, 
on  December  21st.  Dr.  Chand- 
ler was  associated  with  the 
Cranberry  Station  from  1946 
until  his  retirement  in  1964, 
and  was  here  frequently  after 
his  retiring.  He  worked  on 
drainage  and  water  relations, 
fertilizer,  minor  elements  and 
breeding  of  new  varieties  but 
was  interested  in  all  phases  of 
culture  and  marketing.  Fred 
was  a  close  personal  friend  of 
the  author  and  he  never  ceased 
to  amaze  me  with  his  cheerful 
disposition  and  ability  to  see 
the  bright  side  of  any  situa- 
tion. 

Prof.  Stan  Norton  attended 
the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  of  NE-44  in 


New  York  City  on  December 
14  and  15.  This  is  a  regional 
project  on  mechanical  harvest- 
ing of  fruits  and  vegetables  and 
Stan  is  Secretary  of  the  Com- 
mittee. 

Dr.  Cross,  Devlin,  Miller  and 
the  author  attended  an  Agricul- 
tural Leaders  Pesticide  Seminar 
sponsored  by  Geigy  Chemical 
Co.  in  Braintree  on  December 
15. 

Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  attended 
a  meeting  of  NE-34  in  Ithaca, 
N.Y.  on  December  15  and  16. 
This  is  the  northeastern  regional 
meeting   of  nematologists. 

Dr.  Wes  Miller  attended  the 
A  A  AS  meetings  in  Washington, 
D.C.  from  December  26  through 
30.  Wes  was  especially  inter- 
ested in  the  water  pollution 
symposium. 

Drs.  Zuckerman,  Miller  and 
Deubert  of  the  Cranberry   Sta- 


tion are  co-authors  with  Dr. 
Gunner  and  Profs.  Walker  and 
Langley  of  the  University  of  a 
paper  published  in  the  Octo- 
ber issue  of  Plant  and  Soil. 
The  title  is  "The  Distribution 
and  Persistence  of  Diazinon  Ap- 
plied to  Plant  and  Soil  and  its 
Influence  on  Rliizosphere  and 
Soil  Microflora."  This  paper 
deals  with  the  translocation  of 
Diazinon  in  plants,  its  per- 
sistence and  method  of  break- 
down in  soil  and  its  effect  on 
soil  fungi  and  other  micro-or- 
ganisms. 

Weather 

December  was  warm  and 
dry,  the  month  was  about  iy2 
degrees  a  day  above  normal. 
The  first  half  of  the  month 
was  definitely  warm,  with  the 
exception  of  the  3rd  and  4th, 
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C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  jersey 
&  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  &.  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  Inc. 
Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
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RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


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WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


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ISSUE  OF  JANUARY,   1967     /     VOL.   31  -NO.  9 


THE  YEAR  AHEAD 


Established     1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Wareham,     Mass. 


With  the  final  chapter  of  1966  completed, 
it  is  time  to  begin  making  entries  into  the 
ledger  of  1967. 

What  lies  ahead  for  the  cranberry  grower 
in  the  coming  year  is  strictly  a  matter  of 
conjecture  at  this  point.  It  is  safe  to  say, 
however,  that  it  will  be  a  year  of  progress 
as  have  been  so  many  before  it.  Those  en- 
gaged in  scientific  research  have  indicated 
that  they  see  a  very  fruitful  year  ahead  (no 
pun  intended).  The  growers  themselves 
show  apparent  enthusiasm.  Many  are  plan- 
ning to  enlarge  their  operations.  Some  who 
have  devoted  only  part  of  their  time  to 
their  bogs  have  suggested  that  they  will 
devote  even  more  time  to  their  properties. 
In  spite  of  some  hardships  such  as  drought 
in  some  of  the  growing  areas,  there  seems 
to  be  an  enthusiasm  which  this  reporter 
has  failed  to  see  in  any  other  industry  —  an 
unshaken  and  vibrant  feeling  that  1967  is 
going  to  be  the  best  year  yet. 

Cranberry  growers,  large  and  small,  seem 
to  be  a  special  kind  of  people.  In  the  short 
period  of  time  since  assuming  the  position 
of  editor  of  this  magazine,  it  has  been  my 
pleasure  to  attend  several  growers'  meet- 
ings, technical  seminars  and  also  to  talk 
to  individuals  in  various  parts  of  the  country. 
This  has  been  a  very  rewarding  experience 
for  me  and  I  have  never  failed  to  be  im- 
pressed by  the  awareness  and  confidence 
and  enthusiasm  of  these  people. 

It  goes  without  saying  that,  if  my  past 
experience  is  any  criteria,  the  year  1967  will 
be  a  most  productive  one  for  the  cranberry 
industry. 

This  is  our  wish  to  all  of  you,  along  with 
abundant   good  health.    Happy  New   Year ! 


Publisher 

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Editor 

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Consultant 
CLARENCE  J.   HALL 

CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

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Oregon 

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Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  "Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment  Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.   E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


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WISCONSIN  GROWERS 
HOLD    ANNUAL    MEETING 

The  Wisconsin  State  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Association  An- 
nual Winter  Meeting  will  be 
held  Thursday,  January  19,  1967 
at  10:00  A.M.  The  meeting 
place  will  be  the  Labor  Temple, 
in  Wisconsin  Rapids.  Order 
of  business  is  as  follows: 

10:00  Business  meeting,  inclu- 
ding reports  of  officers  and 
election  of  officers  and  direc- 
tors for  1967. 

10:30  Report  by  Dr.  George 
Peltier. 

11:00     Report   by   Mr.    Harvey 
H.    Ostrander,    Credit  Repre- 
sentative, Federal  Intermediate 
Credit  Bank  of  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


11:45  Report  of  the  State  Mar- 
keting Committee  Chairman, 
Bruce  Potter. 

12:00  Lunch  will  be  available 
at  the  Labor  Temple. 

1:15  Report  on  Sprinkler  Sys- 
tems by  John  S.  Norton,  Ag- 
ricultural Engineer,  of  the 
Agicultural  Experiment  Sta- 
tion, University  of  Mass. 

2:00  Mr.  Koval,  State  Ento- 
mologist, Dr.  Boone,  Dr. 
Dana,  and  an  authority  on 
liquid  fertilizers  from  Allied 
Chemical  Company,  will  hold 
a  panel  discussion  on  the  ap- 
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SIX 


A  TELEPHONE 

EROST  WARNING  DEVICE 

by  JOHN  S.  NORTON 

Massachusetts    Cranberry    Experiment  Station 


A  special  telephone  company 
service  known  as  "Private-Line- 
signal  Service"  may  be  used  to 
transmit  signals  from  a  remote 
location,  such  as  a  cranberry  bog, 
to  the  owner's  house,  office  or 
other  suitable  location.  The 
signal  may  indicate  any  of  a 
number  of  conditions  existing  at 
the  location  being  monitored. 
For  the  cranberry  grower,  the 
most  likely  condition  to  monitor 
would  be  bog  temperatures 
during   the   frost  season. 

Other  uses  to  which  the  sig- 
nal-service and  associated  cir- 
cuitry may  logically  be  put 
are:  (1)  fire  alarm,  (2)  burglar 
alarm,  (3)  operating  condition 
of  pumps  or  other  equipment, 
and  (4)  the  detection  of  vari- 
ous weather  conditions  in  ad- 
dition  to  temperature. 

The  system,  starting  at  the 
location  being  monitored  and 
terminating  at  the  receiving 
station,  consists  of  the  follow- 
ing components:  (1)  a  sensing 
device,  (2)  a  switch  actuated 
by  the  sensing  device,  (3)  con- 
nections to  an  energized  tele- 
phone line,  (4)  a  sensitive  re- 
lay at  the  receiving  end  of  the 
telephone  line,  and  (5)  an 
alarm  or  other  type  signal  ac- 
tuated by  the  sensitive  relay. 


A  Telephone  Frost-Warning  Device 

During  the  period  when  90% 
of  the  cranberry  acreage  that 
could  be  protected  from  frost 
was  protected  by  flooding,  there 
was  not  much  need  for  or  in- 
terest in  remote  frost  warning 
devices.  This  was  due  to  the 
necessity  of  starting  to  flood  far 
in  advance  of  the  occurrence 
of  harmful  temperatures.    How- 


ever, now  that  40%  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts crop  is  protected  by 
sprinkler  it  would  seem  that 
interest  in  such  equipment 
should  be  increasing.  Since  the 
sprinklers  need  not  be  started 
more  than  a  few  minutes  in 
advance  of  the  harmful  temp- 
erature many  man  hours  are 
wasted  by  the  grower  or  his 
workers  waiting  beside  the 
pump  for  the  temperature  to 
approach  the  danger  level. 
Furthermore,  it  is  not  infre- 
quent that  the  person  respon- 
sible for  starting  the  sprinklers 
waits  too  long  and  frost  damage 
occurs  wliile  the  operator  and 
the  pump  stands  idle.  This 
negligence  is  often  caused  by 
the  person  having  spent  several 
consecutive  nights  standing 
guard  for  frost  and  finally  be- 
coming too  tired  to  stay  alert 
to  the  conditions  existing 
around  him.  If  a  reliable  system 
were  available  for  warning  a 
grower,  in  his  home,  of  the 
occurrence  of  a  predetermined 
temperature  on  the  bog,  there 
would  be  no  need  for  him  to 
lose  many  hours  of  sleep  wait- 
ing for  that  temperature  to  oc- 
cur. Instead  of  staying  by  the 
bog  he  could  go  to  bed  at  a 
normal  time  and  the  alarm 
would  wake  him  in  time  to 
start   the  sprinklers. 

Such  a  system  is  available  for 
many  growers.  It  consists  of  a 
thermostat,  a  private  line  pro- 
vided by  the  telephone  com- 
pany, and  a  bell  or  other  alarm 
device.  The  telephone  company 
line  is  known  as  their  Private- 
Line-Signal-Service.  A  remote- 
bulb  type  thermostat  would  be 


located  on  the  bog  with  the 
bulb  situated  as  a  minimum 
thermometer  would  be.  (A 
minimum  thermometer  should 
also  be  located  at  the  same  spot 
for  the  purpose  of  checking  the 
accuracy  of  the  thermostat).  A 
pair  of  wires  would  be  run 
to  the  nearest  point  at  which 
it  could  be  connected  to  a 
telephone  line.  This  telephone 
line  would  lead  to  the  grower's 
house  where  it  would  be  con- 
nected to  a  sensitive  relay.  The 
thermostat,  line  from  thermostat 
to  telephone  line  and  the  sen- 
sitive relay  would  form  a  com- 
plete circuit.  This  circuit  would 
have  either  a  D.C.  or  A.C. 
voltage  of  12  volts  to  48  volts 
applied  to  it  to  activate  the 
sensitive  relay  when  the  ther- 
mostat switch  was  closed.  The 
telephone  company  has  a  maxi- 
mum value  for  voltage  that  thsy 
allow   on  their   lines. 

A  second  circuit  would  be 
located  in  the  grower's  home. 
This  might  consist  of  a  simple 
doorbell  circuit  in  which  the 
sensitive  relay  in  the  first  cir- 
cuit would  act  as  a  switch  to 
ring  the  doorbell  when  the  bog 
temperature  reached  the  level 
for  which  the  thermostat  was 
set. 

There  are  at  least  two  ar- 
rangements that  may  be  used 
in  the  circuitry  for  the  warn- 
ing system.  The  first  that 
would  probably  come  to  the 
mind  of  the  layman  would  be 
to  have  the  thermostat  switch 
close  when  the  temperature 
fell  to  the  setting.  This  would 
permit  current  to  flow  through 
the  circuit  leading  from  the 
bog  to  the  house,  the  sensitive 

SEVEN 


relay  would  be  activated,  clos- 
ing the  alarm  circuit  switch, 
thus  sounding  the  alarm.  A 
disadvantage  of  this  arrange- 
ment is  that  an  accidental 
break  anywhere  in  the  long 
circuit  would  prevent  the  re- 
ceipt of  a  signal  when  the 
thermostat  closed.  This  could 
easily  happen  if  either  the  tele- 
phone company  line  or  the 
grower's  own  lines  were  broken 
bv  a  storm  or  other  cause.  In 
the  second  arrangement,  which 
would  protect  against  the  haz- 
ards of  accidental  breaks  in  the 
telephone  company  line  circuit, 
the  circuit  would  be  closed 
when  the  temperature  was 
above  the  thermostat  setting 
and  the  thermostat  switch 
would  open  when  the  tempera- 
ture fell  to  the  setting.  In  this 
arrangement  the  sensitive  relay 
would  be  activated,  holding 
the  alarm  circuit  switch  open, 
while  the  temperature  remained 
above  the  setting  but  when  the 
thermostat  switch  opened,  the 
relay  would  be  de-energized  al- 
lowing the  alarm  circuit  s.witch 
to  close  by  gravity  or  bv  spring 
action.  With  this  circuitry,  any 
break  in  the  line  leading  from 
the  bog  to  the  house  would 
set  off  the  alarm.  Therefore,  if 
the  circuit  were  accidentaly 
opened  at  a  time  when  there 
obviously  was  no  danger  of 
frost  the  grower  would  then 
be  alert  to  take  normal  precau- 
tions against  frost  until  the 
trouble  had  been  corrected. 

Experimental    System 

A  warning  system  like  that 
described  above  is  being  tested 
at  the  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  (Figure  1). 
A  remote-bulb  thermostat,  ( Fig- 
ure 2,  see  photograph  on  front 
cover)  with  single  pole,  double 
throw  switch  was  installed  on 
the  cranberry  bog.  A  pair  of 
lead  wires  were  run  from  the 
thermostat  to  the  telephone 
junction  box  in  the  headquar- 
ters building,  a  distance  of  1000 
feet.  At  the  junction  box  the 
wires  from  the  thermostat  are 
connected  to  a  pair  of  telephone 
company    wires    which    run    to 


the  residence  of  one  of  the 
Cranberry  Station  staff  via  the 
telephone  exchange  office  (a 
distance  of  about  four  miles). 
This  line  is  leased  from  the 
telephone  company  for  $5.00  a 
month.  It  is  protected  from  ac- 
cidental crossing  with  other 
telephone  circuits  by  special 
labels  at  all  junction  points  indi- 
cating tliat  it  is  a  private  line. 
At  the  residence  the  telephone 
company  wires  connect  to  a 
sensitive  relay  (Figure  3)  that 
operates  a  single  pole,  double 
throw  switch.  This  switch  con- 
trols a  separate  16-volt  alarm 
bell  circuit.  The  alarm  bell 
circuit  consists  of  a  door  chime, 
a  low  voltage  lamp,  a  toggle 
switch  (Figure  4),  and  a  small 
16-volt  10- watt  transformer  (Fig- 
ure 5).  The  transformer  reduces 
the  120-volt  house  current  to 
16  volts  for  the  alarm  circuit. 
The  chime  and  lamp  are  in- 
stalled in  the  circuit  in  parallel 
to  each  other.  The  toggle 
switch  is  in  series  with  the 
cliime  permitting  the  chime  to 
be  de-energized  after  the  alarm 
sounds.  The  lamp  remains  in 
the  circuit  and  acts  as  a  pilot 
light  while  the  bell  circuit  is 
energized.  The  alarm  bell  cir- 
cuit is  connected  to  the  nor- 
mally closed  contacts  of  the 
relay.  This  means  that  these 
contacts  are  normally  closed 
when  the  relay  is  not  energized. 
Therefore,  the  relay  must  be 
energized  to  hold  the  contacts 
open.  Wlien  the  relay  is  de- 
energized  for  any  reason  the 
contacts  will  close  causing  the 
bell  to  ring  and  the  lamp  to 
Hght.  The  lamp  also  acts  as  an 
inexpensive  standby  for  the 
bell,  thereby  providing  greater 
reliability  in  the  system. 

The  line  at  the  bog  thermo- 
stat is  connected  to  the  swich 
terminals  that  are  normally 
closed  when  the  temperature  is 
above  the  thermostat  setting 
thus  providing  a  closed  circuit 
to  the  sensitive  relay  when- 
ever the  temperature  is  up.  This 
circuit  is  energized  by  a  24 
volt  D.C.  source  thereby  keep- 
ing the  sensitive  relay  activated 
and     holding    the     alarm    bell 


switch  open.  Wlien  the  temp- 
erature falls  below  the  ther- 
mostat setting,  the  thermostat 
switch  opens,  breaking  the  cir- 
cuit to  the  relay,  which  releases 
the  alarm  bell  switch  allowing 
it  to  close  and  sound  the  alarm. 
The  system  was  installed  on 
May  18th,  1965,  and  has  been 
used  for  two  spring  and  two 
fall  frost  seasons.  It  has  not 
failed  to  signal  each  time  tem- 
perature fell  to  the  thermostat 
setting. 

Cost    of    the    Experimental   Alarm    System 

The  cost  of  the  components 
of  the  experimental  system  was 
approximately  $50  as  follows: 
Thermostat,  remote  bulb, 

single-pole,  double-throw 

$20.00 
Sensitive  relay,  24  V.  D.C, 

125  miliwatt  power  5.00 

Door  Chime  5.00 

Transformer,  16  volt,  10 

watt  3.00 

Wire,  if  22  gauge  had  been 

used  the  value  would 

be.  17.00 

Total  S50.00 

In  addition  to  the  cost  of  the 
components  there  was  a  tele- 
phone  company  installation 
charge  of  $10.00  and  there  is 
a  monthlv  service  charge  of 
$5.00.  The  installation  of 
equipment  and  wiring  at  either 
end  of  the  telephone  company 
lines  was  done  by  Station  per- 
sonnel and  labor  costs  were  not 
calculated. 

Versatility   of    the   System 

Although  the  system  has 
been  described  as  a  frost  warn- 
ing device  for  cranberry  grow- 
ers it  may  have  considerably 
Mdder  application  than  that. 
First  of  all,  there  is  no  reason 
that  it  could  not  be  used  by 
ether  fruit  and  vegetable  grow- 
ers and  it  would  seem  that 
the  increased  use  of  sprinkler 
irrigation  for  frost  protection 
should  generate  an  increased 
interest  in  such  a  system  where 
the  operator  does  not  live 
adjacent  to  the  crop  that  needs 
protection.  In  the  Massachu- 
setts cranberry  belt  many 
owners  have  property  widely 
scattered  and  quite  distant  from 


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Figure  I.  Schematic  of  Telephone-Frost-Warning 
ci  rcui t  showi  ng  thermostat  location, 
telephone  lines  and  alarm  bell  circuit 


Figure  5, 


Figure  3.  Sensitive  relay 
at  end  of  tele- 
phone I  i  ne. 


Electrical  panel 
showing  door  bell 
transformer  (up- 
per rfght)  con- 
nected to  house 
ci  rcui t 


Figure  4.  Door  chime  with  toggle  switch  and  pilot 
light  mounted  in  separate  box  at  right 


their  residence.  Tliis  is  the 
leason  for  taking  advantage  of 
the  telephone  cojnpany  Private- 
Line-Signal-Service. 

The  alternative  to  the  use  of 
the  Private-Line-Signal-Service 
where  there  is  no  telephone  line 
lietvveen  the  crop  to  be  protec- 
ted and  the  sleeping  ([uarters 
of  the  operator  is  almost  too  ob- 
ioiis  to  merit  mentioning  here. 
That  is,  the  use  of  the  previ- 
ously mentioned  type  thermo- 
stat, at  the  proper  location  in 
the  crop  area,  connected  to  a 
low  \()ltage  bell  in  the  sleep- 
ing quarters.  The  sensitive  re- 
lay may  not  be  necessary  if  the 
resistance  in  the  lines  from  tlie 
thermostat  were  not  too  great 
to  prevent  operation  of  the 
bell.  If  available  wattage  were 
too  low  to  allow  operation  of 
the  bell  the  same  arrangement 
of  two  separate  circuits  de- 
scribed earlier  would  be  neces- 
sary. In  this  case,  however,  the 
telephone  company  Private-Line 
Signal-Service  would  not  be 
used. 

In  addition  to  its  use  as  a 
frost  warning  system  the  equip- 
tnent  and  lines  may  be  used 
for  numerous  signalling  pur- 
poses. With  \andalism  seem- 
ingly on  the  increase  in  rural 
areas  it  might  prove  valuable 
as  a  burglar  alarm.  It  could 
also  be  used  as  a  fire  alarm. 
And,  if  a  frost  protection 
sprinkler  system  were  set  up  to 
start  automatically  it  could  be 
used  to  signal  the  start  or  fail- 
Tu-e  to  start  of  a  pump.  A  littk> 
thought  and  imagination  would 
doubtless  result  in  the  concep- 
tion of  numerous  other  possi- 
bilities for  using  the  Private- 
Line-Signal  Service  in  agricul- 
ture. 

Those  uses  listed  above  could 
all  \er\'  easily  be  provided  si- 
multaneously on  a  single  line. 
If  the  normally  closed  circuit 
were  used  the  various  sensing 
devices  would  be  connected  in 
series  in  the  line  so  that  a 
break  in  the  circuit  at  any  one 
of  the  locations  would  set  off 
the  alarm.  If  a  normally  open 
circuit  were  used  the  sensing 
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A  Cranterrv  Ringsool 
Disease  Muring 
Searles  Variehi 


by  DONALD  M.  BOONE 

(Associate  Professor,  Department  of  Plant  Pathology, 
University  of  Wisconsin,   Madison,   Wisconsin.) 


A  cranberry  disease  with 
characteristic  ringspot  symptoms 
has  been  found  in  a  few 
marshes  in  Wisconsin.  It  is  ap- 
parently the  same  as  that  found 
by  Stretch  (1964)  in  New  Jer- 
sey. Its  effects  on  the  fruit  of 
Searles  variety  are  severe 
enough  that  it  should  be  con- 
sidered potentially  threatening 
to  profitable  growing  of  this 
variety. 

Many  of  the  fruits,  of  diseased 
Searles  become  misshapen  (Fig. 
lA)  and  some  show  brown  ne- 
crosis at  the  blossom  end  (Fig. 
IB).  Some  small  berries  be- 
come entirely  brown  from  it. 
Whitish  rings  or  pale,  round 
patches  form  on  the  fruits  as 
they  begin  to  ripen.  Berries 
from  diseased  vines  showed 
four  to  five  times  more  spoil- 
age after  four  months  storage 
at  47  °F  than  berries  from 
healthy  vines. 

This  disease  has  also  been 
found  on  the  Howes  variety, 
and  usually  produces  larger  and 
more  distinctive  rings  (Fig  IC) 
on  this  than  on  Searles.  It  does 
not  cause  much  malformation 
of  Howes  fruit,  though. 

Ring  symptoms  also  develop 
on  the  leaves  of  Searles  and 
Howes  (Fig.  ID).  The  rings 
become  most  apparent  as  the 
leaves  assume  their  reddish  fall 
color. 

FOURTEEN 


Diseased  vines  of  both  vari- 
eties appear  to  be  as  vigorous 
and  fruitful  as  healthy  ones, 
but  there  has  been  some  indi- 
cation that  terminal  buds,  on 
diseased  Searles  vines  may 
sometimes  develop  prematurely, 
in  the  fall,  and  then  are  too 
susceptible  to  winter  injury. 

Ringspot  appears  to  spread 
rather  slowly,  yet  nearly  all  the 
vines  in  one  Searles  bed  were 
aflFected  and  the  disease  was 
spreading  to  surrounding  beds. 
It  was  also  abundant  in  a  new 


bed  planted  with  cuttings  from 
the  bed  that  first  showed  the 
disease. 

The  characteristics  of  the 
ringspot  disease  indicate  that  it 
is  caused  by  a  virus.  However, 
the  means  of  natural  spread  of 
the  disease  from  vine  to  vine 
has  not  been  determined  and  it 
has  not  been  transmitted  ex- 
perimentally yet.  The  false 
blossom  virus  disease  was  found 
occasionally  in  some  of  the 
marshes  where  ringspot  was 
observed,  but  the  great  differ- 


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ence  in  symptoms  indicates  that 
the  two  diseases  are  not  re- 
lated. 

Since  Searles  shows  the  most 
injury  from  ringspot  and  is  the 
most  widely  grown  variety  in 
Wisconsin,    spread    of    the    di- 


sease in  the  state  should  be 
prevented.  Perhaps  some  other 
varieties  might  be  injured 
also.  To  prevent  spread  of 
ringspot,  vines  suspected  of 
being  contaminated  with  it 
should  not  be  used  to  plant 
new  cranberry  beds. 


Literature  Cited 

1.  Stretch,  A.  W.  1964.  Cran- 
berry disease  investigations  — 
1962.  Proceedings  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers' Association  1961-1964, 
32-34. 


A 


B 


D 

FIGURE  I.  Ringspot  symptoms  on  cranberry 
leaves.  AB-Searles  berries  show 
and  malformation.   C-Howes  berr 
i ng  rings.   D-Cranberry  leaves 
rings. 


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FIFTEEN 


Massachusetts 
Club  Meetings 

Tlu'  tentati\e  dates  for  the 
1967  Craiibern  Club  Meetings 
are  as   follows: 

B(iiiisl(i])le  Counhj 

l^anistal)le  —  Febriiarv    16, 
7:30  P.  M. 

Hanistable  -  Marcli   16. 
7:30  P.  M. 


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daughter of  Harold  AA.  Williams,  president  of  the  Institute  of  Ameri- 
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fraction  over  one  pound  per  capita.  It  is  estimated  that  this  year 
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Fltjinontli   Counhj 


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7:30  P.  M. 

Kocliester  —  Febniaiv    15, 
2:00  P.M. 

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WASHINGTON 


In  Washington  "spring"  -  like 
weather  continues,  and  the 
primroses,  snow  drops,  azalias 
and  rhododendrons  in  some 
yards  are  blooming  already. 

Light  snow  fell  on  January 
4th  but  so  far  there  are  no 
visible  signs  that  winter  is 
here,  or  has  come.  Christmas 
Day  was  beautiful  and  warm 
and  all  enjoyed  the  holidays 
with  little   rain. 

The  mean  high  for  the  month 
was  only  48.42  degrees  with  a 
high  of  55  on  the  15th,  but  the 
sun  has  come  out  often  between 
showers.  The  mean  low  of  41.19 
degrees  F  gave  little  variance 
for  the  month,  and  the  actual 
low  in  the  bog  area  was  28 
degrees  on  the  21st  and  the 
26th.  The  cranberry  buds  are 
progressing  rapidly  and  a  hard 
freeze  now  could  cause  a  great 
deal  of  injury. 

The  growers  are  doing  their 
pruning  and  general  chores 
for  this  time  of  year.  There 
have  been  a  few  soil  samples 
sent  to  the  experiment  station 
so  far  this  year,  but  now  is  the 
time  to  get  the  analysis  done 
and  have  the  recommendations 
back  for  proper  bog  fertility 
for  the  year  ahead.  The  soil 
sample  cartons  and  sampling 
instructions  are  available  at  the 
Coastal  Washington  Research 
and  Extension  Unit,  Long 
Beach,  Washington. 

Precipitation  for  the  month 
of  December  was  heavy,  20.37 
inches  with  2.98  inches  on  the 
3rd.  We  had  onlv  two  days 
with  no  measurable  precipita- 
tion. The  total  for  the  year 
was.  87.20,  compared  with  1965 
total  of  86.87,  1964  -  85.25. 


NEW    J  ERSEY 


December     Varied 

December  in  the  cranberry 
belt  of  New  Jersey  had  a  little 
bit  of  all  of  the  seasons  but 
the  prevailing  mood  of  course 
was  wintry.  From  the  6th  to 
the  9th  it  was  almost  balmy 
with  temperatures  reaching  47, 
54  and  69.  Then  for  a  couple 
of  days  it  was  almost  like  sum- 
mer time  with  maximums  of  73 
and  minimums  of  50.  There 
were  a  few  days  in  the  six- 
ties and  fifties  and  then  the 
weather  reverted  to  type.  It 
was  cold  enough  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  month  to  bring  the 
average  temperature  down  to 
35.0,  about  1  degrees  colder 
than  normal.  A  snow  storm  on 
December  24th  deposited  7  to 
10  inches  of  ornament  and  gave 
the  first  white  Christmas  in 
several  years. 

The  ice  on  flooded  cranberry 
bogs  never  got  thick  enough  to 

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support   skating.    Although   the 
snow  accumulated  over  the  ice 
there  was  no  chance  for  serious 
oxygen  deficiency  conditions  to 
develop.   The  snow  was  quickly 
dissipated      by      fifty      degree 
weather    and    a    warm    rain   of 
1.05  inches  on  December  29th. 
Statistically  the  year  of  1966 
will  go  into  the  records  as  one 
of    above    average    rainfall.     A 
total    of    46.43    inches    of    rain 
occurred  during  the  year,  which 
is    more    than    3    inches    above 
normal.       From     the     grower's 
viewpoint,  however,  it  was  an- 
other of  a  series  of  bad  drought 
years.    In  the  important   grow- 
and   August   there   was    a   lack 
of    normal   rainfall    while    May 
and  September  had  more  than 
normal.     The    accumulated   de- 
ficiency   of   rainfall    from   April 
to  September,  when  the  drought 
was   finallv    relieved,    was    4.43 
inches.    This   added  to   the  ac- 
cumulated  deficiency    of   about 


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20  inches  from  tlie  previous 
two  drought  years  left  cran- 
berry water  resources  in  a  very 
critical  condition.  The  copious 
rainfall  which  occurred  in  Sep- 
tember and  Otober  ( 15.66  in- 
ches) was  a  godsend  to  the 
cranberry  area  in  New  Jersey. 
Reservoirs  and  ground  water 
resources  on  almost  all  cran- 
berry bogs  in  the  state  are 
now  at  near  capacity. 

1966    In    Review 

Summarizing  1966  tempera- 
ture records  we  find  that  the 
year  was  slightly  cooler  than 
normal.  The  average  tempera- 
ture was  52.7  degrees  F,  about 
1.7  degree  below  normal.  Only 
4  months,  March,  July,  August 
and  November  were  warmer 
than  normal.  January,  April, 
May  and  September  wer  very 
much  colder  than  normal.  It 
was  by  far  the  coldest  April  on 
record  at  the  weather  station 
and  the  third  coldest  May.  The 
two  months  together  made  it 
the  coldest  spring  ever  recorded 
here. 

Some  of  the  extreme  weather 
conditions  which  occurred  in 
1966  are  notewothy.  A  very 
destructive  frost  on  May  11th, 
when  temperatues  in  low  lying 
blueberry  fields  plunged  to  18 
to  20  degrees,  caused  serious 
damage  to  the  early  varieties  of 
blues.  Three  successive  days 
of  100  degrees  weather  in  July 
on  the  2nd,  3rd,  and  4th  in  the 
midst  of  the  severe  drought 
caused  agricultural  losses.  An 
old  fashioned  "northeaster"  in 
September  dumped  5.25  inches 
of  rain  and  brought  relief  from 
the  drought.  A  storm  on  Janu- 
ary 30th  left  IIV2  inches  of 
snow  and  generally  paralyzed 
traffic  for  a  while.  The  mini- 
mum temperatures  on  the  of- 
ficial weather  bureau  shelter 
in  1966  was  3  above  zero  on 
February  20th. 


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EIGHTEEN 


MASSACHUSETTS 


The  month  of  December 
was  dry  in  the  Massachusetts 
cranberry  area.  The  precipi- 
tation stood  at  2.47  inches 
which  was  approximately  1% 
inches  below  the  normal  for 
this  month.  It  was  warm  with 
average  daily  temperatures  iy2 
degrees  above  the  seasonal 
normal   for   this   period. 

The  first  two-thirds  of  the 
month  was  warm  and  the 
final  one-third  of  December 
turned  nuch  colder. 

There  were  no  heavy  snow 
storms  during  this  period  of 
time.  Total  snow  accumulation 
was  6.1  inch,  this  being  slightly 
above  the  December  average. 
The  snowfall  occurred  on  the 
4th,  22nd,  25th  and  29th. 

Continued  on  Page  2A 


FASM  BUREAU 


By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau   Staff   Assistant 

Legislative  activities  of  Farm 
Bureau  are  vital  to  farmers. 
Mr.  Philip  N.  Good,  Executive 
Secretary  and  Legislative  Coun- 
sel for  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau   Federation    reports. 


WISCONSIN   FOOD  EXPOSITION 
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story-book  pumpkin  coach,  will 
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in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  Sep- 
tember 15-24,  1967. 

The  ten-day  annual  event 
will  unveil  the  100-foot  high,  6 
million  -  dollar,  air  -  conditioned 
Coliseum  on  a  150-acre  site 
on  Lake  Monona. 

Bruce  C.  Walter,  Executive 
Director  of  the  World  Food 
Exposition,  described  the  Ex- 
position as  "a  fantasia  of  food, 
but  with  a  far-visioned  purpose 
of  seeking  new  answers  to 
world  hunger." 

Along  with  the  Exposition, 
the  World  Dairy  Show  will 
also  be  held.  Located  in  new 
facilities  on  the  same  150-acre 
Exposition  site,  the  Dairy  Show 
will  house  over  1500  head  of 
the  world's  finest  cattle  for  open 
competition. 


THE  CHALLENGING  YEAR 

IN  THE 

GENERAL   COURT 

The  year  1967  is  to  be  one 
of  the  most  challenging  years 
for  Farm  Bureau  in  the  Mas- 
sachusetts General  Court.  The 
farmers  of  Massachusetts  have 
more  vital  issues  facing  them 
than  ever  before.  The  problems 
caused  by  legislation  filed  this 
year  are  equal  to,  if  not  ex- 
ceeding the  obstacles  that  were 
overcome  in  obtaining  the  pas- 
sage of  such  excellent  pieces  of 
legislation  as  the  Farm  Animal 
Excise   Tax. 

Farm  labor  and  minimum 
wage  for  farm  workers  is  to 
be  a  key  issue.  There  have 
been  several  pieces  of  legisla- 
tion filed  to  remove  farming 
from  the  exempt  list  under  the 
minimum  wage  and  hours  law. 
This  legislation  has  been  filed 
by  several  sources  including 
the  Massachusetts  State  Labor 
Council,  A.F.L.-C.I.O.  and  Sen- 
ator Beryl  Cohen  of  Brookline 
and  Marie  Umana  of  East 
Boston.  A  t>'pical  reaction  by 
Farmers  to  the  announcement 
that  this  legislation  has  been 
filed  is  that  because  \\'e  are 
pa\ing  more  than  the  minimiun 
wage,  this  really  won't  hurt  us. 
However,   this   is   not   so.    The 


removal  of  the  farming  exemp- 
tion from  the  minimum  wage 
law  would  mean  that  farm 
workers  would  be  subject  to 
overtime  pay  after  a  40  hour 
week  in  Massachusetts.  This 
would  undoubtedly  mean  an 
increase  in  the  farm  labor  force 
as  farmers  could  not  afford  to 
pay  their  employees  at  an  ov- 
ertime rate.  It  would  also 
bring  into  consideration  the 
cost  of  room,  board  and  other 
contiibutions  made  by  the  em- 
ployer to  the  employee's  wel- 
fare when  computing  the  wage. 
It  Avould  also  place  farmers 
under  the  control  of  the  De- 
partment of  Labor  and  indus- 
tiy,  making  them  subject  to 
rules  and  regulations  of  the 
Commissioner  and  the  Wage 
Board. 

There  is  a  strong  move  to 
see  that  the  minimum  wage 
exemption  is  removed.  Labor  is 
making  it  a  major  issue,  we 
understand,  as  are  social  think- 
ing Senators  and  Representa- 
tives who  are  for  the  "little 
man."  They  are  going  to  push 
for  this  legislation.  This  will 
be  a  number  one  fight  and  is 
going  to  require  a  strong,  well- 
financed  Farm  Bureau  to  win 
on  this  issue. 

Housing  of   Farm  Workers 

There  are  three  bills  that 
have  been  filed  dealing  with  the 
housing  of  farm  workers.  They 
have  been  filed  by  A.F.L.-C.I.O. 
Senator  Beryl  Cohen  of  Brook- 
line  and  of  all  the  organizations, 
the    Massachusetts    Selectmen's 


Association.  These  various  pieces 
of  legislation  would  require 
farmers  to  obtain  ficenses  be- 
fore they  could  house  mi- 
grant workers. 

The  ironical  thing  in  the 
whole  matter  of  farm  housing 
is  that  farmers  through  Farm 
Bureau  in  cooperation  with  the 
Massachusetts  Department  of 
Public  Health,  the  Boston  Uni- 
versity of  Public  Health  de- 
veloped Article  three  of  the 
Sanitary  Code  entitled:  "Hous- 
ing and  Sanitary  Standards  for 
Farm  Labor  Camps."  These 
standards  which  have  the  force 
of  law  have  been  considered 
to  be  the  model  for  all  mi- 
grant labor  housing  in  the 
country. 

We  now  find  that  there  are 
those  who  do  not  feel  that  the 
Sanitary  Code  goes  far  enough 
or  the  enforcement  of  the  Sjin- 
itary  Code  is  sufficient.  These 
people  fail  to  recognize  that  no 
legislative  action  can  cause  men 


to  keep  their  barracks  clean, 
especially  when  we  have  a 
rainy  week.  The  movement  of 
a  Massachusetts  Selectmen's  As- 
sociation into  this  particular 
area  is  one  that  causes  consid- 
erable concern  on  my  part  as 
to  why  they  should  get  involved 
in  this  particular  matter  when 
the  legislation  asks  for  the  li- 
censing by  the  Board  of  Health 
rather  than  the  Board  of  Select- 
men. 


It  causes  me  to  wonder  as 
to  why  organizations  like  the 
Selectmen's  Association,  Con- 
servation Council,  etc.  which 
are  totally  financed  by  the  tax- 
payers' money  should  enter  into 
the  legislative  arena,  using  your 
money  and  my  money  to  pay 
for  the  legislative  agents  to 
carry  out  programs  designed  to 
hurt  you  and  me. 


To   be   concluded    next   month 


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NINETEEN 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 


and  the  only  prolonged  cold 
spell  came  from  the  19th  thru 
the  28th.  Total  precipitation  for 
the  month  was  2.47  inches 
which  is  about  1%  inches  less 
than  the  average.  Snowfall  was 
6.1  inches  which  is  slightly 
above  average,  snow  occurred 
on  the  4th,  22nd,  25th  and 
29th. 


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For  the  year  1966  the  tem- 
perature was  slightly  above 
normal  with  69  degrees  or 
about  0.2  of  a  degree  a  day 
on  the  plus  side.  Total  precipi- 
tation was  36.87  inches,  which 
was  10  inches  below  the  thirty 
year  average  at  the  Cranberry 
Station,  but  9  inches  more  than 
in  1965.  Snowfall  totalled  ,34.2 
inches  or  about  25  percent 
above  the  mean.  Highest  tem- 
perature was  92  degrees  on 
July  12  and  the  lowest  — 2  de- 
grees on  February  8  as  recorded 
in  the  weather  shelter  at  the 
Station.  Largest  single  snow- 
fall for  the  year  was  6.5  inches 
on  February  25th  and  heaviest 
rainfall  was  2.66  inches  on 
November  2  and  3. 


Professor  to  his  students: 
"This  exam  will  be  on  the 
honor  system.  Please  take  seats 
three  seats  apart  in  alternate 
rows." 


TELEPHONE  WARNNG 
DEVICE  FOR  CRANBERRIES 
Continued  from  Page  7 

devices  would  be  connected 
across  the  line  in  parallel  and 
closing  of  the  circuit  at  any 
one  location  would  set  off  the 
alarm. 

This  signalling  system  is  de- 
scribed primarily  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Massachusetts  cranberry 
growers  who  could  benefit 
by  its  use.  (The  return  from 
ten  extra  barrels  of  cranberries 
could  easily  pay  the  initial  in- 
vestment and  an  annual  reduc- 
tion in  loss  to  frost  of  six  bar- 
rels would  pay  the  telephone 
service  charges)  .  However,  the 
availability  of  the  telephone 
company  Private-Line-  Signal- 
Service  apparently  is  not  some- 
thing that  is  common  know- 
ledge so  this  information  alone 
may  be  more  useful  to  other 
segments  of  agriculture  than 
the  design  details  outlined 
above. 


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TWENTY 


Wisconsin's  New  Water 
Resources  Manaoement 
Law  Expiained  in  Brief 


The  following  is  the  second  instalment  of  the  boiled-down  version  of 
the  original  bill  to  control  water  pollution  and  management  of  Wis- 
consin's water  resources.  Much  of  the  information  in  the  report  is 
very  general  and  probably  oversimplified  but,  hopeftdly,  it  will  pro- 
vide some  background  information  that  will  help  to  clarify  the  bill 
which  went  into  effect  on  August  1,  1966. 

The  series  is  in  three  instalments,  and  will  be  concluded  in  the  February 
issue  of  Cranberries. 


The  Department  of  Resource 
Development  must  select  water 
quality  criteria  as  standards 
which  adequately  reflect  sev- 
eral water  quality  factors.  These 
factors     include     variabilitv    of 


PART  III 

The  new  water  resource  man- 
agement law  authorizes  the  re- 
organized Department  of  Re- 
source Development  to  estab- 
lish water  quality  standards  for  natural  water  quality,  present 
all  waters  of  the  state.  conditions    of    streams,    current 

and  potential  uses,  regional  in- 

These  standards    are    applied      terests,   and  the   general  public 
to  a  stream  for  the  preservation      interest,  Brick  points   out. 
and    protection    of   the    present 

and    future    use    of    the   water.  Recognition  of  these  variables 

These  standards  are  based  on  resulted  in  the  regional  and 
the  water  quality  criteria  re-  state  advisory  board  provisions 
quired  to  maintain  a  particular  of  the  water  bill.  These  regi- 
use,  says  Ed  Brick,  water  re-  onal  boards  advise  the  Depart- 
sources  speciaHst  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  water  re- 
sources  center. 


In    a    trout    stream,    for    ex- 


ment  of  Resource  Development 
on  regional  water  quality  stand- 
ards and  on  state-wide  water 
quaity  standards.  This  is  done 
through  regional  representatives 
ample,  water  temperature  and  on  the  state  advisory  board, 
dissolved    oxygen    content    are 

important  water  quality  criteria.  The    federal    Water    Quality 

Water  for  domestic  use  also  Act  of  1965  requires  states  to 
has  many  criteria,  including  select  water  quality  criteria  for 
bacterial  quality,  color,  and  to-  interstate  and  boundary  waters 
tal  dissolved  solids.  before    July    1,    1967.     If    these 

criteria    are    acceptable   to    the 
These    requirements    can    be      federal    givemment,    they    will 
developed  for  a  wide  range  of     become  the  water  quality  stand- 
water     uses     through     research      ards    for    these    waters.     If    the 


and  a  review  of  practical  ex- 
perien'^e.  Although  final  agree- 
ment on  all  of  these  require- 
ments has  not  been  achieved, 
they  are  accepted  as  identifi- 
able b"  most  speciaHsts. 


states  do  not  act,  the  federal 
government  will  set  standards 
for  them. 

Adequate     enforcement     pro- 
vision must  accompany  the  es- 


tabhshment  of  sound  water 
quahty  standards  to  assure  the 
success  of  this  program,  Brick 
stresess.  Enforcement  reHes 
on  accurate  knowledge  of  pol- 
lution and  its  sources. 

Officials  need  a  system  that 
can  measure  the  quality  of  a 
stream  and  also  detect  the  sour- 
ces and  amounts  of  materials 
harmful  to  the  quality  of  the 
stream. 

Wisconsin  has  a  good  start 
in  the  area  of  water  quality 
control.  Brick  says.  Stringent 
enforcement  powers  and  pen- 
alties provided  for  by  the  new 
law  augment  the  actions  of  the 
state  committee  on  water  pol- 
lution. 

These  new  powers,  coupled 
with  an  increased  teclmical 
staff  and  adequate  legal  sup- 
port, will  allow  Wisconsin  to 
move  steadily  toward  the  goal 
of  clean  water  through  reason- 
able use  of  the  state's  water 
resources. 


PART  IV 

Wisconsin's  new  water  re- 
sources management  law  rec- 
ognizes the  financial  difficulties 

TWENTY-ONE 


that  some  communities  and  in- 
dustries might  have  in  hand- 
hng  and  treating  wastes,  and 
proposes  to  do  something  about 
it. 

A  state  loan  program  for  con- 
struction of  "polhition  preven- 
tion and  abatement  facihties" 
is  provided  in  the  law  to  help 
local  government  and  sanitary 
districts.  An  annual  appropria- 
tion of  $6  million  is  provided 
to  pay  the  bond  interest  costs 
assumed  by  the  state  as  part 
of  its  program  to  stop  pollution 
from   municipalities. 

The  precise  meaning  of  the 
phrase  "pollution  prevention  and 
abatement  facilities"  is  still  in 
question,  and  the  resource  de- 
velopment board  has  requested 
a  legal  clarification  of  the  word- 
ing. It  is  probably  that  the 
legal  interpretation  will  permit 
financial  assistance  to  munici- 
palities for  construction  of 
sewerage  treatment  facilities, 
sewerage  systems,  interceptor 
sewers,      and      sewers      around 


lakes.  Common  sewers  around 
some  lakes  could  replace  in- 
adequate, private  septic  tanks, 
and  lead  to  greater  control  ot 
lake   pollution   and   enrichment. 

In  a  similar  manner,  the 
water  law  recognizes  the  sav- 
ing which  can  be  realized  by 
large  scale  treatment  of  wastes 
from  several  small  communities. 
The  law  provides  for  joint  ac- 
tion by  two  or  more  municipal- 
ities in  solving  their  mutual 
problems  of  waste  treatment. 

Private  industries  could  also 
benefit  from  this  program  by 
contracting  with  municipalities 
for  waste  treatment  services. 
The  municipality  could  receive 
financial  help  from  the  state  to 
construct  necessary  treatment 
facilities. 

Direct  incentives  to  industry 
to  construct  pollution  abatement 
facilities  are  also  provided  in 
the  law.  The  first  provision  al- 
lows state  income  tax  relief  to 
industries    which    construct   ap- 


proved pollution  abatement  fa- 
cilities. The  second  provision 
authorizes  a  permanent  exemp- 
fion  from  real  estate  taxes  on 
]:>;  llution  abatement  equipment 
installed   by    industries. 

The  law  recognizes  that  it 
is  of  little  value  to  install  pol- 
lution abatement  facilities  if 
such  equipment  is  not  operated 
properly.  To  insure  proper  op- 
eration, the  Department  of  Re- 
source Development  will  es- 
tablish a  mandatory  certification 
program  for  all  sewerage  plant 
and   waterworks    operators. 

To  he  Concluded  Next  Month 


A  downtown  retailer  sent  an 
order  to  a  distributor  for  a 
sizeable  amount  of  merchan- 
dise. The  distributor  wired: 
"Can't  ship  until  \ou  pay  for 
your  last  consignment." 

The  retailer  wired  back  (col- 
lect ) :  "Can't  wait  that  long. 
Please   cancel  order." 


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TWENTY-TWO 


Dr.   Frederick  Chandler 

Dr.  Frederick  B.  Chandler, 
a  scientist  widely  known  for 
his  cranberry  research  work, 
died  December  21  at  Tobey 
Hospital  in  Wareham,  Massa- 
chusetts after  a  long  illness. 
He  was  63  and  had  been  a 
resident  of  Marion  the  last  10 
years,  making  his  home  at  65 
Front   Street. 

Dr.  Chandler  retired  two 
years  ago  from  his  work  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts 
Cranberry  Experimental  Station 
in  East  Wareham. 

Dr.  Chandler  was  born  in 
Machias,  Me.  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Rnlph  Chandler,  and  had 
workeH  in  Wareham  for  more 
than  27  years. 

He  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Universitv  of  Maine,  where  he 
received  a  Bachelor  of  Science 
degree  in  1928.  He  received  his 
Ph.D.  from  the  University  of 
Marvland  in  1938.  He  said  re- 
cently "T  worked  seven  months 
out  of  t^he  year  and  for  three 
month?  T  went  to  school.  That's 
how  I   earned  my  doctorate." 


Affectionately  called  "Doc" 
by  his  contemporaries,  he  was 
soft-spoken,  thoughtful  and  me- 
ticulous in  his  work.  One  of  his 
research  programs  involved 
growing  species  of  cranberries 
several  times  larger  than  the 
present    varieties. 

Although  retired,  the  pro- 
fessor had  been  very  active  in 
research  work  and  recently 
wcrked  in  Nova  Scotia  for  the 
Canadian  Government  trying  to 
find  reasons  for  a  production 
drop  in  cranberry  crops  in  that 
country. 

He  was  a  member  of  the 
ATO  Fraternity,  Wareham  Ki- 
wanis  Club,  Harwood  Chapter, 
A.F.&A.M.  of  Machias,  Me.,  for 
40  year;  the  American  Associa- 
tion of  University  Professors, 
and  was  an  hororary  member 
of  several  horticultural  societies. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Mar- 
ion. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
Dec.  23  at  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Marion  with 
the  Rev.  George  A.  Robinson 
officiating.  Interment  was  at 
Evergreen     Cemetery,     Marion. 


Dennis  Rudolph 

Dennis  Rudolph,  46,  cran- 
berry grower  of  the  Knapp  re- 
gion of  Wisconsin,  died  of  a 
heart  attack  Monday,  Dec.  5, 
in  a  Tomah,  Wis.  hospital 
shortly  after  he  was  admitted. 

He  was  born  in  Monroe 
County  Dec.  6,  1920,  and  had 
lived  in  Monroe  and  Jackson 
Counties  all  his  life.  He  was 
in  business  with  his  brother 
Leonard. 

He  married  the  former  La- 
Von  Doers  12  years  ago,  and 
they  moved  to  Millston.  Fol- 
lowing the  death  of  his  wife 
in  1957,  he  made  his  home  with 
his  mother-in-law.  Mrs.  Myrtle 
Bunde. 

Survivors  include  a  son,  Kim, 
at  home;  his  father,  George  Ru- 
dolph, Warrens;  three  brothers, 
Neil  and  Leonard  of  Warrens 
and  Vern  of  Necedah;  a  sister, 
Mrs.  Robert  Schroeder  of  Mid- 
dleton;  three  stepdaughters, 
Mrs.  Tom  Waarvik  of  Madison, 
Tayna  and  Devra  Doers,  Mills- 
ton;  two  stepsons,  Lloyd  Doers, 
at  home  and  Terry,  with  the 
Air  Force  in  Texas. 


R.  Bruce  Arthur 

R.  Bruce  Arthur,  61,  husband 
cf  Helen  M.  (Sawyer)  Arthur 
of  Curlew  Pond,  Plymouth, 
Mass.  died  Dec.  23.  A  native  of 
Plymouth,  he  was  the  son  of 
the  late  Richard  W.  Arthur  and 
Ida  L.  (Taylor)  Arthur.  For 
many  years  he  was  engaged 
in  cranberry  culture.  He  was 
the  president  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Co. 

In  addition  to  his  widow,  Mr. 
Arthur  leaves  two  sisters,  Mrs. 
Secundo  (Doris)  Zucchelli  of 
Plymouth  and  Mrs.  Franklin  P. 
(Lillian)  Wilbur  of  North  Car- 
ver, Mass.;  and  several  nieces 
and  nephews. 

Private  funeral  services  were 
held  at  Beaman's  Funeral  Home 
in  Plymouth  on  Dec.  27,  at  11 
a.m.  The  Rev.  Edwin  T.  An- 
thony of  the  Church  of  the 
Pilgrimage,  Congregational,  of- 
ficiated. 

TWENTY-THREE 


Henry  Kissinger 

Funeral  services  were  held 
Wednesday  at  St.  Paul's  Lu- 
theran Church,  Tomah,  Wis- 
consin, for  Henry  Kissinger,  83, 
retired  cranberry  grower,  who 
died  at  Tomah  Jan.  1  after  a 
long  illness. 

Mr.  Kissinger  was  born  April 
17,  188.3,  in  the  town  of  Siegel, 
W^ood  County,  Wis.,  the  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Kissin- 
ger. He  was  engaged  in  the 
cranberry  business  for  40  years, 
retiring   in   1956. 

Surviving  are  his  wife,  the 
former  Celia  Zabel  of  Siegel; 
a  daughter,  Mrs.  Ted  Olsen, 
Warrens;  a  son.  Glen,  Madison; 
two  sisters,  Mrs.  Emil  Staven, 
Rt.  4.  and  Mrs.  Orren  Marks, 
W'isconsin  Rapids,  and  one 
granddaughter. 

REGIONAL  NEWS   NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  18 

WISCONSIN 


Weather 

Winter  Aveather  has  been 
slow  in  making  its  appearance 
in  Wisconsin.  Temperatlires 
have  averaged  well  above  nor- 
mal in  all  areas  so  far  in  De- 
cember with  the  mercury  on 
many  days  rising  into  the  30's 
or  low  40's  in  the  north  and 
the  40's  and  50's  over  the  south. 
A  few  scattered  nighttime  read- 
ings near  zero  or  below  were 
recorded  mainly  in  the  north- 
west on  the  1st  and  2nd  and 
again  on  the  11th  -  12th. 

The  first  10-day  period  of 
the  month  was  mostly  cloudy 
and  damp.  Some  glaze  and 
sleet  was  reported  in  most 
areas  on  the  4th.  Frequent  fog 
with  rain  showers  in  the  south 
and  east  and  rain  and  light 
snow  ov^er  the  northwest  dom- 
inated the  weather  during  the 
following  six  days.  The  snow 
cover  of  1  to  5  inches  meas- 
ured on  the  survey  date  in  the 
extreme  northwest  fell  during 
this  period.  Some  thunder  with 
hail  accompanied  some  of  these 
showers      across      the      south. 

TWENTY-FOUR 


Heaviest  rainfall  amounts  of  1 
to  2  inches  were  reported  in 
extreme  southern  and  eastern 
counties. 

The  period  from  December 
10th  to  20th  was  mostly  mild 
and  pleasant  with  a  fair  amount 
of  sunshine.  Light  snow  of  2 
to  4  iches  dusted  the  entire 
state  on  the   19th. 

The  very  mild  temperatures 
around  mid-month  returned  to 
more  seasonal  levels  after  De- 
cember 19-20  when  a  light  snow 
of  2  to  4  inches  fell  throughout 
the  state.  Heavier  amounts  of 
5  and  6  inches  were  reported 
in  the  Lake  Winnebago  area. 
This  snow  cover,  together  with 
additional  dustings,  resulted  in 
a  white  Christmas  tlirough- 
out    Wisconsin. 

Temperatures  averaged  well 
below  normal  during  the  last 
week  of  the  month  as  night- 
time reading  near  zero  or  be- 
low occurred  on  most  days. 
The  first  heavy  snowstorm  of 
the  season  moved  across  the 
state  on  the  28th  depositing 
snowfall  amounts  of  6  to  12 
inches  in  most  areas.  Lesser 
amounts  of  2  to  5  inches  from 
this  storm  were  reported  in 
some  extreme  northwestern  coun- 
ties and  in  Kenosha  County  in 
the  southeast.  The  snow  is  of 
the  light,  powdery  variety  with 
good    insulating    properties. 

Frost     Report 

The  frost  penetration  this 
year  has  been  more  rapid  than 
it  was  a  year  ago.  Last  year 
there  was  little  or  no  frost  in 
the  south  central  and  south- 
eastern counties  of  the  state 
while  this  year  the  average 
depths  range  from  2  to  11  in- 
ches. In  the  rest  of  the  state 
a  year  ago  frost  depths  were 
reported  between  3  and  10 
inches  whereas  current  indica- 
tions  are  from  4  to  24  inches. 

Winter    Chores    Underway 

Growers  are  now  busy  sand- 
ing and  quite  a  lot  of  sanding 
will  be  done  thru  the  winter. 
Roads  \vill  also  be  built  during 


the  winter  months  as  this  is 
about  the  only  time  this  can  be 
done. 

Due  to  the  heavy  snow  cover 
it  looks  like  growers  are  going 
to  ha\'e  plenty  of  water  for 
the  spring  flood  although  last 
fall  the  growers  in  the  central 
part  of  the  state  did  not  have 
enough  water  to  get  complete 
winter  flooding. 

1966    Production 

There  were  102.3  barrels  of 
cranberries  produced  per  acre 
in  1966  compared  with  93.8 
barrels  per  acre  last  year  and 
95.0  barrels  per  acre  for  the 
5-year  average. 


SPRINKLER 
SYSTEMS 

PUMPS 

HIGH  CAPACITY 

WELLS 

ROBERTS 

IRRIGATION 

SERVICE 

STEVENS   POINT 
WISCONSIN 


CORRUGATED 

CULVERT  PIPE 

and 

FLOW  GATES 

Aluminum  —  Galvenized 
Asphalt  Coated 

Felker  Bros.  Mfg.  Co. 

MARSHFIELD     WISCONSIN 

Area   715   384-3121 


serving  llie  WISCONSIN  groweps  % 


FOR  SALE 

SEARLES    JUMBO 
HOWES,  McFARLIN 
Vines 

for  delivery  in  1966 

$150  Ton  F.O.B. 

Ben  Lears  $750  Ton 
Stevens  $1000  Ton 

INTERESTED 
IN 
PURCHASING 
WISCONSIN 
CRANBERRY 
PROPERTIES 


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B.S.    &   M.S. 

University  of  Wisconsin 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Fees    Reasonable 

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Some  years  they  fetch  a  pretty  good  price.  And  other  years 
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But,  some  cranberries  get  picked  and  packed  and  sent  to 
market  with  Ocean  Spray  labels  on  them. 

They  get  their  pictures  taken.  They  get  talked  about  in 
magazines  and  newspapers.  And  on  TV  and  radio  from 
coast  to  coast. 

Over  the  years,  theyVe  fetched  a  better  price  for  their 
growers  than  any  other  cranberry. 

Every  year,  people  buy  more  of  them  than  all  other 
cranberries  combined. 

Because,  every  year,  Ocean  Spray  does  more  things  with 
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Conveniently   located    for   Cranberry    Men 


Funds  always  available  for  sound  loans 


Complete  Banking  Service 


Member  Federal  Deposit  Insurance   Corp. 


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IRRIGATION 

• 

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632  Main  St.      Acushnet,  Mass. 
WYman  5-0422 


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Irrigation  Systems 
PUMPS 

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PICKING  MACHINES 


Extensive    Experience    in 

ELECTRICAL   WORK 

ALFRED    PAPPI 

At      Screenhouses,      Bogt      and 
Pumps     Means     Satisfaction 

WARBHAM,    MASS       Tel.    CY    5-2000 


Massachusetts  Oxygen      N.  J.  Buys  Whitesbog 
Deficiency  Warning  For  ^Green  Acres' 


The  present  cold  weather 
and  recent  snow  has  resulted 
in  conditions  that  could  cause 
oxygen  deficiency  on  flooded 
bogs.  Cold  weather  is  ex- 
pected to  continue.  The  only 
practical  method  of  elimina- 
ting the  oxygen  deficiency 
hazard  is  to  remove  com- 
pletely the  winter  flood  at 
this  time- 

Shallow-flooded,  level  bogs 
probably  have  most  of  the 
vines  embedded  in  ice.  These 
should  not  be  touched.  Deep- 
flooded,  unlevel  bogs  should 
be  fully  drained  if  the  grower 
can  replace  the  flood  later  to 
prevent   winter-killing. 

Growers  without  reflooding 
capacity  must  make  the  diffi- 
cult decision  of  1)  pulling  off 
the  flood  to  avoid  oxygen-de- 
ficiency injury  in  hopes  that 
present  snow  and  ice  will  last 
into  March,  or  2)  leave  the 
flood  on,  protecting  from  win- 
terkill but  taking  the  chance 
of  leaf-drop.  Chances  seem 
better  than  50-50  that  the 
snow  and  ice  cover  will  last. 


Whitesbog,  one  of  the  larg- 
est remaining  cranberry  and 
blueberry  tracts  in  New  Jer- 
sey was  purchased  for  the 
state's  Green  Acres  program 
the  State  Department  of  Con- 
servation and  Development 
officially  announced  this 
month- 

The  3,000  acre  tract  is 
spread  over  Pemberton  town- 
ship in  Burlington  County. 
The  land  adjoins  Lebanon 
State  Forest. 

It  was  reported  the  state 
paid  $431,803  to  purchase  the 
property  from  the  J.  J.  White 
Company. 

The  transfer  of  the  prop- 
erty to  the  state  means  a  loss 
in  $255,000  in  ratables  to  Pem- 
berton township  and  that  ap- 
proximately 350  acres  were 
retained  along  Rte.  70  where 
the  White  Co.  is  developing 
new  cranberry  bogs  and  blue- 
berry fields  and  plans  to  erect 
new  quarters  for  field  work- 
ers. 


MAY 

WE  APOLOGIZE? 


.  .  .  for  being  late  with  this 
issue  of  Cranberries.  We  can 
assure  you  that  it  was  reasons 
beyond  our  control,  and  that 
we  will  be  back  on  schedule 
with  our  next  issue.  We 
thank  you  for  your  patience 
in  this   matter. 


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EAST   FREETOWN,   MASS.     02717 


Massachusetts 
dull  Meetings 


The     remaining    Cranberry 
Club  meetings  are  as  follows: 

Barnstable    County 

Barnstable — March    16 
7:30  P.M. 

Plymouth  County 

Kingston  —  March    14 
7:30  P.M. 

Rochester  —  March  1& 
2:00  P.M. 


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RAKING 


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WEED   TRIMMING 


Machinery  Sales 

PRUNERS  POWER  WHEELBARROWS 

RAKES  WEED  TRIMMERS 

FERTILIZER  SPREADERS  -  Large  and  Small 


For  Further  Information  Call . . 


F.  P.  CRANDON 
ROckwell   3-5526 


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Recorded  for  1966 
In  Washington 

Cranguyma  Farms  reported 
a  tremendous  letdown  of 
moisture  for  December  end- 
ing 1966  with  20.13  inches, 
the  greatest  amount  of  rain 
for  24  hours  during  the 
month  being  2.77  inches  on 
December  4th.  ^ 

Total  inches  of  precipitation 
reported  for  that  area  in  1966 
amounted  to  79.1   inches. 


CHOICE  OF 
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Dept.  CRl 

4511  E.  Osborne  Ave.,  Tampa,  Florida 

1001  9empsey  Rd..  Milpitas,  Calif. 


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Cranberry 

Station 

S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVIIMG  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended 
the  Northeastern  Weed  Con- 
trol conference  in  New  York 
City  from  January  4-6.  Bob 
presented  a  paper  on  "Pre- 
liminary Studies  in  the  influ- 
ence of  Indole-3-Acetic  Acid 
and  Gibberellic  Acid  on  the 
Uptake  of  Simazine  by  Ag- 
rostis  Alba."  This  describes 
the  effect  of  spraying  summer 
grass  or  red  top  grass  with 
growth  hormones  before  ap- 
plying simazine-  Bob  found 
that  smaller  amounts  of  sima- 
zine would  kill  the  grass  that 
was  treated  with  growth  hor- 
mones. 

Prof.  Stan  Norton  attended 
the  Wisconsin  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  meeting 


held  in  Wisconsin  Rapids  on 
January  19.  Stan  presented 
a  paper  on  "Sprinkler  Frost 
Protection." 

Dr.  Devlin  and  the  author 
attended  the  Northeastern 
Regional  Meeting  of  the 
American  Society  for  Horti- 
cultural Science  in  Cam- 
bridge on  January  27-28.  A 
paper  was  presented  on  "'Pre- 
liminary Studies  on  the  Effect 
of  Gibberellic  Acid  and  Gib- 
rel  on  the  Parthenocarpic 
Development  in  Vaccinum 
macrocarpon."  This  describes 
the  effects  of  using  gibber- 
ellic acid  to  increase  the  set 
of  cranberries. 

Dr.  Wes  Miller,  Andrew 
Charig  and  the  author  have 
published     a     paper     in     the 


October  issue  of  Weeds,  the 
official  publication  of  the 
Weed  Society  of  America. 
The  title  is  "Persistence  of 
Dichlobenil  in  Cranberry 
Bogs"  This  paper  deals  with 
residue  analyses  of  cranberry 
bog  soils  treated  at  various 
times  over  a  period  of  two 
years  with  dichlobenil  (cas- 
oron  ).  Reprints  of  this  ar- 
ticle are  available. 

We  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion were  saddened  by  the 
passing  of  Mr.  Clarence  Hall 
on  January  29.  We  all  knew 
him  as  "Josh"  and  he  was  a 
fine  friend  to  all  of  us  at  the 
Station  as  well  as  the  whole 
cranberry   industry. 


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SPRINKLER  SYSTEMS  ARE   OUR  BUSINESS 

More  than  20  years  experience  in  design  and  layout  of  AMES 
SPRINKLER  SYSTEMS.  We  are  available  to  plan  your  sprinkler  system 
for  both  frost  control  and  irrigation.  We  guarantee  the  correct  pressure 
so  necessary  for  the  best  sprinkler  operation.  Our  quotations  are  for 
complete  systems  including  suction  line,  pump  (Hale,  Marlow,  Gould), 
AMES  UTILITY  main,  AMES  quick  connecting  adapters,  plastic  pipe, 
bronze  fittings  and  Rainbird  sprinklers. 

Cranberry  Growers  —  Increase  the  pressure  at  the  lateral  sprinkler 
by  using  on  the  main  AMES  SADDLE  TEES  with  2"  outlets  in  place  of 
the  usual  1"  outlets.  Pressure  increases  begin  with  10  pounds.  Only 
AMES  mains  can  give  you  the  right  size  lateral  outlet  that  will  eliminate 
pressure  loss  at  the  lateral  take-off  of  the  plastic  pipe. 

CHARLES  W.  HARRIS  CO.,  INC. 

451   OLD   SOMERSET   AVENUE 
NORTH  DIGHTON,  MASS.  02764 

Telephone  824-5607 


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John  Bean  Shur-Rane  solid  set  bog  systems  Eire  ideally  suited  to  meet  the  needs  of  any 
cranberry  grower.  Minimum  gallonage.  Special  IH"  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
lightweight,  low-cost  aluminum  tubing.  Easy,  twist-of-the-wrist  coupling  action.  Wide, 
flat  footpads  keep  sprinklers  upright.  Also  available:  conventional  portable  systems  and 
Sequa-Matic  automatic  sequencing  systems  for  crops  and  lawns. 

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MASSACHUSETTS 

Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
&  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  4  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  Inc. 
Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  S,  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


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WHY  THE  APATHY? 

Some  months  ago,  while  preparing  for 
a  change  in  the  format  of  Cranberries  Mag- 
azine, we  thought  it  might  be  a  good  idea  if 
we  could  include  a  short  article  about  some 
of  our  advertisers.  With  this  in  mind,  we 
developed  a  column  which  we  called  "Spot- 
light on  Suppliers."  In  order  to  get  the  idea 
started  and  to  show  other  advertisers  what 
we  had  in  mind,  we  wrote  about  two  local 
area  suppliers. 

We  then  wrote  to  a  dozen  or  so  of  our 
regular  advertisers  in  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try and  offered  them  this  space,  without 
charge,  if  they  would  send  us  the  informa- 
tion they  wanted  included  in  the  story  and 
a  photograph  which  would  be  representative 
of  their  business. 

The  results  —  or  should  I  say,  lack  of 
results  —  were  amazing.  Of  all  the  letters 
sent  out  we  did  not  receive  a  single  reply. 

Having  been  in  the  field  of  public  re- 
tions  before  becoming  editor  of  this  maga- 
zine, and  knowing  how  difficult  free  space 
is  to  obtain  in  any  publication  and  how 
valuable  it  can  be,  I  was  awed  at  this 
apathy. 

I  could  not,  and  still  cannot,  understand 
why  there  was  not  an  overwhelming  re- 
sponse to  this  offer. 

Later,  in  these  pages,  the  same  offer 
was  made.  The  response  —  the  same  as  the 
first  —  none! 

Now  —  for  the  third  time  we  are  mak- 
ing the  same  offer.  This  will  be  our  last 
attempt  to  "give"  something  to  our  adver- 
tisers as  a  sort  of  "thank  you"  for  their  con- 
fidence in  us.  Let  me  again  point  out  that 
we  are  offering  this  space  without  charge. 


Established     1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Ware'ham.     Mas- 

Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

617—585-2310 

Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

30   Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass.    02401 

617—588-4595 


CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   River,   Wisconsin 

Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East  Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.   E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


If  you  would  like  to  take  advantage  of 
this  offer,  here  is  all  you  have  to  do. 

Write  about  300  words  about  your  firm, 
things  you  feel  would  be  of  interest  to  our 
readers  —  when  your  business  was  estab- 
lished, what  you  supply,  how  many  employ- 
ees you  have,  a  history  of  your  firm  —  things 
of  this  type. 


Cranberries   is   published   monthly   by   Comor  Publishers,  P.O.  Box  70,  Kingston.  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.    Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year. 


FIVE 


Joe  Hoelting  Promoted 
By  Dean  Foods  Co. 

Joseph  Hoeltinj^  has  been 
promoted  to  manager  of  pro- 
duce procurement  for  Dean 
Foods  Company.  The  an- 
nouncement was  made  by 
Raymond  K.  Esmond,  vice 
president    for    production. 

In  his  new  capacity  Mr. 
Hoelting  will  be  responsible 
for  procurement  of  pickles, 
cranberries,  and  other  pro- 
duce items  used  by  Dean 
P^'oods  Company. 

He  has  an  extensive  back- 
ground in  sales  and  general 
management  and  was  an  ex- 
ecutive with  the  Indian  Trail 
Cranberry  Company  when  it 


was  acquired   by   Dean  Foods 
Company  two  years  ago. 

A  resident  of  Wisconsin 
Rapids,  Wisconsin,  he  will 
continue  to  operate  from  that 
citv. 


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WEST  WAREHAM,  MASS. 


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IRRIGATION  PURPOSES  BEST!  There's  a 
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SIX 


ClAltENCEJ.F.IIAU, 
FORMER  PURin  OF 
CRANOHIRIES.  SOCCOMRS 


The  cranberry  industry  has 
lost  a  friend  ! 

Few  in  the  industry  are  aware 
of  it  but  Clarence  ].  F.  Hall, 
was,  perhaps,  one  of  their 
greatest  champions. 

Now,  "Josh"  is  no  longer  with 
us  for  he  succumbed  to  a  long 
illness  after  having  been  rushed 
from  his  Great  Neck  Road  home 
to  Tobey  Hospital  in  Ware- 
ham,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
68. 

We  like  to  think  of  Mr.  Hall 
as  the  founder  and  former  pub- 
lisher of  this  magazine.  How- 
ever, he  was  much  more  than 
this.  He  was  a  writer,  and  an 
artist  as  well.  But,  most  of 
all,  to  the  cranberry  growers 
throughout  this  country  and  in 
Canada    he    was    a    friend. 

During  his  30  years  at  the 
helm  of  Cranberries,  he  learned 
to  love  the  industry  and  all 
the   people   in   it. 

Mr.  Hall  is  survived  by  his 
widow,   Edith   (Savary)    Halk 

In  addition  to  Mrs.  Hall  he 
is  survived  by  a  son,  David,  of 
Forest  Hills,  New  York;  and  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Herbert  E.  Dustin 
of  West  Wareham. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
in  the  Cornwell  Memorial 
Chapel  in  Wareham- 


He  was  born  on  October  25, 
1898  in  Brewster,  Massachu- 
setts, son  of  Lemuel  C.  and 
Lettie  M.  G.  (Foster)  Hall. 
Mr.  Hall  was  graduated  from 
Wareham  (Mass.)  High  School 
and  attended  Boston  Normal 
Art  School. 

Prior  to  retiring  from  the 
publishing  field  three  years 
ago,  Mr.  Hall  had  been  assistant 
editor  of  the  Wareham  Courier, 
a  position  he  took  over  after 
the  death  of  his  father  and 
which  he  held  for  21  years. 

He  was  known  by  cranberry 
people  from  coast  to  coast  and 
had  made  many  trips  to  various 
cranberry  growing  areas  in  the 
United  States  including  Wash- 
ington, Oregon,  Wisconsin  and 
New  Jersey.  He  and  Mrs.  Hall 
also  travelled  to  Europe  and 
only  last  year  spent  a  vaca- 
tion in  Trinidad,  So.  America 
where  he  requested  and  was 
served  cranberry  sauce  with  his 
meal. 

For  some  time  before  joining 
his  father  in  the  publishing 
business,  he  was  employed  as 
a  reporter  on  the  New  Bed- 
ford (Mass.)  Evenijig  Stand- 
ard, during  which  time  he  de- 
veloped a  well-known  weekly 
column  "Just  by  Josh"  and  was 
writer  of  many  feature  articles, 
many  of  which  related  to  the 
cranberry    industry.     Mr.    Hall 


was  a  direct  descendant  of  Cy- 
rus Cahoon  of  Harwich  (Mass.) 
who  is  credited  with  the  de- 
velopment of  the  famous  "early 
black"  cranberry  strain. 

For  a  time  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall 
operated  a  seven-acre  cranberry 
bog  in  East  Taunton    (Mass.). 

Mr.  Hall  had  a  keen  interest 
in  local  history  and  was  an  au- 
thority on  the  background  of 
the  Wareham  area.  He  also 
pursued  his  career  in  art  both 
as  a  painter  and  as  a  photog- 
rapher. He  was  a  charter 
member  of  Marion,  Mass.  Art 
Center  as  well  as  the  Wareham 
Historical  Society.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Cape 
Cod  Cranberry  Growers  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Farm  Bureau 
of  Brockton. 

"Josh"  Hall  was  somewhat  of 
a  legend  in  the  cranberry  indus- 
try. He  loved  the  industry  and 
the  people  in  it.  He  was  born 
and  brought  up  in  cranberry 
country,  and  he  never  left  it 
for    any    great    length  of   time. 

His  writings  reflected  his 
enthusiasm  for  everything 
connected    with    cranberries. 

His  pen  has  been  stilled. 
The    cranberry    industry    has 
lost    a    friend ' 


30 


SEVEN 


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E.  L.  Bartholomew 

One  of  the  leading  Ware- 
ham,  Massachusetts  cranberry 
growers  and  a  retired  metal- 
lurgist, Edward  L.  Bartholo- 
mew, 82,  of  504  Main  Street, 
died  January  8th  at  home 
following  a  long  illness. 

Mr.  Bartholomew  was  born 
in  Vermont,  the  son  of  the 
late  L.  and  Ellen  (Prudence) 
Bartholomew.  He  was  grad- 
uated from  Mount  Herman 
School  for  Boys  in  1904,  and 
from  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont in  1908-  His  first  po- 
sition following  graduation 
was  in  Wareham  as  a  chem- 
ist with  the  Tremont  Nail  Co. 
and  later  he  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  steel  mill  of 
that  company. 

He  left  that  position  to 
work  at  the  United  Shoe  Co., 
in  Beverley  as  a  metallurgist, 
and  retired  from  that  firm 
after  35  years  as  chief  engin- 
eer. 

Mr.  Bartholomew  has  main- 
tained his  home  in  Wareham 
which  was  the  former  Leon- 
ard Estate  on  Main  Street, 
Following  his  retirement,  he 
becarne  a  cranberry  grower 
and  was  president  of  the 
Cranberry  Growers  Associa- 
tion and  a  member  of  the 
Cranberry  Growers  Ex- 
change. 

As  a  life  member  and  a 
past  chairman  of  the  Boston 
Chapter  of  the  American  So- 
ciety for  Metals,  Mr.  Bar- 
tholomew was  a  national 
rustee  of  the  American  Met- 
als Society,  a  member  of  the 
National  Metals  Band  Bank 
Committee,  and  a  life  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  First  Saugus  Iron  Works 
Association    at    Saugus. 


He  was  one  of  the  oldest 
life  members  and  past  master 
of  Society  Harmony  Lodge 
A.F-  and  A.M.  in  Wareham. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Draft  Board  Local  130  of  Mid- 
dleboro  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Wareham  Free  Library.  One 
of  his  hobbies  was  the  resto- 
ration of  antique  furniture 
for  his  friends. 

Besides  his  widow,  Mrs. 
Alice  (Hurley)  Bartholomew, 
he  is  survived  by  a  son.  Dr. 
Edward  L.  Bartholomew,  a 
member  of  the  faculty  at 
Stores  University,  Conn.,  and 
four  grandchildren. 

Funeral  services  were  pri- 
vate, conducted  by  the  Rev. 
Roland  V.  E-  Johnson,  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational 
Church.  Interment  is  at 
Center  Cemetery  in  Ware- 
ham. 


Henry  F.  Bain 

Henry  F.  Bain,  72,  a  plant 
pathologist  associated  with 
the  Wisconsin  cranberry  in- 
dustry from  1942  until  his 
retirement  in  1959,  died 
this  month  at  his  home  in 
Maggie  Valley,   N.    C. 

While  a  resident  of  Wis- 
consin, Mr.  Bain  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Biron  Cran- 
l3  e  r  r  y  Company,  Midwest 
Cranberry  Company  and  Bad- 
ger Cranberry  Company  at 
Shell  Lake  and  the  Cranberry 
Lake  Development  Company 
at  Phillips. 

Mr.  Bain  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Laura  and  two  sons, 
Richard  and  Robert,  the  lat- 
ter of  Washington,  D.  C. 


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NINE 


Cranterry  Chk 
Meeting  Hell 
In  Kingstnn 


The  Feb.  meeting  of  the 
Mass.  Cranberry  club  was  held 
on  Tuesday,  February  14,  at 
the  Red  Community  Building 
in  Kingston  with  a  good  at- 
tendance on  hand. 

The  meeting  was  called 
to  order  by  Lawrence  Cole, 
Club  president,  who  asked 
Secretary-Treasurer,  Robert 
Alberghini  to  read  the  min- 
utes of  the  previous  meeting. 
The  minutes  having  been  ap- 
proved Mr.  Cole  introduced 
some  of  the  guest  speakers 
of  the  evening. 

First  to  be  introduced  were 
Mr.  Warren  Arnold  of  Pro- 
duction Credit  Association; 
Mr.  Allison  Cook  of  the 
National  Bank  of  Wareham 
and  Mr.  Charles  Starr  of  the 
Farmers  Home  Administra- 
tion. Each  of  these  gentle- 
men, in  the  above  order, 
spoke  of  their  organizations 
as  "Sources  of  Credit."  Each 
described  the  types  of  loans 
it  could  or  could  not  grant 
and  the  reasons  why.  Several 
questions  were  asked  of  these 
gentlemen  and  satisfactory 
answers  were  given  in  re- 
sponse. 

After  their  presentation,  it 
was  explained  by  Mr.  Cole 
that  Mr.  Philip  Good  of 
Mass.  Farm  Bureau  Federa- 
tion, who  was  to  have  given 
a  talk  on  "The  Sales  Tax," 
was  unable  to  be  present 
since  he  was  still  at  the  State 
House  where  he  had  taken 
part  in  hearings  which  were 
held  that  day.  It  was  hoped 
that  Mr.  Good  would  be  able 
to  report  the  results  of  those 
hearings  at  a  later  date. 

After  a  short  break  in  the 
proceedings,   Mr.    Cole   intro- 

TEN 


duced  the  panel  for  a  discus- 
sion of  water  harvesting.  The 
members  of  this  panel  were 
Mr.  David  Eldridge  of  Ware- 
also  of  Wareham;  and  Pro- 
fessor J.  S.  Norton  of  the 
Cranberry  Station  in  East 
Wareham. 

Mr.  David  Eldridge  was  the 
first  speaker  on  the  subject 
of  water  harvesting  and  be- 
gan by  stating  that  there  has 
been  definite  proof  of  in- 
creased yield  with  growers 
who  have  gone  to  water 
harvesting.  In  his  first  year 
of  water  picking  it  still  has 
to  be  seen  that  this  is  so. 
He  stated  that  he  thought  it 
would  produce  more  tonage, 
but  the  increased  production 
figures  thus  far  have  come 
from  Wisconsin,  the  West 
Coast  and  New  Jersey  where 
they  have  been  water  picking 
for  some  time.  "Another 
year  will  tell  the  tale." 
Dave  also  mentioned  that, 
between  him  and  Ken  Beaton, 
they  had  picked  75  or  80 
acres.  "We  picked,  I  think, 
most  every  day  that  we 
could,  barring  a  very  severe 
rain  storm.  We  could  start 
early  in  the  morning  and  end 
up  at  four  or  five  o'clock  in 
the  evening."  Most  import- 
ant conditions  for  water  pick- 
ing would  be  the  ability  to 
flow  the  bog  up  heavily  and 
the  ability  also  to  have  one 
more  flooding.  The  water 
should  be  above  the  vines  so 
that  the  berries  could  be 
boomed  into  a  corner  of  the 
bog  and  elevated  out  of  the 
water.  He  explained  that,  on 
the  west  coast,  they  use  alu- 
minum and  plywood  dykes. 
These  are  put  into  the  soil  by 
cutting  into  it  to  divide  large 


bogs  into  smaller  ones.  They 
are  then  flooded  and  picked, 
after  which  they  use  the 
same  water  for  picking  the 
next  section.  In  New  Jersey 
they  are  cutting  their  bogs 
into  about  six  acre  plots. 
Their  bogs  are  quite  similar 
to  Massachusetts.  They  are 
old  and  quite  large  which 
necessitates  their  being  cut 
up  into  smaller  areas  for  wa- 
ter picking.  "I  think  that, 
here  in  Massachusetts,  par- 
ticularly, it's  very  difficult, 
on  some  of  the  old  bogs,  to 
easily  water  pick,"  Dave 
stated.  This  was  because  they 
may  be  out  of  grade,  may 
have  stumps  which  have  come 
to  the  surface  of  the  bog,  and 
may  have  areas  in  the  center 
where  they  have  settled.  In 
the  case  where  this  has  hap- 
pened and  the  center  is  lower, 
it  would  be  necessary  to 
start  at  the  center  of  the  bog, 
pick  that  and  then  flood  the 
remainder  until  the  highest 
part  of  the  bog  has  been 
reached. 

Berries  have  been  held  in 
the  water  for  periods  of  four 
or  five  days  with  no  notice- 
able deterioration.  Dave  went 
on  to  say  that  he  would  not 
advise  picking  more  than  six 
acres.  He  would  hesitate  to 
pick  more  than  this  under 
less  than  ideal  conditions. 
One  of  the  advantages  of  wa- 
ter harvesting  which  was 
mentioned  was  the  fact  that 
it  can  be  done  almost  any 
day,  regardless  of  the  wea- 
ther, exceptions  being  only 
severe  rain  or  winds.  In  case 
of  frost  warnings  bogs  may 
be  flooded  and  be  ready  for 
water     harvesting     the     next 

Continued  on  Pa<i^e  19 


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Designed  for  Growers 


With  over  15  years  of  work- 
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and  living  with  their  prob- 
lems, Phil  Tropeano,  chief  en- 
gineer of  Larchmont  Engine- 
ering, decided  it  was  time  to 
do  something  to  eliminate  all 
the  small  nipples,  tees,  bush- 
ings, reducers, "  and  in  many 
cases  increasers,  when  ma- 
king up  a  lateral  line  coup- 
ling. 

To  do  this  —  Phil  says  — 
"why  not  just  send  the  water 
where  it  should  go  —  directly 
out  the  sides." 

As  cranberry  bogs  have  the 
world's  most  unusual  shapes, 
it  has  always  been  a  problem 
in  designing  the  system  as  to 
where  to  start  with  the  first 
sprinkler-  So  it  was  decided 
to  start  right  on  the  pipe  it- 
self. This  eliminates  many 
saddles,  inserts,  etc. 

It  might  be  of  interest  to 
the  Cranberry  grower  to 
know  who  Phil  is.  Phil  is 
the  inventor  of  man-made 
snow.  Member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Society  of  Agricultural 
Engineers,  and  through  his 
efforts  his  company  was 
awarded  a  citation  from  the 
United  States  government  for 
its  contributions  in  agricul- 
tural irrigation  in  foreign 
countries.  Incidentally,  golf 
course  owners  know  him  as 
the  inventor  of  the  world's 
largest  pop-up  fairway  irriga- 
tion sprinkler. 

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any  answers  to  his  pumping, 
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FARM  BUREAU 


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By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau   Staff   Assistant 


Legislative  activities  of  Farm 
Bureau  are  vital  to  farmers. 
Mr.  Philip  N.  Good,  Executive 
Secretary  and  Legislative  Coun- 
sel for  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau    Federation    reports. 


THE  CHALLENGING  YEAR 

IN  THE 

GENERAL  COURT 

( Continued  from  last  month ) 

The  second  area  of  concern 
is  that  of  farm  land  assessment. 
Last  year  Farm  Bureau  filed  a 
bill  for  the  assessment  of  open 
spaces  at  a  value  related  to 
its  use.  .This  year  we  will  file 
legislation  which  is  more  like 
the  New  Jersey  program  which 
was  written  up  in  previous  is- 
sue of  the  New  England  Farmer 
magazine.  The  hill  calls  for  a 
constitutional  amendment  which 
would  permit  the  assessing  of 
farm  land  at  a  value  related 
to  its  agricultural  use.  It  would 
require  that  there  be  a  mini- 
mum of  five  acres  and  that  the 
land  would  be  farmed  two 
years  prior  to  coming  \mder  the 
program.  This  program  has 
worked  well  in  New  Jersey  and 
would  work  well  in  Massachu- 
setts. However,  the  job  to  get 
the  program  across  may  not  ho 
accomplished    in    one   vcar. 


There  are  several  other  bills 
filed  dealing  with  the  mainte- 
nance of  open  spaces  and  the 
setting  up  of  conservation  re- 
serves. These  bills  basically 
would  permit  towns  by  action 
of  the  town  meeting  to  decide 
that  they  woidd  adopt  a  policy 
of  open  spaces,  whereby  a 
farmer  or  land  owner  in  a 
given  section  of  the  town 
could  have  his  property  as- 
sessed at  a  value  related  to 
its  use  provided  he  was  willing 
to  sign  off  to  the  town  a  de- 
velopment easement  for  a 
period  of  ten  to  twenty  years. 
The  sponsors  of  these  pieces  of 
legislation  i  n  cl  u  d  e  Professor 
Charles  Elliot  of  Harvard 
School  of  Planning,  the  Massa- 
chusetts Forests  and  Parks  As- 
sociation, and  the  Massachusetts 
Department  of  Commerce. 

There  also  is  another  land 
tax  bill  which  has  been  filed 
by  Senator  John  Barrus  which 
is  a  rewrite  of  Chapter  61,  the 
Poorest  Land  Tax  Law.  Here 
again,  action  on  the. part  of  a 
well-financed  Farm  Bureau  can 
produce  results  for  the  farm- 
ers of  Massachusetts. 

A  third  important  issue  to 
farmers  in  Massachusetts  will 
be  the  sales  tax.  Although  we 
have  a  sales  tax,  there  have 
been  a  number  of  bills  filed 
for  amending  the  tax.  These 
include  bills  filed  by  Farm 
Bureau  relative  to  a  definition 
cf  agricult\iral  production,  the 
inclusion  of  mink  under  the 
exempt  list  as  well  as  veterin- 
ary medicines.  Every  bill 
dealing  with  the  sales  tax  must 
be  closely  watched  by  Farm 
Bureau  to  see  that  nothing  is 
done  which  will  cause  farmers 
to  sufl^er  a  loss  of  an  exemption 
now  granted  imder  the  Sak\s 
Tax  Law. 

A  good  example  of  what  can 
happen  occurred  in  the  Special 
Session  of  the  General  Court 
dealing  with  mental  health.  At- 
tempts were  made  to  take  away 
from  industry  certain  exemp- 
ticns  they  have  under  the  sales 


t  i\  in  order  to  raise  one-hun- 
dred million  dollars  to  pay  for 
the  Mental  Health  Program. 
This  is  a  sine  sign  that  from 
time  to  time  there  will  be  at- 
tempts made  to  reduce  the 
sales  tax  exemption  list  in  or- 
der to  secure  additional  income 
for  the  Coinmonwealth. 

The  Departjnent  of  Agricul- 
ture has  again  filed  a  number 
of  bills  correcting  and  updat- 
ing the  laws  which  they  ad- 
minister. These  bills  will  merit 
the  support   of   Farm    Bureau. 

Other  areas  in  whicji  Farm 
Bureau  must  become  interested 
and  watch  pending  legislation 
are  in  the  fields  of  natural  re- 
sources; University  of  Massa- 
chusetts; labor  legislation  in- 
cluding the  payment  of  im- 
employment  compensation  ben- 
efits to  those  who  are  on  strike; 
Sunday  hunting;  the  abolition 
of  county  government;  legisla- 
tion governing  trucks;  farm 
plates;  packaging  of  farm  prod- 
ucts —  just    to    mention    a    few. 

It  appears  that  this  years 
legislative  program  will  consist 
of  action  on  better  than  foiu- 
hundred  bills.  At  this  writing 
we  have  not  had  the  oppor- 
tunity to  examine  the  titles  of 
all  pieces  of  legislation  filed 
and  until  we  do,  we  will  not  be 
able  to  give  an  accurate  ap- 
praisal of  the  total  legislatixc 
program.  The  legislative  pro- 
gram will  be  a  strenuous  un- 
dertaking. We  will  be  able  to 
make  it  work  and  come  up 
with  another  winning  year  in 
the  Farm  Bureau  Legislative 
Program. 

Farm  Bureau  members  must 
support  the  program  actively 
by  seeking  legislative  support 
for  the  Farm  Bureau's  position 
on  key  legislation.  Farm  Bur- 
eau members  must  get  to 
know  their  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentati\es  on  more  than  a 
casual  basis.  In  this  way  we 
will  be  able  to  ha\'e  broad 
bv-p:irtisan  support  for  oiu" 
semi-annual    program. 


FOURTEEN 


spring  tonic  for  cranbeny  yields: 
Chloro  IPC  Herbicide  before  bud-break. 


Right  now,  while  established 
plants  are  dormant,  you  can 
protect  your  cranberries  against 
early  weed  competition.  A  treat- 
ment before  bud-break  with 
Chloro  IPC  selective  herbicide 
stops  germinating  weeds  and 
grasses  such  as  annual  bluegrass, 
bentgrass,  bluejoint  grass, 
dodder,  horsetail,  loosestrife, 
rushes  (Juncus),  sickle  grass, 


turkeyfoot  grass  and  velvet- 
grass.  In  Massachusetts,  con- 
sult your  Extension  Service 
Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart. 
Once  its  work  is  done,  PPG 
Chloro  IPC  breaks  down  with 
rising  temperatures.  This  elimi- 
nates problems  of  build-up  in 
soil  or  carryover.  Chloro  IPC 
also  shows  a  broad  margin  of 
tolerance  to  cranberry  plants. 


Uniform,  hard  granules  of  20% 
Granular  Chloro  IPC  are  easy 
to  measure  and  apply  with  air 
or  ground  equipment. 

Check  your  local  extension 
service  or  supplier  for  more 
complete  information  or  write 
Department  7713,  Pittsburgh 
Plate  Glass  Company,  Chem- 
ical Division,  One  Gateway 
Center,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  15222. 


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INDUSTRIES 


FIFTEEN 


MASS.    STATrON    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

Weather  inches  less  than  our  30  year  discard   their   copy.    There  is 
Tanuarv     wa^    cprtainlv    a  average-    We    recorded    only  a  supply  of  these  charts  still 
January     was    ceriamiy    a  Q^^g.^^jf  i^^h  of  snow  for  the  available  at  the  Station.   Any- 
warm  month  for  us  averaging  ^^^^^    ^^.^^     .^    ^^^    ^^^^^  ^^^    ^^^    ^^^^^    ^^^    ^^^  J^ 

over  5  degrees  a   day   above  a      •      i  i  i.    t^     ^i       j 

normal    in    temoerature     We  average.    Agam,  however,  we  send  us  a  request.   Dr.  Chand- 

normal   in   temperature      we  ^^^  .^  January  1934  and  ler's  fertilizer  bulletin  is  also 

recorded   a  maximum   at  the  ,  y, . 

t,       ,  o+  +•        ^^  CO   ^«.  January  1951  we  had  no  snow  available. 

Cranberry    Station   of  63   de-  . /,  j^ 

grees  on  January  24th.    This  recoraea  nere.  ^^^^ 

was     the     warmest    January  ■         . 

24th   here,    breaking    the    old  Growers  are  reminded  that 

record    of    62    degrees  set    in  Chans  February  and  March  is  a  good 

1933,    however,    the    warmest  ^he      cranberry      Desticide  ^'""^    *^    ""^^f   ^°^'   ^°''    ^^^ 

January  temoerature  we  have  -^^e      cranoerry      pesticiqe  presence      of      green      scum 

January  temperaiure  we  iidve  ^^^arts  have  been  revised  and  around      shore      ditches       If 

ever  recorded  came  on  Janu-  are  heinp  nrinted     Thp  Cran-  ^^^"^^     .f^°[^    n  ?  L     x       .i 

arv    1^    iq?9    and  it   was    67  f      being  printea.ine  uran-  present,   it   should  be  treated 

ary    15,    1932,   ^na  it   was    0/  ^^            Station    will  mail    the  ^^u  ^ '^^pr  sulfate  usinf^  the 

degrees.     As    mild    as    it    was  ^p^     charts     to     Prowers    in  ^itn  copper  sullate  using  tne 

iht^   vpar   thpre   are   at   least  ^5      i       ,^,             growers    in  recommendations  on  the  1966 

this   year   tnere   are   at   leasi  ^^rch.     The    assistance    and  ^^.^^^  ^u^^f 

9   other   years   when  the   av-    observations   of   the    growers    ^^^^       ^^' 

erage     January     temperature    ^^^    ^^^  ^^    ^.^^    ^^^    ^^^^^  

at  the  Cranberry  Station  was  ^.g^isi^ns  are   always    greatly 

warmer.  appreciated.   Plans  do  not  call  Newly-hired  secretary  to  boss. 

Precipitation  was  only  2.34  for  a  revision  of  the  fertilizer  "Do    you   want   double-spacing 

inches     which     is     nearly     2  chart,  so  growers  should  not  on  the  carbons,  too,  sir?" 

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SIXTEEN 


WASHINGTON 

The  area  was  greatly  sad- 
dened by  the  sudden  death 
of  long  time  cranberry  grower 
Leonard  Morris-  Many  have 
known  him  in  his  various 
community  activities  and 
shall  miss  his  wonderful 
smile    and    warm    friendship. 

The  mean  high  for  the 
month  of  January  was  49.13 
degrees  with  the  27th  having 
a  warm  53  degrees.  And  the 
Mean  Low  for  the  month  was 
39.806  degrees  actual  low  of 
25  degrees  on  the  30th.  There 
have  been  a  few  frosty  nights 
but  basically  quite  warm  for 
this  time  of  year. 

The  precipitation  for  the 
month  outdid  itself  with 
24.52  inches  the  greatest 
amount  falling  on  the  18th, 
2.84  inches-  The  area  doubled 
the  last  January  recording  of 


TO  BUILD 

Sectionalizing 

DIKES 
GET  A 

For  Water  Picking 

RAILROAD 

SeeTrufant    15  Frank  St. 
Middleboro     Mar.  18th 


12.07,  and  from  the  many  new 
streams  and  lakes  from  the 
tide  line  to  the  bay,  a  great 
deal  of  water  has  come  this 
way. 

There  will  be  a  Cranberry 
Vine  coming  out  about  the 
middle  of  this  month  with 
news  of  the  local  area.  The 
Field  Day  date  has  been  set 
for  June  24,  and  the  feature 
will  be  baked  salmon  lunch- 
eon for  those  participating. 
Try  to  get  out  to  the  west 
coast  for  a  visit  about  that 
time. 


NEW    JERSEY 

The  weather  in  January  in 
the  cranberry  region  of  New 
Jersey  was  unusually  mild. 
A  prolonged  "January  thaw" 
occurred  from  the  22nd 
through      the      27th      during 


which  the  maximum  daily 
temperatures  were  57,  69,  72, 
70  and  56.  Such  warm  spells 
in  January  are  not  unusual 
in  this  area  but  they  seldom 
are  so  extended. 

Weather  buffs  interested  in 
"records"  frequently  call 
this  station  to  inquire  about 
them;  often  they  are  disap- 
pointed that  the  weather  just 
experienced  did  not  set  a  rec- 
ord. There  is  also  a  species 
of  "old  timers"  with  supposed 
long  memory,  who  opine  that 
back  in  the  old  days  it  was 
warmer,  colder,  snowier, 
rainier,  dryer  (This  kind, 
however,  is  distinctly  in  the 
minority).  For  these  weather 
fans  here  are  the  facts 
gleaned  from  our  thirty-years 
of  weather  recording  history 
at  the  New  Lisbon  Station. 
Our  recent  January  thaw  does 
not   even  come   close  to  that 


Continued   on   Next   Fage 


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Serving  Agriculture 


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Division 

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Cranberry  Highway 

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295-1553 


SEVENTEEN 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Contintwd  from  Fa^,e  17 

of    January    1932    when    the 
maximum    daily    temperature 
was    above    50    degrees    for 
thirteen    days    in   a    row.     It 
came  close  to  a  record  in  the 
number     of     seventy     degree 
days.     The    three    such    days 
this  past  January  are  second 
only   to  January    1950,   when 
there  were  four.    The  warm- 
est January  day  recorded  at 
New   Lisbon   was   75  degrees 
on  January  26,  1950. 

The  average  temperature 
for  the  month  was  36-8  de- 
grees, or  about  3.5  degrees 
above  normal.  It  was  the 
warmest  January  since  1950 
but  it  was  only  the  eighth 
warmest  in  the  past  38  years 
in  New  Lisbon. 

Rainfall  was  deficient 
during  the  month,  totaling 
only  1.38,  or  about  1.86  inches 
below  normal.  There  was 
only  7/10  of  an  inch  total 
snowfall   during   January, 


Flood  water  on  cranberry 
bogs  remained  largely  open 
most  of^  the  month.  Under 
these  conditions  there  could 
be  no  danger  of  oxygen  defi- 
ciency developing  in  the 
water. 

The  cranberry  growers  of 
New  Jersey  were  saddened 
to  hear  of  the  recent  deaths 
of  Fred  Chandler  and  Clar- 
ence Hall.  Their  contribu- 
tions to  the  cranberry  indus- 
try of  this  nation  are  signifi- 
cant and  are  appreciated  by 
all  growers. 

Fertile  Furrow  —  50  Years 
Long  is  an  interesting  pub- 
lication authored  by  Gerald 
E.  Zich,  commemorating  the 
50th  anniversary  of  the  New 
Jersey  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. 

The  American  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  is  twice 
prominently  mentioned  in 
this  publication.  On  page  28 
is  this    interesting  fact: 


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"The  first  recorded  example 
of  a  farm  product  promotion 
by  a  group  of  farmers,  in 
America  is  that  of  the  New 
Jersey  Cranberry  Growers 
Association.  Starting  in  1862, 
that  organization  not  only 
sold  members'  '  crops,  but 
standardized  packages  and 
pioneered  in  market  news 
service,  and  even  introduced 
cranberries  to  England  where 
-his  New  World  fruit  was  un- 
cnown.  Each  container  ear- 
ned cooking  instructions,  the 
orerunner  of  the  recipe  book- 
lets which  are  still  among  the 
effective  tools  of  food  pub- 
licity. Even  today,  New  Jer- 
sey cranberries,  along  with 
those  of  four  other  states, 
are  among  our  most  widely 
advertised  farm  products." 

On  page  8  is  the  following: 
"The  all-embracing  New 
Jersey  Agricultural  Society 
was  seated  from  the  begin- 
ning (establishment  of  the 
State  Department  of  Agri- 
culture)- The  only  commod- 
ity groups  taking  part  were 
the  State  Horticultural  So- 
ciety and  New  Jersey  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association. 
The  Board  helped  the  poultry 
interests  to  organize  as  New 
Jersey  State  Poultry  Associ- 
ation, and  in  1890  welcomed 
that  industry's  delegate  to 
participate.  The  63  subordi- 
nate Granges  then  existing 
had  their  official  spokesman 
in  their  State  Master." 


Continued  on  Page 


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EIGHTEEN 


CRANBERRY  CLUB 

Continued  from  Page  10 
day.  Another  thing  — -it  is  a 
very  gentle  way  to  handle 
the  berries.  There  doesn't 
seem  to  be  the  mechanical 
injury  that  might  be  received 
in  dry  harvesting.  Harvesting 
can,  hopefully,  be  completed 
earlier  in  the  fall  because  it 
is  possible  to  take  advantage 
of  rainy  weather. 

Ken  Beaton   then   took   the 
floor  to  mention  that  he  had 
been  thinking  of  getting  into 
water    harvesting    for  six    or 
seven  years  but  always  found 
some  excuse  for  not  doing  it. 
A   year   ago   last  fall   he  vis- 
isted  Bill  Haines  in  New  Jer- 
sey.   "Bill  was  happy  to  have 
us    and,  even   though   it   was 
harvest    time,    he    showed    us 
around  and  took   us   to  bogs 
where  he  was  water  harvest- 
ing with  seven  or  eight  water 
reels.     He,    too,    was    having 
his  troubles  since  the  bog  he 
was   harvesting  at   that   time 
was    relatively   swampy    and 
the    wind    was    blowing    the 
berries    right    into    the    bush. 
Nevertheless,  he  got  the  crew 
to  round  up  the  berries   and 
rack  them  into  a  corner  and 
an  elevator  placed  them  into 
a  truck  with  bulk  bins.  From 
there  the  berries  went  to  the 
screenhouse    for    drying    and 
then  to  the  processing  plant." 
"Bill      is     very      enthused 
about  water  picking  and  his 
enthusiasm    sure    overflowed 
onto    the   rest   of   us   because 
I    came    back    with    the  idea 
that  I  should  be  getting  into 
it  too."    Ken  then  went  on  to 
explain    that,     when    he   got 
back   from    N.J.   he    spoke   to 
Dave  Eldridge  and  found  that 
he  had  the  same  idea  so  they 
joined    forces,    bought     some 
equipment  and  went  to  water 
picking.     .     "We    picked    ex- 
actly    the     same     way     Bill 
Haines    did    except    that,   in- 
stead  of   putting   the   berries 
into  bulk  bins,  we  put  them 
in   the   truck   itself."    He  felt 
that    the    most    ideal    bog    to 
water  harvest  would  be  per- 
factly     level,    probably     four 


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CRANBERRY  CLUB 

Continued  from  Page  10 

acres  in  size  with  sloping 
banks,  one  that  when  you 
flow  it  up  doesn't  back  into 
a  bog  upstream  a  bit  —  one 
on  which  you  can  possibly 
maintain  a  flow  for  three  or 
four  days  without  much 
trouble."  At  this  point  Ken 
went  on  to  explain  the  initial 
costs  involved  in  getting 
ready  to  water  pick.  He  has 
estimated  that  it  would  av- 
erage out  to  about  $3,000  to 
get  started.  This  figure  de- 
pends, of  course,  on  the 
amount  of  equipment  you 
would  want  to  start  with. 
There  are  many  variables  to 
consider  so  that  this  figure 
is  subject  to  changes  in 
either  direction.  He  went  on 
to  show  that  there  is  a  defi- 
nite increase  in  yield  from 
water  harvesting.  There  is 
much  less  damage  to  berries 
and  the  advantage  of  being 
able  to  pick  in  almost  all 
kinds   of  weather  are  just  a 


few  points  in  its  favor.  Ken 
and  Dave  then  answered 
questions  from  the  audience. 

It  was  then  time  for  the 
presentation  of  Professor  J. 
S.  Norton,  agricultural  engi- 
neer at  the  Cranberry  Station 
who  showed  slides  taken  of 
some  of  the  equipment  used 
in  Wisconsin  and  other  states 
for  water  picking  and  also 
some  that  he  has  been  work- 
ing on  at  the  Station. 

He  explained  a  unit  he  has 
been  developing  which  would 
detrash  the  berries  as  they 
are  elevated  to  the  truck  and 
just  before  dropping  into  it. 
This  blower  throws  a  stream 
of  air  through  the  berries  and 
up  into  a  funnel-like  device. 
This  stream  blows  out  the 
trash,  which  is  lighter  than 
the  berries,  and  allows  the 
berries  to  be  cleaned  as  they 
pass  through  this  stream  of 
air.  He  also  showed  slides  of 
and  explained  some  of  the 
types  of  dykes  he  has  been 
experimenting  with  at  the 
Station. 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WISCONSIN 

Continued  from  Page  18 

Weather 

A  snow  cover  continues  to 
blanket-  the  state  although 
some  warmer  temperatures 
during  the  period  reduced 
the  depth.  Snow  depths  this 
year  are  almost  twice  what 
they  were  a  year  ago  in  the 
northern  two-thirds  of  the 
state  and  are  about  the  same 
in  the  southern  part. 

Temperatures  averaged 

near  normal  during  the  first 
w6ek  of  January.  A  deep  low 
pressure  system  approached 
the  state  from  the  southwest 
on  the  6th-7th,  bringing  rain 
to  southern  and  eastern  por- 
tions and  heavy  snow  over 
the  northwest-  Strong  north- 
erly winds  drifted  the  snow 
badly  in  the  extreme  north- 
west with  the  storm  reaching 
near  blizzard  proportions. 
Continued  on  Page  24 


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TWENTY 


Isconsin's  New  Water 
Resources  Management 
Law  Explained  In  Briei 


The  following  is  the  third  and  final  instalment  of  the  boiled-down 
ryersion  of  the  original  hill  to  control  water  pollution  arid  maiiage- 
ment  of  Wisconsin's  water  resources.  Much  of  the  information  in  the 
report  is  very  general  ar^d  probably  oversimplified  hut,  hopefully,  it 
luill  provide  some  background  information  that  will  help  to  clarify 
the   bill  which  went  into   effect   on  August    1,    1966. 


PART  V 

Wastes  from  improperly  op- 
erating septic  tank  systems  can 
carry  disease  bearing  organ- 
isms that  pollute  ground  and 
surface    water.     Also,    septic 


tank  effluent  can  over-enrich 
lakes  and  streams  causing  ex- 
cessive algae  and  weed 
growth. 

Wisconsin's  new  water  re- 
source management  law  con- 
tains provisions   aimed  at  regu- 


lating new  septic  tank  installa- 
tion, according  to  Doug  Yang- 
gen,  University  of  Wisconsin 
resource  development  specialist. 
Wisconsin  has  over  300,000 
septic  tanks  with  over  20,000 
being  added  each  year.  In  re- 
cent years,  it  is  estimated  that 
less  than  a  quarter  of  the 
septic  tank  installations  have 
been  recorded.  Undoubtedly  a 
number  of  the  tanks  were  in- 
stalled in  areas  where  they 
fail  to  function  properly,  ex- 
plains Yanggen. 

The  new  law  sets  up  a  sep- 
tic tank  permit  system  requiring 
property  owners  to  obtain  a 
permit  before  buying  or  instal- 
ling a  septic  tank.  This  will 
provide  the  State  Board  of 
Health  with  a  record  of  all  new 
septic  tank  locations. 

After  septic  tanks  digest 
Wastes,  a  soil  absorption  system 
disposes  of  the  liquid  effluent. 
Properly  operating  field  aeration 
systems  reduce  minute  solids  to 

Continued  on  Page  23 


NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  FIRM  UP 
YOUR  RCA  LINE  OF  CREDIT 

A  visit  to  your 

PCA  OFFICE 

may  well  be  the 
most  profitable 
move  you  make 
all  year ! 


Production  Credit  Associations 


MAUSTON 


MEDFORD 


WAUSAU 


TOMAH 


ANTIGO 


MARSHFIELD 


STEVENS    POINT 


BLACK    RIVER   FALLS 


Intermediate  Term  Loans  for  Productive 
Purposes  Made  To  Responsible  Farmers 


TWENTY-ONE 


|l  (The  following  items  were 
taken  from  the  February,  1942 
issue  of  Cranberries.) 


Little  ice  for  sanding  in  Mass,     War    Slowing   Up    Oregon 


Most  years  in  Massachu- 
setts, a  good  deal  of  ice  sand- 
ing is  done  except  for  the 
short  and  sharp  cold  spell  of 
a  few  days  around  January 
10,  the  winter  has  been  far 
too  mild  to  make  ice  which 
•will  bear  a  truck.  A  few  days 
of  sanding  were  gotten  in  by 
a  few  growers  however,  who 
were  able  to  get  trucks  on 
their  bogs.  The  month  of 
February  and  early  March 
may  bring  enough  ice  to  do 
a  little  more  sanding. 


Bog  Building 

Last  season  (1941)  on  the 
West  coast  in  Oregon  there 
was  quite  a  flurry  of  bog 
building,  but  this  winter  since 
the  declaration  of  war  this 
has  been  slowed  up.  In  some 
portions  of  Coos  county, 
where  the  climate  is  much 
more  mild  than  in  the  East 
or  Wisconsin,  the  growers  are 
facing  a  considerable  prob- 
lem developing  because  of 
dandelions- 


Washington    Growers    feel 
War  Tension 

The  Washington  cranberry 
growers  are  very  much  war 
conscious  as  many  of  the 
bogs  are  located  almost  with- 
in a  stone's  throw  of  the  Pa- 
cific Ocean-  They  are  in  a 
very  vulnerable  position  for 
attack.  In  the  meantime,  the 
West  Coast  cranberry  grow- 
ers are  going  about  their 
daily  business.  The  growers 
cf  Washington  are  pruning 
whenever  weather  permits. 
Some  cold  weather  for  that 
cranberry  area  was  reported 
over  the  year  end,  with  tem- 
peratures dropping  low  once 
or  twice. 

14  Below   in  Jersey  on 
January  10  (1942) 

In  the  cold  spell  of  Janu- 
ary 10th,  temperatures  of 
about  14  degrees  below  zero 
were  recorded.  Here  again 
for  the  present,  as  in  Massa- 
chusetts, the  amount  of  dam- 
age done  is  hard  to  estimate. 


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TWENTY-TWO 


WISCONSIN  WATER  LAW 
Continued  from  lage  21 

liquid  and  gas  by-products, 
says  James  Kerrigan  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  water  re- 
sources center.  These  septic 
tank  sytems  often  fail  to  func- 
tion properly  on  soils  with  high 
ground  water  tables,  poor  per- 
colation characteristics,  and 
shallowness  over  bedrock. 

Under  the  new  law,  the  re- 
organized Department  of  Re- 
source Development  must  ap- 
prove all  provisions  of  the  state 
plumbing  code  which  set  speci- 
fications on  septic  tanks  and 
their  installation. 

The  department  can  also  pro- 
hibit septic  tank  systems  where 
water  quality  would  be  im- 
paired. It  is  authorized  to  des- 
ignate alternate  methods  for 
water  treatment  and  disposal 
in  prohibited  areas.  Sewage 
holding  tanks  with  sewage  col- 
lection systems  may  be  re- 
quired in  these  areas. 

If  any  waste  disposal  system 
creates  a  nuisance  or  menace 
to  health  or  comfort,  the  de- 
partment can  order  the  owner 
to  correct  the  situation.  If  the 
owner  refuses,  the  department 
can  do  the  work  and  bill  the 
owner. 

Town  sanitary  districts  are 
authorized  to  provide  for  sew- 
erage collection  systems  under 
the  new  law,  and  can  also 
require  the  installation  of  pri- 
vate sewerage  systems. 


PART  VI 

Regulation  of  shorelands  and 
flood  plains  form  an  important 
part  of  Wisconsin's  new  wa- 
ter resources  management  law. 

Water  and  land  use  are  di- 
rectly   related,    explains    Doug 


Yanggen,  University  of  Wis- 
consin resource  development 
specialist.  Sediment  from  ero- 
sion and  septic  tank  pollution 
are  ways  improper  land  use 
can  harm  water  quality.  The 
shoreland  provisions  also  aim  at 
protecting  fish  and  game  habi- 
tat, shore  cover,  and  natural 
beauty. 

Zoning  restrictions  concerning 
setbacks  of  structures  from  wa- 
ter, location  of  septic  tanks, 
and  protection  of  areas  unsui- 
table for  development  will 
probably  be  covered  by  the 
regulations,  according  to 
Yanggen. 

Cottages  crowding  the  wa- 
ter's edge,  lake  homes  set  win- 
dow to  window  all  around  the 
lake,  and  clear-cutting  lake 
shore  lots  can  quickly  destroy 
the  esthetic  appeal  of  a  lake  or 
stream,  and  lead  to  severe  sil- 
tation  problems.  Homes  set  on 
lake  shore  lots  that  are  not 
large  enough,  or  that  have  a 
soil  type  incapable  of  support- 
ing proper  septic  tank  opera- 
tions can  also  lead  to  pollution 
problems  and  over  enrichment 
of  waters. 

Zoning  restrictions  are  aimed 
at  stopping  such  unwise  de- 
velopment  of   shorelands. 

Before  the  passage  of  the 
new  law,  a  county  zoning  ordi- 
nance was  not  effective  in  a 
town  until  approved  by  the 
town  board.  Now  counties  may 
enact  separate  ordinances  zon- 
ing the  areas  within  1000  feet 
of  a  lake  and  within  300  feet 
of  a  stream,  or  a  greater  dis- 
tance if  necessary  to  include 
the  flood  plain.  These  shore 
land  ordinances  do  not  require 
town  board  approval. 

The  new  law  provides  more 
state  assistance  for  county  gov- 
ernments. Basic  responsibility 
for  zoning  shoreland  still  lies 
with  the  county.  However,  if 
a  county  does  not  enact  effec- 
tive -shoreland  zoning  regula- 
tions   by  January    1,    1968,    the 


state  may  adopt  regulations  and 
turn  them  over  to  the  county 
to  administer  and  enforce.  Var- 
iances and  appeals  regarding 
shorelands  will  still  be  handled 
by  the  county  board  of  adjust- 
ment. 

The  reorganized  Department 
of  Resource  Development  is  re- 
sponsible for  providing  recom- 
mendations on  shoreland  plans 
and  regulations.  A  grant-in-aid 
of  up  to  $1000  is  available  to 
each  county  enforcing  suita])le 
regulations. 

Shoreland  zoning  ordinances 
aftect  only  unincorporated  area' 
—  not  villages  and  cities. 

Another  provision  of  the  new 
law  requires  that  cities,  vil- 
lages and  counties  adopt  suf- 
ficient flood  plain  zoning  in 
areas  where  appreciable  flood 
damage  is  likely  to  occur.  The 
wisdom  of  such  a  provision  is 
easily  undestood  when  one  con- 
siders the  thousands  of  dollars 
of  damage  inflicted  on  homes 
and  other  buildings  each  year 
as  rivers  brim  over  their  banks 
and  flow  through  their  flood 
plains. 

If  a  county  does  not  enact 
flood  plain  zoning  regulations 
by  January  1  1968,  the  states 
may  adopt  regulations  and  turn 
them  over  to  the  county  to  ad- 
minister. 


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TWENTY-THREE 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  20 

Mild  and  dry  weather  pre- 
vailed during  most  of  the 
second  week.  Sunshine  and 
temperatures  above  the 
freezing  mark  on  the  12th 
and  13th  caused  some  thawing 
and  a  settling  of  2  to  4  inches 
in  the  snow  cover  through- 
out the  state.  Only  the  snowy 
region  around  Gurney  ^nd 
Ironwood  received  some  snow 
during  the  week.  Colder 
weather  returned  on  the  15th. 
An  area  of  wind-whipped 
snow  crossed  the  state  on  the 
16th. 

The  week  of  January  14-20 
was  characterized  by  wide 
swings  in  temperature.  The 
beginning  and  end  of  the  per- 
iod were  rather  mild  with 
temperatures  near  the  freez- 
ing mark  or  slightly  above. 
After  the  blizzard  of  the 
16th,  which  deposited  4  to  8 
inches  of  snow  over  central 
and  northern  areas,  the  tem- 
peratures started  skidding. 
Early  morning  temperatures 
on  the  18th  ranged  between 
-20  degrees  and  -45  degrees 
throughout  the  state.  A  drop 
of  60  to  70  degrees  occurred 
in  some  areas  over  less  than 
48  hours. 

The  second  week  of  the 
period,  January  21-27,  again 
offered  a  variety  of  weather. 
A  typical  January  thaw  set 
in  with  temperatures  rising 
into  the  50's  over  the  south  on 
the  23rd  and  24th-  Thunder- 
storms, some  locally  severe, 
brought  heavy  rain  and  high 
winds  in  some  areas  of  the 
south,  freezing  rain  and  sleet 
over  much  of  the  central  and 
northeastern  part  of  the  state, 
and  snow  to  the  extreme 
northwest.  Some  light  stream 
flooding  occurred  along  the 
Pecatonica  River  and  other 
streams  where  the  snow 
cover  was  too  shallow  to  hold 
the  rain  water.  Heavier  rain- 
fall amounts  in  excess  of  an 
inch    was   soaked    up   by   the 

TWENTY-FOUR 


deeper  snow  cover  farther 
north.  A  heavy  snowstorm 
out  of  the  Southern  Plains 
states  on  the  26th  and  27th, 
which  buried  Chicago  under 
more  than  2  feet  of  snow, 
dealt  a  glancing  blow  to  the 
extreme  southeastern  coun- 
ties. Much  of  Kenosha 
County  received  a  foot  of 
snow  with  snowfall  amounts 
quickly  tapering  off  north- 
ward. No  snow  fell  north  of 
a  line  from  Dubuque  to  Port 
Washington.  A  light  dusting 
of  2  to  6  inches  of  snow  oc- 
curred after  the  survey  date 
in  southern  areas  on  the  30th. 

Lime    Sulfur 

Liquid  lime  sulfur  or  Poly- 
sul  applications  at  the  18 
gal/300  gal  water/Acre  rate 
should  have  been  completed 
before  the  end  of  January. 
This  spray  cannot  be  applied 
much  longer  as  there  is  dan- 
ger of  chemical  burn  on  the 
tender  buds  when  the  18  gal/ 
Acre  rate  is  used  past  Janu- 
ary. Remember,  though,  that 
this  spray  is  highly  recom- 
mended as  a  part  of  the 
yearly  fungus  control  pro- 
gram and  you  should  plan 
now  to  apply  it  next  Novem- 
ber-December at  the  18  gal/ 
Acre  rate. 

If  you  were  not  able  to 
apply  the  liquid-lime  sulfur 
or  Polysul  spray  during  the 
dormant  season  it  could  still 
be  applied  in  March-early 
April  but  at  the  greatly  re- 
duced rate  of  6  gal/300  gal 
water/Acre.  Of  course,  other 
fungicides  could  be  used  at 
this  later  time.  However, 
with  fungus  problems  being 
so  widespread  in  the  bogs 
the  past  year,  the  general 
clean  up  obtained  from  the 
March-early  April  6  gal/Acre 
lime  sulfur  spray  could  be 
most  beneficial  if  you  were 
unable  to  spray  earlier. 

January   Thaw    Melts 

The  rain  and  high  temper- 
atures on  January   24  melted 


the  snow  in  the  southern  part 
of  the  state-  In  the  central 
and  northern  portions  it  was 
reduced  and  left  with  a  layer 
of  ice  that  measured  one  or 
more  inches.  This  crust  was 
hard  enough  to  walk  on  and 
the  children  could  ice  skate 
most  anywhere  according  to 
funeral  directors  and  ceme- 
tery caretakers  reporting  to 
the  Wisconsin  Statistical  Re- 
porting Service. 

The  deepest  average  frost 
depths  were  located  in  Mara- 
thon, Langlade,  and  Lincoln 
Counties,  but  there  were  re- 
ports of  48  inches  at  La 
Crosse   and   Chippewa  Falls. 


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what  these  were  if  we  didn't  put 
an  Ocean  Spray  label  on  them. 

You  know  how  most  people  buy  cranberries  these  days? 
In  cans  and  botdes  and  jars.  Jellied  and  frozen  and  squeezed. 

Many  of  them  wouldn't  recognize  a  whole,  fresh  cran- 
berry if  they  saw  one. 

So  how  do  they  know  what  to  buy?  They  look  for  the 
Ocean  Spray  label. 

To  millions  of  people,  Ocean  Spray  means  cranberries. 

They're  buying  more  cranberry  products  than  ever.  Many 
they  never  heard  of  a  couple  of  years  ago. 

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IIM 

THIS 

ISSUE 

MARCH 
1967 


THE  MAKEPEACE  STORY   7 

CRANBERRY    LABELS    12 

WISCONSIN    CRANBERRY    VINE    INJURY 16 

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Frost  Protection   and 
Frost  Warnings 

Prepared  by 

C.  E.  Cross,  I.  E.  Demoranville 

and  G.  B.  RoimsviUe 

There  is  probably  no  single 
cause  of  damage  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts cranberry  crop  as  de- 
structive year  after  year  as 
spring  frost  injury.  The  Cran- 
berry Station  is  eager  to  reduce 
this  injury  as  much  as  possible. 
In  one  area,  we  feel  that  our 
frost  warnings  may  be  mis- 
leading sonijc-  growers.  A  brief 
accoimt  of  this  should,  we 
think,  lead  to  better  understand- 
ing and  more  efficient  frost  pro- 
tection. 

The  tolerance  t)f  cranberry 
buds  on  the  State  Bog  is  used 
as  a  basis  for  determining 
whether  or  not  a  frost  warning 
is  needed.  In  recent  years  the 
winter  flood  has  regularly  been 
pulled  from  under  the  ice  to 
avoid  oxygen  deficiency.  Some- 
times the  flood  is  put  on  again, 
and  sometimics  this  has  not  ap- 
peared necessary.  In  any  case, 
the  flood  is  regularly  removed 
and  the  bog  drained  every  year 


in  mid-March.  This  is  the  win- 
ter management  of  the  cran- 
berry vines  that  is  used  as  a 
standard  in  determining  the 
need  of  a  frost  warning  —  the 
degree  of  tolerance  —  the  tem- 
perature below  which  damage 
is  likely  to  occur. 

In  the  past  several  years  it 
has  become  evident  that  by 
shortening  the  winter  flood  a$, 
described  above,  the  buds  grow 
more  slowly  in  the  spring  and 
remain  resistant  to  frost  dam- 
age throughout  April.  Veteran 
growers  will  recall  that  several 
years  ago  it  was  frequently 
considered  necessary  to  issue 
frost  warning  during  the  last 
half  of  April.  In  Dr.  Franklin's 
bulletin  "Weather  in  Cranberry 
Culture,"  on  page  35  he  says 
"...  when  bog  temperatures 
promise  to  fall  below  20  de- 
grees F.  during  the  last  week 
of  April,  it  is  best  to  flood  .  .  " 
More  recently,  we  have  ob- 
served the  effects  of  several 
frosts  with  minimum  tempera- 
tures in  the  teens  during  the 
last  ten  days  of  April,  and  one 
instance  of  9  degrees  and  of 
11  degre-es  F.  on  April  19th. 
In  none  of  these  cases  has  any 
injury  been  detected.    So  unless 


the  weather  of  April  is  es- 
pecially mild,  it  is  unlikely  that 
frost  warning  will  be  issued  in 
April. 

Growers  who  regularly  hold 
a  long  and  continuous  winter 
flood,  who  do  not  draw  the 
water  from  under  the  ice  to 
avoid  oxygen  deficiency  con- 
ditions, or  who  hold  the  winter 
flood  into  the  first  week  of 
April,  are  likely  to  have  buds 
that  are  more  sensitive  to  frost 
in  late  April.  These  growers, 
it  seems  to  us,  might  sustain 
damaging  frost  injury  on  nights 
with  no  frost  warning.  This 
situation  is  further  complicated 
by  the  fact  that  a  frost  flood 
applied  in  April  tends  to  force 
bud  development  ahead  so  that 
such  a  bog  will  be  even  more 
sensitive  to  frost  during  the 
next  cold  spell. 

Cross,  Demioranville  and 
Rounsville  are  in  complete 
agreement  that  the  holding  of 
the  winter  flood  later  than 
March  20th  serves  only  to  in- 
crease the  difficulty  of  frost 
protection.  Usually  it  should 
be  possible  to  take  note  of 
weather  forecasts  on  March  15, 

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fohn  Guckien  has  been  elec- 
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Mr.  Guckien  succeeds  Ber- 
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Mr.  Hoddinott  retired  on  De- 
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John  Guckien  joined  Dean  in 
1952.  His  entire  service  with  the 
company  has  been  in  sales.  In 
February  1965  he  was  named 
Director  of  Milk  and  Ice  Cream 
Sales,  the  position  he  held  until 
his  recent  election  as  an  of- 
ficer of  the  company. 

A  native  of  the  Logansport, 
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FROST  PROTECTION 

Continued  from  Page   1 

when  if  no  ^\'interkilling  is  in 
sight  it  is  possible  safely  to 
draw  the  flood.  If  this  is  done 
the  tolerance  of  the  growers' 
vines  should  be  similar  to  that 
of  the  State  Bog's  vines,  and 
the  frost  warnings  w^ould  have 
a    maximum    usefulness. 


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1001  Dempsey  Rd.,  Milpitas,  Calif. 


Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

i  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals  grees  a  day  below  normal.  The  are    in    the    process    of    being 

Dr     Wes    Miller     Dr     Bert  ^"^X  ^^^m  periods  occurred  on  printed  and  we  hope  to  be  able 

Zuckerman  and  Andrew  Charig  ^^e  1st  and  2nd,  11th  and  14th  to   mail  them  shortly    Growers 

have  published  a  paper  in  the  *«,  16th     Precipitation    totalled  are  reminded  to  carefully  read 

October    issue    of    Transactions  fnly   2  66  inches   at  the  Gran-  the   notes   at  the   top    of   each 

of  the  American   Fisheries    So-  ^erry   Station,  or  about  0.9  of  chart,  there  is  considerable  use- 

ciety.  The  title  is  "Water  Trans-  »"   inch   below   average    Actu-  ful     information     included     in 

location    of    Diazinon-C14    and  ^^X  there  was  measurable  pre^  these  sections. 

Parathion-S35     off     a      Model  cipitation    on    15    days    during 

rranh^^rrv  Rnfr  and  Siib^jPnuenf  ^^e    month,    but  It   was   mostly  ,  ^'f    cnanges    on    me    weea 

L>ranDerry  uog  ana  ^suDsequenr.  j^lui  '       „,:i.u     ^„i„     i.„,V»  chart   are  minor;   however,   we 

Occurrence   in  Fish    and    Mus-  "  ,^"¥l^^„,^  ^,,,^"^^^^^  have    included    a    warning    on 

sels."  This  paper  reports  on  the  l^.^.^'^^iJ^I^^Z^li  "^^"^  ^^^"^""  "^^^^  ^^"^ 

persistence     and     leaching     of  ^"<^,^    ^^c,^-    J^nowtall    was   Zi.^ 

radioactive  labeled  diazinon  inches  which  is  tar  above  aver-  Ghanges  on  the  insect  chart 
and  parathion  after  application  fg^  but  is.  only  the  second  include  the  substitution  of  Gu- 
to  a  model  cranberry  bog  and  largest  recorded.  The  record  of  thion  E.G.  3  pints  per  acre  or 
also  the  accumulation  of  these  nearly  24  inches  occurred  in  the  2%  dust  for  Diazinon  in  con- 
pesticides  in  fish  and  mjussel  February,  1964.  A  series  of  trol  of  fireworm,  cutworm.  Spar- 
tissue.  Reprints  of  this  paper  ^mor  storms  kept  the  ground  ganothis  fruitworm,  gypsy  moth 
are   available.  ^"°^    covered    for    tlie    entire  and  tipworm  in  the  new  growth 

month.  to   Vz  inch  stage  and  for  fruit- 

^***''*'"  Charts  worm,  fireworm,  leafhopper  and 

February    was    a    very    cold  The  1967  cranberry  insect  and 

month  averaging  nearly   4   de-  disease  and  weed  control  charts  Continued  on  Page  JS 


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cranberry  grower.  Minimum  gallonage.  Special  IH"  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
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CRANBERRY 
INSTITUTE 
HOLDS  MEETING 


CRANBERRIES 

THE  NATIONAL 
CRANBERRY  MAGAZINE 


The  Cranberry  Institute  at  its 
annual  meeting  held  in  Dux- 
bury,  Mass.,  March  14,  1967 
elected  as  directors:  Leon  April, 
Treasurer  of  Morris  April  Bros., 
Eatmor  Division  Bridgeton, 
N.J.;  Orrin  G.  Colley,  Treasurer 
of  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Co- 
operative, Inc.,  EHixbury,  Mass.; 
C.  C.  Daniels,  National  Sales 
Manager  Food  Products  Divi- 
sion, Dean  Foods  Company, 
Franklin  Park,  Illinois;  Edwin 
F.  Lewis,  Senior  Vice-President 
of  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries, 
Inc.,  Hanson,  Mass.;  George  C. 
P.  Olsson,  president  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.,  Han- 
son, Mass.  and  Clarence  A. 
Searles,  Cranberry  grower  of 
Wisconsin    Rapids,    Wisconsin. 

Re-elected  officers  were:  Or- 
rin G.  Colley,  President,  Leon 
April,  Vice-President  and  Edwin 
F.   Lewis,   Secretary-Treasurer. 

Major  responsibility  for  the 
cranberry  foreign  market  devel- 
opnr^nt  project  is  shared  by  the 
Institute  (representing  the  in- 
dustry) and  the  U.S.  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  through  its 
Foreign  Agricultural  Service. 
The  program  is  sponsored, 
guided  and  partially  funded  by 
FAS  but  the  industry  provides 
initiative  and  direction  and  con- 
tributes a  large  share  of  the 
funds,  goods   and  services. 

Mr.  Colley,  stated,  "Overseas 
program  results  indicate  pro- 
gress is  being  made  in  this  effort 
to  expand  the  market  base  for 
U.S.  cranberries  and  in  the  long 
run  will  provide  U.S.  cranberry 
producers  with  a  reliable  and 
constant   market." 


ISSUE  OF  MARCH,   1967     /     VOL.   31 -NO.   11 


Established     1936     by   Clarence    J.    Hall    31    Wareham.     Mass 

Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

617—585-2310 

Editor 

DONALD   CHARTIER 

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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle  River,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

AAassachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.  Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


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We  feel  strongly  that  there  is  much 
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anyone  interested  in  this  project  to 
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Stanley  Coville 

Stanley  Coville,  73,  who 
helped  develop  New  Jersey's 
blueberry  crop  into  a  $6  million 
industry,  died  February  5  at 
his  home,  of  heart  failure. 

Mr.  Coville  was  one  of  the 
first  commercial  producers  of 
cultivated  blueberries  in  the 
state,  beginning  in  1920. 

A  graduate  of  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, he  organized  the  True 
Blue     Cooperative     Association 


in  1927,  developing  standards 
of  quality  for  blueberries  and 
helping  design  unique  packag- 
ing for  the  crop.  He  was  co- 
operative manager  from  then 
until  the  time  of  his   death. 

In  1965,  the  state  board  of  ag- 
riculture awarded  him  its  Dis- 
tinguished service  citation  for 
40  years'  service  to  the  blue- 
berry industry. 

Surviving  are  a  son,  Stanley 
B.,  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Vinton 
Thompson,  two  brothers  and  a 
sister. 

Services  were  held  Feb.  10  at 
the  Grace  Episcopal  Church, 
Pemberton,  N.  J. 


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peace  owned  and  operated  b(),u;s 
in  New  Jersey.  The  ii.iiik- 
"Makepeace"  is  essentially  Eng- 
lish, according  to  Maurice. 

Maurice  attended  grade 
school  at  several  locations  in 
Wareham.  He  then  went  to 
Tabor  Academy  in  Marion.  This 
is  a  noted  prep  school,  with  ; 
nautical  bent,  and  when  Maur- 
ice was  there  the  students  wore 
naval  uniforms  at  all  times,  al- 
though today  the  uniforms  are 
mostly  for  dress  occasions.  He 
traveled  in  those  days  by  street 
car  from  Wareham  to  Marion 
and  returned  on  the  now  de- 
funct New  Bedford  and  Onset 
Street  Railway. 

He  then  entered  Dartmouth 
College  in  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  took  a  general  course, 
and  received  his  B.S.  degree  in 


JVJ2(S.  lie  majored  in  luonomics. 
lie  tlu'ii  spent  two  \tars  in  the 
Ilarxarcl  Busiiu-ss  School  at 
Caiiibridgi',   Mass. 

He  married  the  former  Anne 
P.  Franchot  of  Washington, 
D.C.  while  he  was  living  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  em- 
ployed at  the  Chase  National 
Bank,  one  of  the  great  banks  of 
the  country  from  1930  to  1941. 

He  found  he  did  not  like  city 
life  as  did  Mrs.  Makepeace  also. 
"I  wanted  to  get  back  into  the 
country  again,"  he  says,  "and 
get  some  out-door  life."  He 
joined  the  ADM  Company  im- 
mediately thereafter  in  1941. 
His  father  was  then  president 
of  the  company,  a  position  held 
today  by  Russell  Makepeace, 
his  cousin. 

Continued  on  FaEe  10 


By  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 

"Due  to  expansion  in  sales," 
says  conservative,  quiet-spoken 
Maurice  B.  Makepeace,  treas- 
urer of  the  huge  A.  D.  Make- 
peace Company  of  Wareham, 
Massachusetts,  "the  next  several 
years  look  pretty  good  for  the 
cranberry  industry,"  In  addition 
to  his  work  at  the  ADM  Com- 
pany, Maurice  has  been  and  is 
engaged  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness, which  is  a  reason  why  he 
does  not  speak  at  random,  so 
such  a  statement  from  him 
carries  considerable  weight. 

The  ADM  Company  ovms 
and  operates  about  1,500  acres 
of  bog  in  two  counties  and 
Maurice  says  production  has 
consistently  been  a  little  above 
the  Massachusetts  average. 

The  Makepeaces  have  been 
growing  cranberries  since  the 
1870's,  and  Maurice  has  always 
been  familiar  with  cranberries, 
of  course,  and  when  he  was  a 
youngster  weeded  and  sprayed 
on  some  of  the  Makepeace  bogs, 
and  in  the  fall  he  picked  cran- 
berries. 

Maurice 

Maurice  was  born  December 
29,  1906,  in  a  hospital  in  Boston 
with  his  parents  living  in  Ware- 
ham at  the  time.  His  father  was 
the  late  John  C.  Makepeace  for 
m,any  years  a  leader  in  the  cran- 
berry industry,  his  mother  being 
the  former  Grace  Parker  of 
West  Barnstable  on  the  Cape. 
His  grandfather  was  Abel  Den- 
nison  Makepeace,  who  around 
the  turn  of  the  century  was 
known  widely  as  the  "Cranberry 
King,"  and  articles  about  him 
were  written  in  the  New  York 

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MAKEPEACE  STORY 

Continued  from  Page   7 

Maurice  and  his  wife  now 
live  at  Piney   Point   in    Marion. 

The  couple  haVe  a  daughter, 
now  Mrs.  Marshall  Severance  of 
Worcester,  Mass.,  and  a  son 
Christopher  18,  recently  grad- 
uated from  Tabor.  Maurice  be- 
longs to  few  social  clubs,  but  is 
a  member  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Growers'  Association 
and  the  Southeastern  Cranberry 
Club  which  meets  at  Rochester. 
For  recreation  he  pays  golf  at 
the  Kittansett  Club  in  Marion 
^^  here  he  is  a  member. 

He  attends  the  Congregation- 
al Church  of  Marion,  of  which 
Mrs.  Makepeace  is  a  member. 

When  he  went  to  work  for 
ADM  his  first  job  was  to  learn 
where  the  Makepeace  proper- 
ties are,  and  to  get  oriented  to 
the  whole  cranberry  picture. 
The  bogs  are  located  in  Plym- 
outh and  Barnstable  Counties. 
Barnstable  County  (which  is 
Cape  Cod)  was  where  A.  D. 
Makepeace  first  started  in  tlie 
cranberry  business.  He  was  a 
farmer  at  Hyannis,  for  one  thing 
growing  turnips  and  onions.  He 
later  came  up  to  develop  bogs 
in  Plymouth  County. 


Today  Maurice's  "particular 
baliwick  is  Barnstable  County." 
Responsibility  has  tobe  divided, 
and  while  the  Cape  is  his 
special  responsibility  he  has  to 
keep  informied  and  take  part  in 
all  the  general  cranberry  opera- 
tions. For  the  ADM  Company 
it  is  "Russ"  who  is  secretary'  of 
Ocean  Spray,  who  is  closer  to 
the  "big  co-op"  and  attends  to 
the  ADM  Company's  interests 
there.  The  ADM  Company  sells 
its  crop  through  Ocean   Spray. 

The  Company  bogs  are  in 
Wareham,  Rochester,  Middle- 
boro,  Carver  and  Plymouth  in 
Plymouth  County  and  in  Barn- 
stable County,  Barnstable,  Yar- 
mouth, Harwich,  Brewster, 
Mashpee  and  Falmouth, 


ADM    as    Employer 

The  company  employs  six 
people  at  the  company  office  on 
Main  Street,  Warehara,  a  hand- 
some and  well  designed  brick 
structure.  There  is  additional 
help  in  the  harvest  period. 

There  are  12  foremen  alto- 
gether, with  two  of  these  on  the 
Cape  and  they  have  their  help- 
ers. Year-round  bog  help  num- 
bers about  50,  of  course  this 
increases  greatly  in  the  fall.  The 
ADM  now  uses  Darlington's 
exclusively. 


"The  peak  of  our  employment 
was  reached  about  eight  years 
ago  when  we  had  about  700 
people  in  one  capacity  or  an- 
otlicr,"  Maurice  recalls.  That 
was  in  the  days  of  hand  scoop- 
ing. 

The  company  has  about  40 
pieces  of  automotive  equip- 
ment; about  23  pumps,  5  front 
end  loaders,  75  picking  ma- 
chines. The  ADM  does  not  go 
in  for  water  raking. 

About  60  additional  acres  of 
sprinklers  were  put  in,  in  the 
spring  of  1966.  "Frankly,"  says 
Maurice,  "I  don't  think  we  have 
enough  water  at  all  locations 
to  use  sprinklers." 

At  the  rear  of  the  office  on 
Main  Street  there  is  a  wooden 
structure  which  is  a  machine 
shop.  This  is  under  the  direc- 
tion of  William)  ( Bill )  Ross  who 
has  one  or  two  helpers  at  times. 
With  all  this  equipment  a  good 
repair  shop  is  a  necessity. 

Blacks    and    Howes 

The  Makepeace  bogs  are  set 
to  roughly  55  percent  Early 
Blacks,  and  the  rest  mostly  Late 
Howes.  "We  ha\'e  gotten  rid  of 
our  fancy  varieties,"  Maurice 
claims,  and  we  ha\'e  a  few  of 
the  hybrids  for  experimental 
purposes." 


View   of   Makepeace   Bogs   on   Tihonet    Road    in    Wareham 


TEN 


Company  Screens   Some  of   its  Crop 

The  company  still  screens 
some  of  the  berries  itself  at  the 
Century  bog  near  White  Island 
Pond,  Wareham,  Wankinquoah 
bog  in  Carver  and  at  the  screen 
house  in  the  center  of  Ware- 
ham.  Berries  are  delivered  in 
the  chaff  to  the  Ocean  Spray 
screenhouse  at  North  Harwich 
on  the  Cape.  The  others  go  to 
the  cooperative  plants  at  Han- 
son and  Onset,  mostly  Onset. 


On    Marketing    Committee 

Maurice  was  elected  as  alter- 
nate to  George  C.  P.  Olsson  on 
the  Cranberry  Marketing  Com- 
mittee when  it  was  being  con- 
sidered and  then  voted  into 
effect.  Maurice  played  a  con- 
siderable part  in  the  drawing 
up  of  the  by-laws.  One  of  his 
jobs  was  the  definition  of  the 
rules.  Maurice  was  a  strong 
supporter  of  the  plan  to  have 
such  an  order,  and  although 
the  Order  has  not  been  in  use 
every  year  when  tne  total  U.S. 
Crop  was  small,  he  considers 
having  it  of  value  to  put  into 
effect  when  considered  neces- 
sary, because  of  a  large  crop. 


Maurice  has  served  on  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  Plymouth 
County   Aid  to  Agriculture. 


Own  Crop  Duster  and  Research  Men 

On  the  ADM  payroll  is  Leslie 
"Les"  Holmes  of  Wareham  who 
in  season  pilots  a  straight- wing 
craft  for  crop  spraying  and  dust- 
ing. Holmes  is  employed  the 
entire  year  around.  \^^ien  the 
air  control  of  insects  is  not  in 
operation  Holmes  is  employed 
by  the  company  either  with 
equipment  operation  and  main- 
tenance or  in  a  machine  shop 
at  Tihonet,  a  section  of  Ware- 
ham. 

The  company  also  employs  a 
full  time  mian  who  came  as.  a 
research  man,  and  while  he  still 
does  research  is  now  working 
as  a  field  man  supervisor,  but 
mostly  in  production.  He  is 
William  M.  Atwood,  who  has 
contributed  papers  to  this  mag- 
azine and  about  whom  there 
was  a  feature  article  some  time 
ago.  "Bill"  At  wood  has  also 
been  a  cranberry  grower  in  his 
own  right. 

With  all  the  foregoing  facts 
it  becomes  very  evident  that  the 
ADM  Company  is  a  consider- 
able factor  in  the  economics  of 
the  Massachusetts  cranberry 
area. 


As   a   Banker 

Maurice  is  President  of  the 
National  Bank  of  Wareham,  a 
position  his  father  had  held  for 
45  years,  succeeding  him  in 
1957.  He  is  a  Corporator  and 
Trustee  of  the  Wareham  Sav- 
ings Bank.  He  is  Director  and 
Vice-President  of  the  Buzzards 
Bay  National  Bank.  Russell  is 
Director  and  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  the  Cape  Cod  Bank 
and  Trust  Company. 

Maurice  has  never  found  tirrve 
to  go  "into  politics,"  although 
Russell  has  been  Town  Meeting 
Moderator  in  Marion  and  was 
a  Selectman.  Maurice  is  Treas- 
urer and  Trustee  of  the  Tobey 
Hospital,  Wareham. 

His  father,  who  died  in  1958, 
quietly  and  with  no  fanfare  did 
a  considerable  amount  of  charit_ 
able,  or  philanthropic  work. 
This  was  to  private  individuals 
or  to  organizations.  Maurice, 
who  has  followed  in  his  father's 
footsteps  in  so  many  ways,  is 
following  him  in  this  respect 
also. 

Fourth    Generation    in    Cranberries? 

Maurice's  son,  Christopher, 
while  not  having  decided  yet 
what  will  be  his  business  career 
is  definitely  interested  in  cran- 
berries. "He  may  go  into  the 
business.  Who  knows?"  Maurice 
concludes. 


*. .  .<  .A.    >.• 


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Do  you  remember  when 
cranberries  were  shipped  in 
cranberry  barrels  and  boxes? 
And  do  you  remember  the 
colorfid  labels  which  designated 
the  area  or  the  marsh  in  which 
they  were  grown,  and  the 
variety  of  berry?  The  labels 
have  almost  disappeared,  but  a 
few  haxe  been  diligently  col- 
lected and  assembled  for  others 
to  see. 

Dr.  K.  G.  Weckel,  Professor 
of  Food  Science  and  Industries, 
University  of  Wisconsin,  Madi- 
son, who  is  also  a  grower  of  20 
acres  of  cranberries  at  Dock 
Lake  near  Spooner,  \\'isconsin, 
has  assembled  what  is  believed 
to  be  the  most  complete  collec- 
tion of  cranberry  labels 
mounted  on  ends   of   V4  barrel 

TWELVE 


cranberry  boxes.  These  are  hung 
on  a  display  panel  in  his  office 
at  Madison. 

The    display    consists    of    the 
labels  from,  the  four  major  cran- 
berry   producing    areas    of    the 
countr)'  —  New    England,    New 
jersey,  Wisconsin,  and  the  Paci- 
fic Northwest.  He  originally  had 
his  coaching  in  the  lore  of  the 
labels    from    the   venerable    Dr. 
George        Peltier,        Wisconsin 
Rapids,  Wisconsin,  and  has  had 
much  help  from  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy,  Eagle  River,  Wisconsin, 
Walter    Fort,    Pemberton,    New 
jersey,    Mrs.    Elizabeth   Palmer, 
Tuckerton,    New    jersey,   judge 
Paulding,  South  Carxer,  Massa- 
chusetts,   and    Charles    Nelson, 
Mahcotta,       W'ashington,      and 
Frank      Glenn,      Long      Beach, 


Washington.      He      admits     to 
crawling    through   many   dustty 
warehouses  and  sheds,  peeking 
into  shelves  and  closets  in  cran- 
licrry    marshes    throughout   the 
United     States.     Most     growers 
liave     been      very     helpful     in 
searching    through    their    ware- 
houses   with    him    when    they 
learn  of  the  collection.  The  col- 
lection   is    quite    complete,    but 
Dr.    \\'eckel  states,   "A   few  la- 
bels are  missing,  and  I  am  on 
the  Imnt  for  them.  There  were 
three  foimders  of   Ocean   Spray 
Cooperative,    but    I    have    only 
the    label    of    the     Makepeace 
Marsh.  Walter  Fort  told  me  the 
Plum  label  used  in  New  jersey 
may   have   disappeared,   as  the 
warehouse    was     consumed    by 
fire;   but,  perhaps,    a    V4   barrel 
box  with  this  label  is  in  other 
warehouses." 

Among  the  labels  shown  in 
the  collection  in  the  photo  are: 

Massachusetts— Beacon,  Blue- 
bird, Bunker  Hill,  Capitol, 
Chanticleer,  Harvard  (  Vs  box ) , 
Holiday,  Honker,  Iris,  In- 
spected, John  Alden,  Lion,  Long 
Distance,  Magnolia,  Mayflower, 
Minots  Light,  Makepeace, 
Mistletoe,  Myles  Standish,  Pea- 
cock, Pilgrim,  Pocahontas,  Plym- 
outh Rock,  Pointer,  Skipper, 
Turkey,  Whitehouse,  \Mndmill, 
Yale,  Cape  Cod  Early  Black, 
Cape  Cod  Howe,  Ocean  Spray, 
Ocean   Spray  Bell   Cherry. 

New  Jersey  —  Alpine,  Ameri- 
can Beauty,  Arbutus,  Arrow, 
Atlantic,  Cottage,  Dixie,  Excel- 
sior, Fenwick,  Gem,  Globe, 
Goldenrod,  Hanover,  Heather, 
Homestead,  Jersey  Belle,  Laur- 
el, Liberty  Bell,  Mallard,  Mon- 
mouth, Oak,  Olive,  Plantation, 
Princeton,  Quail,  Rancocas,  Red 
Bell,  Red  Clover,  Ruby,  Silver 
Medal,  Shamrock,  Sunrise,  Swan. 

Wisconsin  —  Antler,  Badger, 
Banner,  Bessie,  Bison,  Bouquet, 
Cultivated,  Daisy,  Deer,  Elk, 
Favorite,  Fox,  Gaynor,  Holly, 
jumbo.  Moose,  Penant,  Poppy, 
Royal,  Star,  Wisconsin,  Wiscon- 
sin   Bell-Clierrv,    Indian   Trail. 

Continued   on  Pap,e  18 


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Chloro  IPC  selective  herbicide 
stops  germinating  weeds  and 
grasses  such  as  annual  bluegrass, 
bentgrass,  bluejoint  grass, 
dodder,  horsetail,  loosestrife, 
rushes  (Juncus),  sickle  grass, 


turkeyfoot  grass  and  velvet- 
grass.  In  Massachusetts,  con- 
sult your  Extension  Service 
Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart. 
Once  its  work  is  done,  PPG 
Chloro  IPC  breaks  down  with 
rising  temperatures.  This  elimi- 
nates pfoblems  of  build-up  in 
soil  or  carryover.  Chloro  IPC 
also  shows  a  broad  margin  of 
tolerance  to  cranberry  plants. 


Uniform,  hard  granules  of  20% 
Granular  Chloro  IPC  are  easy 
to  measure  and  apply  with  air 
or  ground  equipment. 

Check  your  local  extension 
service  or  supplier  for  more 
complete  information  or  write 
Department  7713,  Pittsburgh 
Plate  Glass  Company,  Chem- 
ical Division,  One  Gateway 
Center,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  15222. 


Chemicals 


INDUSTRIES 


FIFTEEN 


The  Controversial  Case 
of  Crar)berry  Vine  Injury 

Prepared  by 

Malcolm  N.  Dana, 
Department  of  Horticulture 
D.  M.  Boone  and  R.  J.  Friend 
Department  of  Plant  Pathology 

C.  M.  Koval 

Department  of  Entomology 

The  summer  of  1966  saw  in- 
jury to  cranberry  vines  in  many 
areas  of  Wisconsin.  The  first 
report  of  this  injury  came  to 
our  attention  from  a  grower  in 
the  northwest  comer  of  the 
state,  but  a  later  survey  showed 
it  to  be  present  in  all  northern 
areas  and  to  a  less  extent  in  the 
southern  producing  areas.  Char- 
acteristically, the  vines  turned 
brown  in  a  pepper  and  salt  dis. 
tribution  over  considerable  areas 
of  some  beds.  Close  examina- 
tion showed  that  both  good  and 
bad  uprights  occurred  on  the 
same  runners.  There  seemed 
to  be  no  relation  of  the  injury 


to  position  on  the  vine.  Death 
of  uprights  occurred  from  the 
tip  downward.  Injured  up- 
rights first  took  on  a  dull  green 
appearance  which  turned  to  a 
light  brown  and  finally  a  deep 
brown.  It  was  assumed  that 
these  color  differences  were 
successive  tissue  breakdo"wns 
and  enzymatic  changes  after 
the  actual  death  of  the  vine. 
Dead  uprights  showed  dark- 
ening of  internal  tissues  sugges. 
tive  of  vascular  plugging.  Care- 
ful examination  of  roots  from 
injured  vines  showed  no  mac- 
roscopic evidence  of  breakdown 
or  injury. 

A  careful  search  of  the  soil 
in  the  areas  showing  vine  in- 
jury revealed  two  types  of  small 
worms  in  close  proximity  to  the 
vines.  One  of  these  proved  to 
be  a  round  worm  that  lives  on 
the  decaying  organic  material 
at  the  bog  surface  and  could 
not  be  damaging  the  vines. 
The  second  worm  was  identi- 
fied as  the  larval  stage  of  a  fly 
that  also  lives  as  a  saprophyte 


on  decaying  organic  material 
and  likewise  was  not  damag- 
ing living  vines. 

Sample  of  vines  collected  by 
Dr.  Boone  and  Mr.  Friend  were 
brought  to  the  laboratory  for 
the  early  stages  of  breakdown 
study.  From  vines  that  were  in 
and  also  from  healthy  vines, 
these  men  were  able  to  isolate 
several  fungi.  Several  of  these 
fungi  are  often  found  in  asso- 
ciation with  cranberry  vines 
and  seem  not  to  be  involved 
with  the  observed  injury.  How- 
ever, one  organism  occurred  fre. 
quently  in  affected  uprights 
and  infrequently  in  healthy  up- 
right. Although  the  evidence 
is  certainly  not  conclusive,  we 
believe  it  likely  that  the  injury 
found  is  due,  in  part,  to  the 
development  of  this  disease. 

The  organism  is  called  Phom- 
ppsis  or  Dioporthe.  This  fungus 
is  known  to  be  a  weak  parasite 
i.e.  it  can,  under  certain  con- 
ditions,   invade    and   kill    living 

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Nature's  law  of  normalization 
was  at  work  in  February  in  the 
cranberry  belt  of  New  jersey. 
To  balance  out  the  balmy 
weather  in  January,  extremely 
severe  weather  occurred.  Three 
below  zero  days  were  recorded 
in  February  —  3  below  on  the 
8th,  5  below  on  the  9th  and 
7  below  on  the  13th.  Tempera- 
tures of  this  extreme  are  un- 
usual but  not  rare  in  this  state; 
they  have  occurred  in  19  of  the 
39  years  of  weather  recording 
at  the  Cranberry  &  Blueberry 
Laboratory  at  New  Lisbon.  A 
total  of  .54  below  zero  days  have 
been  recorded  here,  an  average 
of  less  than  1.5  such  days  per 
year.  The  three  such  days  this 
past  month  marks  only  the  fifth 
time  that  3  or  more  days  of 
below  zero  temperatures  hap- 
pened in  a  single  month.  The 
record  is  7  days  in  February 
of    1934. 


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The  temperature  for  the 
month  averaged  29.9°F  or  about 
4.2°  below  normfil.  It  was  the 
sixth  coldest  February  recorded 
at  the  laboratory. 

Rain  or  snow  occurred  on  12 
days  during  the  month.  Snow- 
fall was  exceptionally  heavy.  A 
total  of  20.3  inches  was  re- 
corded, making  it  the  2nd  heavi. 
est  to  occur  here  in  February. 
The  largest  snowfall  of  the 
month  was  9.5  on  Feb,  7th.  The 
total  snowfall  this  year  is  now 
31  inches  or  just  about  twice 
the  normal  amount  and  about 
the  sixth  heaviest  on  record 
here.  Precipitation  converted  to 
rainfall  totalled  3.00  inches  in 
February,  just  .06  inches  above 
normal. 

Ice  thickness  of  more  than 
six  inches  with  a  heavy  cover 
of  snow  over  it  caused  rapid 
depletion  of  the  oxygen  supply 
in  the  flood  water  on  cranberry 
boj^s.  The  following  oxygen  de- 


ficiency warning  was  issued  by 
the  Cranberry  &  Blueberry  Lab- 
oratory on  Feb.  21st:  "Damage 
to  next  year's  cranberry  crop 
from  oxygen  deficiency  is  a 
definite  threat  if  the  ice  on  bogs 
does  not  break  up  soon.  Analy- 
sis of  samples  of  flood  water 
cranberry  bogs  taken  on  Mon- 
day showed  that  the  oxygen 
content  was  approaching  critical 
levels.  If  the  bogs  do  not  open 
up  on  Wednesday  night  cran- 
berry growers  are  advised  to 
draw  the  water  oflF  their  bogs 
to  give  the  vines  a  breather. 
Vines  are  well  protected  with 
ice  lying  on  them  but  water 
should  be  put  back  on  before 
the   ice   is  completely  melted." 

Temtperatures  ranging  from 
10  below  zero  to  15  below  zero 
were  recorded  in  blueberry 
fields  on  Feb.  13th.  This  is  very 
close  to  the  point  at  which 
serious  winter  injury  may  occur 

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R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


Serving  Agriculture 


Helicopter  Application 
Division 

CHEMAPCO,   INC. 


Cranberry  Highway 

West  Wareham,  Mass. 

295-1553 


SEVENTEEN 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  17 

to  fruit  buds  and/or  wood  of 
blueberries.  A  cursory  survey 
indicated  about  31%  of  the  em- 
bryo flowers  within  the  large 
fruit  buds  of  the  Weymouth 
variety  were  destroyed  in  a 
Burlington  County  field  in 
which  the  minimum  recorded 
was  15  below.  In  an  Atlantic 
County  field  where  the  temper- 
ature plunged  to  10  below  zero 
only  about  G%  of  the  Weymouth 
flowers  appeared  to  be  killed. 
Damage  to  wood  can  not  be 
ascertained. 

WASHINGTON 

Weather 

The  area  had  two  periods 
this  month  when  the  growers 
needed  to  sprinkle  for  frost 
damage.  The  4th  tlirough  the 
7th  with  a  low  of  27  degrees, 
and  the  18th  through  the  25th 
with  a  low  of  25.  The  mean 
low  for  the  month  of  February 
was  37.32  degrees   F.  bog  low 


of  25  degrees  on  the  18tli. 

The  mean  high  for  the  month 
was  50.46  degrees,  and  we  feel 
that  spring  is  on  its  way,  the 
days  have  been  warm  and 
sunny.  The  precipitation  for 
the  month  7.25  inches  with 
1.20  inches  falling  on  the  12th. 
February  saw  ten  days  witliout 
rain  so  that  is  a  great  improve- 
ment over  the  last  two  months. 

Excerpts    taken    from    "Cranberry    Vine" 

The  weather  during  Novem- 
ber and  December  1966  was  rel- 
atively mild.  It  is  believed  that 
the  buds  did  not  build  the  re- 
quired hardiness  and  resistance 
to  cold  injury  compared  to  the 
same  previous  year. 

The  month  of  November  had 
36  hours  at  32  degrees  F.  and 
below.  December  had  18  hours 
and  January  23  horn's.  Tliis  is 
considered  a  very  mild  winter 
with  a  normal  relative  humidity 
which  did  not  drop,  fortunately, 
to  the  critical  point  of  desi- 
cation. 

Continued  on  Page  24 


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LABEL  COLLECTOR 

Continued  from  Page   12 

Washington,  Oregon  —  Kno- 
Better. 

Michigan  —  Michigan  Sweets 
(Peterson   Brothers.) 

In  addition  to  the  paper 
labels  used  on  the  cranberry 
box  ends,  ink  imprinted  box 
ends  were  used  also.  Among 
those  that  Dr.  Weckel  has  are: 
C  W  Company  ( Boxton,  Massa- 
chusetts), Big  Injun  (Manomet, 
Massachusetts).  Habelman  Bro- 
thers (Wisconsin).  Gebhardt 
(Wisconsin),  Blue  Diamond 
(George  Davis,  Manorville, 
New  York). 

"I  am  always  looking  or  in- 
quiring for  those  variety  labels 
1  know  about  but  haxe  not  yet 
found,  and  hope  someone  has." 
Among  the  labels  still  missing 
are:  Battleship,  Beaver,  Chief, 
Chipmunk,  Dragon,  Eagle, 
Faneuil  Hall,  Fisherman,  Lone 
Pine,  Monogram,  Pheasant, 
Priscilla,  Puritan,  Red  Cedar, 
Samoset,    and    Santa   Claus. 

"If  any  grower  has  these  la- 
bels, particular!)  in  the  ^A 
barrel  si/c  ritlu  r  separate  or 
on  a  box  nul.  I  sliall  hv  pleased 
to  know  aliont  it.  There  are 
manv  of  the  ink  imi)rinted  box 
ends,  either  with  iiini.  marsii, 
.or  grower's  names,  1  would  wel- 
come very  much. 


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Box  7.  Taunton,  Mass.  02781 
Tel.   fil7   S24-7578 


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Land  Bank  Mortgages 


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RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

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MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

girdler  moths  in  the  late  bloom 
stage.  Guthion  has  also  been 
added  to  the  control  for  green 
spanworm  and  tipworm  in  the 
V2  inch  growth  to  hook  stage. 
Aldrin  has  been  deleted  for 
control   of  weevil. 

Frost    Warning 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  is  again 
sponsoring  the  telephone  frost 
warning  service.  Applications 
were  mailed  to  all  growers  by 
mid  March.  If  a  grower  has  not 
received  an  application,  he 
should  notify  Mrs.  Ruth  Beaton, 
treasurer  of  the  association,  Jef- 
ferson Shores  Road,  Buzzards 
Bay,  Mass.  There  is  a  spot  on 
the  application  for  a  donation 
to  the  telephone  answering  ser- 
vice which  is  also  sponsored 
by  the  Association  and  is  in 
operation  during  the  frost  sea- 
son at  the  Cranberry  Station. 
This  is  a  very  valuable  part  of 
the  frost  warning  service  and  is 
particularly  helpful  when  a 
grower  may  have  {missed  the 
warning  for  various  reasons. 
There  is  a  message  on  the  re- 
corder every  day  during  the 
frost  season,  whether  a  frost 
warning  is  sent  or  not.  George 
Rounsville  wishes  to  remind 
growers  using  the  answering 
service  that  the  recorded  mes- 
sage will  not  be  available  be- 
fore 1:30  in  the  afternoon  or 
8:30  in  the  evening.  The  frost 
pad  for  writing  down  the  mes- 
sage has  proved  very  popular 
and  will  be  mailed  to  growers 
subscribing  to  the  service.  All 
applications  and  payments 
should  be  returned  by  April  2 
in  order  that  the  necessary  ar- 
rangements can  be  completed 
prior  to  the  frost  season.  Appli- 
cations returned  after  this  date 
will  result  in  the  subscribers 
name  being  placed  at  the  bot- 
tom of  the  telephone  list.  There 
were  approximately  219  sub- 
scribers last  season,  lets  hope 
there  will  be  an  increase  this 
season. 


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The  total  package  consists  of 
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AMERICAN  CRANBERRY 
GROWERS'  ASSOC. 
HOLD  MEETING 


The  97tli  Annual  Winter 
Meeting  of  the  Anieriean  Cran- 
lierry  Growers  Association  \\'as 
held  at  the  Concord  Motel  at 
Monnt  Holly  on  February  16th. 
A  full  day's  program  was  con- 
ducted with  President  Walter 
Z.  Fort  presiding  before  an  at- 
tendance of  about  fifty. 

Mike  Mainland  of  the  Rutgers 
University  Department  of  Hor- 
ticulture and  Forestry  presented 
a  paper  on  the  use  of  gibberel- 
lin  on  cranberries.  Applications 
made  in  1965  induced  a  very 
high  set  of  berries,  much  smaller 
in  size,  but  larger  in  volume 
than  the  checks.  Production  in 
1966  of  the  1965  gibberellin 
treated  plots  was  considerably 
reduced  but  the  yield  for  the 
two  years  was  slightly  greater 
in  the  gibberellin  plots.  How- 
ever, as  the  plots  go  into  the 
third  year  the  gibberellin  plots 
appear  to  be  weaker  than  the 
checks.  An  odd  elongated 
growth  of  uprights  with  larger 
than  normal  spaces  between 
leaves  has  resulted  from  the  use 
of  the   gibberellin. 

Jack  St.  Pierre  presented 
cranberry  statistics  for  New 
Jersey.  The  1966  crop  was  esti- 
mated at  144,000  barrels,  6% 
short  of  the  big  crop  of  1965 
but  37%  above  normal.  The  effi- 
ciency of  the  water  harvesting 
method  was  noted.  On  bogs 
which  were  water  harvested  the 
average  loss  of  berries  was  2% 
as  compared  to  29%  in  dry 
mechanical  harvesting  and  41% 
in  hand  scooping.  Losses  to 
diseases  and  insects  averaged 
about  5.7%. 

Phil  Marucci  discussed  broad, 
ly  the  experiments  and  demon- 
stration work  which  will  be 
conducted  at  the  Oswego  Blue- 
berry-Cranberry   Research    Site 


of  the  Experiment  Station.  Re- 
search work  is  of  a  long  term 
nature  and  results  will  not  be 
apparent  for  a  few  years.  Bogs 
have  been  assigned  for  the  Con- 
duct of  research  in  fertilizers 
and  nutrition,  insect  and  disease 
control,  pollination,  growth  reg- 
ulators, pruning,  weed  control 
and  the  development  of  new 
varieties.  Demonstration  work 
has  already  demonstrated  the 
value  of  casoron  in  weed  con- 
trol and  the  effectiveness  of 
dense  planting  of  vines  and 
early  fertilization  to  quickly  es- 
tablish cranberry  bogs.  Variety 
trials  with  seventeen  named 
varieties  and  sixteen  U.S.D.A. 
numbered  seedlings  were 
started  in  the  fall'of  1966.  These 
trial  plots  are  planted  in  such 
a  manner  that  water  harvesting 
of  each  variety  separately  will 
be  possible. 

Dr.  Paul  Eck  presentetd  data 
to  show  that  the  color  of  cran- 
berries can  be  markedly  im- 
proved by  he  use  of  a  m,alathion 
spray  before  harvest. 

Dr.  Clarence  Sakamoto  pre- 
sented an  analysis  of  clima- 
tological  data  to  show  the  risks 
of  frost  damage  inherent  in  the 
removal  of  the  winter  flood 
from  bogs  at  various  times  in 
the  spring. 

Ed  Lipman,  the  organization's 
delegate,  reported  on  the  1967 
New  Jersey  Agricultural  Con- 
vention. Agricultural  interests 
in  the  state  are  in  danger  of 
being  overwhelmed  by  the  ur- 
ban power.  The  new  reappor- 
tionment of  the  state  legislature 
has  eliminated  much  of  the 
representation  of  the  rural 
areas.  Cranberry  growers  who 
have  traditionally  had  a  miem- 
ber  on  the  State  Water  Policy 
Commission  are  now  left  with- 
out a  representative  on  this  im- 
portant  body. 

The  highlight  of  the  program 
was  Walter  Fort's  showing  of 
his  wonderful  colored  slides  of 
New  Jersey  cranberry  bogs ^ and 
cranberry  problems. 


Election  of  officers  produced 
the  following  slate:  Earl  Kersh- 
ner,  President,  Chatworth;  Ern- 
est Cutts,  Jr.^  1st  Vice  President, 
Tabernacle",  Garfield  DeMarco, 
2nd  Vice  President,  Hamtmon- 
ton;  Philip  E.  Marucci,  Secre- 
tary, Pemberton;  Paul  Eck, 
Treasurer,   New   Brunswick, 


UFO  Observed  Near 
Oregon  Cranberry  Area 

A  rectangular-shaped  object, 
the  base  of  which  cast  a  red- 
orangey  glow,  was  reported  seen 
in  the  sky  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
Millard  School  at  10:20  p.m. 
recently   in  Bandon,    Oregon. 

In  reporting  the  Unidentified 
Flying  Object  Mrs.  Esther  Mil- 
lard stated  that  she  was  out 
for  an  evening  walk  with  her 
German  Shepherd  when  she 
first  noticed  the  strange  object 
hovering  over  the  school's  gym- 
nasium some  50  to  60  feet  above 
the  ground  and  an  estimated 
150  feet  away  from  her. 

In  describing  the  event,  she 
told  Police  Chief  D.  S.  Mac- 
Donald  that  the  object  was 
about  seven  feet  wide  and 
about  twice  as  tall.  It  was  rec- 
tangular in  shape  and  rrsoved 
in  a  slightly-tilted  upright  po- 
sition, making  absolutely  no 
sound.  The  orange-red  glow 
came  from  the  base,  and  it  cast 
a  bright  beam  of  light. 

Mrs.  Millard  told  the  Chief 
that  it  looked  as  if  it  might 
land  on  the  gymnasium  build- 
ing as  it  was  quite  low  to  the 
ground  —  below  the  level  of  the 
trees.  But,  after  remaining  for 
several  minutes,  the  object  flew 
across  Bradley  Lake  and  over 
the  sand  dunes,  and  was  last 
seen  flying  high  over  the  ocean. 

After  talking  to  a  number  of 
the  boys  at  Millard  School 
the  Chief  learned  that  several 
of  them  had  seen  a  strange  light 
in  the  sky  the  previous  night, 
but  had  not  reported  it. 

Chief  MacDonald  notified  the 
North  Bend  Radar  Station  up- 
on receiving  the  call  from  Mrs. 
Millard. 

TWENTY-ONE 


CRANBERRY  VINE  INJURY 

Continued  from  Page   16 

tissue  of  the  host  phint.  This 
weakly  parasitic  habit  suggests 
that  it  would  develop  slowly 
in  the  host  organism  and  its 
full  effects  would  not  be  mani- 
fested until  some  weeks  after 
the  initial  invasion.  Finally,  we 
know  this  fungus  is  a  warm 
temperature  funguis,  that,  it 
grows  most  succesfully  under 
warm  summer  temperatures. 

The  summer  weather  of  1966 
was  interesting  though  often- 
times frustrating  to  growers. 
The  one  features  that  stands 
out  in  the  weather  records  is 
the  period  from  June  25  to 
July  3  when  maximum  temper- 
atures were  above  90  degrees 
F  daily  at  southern  Wisconsin 
reporting  stations  and  88  de- 
grees F  or  above  at  northern 
stations.  During  this  8-day 
period,  the  minimum  tempera- 
tures were  above  60  degrees  F 
at  6  dates  in  Minong  and  on 
8  dates  at  Mather.  The  mean 
temperature  for  these  9  days 
was  something  over  75  degree 
F    and    on    several    dates    was 


80  degrees  F.  This  period  of 
uncomfortably  warm  weather 
was  during  the  period  of  longest 
summer  days  and  thus  the  high 
temperatiues  extended  late  in 
the  afternoon  and  into  the  eve- 
ning so .  that  probably  actual 
number  of  hours  above  80  de- 
grees F  was  more  than  the 
number  of  hours  below  80. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  per- 
iod the  northwestern  comer  of 
the  state  had  showers  while  the 
southern  growing  areas  had 
none.  On  July  24,  25  and  26, 
Minong  had  .15  .77  and  .08  in. 
of  rain,  respectively.  Hayward 
accumulated  .54  inch  and  Cou- 
deray  had  .19  inch  in  the  same 
period.  In  Vilas  County  the 
rainfall  during  the  period  was 
generally  less  than  ,10  inch  and 
in  Mather,  Pittsville,  and  Wis- 
consin Rapids  there  was  none 
or  only  a  trace.  The  hot  spell 
was  broken  by  widespread 
shower  activity  on  July  3,  4, 
5  and  6. 

This  hot  spell  following  good 
rainfall  would  have  provided 
ideal  conditions   for  fungal  de- 


velopment particularly  a  fungus 
known  to  be  favored  by  high 
temperatures.  We  believe  that 
circumstances  point  strongly  to 
the  association  of  Phomopis 
fungus  to  the  deterioration  of 
cranberry  vines  under  the  stress 
conditions  of  high  temperature, 
rapid  growth,  initially  high  hu- 
midity and  later  water  stress. 

What  is  the  answer  to  the 
problem?  We  don't  konw.  If 
our  analysis-  is  correct  we  would 
expect  some  more  dead  vines 
next  spring  as  development  of 
the  fungus  in  affected  vines 
continues.  Because  of  the 
build-up  of  fungus  inoculum  in 
the  beds,  we  wc»ild  expect  a 
serious  outbreak  of  disease 
should  we  have  a  repeat  per- 
formance of  1966  weather  in 
1967.  It  is  our  considered  opin- 
ion that  "air-conditioning"  the 
vines  with  sprinkler  irrigation 
on  exceedingly  hot  days  could 
be  highly  beneficial  in  reducing 
development  of  this  malady. 
We  have  no  suggestions  for 
spraying  with  fungicides  for 
control  of  this  problem. 


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REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

Continued  from  Page    18 

Several  growers  have  been 
sprinkling  in  the  Long  Beach 
area  for  protection  against  frost 
injury.  To  be  on  the  safe  side, 
maybe  it  is  worth  the  expense 
of  sprinkling  to  avoid  any 
chance  of  injury. 

Several  soil  tests  have  been 
received  and  fertilizer  recom- 
mendations sent  promptly  to 
the  growers.  This  makes  it  easy 
to  order  your  required  fertili- 
zer without  any  guess  work. 
Fertilizing  time  will  be  upon 
you  very  soon,  why  don't  you 
test  your  soil  while  you  have 
the  chance.  It  pays  to  be  sure. 
Sample  boxes  are  available  at 
the  Long  Beach  Unit. 

Maybe  it  is  too  early  for  such 
activity,  but  Director  Miller 
wrote  and  said,  "There  is  noth. 
ing  hke  being  the  early  bird." 
So  I  arrv  rushing  to  tell  you 
we  have  set  a  date,  Saturday, 
June  24,  1967  for  the  Annual 
Field  Day.  Please  circle  this 
date  on  your  calendar  and  do 
your  best  to  attend.  Plan  to 
treat  your  family  to  a  smoked- 
baked  salmon  lunch.  The  pro- 
gram for  the  day  will  be  pub- 
hshed  later. 


WISCONSIN 

State    Marketing    Order 

The  director  of  the  Wiscon- 
sin State  Department  of  Agri- 
culture which  administers  the 
Wisconsin  cranberry  marketing 
order  reported  that,  out  of 
funds  collected,  $5000  was  be- 
ing allocated  to  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  horticulture  de- 
partment for  cranberry  research 
and  2500  to  the  U.S.  Weather 
Bureau  for  frost  warning  ser- 
vice. The  marketing  order  which 
has  been  in  effect  since  July 
1965  provides  an  assessment  of 
24  per  barrel  of  cranberries, 
amounting  to  eight  or  nine  thou- 
sand dollars  per  year. 

Frost 

Some    below    zero    tempera- 

TWENTY-FOUR 


tures  during  the  two-week  per- 
iod after  February  10th  dr()\'C 
the  frost  deeper  in  Wisconsin 
after  only  a  moderate  increase 
in  the  two-week  period  prior 
to  that  date.  The  unusual  ar- 
rangement of  the  groiuid  cover 
has  made  it  hard  to  arrive  at 
an  average  frost  depth. 

The  snow  cover  is  very  un- 
even in  some  areas  this  year 
because  of  the  drifting  caused 
by  strong  winds  that  accom- 
panied the  snow  storms.  There 
is  the  ice  cover  or  crusts  that 
exist  over  most  of  the  State. 
SoniiC  of  this  ice  or  crusted  snow 
lies  on  the  ground  covered 
snow,  other  areas  have  snow, 
then  ice  and  more  snow  and 
some  portions  have  several  ice 
and  snow  layers. 

Weather 

More  settled  winter  weather 
conditions  arrived  at  the  end 
of  January  after  the  unusually 
changeable  period  of  the  pre- 
vious two  weeks.  Temperatures 
averaged  slightly  above  normal 
during  the  week  Jan.  28  to  Feb. 
3  with  percipitation  also  a  litle 
above  normal.  Several  areas  of 
light,  fluffy  snow  crossed  the 
state  from  the  northwest  depos- 
iting amounts  of  3  to  6  inches 
in  most  sections. 

The  week  of  Feb.  4  to  10 
continued  near  normal  both 
with  respect  to  temperatures 
and  precipitation.  Cold,  clear 
weather  with  temperatures  to 
—30  on  the  6th  and  7th  was 
offset  by  milder  conditions 
earlier  and  later  in  the  week. 
Low  water  content  snow  in 
amounts  of  up  to  a  foot  fell 
along  the  Lake  Michigan  shore- 
line on  the  5th  and  6th  with 
lesser  amount  elsewhere. 

Temperatures  turned  very 
cold  again  with  readings  down 
in  the  —35  to  —40  degree  range 
in  the  northwest  on  the  11th 
and  12th.  Additional  light,  fluf- 
fy snow  fell  in  most  areas  on 
the  12th.  Warmer  weather  re- 
turned on  the  13th  and  14th. 

Cold  winter  weather  contin- 
ued during  the  last  two  weeks 


of  the  month  with  temperatures 
below  normal  in  all  areas  of  the 
state.  Minimum  temperatures 
down  to  40  below  zero  were 
recorded  in  the  northwest  on 
the  12  and  unusually  cold  and 
windy  weather  returned  on  the 
24th  and  25th.  A  few  mild 
days  with  above  freezing  tem- 
peratures occurred  from  the 
13th  througli  the  15th. 

The  snow  cover  in  many 
northwestern  areas  was  unusu- 
ally deep  and  of  high  water 
content  as  the  month  ended. 
Wildlife  has  been  experiencing 
some  difficulties  and  there  is 
concern  over  pastures  where 
ice    and    glaze  cover   is    lieavy. 


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Probably  everyone  who  has 
raised  commercial  quantities  of 
cranberries  in  Massachusetts 
has  heard  of  Mr.  Marcus  L. 
Urann,  the  founder  of  Ocean 
Spray.  A  very  large  number  of 
growers  knew  Mr.  Urann  per- 
sonally, knew  him  as  a  leader 
in  the  cranberry  industry,  a 
very  able  businessman,  and  an 
enthusiast  for  everything  that 
would  promote  cranberries. 
Many  had  the  rare  good  for- 
tune to  know  Mr.  Urann  as  a 
personal  friend.  It  was  he  who 
directed  the  writer's  path  tow- 
ard college,  and  I  hereby  ack- 
nowledge my  undying  gratitude 
to  him  for  it. 

Under  the  terms  of  Marcus 
L.  Urann's  will,  a  large  per- 
centage of  his  holdings  were 
set  up  as  a  Trust  under  which 
certain  funds  are  made  avail- 
able annually  to  assist  the  chil- 
dren of  cranberry  growers  and 
cranberry  workers  to-  get  an 
education  beyond  the  high 
school  level.  The  parents  of 
children  must  live  in  Plymouth 
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for  many  types  of  higher  edu- 
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college  programs,  technical  and 
vocational  training,  nursing,  etc. 

The  Urann  Scholarship  Com- 
mittee will  review  applications 
from  interested  students  and 
their  parents.  The  intent  of 
Mr.  Urann's  trust  is  that  quah- 
fied  children  of  cranberry  grow- 
ers and  cranberry  employees 
should  be  assisted  toward 
higher  education,  especially  if 
the  high  costs  of  education  pre- 
sent a  real  barrier  to  the  chil- 
dren or  their  parents.  Thus  the 
student  and  his  parents  must 
shew  a  need  for  help,  and  the 
students  must  show  scholastic 
merit  and  the  desire  to  go 
ahead.  Mr.  Urann  loved  the  "so- 
getter. 

I  knew  Marcus  L.  Urann  as 
"a  grand  old  man."  It  is  typical, 
I  think,  that  his  last  wish 
should  be  that  of  helping  his 
colleagues  in  the  cranberry 
business  with  their  educational 
problems.  The  establishment  of 
this  trust  was  the  act  of  a  very 
generous  man.  Those  inter- 
ested   in    further  details    or    in 


applying  for  a  Urann  Scholar- 
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extension  crianberry  specialist: 


Personals  the  sEuce  and  juice  of  a  number    data 

"Prof.    Bill    Tomlinsoii    lias    an    of  cranberry  varieties  and  how    tion. 
article  published   in   tjie   March    these   characteristics    vary  from 


tence 


issue  of  the  Annals  of  the  En- 
tomological Society  of  America. 
The  title  is  "A  Color  Varient 
of  Cranberry  Fruitworm,  Acro- 
hmis  vaccina,  and  Host  Records 
of  Acrobasis  amplexcUu."  This 
paper  reports  on  cranberr\' 
fruitworm  mcths  that  have 
darker  colored  wing^  tlian  the 
typical  fruitworm  motlis.  Re- 
prints of  this  paper  are  a\'aila- 
ble. 

Dr.  Bert  Zuckcrman,  (he  au- 
thor and  several  others  ha\e 
published  a  paper  in  the  Pro. 
ceedings  of  the  American 
Society  for  Horticultiu'al 
Science,  Volume  89,  1966.  The 
title  is   "Pigment   and   Viscositx' 


bog   to    bog.     Reprints    of    this 
paper   are    available. 

Club    Meetings 

The  March  series  of  cranberr\ 
club  meetings  were  held  at 
Kingston  on  March  14,  Roches- 
ter, March  15  and  Barnstable 
March  16.  Dr.  Chester  Cross 
discussed  "Prospect^  for  1967," 
in  which  he  outlined  weather 
factors  influencing  the  potential 
crop.  Dr.  Robert  Devlin's  topic 
was  "Growtli  Hormone^  and 
Herbicide  Tests."  Bob  gave  the 
preliminary  results  of  his  tests 
of  \'arious  weed  killers  and  the 
effects  of  gibberellic  acid  on 
cranberry  fruit  set.  Prof.  Wil- 
liam   Tomlinson    discussed    "In- 


on  "Pesticide  Inxestiga- 
^^V.^  talked  on  the  persis- 
of  casoron  in  bog  soils 
and  parathi(m  residues  in  drain, 
age  water.  The  author  gave 
"The  effects  of  \\'eed  Killers  on 
Cranberries,"  in  which  data  was 
presented  on  the  rooting  of 
cranberry  cuttings  from  vines 
treated  with  casoron  and 
chloro-IPC  and  the  effect  of 
chloro-lP(>  on  \ields  related  to 
flood  and  sprinkler  fiost  pro- 
tection. 

The  clubs  elected  officers  for 
the  new^  season.  The  South 
Shore  Club  in  Kingston  re- 
elected Larr\^  Cole,  president, 
Alden  Alberghini,  \'ice  president 
and  Bob  Alberghini,  secretary- 
treasurer.  The  Southeastern 
Massachusetts  Club  elected 
Dave     Mann,     president,     John 


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Cranberry  Varieties."  This  is  a  be  printed  in  next  month "s  issue    Decas,  vice  president  and  Rus- 

report    on    differences     in    red  of      Cranberries.      Dr.     Charles    sell    Hiller,     secretar\ -treasurer 

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ISSUE   OF   APRIL    1967    /    VOL.    31— NO.     12 


MAN  AND  HIS  WORLD  — EXPO  '67 

Perhaps  the  most  publicized  event  of  1967, 
at  least  until  now,  has  been  the  International 
Exhibition  of  1967 — better  known  as  Expo 
67  —  to  be  held  in  Montreal,  Canada  from 
April  28  through  October  27,  1967. 

If  all  indications  are  correct,  this  promises 
to  be  one  of  the  most  spectacular  happenings 
of  the  century. 

The  theme  "Man  and  his  World"  is  taken 
from  the  title  of  a  book  by  the  French 
author  and  aviator  Antoine  de  Saint-Ex- 
purgy.  Expo  67  will  have  five  subthemes: 
Man  the  Explorer,  Man  the  Creator,  Man 
the  Producer,  Man  and  the  Community 
and  Man  the  Provider.  In  each  of  the  theme 
pavilions  you'll  see  dramatic  visual  presen- 
tations of  the  effects  of  environment  on 
man,  and  his  efforts  to  change  that  environ- 
ment to  realize  his  aspirations. 

Two  exhibits  should  be  of  particular  in- 
terest to  cranberry  growers.  The  internat- 
ional food  exhibit  in  which  will  be  shown 
the  foods  of  the  world.  Each  country  rep- 
resented, and  there  are  70  of  them,  will 
feature  the  preparation  of  its  native  dishes. 
Menus  will  be  shown  of  the  typical  meals 
of  the  countries.  One  will  be  able  to  see 
and  learn  of  exotic  foods  as  well  as  substi- 
tute dishes  prepared  in  the  more  depressed 
countries  of  our  world. 

The  other  exhibit  of  notable  interest  to 
our  readers  would  be  the  great  agricultural 
exhibit,  part  of  the  Man  the  Provider  theme, 
will  include  the  Sun  Acre  of  growing  crops, 
an  automated  egg  factory,  a  dairy  herd 
and  displays  showing  soil  management,  ir- 
rigation and  fertility.  Obviously  there  is 
much  more  to  be  seen  by  the  visitor  to  Expo 
67  —  more,  it  is  said,  than  one  will  be  able 
to  see  during  the  average  visit. 

Certainly  we  in  the  United  States  are 
familiar  with  fairs  for  we  are  the  area 
where  state  and  county  fairs  were  origi- 
nated. We  are  not  trying  to  compare  our 
county    and   state    fairs    with   Expo    67,   but 


Established     1936     by    Clarence     J.     Hall     nt     Ware-h.im.     Ma>- 

Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

617—585-2310 

Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

30   Sewell  St.,   Brockton,  Mass.    02401 

617—588-4595 


CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   River,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,    Massachusetts 

New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jefsey 


there  is  an  analogy  between  the  two.  When 
we  go  to  the  "county  Fair"  we  do  so  first 
to  enjoy  ourselves,  secondly,  and  perhaps 
the  most  important  reason  to  some  of  us, 
is  to  learn  something.  Much  can  be  learned 
from  our  county  and  state  fairs  —  much  can 
be  learned  from  Expo  67. 

It  has  long  been  said  that  we  should  "see 
America  first."  This  year  we  are  invited 
to  see  America  first  while  travelling  to  Can- 
ada to  Expo  67. 


Cranberries   is   published   monthly   by   Comor   Publishers,  P.O.  Box  70,  Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.    Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year. 

Five 


spring  tonic  for  cranberry  yields: 
Chloro  IPC  Herbicide  before  bud-break. 


Right  now,  while  established 
plants  are  dormant,  you  can 
protect  your  cranberries  against 
early  weed  competition.  A  treat- 
ment before  bud-break  with 
Chloro  IPC  selective  herbicide 
stops  germinating  weeds  and 
grasses  such  as  annual  bluegrass, 
bentgrass,  bluejoint  grass, 
dodder,  horsetail,  loosestrife, 
rushes  (Juncus),  sickle  grass, 


turkeyfoot  grass  and  velvet- 
grass.  In  Massachusetts,  con- 
sult your  Extension  Service 
Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart. 
Once  its  work  is  done,  PPG 
Chloro  IPC  breaks  down  with 
rising  temperatures.  This  elimi- 
nates problems  of  build-up  in 
soil  or  carryover.  Chloro  IPC 
also  shows  a  broad  margin  of 
tolerance  to  cranberry  plants. 


Uniform,  hard  granules  of  20% 
Granular  Chloro  IPC  are  easy 
to  measure-  and  apply  with  air 
or  ground  equipment. 

Check  your  local  extension 
service  or  supplier  for  more 
complete  information  or  write 
Department  7713,  Pittsburgh 
Plate  Glass  Company,  Chem- 
ical Division,  One  Gateway 
Center,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.   15222. 


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Chemicals 

INDUSTRIES 


Edwin   F.    Lewis 


Edwin  F.  Lewis  is  Senior  Vice- 
President  in  charge  of  neto 
production  development,  mar- 
keting arul  research  and  de- 
velopment for  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.  Prior  to  join- 
ing Ocean  Spray,  Mr.  Lewis 
was  associated  with  Young  i~ 
Ruhi-cam,  Inc.,  during  tchich 
time  he  served  as  Vice-Presi- 
derrt  and  Account  Supervisor. 
Following  is  part  one  of  a 
two  part  speech  delivered  by 
Mr.  Lewis  on  aspects  of  To- 
tal Marketing.  Conclusion  will 
be   printed   in  the   May  issue. 


EDWIN  F.  LEWIS  SPEAKS  ON 

TOTAL  MARKETING 


This  presentation  is  about 
new  product  marketing  at 
Ocean  Spray.  New  product  acti- 
vity can't  and  doesn't  exist  in 
limbo.  It  is  part  of  the  total  in- 
tegrated marketing  operation  for 
our  company.  Therefore,  to  un- 
derstand our  new  product  acti- 
\ity,  it  is  necessary  to  under- 
stand our  total  structure  and 
complete  marketing  program. 

Ocean  Spray  Cranberries, 
Inc.,  is  a  growers'  marketing  co- 
operative. The  common  shares, 
of  the  corporation  are  owned 
by  approximately  1,000  cran- 
berry growers.  Ocean  Spray  re- 
quires its  members  to  own  one 
share  of  common  stock  for  every 
four  barrels  of  cranberries  de- 
livered to  the  cooperati\'e  based 
on  the  growers'  three-year  aver, 
age  plus  or  minus  iO%.  A  barrel 
of  cranberries  weighs  100  lbs. 
The  grower-member  is  required 
to  deliver  all  of  his  crop  to 
Ocean  Spray  and  his  growing 
practices  insofar  as  fertilizers, 
insecticides  and  pesticides,  etc., 


are  losely  supervised  by  the  co. 
operative. 

With  that  brief  background, 
I  would  like  to  tell  you  what 
we  have  done  at  Ocean  Spray 
in  the  past  four  years.  Particu- 
larly, how  we  have  expanded 
some  old  established  markets 
and  penetrated  some  new  ones. 

The  cranberry  industry  has 
been  plaqued  for  years  with  an 
over-supply  situation  and  a 
widely  fluctuating  return  to 
growers  for  their  raw  products. 
There  had  been  no  stability  in 
this  business..  Returns  to  grow- 
ers had  fluctuated  prior  to>  the 
present  management  from  a 
high  of  $35  per  barrel  in  1946 
to  a  low  of  $8  per  barrel  in 
1962. 

When  the  present  manage- 
ment team  took  over  at  Ocean 
Spray  approximately  four  vears 
ago,  we  did  not  need  a  high- 
priced,  marketing  consultant  to 
tell  us  that  we  had  a  sick  com- 
pan)'  on  cur  hands.  We  care- 
fully    reviewed,     analyzed    and 


observed  all  of  the  symptoms 
of  this  cooperative  before  chart- 
ing a  course  of  action.  In  our 
study  and  observations,  we 
found  two  assets  of  tremendous 
value. 

1.  A    national    brand     trade- 
mark     with      high       consumer 
awareness.    This    is    something 
that  very  few  marketing  coop- 
eratives own.  I  need  not  point 
out  to  you  the  value  of  a  con- 
sumer accepted   national  brand 
trademark.  We  are  all  aware  of 
how  even  the  major  chain  stores 
strive      vahantly      to      establish 
brand   names    for  their   private 
label    merchandise.    Your    most 
successful     California     coopera- 
tives are  those  with  a  well  re- 
spected trademark.  These  people 
well  understand  the  value  of  a 
brand  name. 

2.  The  second  item  of  sub- 
stantial value  we  found  was  that 
Ocean  Spray  growers  controlled 
an  80%  share  of  the  marketable 
crop.  This  provided  us  with  real 
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CASORON 

DICHLOBENIL  WEED  &  GRASS  KILLER 

A  Research  Discovery  ol  N  V  PHILIPS  DUPHAR  US  Pdt  No.  3,0?/.Z18 


It  takes  a  merciless  weed  killer  to  wipe  out  ruthless  perennial  weeds.  CASORON  G-4 
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some  of  these  are  liarder  to  re- 
solve than  others.  Relations  \\'it]i 
our  Board  of  Direetors  are  now 
excellent  because  we  have  mu- 
tually agreed  on  their  responsi- 
bilities.   Their   functions    are  .  .  . 


1.  To  lay  out  broad  company 
policies. 

2.  ^^^ork  with  Management 
in  establishing  the  goals  for  the. 
cooperative. 

3.  To    review    with    Manage- 
ment whether  or  not  those  goals    e\i:)and     the 
are   being   achieved   within   tlu;     j^j,.jj.    Ot^.^.^j^ 


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Continued  from  Page   7 

market  power  —  not  that  size 
alone  gives  a  commodity  mar- 
keting power,  but  it  is  a  factor 
—  if  bigness  produces  operation- 
al efficiencies  which  in  turn  per- 
mit  gaining   market  share   at  a 

profit,    then    bigness    is    market 

power.     If     size     provides     the 

trade   with    services  desired   by 

the  trade,  then  we  have  market 

power. 

More  importantly,  Ocean 
Spray's  size  permits  flexibility 
for  new  product  development 
and  market  testing,  which,  as 
you  well  see,  is  the  future  lifc> 
blood  for  our  cooperative. 

In  our  analysis  and  market 
research,  we  found  these  items 
of  major  concern: 

1.  The  consumer's  ideas  and 
usage  of  cranberries  were  old 
fashioned  and  holiday-oriented. 

2.  The  consumption  of  cran- 
berries on  a  per  capita  basis 
was   static. 

3.  There  was  keen  price  com.  markeeting  cooperative  is  to 
petition  with  the  independent  market  its  members'  crops  at  a 
producers.      Cranberries      were     fair  market  price. 


households  was  to  offer  a  whole 
new  famil\  of  crauberrx -l)ased 
or  craiiberrv -ingredient  produc-ts 

\\ith  a  more  inodcin  image. 
I'sing  our  national  brand  trade- 
mark w^itli  its  high  consumer 
a\\areness,  this  is  the  direction 
we    took. 


we 


in    minute 
aspects    of 


specified  time 

4.  To  understand 
detail  the  financial 
the    company. 

5.  Not  to  direct  or  interfere 
with  Nhinagement  as  to  how  it 
achieves    the  company's    goals. 


Mone\'  management  has  been 
tightened  so  we  properly  handli' 
our  cash  flow  and  borrow  onl\' 
when  necessary. 

The    primary    objectixe    of    a 


being  marketed  as  a  commodity 
on  price. 

4.  The  Ocean  Spray  consumer 
franchise  was  weakening  be- 
cause advertising  and  promotion 
dollars  were  being  used  pri- 
marily to  combat  the  price  com. 
petition. 

5.  The  national  cranberr\' 
crop  was  shrinking  due  to  <\v- 
clining  growers'  returns  and 
rising  cost   of  production. 

6.  A  weak  and  practicalK- 
non-existent  research  and  de- 
velopment department. 

7.  Some  weak  staff  members 
in  critical  areas  of  responsibil- 
ity. 

8.  Lack  of  harmony  on  the 
Board  of  Directors  and  friction 
with  Management. 

9.  Inadequate  money  man- 
agement. 

The  new  management  souglit 
to  correct  (\ich  of  these  items 
of    major    concern.     Ob\iousl\, 

Ten 


Thijj  objectix'c  can  be  accom- 
plished in  a  number  of  ways  — 
one  is   to  restrict  crop   produc- 
tion  to    the    market    demand  — 
thereby  holding  prices  up;  this 
we  didn't  even   consider  for  it 
is  unnatural  and  contrary  to  the 
best  interest  of  the  growers  and 
th(»  economy.   The  second   way 
is    to    increase    consumer    con- 
t;umption  and  usage  of  our  pro- 
duct so  as  to  broaden  the  mar- 
ket.   This    is    the    direction    wf 
chose  at  Ocean  Sjira) .  From  our 
consumer    research    we    learned 
that     cranberr\"     usage     among 
younger    households    was    at    a 
much    lower    l(>\el    than    in    the 
older  households.  A  part  of  this 
was  due  to  changing  diets  and 
food    habit.s,    and    the    tendenc) 
on  the  part  of  the  voimg  people 
to  be  less  tied  to  tradition.  One 
of  the  ()b\i()us   ways   to   aj^peal 
to    a    broader    market    is    to  in- 
crease  consumption    in    \<)nng(M- 


IIa\ing  si't  onr  cours( 
looked  fil•^t  at  the  existing  ])r()- 
duct  line  for  possible  growth. 
It  was  \'er\-  obxious  that  we 
had  to  maintain  and,  if  possible, 
current  products 
Sprav  had  in  the 
market  place.  Only  by  maintain, 
ing  our  current  market  position 
could  we  take  our  second  step. 
VoY  the  second  step,  we  set  in 
motion  a  program  with  the  ob- 
jectix'c  of  developing  new  prod- 
ucts; which  had  the  following 
characteristics. 


)e  specialt)' 

be  products 
high  (juality 


1.  They  were  to  1 
grocery  products. 

2.  They  were  to 
in  keeping  w  ith  the 
standards  of  Ocean  Spray. 

3.  They  were  to  be  products 
built  on  a  consumer  franchise 
giving  us  a  uni(|ue  and  com- 
petitive consumer  image. 

4.  They  were  to  reduce  the 
seasonal  fluctuation  of  our  sales 
insofar  as  possible. 

5.  They  were  to  use  produc- 
tion facilities  on  a  xear-round 
basis  to  gain  maximum  use  of 
all  capital  equipment. 

6.  They  were  to  gi\e  longer 
profit  margins  which  are  sO  nee. 
(>ssary  in  the  establishment  of 
a    consumer  franchise. 

Looking  at  the  established 
line  of  products  —  whole  berry 
cranberr\'  sauce,  jellied  sauce 
and  fresh  cranberries,  it  was 
obxious  that  to  increase  margins 
on  these  long-established  pro- 
ducts, major  changes  in  their 
marketing  was  indicated.  To 
expeilite  the  program,  we  insti- 
tuted clianges  in  both  the  Re- 
search   and    Sales    Departments. 

If  there  is  one  attribute  more 
inii)ortant  in  marketing  than  a 
(inestioniug  mind.  1  don  t  know- 
it.    In    fact,   to   (juestion   the  ac- 


cepted  may  be  more  important 
than  questioning  the  less  obvi- 
ous. Cranberry  sauce  had  been 
made  to  a  standard  practically 
since  the  Pilgrim  Fathers 
learned  about  this  native  Ameri- 
can fruit  from  the  Indians;  how- 
ever, our  newl)'  staffed  research! 
and  development  department 
reformulated  Cranberry  sauce 
and  came  up  with  an  improved 
product.  This  new  formula  in- 
cludes use  of  a  by-product  of 
our  processed  cranberries.  This 
change  increased  our  case  yield 
per  barrel  of  fruit  by  25%. 

With  increased  returns  as- 
sured in  processing,  we  made 
changes  in  the  marketing  setup. 
In  analyzing  advertising  and 
promotion  expenditures  for 
cranberry  sauce,  we  found 
$15,500,000  spent  for  advertis- 
ing and  promotion  for  the  five 
year  period  1958  to  1963  while 
case  sales  decreased  280,000 
cases. 

Heavy  promotion  expendi- 
tures had  been  made  in  the  fall 
to  load  the  trade.  In  our  judg- 
ment the  retailer  will  buy  and 
promote  a  seasonal  demand 
item  like  cranberries  at  Thanks, 
giving  and  Christmas  whether 
the  manufacturer  supports  him 
or  not.  Substantial  advertising 
expenditures  for  cranberry 
sauce  in  the  previous  five  years 
had  been  on  a  year-round  basis 
in  an  effort  to  break  the  tradi- 
tion-bound product  usage  at 
holidav  times.  The  advertising, 
which  wa^  primarily  print,  was 
directed  to  serving  suggestions 
of  cranberry  sauces  in  salads, 
desserts,  ice  cream  toppings  and 
with  all  kinds  of  meats  —  all  of 
this   effort  was   to  no   avail. 

We  drastically  reduced  the 
promotion  funds  in  support  of 
the  product  particularly  in  the 
early  fall.  Advertising  was  re- 
duced to  reminder  advertising 
at  only  the  traditional  holiday 
seasons.  These  changes  pro- 
vided substantial  funds  to  dix^ert 
to  new  product  work.  They 
paid  for  the  cost  of  an  expanded 


Research  and  Development  De- 
partment. They  permit  the  im- 
portant new  product  work  to 
start  without  taking  dollars  from 
growers'  returns. 

We  have  done  some  other 
things  with  the  old  established 
products. 

1.  We  redesigned  the  labels 
in  order  to  strengthen  the  pro- 
duct identification  and  impact 
at   retail. 

2.  The  package  for  fresh  fruit 
was  redesigned  and  the  sales 
organization  wa^  strengthened. 
Along  with  reorganizing  our 
fresh  fruit  selling  operation,  we 
completely  reorganized  our  pro- 
cess product  sales  department. 

Ocean  Spray  sales  territories 
were  realigned  to  correspond  to 
the  Nielseen  marketing  areas. 
Ocean  Spray  had  been  a  Nielsen 
subscriber  for  years,  but  t|ie 
reports  were  not  adequately 
used,  since  the  broker  areas  and 
sales  regions  did  not  correspond 
to  Nielsen  reporting  areas. 

We  can  now  correct  distribu- 
tion, out-of-stock  and  poor  shelf 
position  very  promptly.  Sales 
statistics  are  now  compiled  im- 
mediately by  computer  and  all 
sales  analysis  can  be  quickly 
prepared  for  management  de- 
cision and  action.  We  have 
turned  around  the  sales  decline 
on  these  old  established  pro- 
ducts. The  full  sales  story  is 
part  ol  another  phase  on  which 
I'll  report  later. 

When  the  new  management 
took  over,  there  was  one  new 
product  in  test  market  —  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberry  Juice  Cocktail. 
This  product  wais  being  adver- 
tised regiOiially  on  radio  only 
and  was  thought  to  have  limited 
consumer  appeal.  In  order  to 
determine  more  definitely  the 
products  potent  al,  consumer 
product  placeme.it-  tests  and 
other  market  research  studies 
were  conducted.  As  a  result  of 
these  tests  we  . .  . 

1.  Reformulated  '  product  to 
increase   consumer  acceptance. 


2.  Redesigned     the     package 
and    label    to: 

(a)  Make  the  product  more 
convenient  for  the  con- 
sumer to  physically 
handle. 
(b)  Increase  the  product 
identification  and  impact 
at    retail. 

3.  Prompted  by  our  market 
research,  we  developed  new 
advertising  and  conducted  re- 
search to  evaluate  it. 

4.  Finally,  we  took  the  pro- 
duct into  national  distribution 
in  September,  1963,  and  we 
have  enjoyed  substantial  suc- 
cess. 

Sales  increased  approximately 
200%  the  first  year  of  national 
distribution.  At  the  close  of  the 
1966  fiscal  year,  Cranberry  Juice 
Cocktail  sales  represented  $16 
million  or  32%  of  our  total  sales 
volurrie.  Distribution  is  now  at 
the  95%  level  of  all  commodity 
distribution  nationally. 

Since  that  time,  we  have  in- 
troduced nationally  a  48-ounce 
size  of  Cranberry  Juice  Cocktail, 
and  have  also  sold  in  nationally 
( sic )  the  pint  and  quart  cocktail 
in  a  low  calorie  form.  All  three 
of  these  have  gained  substantial 
national  distribution  and  are 
contributing  to  the  growth  in 
total  cocktail  volume,  and  to 
Ocean  Spray's  share  of  the  fruit 
and  vegetable  juice  market. 
Advertising  and  promotion  ex- 
penditures have  been  substan- 
tial since  the  fall  of  1963  when 
cranberry  juice  cocktail  was 
taken  national.  We  now  spend 
in  excess  of  $3  milhon  a  year 
to  advertise  this  product  on  a 
national  basis. 

Initially,  our  advertising  dol- 
lars were  spent  in  daytime  tele- 
vision and  periodic  spot  tele- 
vision flights.  The  majority  of 
the  spots  were  in  day  and 
fringe- time  periods.  This  was 
done  in  order  to  reach  a  maxi- 
mum number  of  housewives 
best  fitting  the  product  profile 
as  determined  by  our  research. 

Continued  on  Fage   13 


El-even 


Coville  Memorial 
Planned  by  Friends 


Former  associates  and  friends 
have  joined  informally  to  com- 
memorate the  100th  anniversary 
of  the  birth,  March  23,  1867, 
of  a  distinguished  botanist  who 
"tamed"  the  wild  blueberry  and 
worked  for  over  30  years  to 
have  the  National  Arboretum 
established. 

The  Frederick  V.  Coville 
Centennial  Group  is  conduct- 
ing no  fund  drive  and  holding 
no  formal  meetings,  but  is 
gently  encouraging  recognition 
of  the  accomplishments  of  the 
late  Dr.   Coville. 

Dr.  Coville  served  for  49 
years  in  the  Department  of  Ag- 
riculture, and  was  its  chief  bot- 
anist from  1893  until  his  death 
in  1937.  He  was  also  curator 
of  the  National  Herbarium  and 
acting  director  of  the  then 
fledgling    arboretum. 

One  phase  of  the  centennial 
group's  efforts  will  come  up 
for  consideration  at  the  April 
24  meeting  of  the  Advisory 
Council  on  the  Arboretum, 
when  the  council  takes  up  a 
proposal  for  designating  a  per- 
manent memorial  there. 

Organizations     Notified 

Frederic  P.  Lee,  chairman  of 
the  council,  said  a  Coville  me- 
morial will  be  considered,  pos- 
sibly along  with  policies  to  gov- 
ern memorials  generally  at  the 
arboretum,  for  recommendation 
to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

The  centennial  group  also  is 
sending  information  on  the 
centenary  to  the  various  or- 
ganizations in  which  Dr.  Co- 
ville was  acti\'e. 

Possibly  his  best  publicly 
known  achievement  was  the 
"taming,"  as  he  put  it,  of  the 
wild  blueberry. 


A  vignette  in  January's  Cos- 
mos Club  Bulletin  by  F.  C. 
Brown  and  Arthur  W.  Palmer 
said  Dr.  Coville's  domestica- 
tion and  improvement  of  the 
native  blueberry  gave  the 
Northeast  and  the  Pacific  North- 
west a  new  horticultural  crop 
now  worth  $15  to  $20  million 
annually    to   the   growers. 

Campaigned    for    Arboretum 

Less  well  known,  his  admir- 
ers note,  is  his  work  for  the  ar- 
boretum, established  in  1929. 
The  United  States  was  one  of 
the  last  progressive  countries  to 
establish  a  government-owned 
arboretum,  and  even  then  it  re- 
quired the  concentrated  efforts 
of  a  small  but  determined  group 
to  get  Congress  to  act. 

Among  those  pressing  the 
need  along  with  Dr.  Coville 
were  the  late  Mrs.  Frank  B. 
Noyes,  whose  husband  was  for 
many  years  president  of  the 
Evening  Star  Newspaper  Co., 
and  Frederic  A.   Delano. 

As  a  botanist.  Dr.  Coville 
contributed  nearly  175  profes- 
sional papers  and  publications. 
He  became  a  recognized  au- 
thority On  the  North  American 
rushes,  wild  currants  and  blue- 
berries. Among  many  ether  con- 
tributions, he  helped  reduce 
confusion  in  botanical  definit- 
ions  and  plant  names. 

He  had  a  lifelong  interest  in 
desert  botany,  and  his  "Bot- 
any of  the  Death  Valley  Ex- 
pedition" was  acclaimed  a  clas- 
sic study.  He  described  and 
named  many  plants  found  in 
Alaska. 

First    Herbarium    Curator 

He  helped  establish  the  Nat- 
ional Herbarium  in  1894,  a 
vmion  of  the  herbaria  of  the 
Agricultural     Department     and 


Smithsonian  Institution,  and 
was  its  first  curator.  He  strongly 
assisted  setting  up  Agriculture's 
Seed  Laboratory. 

Dr.  Coville  served  from  1920 
until  1937  as  chairman  of  the 
National  Geographic  Society's 
research  committee. 

He  was  president  of  the  Bio- 
logical Society  of  Washington 
in  1899-1900,  of  the  Botanical 
Society  of  America  in  1903-04, 
of  the  Washington  Academy  of 
Sciences  in  1912,  of  the  Cosmos 
Club  in  1915,  of  the  Washington 
Biologists'  Field  Club  in  1919- 
21,  and  of  the  Arts  Club  of 
Washington  in  1927-29. 

In  1902  he  was  vice  president 
of  tbe  American  Association  for 
the  Advancement  of  Science, 
and  in  1"931  received  the  Geo. 
Robert  White  Medal  of  Honor 
from  the  Massachusetts  Horti- 
cultural Society  for  his  work 
on  blueberries.  George  Wash- 
ington University  made  him  an 
honorary  doctor  of  science  in 
1921. 


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Advertising  weight  ha<^  in- 
creased during  the  last  three 
years  with  increasingly  more 
emphasis  on  nighttime  televi- 
sion to  reach  the  full  family 
unit;  this  action  was  taken 
based  on  the  findings  of  succes- 


sive research  flights  conducted 
yearly  since  1963  for  cranberry 
juice  cocktail. 

Each  of  these  research  flights, 
incidentally,  was  conducted 
with  a  national  probability  sam. 
pie.  Thus,  the  data  obtained 
each  successive  year,  from  1962 
through   1965,   are   comparable. 

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rTomahawk  (Wis.)  Cranberry 
Company  expects  to  tile  about 
six  acres  this  spring.  The  beds 
are  100  ft.  wide  and  about  1,4(M) 
ft.  long  and  will  have  tile  down 
the  center  and  along  botli  sides. 
The  method  may  eliminate  the 
ditches,  as  all  the  marsli  there 
is  under  sprinkler  and  tile  will 
do  the  job.  As  far  as  the  drain- 
age is  concerned,  there  is  little 
use  for  the  ditches  to  carry 
flooding  water. 

Thunder  Lake  will  increase 
the  number  of  varieties  it  has 
commercially  to  about  45  this 
spring  and  we  will  try  to  .see 
how  some  of  these  new  var- 
ieties work  out,  as  well  as  .some 
of  the  older  ones.  Right  now, 
it  appears  that  Pilgrims  and 
Stevens  are  the  best  possibilities 
in   Wisconsin. 

Another  reason  for  interest 
in  having  so  many  varieties  is 
that  some  of  the  Wisconsin 
growers  may  want  to  try  some 

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bij  KENNETH  ROCHEFORT 
and  B.  M.  ZUCKERMAN 

University    of    Massachusetts,   Cranberry    Experiment    Station, 

East  Wareham 


Red-gall  disease  occasionally 
causes  severe  economic  losses. 
The  disease  stems  from  spores 
of  the  fungus  Synchyirium  vac- 
cina, which  are  spread  by  water 
to  attack  the  stem  leaves  and 
fruit  of  the  cranberry.  Small, 
red  galls  are  formed  as  a  result 
of  infection,  frequently  killing 
the  flowers  before  the  fruit  is 
set  (Figure  1).  There  i&  an 
indication  that  these  galls  may 
also  inhibit  berry  growth,  since 
where  several  galls  occur  close 
together,  an  indentation  occurs 
in  the  berry  surface.  Infected 
berries  do  not  make  satisfactory 
fresh  fruit. 

The  total  effect  of  red-gall 
on  a  bog  is  quite  deceiving,  as 
infection  is  usually  spotty.  Low, 
wet  areas  are  more  prone  to 
infection  than  higher,  dry  areas. 
Generally  small,  heavily  infec- 
ted areas  are  scattered  through- 
out the  bog.  Since  free  water 
is  necessary  for  transfer  of  the 
disease,  red-gall  can  be  readily 
controlled  through  the  installa- 
tion of  sprinklers  or  a  reduction 
in  the  number  of  floods. 

In  1965,  fungicides  were  used 
on  test  plots  in  infected  areas 
to  determine  their  effectiveness 
in  controlling  the  disease.  Un- 
fortunatelv,  the  area  chosen 
s;uffered  little  infection  and  a 
valid  evaluation  could  not  be 
made.  The  dry  weather  and 
infrequent  use  oi  water  for 
frost  protection  that  year  ham- 
pered development  of  the  di- 
sease. However,  a  good  indica- 
tion of  control  by  fungicides 
was  evident  in  a  20-foot  wide 
swath  along  an  irrigation  ditch 
running  through  the  control 
plots    and   plots   on   wdiich   two 


applications  of  maneb  or  Bor- 
deaux mixture  had  been  ap- 
plied. Berry  infection  was*  re- 
duced by  both  maneb  and  Bor- 
deaux mixture.  Plots  which  re- 
ceived one  application  of  the 
fungicides  and  controls  had  no 
infection,  therefore  no  evalua- 
tion of  these  was  possible. 

In  1966,  the  same  fungicide 
combinations  were  retest'cd.  A 
low  area,  generally  wetter  than 
the  rest  of  the  bog  was  chosen, 
and  two  plots  ten  thousand 
square  feet  each  laid  out.  Equal 
areas  at  the  end  of  each  plot 
were  used  as  controls.  Each  plot 
received  a  fungicide  application 
in  mid-April,  and  four  weeks 
later  a  second  spray  was  ap- 
plied to  one-half  of  each  plot. 
Bordeaux  mixture  was  applied 
at  a  rate  of  20  pounds  copper 
sulphate,  8  pounds  lime/acre 
and  maneb  at  a  12-lb/acre  rate. 


The  plots  were  examined  in 
late  August.  Six  one  -  foot 
square  random  samples  were 
taken  within  each  plot.  Infec- 
tion, though  light,  was  well  dis. 
tributed  throughout  tji^e  plots. 
Table  1  gives  the  results  of 
these  experiments.  With  both 
chemicals,  better  control  was 
obtained  in  the  plots  that  re- 
ceived  two  applications. 

Under  conditions  where  water 
management  needs  cannot  be 
met  either  through  reduction 
of  floods  or  installation  of 
sprinklers,  the  use  of  fungicides 
is  recommended.  From  the  re- 
sults of  1965  and  1966  experi- 
ments, two  applications  of  Bor- 
deaux mixture  or  maneb  about 
one  month  apart  at  the  afore- 
mentioned dosages  will  reduce 
the  incidence  of  red  gall. 

RESULTS  OF  FIELD  TRIALS 
ON  PAGE  18 


Fi<!,.  1  —  Cranhcrry  sliools  dii:! 
of   rc(l-<J,(iU   disease. 


fioicers   sJioicinii.   the   symptoms 


Fourteen 


Goldsworthys  Visit  West 
Coast  Cranberry  Areas 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy,  son  Charles  and  Mrs. 
GoldswortJiy  and  Mr.  Ralph 
Sampson,  all  of  Eagle  River, 
Wisconsin  recently  enjoyed  an 
extended  tour  of  the  U.S.  and 
Canadian  West  Coast  cran- 
berry country.  Their  trip  in- 
cluded visits  to  growers  in 
Washington,  Oregon  and  Brit- 
ish Columbia.  They  report 
much  enthusiasm  throughout 
the  entire  region  with  new 
acreage  being  prepared  and 
planted  at  nearly  every  point. 


Ray 

who 
var- 


The  group  visited  Mr. 
Bates  in  Bandon,  Oregon 
demonstrated  his  Pilgrim 
iety  which  he  reported  pro- 
duced 800  barrels  per  acre.  Di- 
rector Azmi  Y.  Shawa  of  the 
Long  Beach,  ^^''ashington  ex- 
periment station  enlightened  the 
entourage    with    interesting    ex- 


periments and  presentation  of 
some  of  the  problems  confront- 
ing cranberry  men  in  his  sec- 
tion. At  Cranguyma  Farms 
Mr.  Frank  Glen  showed  his 
new  sprinkler  system  operated 
by  Peerless  pumps  and  which 
he  stated  is  unusually  accurate 
and  provides  "instant"  protec- 
tion. 

The  Goldsworthys  observed 
that  the  most  noticeable  in- 
crease in  cranberry  acreage 
was  evident  in  British  Colum- 
bia. Mr.  Norman  Holmes  has 
a  particularly  impressive  pro- 
ject of  over  100  acres  in  prep- 
aration for  water  raking  Wis- 
consin style.  Big  Red  appears 
to  be  the  outstanding  cranberry 
producer  in  British  Columbia 
and  the  various  properties  pre- 
sent a  pleasing  appearance  this 
season.  Fruit  bud  set  appeared 
to  be  good  with  exceptional 
growth  and  comparative  free- 
dom from  weeds. 


After  an  interesting  and 
worthwhile  tour  the  Golds- 
worthys and  Mr.  Sampson  re- 
turned to  Wisconsin.  On  April 
12  "Goldy"  was  presented  with 
a  Certificate  of  Recognition  by 
the  Federal  Land  Bank  Associ- 
ation of  Wausau  for  his  distin- 
guished service  to  agricultiu'c 
and  its  related  interests. 


THVNDKR    LAKE 

Continued    jrom    Page    13 

experiments  and  all  the  varieties 
may  not  be  available.  Right 
now  some  of  the  varieties  are 
being  eliminated  as  no  one  has 
much  interest  in  propagating 
them. 

Thunder  Lake  recently  pur- 
chased the  Weber  Cranberry 
Acres,  Manitowish  Waters,  and 
consists  of  40  acres  which  is 
considered  to  be  one  of  the 
finest  properties  in  the  state. 


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Engine  — /]_  h.p.  Briggs  &  Stratton  with  Reduction  Unit.  Tires  — 800:6  -  10  inches  wide  -  18  inches 
diameter  -  1000  lbs.  capacuy  per  tire  with  only  20  lbs.  of  air  pressure.  Frame — 21/4"  square  tubing 
Vs"  wall  thickness.  Axles  —  1"  round  cold  roll.  Tiller  —  operated  tricycle  arrangement  for  ease 
of  reversing  and  to  minimize  scuffing. 

Unit  is  shown  backing  up  a  5'  incline  on  one  of  our  16'  ramps  that  can  be  erected  by  one  man. 
Average  load  by  bog  operators  is  25  boxes. 


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Fi  fteen 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    jrom    Page     3 


The  Cape  Cod  Club  elected 
Raymond  Thatcher,  president, 
Mr.  Ryder,  vice  president,  Mrs. 
Hollidge,  secretary  and  Victor 
Adams,  treasurer. 


Frost    Service 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  is  again 
sponsoring  the  telephone  frost 
warning  service.  The  telephone 
answering  systems  at  the  Cran- 
berry Station  will  also  be  in 
operation  again  this  season.  The 
number  for  the  answering  sys- 
tem is  295-2696  and  is  not  listed 
in  the  telephone  directory,  being 
intended  only  for  use  of  the 
cranberry  growers.  The  radio 
stations  will  supplement  the 
above  services  and  are  listed 
below. 


Dial 


Station 


Place 


A.M. 


F.M.       Afternoon    Eveninfi 


WEEI 

Boston 

590  k. 

103.3  mg. 

2:00 

9:00 

WBZ 

Boston 

1030  k. 

92.9  mg. 

2:30 

9:00 

WPLM 

Plymouth 

1390  k. 

99.1  mg. 

2:30 

9:30 

WOCB 

W.  Yarmouth 

1240  k. 

94.3  mg. 

3:00 

9:30 

WBSM 

New  Bedford 

1420  k. 

97.3  mg. 

3:30 

9:00 

The  keeping  quality  prospect 
at  this  time  is  only  fair.  There 
are  only  3  points  of  a  possible 
10  which  favor  good-keeping 
next  fall.  Cooler  and/or  drier 
weather  in  April  and  May  could 
brighten  the  prospect  by  June. 
The  holding  of  late-water  would 
improve  the  keeping  quahty 
where  it  is   used. 

Weather 

March  was  a  very  cold  month 
averaging  about  4  degrees  a 
day  below  normal.  The  average 
temperature  at  East  Wareham 
was  30.5  degrees  and  from  our 


records  only  March  1960,  with 
30.1  degrees,  waj^  colder.  We 
had  a  minimum  of  an  even  0 
degrees  on  March  19,  this  is  the 
coldest  for  the  date  on  record 
at  the  Cranberry  Station  but 
we  have  recorded  a  -5  degrees 
on  March  6,  1948  and  a  -1  de- 
gree on  March  4,    19.50. 

Precipitation  totalled  5.60 
inches  which  is  -8  of  an  inch 
above  average.  We  are  only  2 
inches  below  the  average  for 
1967  so  far.  Snowfall  was  18.7 
inches  for  the  month,  far  above 
average  but  not  a  record. 


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WEST  WAREHAM,  AAASS. 


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WASHINGTON 

The  cranberry  growers  of 
Washington  were  saddened  to 
hear  of  the  recent  death  of 
Chirence  Hall.  He  visited  our 
station  and  area  a  few  years 
ago  and  Mr.  Shawa  recalls  what 
a  fine  man  he  was,  and  has  con- 
tribution to  the  industry  as  a 
whole. 

Cranberry    Club    Meets 

Dr.  Doughty  spoke  at  the 
February  meeting  of  the  Long 
Beach  Cranberry  Club  and  the 
Grayland-North  Beach  growers 
meeting  giving  the  extended  re- 
search on  Cold  Injury  to  Cran- 
berries. Dr.  Folke  Johnson  was 
the  speaker  for  the  Si  arch  meet- 
ing of  these  two  groups  with 
his  topic  Fungus  diseases.  There 
is  a  new  bulletin  No.  675  en- 
titled 'Tungi  Found  on  Erica- 
ceae in  the  Pacific  Coastal  Area" 
by  Dr.'s  Maksis  Eglitis,  Charles 
J.  Gould  and  Folke  Johnson, 
available  through  the  Washing- 
ton Agricultural  Experiment 
Station  Bulletin  Department. 
This  publication  includes  iden- 
tification of  specimens  obtained 
from  economially  important 
wild  or  cultivated  rhododendrons 


Attention  Growers ! ! 

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blueberries,  cranberries  and  the 
two  main  "native"  crops  picked 
for  florists'  use:  salal  and  huck- 
leberry. 

Weather 

March  temperature  was  about 
normal  for  our  area  with  a  high 
of  54  degrees  for  the  period. 
The  growers  had  seven  days  of 
below  freezing  recordings  dur- 
ing the  first  thirteen  days  of 
the  month  and  most  sprinkled 
for  protection  from  frost  injiu\ . 

Precipitation  was  11.47  inches 
bringing  the  total  to  date  to  43- 
24  inches  which  is  11.84  inches 
more  than  the  1966  total  to 
date  of  31.40  inches. 

Charts 

1967  Cranberry  Insect  and 
Disease  control  Program  Charts 
were  sent  out  with  the  Febru- 
ary issue  of  the  Cranberry  Vine. 
The  Chemical  Weed  Control  in 
Cranberries  Chart  will  be 
mailed  with  the  April  issue  of 
tiie  Cranberry  Vine.  There  is 
a  supply  of  both  ("f  these  charts 
still  available  at  the  Station. 
Anx'one  \\'ho  needs  one  should 
send    a    rc(juest. 


Dr.    Robins    New    Director 

Dr.  |()hii  S.  i^obius  has  been 
named  director  of  research  for 
the  Washington  State  Univer- 
sit\  Clollege  of  Agriculture.  He 
succeeds  Dr.  Mark  T.  Buchan- 
an who  has  resigned  to  accept 
a  new  1\ -created  post  as  coor- 
dinator of  agricultural  experi- 
ment stations  in  the  western 
states.  Dr.  Robins  has  been 
serving  as  superintendent  of 
the  hrigated  Agriculture  Re- 
search and  Extension  Center, 
Prosser,  Washington. 

Dr.  l-lobbins  promotion  as 
head  of  agricultiual  work 
throughout  the  state  becomes 
effecti\e  immediately.  His  head- 
quarters will  be  on  the  Pull- 
man  campus. 


NEW    JERSEY 

March  was  cold  and  wet. 
Extremes  of  cold  and  warm 
temperatures  were  destructive 
to  peaches,  apples  and  straw- 
berries but  little  damage  has 
been  found  in  blueberries.  Max- 
imum   temperatures    of   72   and 

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Division 

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Cranberry  Highway 

West  Wareham,   Mass. 

295-1553 


Seventeen 


CONTROL  OF  RED  GALL  OF  CRANBERRY 

Continued  from  Page   14 

Table  1.     Results  of  field  trials  of  fungicides  for  control  of  ihc 
red   '^all  disease 


Treatment 


No.  of  applications       Total  No.  of  infections' 


Bordeaux  mixture 


1 

2 


Adjacent  control  areas 


230 

52 

256 


Maneb 


Adjacent  control  areas 


1 

2 


311 

56 

116 


-Each  fi  gure   represents    the    total  number  of  shoots  or  ber- 
ries within  a  six  square  foot  area  that  had  one  or  more  galls 


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74  degrees  on  March  10th  and 
11th,  followed  by  minimums 
of  8  and  3  below  zero  in  se\- 
eral  blueberry  fields  a  few  da}s 
later,  on  March  8th  and  March 
9th  were  destructive  to  buds 
as  well  as  wood  of  peaches 
and  to  the  crowns  of  straw- 
berries. Since  all  of  the  cran- 
berry bogs  in  New  Jersey  were 
Hooded  at  the  time  ther(>  was 
no    damage    on    cranberries. 

The  temperature  for  the 
month  averaged  out  38.6  de- 
grees colder  than  normal. 

There  were  thirteen  days  of 
rain  with  a  total  of  5.61  inches, 
or  1.86  inches  above  normal. 
Five  of  these  rains  were  mixed 
with  snow  and  the  total  snow 
accumulation  for  the  month 
was  6.3.  For  the  first  tliree 
months  of  1967  the  rainfall  to- 
taled 9.99  inches,  just  .06  above 
normal. 

Continued  on  Taae  24 


62    MAIN    STREET 

KINGSTON,    MASS. 


Elmer  A.  Haines 

Elmer  A.  Haines,  a  Pember- 
ton,  N.J.  borough  councilman 
for  20  years  passed  awa\'  at  his 
home  recently  following  a 
lengthy   illness.     He    was    49. 

A  veteran  of  World  \\'ar  II, 
he  was  a  member  of  Pemberton 
Lodge  199,  AF&AM,  an  exempt 
member  of  Pemberton  Good- 
will Fire  Company,  past  presi- 
dent of  the  Pemberton  Rotary 
Club  and  huntmaster  of  the 
Red  Stag  Sportsman  Club  for 
20  years.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pemberton  Borough 
Board  of  Education  and  was 
on  the  board  of  the  Pemberton 
Methodist  Church.  Mr.  Haines 
was  the  brother  of 
Haines,  prominent  New 
cranberry   grower. 


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Offered  to  4~H  Members 

Fifty  outstanding  4-H  b()\\s 
and  girls,  one  from  each  state, 
may  be  selected  by  June  15  In 
educational  and  cooperatixc 
leaders  as  $50  4-H  scholarship 
winners  who  will  participate 
next  August  6-9  when  the  39tli 
vSummer  Session  on  farm  bus- 
iness of  the  American  Institute 
of  Cooperation  is  held  at  Pur- 
due  Universit)',   Lafayette,   Ind. 

One  of  the  scholarship  win- 
ners will  become  co-chairman 
of  the  1968  Youth  AIC  summer 
session  at  Virginia  Polytechnic 
Institute,  Blacksburg,  Va.,  it  wa^ 
announced  by  J.  K.  Stern,  Pres- 
ident of  the  farm  educational 
and  research  organization. 

"Mary  Lou  Brooks  of  Owens- 
boro,  Ky.,  one  of  the   1966  4-II 
scholarship    winners    has    been 
named  co-chairman  cf  the  1967 
Youth  Session,  which  more  thai 
1,000    rural    youth    and    younj. 
farmers      from      all      over     the 
country  will  attend,"  Mr.  Stern 
said.  "Mary  Lou,  the  first  Ken- 
tuckian    to   be    co-chairman    of 
the  youth  sessions,  is  an  honor 
student     at     Owensboro     High 
School.  She  was  4-H  area  dem- 
onstration champion  in  1965  and 
4-H    area   speech    champion    in 
1965.   She  was   Daviess   County 
Farm  Bureau  Queen  and  talent 
winner  in  1965  and  1966." 

"Objective  of  the  special 
award  in  each  state  for  4-fI 
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about  the  ways  we  do  busin(\ss 
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"Bob  Pinches,  Program  Lead, 
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Federal  Extension  Serxice,  U.S. 
D.A.,  is  working  with  Walter 
Jacoby,  AIC  Youth  Education 
Director,  on  the  program  for 
4-H    participation." 


WHEN     IT    COMES    TO     FROST    PROTECTION 
REMEMBER    THESE    4    IMPORTANT 
POINTS    ABOUT    FMC    TROPIC    BREEZE 
WIND    MACHINES 


1.  THEY  REDUCE  LABOR  COST 

One  man  can  efficiently  operate 
one  or  several  wind  machines. 
FMC  wind  machines  save  the 
labor  cost  of  a  whole  crew 
required    for   flooding. 

2.  THEY    GIVE    IMMEDIATE 
PROTECTION 

Switch      on      the     motor      and 

within     3     to     5     minutes,     the 

marsh     is     receiving     effective 

frost  protection.  FMC  machines 

have    an    enviable    rev^ord    foi' 

operating  reliability   too. 

3.  THEY    ELIMINATE     FLOODING 

Water  shortages,  water  damage 
to  fruit,  drainage  difficulty  all 
dictate  against  flooding.  The 
FMC  wind  machine  protects 
by  drawing  warm  air  from 
above  and  mixing  it  with  cold 
ground  air.  Not  one  drop  of 
water    is   involved. 

4.  THEY    PROMOTE    BETTER    FRUIT 
YIELD    AND    QUALITY 

Flood  water  may  damage  fruit, 
wash  away  pollen,  inhibit  vig- 
orous growth.  Also,  flood  water 
can  carry  in  weed  seeds.  FMC 
wind  machines  eliminate  these 
time  and  profit  consuming 
drawbacks. 

Make  your  own  investigation. 
FMC  Wind  Machines  have  a 
proven  record  of  successful 
frost  protection  in  cranberry 
marshes.  The  savings  they 
can  effect  in  one  or  two  sea- 
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your  investment.  Fill  in  the 
coupon  and  mail  it  today. 
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ADDRESS  (RFD). 
CITY 


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FOR   SALE 

(available   immediately)   Worthington 
Pump  -  1,000  G.P.M.  with  four  cylin- 
der climax  engine  (97  H.P.  at   1600 
R.P.M.)  in  very  good  condition. 
Please  coll  or  write: 
W.  V.  Knapton 
Plymouth  Rubber  Co.,  Inc. 

Revere  Street 

Canton,  Mass.  02021 

828-0220 


Insecticides  and  fungicides  are 
very  much  needed  in  the  food  pro- 
duction program  of  this  country. 
Without  these  chemicals  being  used 
it  would  be  impossible  lor  enough 
food  to  be  produced  in  this  country 
to  feed  all  of  its  citizens.  Chem - 
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screened  by  the  Pure  Food  and 
Drug  Administration  and  their  use 
is  carefully  supervised  by  the  same 
organization. 


BOGS   FOR   SALE 

Duxbury,  Mass.,  81  acres,  13 
bogs  in  all,  ranging  from  poor 
to  fair.  Unlimited  water  sup- 
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sander,  new  Furford  picker, 
Some  sections  picked  last 
year.  Financing  available. 
Priced   to   sell   fast. 

Call    617—826-2700 

Graham  Realty 

711    Washington   St. 

Hanover,  Mass. 


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Mrs.   Lawrence   Dana 

Mrs.  Lawrence  Dana,  65,  1310 
13th  Avenue  S.,  Wisconsin  Rap- 
ids, Wisconsin,  died  at  2:10  a.m. 
Tuesday,  March  28,  following 
a  five  weeks'  illness.  She  was 
admitted  to  the  hospital  on  Feb. 
26  and  had  undergone  surgery. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
at  2  p.m.  Thursday  at  Taylor 
Funeral  Home,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Kingdon  officiating,  with  burial 
following  at  Restlawn  Memorial 
Park. 

She  was  treasurer  of  Dana 
Machine  &  Supply,  Inc.,  a  com- 
pany headed  by  her  husband. 

The  former  Katheryn  Juckett 
was  born  at  Janesville,  Wisjc. 
July  17,  1901,  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Juck- 
ett, and  married  Lawrence 
Dana  at  Woodstall,  111.,  July  19. 
1927.  They  came  to  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids  in  1929. 

Surviving,  in  addition  to  her 
hu.'-lband,  are  a  son,  George, 
Stevens  Point;  two  brothers, 
Leonard  and  Leland  Juckett, 
both  of  Janesville,  and  three 
sisters,  Mrs.  Clarence  Yanke, 
Newberry,  Ore.;  Mrs.  Jos,eph 
Smith,  Janeville  and  Mrs.  Rich- 
ard  Johnson,   St.    Louis,    Mo. 

Lewis   E.    Billings 

Funeral  services  for  Lewis  E. 
BilHngs,  a  resident  of  Plympton 
Massachusetts  for  60  years,  and 
a  selectman  for  the  last  seven 
and  a  member  of  the  planning 
board  for  12,  were  held  at  the 
First  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Billings  died  April  10 
at  Jordan  Hospital  at  the  age 
of  73. 

He  also  had  served  the  town 
as  police  chief  from  1924  to 
1939,    highway    surveyor    from 


1925  to  1948,  and  as  fire  chief 
and  forest  fire  warden  from 
1935  to  1947. 

His  other  civic  activities  in- 
cluded terms  on  the  school  com- 
mittee, town  forest  committee, 
water  exploration  study  com- 
mittee and  as  chairman  of  the 
town  house  renovation  commit- 
tee. 


By  occupation,  he  was  a 
dairy  farmer  in  Plympton  since 
1912  and  for  many  yearsj  was  ;• 
well    known   cranberry    grower. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr. 
Billings  was  president  of  the 
Producersi'  Dairy  Cooperative 
of    Brockton,    a  director   of   the 


American  Dairy  Association  in 
Massachusetts  and  a  director 
of  the  Plymouth  County  Farm 
Bureau  and  the  National  Milk 
Producers    Federation. 

Mr.  Billings  also  was  a  su- 
pervisor of  the  Plymouth  County 
Soil  Conservation,  a  member  of 
the  Agricultural  Stabilization 
Conservation  and  a  former 
president  of  the  South  Shore 
Cranberry  Club  and  the  Plym- 
outh County  Selective  Breed- 
ing Association,  and  a  trustee 
of  Plymouth  County  Aid  to 
Agriculture. 

Born  in  Weymouth  he  at- 
tended Plympton  schools  and 
the  Plymouth  Business  School. 

Mr.  Billings  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  the  former  Eleanor 
Bussiwell;  two  daughters,  Mrs. 
Richard  Phelps  of  Frederick, 
Md.,  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bousquet 
of  Pembroke,  and  two  sisters, 
Mrs.  James  Riley  of  Woods 
Hole  and  Mrs.  Ruth  Nilges  of 
Hudson. 


OC3  Crawler  w/Bucket 

Engine  completely  rebuilt. 
Could  use  Hopto,  etc.  or  wide 
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ACTUAL 

HERBICIDE 


TIME  OF 
APPUCATION 


WEEDS 
CONTROLLED 


REMARKS 


Dalapon 


After  October  1 


Wide  leaf  grass,  soft 
rush,   bunch  grass 


Apply  as  a  spray  on  non-bearing  beds. 
Do  not  har\est  the  following  year. 


Dichlobenil 
(Casaron) 


Ferrous  (iron) 
sulfate 


After  harvest  and 
before  May  1 


Wide  range  of  per- 
ennial and  annual 
grasses,  sedges  and 
broadleaf  weeds. 


Some  injury  may  develop  on  vines.    Do  not 
use  on  new  planting.    Use  granular  formula- 
tion only.    Irrigate  after  application. 


800 


April  to  June 


Ferns 


Pack  herbicide  around  fern  plants  or 
broadcast  on  patches. 


Petroleum 

solvent 

(Spirits) 


350-500  gal. 


May 


Grasses,  sedges 


Broadcast  at  rates  to  wet  crowns  of  weed  plantf 
Do  not  use  after  buds  swell  on  vines.    Do  not 
use  when  temperatures  are  high. 


Same 


Same 


Up  to  June  15 


Rice  cutgrass, 
sedges,  rushes 


Apply  with  undei^rine  boom.    Do  not  spray 
vine  tips.    Do  not  let  boom  drain  on  beds 
or  spray  when  temperatures  are  high. 


Sodium 
arsenite 


Summer 


Ditch  weeds 


Do  not  allow  material  to  contact  desirable 
plants. 


2,4-D 


Spring 


Rice  cutgrass, 
ragweed,  beggar  ticks 


Apply  as  a  granular  before  weed  seeds 
germinate.    Weed  Rhap  20  is  available  at 
present. 


2,4-D 
formula  40 
(Dow) 


1/3  cup  in  4 
gal.  water 


Up  to  blossom  time 


Willows,  loosetrife, 
smartweed,  hardhack 
and  other  broadleaf 
species. 


Use  to  suppress  broadleaf  weeds.    Wipe  on 
individual  weeds.    Keep  off  of  vines. 


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Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

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C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
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Parkhurst  Farm  &  Garden  Supply 
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Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  4  Equipment 
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RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


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David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
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Cranberry  Products,  Eagle 
River,  W'isconsin  will  open  its 
gift  house  May  15,  in  time  for 
the  first  tourist  arrival  for  the 
fishing  season. 

The  gift  house  has  added  a 
number  of  new  items  to  those 
that  will  be  offered  and  plans 
are  for  opening  a  second  gift 
house  soon.  Tourists  are  al- 
ways looking  for  something  to 
do  and  when  they  get  into  the 
cranberry  country  they  look 
for  something  to  take  home  to 
remind  them  of  their  visit. 

For  the  first  time,  Cranberrv- 
Products  will  be  carrying  lin- 
gonberry  sauce,  for  which 
there  is  a  considerable  demand 
among  the  Scandanavian  people 
in    this    area. 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WISCONSIN 

Continued  from  Page  18 


This  is  about  the  time  of  the 
year  the  frost  is  the  deepest 
but  frost  penetration  this  year 
is  not  quite  as  deep  as  it  \\'as 
a  year  ago  at  this  tinie.  TIumc 
is  a  wide  variation  in  frost 
depths  now  because  of  the 
length  of  time  there  has  been  a 
snow  cover  this  winter.  Frost 
penetration  has  bcx'n  deep  \\n- 
der  roadways  and  some  locali- 
ties in  the  north  were  plagued 
with  frozen  water  mains.  The 
frost  has  also  been  hard  on 
road  because  of  the  thawing 
and  hea\ing  catised  by  tlie 
wide   \ariance   in   temperatures. 

The  snow  cover  in  the  stat(> 
lias  gradually  been  receding 
nortln\ard  with  the  warm  tem- 
peratines.  We  ha\(^  much 
more  snow  that  we  did  a  year 
ago  when  the  state  was  prac- 
tically bare. 

Twenty-four 


A  minimum  temperatinv  of 
—25  degrees  occurred  on  Mar. 
Sth.  Daytime  temperatures,  as 
a  rule,  were  pleasantly  mild 
with  the  increasing  powerful 
sunshine  eating  into  the  snow 
cover.  One  such  day  was  May. 
10  when  temperatures  rose  into 
the  low  60's  in  the  extn^ne 
south  and  into  the  50's  even  in 
some  northern  areas  of  the 
state.  The  following  day  a  slow- 
moving  cold  front  sagged 
southward  across  the  state  ac- 
companied by  cloudiness  and 
colder   temperatures. 

The  weather  was  unusually 
dry  during  the  period  with  no 
measurable  precipitation  fal- 
ling at  most  stations.  The  snow 
cover  in  open  countiy  disap- 
peared in  many  southern  coun- 
ties and  settled  considerably 
in  the  north.  The  run-off  oc- 
curred in  an  orderly  fashion 
and  was  slowed  by  cool  night- 
time temperatures  and  the  ad- 
vent of  colder  weather  after 
March   10. 


Additional  snow^  fell  during 
the  two  week  period  from  Mar. 
10  to  24.  The  snow  depths  in 
the  state  were  1  to  12  inches 
more  than  a  year  ago. 

The  period  March  11-16  was 
cloudy  and  dry  throughout  the 
state.  Temperatures  remained 
in  a  very  narrow  range,  around 
the  freezing  point.  Some  snow 
sc^ualls  occurred  on  th(^  16th 
accompanying  a  cold  front 
which  introduced  clear  and 
colder  air  into  the  area.  Night- 
time temperatures  dropped  wc]] 
below  zero  over  northern  and 
central  portions  on  the  17th 
and    18th. 

'I'he  first  general  precipitation 
in  nearly  a  month  arri\'(Hl  on 
the  20th  in  the  form  of  wet 
snow.  Heaviest  amount  of  8 
to  12  inches  fell  in  southwes- 
tern comities.  This  snow  meltcnl 
rapidly  over  the  next  few  days 
as  warmer  springlike  weatluT 
made     its     appearance.      Tem- 


peratures o!i  the  2.5th  rose  into 
the    upper    60's  or    low    70's    in 
the  extreme  south  and  into  the 
5()'s     in     the     north.    Scattered 
light     thundershow(TS     on     the 
24th   and  a   steady  rain   on   the 
26th  assisted  in  the  snow  melt. 
Light    Hooding    occurred    along 
southwestern  streams,  but  much 
of     the    moisture     managed    to 
penetrate     into     the     relatively 
dry  subsoil   layers   as  the  frost 
commenced  leaving  the  ground 
in   the  south.     Over   the   north- 
ern  half  of   the  state  the   main 
runoff    is    still    to    come    during 
the    coming   weeks.     The  snow 
cover  contains  3  to  7  inches  of 
water    in    most    areas. 


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In  industry  as  well  as  the  home, 
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F  F  A  Offers  $2,000 
Awards  in  Annual 
AlC  Contest 


For  outstanding  cooperative 
farm  business  activities,  four 
Future  Farmers  of  America 
Chapters  will  be  selected  as  na- 
tional winners  to  share  $2,000 
in  awards  in  the  annual  contest 
of  the  AIC,  it  was  announced 
today  by  J.  K.  Stem,  President 
of  the  Ainerican  Institute  of 
and  research  organization  for 
Cooperation,  the  educational 
farmer  cooperatives.  The  awards 
will  be  presented  at  Purdue 
University,  Lafayette,  Ind.,  Aug. 
7,  when  the  Institute  holds  its 
Annual   Summer   Conference. 

"Supported  by  State  Councils 
of  Farmer  Cooperatives,  local 
and  regional  cooperatives,  the 
National  Vocational  Agricultural 
Teachers  Association,  and  Agri- 
cultural Education,  Division  of 
Vocational  and  Technical  Edu- 
cation, OflBce  of  Education,  the 
program  has  four  objectives  as 
follows,"  Mr.  Stem  said. 


1.  To  create  desire  among 
FFA  members  to  better  under- 
stand the  cooperative  form  of 
business  organization  and  its 
relationship  to  other  forms  of 
business. 

2.  To  encourage  youtji  to  de- 
velop personal,  business,  and 
leadership  qualities  so  that  they 
may  participate  more  effectively 
in    cooperative    organizations. 

3.  To  develop  among  FFA 
members  the  ability  to  work  to- 
gether to  develop  community 
service  activities  through  co- 
operative effort. 

4.  To  encourage  leaders  of 
farmer  cooperatives  to  better 
understand  the  objectives  and 
activities  of  the  Future  Farmers 
of  America  and  high  school 
programs  of  vocational  agricul- 
ture. 

''The  national  winners  will  be 
selected  from  state  winners, 
representatives  of  each  being 
awarded  an  attractive  'State 
Champion'  plaque  during  the 
Tribute  to  Youth  Session  at  the 
Purdue  Summer  Conference, 
Aug.   7.   Reports  will   be  ^iven 


on  the  highlights  and  programs 
of   the  four   national   winners." 

"In  the  contest  last  year,  the 
following  states  selected  State 
Champions  who  competed  for 
national  honors:  Colo.,  Fla.,  Ga., 
111.,  Ind.,  Iowa,  Kansas,  La. 
Md.,  Mich.,  Minn.,  Mont.,  N.J. 
N.C.,  Ohio,  Okla.,  S.C,  Tenn. 
Va.,  Wash.,  W.  Va.,  Wis. 

'Wide  distribution  has  been 
given  entry  forms,  and  reports 
from  the  winners  of  contests  in 
each  state  and  Puerto  Rico  with 
photographs  are  due  in  the 
office  of  W^alter  facoby,  Director 
of  Youth  Education,  who  is 
supervising  this  program,  at  tlie 
Institute  in  Washington,  D.C., 
June  30." 


BOGS   FOR  SALE 

24  acres  in  Duxbury,  Mass. 
Reliable  reservoirs.  Portions 
in  need  of  work.  Lots  of  good 
vine,  I>ecent  crop  last  year. 
Will  sell  below  market  value. 
Financing  available. 
Call  evenings  617—659-2288 


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Personals 

Drs.     Bert     Zuckerman     and 

Bob  Devlin  attended  the  First 
Research  Conference  on  the 
Ecology  of  Root-infecting  Mic- 
roorganisms at  the  University 
of  Maryland  from  April  2  to  5. 
Dr.  Zuckerman  was  one  of  the 
guest  speakers  at  the  sympo- 
sium. 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  William  Tom. 
linson  departed  on  April  13  for 
a  vacation  in  Europe.  They  will 
visit  France,  Switzerland,  Ger- 
many, England  and  Wales  and 
vidll  return  on  May  15th. 

Drs.  Deubert,  Norgren,  Pa- 
racer  and  Zuckerman  have  a 
paper  published  in  volume  13 
of  Nematologica.  The  title  is 
*The  Influence  of  Tylenchus 
agricola  and  Tylenchorhynchus 
claytoni  on  Com  Roots  Under 
Gnotobiotic   Conditions."     This 


describes  changes  in  size  and 
shape  of  the  nuclei  in  corn  root 
cells  grown  under  sterile  con- 
ditions when  two  types  of  root 
feeding  nematodes  were  pres- 
ent in  the  soil. 

Weather 

April  was  the  third  in  a  ser- 
ies of  cold  months  averaging 
3  degrees  a  day  below  normal. 
After  two  warm  days  on  the 
2nd  and  3rd,  when  tempera- 
tures reached  the  low  70's,  we 
did  not  a  temperature  above 
60  degrees  until  the  14tli  and 
this  was  the  only  one  for  the 
month.  Precipitation  totalled 
4.84  inches  or  about  .6  of  an 
inch  above  average.  We  are 
now  only  about  IVz  inches  be- 
low average  for  the  year.  Snow 
fall  was  2.7  inches  which  is 
more  than  we  have  ever  re- 
corded before  for  April.  We  also 


had  measurable  amounts  on  the 
25th  and  this  is  the  latest  date 
that  we  have  recorded  snow  at 
the  Cranberry  Station. 

Early  Blacks  were  just  start- 
ing to  "green  up"  on  May  4th 
and  we  estimate  that  bogs  are 
about  two  weeks  behind  nor- 
mal development.  There  ap- 
pears to  have  been  very  little 
winterkill  or  oxygen  deficiency 
injury   last  vdnter. 

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The  frost  warning  service 
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Cranberry  Growers  Association 
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compared  vdth  214  a  year  ago. 
The  donations  to  the  telephone 
answering  service  are  also  up 
over  last  year,  which  is  very 
gratifying.    There   are  two   an- 

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Vernon  Goldsworthy 
Named  to  Wisconsin 
AADA  Committee 

The  Wisconsin  State  Board 
of  Agriculture  has  named  well- 
known  Wiscon^sin  cranberry 
grower  and  consultant  Vernon 
Goldsworthy  to  their  Market 
Advisory  Committee  for  the 
year  1967. 

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partment  of  Agriculture  in  the 
total  area  of  commodity  pro- 
motion and  marketing  of  all 
farm  products. 

Mr.  Goldsworthy  was  asked 
to  serve  on  this  important 
committee  because  of  his  "in- 
terest and  experience  in  agricul- 
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Vernon  Goldsworthy  has  con. 
tributed  much  to  the  State  of 
Wisconisin  in  the  past  and  we 
wish  him  much  success  as  a 
member  of  the  MDAC. 

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berry Products,  Inc.  at  Eagle 
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2066 

Last  year  marked  the  one  hundredth  an- 
niversary of  the  United  States  Crop  Report- 
ing Service,  during  which  time  there  has  been 
great  change  throughout  the  country  and 
world. 

Mr.  Emerson  M.  Brooks,  at  the  time, 
felt  that  it  would  be  interesting  to  look 
ahead  another  hundred  years  to  see  how 
things  would  be  in  2066. 

Here  are  a  few  of  the  things  we  might 
look  forward  to:  first,  the  need  for  more 
and  better  information.  By  2066,  the  popu- 
lation will  have  grown  to  between  600  mil- 
lion and  a  billion  in  the  United  States.  World 
population  will  be  above  25  billion,  eight 
times  more  than  the  present. 

Technology  will  have  perfected  many 
new  methods  of  doing  what  seems  an  im- 
possibility today.  More  will  be  known  of 
the  earth's  surface  and,  thus,  more  can  be 
done  to  obtain  the  most  from  it.  Laser  beams 
will  facilitate  the  sending  of  messages  for 
undreamed  of  distances  at  speeds  of  light. 
Along  with  this,  sophisticated  satellites  will 
be  used  to  send  and  receive  messages  all 
over  the  world  —  even  hand-carried  devices. 

Planets  will  have  been  investigated. 
Much  will  be  known  about  them. 

Newspapers  will  be  reproduced  by  fac- 
simile directly  through  home  receivers. 
Oceans  will  have  been  explored  and  food 
from  the  sea  will  be  regular  fare  on  the 
tables  of  2066.  Sea  water  will  also  have 
been  easily  converted  to  fresh  water  for  the 
increased  population. 

Automobiles  and  other  forms  of  trans- 
portation will  be  vastly  changed.  Some  types 
of  vehicles  will  ride  on  a  cushion  of  air. 
This  is  already  on  the  drawing  boards  and 
in  experimental  stages  of  development. 

What  does  this  mean  to  the  growers 
of  food?  Most  certainly  no  one  now  reading 
this  column  will  be  here  to  see  these  ad- 
vantages —  but  our  children's  children  will 
be  in  a  position  to  verify  these  facts. 


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DONALD    CHARTIER 

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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   River,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,    Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jefsey 


All  that  has  been  written  here  is  done 
solely  to  emphasize  the  great  speed  at  which 
progress  is  being  made  in  our  time. 

It  also  serves  to  emphasize  the  need 
for  better  education  for  our  children  and 
their  children  after  them. 

It  stresses  the  need  for  an  open  mind, 
for  confidence,  common  sense  and  faith  — 
perhaps  the  latter  above  all! 

It  leaves  us  with  the  realization  that  it 
is  today's  grower  who  relieves  tomorrow's 
hunger. 


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Oregon  Cranberry 
Industry  Expands 


Reports  received  from  the 
Bandon,  Oregon  area  show  a 
20%  increase  in  cranberry  acre- 
age in  a  period  just  over  a  year. 
This  would  indicate  that  there 
are  approximately  600  acres 
now  planted  in  that  region. 

Since  these  newly-planted 
bogs  will  begin  to  produce 
within  the  next  three  years,  it 
will  certainly  show  an  increase 
in  the  Oregon  crops  at  that 
time. 

There  has  been  considerable 
debate  as  to  the  amount  of 
land  that  could  possibly  be 
available  to  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry at  any  time  in  the  fu- 
ture. There  is  a  considerable 
amount  of  controversy  over  this 
question.  It  is  felt  by  some 
that  only  the  "peat  land"  would 


be  suitable  while  others  believe 
that  much  other  land  might  be 
successfully  planted  to  cran- 
berries. Estimates  range  from 
the  hundreds  to  the  thous^ 
ands  of  acres  available  and  suit, 
able. 

One  very  serious  considera- 
tion is  the  availability  of  water 
to  the  proposed  bog  lands.  Sev. 
eral  methods  of  water  usage 
and  conservation  are  being  dis- 
cussed, and  it  is  felt  that  this 
problem  could  readily  be 
worked  out  with  a  bit  of  plan- 
ning. 

However,  it  is  true  in  Ore- 
gon, as  it  is  in  all  other  cran- 
berry growing  areas,  that  acre- 
age alone  will  not  insure  an 
abundant  harvest.  Since  most 
of  the  harvest  in  the  state  has 
come  from  bogs  that  had  some 
form  of  frost  control,  the  crop 
which  is  already  planted  could 
be  greatly  increased  with  the 
addition  of  frost  control  de- 
vices on  those  bogs  which  do 
not  have  them   at  the  present 


time.  The  early  frost  of  last 
year  destroyed  whole  bogs. 
Some  of  the  growers  who 
missed  flooding  on  only  one 
or  two  nights  lost  much  of 
their  crops  in  a  few  hours. 
Automatic  frost  control  devices 
are  being  recommended  to  all 
growers.  The  cost  of  installing 
these  units  could  certainly 
prove  to  be  a  saving  investment. 

Growers  in  the  area  have 
also  become  more  aware  of  and 
interested  in  new  developments 
and  methods  of  keeping  their 
bogs  in  good  condition  which 
will,  undoubtedly,  result  in 
bigger  crops. 

The  growers  in  the  Bandon 
area  have  also  become  increas- 
ingly promotion-minded  and 
are  publicizing  the  "Cranberry 
Capitol  of  Oregon"  in  many 
ways. 

All  in  all,  the  future  of  the 
cranberry  industry  looks  ex- 
tremely promising  in  the  state 
of  Oregon. 


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Life  on  a  Cranberry  Bog  at  the 


by  HOSE  T.  BRLGGS 

Curator  of  the  Plymouth,  Mass. 
Antiquarian    Society 


Editor's  Note: 
The  following  is  a  story 
of  the  early  days  of  the 
cranberry  industry  as  it 
was  in  the  Cape  Cod  area 
of  Massachusetts . 
Vie  would  like  to  hear  of 
similiar  times  in  other 
areas  of  the  country.  If 
any  of  our  readers  have 
this  information^  please 
send  it  along.  We  will 
publish  them  as  space 

will  allow. 

No  reader  of  Cranberries 
needs  to  be  told  the  problems 
of  cranberry  growing,  but  some 
may^nd  it  entertaining  to  re- 
view the  ways  these  problems 
used  to  be  met,  and  the  dif- 
ferences between  hfe  on  a 
cranberry  bog  at  the  turn  of 
the  century,  and  hfe  in  Inc 
same  place  now. 


I  believe  these  changes  have 
been  brought  about  chiefly  by 
differences  in  transportation, 
and  by  the  entirely  different 
wage  scale  that  now  exists.  In 
my  childhood  a  10  hour  day 
was  normal,  and  I  think  the 
current  rate  for  day  labor  was 
I2V2  cents  an  hour.  I  know 
that  in  1910  the  foreman  was 
getting  40^,  semi-skilled  labor 
20^  and  day  labor  16%^-.  In 
1903,  when  scoops  and  "snap- 
machines"  were  beginning  to 
come  in,  the  rate  for  that  work 
was  25^^  an  hour.  Picking  was 
always  paid  for  at  a  higher 
hourly  rate  than   day-labor. 

There  were  no  automobiles 
until  sOTue  time  after  1900,  and 
our  berries  had  to  be  carted 
10  miles  to  Plymouth  to  the 
railroad,  and  everything  we 
needed,  from  hay  to  yeast 
cakes,  hauled  10  miles  back. 
Tire  result  of  lower  wages  and 


HANDPICKERS  AND  TALLY  KEEPER  -  BEFORE  1900 


slower  transportation  was  that 
we  did  on  the  place  nearly 
everything  that  would  now  be 
done  by  hiring  someone  with 
specialized  equipment  to  ^ome 
and  do  it.  We  lived  in  a 
completely  unmechanized  age. 
I  don't  think  we  even  had  gas- 
oline engines  till  after  1900. 
There  was  a  pumping  engine 
at  one  of  our  bogs,  but  it  ran 
by  steam.  Like  most  of  the 
older  bogs,  ours  were  built 
where  they  could  be  flowed  by 
gravity.  Frosts  and  pests  were 
controlled  by  flowage.  Spray- 
ing, and  of  course  dusting  for 
pest  control,  were  still  in  the 
future.  Weeds  were  rooted  out 
by  hand,  perfectly ,  practical  at 
the  wage-scale  then  current. 
Sanding  was  done  with  wheel- 
barrows and  shovels.  The  ear- 
liest bill  I  can  find  is  for  20 
iron   wheels   for   wheelbarrows. 

With  transportation  what  it 
was,  we  expected  few  services 
from  outside,  and  no  mail  un- 
less we  went  for  it.  We  had  a 
mail  bag  where  letters  accumu- 
lated until  someone  went  to 
town.  There  was  no  telephone 
so  far  from  Plymouth,  and  of 
course  no  electricity.  The 
Town  kept  up  the  main  roads 
.  .  .  that  is,  they  engaged  some, 
one  who  had  men  and  horses 
available  to  do  it.  We  were 
the  ones  in  our  area.  It  took 
experience  to  build  a  good  dirt 
road,  that  would  not  be  too 
sandy  in  summer  or  too  muddy 
in  winter.  The  road  material 
had  to  be  a  happy  proportion 
of  gravel  and  "loam."   I  remem- 

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at  one  end.  The  ])alance  of 
the  two-million  dollar  alloca- 
tion will  be  nsed  to  j'jrovide 
the  most  up-to-date  and  efficient 
types  of  processing  ecinipment 
to  l)e  installed  in  the  new 
l)nilding,  as  well  as  for  repair 
and  reno\ation  of  the  existing 
facility  and  de\clopinent  of  the 
gronnds. 

Several  thonsand  additional 
scjuare  feet  of  mannfactnring 
and  warehouse  space  will  be 
provided  by  this  expansion 
program.  The  production  of 
cranberry  juice  alone  is  expec- 
ted to  be  increased  four  times 
with  the  new  plant.  Similar 
output  increases  are  seen  in  the 
other  specialty  items  under 
the    Ocean    Spray    la])el. 

Railroad  and  truck  facilities 
will  be  greatly  improved. 

Robert  Lucas,  West  Coast 
area  manager,  stated  that  the 
existing  plant  will  be  primarily 
used  for  the  cleaning  and 
handling  of  fresh  fruit,  upon 
completion  of  the  new  building. 
Until  that  time  it  will  continue 
to   be   used   as   in   the   past. 

Although  the  new  building 
is  not  expected  to  be  completed 
until  early  ne.xt  year,  it  is 
planned  to  liave  the  warehouse 
facilities  ready  by  September  of 
this  year. 

Continued   on    page  24 


EIGHT 


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beetles 


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NINE 


Life  on  a  Cranberry  Bog  at  the 
Turn    of    the    Century 

Continued    from   page   7 


ber  test  holes  being  dug,  and 
my  father  deciding  that  one 
lot  would  do,  and  another  lot 
was  worthless. 

The  responsibility  for  fire 
fighting  was  distributed  in  the 
same  way.  The  Town  paid  the 
bills,  and  someone  in  each 
area  who  had  a  horse  and  wag. 
on  was  issued  a  rack  of  ex- 
tinguishers and  made  a  "fire 
ward."  My  father  was  "Fire 
\\'arden,"  or  chief  fire-ward,  in 
our  area,  and  a  big  red  fire- 
wagon  was  kept  at  our  place. 
It  belonged  to  the  Town,  but 
it  was  moved  by  our  horses 
and  manned  by  our  men,  and 
my  father  had  over-all  charge 
of  the  fire,  and  whatever  vol- 
unteers turned  up  to  fight  it. 
Those  were  the  days  when  fires 
were  fought  with  back-fires, 
while  men  with  shovels  and  ex- 
tinguishers held  the  lines. 
Whenever  smoke  appeared  on 
the  horizon,  my  father  had  to 
go,  and  if  my  brother  and  I 
were  with  him  we  went  too! 
Of  course  we  liked  it! 

The  transportation  problem 
made  a  lot  of  horses  and  wag- 
ons necessary.  There  were 
two  heavy  teams  that  hauled 
berries  to  Plymouth.  We  used 
either  a  four-horse  hitch,  or  a 
"spike-team"  of  three  honses, 
two  abreast  and  a  leader 
ahead.  For  lighter  work  we 
used  a  two-horse  hitch.  Then 
there  was  a  pair  of  driving 
horses,  trained  both  to  double 
and  single  harness,  and  two  or 
three  single  horses  as  well,  any 
of  which  my  father  used  in  an 
open  buggy  or  a  meadowbrook 
cart  to  drive  around  the  bogs. 
There  was  also  a  quiet  horse 
for  my  mother  to  drive,  and  a 
couple  of  utility  horses.  At 
picking  time  we  usually  added 
some  extra  workhorses  to  take 
picking     crates     down     to    the 

TEN 


bog,     and     bring     the    berries 
back  to  the  screen-house. 

All  these  horses  had  to  be 
fed,  which  meant  that  we  grew 
com,  mowed  what  grass  we 
could  raise,  and  sometimes 
bought  standing  hay  and  went 
with  our  men  and  equipment 
to  cut  it.  Even  then  we  bought 
oats  and  baled  hay  by  the  car- 
load, and  the  horses  that  ate 
it  hauled  it  home. 

The  horses  had  to  be  shod, 
the  wagons  kept  in  order  the 
flume  irons  made,  windmill 
kept  working  etc.  so  a  black- 
smith was  necessary.  He  was 
wonderful  to  us  children,  and 
let  us  hang  round  the  forge, 
and  even  hammer  out  things 
ouselves.  But  he  onlv  let  us 
use  cold  iron,  not  the  lovely 
cherry-red  stuflF  that  came  out 
of  the  forge,  and  bent  so  beau- 
tifully on  the  anvil,  and  gave 
out  such  fascinating  showers  of 
sparks. 

We  made  most  of  our  own 
barrels,  buying  staves  and  hoops 
by  the  carload,  so  we  had  to 
have  a  cooper.  His  work  was 
as  absorbing  to  watch  as  the 
blacksmith's.  After  the  Great 
Fire,  we  produced  our  own  bar 


rel  heads.  We  bought  a  lot  of 
standing  white  pine  which  had 
been  scorched  but  not  actually 
burned,  logged  it  off,  dumped 
it  in  the  Reservoir,  bought  a 
sawmill  and  milled  out  the 
lumber  for  the  buildings  we 
had  to  replace  after  the  fire, 
and  for  barrel  heads  and  crate 
stock.  The  saw  mill  was  run 
by  a  stationary  gasoline  en- 
gine, I  think  the  first  we  had 
on  the  place.  We  installed 
some  at  some  of  the  bogs  at 
about  the  same  time. 

We  raised  sows,  pigs,  chick- 
ens, vegetables  and  fruit  on 
the  place  and  bought  flour  and 
sugar  by  the  barrel,  and  most 
of  our  meat.  A  fish  peddler 
brought  fish  from  Ellisville, 
three  or  four  miles  away,  but 
there  was  more  choice  in  Plym- 
outh, if  anyone  was  going  to 
town.  We  had  a  farm  board- 
ing house  for  the  unmarried 
help  who  lived  on  the  place, 
and  there  were  shanties  of  var- 
ious sizes  for  married  help  and 
for  the  pickers. 

You  may  think  I  date  every- 
thing from  before  or  after 
1900.  1  do.  This  is  the  date 
of  the  forest  fire  when  all  our 
buildings  were  burned.    It  took 


SCREENING  AT  BOG 
CAPE  COD  -  MID  19th  CENTURY 


place  in  picking  time  —  Septem- 
ber 12,  1900.  We  still  picked 
by  hand  in  those  days,  and 
most  of  the  pickers  were  Cape 
Codders  — not  yet  Cape  Verde 
Islanders.  The  Cape  Codders 
came  with  their  whole  fami- 
lies,   and    camped    out    in    the 

'  shanties  which  every  bog  pro- 
'  vided  for  its  help  before  the 
days  of  the  automobile  trans- 
portation. The  fire  swept  down 
on  us  with  a  sudden  change  of 
near-hurricane  wind.  My  fa- 
ther, with  the  fire  wagon  and 
all  the  men  who  had  any 
fire-fighting  experience  \\'ere 
already  out  fighting  it.  The 
shift  of  wind  put  the  main  fire 
between  them  and  home.  Of 
the  people  on  the  place,  some 
took  refuge  in  a  sand  hole;  the 
rest,  including  my  mother  and 
five-year  old  brother,  in  one 
of  the  flumes.  The  fire  swept 
over  the  place,  and  finally  into 
the  sea  at  Ship  Pond.  No  one 
was  hurt,  but  when  my  father 
and  the  men  got  back,  nothing 
was  standing  but  the  hen 
house  and  the  cow  barn.  For- 
tunately the  pickers'  shanties 
were  in  a  little  hollow,  and 
the-fire  skipped  aver  them.  The 
people  left   on   the   place  that 


night  ate  half-baked  apples 
off  the  scorched  apple  trees. 
There  was  nothing  else. 

We  had  other  excitements 
beside  the  fire.  There  was  an 
elopement.  The  young  people 
stole  the  girl's  father's  horse 
and  buggy,  and  made  off.  down 
the  road,  vvdth  the  father  pant- 
ing and  swearing  after  them. 
Some  wild  young  men  stole 
green  com  at  Ship  Pond.  The 
owner  sat  up  for  them  with  a 
shot  gim.  One  of  them  got 
peppered  with  bird  shot,  and 
had  to  be  driven  to  Plymouth 
to  the  doctor  in  the  middle  of 
the  night.  Fortunately  he  was 
more  scared  than  hurt.  Chil- 
dren fell  into  ditches,  and  were 
hauled  out  before  they  drowned 
in  the  mud.  Babies  were  put 
to  sleep  in  cranberry  crates  and 
got  stung  by  hornets.  Some- 
where about  that  time,  the  Sy- 
rians came,  one  of  the  most 
colorful  groups  we  ever  had. 
They  used  to  put  on  a  sort  of 
fire-dance  at  night,  dancing 
around,  and  finally  over,  a 
small  fire,  hand  in  hand,  in  a 
long  line,  behind  a  leader  who 
swung  a  knotted  handkerchief 
in  his  free  hand  and  made  a 
great  play  of  stamping  out  sym. 


'<--Wu'<\.^     %-'J%,.    .■:"<..»a{^  *"'      *       ^ 

HANDPICKING   -   CAPE   COD   -    1900 


bolic  sparks  as  he  leaped  over 
the  fire.  There  was  a  sort  of 
wild  chant  that  went  with  it, 
and  the  little  boys  marked 
time  by  thumping  on  the  bot- 
tom of   their   tin   picking  pails. 

Those  were  the  days  of  hand 
picking,  by  the  6-quart  tin 
measure,  that  had  a  lovely  re- 
verberation when  the  first  ber- 
ries were  dropped  into  it,  but 
took,  for  a  child,  so  long  to 
fill.  Then  you  proudly  lugged 
your  measure  vip  to  the  tally- 
keeper,  called  out  your  number, 
emptied  your  measure  (an- 
other satisfying  sound)  and  re- 
turned to  begin  another.  The 
bog  was  laid  off  in  rows  with 
section-line,  so  each  picker  or 
family  had  their  own  row,  and 
no  one  could  hog  the  best 
picking.  The  man  in  charge  of 
the  gang  had  an  eagle  eye  for 
dropped  underberries,  and  for 
thin  spots  neglected,  and  the 
tally-keeper  rejected  measures 
that  were  not  properly  full,  or 
had  vines  stuffed  into  the  mid- 
dle! 

In  1900,  "snap  -  machines" 
were  beginning  to  come  in. 
They  took  some  skill  to  operate, 
and  of  course  were  much  faster 
than  hand  picking.  The  men 
that  used  them  were  paid  by 
the  hour,  not  the  measure.  In 
1903,  it  was  250  an  hour. 
Scoops  were  also  coming  in  in 
1903,  and  with  them  the  Cape 
Verde  Portuguese,  who  soon 
were  the  characteristic  labor 
force  on  the  bogs.  The  scoop 
was     their    distinctive    harvest 

tool,  as  the  shovel  and  ^\'hccl 
banow  were  the  tools  of  those 
who  stayed  for  tlie  winter 
sanding.  They  often  worked 
their  way  over  from  the  Islands 
on  some  sailing  vessel.  They 
were  amphibious,  as  the  whal- 
ing captains  knew,  who  had 
hired  them  as  whale-men,  and 
taught  them  the  way  to  New 
Bedford.  They  would  pick 
cranberries  in  the  fall,  blue- 
berries in  the  siunmer,  and 
cranberries      again     when      the 

Continued  on  page  12 


ELEVEN 


Life  on  a  Cranberry  Bog  at  the 
Turn    of    the    Century 

Continued  from  page  II 

liarvest  season  came  around. 
Their  labor  built  new  bogs  and 
sanded  old  ones.  Sometimes 
they  got  winter  jobs  in  Provi- 
dence —  even  in  the  steel  mills 
of  Pennsylvania  —  but  they  all 
came  back  for  the  picking.  Even 
in  war  time,  they  would  leave 
better  jobs  to  join  their  cous- 
ins ..  .  they  were  all  cousins 
....  on  the  bogs. 

They  arrived  and  left  in  neat 
store  suits,  each  carrying  a 
suitcase  and  a  furled  umbrella. 
Every  few  years  they  would 
go  back  to  the  Islands  for  the 
winter  —  to  get  married,  to  lay 
the  foundations  of  their  future 
when  they  should  have  made 
their  stake  —  perhaps  just  to 
visit.  One  of  them  told  us 
about  his  wedding. 

"Well,  where's  your  wife, 
Jock?  Didn't  you  bring  her  with 
you?" 

"Oh  no,  Mr.  Briggs!  I  left 
her  home,  take  care  of  the 
cow! 


A  few  years  later,  he  went 
home  for  good.  He  told  us  his 
wife  would  come  down  from 
their  village  to  meet  him,  lead- 
ing a  donkey.  Jock  would  ride 
back  on  it  in  state,  and  his 
wife  would  follow,  carrying  the 
baggage  on  her  head.  Wliat 
he  counted  on  to  make  the  big- 
gest sensation  with  his  friends 
was  a  dcckload  of  lumber  with 
which  he  was  going  to  make  a 
wooden  floor  for  liis  house.  I 
don't  know  how  he  planned  to 
get  the  lumber  home,  but  it  was 
going  to  be  the  only  wooden 
floor  in  the  village! 

When  immigration  was  put 
on  a  quota  basis,  all  this  com- 
muting to  the  Islands  came  to 
an  end,  and  settled  Portuguese 
communities  grew  up  in  this 
coimtry.  They  too  came  pick- 
ing. 

There  was  an  era,  I  think 
about  World  War  II,  when 
energetic  women,  Portuguese 
and  others,  operated  as  scoop- 
crs,  which  had  always  been 
considered  strictly  a  man's  job. 
The  type  of  motor  picking  ma- 
chine now  in  use  is   often  op- 


crated  by  women.  The  big 
gangs  of  scoopers  have  gone. 
What  strikes  one  now  in  look- 
ing at  a  picking  crew,  is  the 
;>ma!l  nninber  of  people  in- 
volved. Sometimes  tne  tenders 
outnumber   the  pickers. 

Our  screen  houses  have  be- 
come meclianized,  too.  Our 
shipping  containers  are  differ- 
ent. Barrels  went  out  of  use 
long  ago;  shipping  boxes  have 
followed  them.  The  final  pack- 
aging is  done  at  a  central 
plant,  not  at  the  home  screen 
house.  Much  of  the  crop  goes 
in  bags  to  the  cannery.  WTiere 
the  growers'  teams  once  carted 
his  berries  to  the  railroad,  huge 
trucks  now  come  from  outside 
to  transport  the  crop.  Sanding 
and  other  bog  work  is  done, 
increasingly,  by  specialists  \\ath 
specialized  equipment.  The 
work  force  comes  in  automo- 
biles in  the  morning,  and  goes 
home  at  night.  Cranberry  grow- 
ing is  still  a  colorful  business, 
but  the  days  of  isolated  self- 
sufficiency  are  over. 


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TWELVE 


CRaNBGRRY  INSGCTS 


by  William  E.  Tomlinson,  Jr. 


Spray  Charts  referred 
to  in  this  article  will 
be  found  on  pages  26 
and  27. 

Even  though  the  introductory 
rate  of  new  pesticide  chemicals 
has  slowed  appreciably  we  still 
seem  to  be  able  to  dream  up 
a  change  or  two  in  the  spray 
charts  every  year.  This  year 
is  no  exception. 

The  changes  in  the  text  of 
the  chart  are  mostly  of  a  minor 
editorial  nature.  Under  New 
Growth  we  have  removed  al- 
drin  for  the  control  of  weevil, 
not  because  it  doesn't  do  the 
job,  but  because  it  is  not  reg- 
istered with  the  U.S.D.A.  for 
the  control  of  this  insect.  Also 
under  New  Growth  we  have 
added  Tipworm.  It  is  impor- 
tant to  control  tipworm  early 
because  they  get  a  head  start 
in  ditches  and  other  areas  that 
start  early. 

New  brood  weevil  control 
has  been  moved  out  of  the  Late 
Bloom  and  Fruitworm  to  After 
Fruit  Set  with  girdler  larva 
control.  Also  in  the  After  Fruit 
Set  section  we  inserted  a  sprink- 
ler recommendation  using  di- 
eldrin  or  DDT.  For  those  with 
sprinklers  this  is  the  superior 
method  for  distribution  and 
penetration  of  the  insecticide  to 
where  the  action  is. 

The  inclusion  of  Guthion  for 
control  of  fruitworm,  fire- 
worms,  Sparganothis  and  tip- 
worm  for  the  first  time  is  the 
main  change  this  year.  This  is 
a  material  that  I  have  had  un- 
der test  since  about  1960,  It 
is  an  organic  phosphate  with 
somewhat  less  oral  toxicity  and 
much  less  contact  toxicity  than 
parathion.    In    the    days   when 


99%  of  the  parathion  was  cus- 
tom applied  from  the  air  there 
seemed  no  pressing  need  for 
Glithion  in  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry. However,  with  the  re- 
cent meteoric  increase  of  sprink- 
ler systems  and  their  use  as 
peticide  applicators  by  the 
growers  themselves,  the  su- 
perior in  use  safety  record  of 
Guthion  leads  me  to  recom- 
mend it  in  spite  of  its  greater 
cost.  At  the  suggested  rate  of 
3  pts.  per  acre  it  will  cost  al- 
most $2.75  per  acre  compared 
to  about  $1.25  for  a  pint  of 
parathion.  Actually  2  pints  has 
generally  performed  very  sat- 
isfactorily against  fireworms 
and  tipworms  and  at  that  rate 
would  bring  the  cost  down  un- 
der $2.00  per  acre  for  materials. 
In  spite  of  its  being  less  toxic 
than  parathion,  proper  respect 
in  handling  it  is  still  in  order. 
This  is  particularly  true  of  the 
concentrate.  Wear  protective 
clothing  and  gloves  and 
promptly  remove  spillage  by 
thorough  washing  whether  on 
yourself  or  clothing. 

The  use  of  sprinklers  for  ap- 
plying insecticides  has  become 
an  important  factor  in  present 
day  cranberrry  production. 
Spacing  of  sprinkler  heads  has 
a  bearing  on  eveness  of  distri- 
bution of  a  pesticide  through 
the  system.  Some  areas  may  be 
overtreated  and  others  under, 
but  there  is  usually  enough  po- 
tential toxicity  in  the  insecticide 
to  produce  the  desired  results 
even  in  the  areas  where  the 
rate  may  be  below  the  desired 
pounds  per  acre.  Superior  pen- 
etration, coverage  and  timeli- 
ness of  the  applications  appar- 
ently more  than  make  up  for 
any  reduction  in  rate. 

The  length  of  time  to  run 
the      insecticide      through     the 


system  varies  with  the  size  of 
the  system,  pipes,  sprinklers  and 
pump.  The  system  should  be 
run  long  enough  to  insure  that 
the  pesticide  reaches  the  far- 
thest head  and  clears  the  line 
afterwards.  This,  of  course, 
means,  that  only  water  is  be- 
ing applied  close  to  the  in- 
jection system  long  before  the 
insecticide  clears  the  far  end 
of  the  system.  This  fact 
troubles  growers  at  times,  with 
visions  of  washing  all  the  in- 
secticide ofi^  and  not  getting 
the  desired  kill.  That  washing 
oflf  and  overdilution  are  not 
important  with  quick  acting  in- 
secticides such  as  parathion  is 
bourne  out  by  experience.  The 
effectiveness  depends  on  con- 
tact, and  the  superior  penetra- 
tion and  coverage  obtained 
with  a  sprinkler  system  pays 
off  in  superior  results.  This 
was  very  apparent  in  fruitworm 
control  last  season  when  almost 
without  exception  control  with 
sprinklers  was  excellent.  The 
Insecticide  may  eventually  wash 
off,  but  in  so  doing  it  pene- 
trates and  wets  everything  so 
thoroughly  that  contact  occurs 
knd  control  is  obtained.  It's 
better  to  run  too  long  a  time 
than  to  run  too  short  a  time 
for  all  foilage  and  fruit  feeding 
insects.  If  you  are  after  grubs 
or  girdler  the  longer  the  system 
runs  the  better. 

What  appeared  to  be  an  easy 
fruitworm  year  early  in  the 
summer  of  1966  turned  into  a 
nightmare  after  berries  were 
h  rvested.  Screenhouse  floors 
were  crawling  with  fruitworm 
larvae  and  many  lots  were  so 
badly  infested  that  they  had 
to  be  put  aside  to  await  com- 
pletion of  feeding  of  the  fruit- 
worm present  before  they  could 

Continued  on  page  16 

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Miscellaneous  Thoughts  on 
Cranberry  Insects 


Continued    from   page  I  3 


be  sorted.  Some  fresh  ship- 
ments were  found  infested  in 
the  market,  a  condition  not 
condusive  to  a  favorable  image 
by  consumers. 

The  reasons  for  the  fruitworm 
trouble  late  in  the  season  stem 
in  part  from  our  late  cold  spring 
which  delayed  both  plant  and 
insect  development.  The  drought 
was  also  a  factor  because  some 
bogs  were  not  properly  winter 
flooded  or  reflowed  in  tlie 
spring.  Such  bogs  start  later 
than  bogs  that  are  winter  and 
frost  flooded  and  moth  emer- 
gence is  correspondingly  later 
Ltlso. 

The  graph  compares  the  moth 
fliglit  pattern  on  the  same  bog 
in  1964,  which  was  not  an  early 
year,  with  1966.  This  is  a  bog 
that  IS  winter  flooded  by  catch- 
ing rain  and  snow  and  was 
flooded  in  the  winter  of  1963- 
64,  but  did  not  go  completely 
under  in  the  winter  of  1965-66. 
The  first  moth  was  trapped  on 
the  same  date  both  years,  but 
from  then  on  the  1966  curve  is 
10  days  or  more  later  for  the 
various  levels  of  emergence. 
The  1964  season  ended  up  on 
September  12  with  628,5  moths 
trapped  and  1966  ended  be- 
tween October  1  and  5  with 
5915  moths  trapped.  The  big 
difference  being  that  only 
slightly  over  10%  emerged  after 
August  1  in  1964  whereas  nearly 
50%  emerged  after  August  1  in 
1966.  No  wonder  there  were 
wormy  berries  at  harv^est!  If 
this  happens  too  frequently  we 
will  have  to  recommend  egg 
counts  till  after  Labor  Day! 

Tlie  girdler  flight  pattern  was 
about  a  week  later  than  in 
1965  but  spread  over  73  days 
compared  to  72  in  1965.  At  the 
State  Bog  females  outnumbered 


males  417  to  193  or  about  2 
to  1  whereas  on  the  other  sur- 
vey bog  males  outnumbered 
females  316  to  241  or  about 
3  to  2.  In  1965  the  State  Bog 
ratio  was  very  near  1  to  1  while 
on  the  other  bog  males  out- 
numbered females  by  an  even 
more  lopsided  margin  of  5  to 
2. 

I  don't  know  the  reason  for 
the  surplus  of  males  on  one  bog 
and  the  reverse  on  the  State 
Bog  nor  do  I  expect  it's  of  any 
great  significance.  There  were 
plenty  of  females  to  lay  plenty 
of  eggs  in  both  location  I'm 
sure. 

The  "Warning"  at  the  bottom 
of  the  chart  is  important.  The 
cautionary  statement  to  not  ap- 
ply insecticides  to  streams  or 
ponds  is  asking  next  to  the 
impossible  I'm  well  aware. 
However,  with  the  present  em- 
phasis on  air  and  water  pol- 
lution, we  are  going  to  be 
subjected  to  closer  scrutiny  in 
this  respect  than  we  have  been 
in  the  past.  Therefore  any- 
thing we  can  do  to  avoid  or 
minimize  water  pollution  will 
pay  dividends.  Complete  avoid- 
ance of  direct  and  even  indi- 
rect application  of  pesticides 
to  streams  may  be  an  impossi- 
bility, but  impounding  of  water 
for  as  long  a  period  as  possible 
after   an    application    wall   help 


the  processes  of  evaporation, 
degredation,  absorption  and  di- 
lution. In  this  way  most  of  the 
pesticides  we  use  will  have 
disappeared,  become  bound  up 
in  the  organic  matter  present 
in  the  soil  and  water  or  will 
have  been  diluted  to  a  non- 
toxic leve-  before  entering 
streams  or  ponds. 

Last  but  not  least,  with  more 
of  you  personally  involved  in 
applying  your  own  pesticides 
through  sprinklers  and  with 
more  and  more  people  around 
your  bogs,  it  behooves  all  of 
you  to  be  safety  conscious.  Ac- 
cidents with  pesticides  don't 
just  happen.  Somebody  allows 
them  to  happen  through 
thoughtlessness   or   carelessness. 

Young  children  are  poisoned 
by  pesticides  more  frequently 
than  any  other  age  group.  Im- 
proper storage  of  pesticides 
and  unsafe  disposal  of  "empty" 
containers  are  major  causes. 
Youngsters  are  curious  and 
they  get  from  'liere  to  there" 
before  anyone  knows  it.  If  your 
children,  or  anyone's  children, 
can  get  to  your  pesticides  or 
"empt)'"  containers  tiiere  is 
something  wrong  —  something 
that  is  YOUR  responsihiUty  to 
correct.  These  suggestions,  if 
followed  will  help  you  keep  out 
o£  trouble. 

Continued   on    page  24 


CRANBERRY  FRUITWORM  EMERGENCE 


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severity  of  this  cannot  be 
gauged  until  warm  weather 
occurs. 

Frost   Warning   Service 

As   of   May   2nd   the  winter 
flood      has      been      withdrawn 


WISCOlliilll 


Weather 

The  weather  in  the  cranberry 
region  in  New  jersey  in  April 
was  quite  variable  with  warm 
spells  alternating  with  cold  per- 
iods frequently.  Maximum  tem- 
peratures were  in  the  80's  four 
times  and  70's  four  times;  this 
was  balanced  out  by  minimum 
temperatures  in  the  20's  and 
30's  fourteen  times.  The  aver- 
age temperature  for  the  month 
was  50.8  degrees  F,  about  1 
degree  below  normal.  Extremes 
were  84  degrees  on  April  2nd 
and  23  degrees  on  April  12th. 

Rains  were  of  above  normal 
frequency  although  they  were 
generally  very  light.  There 
were  twelve  rainy  days  but  the 
total  precipitation  amounted  to 
only  3.08  inches,  0.34  is  less 
than  normal.  On  April  27th 
rain  mixed  with  some  snow 
totaled  1.37  inches  to  relieve 
dry  conditions  which  had  been 
conducive  to  several  grass  fires 
in  the  area.  This  is  believed 
to  be  one  of  the  latest  dates 
for  snow  in  this  area. 

Much  of  the  colder  tempera- 
tures occurred  during  the  latter 
half  of  the  month  when  soil 
temperatures  normally  initiate 
growth  in  blueberries.  Conse- 
quently the  blossoming  season 
is  later  than  would  be  indicated 
by  the  average  temperature. 
ks,  of  May  2nd  blueberry  blos- 
soming is  estimated  at  being 
at  least  one  week  late.  There 
was  a  Ught  amount  of  frost 
damage  to  blueberry  buds  on 
April  28th  when  temperatures 
plunged  to  near  20  degrees  in 
some  fields.  Some  winter  kill 
of  wood  and  buds  is  also  ap- 
parent in   many  fields   but  the 


from  only  a  few.  cranberry  bogs  Temperatures  averaged  well 

in   New  Jersey.     Most  growers  above    normal  during  the   2- 

are  sticking  to  traditional  May  week  period  March  25-April 

10th   date   for  the  removal  of  7.    Record   high  temperatures 

water.     Water    reservoirs    seem  in    the    low    80's   occurred  in 

ample  for  the  spring  frost  sea-  southwestern     and     western 

son.    The    telephone    answering  areas   on    the   30th  with  60's 

service  to  alert  growers  on  frost  elsewhere.      Precipitation  was 

conditions  is  now  in  operation  heavy    over  west-central,   cen- 

''^*^®^P''"^^'■'^   ^  Blueberry  ^j-al  and  northeastern  areas  to- 

Lab.    This   service  is  operated  ^^^       3    to   4   inches.    Lesser 

by   a  committee   appomted  by  ^j^Q^nts      were      reported  in 


southern  districts  and  in  the 
extreme  northwest.  Most  of 
the  precipitation  fell  in  heavy 
thunderstorms.  One  small  tor- 
nado was  sighted  around  mid- 
night  on   the   30th  in  Wood 


the  American  Cranberry  Grow 
ers'  Association.    The  members 
are  Isaiah   Haines,   joe  Palmer, 
Eddie  Budd  and  Phil  Marucci. 

ORE  GOA/ 

A  late  report  from  the  Ban- 

don   cranberry  area  states  that  County  doing  moderate  dam- 

the   second  full  week   of   May  age    in    the    Marshfield    area. 

produced  nearly  two  inches  of  Some    4    to   8  inches  of  new 

rainfall.    The  same  week  night-  snow  fell  in  the  extreme  north 

time   temperatures   went   down  April  6th  and  7th. 

below  freezing  twice  to  28  and  r^     ^-       j        -n        ir^ 

or,  J  „  ^  Continued  on  Paae  19 

27  degrees.  ^ 

R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


Serving  Agriculture 


Helicopter   Application 
Division 

CHEMAPCO     !NC. 


Cranberry  Highway 

West  Wareham,   Mass. 

295-1553 


SEVENTEEN 


NEW  JERSEY  CRAfCERRY  GROWER 
IS  HONORED  BY  BANK 


FOR  SERVICE  -  Judge  Alexander  Denbo,  presi- 
dent of  Mechanics  National  Bank  of  Burlington 
County,  presents  plaque  to  Theodore  H.  Budd  Jr.  lor 
51  years  of  service.  Looking  on  (right)  is  Nelson 
Moi'lon,  executive  vice  president  of  the  bank. 


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on  CRANBERRIES 

for  WISCONSIN   GROWERS 

FULL   COVERAGE 

Ask  obout  our  Deferred  Premium  Plan 
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Call  our  LOCAL  AGENT  or  write 

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I  801  W.  Badger  Road,  Madison,  Wis. 


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The  chairman  of  the  board  at 
Mechanics  National  Bank  of 
Burlington  County  was  honored 
recently  for  completing  51  years 
of  banking  service. 

And  accordng  to  Theodore  H. 
Budd.  Jr.  he'll  go  50  more  if  he's 
physically   able. 

Budd  was  presented  a  plaque 
and  well  wishes  by  Judge  Alex- 
ander Denbo,  president  of  Me- 
chanics National  Bank  at  a  sur- 
prise ceremony  at  the  bank's 
headquarters  in  Burlington. 

At  77,  Budd  says  he's  not  at 
all  ready  for  retirement. 


The  banking  executive  has 
been  as  much  a  part  of  Burling- 
ton County's  cranberry  industry 
as  anyone.  He  was  an  original 
member  of  the  Cranberry  Prod- 
ucts firm  of  Bordentown  which 
has  grown  into  the  now  famous 
Ocean  Spray  Corp. 

A  past  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Cranberry  Exchange,  the 
Budds  still  operate  their  large 
cranberry  business. 

The  well-known  banker  and 
his  wife,  Helen,  have  four  chil- 
dren and  12  grandchildren  which 
include  two  sets  of  boy  twins. 


Attention  Growers!! 


for 

your    Spring 
weed    control 

we   offer 
water    white 

kerosene 
"GRADE  A" 

metered  trucks 
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SUPERIOR 
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Wareham,  Mass. 
Tel.    295-0093 


EIGHTEEN 


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SAMOSET    STREET,    ROUTE    44 

PLYMOUTH,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Telephone   746-1340 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WISCONSIN 

Continued 

Weather 

Tlic  very  mild  temperatures 
and  the  heavy  precipitation  mel. 
ted  tlie  dwindling  snow  cover 
in  record  time  and  sent  rivers 
and  streams  in  the  north  and 
west  over  their  banks  with  ex- 
tensive flood  damage  reported 
in  many  areas.  Much  of  the 
moisture,  though,  was  allowed 
to  sink  into  the  dry  subsoils  as 
the  frost  left  the  ground. 

April  continued  wet  with 
good  soaking  rains  across  nor- 
thern and  central  areas.  The 
extreme  southeastern  counties 
received  heavy  amounts  Fri- 
day afternoon  the  22nd  in  severe 
thunderstorms  which  brought 
destructive  tornadoes  to  nor- 
thern Illinois.  Temperatures 
averaged  well  above  normal 
since  April   1. 

Confinuecl  on-  ?na,e  2(S 


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We  have  been  designing  and  manufacturing  irrigation 

equipment  for  over  one  quarter  century. 

COMPLETE  SYSTEMS  -  pumping  xinits,  pumps,  power  units, 

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Write  or  call  for  iiteratmre  and  details. 

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NINETEEN 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 


Continued  from  page  3 

swering  devices  at  the  Station, 
both  are  hooked  up  on  the 
same  Hne,  so  that  when  one  is 
in  use  the  other  takes  over  and 
gives  the  message.  Up  until 
May  4th  no  frost  warnings  had 
been  issued. 

Tips    for   Late   Spring    and    Early    Summer 

1.)   The     early     spring    pests 
are,  or  soon  will  be,  showing  up 


on  bogs.  These  include  cut- 
worms, spanworms,  leafhoppers, 
fireworms,  sparganothis  fniit- 
worm  and  weevil.  The  sparg- 
anothis fruitworm  can  be  detec- 
ted by  careful  examination  of 
loosestrife  or  the  new  cranberry 
tips  for  webbing.  Weevils  over, 
winter  as  adults  and  are  active 
whenever  temperatures  reach 
70  degrees  or  above.  If  these 
pests  are  controlled  in  May  or 
June,  particularlv  those  that 
have  a  new  or  second  brood, 
they  very  seldom  create  a  prob- 
lem later  in  the  season. 


FOR  SALE 

H.     R 

.     BAILEY     COMPANY,     Manufacturer 

of  Cranberry  Machinery     and     Equipment 

Since 

1900.     Stock,  machinery,  equip- 

ment. 

land  and  buildings   (no  cranberry 

bogs) 

• 

Address  all   inquiries   to: 

ATTY.    ALBERT  T.    MADDIGAN 

111   Center  Street 
Middlehoro,    Mass.    02346 

FOR  $AL£ 

50  acre  farm  -  8  acres  cultivated  cranberry 
bog  -  cleaning  and  grading  machine  -  two 
cranberry  houses  -  canning  plant  all  equip- 
ped -  8  rocm  house  with  bath  -  bam  -  bath- 
ing beach  -  school  bus  -  hard  surface. 
Asking  price:  $12,000 


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P.O.BOX  86  MERIGOMISH  ,  N.S. 


2.)  This  is  a  good  time  to 
treat  brush,  poison  ivy  and 
brambles  on  the  uplands  using 
one  of  tli(>  brush  killers,  sil- 
vex  or  2,4-5-T.  These  should 
be  mixed  with  water  rather 
than  oil  at  this  time  of  year 
because  of  the  damage  to  turf, 

3. )  Stoddard  solvent  or  stod- 
dard-kerosene  treatments  fol. 
lowing  late  water  should  be 
completed  within  5  days  after 
the  floed  has  been  witlidrawn 
or  within  8  days  if  kerosene  is 
used  alone.  Less  damage  will 
occur  to  the  vines  if  tempera- 
tures are  below  65  degrees 
when  these  oils  are   applied. 

4.)  Casoron,  alanap-3,  Chloro 
IPC  and  simazine  should  not 
be  applied  after  withdrawal  of 
the  late  water  flood  as  vine 
and  crop  injury  will  result. 

5.)  Many  bogs  will  benefit 
from  an  application  of  fertili- 
zer, especially  where  hea\y 
crops  are  harvested.  Some  bogs 
that  have  had  casoron  treat- 
ments either  last  fall  or  this 
spring  may  look  "hungry"  and 
should  be  fertihzed.  Don't  for- 
get to  touch  up  tlie  thin  or 
weak  spots  by  going  around 
with  a  bucket  of  fertilizer  and 
using  it. 

6.)  Get  out  and  walk  your 
bogs,  you  will  be  surprised  at 
the  number  of  litde  things,  both 
good  and  bad,  that  you  will 
notice  on  your  inspection  trips. 


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CRANBERRY    CHEMICAL    USED 
ON   PEACHES   IN   NEW   JERSEY 

A  chemical  weed  control  dem- 
onstration was  applied  the  week 
of  April  12  at  C.  Wm.  Haines' 
farm  in  Masonville  N.  J.  for 
the  control  of  weeds  in  peaches. 
The  material  used  was  Casoron, 
well  known  to  ajl  cranberry 
growers. 


TWENTY 


EDWIN  R  LEWIS  SPEAKS  ON 

TOTAL  MARKETING 


Continued  from  last  month 

We  use  research  continually 
to  help  in  marketing  decisions. 
Market  research  to  determine 
how  we  are  doing  against  all 
the  competitive  products.  Con- 
sumer research  to  knov/  who 
our  customers  are  and  how  they 
use  our  products.  Media  re- 
search to  find  out  where  our 
best  potential  customers  are 
and  how  to  reach  them  at  the 
least  possible  cost.  Copy  re- 
search to  see  if  our  sales  story 
is  the  right  one.  Research  is  a 
tool  to  assist  in  making  de- 
ciions.  Too  often  it  is  used  as 
a  crutch  to  back  up  indecisive 
management 

During  the  past  three  years, 
our  new  product  development 
program  has  been  moving 
ahead  at  an  accelerated  rate. 
At  this  time,  there  are  46  new 
products  in  some  stage  of  ex- 
perimentation and  product  de- 
velopment. For  example:  One 
piece  of  research  we  conducted 
indicated  that  many  of  our 
fresh  fruit  consumers  used  our 
fresh  fruit  during  the  holiday 
season  to  prepare  a  homemade 
cranberry-orange  relish.  Using 
this  information,  our  technici- 
ans formulated  Ocean  Spray 
cranberry-orange  relish  as  a  hot 
pack  product,  and  early  in  1963 
we  went  into  Nielsen  test  area 
No.  6  with  it. 

The  results  of  this  test  mar- 
ket were  very  gratifying,  and 
in  October  of  1964,  we  took 
this  product  into  national  dis- 
tribution. By  the  end  of  our 
first  full  year,  we  had  reached 
77%  of  all  commodity  volume 
in  distribution  and  sales  were 
in  excess  of  450,000  cases.  Sales 
have  continued   to   increase.   It 


should  be  noted  here  that  ad- 
vertising and  promotion  expen- 
ditures on  some  new  products 
can  exceed  the  actual  income 
produced  by  the  sales  of  that 
product.  In  this  area,  we  work 
out  pay-outs  on  our  products, 
sometimes  not  realizing  any  re. 
tiun  for  the  cooperative  and 
growers  for  as  long  as  three 
years.  If  we  are  to  compete 
with  the  typical  package  goods 
manufacturer,  we  must  use 
many  of  their  concepts  for  new 
product  introduction. 

A   Httle   earlier,   I   had   indi- 
cated that  I  would  give  you  the 
full    sales    story    on   what    has 
happened    to    cranberry    sauce 
in    light    of   the    actions   taken 
by  management.    Since  I  have 
just     mentioned     the     sizeable 
year-round  advertising  and  pro- 
motional dollars  being  spent  on 
new  products,   I   feel  this   is  a 
good  time  to  report  our  sauce 
sales    gains    for  the    past    four 
years.     Last    year    sauce    sales 
gained  5  to  7%.    This  indicates 
that  the  old   established  prod- 
ucts   have   started    to    show    a 
new    vitaHty    even    though   the 
expenditures   in   advertising  and 
promotion  have  been  drastically 
reduced  on  this  group  of  prod- 
ucts.   In  our  opinion,  this  is  a 
direct   result    of    the    increased 
year-round    advertising    weight 
on  the  new  products.  This  in- 
creased   year-round    advertising 
has   obviously  caused   synergis- 
tic   action    with    the    consumer 
for    all    cranberry    products.    It 
has     created    increased     brand 
awareness     and     sales     of     all 
Ocean  Spray  branded  merchan- 
dise. 


Spray  Cranberries,   Inc.,  was  a 
marketing  cooperative.    We  be. 
lieve  the  essence  of  marketing 
is  to  cause  new  things  to  hap- 
pen—new   or  improved    prod- 
ucts —  new    or    better    advertis- 
ing —  new  or  sharper  selling  ef- 
forts —  new    or    more    eflFective 
channels    of    distribution.     Ob- 
viously,   there  is    risk,   but   the 
reward  is  profit  or,  in  our  case, 
greater   grower  returns.    When 
you  cause  new  things  to  hap- 
pen,   you     make    change     and 
change    is    something    that    al- 
most all  of  us  resist.    We  are 
proud  of  the  fact  that  we  have 
made   changes  that  caused  ac- 
celerated growth,  and  the  pleas- 
ing thing   about  these  changes 
is  that  we  have  not  disrupted 
our  Board  or  growers'  relations. 
They  are  to  be  thanked  in  that 
they  have  given  this  new  man- 
agement    substantial     backing 
in  the  eflForts  to  introduce  new 
products  and  to  build  and  en- 
hance Ocean  Spray's  consumer 
franchise.  At  the  present  time, 
We    have    a    number    of    new 
products  being  evaluated  in  test 
markets. 

Three  years  ago,  we  did  some 
preliminary  work  with  a  prod- 
uct   that    we    call    Cranapple. 
This    product    is    a    delightful 
mixture  of  cranberry  juice  and 
apple  juice.  Initially,  this  prod- 
uct,  after   consumer  placement 
test,    was    sold    into    the  Har- 
risburg,    Pennsylvania    area    in 
test  market.    This  product  was 
packaged  in  a  46-ounce  tin  can. 
Television  advertising  prepared 
to    support    this    product    was 
directly   addressed   to   children, 
since     our     placement     studies 
and    taste    test    had    indicated 
that  this  was  the  correct  direc- 
tion.   Quickly  and  briefly,  I  can 
say    that    we    failed.     In    our 
opinion,   we  failed  because  we 
positioned    the    product    incor- 
rectly in   the   market   mth   our 
advertising  and  with  our  pack- 
aging.   In  putting  this  product 
in    a    46-ounce   can,    we    posit- 
ioned   ourseK'es    on    the    retail 
shelves    alongside     all     of     the 


Earlier   I    stated   that   Ocean        Continued   on    page22 


TWENTY-ONE 


TOTAL    MARKETING 

Continued    from   page  2  I 

belly-wash  drinks  that  retail 
three  and  four  cans  for  a  dol- 
lar, while  our  product  had  to 
be  priced  at  49^.  We  went  to 
work  to  determine  how  we 
could  sell  this  product  success- 
fully. ^^  e  worked  on  packaging, 
label,  advertising  and  consumer 
acceptance.  Based  on  our  find- 
ings. April  two  years  ago,  we 
opened  two  new  test  markets 
for  cranappie.  This  time  in 
glass  quart  size  with  advertising 
addresseed  to  a  family  audi- 
ence. We  have  audited  these 
test  markets  monthly  since  then 
and  here  briefly  are  the  high- 
lights of  the  test  market  re- 
sults. 

Total  Ocean  Spray  juice 
sales  up  20^,  total  cranberry 
juice  sales  up  55%  and  the  newly 
packaged  cranappie  selling  at 
oO^f  of  cocktail  volume. 

The  second  time  around  we 
did  our  homework  a  httle  bet- 
ter Tm  pleased  to  tell  you 
tJiat  we  started  national  intro- 
duction of  tliis  product  on 
April  15.  1966  By  June  15,  we 
estimated  50^  all  commodity 
distribution  and  started  our 
advertising  at  a  national  rate 
of  a  milhon  dollars.  At  this 
time  we  are  at  20%  national  dis- 
tribution and  sales  are  running 
in  excess  of  25%  of  our  total 
cocktail  volume. 

Just  recently,  we  took  an- 
other new  product  out  of  test 
market  and  started  it  into  nat- 
ional distribution.  This  new 
product  uses  sizeable  amounts 
of  one  of  California's  fine  prod- 
ucts —  prune  juice.  Our  product 
is  called  Cranprune  and  it  is 
receiving  good  reception  by 
the  trade  and  consumers  to 
'ite. 

^^"c  ha\c  three  additional 
products  in  test  market  at  tin's 
lime.  It  is  ob\'ious  tliat  ifw 
products  are  the  mainstay  for 
:)ur    future    growth. 

TWENTY-TWO 


New  product  development 
procedures  var>'  among  com- 
panies from  one-man  opera- 
tions to  highly  sophisticated 
?ommittee  procedures.  At  Ocean 
Spray  we  would  like  to  think 
that  our  procedure  is  sophisti- 
cated, but  streamlined  for  ef- 
ficiency! Here  are  the  steps 
we  normally  follow  in  new 
product  development. 

We  start  with  a  new  product 
idea  —  these  we  get  from  all 
areas  of  our  business. 

At  the  idea  stage  we  search 
all  available  information  to  de- 
tennine  the  market  potential  in 
terms  of  size,  competition,  con- 
sumer's wants  or  needs,  and 
our  capabilities  to  process,  dis- 
tribute and  sell.  At  this  stage, 
many  new  product  ideas  are 
killed  or  shelved  for  future 
reference. 

If  the  idea  is  accepted  for 
further  development,  it  then 
goes  through  the  following 
stages: 

Test  kitchen 

Management  and  staff  evalu- 
ation 

Preliminar>'  market  strategv 
formulation 

Research  lab  for  product  for- 
mulation 

Consumer  panel  test  or  con- 
sumer placement  test 

Research  laboratory  and  pos- 
sibly  the    test    kitchen    for 
product   refinement  and 
changes    based    on    consu- 
mer test  results. 

Pilot    plant    production    for 
test  market 

Creative  work  for  package, 
label,  master  cartons,  re- 
search plans 

Test  m.arket  selection 

Test  market  advertising  pre- 
paration 

Test  market  sell-in 

Success  in  the  test  market  is 
solely  dependent  on  how  well 
we  are  filling  a  consumer  need 
—  be  it  a  real  need  or  a  created 
one. 

The  Ocean  Spray  stor>'  is  one 
of  a   business   that   had   grown 


relatively  static  —  it  happens  to 
all  business,  and  the  cause  of 
the  static  business  state  at 
Ocean  Spray  was  an  obvious 
marketing  problem.  Ocean 
Spray  for  years  had  been  in- 
terested in  selling  cranberries 
the  way  the  company  wanted 
to  sell  them  rather  than  find- 
ing the  various  forms  consum- 
ers would  be  interested  in  buy- 
ing cranberry  products. 

Our  new  product  activity  at 
Ocean  Spray  has  not  been  lim- 
ited to  the  retail  market.  We 
have  spent  a  considerable 
amount  of  time  and  money  in 
the  development  of  new  insti- 
tutional and  industrial  usages 
of  cranberry  products  and/or 
cranberry  ingredient  products. 
A  good  industrial  product  can 
be  highly  profitable.  The  best 
way  to  explain  what  is  meant 
by  industrial  products  is  to  give 
you  some  specific  examples. 
Betty  Crocker  is  currently  mar- 
keting a  cranberry  muffin  mix; 
Swanson  Frozen  Foods,  which 
is  a  division  of  Campbell 
Soup,  is  including  cranberry  i 
sauce  with  its  T\'  dinners;  H. 
J.  Heinz  is  using  Ocean  Spray 
products  for  baby  foods;  Kraft 
is  using  Ocean  Spray  cranber- 
ries in  a  unit  portion;  Knox 
Gelatine  is  using  a  prepared 
cranberiy-orange  product  for 
gelatine.  All  of  these  use  cran- 
berries in  various  and  sundry 
ways  in  products  that  they  are 
introducing  to  the  consumer. 
Some  of  these  companies  carry 
the  Oean  Spray  logo-type  and 
brand  name  on  their  finished 
product  package.  This  activity 
permits  us  to  broaden  the 
awareness  of  cranberries,  which 
can  only  help  Ocean  Spray  in 
the  long  run. 

In  developing  industrial  bus- 
iness, we  have  one  man  who 
spends  his  entire  time  and  ef- 
fort toward  developing  cran- 
berry ideas  where  cranberries 
can  be  used  by  other  proces- 
sors and  manufacturers  as  an 
ingredient  Ouv  researcli  and 
development   department  works 


Continued  on  page 


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Continued    from   page  22 

closely  with  him  in  this  area. 
In  addition  to  using  original 
product,  we  have  spent  time, 
money  and  effort  in  trying  to 
develop  uses  by  other  proces- 
sors for  some  of  our  waste 
products. 

In  summary,  let  me  remind 
you  that  the  primary  func- 
tion of  a  marketing  coopera- 
tive is  to  deliver  a  fair  return 
to  the  grower-members.  Ocean 
Spray's  grower  returns  have 
shown  substantial  increases  for 
the  past  four  years.  From  a 
low  of  $8  in  1962  per  barrel, 
our  returns  for  growers  have 
gone  to  $15  in  1965.  The 
gross  consolidated  fiscal  sales 
for  the  year  ending  August  31, 
1966,  reached  an  alltime  high 
of  $52  million.  This  is  an  in- 
crease of  $19  million  or  5  9% 
over  the  same  period  in  1963, 
This  increase  was  realized  with 
an  increase  of  only  7%  in  total 
barrels  received  l^y  the  coop- 
erative. 

These  are  substantial  in- 
creases and  just  as  importantly, 
this  marketing  operation  is  over- 
coming the  feast  or  famine 
problem  that  has  plagued  the 
cranberry  business  for  years. 
These  results  have  pleased 
those  involved  in  the  market- 
ing operation  at  Ocean  Spray. 
They  have  pleased  but  not  sat- 
isfied. The  aggressive  market- 
ing team  at  Ocean  Spray  is 
continuing  to  search  for  ways 
to   expand  and   diversify. 

We,  at  this  time,  are  ac- 
tively investigating  several  co- 
operative merger  and/or  ac- 
quisition possibilities.  We  be- 
lieve our  strength  lies  in  fi- 
nance, production,  marketing 
and  general  management  With 
a  single  commodity,  we  are  re- 
stricted in  our  new  products 
development  and  total  growth. 
By  broadening  our  base  to  in- 
clude more  farm  commodities, 
we  can  be  of  more  service  to 
the  entire  farming  commimity. 


WHEN     IT    COMES    TO     FROST    PROTECTION 
REMEMBER    THESE    4    IMPORTANT 
POINTS    ABOUT    FMC    TROPIC    BREEZE 
WIND    MACHINES 


1.  THEY  REDUCE  LABOR  COST 

One  man  can  efficiently  operate 
one  or  several  wind  machines. 
FMC  wind  machines  save  the 
labor  cost  of  a  whole  crew 
required   for   flooding. 

2.  THEY    GIVE    IMMEDIATE 
PROTECTION 

Switch      on     the      motor      and 

within     3     to     5     minutes,     the 

marsh     is     receiving     effective 

frost  protection.  FMC  machines 

have    an    enviable    record    for 

operating  reliability   too. 

3.  THEY    ELIMINATE     FLOODING 

Water  shortages,  water  damage 
to  fruit,  drainage  difficulty  all 
dictate  against  flooding.  The 
FMC  wind  machine  protects 
by  drawing  warm  air  from 
above  and  mixing  it  with  cold 
ground  air.  Not  one  drop  of 
water    is   involved. 

4.  THEY    PROMOTE    BETTER    FRUIT 
YIELD    AND    QUALITY 

Flood  water  may  damage  fruit, 
wash  away  pollen,  inhibit  vig- 
orous growth.  Also,  flood  water 
can  carry  in  weed  seeds.  FMC 
wind  machines  eliminate  these 
time  and  profit  consuming 
drawbacks. 

Make  your  own  investigation. 
FMC  Wind  Machines  have  a 
proven  record  of  successful 
frost  protection  in  cranberry 
marshes.  The  savings  they 
can  effect  in  one  or  two  sea- 
sons will  more  than  justify 
your  investment.  Fill  in  the 
coupon  and  mail  it  today. 
We'll  see  that  you  have  com- 
plete information  by  return 
mail. 


FMC  CORPORATION,  FLORIDA  division 

FAIRWAY  AVENUE.  LAKELAND.  FLORIDA 

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CORPORATION 


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NAME_ 


_TITLE_ 


ADDRESS  (RFD). 
CITY 


_ZONE_ 


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TWENTY-THREE 


Miscellaneous  Thoughts  on 
Cranberry  Insects 


Continued    from   page  I  6 


1.  Store  all  pesticides  (and 
other  hazardous  materials ) 
in  original,  plainly  labeled 
containers. 


2.  Have  ojie  place  for  pesti- 
cides —  one  which  can  he 
locked!  (Another  spot  may 
be  needed  for  products 
spoiled  by  freezing).  A 
shed,. garage  or  other  open 
area  is  not  a  safe  place  to 
keep  pesticides.  Opened 
packages  increase  the  dan- 
ger. 


3.  A  separate,  well-marked 
building  is  best.  Second 
best  would  be  an  enclosed 
corner  or  end  of  a  struc- 
ture in  which  no  animals 
are  housed  —  no  people 
either. 


4.  Never  leave  pesticides  out- 
side the  locked  storage  even 
though  you  may  be  planning 
to  use  them  again  tommor- 
row. 


5.  Pesticides  and  "empties"  Icit 
unattended  in  the  open  at 
the  mixing-filling  station  arc 
an  invitation  to  tragedy  in 
this  day  when  farms  are 
not  so  isolated  from  non- 
farm  families. 

6.  A  ditch,  stream  bank  or  an 
open  dump  is  NOT  a  safe 
place  to  throw  "empty"  pes. 
ticides  containers.  Tliey  arc 
never  empty! 

7.  Burn  '"empties,"  that  will 
burn  (except  hormone-type, 
2,4-D,  etc,  weed  killers)  in 
a  spot  where  -ashes  can  be 
buried;  this  amount  of  heat 
does  not  destroy  some  pesti- 
cides. And  remember,  smoke 
from  organo  phosphate  in- 
secticides is  especially  dan- 
gerous. 

8.  Bury  bottles  and  metal  con- 

tainers 18  inches  or  deeper 
at  a  spot  where,  in  so  far  as 
possible,  you  have  deter- 
mined there  is  no  chance 
of  later  exposure  or  that 
waters  can  be  polluted.  It 
is  best  to  break  bottles  and 
to  puncture  and/or  crush 
cans  and  drums,  but,  do  it 
in  the  hole  or  so  that  surface 
soil  is  not  contaminated. 
Avoid  splashing  with  the 
concentrates! 


Ocean  Spray  Expands 


Continued  from  page  8 


The  Markham  plant  is  expec- 
ted to  be  handling  nearly  20% 
of  the  company's  total  country- 
wide  production. 

It  is  anticipated  that  the  new 
plant  will,  eventually,  employ 
between  two  and  three  hundred 
people,  as  compared  to  the 
approximately  90  now  em- 
ployed in   all  capacities. 

Increased  production,  lower 
cost  and  greater  speed  will  be 
provided  as  a  result  of  new 
equipment  and  the  company's 
own  engineering  staff. 

Mr.  Lucas  was  high  in  praise 
of  the  people  in  the  area  who 
had  cooperated  with  the  firm 
in  ironing  out  some  of  the 
problems  involved  in  an  ex- 
pansion of  this  magnitude. 

Production  is  expected  to 
double  within  the  next  five 
years  as  a  result  of  opening  of 
the  new  plant.  The  groNser- 
owned  cooperative  has  great 
faith  in  the  future  of  the  ^^'^ash. 
ington  cranberry  industry  and 
this  plant  expansion  is  proof 
of  their  faith. 


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TWENTY-FOUR 


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solid  set  bog  irrigation  systems 

John  Bean  Shur-Rane  solid  set  bog  systems  are  ideally  suited  to  meet  the  needs  of  any 
cranberry  grower.  Minimum  gallonage.  Special  IM"  or  2"  solid  set  couplers  for  use  with 
lightweight,  low-cost  aluminum  tubing.  Easy,  twist-of-the-wrist  coupling  action.  Wide, 
flat  footpads  keep  sprinklers  upright.  Also  available:  conventional  portable  systems  and 
Sequa-Matic  automatic  sequencing  systems  for  crops  and  lawns. 

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MASSACHUSETTS 


Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
&  Heightstown,  N.J. 

Parkhurst  Farm  &  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

W.  E.  Haviland,  Inc. 
Highland,  New  York 

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

R.  W.  DeWolfe,  Ltd. 
Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  &  Mower  Supply  Co, 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


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TWENTY-FIVE 


1967  Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart 

This  schedule   is   intended    to   furnish   general   recommendations.     More   detailed    information    may    be    obtained 
from  the  Cranberry  Experiment  Station,  East  Wareham,  Massachusetts. 


NOTES 

1.  PROVIDE  ADEQUATE  DRAINAGE  or  recommendaUoiu  below  are  of  qaesUonable   valae. 

2.  APPLY  THE  EXACT  QUANTITIES  of  chemlcal.s   reoommended   to  mra-sured  areas  and  at  the  Indicated  tlmoL   One  »q.  rod  eqnals  16S  ft  sq.    One  a«re  «)aaU  160  sq.  roda. 

3.  WA.SB  EQUIPMENT  with  soap  and  water  Imniediatcly  after  using.    Rinse  with  ammonia  solution  after  unlng  hormone  type  herbicides. 

4.  HAND  tVEEDING  Is  often  practical  with  scattered  ereen  and  woody  weeds  If  roots  are  removed. 

5.  MOWING  of  non-woody  weeds  helps  to  prevent  shading  and  reduces  seed  formation. 

6.  LATE  WATER  causes  a  general  reducUon  of  annual  era.<ises.    If  held  until  June  5.  and  tf  temperatures  are  high,  small  brambles  are  tuuaUy  killed. 

7.  Rain  must  follow  the  application  of  Iron  sulfate,  slmarlne,  Casoron  and  Chloro-IPC  within  4  days,  or  the  bog  must  be  sprinkled  with  water  to  make  them  most  effective. 

8.  IRON  SULFATE  (ferrous!  in  excess  of  20  lbs.  per  sq.  rod  may  kill  newly  set  vines  or  mature  vines  when  they  have  been  sanded  within  18  months.    If  9  parU  of  Iron  sulfate 
arc  mixed  with  1  part  of  salt,  rain  or  sprinkling   Is  unneceiuary. 

9.  SPOT  TREATMENTS  are  often  necessary  In  subsequent  years  as  a  follow-up  to  these  control  measures. 
0.     C'liLORO-IPC  may  be  used  at  75  lbs.  per   acre  before  late  water  from  mld-Marcb  to  April   10. 


CAUTIONS 

CHEMICALS  not  registered  for  use  on  cranberries  must  not  be  used. 

SIMAZINE  must  be  sprayed  evenly  with  continuous  agitation  using  the  recommended  amounts.  An  overdose  may  injure  vines  or  crop.  Thin  or 
wealt  vines  and  new  plantings  one  week  to  three  years  old  are  very  susceptible  to  Injury.  In  the  spring  use  a  pre-emergence  spray.  May  be  used 
safely  in  successive  years. 

VINES  SPRAYED  WITH  OIL  are  highly  inflammable.  All  broadcast  treatments  are  likely  to  reduce  the  crop  and  may  increase  sensitivity  to  low 
temperatures. 

CASORON  applications  by  regulation  must  be  at  least  12  months  apart.  Applications  under  sand  or  on  weak  vines  may  cause  injury. 
Herbicide  use  makes  vines  more  liable  to  injury  and  crops  may  be  reduced. 


TIMING 


WEEDS 


RECOMMENDATIONS 


February 

atid 

March 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


2,4-D — 2,4,5-T  -  1  gal.  ester  brush  killer  (4  lbs.  acid  equivalent  per  gal.)  in 
50  gals,  kerosene  or  No.  2  fuel  oil.  Wet  thoroughly.  Will  control  scrub  oak, 
buUbrler,  poison  ivy,  pitch  pine,  etc. 


GREEN  SCUM 


COPPER  SULFATE  -  Distribute  evenly  on  ice  or  in  bog  flowage  4  lbs.  of 

crystals  per  acre-foot  of  water.  May  kill  fish. 


Cut  Grass,  Manna  Grass,  Shore  Grass,  Aster, 
Plaintain,  Needle  Grass,  Nut  Grass,  Dulicbium, 
Pitchfork,  Mud  Rush,  Haircap  Moss,  Royal 
Fern,  Bracken  Fern,  Sensitive  Fern,  Wild 
Strawberry,  Marsh  St.  John's  Wort,  Summer 
Grass,  Blue  Joint,  Loosestrife,  Wild  Bean, 
Hawkweed,  Wool  Grass,  Cotton  Grass,  Rag- 
weed, Fireweed,  Spike  Ruth,  Horsetail,  Sor- 
rel, White  Violets. 


DICHLOBENIL  (CASORON)  -  i'i  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Apply  in 
March  or  early  April  to  avoid  high  temperatures.  -  May  be  used  before 
late  water  from  mid-March  to  April  10.     (See  Caution  4  and  Note  7) 


DODDER,  CORNGRASS, 

WARTY  PANIC  GRASS,  CRAB  GRASS 


DICHLOBENIL    (CASORON) 

before  bud  break. 


4%   granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Use  Just 


March 
to 

Mid  -  May 


SUMMER  GRASS 

CUT  GRASS 

SOME  UPLAND  GRASSES  ON  BOG 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre  or  SIMAZINE  -  4^  lbs. 
80%  W.P.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre.  Apply  by  May  1.  (See  Note  10  and 
Caution  2  and  5).  


RAGWEED,  PITCHFORKS,  WARTY  PANIC 
GRASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


SIMAZINE  -  3%  lbs.  80%  W.P.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre.  Apply  only  from 
mld-April  through  first  week  of  May.    (See  Caution  2). 


HAIRCAP  MOSS,  SORREL, 
HAIRY  PANIC  GRASS 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre, 
and  Caution  5). 


By  May  1.    (See  Note  10 


CORN  GRASS,  BARNYARD  GRASS, 
CRAB  GRASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  50  lbs.  per  acre  on  first  year  planting.    100 
lbs.  per  acre  on  mature  vines.  Late  April  to  bud  break,    (See  (Caution  5). 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Use  just  before  bud  break. 


POVERTY  GRASS,  CAREX  SPP., 
WOOL  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH 

RUSHES,  ASTERS,  GOLDEN  ROD 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  600-800  gals,  per  acre. 


STODDARD  SOLVENT 

a  spot  treatment. 


500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals,  per  sq.  rod).  Primarily 


SPHAGNUM  MOSS 


IRON  SULFATE  -  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.   (See  Note  8). 


NUT  GRASS,  CUT  GRASS,  MUD  RUSH, 
NEEDLE  GRASS,  SPIKE  JIUSH,  CORN  GRASS 


ALANAP  3-4  gals.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre  or  10%  granular  80  lbs. 
per  acre.  Do  not  use  after  first  week  In  May.  Best  results  where  bog  sur- 
face Is  wet  before  application.  Blossoms  may  be  Injured  at  temperatures 
under  32°  F  after  application.  


After 

Late  Water 
(When  winter  flood 
is    not    withdrawn) 


LOOSESTRIFE,  CUT  GRASS 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  -  Mix  1  part  Stoddard  to  1  part  water  white  kero- 
sene. 600  gals,  per  acre.   Apply  within  5  days  of  withdrawal  of  the  flood. 


WOOL  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH,  CAREX  SPP. 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  800  gals,  per  acre.  Drain  late  water  May  25. 
Treat  within  8  days  when  temperature  is  below  65  degrees  and  bog  is  well 
drained. 


Mid  -  May 
and 
June 


June 
and 
July 


TRIPLE  AWNED  GRASS 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  -  400  gals,  per  acre.  Apply  when  temperature 
is  below  65  degrees.  


SMALL  BRAMBLES  ON  SHORE 


SILVEX  -  1  gal.  ester  formulation  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  in  50  gals,  water, 
300  gals,  per  acre. 


ROYAL  FERN,  CINNAMON  FERN 


IRON  SULFATE  AND  SALT  -  9  to  1  and  apply  small  amount  to  each  plant. 
(See  Note  8). 


SENSITIVE  FERN,  FEATHER  FERN 


IRON  SULFATE  -  35  lbs.  per  sq.  rod  or  small  amount  to  each  plant.    (See 
Note  7  and  8). 


MARSH  ST.  JOHN'S  WORT, 
CINQUEFOIL,  ASTERS 


IRON  SULFATE  -  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.    (See  Note  7  and  8). 


DITCH  WEEDS 


DALAPON  85%  -  Vi  lb.  in  5  -  6  gals,  water  per  1000  sq.  feet  of  ditch;  will 
control  cat-tails,  bur-reed,  grasses,  sedges,  and  rushes,  or  No.  2  FUEL  OIL, 

for  grassy  weeds,  drain  ditches  and  wet  thoroughly. 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


2,  4,  5-T  -  IV2  teaspoons  per  gal.  water  or  IVi  pints  per  100  gals.  wat«r  of 
low  volatile  ester  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  will  control  poison  ivy.  wild  cherry, 
maple  sprouts,  grapevine,  and  possibly  other  broadleaved  weeds.  Avoid 
drift  onto  bogs  or  DALAPON  SS^i  -  20  lbs.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre,  for 
poverty  and  switch  grass. 


In  the  Fall 

after 

Harvest 


Cut  Grass,  Blue  Joint,  Aster,  Wool  Grass,  Cot- 
ton Grass,  Mud  Rush,  Marsh  St.  John's  Wort, 
Summer  Grass,  Loosestrife,  Needle  Grass,  Nat 
(irass.     Ragweed,     Sphagnum     Moss,     White 
Violets. 


DICHLOBENIL  (CASORON)  -  4^f  granular  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Do  not  ap- 
ply until  after  November  15.   Avoid  temperatures  above  60°  F. 
(See  Caution  4) 


SUMMER  GRASS 


SIIHAZINE  -  5  lbs.  80%  W.P.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre;  or  CHLORO-IPC 
20%  granular,  50-75  lbs.  per  acre.  Do  not  apply  after  November  1. 


CHLORO-IPC  -  20%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Do  not  apply  after  Nov.  1. 


GOLDEN  ROD,  WILD  ROSES 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  -  500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals   per  sq.  rod), 
a  spot  treatment. 


Primarily 


POVERTY  GRASS,  SWITCH  GRASS 


DALAPON  85%  -  10  lbs.  In  300  gals,  water  per  acre.   Will  reduce  following 
crop,  especially  on  Early  Black.  Do  not  apply  after  November  1 


TWENTY-SIX 


WARNING 

"AU  pesticides  mentionpd  in  this  publication  are  registered  and  cleared  for  the  suRgested  uses  in  accordance  with  state  and  federal  laws 
and  reflations.   Where  trade  names  are  used  for  identification  no  product  endorsement  is  implied  nor  is  discrimination  intended." 

MOST  PESTICIDES  ARE  POISONOUS.  READ  AND  FOLLOW  Ai.L  DIRECTIONS  AND  SAFETY  PRECAUTIONS  ON  L.\BELS.  HANDLE 
CAREFULLY  AND  STORE  IN  ORIGINAL  CONTAINERS  WITH  COMPLETE  LABELS.  OUT  OF  REACH  OF  CHILDREN,  PETS  AND 
LI\'ESTOCK. 


Issued   by   the  Extension  Service,  A-   A.  Splclman.  Dean  and  Dirwliir.  in  furtherance  of  Acts  of  May  8  and  June  30, 
I9H.  University  of  Massachusetts.  United  Slates  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  County  Extension  Services  cooperating! 


1967  Cranberry  Insect  and  Disease  Control  Chart 

This  chart  is  intended  to  furnish  general  recommendations.  More  detailed  information  may  be  obtained  from  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station.  East  Warcham,  Massachusetts 


NOTES 


1.     HOLDING  WTNTER  WATER  till  HUy  20-25  concentrates  emergence   of  all 
insects    and    controls    false    3rni>^vorm,    yellow -headed    fire  worm    and    may 
control  or  reduce  fraltworm.    Favors  cutworm   infestation. 

3.     REFLOODING 

a.  About  May  18  (or  10  hoars,  controls  false  arni>-worm  and  blossom  worm. 

b.  About  June  1  and  12  for  10  hours  controls  green  spanwonn.  small  black- 
headed  fireworm,  spotted  and  black  cutworms  and  armyworm,  but  Is 
likely  to  INCREASE  FRIHT  ROTS  and  REDUCE  THE  CROP. 

c.  About  May  12  and  holding  to  July  15-20  kills  all  insects  but  with  the  loss 
of  the  crop. 

d.  Sept  15-26.  Flooding  for  6  days  every  third  year  daring  this  period 
discourages  girdler  and  blossom  worm. 

3.     Insecticide  sprays  may  be  applied  by  aircraft,  ground  rig,  or  sprinkler. 

I.  CONCENTRATE  SPRAYS  may  Injure  new  growth,  bloom  and  small  berries, 
particularly  in  hot  humid  weather.  Flowable  formulations  or  those  with 
XYLENE  type  solvents  are  preferred   because  (hey  cause  less  injury. 

5.    FUNGICIDE  CONCENTRATES.    Mix  fungicide  witti  water  in  pall  or  tank 
antU  a  smooth   suspension    is   obtained,    then    transfer    suspension    to    tank. 
Use    immediately. 

i>.  FUNGICIDES  and  COLOR.  It  may  be  necessary  to  delay  harvest  to  obtain 
acceptable  color  when  maneb  is  used. 

7.  SANDING  and  FERTILIZING.  Provided  blnnt-nosed  leafhopper  is  con- 
trolled, frequent  resandlng  and  fertilizing  helps  reclaim  bo^  infected  with 
false  blossom.    Regular  uniform  sanding  helps  check  ^rdler  and  tlpworm. 


INSECT  NET.  If  JO  -.uoeps  gallicr  !l  cutworms.  E.vpsv  muth  caterpillars  or 
uecviK,  Xb  si).iiiui»rms.  or  3  blunt-nosed  leafhoppers.  treatment  is  necessary. 
Make  weevil  counts  ^vhcn  lemperatures  are  at  10  . 

(;RI'B  CONTROL.  Kales  of  application.  (May  also  control  tipworm.  girdler 
and  cranberry  weevil  in  year  of  application). 


Formulation 


Amount  per  100  gala, 
uhcn   applied   at   the 
rate  of  1.000  gals,  per 
acre   to  give; 
5    lbs.  10   lbs. 


Amount  of  Grannlar 
Aldrin  or  Dieldrin  to 
give: 
Formulation       5    lbs.  10  lbs. 


Aldrtn  E.  C.  containing 

2  lbs.  per  gal.                              1  qt. 

2  qta. 

ST. 

100  lbs. 

200  lbs 

Dieldrin  E.  C.  containing 

I'^  lbs.  per  gat.                1  1/3  qts. 

2  2/3  qts. 

105i 

50  lbs. 

100  lbs. 

10.  Pesticides  may  deteriorate  in  storage.  It  is  usually  not  advisable  to  nse 
held-over  chemicals.  Always  follow  regulations  of  the  Pesticide  Board  when 
disposing  of  unused   chemicals  and   empty  containers. 


II.    TOXICANT  per  acre  and  Minimum  Time— Last  Application  to  Harvest. 


Aldrin  0.25   lb. 

Carbsryl    ISevlnl    3.0  lbs. 

DDT  6.0   lbs 

nieldrin     1  ?■;    Ihs 


21  days 


Guthlon    1.0   ib. 
Malsthion  2J>  lbs. 
Maneb   7.5    lbs. 
"""■■"■"   "«    "■ 


21  days 
3      " 


Timin 


g 


Pests 


Ferbam  6.8  lbs. 


1.0  lb. 

Recommendations 


Dormant 
To 

Delayed   Dormant 


ROOT    GRUB 
WHITE    GRUB 


ROOT    GRUB 
WHITE    GRUB 


Apply  10  lbs.  actual  DIELDRIN  or  ALDRLN  per  acre.  Dry 
form  may  be  applied  alone  or  combined  with  fertilizer  up  to 
10  days  before  bloom  or  after  harvest.  Apply  spray  as  soon 
as  bog  is  well  drained  and  before  the  growth  is  V^"  long  or 
after  harvest  is  completed.  Apply  before  rain  or  water  In 
thoroughly.     (See  Notes  4  and  9) 


Drain  bog  thoroughly  from  early  April  to  May  12.  Reflow 
May  12-July  20.  Keep  well  flooded.  If  cutworm  infestation 
develops  spray  CARBARYL  (SEVIN)  2  lbs.  actual  or  PARA- 
THION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre  or  dust  S'l-  CARBARYL 
or  10?S  DDT  +  2T>  MALATHION  50  lbs.  per  acre.  (See  Notes 
2c,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


New   Growth 
Up    to    1/2    Inch 


1/2    Inch   Growth 

To 

Hook    Stage 


Hook  Stage 

To 

5r=  Bloom 


570    Bloom 

To 
Mid  '  Bloom 


Late    Bloom 

Repeat  in  10  days 

lor  Fruitworms 


After  Fruit  Set 


Sept.    26 

To 

Oct.  1 


WEEVIL 


Spray  DIELDRIN  E.  C.  (1.5  lbs.  per  gal.)  1  pt.  per  acre;  or 
dust  IVzT.  DIELDRIN  25-35  lbs.  per  acre.  DIELDRIN  may  be 
combined  with  CARBARYL  or  PARATHION  for  weevil.  (See 
Notes  1,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


FIREWORMS 
CUTWORMS 
SPARGANOTHIS 
GYPSY  MOTH 
TIPWORM 


FRUITWORM 


Spray  CARBARYL  (SEVIN)  2  lbs.  actual  or  GUTHION  E.  C. 
3  pts  or  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre;  or  dust 
f>"o  CARBARYL  or  2'~o  GUTHION  or  10^^  DDT  +  2^.  MALA- 
THION 50  lbs.  per  acre.     (Notes  1,  2,  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


New    Growth    Insects 
GREEN   SPANWORM 
TIPWORM 


Spray  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  or  GUTHION  E.  C. 

3  pts.  per  acre  or  dust  lO'-o  DDT  +  2<^c  MALATHION  or  I'T' 
GUTHION  50  lbs.  per  acre.  Apply  every  year  as  a  blanket 
control  for  all  insects  before  bloom.  (Notes  1,  3,  4,  7,  8  and  10) 


All    Insects    through   Hook    Stage 


See  appropriate  control  measures. 


BLUNT -NOSED    LEAFHOPPER 


CARBARYL  or  PARATHION  or  DDT  +  MALATHION  as  for 

New  Growth  Insects. 


GIRDLER 


10«  DDT  +  2%  MALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.    Repeat 
if  necessary.    (See  Note  7). 


FRUIT    ROTS -One  application  ineHective. 


80%  MANEB  or  761  FERBAM  9  lbs.  plus  suitable  sticker  In 
_  ,,11  !_•  ■  .      25-100  gals,  water  per  acre  by  ground  rig;  or  in  13  gals,  water 

Repeat  about  2  weeks  later  or  combme  with     ^^^   ^^^^    ^^   aircraft.    Avoid    applying    insecticides    during 
first  late  bloom  spray.  bloom  if  possible.    (See  Notes  2b,  5.  6  and  10) 


CRANBERRY    FRUITWORM 
SPARGANOTHIS    FRUITWORM 
BLACK- HEADED    FIREWORM 
BLUNT -NOSED    LEAFHOPPER 
GIRDLER  MOTHS 


Spray  PARATHION  flowable  1  Ib.  actual  or  CARBARYL  2  lbs. 
actual  or  GUTHION  E.  C.  3  pts.  per  acre  or  dust  10'7  DDT 
+  2^0  MALATHION  or  2'S  GUTHION  50  lbs.  per  acre.  Make 
egg  count  every  3  or  4  days  until  August  10  on  Early  Blacks 
and  until  August  20  on  Howes.  2  unhatched  and  unparasi- 
tized  fruitworm  eggs  to  100  berries  calls  tor  treatment.  Do 
not  wait  for  appearance  of  red  berries. 
(See  Notes  1,  3,  4,  8,  10  and  11) 


WEEVIL 
GIRDLER  LARVAE 


ICT.  DIELDRIN  granules  10  lbs.  per  acre  or  dust  ICT-  DDT  + 
2%  MALATHION  50  lbs.  per  acre  or  sprinkle  DIELDBDJ  E.  C. 

6  pts.  or  DDT  E.  C.  4  pts  per  acre.     (Notes  7,  10  and  11) 


GIRDLER 


Flood  6  days  (with  late  berries  on  vines  If  necessary). 
(Notes  2d  and  7) 


"All  pesticides  mentioned  in  this  publication  are  re^tered 
and  cleared  for  the  suggested  uses  in  accordance  with  state 
and  federal  laws  and  regulations.    Where  trade  names  are 


used  for  idei.tification   no   product   endorsement   is   implied 
nor  is  discrimination  intended." 


■MOST  PESTICIDES   .ABE  POISONOI'S     READ   AND   FOLLOW    ALL  DIRECTIONS   AND   SAFETY   PRECAUTIONS   ON   LABELS.    HANDLE   CAREFULLY 
AND  STORF   IN  ORir.iv.M     r  <1NT  A  ivt  ns_wi  rii^nM^:^  A'i^'M'TT^f^'"  ""[^""'"iF^'    FFTil  I'^Nn  lilVTiRTnrff"     fSvnlll  lilitt. 


"WARN'ING'ti 


^■^THmSfa^'^l^S^BoTior^ppTyToTrre^Sorpondsr 
PARATHION  and  Gl'THION  are  extremely  dangerous.    Repealed  exposure  to  phosphate  type  insecticides  may,  without  symptoms,  increase  susceptibility   to 

phosphate  poisoning.    Stay  off  bogs  at  least  48  hours  after  application.   Post  Parathion  treated  bogs. 
IMPORTANT:    Before  using  Parathion  or  Guthlon  obtain  a  supply  of  atropine  tablets  for  emergency  use   lobUinable  only  -vlth  physicians  urescription). 


luuuutl  Ij  iliL  Biluuluu  fluiltt.  k.  y.  flpltlunu.  Puau  »uJ  uulllui.  ui  imLlii.imn  Jl  j'llu  '"-War 


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1914;  University  of  Massachusetts,  tjnlted  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  County  Extensiot  Services  cocperaiing. 


TWENTY-SEVEN 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WISCONSIN 

Continued  from  Pof^c  19 

Temperatures  were  well  be- 
low normal  during  the  entire 
week  of  the  24th  with  night- 
time frost  almost  daily  in  all 
sections  of  the  state.  No  pre- 
cipitation was  reported  in  nor- 
thern and  central  areas.  The 
rainfall  amounts  reported  in 
the  south  mostly  fell  at  the 
end  of  the  previous  period  but 
were  recorded  in  the  gauge  on 
the  22nd.  A  few  light  show- 
ers also  fell-  in  the  south  on  the 
26th.  Very  light  snowshowers 
occurred  on  the  22nd. 

Warmer  temperatures  and 
thunder  shower  activity  re- 
tm-ned  over  the  weekend  of 
the  26tli.  The  28th  was  mostly 
sunny  and  windy  with  good 
drying    conditions. 


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Water   Off    Marshes 

All  of  the  Wiscoonsin  grow- 
ers have  their  marsh  water  off 
and  the  vines  seem  to  have 
come  through  the  winter  in 
good    shape. 

Hail 

On  April  16th,  some  of  the 
marshes  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  state  had  hail  which 
damaged  to  some  extent  the 
marshes  that  had  drawn  their 
winter  flood  prior  to  the  hail 
storm. 

Vine    Shortage 

The  a\ailability  of  vines  for 
planting  is  extremely  critical 
this  year  and  there  may  not  be 
enough  vines  available  to  plant 
all  the  acreage  that  the  grow- 
ers had  anticipated  jilanting. 
Labor  has  been  another  scarce 
item. 


Soil    Moisture 

Soil  moisture  is  generally 
ade{}uate  throughout  the  state 
but  there  is  some  dryness  in 
scattered  areas  of  the  south- 
west, particularly  in  the  subsoil. 
For  the  southern  third  of  the 
state  precipitation  since  last 
September  is  running  3V2  to 
4V^"  le.ss  than  normal. 


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The  two  lightest  gear-driven 
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been  introduced  by  McCulloch 
Corp.,  it  was  announced  re- 
cently by  Kenneth  C.  Mulkey, 
vice  president-marketing. 

The  MAC  2-lOG  and  MAC 
5-lOG  are  fourth  and  fifth  new 
models  to  be  marketed  by  the 
company  this  fall.  Earlier,  the 
company  introduced  the  revo- 
lutionary push-button,  electric 
starting  MAC  3-lOE,  the  manu- 
ally starting  MAC  3-10,  and  the 
MAC  510  —  all   direct  drives. 

The  new  MAC  2-lOG  has  a 
gear  ratio  of  3  to  1  and  weighs 
only  131/4  pounds.  It  has  a  1.75 
inch  bore  and  1.375  inch  stroke 
with  a  displacement  of  3.3 
cubic  inches. 

The  mpre  powerful  MAC 
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a  1.375  inch  stroke,  a  2.0  inch 
bore,  and  a  displacement  of  4.3 
cubic  inches. 

The  weight  reduction  is  best 
illustrated,  Mulkey  said,  by 
comparing  the  new  models  with 
the  20y2  pounds  of  the  next 
lightest  McCulloch  gear-drive 
chain  saw. 

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tion, tree  surgery,  line  clearing 
and  a  wide  variety  of  jobs 
around  the  home,  on  the  farm 
and  at  the  campsite.  However, 

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TWO 


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Personals 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended 
the  Northeastern  Regional  Meet- 
ing of  Plant  Physiologists  at 
Harvard  University  on  May  5-6. 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  WilHam  Tom- 
linson  returned  from  their  Eur- 
opean vacation  trip  on  May  16. 
Bill  reported  seeing  fresh  cran- 
berries at  a  fruit  stand  in  Paris. 

Dr.  Surindar  Paracer  is  leav- 
ing the  Station  in  early  June 
after  working  with  Dr.  Bert 
Zuckerman  for  nearly  two 
years.  He  will  work  at  the 
Marine  Biological  Laboratory 
in  Woods  Hole  for  the  summer 
and  in  the  fall  will  join  the  fac. 
ulty  at  Nichols  College  in  Dud- 
ley, Mass.  Dr.  Paracer  will 
teach  biology,  ecology  and  in- 
vertebrate zoology. 


Frost 

The  spring  frost  season  has 
not  been  too  active  so  far  with 
9  warnings  released  for  May. 
The  first  warning  came  on  May 
12.  This  compares  with  10 
warnings  for  the  same  period 
in  1966  and  15  in  1965.  These 
figures  include  both  afternoon 
and  evening  warnings.  There 
has  not  been  any  estimate  of 
frost  damage  up  to  June  1st. 
The  coldest  bog  temperatures 
occurred  on  the  night  of  May 
16  with  a  range  of  17  degrees 
to  25  degrees  and  en  the  nights 
of  May  30  and  31  when  tem- 
peratures were  generally  in  the 
range  of  25  to  28  degrees.  Both 
April  and  May  were  consider- 
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Weather 

Temperatures  for  May  were 
much  below  average,  averaging 
7  degrees  a  day  below  normal. 
This  was  the  coldest  May  ever 
recorded  at  the  Station  and  the 
Boston  Weather  Bureau  indi- 
cates the  coldest  in  50  years. 
The  only  day  at  East  Wareham 
with  a  maximum  above  70  de- 
grees was  May  20  with  72  de- 
grees. 

Precipitation  for  the  month 
totalled  8.6*^  inches  or  over  5 
inches  above  normal.  This  is  not 
a  record  for  us  however,  as 
May  1948  was  sHghtly  over  9 
inches.  A  .northeaster  starting 
during  the  c^ve^ing  of  the  24t.h 
and  ending  the  evening  of  the 
26th  dumped  5.26  inches  on  us, 
3.79  inches  of  this  occurred  m 
the  24  hour  period  from  9  A.M. 
the  25th  to  9  A.M.  the  26th. 
We  have  to  go  back  to  Septem- 
ber 20,  1960  to  find  a  larger 
amount  of  precipitation  in  any 
24  hour  period,  and  way  back 

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Leslie   E.    Rezin 

Funeral  services  were  lield 
recently  for  Leslie  E.  Rezin,  68, 
a  cranberry  grower  at  Warrens 
and  Eiigle  River,  Wisconsin  for 
many  years,  who  died  Friday, 
May  19  at  12:30  a.m.,  at  St. 
Joseph's  Hospital,  Marshfield. 
He  had  been  hospitalized  for 
six  weeks  after  suffering  a 
stroke. 

The  Rev.  B.  L.  Marceil  of- 
ficiated at  the  services  and  bur- 
ial was  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Rezin  began  liis  cran- 
berry operations  at  Warrens  in 
1930,  and  in  1949  started  a 
marsh  at  Eagle  River  which 
was  first  operated  by  his  son 
and  by  father  and  son  since 
1958  when  he  took  up  residence 
there.  He  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Rudolph  July  10,  1898,  the 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard 
Rezin. 

On  Sept.  16,  1922,  he  mar- 
ried Beatrice  Asbury  at  Winona, 
Minn. 

Surviving  are  his  wife;  two 
sons,  Richard,  Eagle  River,  and 
Thomas,  Chippewa  Falls;  two 
brothers,  Russell  and  Daniel, 
both  of  Warrens;  two  sisters, 
Isobel  and  Mrs.  Beryl  Lenoch, 
both  of  Orlando,  Fla.,  and  War. 
rens;  and  seven  grandchildren. 

One  son  preceded  him  in 
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ISSUE  OF  JUNE    1967      /      VOLUME   32   -   NO.    2 


LABOR  AND  THE  PROUTY  AMENDMENT 
Any  grower  who  has  attempted  to  under- 
stand the  minimum  wage  law  has  probably 
broken  out  in  a  cold  sweat.  It  takes  a  law  de- 
gree to  be  able  to  interpret  its  language. 

On  February  1,  1967,  the  minimum  wage 
law  went  into  effect.  On  that  date,  also,  em- 
ployers of  farm  labor,  for  the  first  time  in  his- 
tory, must  pay  a  minimum  wage  of  $1  per 
hour.  One  year  from  the  above  date,  the  mini- 
mum wage  increases  automatically  to  $1.15 
per  hour  and  the  rinal  step,  which  takes  place 
on  February  1,  1969  will  make  the  minimum 
for  farm  workers  $1.30  per  hour. 

In  order  to  be  covered  by  the  minimum  wage 
law,  an  employer  must  "use"  500  man-days  of 
labor  on  his  farm  during  any  quarter  of  the 
preceding  calendar  year.  One  farm  worker 
employed  one  or  more  hours  wdthin  one  day 
is  considered  a  man-day. 

Members  of  the  employers  immediate  family 
are  not  to  be  figured  in  when  figuring  the  num- 
ber of  man-days.  Also  not  be  figured  in  man- 
days  are  workers  employed  in  hand-harvest  on 
a  piece  basis  if  he  commutes  daily  from  his 
permanent  residence  and  was  employed  less 
than  13  weeks  in  the  preceding  year.  (And  if 
piece  rate  methods  are  customary  in  that 
farm's  area.) 

Growers  do  not  have  to  pay  minimum  wages 
as  mentioned  above  or  to  workers  16  years  old 
or  less,  employed  in  hand  harvest  on  a  piece 
rate  basis  as  above  who  works  on  the  same 
farm  as  his  parents  and  is  paid  the  same  piece 
rate  as  workers  over  16  on  the  same  farm. 

The  new  law  does  not  require  covered  farm 
workers  be  paid  time  and  one-half  after  40 
hoifrs  a  week. 

What  growers  are  concerned  about  is  the 
fact  that  the  writers  of  the  minimum  wage 
law  refused  to  accept  an  amendment  which 
would  have  included  piece-rate  wages  in  the 


Established    1936    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Wareham,    Mass. 

Publisher 

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Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

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Editor 

DONALD    CHARTIER 

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CORRESPONDENTS  -  ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   River,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,    Massachusetts 

New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jefsey 


bill's  context. 

The  new  law,  unfortunately,  allows  the  lag- 
ger  to  be  paid  as  much  as  the  go-getter,  since 
most  growers  pay  according  to  the  fruit  picked. 

There  have  been  problems  with  this  new 
law  and  there  will  continue  to  be  unless  amend- 
ments to  the  bill  can  be  adopted  in  the  future. 

The  Department  of  Labor  is  prepared  to  as- 
sist any  grower  in  better  understanding  the  law. 

Editor's    Note— Details    of    the    Mass.    Minimum    Wage 
Law  can  he  found  in  "Farm  Bureau"  column,  page  10. 


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Continued  from  Page  2 


they  are  most  popular  for  pulp- 
wood  cutting  because  of  their 
handling  characteristics  and  be- 
cause of  the  longer  chain  life 
resulting  from  slower  chain 
speed. 

The  chain  on  a  gear-drive 
saw  travels  more  slowly  than  on 
a  direct-drive.  The  gear-drives 
have  greater  pulling,  or  "lug- 
ging," power  and  permit  the 
use  of  longer  cutter  bars  than 
on  corr^arable  direct-drive 
saws. 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

to  June  1941  to  find  a  storm 
that  totalled  more  than  this 
one.  We  are  now  about  3% 
inches  above  average  for  1967 
and  7  inches  ahead  cf  last  year 
at  this  time. 

Keeping  Quality 

The  final  keeping  quality 
forecast  was  released  on  June  5. 

Almost  continuous  low  tem- 
peratures in  April  and  May  have 
substantially  improved  the  keep, 
ing  quality  prospects  for  the 
1967  Massachusetts  cranberry 
crop.   There   are   now   7  points 


of  a  possible  16  in  favor,  so  we 
can  forecast  with  considerable 
confidence  that  the  quality  of 
this  crop  will  be  "very  good." 

(Even  so,  we  would  urge 
growers  to  be  careful  with  fer- 
tilizer programs,  avoid  heavy 
applications  on  heavy  vines  for 
this  will  retard  coloring  and  in- 
crease harvest  losses.  Try  to 
apply  fertilizers  where  they 
are  most  needed  on  thinly-vined 
areas  and  where  insect  damage 
needs  to  be  repaired.  In  this 
way  next  year's  prospects  will 
be  improved  without  harm  to 
this  year's  crop. 


, 


Both  of  the  new  gear-drive 
models  feature  the  'company's 
instant  start  primer,  automatic 
and  manual  chain  oiling,  rebor- 
able  cylinder  and  streamlined 
"balanced"  design.  The  MAC 
5-lOG,  in  addition,  is  equipped 
with  McCulloch's  de-stfoking 
port  (DSP)  which  reduces  by 
half  the  efFort  needed  to  start 
the  engine. 

Introduction  of  the  two  gear- 
drives  brings  the  number  of 
models  in  McCulloch's  full  1967 
line  to  15.  Nine  of  these  are 
direct-drives  and  six  are  gear- 
drives.  / 

This  is  the '  broadest  variety 
of  lightweight  chain  saws 
offered  by  any  manufacturer, 
Mulkey  said,  and  provides  a 
chain  saw  for  practically  every 
cutting  need  and  every  cutting 
situation. 


1 

FOR  9ALE 

H.      R 

.     BAILEY     COMPANY,     Manufacturer 

of  Cranberry  Machinery     and     Equipment 

Since 

1900.     Stock,  machinery,  equip- 

ment. 

land  and  buildings   (no  cranberry 

bogs) 

• 

Address  all   inquiries  to: 

ATTY.    ALBERT  T.    MADDIGAN 

111   Center  Street 
Middleboro^   Mass.    02346 

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GROWER 


by  DONALD  CHARTIER 


On  the  morning  of  June  3, 
1967,  after  a  good  night's  sleep 
following  a  twelve  hour  auto 
trip  from  Massachusetts  to  New 
Glasgow,  Nova  Scotia,  I  ar- 
rived at  No.  86  Shore  Road  in 
Merigomish,  some  fifteen  miles 
from  New  Glasgow  and  only 
yards  from  the  water  of  the 
Northumberland  Straits  on  the 
north  shore  of  this  quiet,  color- 
ful Canadian  community. 

As  I  drove  up  the  circular 
driveway  to  a  nicely  kept  bvm- 
galow,  I  caught  my  first  glimpse 
of  a  gentleman  1  was  scon  to 
know  and  admire  —  Mr.  George 
W.  Mason  —  proprietor  of  the 
North  Shore  Cranberry  Bogs. 

A  genial  reception  was  the 
culmination  of  several  corres- 
pondences and  telephone  calls 
in  preparation  for  this  meet- 
ing. 

It  may  seem  strange  that  I 
would  take  the  few  days  of 
a  beautiful  weekend  and  spend 
it  driving  up  to  Nova  Scotia  — 
an  area  not  greatly  known  for 
its  cranberry  production.  This 
incidentallv.  was  mv.  verv  rea- 


I  had  heard,  from  others 
who  had  been  visiting  in  the 
area,  of  a  man  who,  despite 
his  advanced  age,  had  been, 
until  recent  years,  keeping  up 
an  eight  acre  bog  and  produc- 
ing a  good  crop  every  year. 

My  journey  let  me  say  right 
now,  was  a  very  pleasant  one. 

Mr.  Mason,  after  exchanging 
greetings,  invited  me  into  the 
old  and  comfortable  home  he 
and  Mrs.  Mason  share  with  one 
of  their  sons,  Harvey,  and 
their  daughter,  Mrs.  Evelyn 
Hubbell.  Mrs.  Mason  was  ill 
and  confined  to  bed  at  the  time 
of   my   visit. 

After  the  introductions  were 
completed,  we  got  right  down 
to  the  subject  we  were  both 
greatly  interested  in  — cranber- 
ries. 

Mr.  Mason,  I  learned  to  my 
surprise,  was  born  in  Merigomish 
in  1881.  To  save  you  time  in 
trying  to  figure  his  age,  that 
makes  him  86  years  old.  In  fact, 
he  just  reached  that  milestone 
last  Mav  15. 


He  explained  that  he  started 
his  bogs  in  1935  with  vines 
which  he  had  taken  from  a 
bog  which  he  had  bought  just 
for  the  vines  themselves.  It 
was  several  years,  of  course,  be- 
fore he  had  a  crop  to  harvest. 

The  first  four  years  he  was 
in  operation  he  harvested  his 
crop  by  hand  using  no  imple- 
ments of  any  kind.  At  that 
time  he  employed  30  to  40 
people  to  harvest  and  maintain 
the   bogs. 

Following  these  four  years 
he  had  hand  scoops  made  for 
his  use  and  the  harvesting  be- 
came a  family  affair  vdth  his 
children  and  his  wife  all  pitch- 
ing in  to  get  the  job  done.  It 
took  approximately  three  weeks 
to  harvest  the  eight  acres  by 
this    method. 

His  bogs  were,  and  still  are, 
planted  to  Early  Blacks  and  late 
Howes.  He  has  never  had  a 
problem  of  water  since  he  has 
a  deep  well  water  supply  and 
the  output  is  more  than  ade- 
quate. 


Continued  from  page  7 

For  the  last  three  years  Mr. 
Mason  has  had  to  slow  down 
his  operation  because  ot  his 
age  and  the  fact  tiiat  his  chil- 
dren (the  Masons  have  six 
children,  4  boys  and  2  girls ) 
have  grown  up  and  married 
and  have  families  of  their  own, 
although  they  do  help  him  as 
much  as  they  can. 

After  finishing  our  coffee  in 
the  Mason  living  room,  we 
went  out  to  look  over  the  bogs. 
The  begs  are  located  only  a 
few  hundred  yards  to  the  rear 
of  the  house.  They  appeared 
to  be  very  well  kept  and  the 
many  blossoms  indicated  the 
possibility  of  a  good  yield. 
The  dikes  and  canals  were 
clean  and  well  kept. 

The  outbuildings  are  in  ex- 
cellent condition  although  they 
are  nearly  40  years  old.  There 
is  one  building  ^on  each  side 
of  the  road  leading  from  the 
house  to  the  bogs.  On  the 
right  is  the  building  which 
houses  the  cleaning  and  grad- 
ing equipment.  On  the  left  is 
the  packing  building  which 
houses  the  equipment  used  in 
packing  and  processing  ber- 
ries. 

Mr.  Mason  went  on  to  tell 
rne  an  interesting  story  as  to 
the  reason  for  a  small  grower 
having  processing  equipment 
of  his  own. 

It  seems  that,  early  in  the 
1950s,  there  .  was  a  serious 
shortage  of  sugar  which  was 
causing  some  concern  to  the 
major  processors  in  the  area. 
Mr.  Mason,  however,  had  a 
soure  of  supply  and  was  able 
to  obtain  all  the  sugar  he 
needed.  It  was  then  that  he 
decided  to  process  and  can 
his  own  berries.  He  installed 
two  retorts.  These  are  oven- 
like units  into  which  the  newly 
oannf^d      and      <:ea1ed      ean<:      of 


heated  for  sterilization.  He  al- 
so set  up  a  capping  machine 
for  the  cans.  Ater  an  attempt 
at  processing  his  own  berries 
he  discovered  that  he  coidd 
make  more  profit  with  fresh 
fruit  and  so  came  the  abrupt 
end   to  his  processing  venture. 

As  we  proceeded  to  inspect 
the  bogs  —  there  are  three  sep- 
arate bogs  for  a  total  of  eight 
acres  —  Mr.  Mason  explained 
that,  in  Nova  Scotia,  the  grow- 
ers pick  their  berries  into  24 
pound  wooden  boxes  and  their 
yield  is  figured  in  this  manner. 
He  has  had  yields  of  as  much 
as  2000  boxes  from  his  eight 
acres,  although  more  recent 
figures  have  been  closer  to  1400 
boxes  since  he  is  unable,  be- 
cause of  his  age,  to  do  as  much 
work  on  the  bogs  as  is  re- 
quired. 

The  berries  are  all  sold  as 
fresh  fruit  and  are  packaged 
in  one  pound  boxes  and  sold 
locally  to  wholesalers  and  also 
to  a  few  retailers.  There  is 
no  problem  with  marketing 
since  his  crop  is  always  com- 
mitted before  the  harvest  is 
in.  One  of  Mr.  Mason's  sons 
help  by  providing  truck  trans- 
portation for  his  father  when 
it  is   necessary. 

When    asked    what    his    did 
about     fertilizing      and     insect 
control,  Mr.  Mason  replied  that 
although  he  has  used  commer- 
cial fertilizer  he  had  had  bet- 
ter luck  on  his  particular  bogs 
with    just    sanding    and     with 
kerosene  for  weed  control.    He 
mentioned    that   he    had    been 
successful    using   Parathion    for 
the  control  of  fire  worm  on  the 
only   ocasion    he   had    to   need 
such   control.     The    fire    worm 
problem    developed    after    Mr. 
Mason  had  agreed  to  clean  and 
grade  berries  from  the  bogs  of 
another    small    area  grower.   It 
was    after   this   that   fire   worm 
was    found    on    his    bogs.     J' 
quickly     took     precautions 
mentioned  and  has  not  had  t 


Mr.  Mason  told  me  when  I 
asked  why  his  bogs  were  not 
in  full  production  that  he  had 
had  a  visit  a  few  years  ago 
from  some  Cape  Cod  cran- 
berry people,  one  of  whom 
was  the  late  Dr.  Fred  Chandler 
of  the  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
Eixperiment  Station  in  East 
Wareham.  After  seeing  how 
thick  his  vines  had  grown, 
they  advised  him  to  cut  off 
his  vines  and  let  them  start 
again.  This  he  immediately 
proceeded  to  do.  The  vines 
have  come  in  very  well  since 
the  cutting  and  a  good  yield 
is   expected  this  fall. 

He  also  mentioned,  in  pas- 
sing, of  the  year  when  the  Nova 
Sotia  government  placed  an 
embargo  on  the  importing  of 
berries.  This  was  around  1955. 
He  could  not  tell  me  why  this 
had  been  done  but  remembered 
very  well  the  event  since  he 
was  able  to  reahze  $8.00  per 
box  for  his  crop  that  year.  The 
average  going  price,  he  stated, 
is  about  $.5.00  per  box. 

Mr.  Mason  remembers  with 
fondness  the  visit  he  had  a 
year  or  so  ago  with  Dr.  Chand- 
ler who  had  been  invited  to 
visit  the  bogs  by  the  Nova 
Scotia  government.  "He  looked 
at  my  bogs  and  said:  'You've 
got  good  bogs.  All  you  need 
is  sand,  water  and  a  picking 
machine.' "  "I  ve  got  the  water 
and  the  sand  but  still  no  pick- 
ing machine." 

I  asked  Mr.  Mason  about 
frost  protection  and  he  said  that 
it  wasn't  a  particular  problem 
in  his  area  since  they  are  so 
close  to  the  ocean  and  that  the 
salt  water  helps  a  great  deal 
to  kill  the  frost.  They  have  no 
frost  warning  system  but  over 
the  years  they  have  beome 
adept  at  forecasting  by  the 
velocity    and    direction    of    the 


Photos  Facing  Page 


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Mason  Homestead 

2 

Mr.  Mason  looking  over 
sand  to  be  used  on  bogs 

3 

Cleaning  &  Grading  shed 

4 

Mr.  Mason  on  bog 


Packina  &  Process Ina 
shed 

e 

Mr.  Mason  looking 
over  bogs 

V 

General  view  of 
Merigomish  area 


Cleaning  &  Grading 
shed  showing 
Hayden  Separator 

9 

View  from  bog  toward 
sheds 

10 

General  view  of  bogs 


NINE 


FARM  BUREAU 


!■! 


By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 

Minimum    Wage    Law    for    Massachusetts 

The  farm  labor  pot  is  still 
boiling  with  many  of  the  "do 
gooders"  frothing  about  the 
conditions  under  which  migrant 
workers  are  housed  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Recently  the  general 
target  areas  have  been  the 
Plymouth  County  cranberry 
areas.  It  has  been  pointed  out 
in  several  articles  that  sub-stan- 
dard housing  exists  in  these 
areas  with  each  one  of  the  ar- 
ticles, seemingly  citing  the  one 
location  which  gives  the  "do 
gooders'  something  to  talk 
about. 

Those  who  are  professionals 
in  the  field  of  administrating 
the  Sanitary  Code  recognize 
that  the  cranberry  industry  as 
such  has  had  a  most  difficult 
period  and  that  bog  owners 
are  now  becoming  able  to 
tackle,  renovations  of  quarters, 
etc.  This  fact  is  cited  in  the 
report  of  the  migrant  health 
program  carried  on  by  the  De- 
partment of  Public  Health.  The 
recognition  of  this  fact  by  health 
authorities  should  be  encourag- 
ing to  the  cranberry  industry. 

Those  involved  in  social  ac- 
tion groups  fail  to  recognize  any 
economic  conditions  that  now 
or  have  recently  plagued  the 
industry.  All  they  can  do  and 
all  they  want  to  do  is  look  at 
what  they  see  today  and  talk 
about  it. 

The  fact  is  that  cranberry 
people  have  done  a  tremendous 
job  in  upgrading  their  quarters 
with  many  thousands  of  dol- 
lars, even  hundreds  of  thous- 
ands of  dollars  having  been 
poured  into  housing  for  work- 
TEN 


ers.  However,  these  people  are 
of  such  a  type  that  they  can- 
not rest  until  the  last  poor 
worker  is  taken  care  of. 

Farmers  in  general  are  not 
people  who  want  to  abuse  their 
help.  Farm  help  today  is  dif- 
ficult to  obtain  and  we  must 
do  all  that  is  humanly  and  finan- 
cially possible  to  entice  help 
onto  our  farms.  This  is  a  mat- 
ter of  business  fact  as  farmers 
are  taking  and  spending  consid. 
erable  amounts  of  money  to 
make  their  farms  or  bogs  bet- 
ter places  to  live  in. 

Farm    Labor    Pot    Still    Boiling 

By  mid-summer  Massachusetts 
will  have  a  minimum  wage  law. 
This  wage  law  will  differ  from 
the  national  agricultural  mini- 
mum wage  law  in  several  ways. 
First,  every  farmer  will  be  af- 
fected, there  will  be  no  mini- 
mum number  of  hours  that  have 
to  be  worked  before  the  farm 
becomes  under  a  law  and  the 
second  major  difference  is  in  the 
wage  rate  under  the  law.  As 
currently  written  with  many 
legislative  steps  before  passage, 
the  Massachusetts  law  H-4653 
calls  for  $1.20  an  hour  effective 
June  'Ist,    $1.35    February    1st 


of  next  year,  $1..50  February  1st 
of  the  next  year.  Those  mem- 
bers of  the  farm  family  are  ex- 
empt as  are  workers  who  have 
yet  to  reach  their  18th  birth- 
day. 

The  Department  of  Public 
Health  will  be  charged  with  the 
resporisibility  of  overseeing  tlie 
housing  of  migrant  workers. 
They  currently  have  this  re- 
sponsibility in  the  Sanitary 
Code.  However,  the  proposal 
as  contained  in  H-4653  directs 
the  Department  of  Health  to 
handle  complaints  that  are  pre- 
sented to  it  in  writing  in  a 
specified  manner. 

Commonweath    Service    Corps 

There  appears  to  be  little 
or  no  let  up  in  the  determina- 
tion of  the  Commonwealth  Ser- 
vice Corps  to  educate  the  mi- 
grant workers.  They  have 
changed  their  staff  considerably. 
They  now  have  a  new  direc- 
tor of  migrant  education  pro- 
ject, Wallace  Blither  who  is  a 
former  school  teacher  in  Ware- 
ham  and  other  towns  in  the 
area.  Cranberry  growers  them- 
selves must  make  up  their 
minds  as  to  how  they  are  to  deal 
with   the    Service   Corps. 


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destroys  cutworms,  fireworms,  fruitworms,  Japanese 
beetles  and  leafhoppers,  including  the  leafhoppers 
that  spread  false  blossom  disease.  And  the  relatively 
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ELEVEN 


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Cranberry  Orange  Refisl^ 


4  cups  (l  lb.)  Ocean  Spray 
Fresh  or  Fresh  Frozen 
Cranberries 

2  oranges  (quartered  and 
seeded) 


4  tablespoons  Sucaryl  solution 


or 


1  to  2  tablespoons  Sweet  lO 
solution 


Put  cranberries  and  oranges  including  rind  through  food  grinder  (coarse  blade). 
Stir  in  sweetener.  Chill  at  least  3  hours  before  serving.  Makes  about  2  cups. 


Cranberry  Snow 

2  cups  Ocean  Spray  Fresh  or 
Fresh  Frozen  Cranberries 

1  orange  (quartered  and 
seeded) 


2  tablespoons'  Sucaryl  solution 

2  egg  whites 

Dash  salt 

1  teaspoon  vanilla 


Put  cranberries  and  orange  including  rind  through  food  grinder  (coarse  blade). 
Stir  in  sweetener.  Chill  for  flavors  to  blend.  Beat  egg  whites  and  salt  until  stiff. 
Fold  in  vanilla  and  cranberry  orange  reUsh. 

Note:  Very  good  on  cake  made  with  sweetener  for  a  low  calorie  dessert. 


Cranberry  Ice 

4  cups  Ocean  Spray  Fresh  or 
Fresh  Frozen  Cranberries 
1  cup  water 
1  egg  white 


1  tablespoon  liquid  Sweet  10 
14  cap  non  fat  dry  milk 
}4  cup  cold  water 

1  tablespoon  lemon  juice 


Simmer  cranberries  and  water  until  berries  pop  open.  Strain,  pressing  through 
sieve  with  spoon,  into  large  mixing  bowl.  (Makes  i^  cups  puree).  Add  un- 
beaten egg  white  and  liquid  Sweet  10.  Beat  at  highest  speed  until  thick  and 
creamy,  5  to  8  minutes.  Beat  non  fat  dry  milk  with  cold  water  and  lemon 
juice  in  chilled  bowl  until  thick.  Fold  into  cranberry  mixture.  Turn  into  two 
refrigerator  trays.  Freeze, 


TWELVE 


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TH I RTEEN 


I  MONTH   REMAINS 
FOR  Gl  LOANS 

Less  than  one  month  remains 
for  veterans  of  World  War  II  to  use 
their  guarantee  privileges  for  a 
loan  to  purchase  a  home,  farm  or 
for  business  purposes.  This  warn- 
ing came  from  P.  M.Nugent,  man- 
ager of  the  Vetei:ans  Administra- 
tion Regional  Office  in  Newark, 
N.J. 

Present  laws  provide  that  the  ab- 
solute cutoff  date  for  World  War  II 
veterans  will  be  on  July  25,  1967. 
This  deadline  is  the  result  of  Con- 
gressional action  which  has  de- 
layed the  final  date  of  eligibility 
several  times. 

The  cutoff  will  not  affect  veter- 
ans of  the  Korean  conflict  or 
veterans  who  have  served  since 
Jan.  31,  1955,  Nugent  pointed  out, 
as  these  veterans  are  covered  by 
different  legislation. 

Almost  seven  million  loans  have 
been  guaranteed  by  the  Veterans 
Administration  to  veterans  since 
the  beginning  of  the  program  fol- 
lowing World  War  IT.  One  out  of 
every  five  homes  constructed  in  the 
United  States  following  World  War 
n  was  with  VA  guarantee. 

The  Veterans  Administration 
will  guarantee  up  to  60  per  cent  of 
the  purchase  price  of  a  home» 


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cranberry  country  for  one  of  its 
products  -  CASORON®,  a  di- 
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est beginning  the  company, 
with    headquarters    in    Kansas 


City,  Kansas,  now  serves  more 
,  than  40,000  customers  from 
sales  offices  and  warehouses  in 
35  cities.  It  produces,  formu- 
lates and  distributes  industrial 
and    agricultural  chemicals. 

A  1961  merger  with  Philips 
Electronics  and  Pharmaceutical 
Industries  provided  the  impetus 
for  Thompson-Hayward  to  push 
out  its  midwest  boundaries  and 
reach  national  status.  Through 
purchases  and  mergers  the 
company's  interest  now  reach 
from  coast  to  coast. 

Industry  and  agriculture  are 
served  through  four  sales  Di- 
visions: (1)  the  Feed  Division 
started  in  1938,  (2)  Agricultu- 
ral Chemical  Division  in  1946, 
(3)  the  Laundry  and  Dry 
Cleaning  Division  in  1954.  The 
fourth  division  is  known  as  the 
Industrial  Chemical  Division 
for  its  chemical   distribution. 

During  the  past  five  years  a 
vigorous  research  and  develop- 
ment    program     has     brought 


forth  several  specialty  proprie- 
tary products.  Special  interest 
to  cranberry  growers  is  CASO- 
RON®, a  herbicide  with  a  wide 
variety  of  uses.  It  offers  ef- 
fective weed  control  for  orna- 
mental nurseries,  fruit  orchards, 
seed  stock  and  is  also  an  aqua- 
tic weed   control  product. 

With  the  cranberry  grower  in 
mind,       Thompson  -  Hayward 
adapted    CASORON®    to    the    ) 
particular  needs  of  the  grower. 
In  a  granular  form  —  CASORON     I 
G4    (4%   granules)  —it   can   be     I 
apphed    from    ground    or    air.     j 
The  broad  spectrum  weed  con-     , 
trol    of    this    herbicide    insures 
control   of   most  of  the   weeds 
which  plague  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry. 

Other  proprietary  products, 
which  have  been  recently  de- 
veloped include:  a  fungicide 
used  to  protect  pecan  crops 
from     scab    and    a    surfactant 

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INTRODUCTION. 


As  all  cranberry  growers  know,  labor  is  the 
most  expensive  item  connected  with  the  produc- 
tion of  cranberries.  Of  the  various  operations 
involved  in  production,  haresting  the  crop  requires 
the  greatest  amount  of  labor.  Increasingly,  mech: 
arAzation  is  reducing  the  amount  of  labor  used 
in  cranberry  production  as  it  is  in  all  other 
agricultural  production. 

A  phase  of  the  harvestirig  operation  that  would 
benefit  from  further  mechanization  is  the  hand- 
ling of  the  bushel  boxes  of  cranberries  after  they 
are  picked.  In  the  pasi,  the  boxes  of  berries 
have  been  hauled  from  the  bog  to  the  shore  on 
wheelbarrows  or  small  motorized  wagons.  They 
were  then  stacked  at  the  side  of  the  bog  road 
where  they  were  later  hand  loaded  into  flat-bed 
or  van-ype  trucks  for  delivery  to  the  packing 
plants.  Upon  arrival  at  the  plant  they  were  un- 
loaded by  hand  onto  pallets  which  were  then 
handled  by  fork  lift  truck.  The  loading  and  un- 
loading of  200  boxes  would  take  IV2  to  2  man 
hours.  The  slow  unloading  operation  also  resulted 
in  long  loaiting  lines  of  trucks  at  the  plant. 


Roller-Conveyor    and    Pallet    System 

A  system  that  greatly  reduces 
the  loading  and  unloading  time 
is    being    practiced    by    a    few 
growers.    This    system    consists 
of   the  use   of   standard   40"    x 
48"    pallets,    upon    which    are 
stacked  25  or  30  bushel  boxes 
of  cranberries,  a  fork-lift  truck 
to  handle  the  pallets  and  roller 
conveyors   on  the  floor   of   the 
truck    upon    which    the    pallets 
are  moved  in  the  truck.    Most 
trucks,    greater     than     pick-up 
size,   Vvdll   acconunodate  six   or 
more   pallets   loaded  with  ber- 
ries.    They    are    arranged    two 
abreast   on   the   truck  bed   and 
three  or  more  lengthwise  of  the 
truck  bed.   Three  roller  convey, 
ors    are   required    to   move   the 
pallets    forward    in    the    truck, 
one  is  placed  along  each  side 
and  one  down  the  center  of  the 
bed.    The  conveyors  along  the 

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sides  of  the  ti'uck  support  the 
outer  ends  of  the  pallets  and 
the  single  conveyor  in  the 
center  provides  a  common  sup- 
port for  the  two  adjacent  edges 
of  pairs  of  pallets. 

The  system  is  simple  and  ef- 
fective. If  six  loaded  pallets 
are  all  at  one  location  at  the 
bog  side,  the  truck  can  be 
loaded  in  about  five  minutes 
by  the  fork-lift  operator  and  a 
man  on  the  truck  to  push  the 
pallets  forward.  The  pallets 
might  even  by  pushed  forward 
by  the  fork  Uft  as  it  sets  the 
next  one  in  place.  The  unload- 
ing operation  may  be  executed 
as  rapidly  as  loading.  Here  the 
packing  plant  supplies  the  fork, 
lift  and  operator.  The  truck 
driver  pushes  the  pallets  to  the 
rear  of  the  truck  where  they  are 
quickly  removed  by  fork-lift. 


CRANBERRIES 

by  JOHN  S.  NORTON 


Jf  all  the  growers  equipped 
their  trucks  wdth  roller-convey- 
ors or  some  other  means  of 
moving  loaded  pallets  about, 
the  waiting  time  at  the  packing 
plants  would  be  reduced  to  a 
few  minutes  and  the  unloading 
time  could  be  .reduced  from 
about  one  man  hour  to  five  or 
ten  minutes.  The  loading  time 
could  be  reduced  a  like 
amount  if  a  mechanical  loader 
were  used. 


If  use  of  a  mechanical  loader 
were  not  practical  the  system 
could  still  be  used  for  unload- 
ing and  reduce  that  cost  by  at 
least  3  cents  a  barrel.  It  would 
merely  be  necessary  to  place 
pallets  on  the  truck  and  place 
the  boxes  of  berries  on  them 
as  they  were  passed  up  from 
the  ground.  The  practical  way 
would  be  to  load  each  pallet 
near  the  rear  of  the  truck  and 
then  roll  it  forwaird  on  the 
ronveyors. 


Track,   Dolly   and   Pallet  System 

An  alternate  system  to  that 
described  above  for  handUng 
pallet  loads  of  cranberries  on 
board  trucks  was  developed 
at  the  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
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Cranberry  Statiort  experiment. 


of  the  three  roller  conveyors, 
four  shallow  steel  channels  are 
anchored  to  the  floor  of  the 
truck  and  low,  four-wheel  dol- 
lies are  used  to  convey  the  pal- 
lets forward.  The  tracks  and 
dollies  have  the  advantage  of 
being  more  durable  than  roller, 
conveyors  of  a  comparable  cost. 

The  tracks  were  conventional 
bar-channel,  2,V2  inches  wide 
with  %  inch  fl.anges.  They  were 
anchored,  flanges  up,  to  the 
truck  floor  by  bolts.  The  bolts 
were  put  through  small  pieces 
of  %"  X  %"  angle  which  were 
welded  to  the  flanges  of  the 
channel.  The  bolts  were  put 
through  the  angles  rather  than 
the  channels  to  prevent  the  bolt 
heads  from  interfering  with  the 
movement  of  the  dolly  wheels. 

The  dollies  were  38"  x  44" 
rectangles.  They  were  welded 
construction  of  2"  x  1"  x  3/16" 
steel  channel.  The  channels 
were  placed  on  edge  for  greater 
strength.  The  dollies  were 
equipped  with  four  rigid,  rol- 
ler-bearing, SVa"  diameter  by 
2"  width,  fiber  wheels  with  700_ 
pound  load  capacity.  Figure  1 
shows  the  details   of   construe- 


In  using  the  tracks  and  dol- 
lies a  hauler  would  use  two  less 
dollies  than  the  number  of  pal- 
lets his  truck  could  hold.  The 
first  four  or  six  pallets  would 
be  rolled  forward  on  the  dol- 
lies and  the  two  at  the  rear  of 
the  truck  would  be  set  right  on 
the  floor  of  the  truck,  thus 
preventing  those  farther  front 
from   accidentally   rolling  back. 


Current  Limitations  of  the  System 

Some  years  ago,  when  the 
receivers  first  became  equipped 
to  handle  palletized  bushel 
boxes  of  cranberries,  adoption 
of  this  method  could  have  saved 
growers  substantial  amounts  on 
hauling  charges  over  the  years. 
However,  approximately  two- 
thirds  of  the  major  receivers' 
berries  are  processed,  and  will 
soon  be  handled  in  bulk  by 
dump  truck.  This  development 
will  reduce  the  volnme  that 
might  be  palletized.  The  one- 
third  that  will  be  sold  as  fresh 
fruit  must  still  be  handled  in 
bushel-boxes  and  the  trend 
will  definitely  be  to  mechanize 
the  handling  of  this  latter  one- 


Many    of  the    growers    with 
small  acreages  will  be  reluctant 
to  develop  equipment  for  load- 
ing dump  trucks  and  will  still 
hire  flat  trucks  of  vans  to  haul 
their  berries,  regardless  of  wea-     ' 
ther  they  will  be  sold  as  fresh    ' 
fruit  or  processed.  These  grow-     I 
ers  could  still  benefit  from  pal-     • 
letizing    their    bushel-boxes    as    ! 
outlined  above.  > 

Because  of  the  large  number 
of  growers  wiio  contract  their  >i 
hauling,  the  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment Station  is  attempting  to 
develop  a  practical,  truck- 
mounted  loader  that  may  be 
mounted  on  a  van  and  load  the 
pallets  directly  into  the  rear 
of  the  van.  The  roller-convey- 
ors or  track-dolly  systems  would 
be  used  in  conjunction  with  the 
truck-mounted  loader  just  as 
they  would  with  fork-lift  or 
hand  loading. 


Prof.  John  S.  "Stan"  Norton  is  a 
member  of  the  staff  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Cranberry  Experiment  Sta- 
tion in  East  Wareham.  He  is  well 
versed  in  all  phases  of  cranberry 
irrigation  and  is  working  on  solu- 
tion to  certain  labor  problems  in 
the     industry     as    is     shown     here 

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It  was  the  coldest  May  in  the 
weather-recording  history  at  the 
Cranberry-Blueberry  Lab.  The 
average  temperature  for  the 
month  was  54.3  —  8.2  degrees 
colder  than  normal.  In  nearby 
Philadelphia  it  was  the  coldest 
May  in  their  ninety-six  year 
Weather  Bureau  there. 

There  were  only  eleven  days 
during  which  the  maximum 
temperature  was  in  the  normal 
70  degrees.  The  seventh  of  the 
month  was  the  coldest  on  rec- 
ord. On  .this  day  the  maximum 
was  46  degrees  and  the  mini- 
mum was  40  degrees  with  light 
rain. 


4.01,  only  about  a  half  inch 
above  normal  for  the  Station  at 
the  Lab. 

The  cold  weather  and  fre- 
quent frost  reflows  have  kept 
cranberries  dormant  much  long- 
er than  normal.  On  the  first  of 
June  there  was  very  little  new 
upright  growth  on  bogs  drawn 
on  the  traditional  May  lOth 
date.  Many  old  veteran  cran- 
berry growers  aver  they  have 
never  seen  such  slow  develop- 
ment of  uprights.  Even  bogs 
down  in  April  are  still  not  in 
the  dangle  stage  yet.  Fortu- 
nately there  has  been  very  little 
frost  damage  to  date.  Water 
reservoirs  are  still  adequate  for 
frost  reflows  in  June. 

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It     was     also    a    very    rainy 
month    although    the   precipita- 
tion total    does    not    reflect    it.  There  has  been  little  change 
There    were    eighteen    days    of  in     the     weather     and    though 
rain,  most  of  them  light  misty  little  rain  the  cold  persists.  The 
drizzles.    The  total  rainfall  was  total  precipitation  for  the  month 

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gest falling  on  the  28th  and 
.97  of  the  total  coming  on  the 
27th,    28th   and    29th. 

The  high  temperature  came 
on  the  16th  with  69  degrees  F. 
and  a  mean  high  for  the 
month  of  59.16  degrees.  The 
low  33  degrees  F.  came  on 
the  9th  with  the  bog  low  that 
night  of  30  degrees  F.  The 
mean  low  for  the  month  was 
43.9   degrees. 

The  Coastal  Washington  Ex- 
periment Station  is  now  the 
only  weather  station  on  the 
peninsula  area  for  the  weather 
bureau  has  removed  the  equip- 
ment at  Cranguyma  Farms.  The 
month  cf  May  has  been  very 
dry  and  the  lawns  and  gardens 
have  needed  sprinkling.  Many 
have  not  realized  this  and 
brown  lawns  are  already  ap- 
pearing. 

Notices  have  gone  out  to  the 
Washington  growers  of  the 
first  fireworm  broods  and  mimy 
are  spraying  at  this  time  4  pints 
Diazinon  48%  E.C.  per  acre  or 
r%  pints  per  1000  gallons  of 
water.  This  treatment  will  con- 
trol the  fireworm  and  preserves 
pedetors  which  will  control  the 
cyclamen  mites.  It  is  a  busj- 
time  now  for  the  cranberry 
grower  with  fungicides  and  fer- 
tilizers  to    apply. 

Field  Day  will  be  held  June 
24,  Saturdav  10:00  here  at  the 
Station  in  Long  Beach.  Speak- 
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Harvest  Physiology,  Pullman; 
Dr.  Shirl  Graham,  keeping 
quality,  Pullman;  Dr.  Dean 
Swan,  Herbicides,  Puyallup; 
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analysis.  Mr.  Klingbeil,  Exten- 
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Continued  from  Page  8 


Incidentally,  the  water  on 
Mr.  Mason's  bogs  had  just  been 
drawn  off.  This  usually  is  done 
the  10th  of  May. 

After  having  looked  over  the 
bogs  and  talked  a  great  deal 
about  his  experienes  in  the 
cranberry  industry,  we  decided 
to  continue  the  informal  inter- 
view back  at  the  house. 

Once  back  in  the  comfortable 
living  room  I  asked  Mr.  Mason 
a   bit    about    his    personal   life. 

Mr.  Mason  was  bom  in  Meri. 
gomish,  only  a  short  distance 
from  his  present  home.  He 
went  to  school  in  New  Glas- 
gow during  the  school  year 
but  always  returned  to  Meri- 
gomish  for  the  summer  months. 
He  met  and  married  Mrs. 
Mason,  also  a  native  of  Meri- 
gomish,  around  the  turn  of  the 


century,   and  as  we  stated  be- 
for,  raised  six  children. 

Asked  about  his  hobbies,  Mr. 
Mason  listed  fishing  as  "still 
my  main  hobby,  although  all 
I  do  now  is  set  out  salmon 
traps." 

Mr.  Mason  is  a  member  of  the 
Merigomish  Presbytarian  Church 
and  a  long  time  member  of  the 
Masonic  Lodge  in  that  town. 

With  this  we  concluded  our 
interview  and,  at  his  sugges- 
tion, went  over  to  visit  with  his 
granddaughter  and  her  hus- 
band, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lyall  Mur- 
ray. Mr.  Murray  also  has  a 
small  bog  which  he  works  part- 
time  and  about  which  we  will 
write  in  a  future  issue. 

As  the  time  was  getting  late 
and  I  had  to  leave  from  there 
on  my  twelve-hour  drive  back 
to  Massachusetts,  I  reluctantly 
said  goodbye  to  a  gentleman 
I  won't  soon  forget,  one  who 
is  a  credit  to  his  community 
and  to  the  Nova  Scotia  cran- 
berry industry  —  Mr.  George 
W.   Mason. 


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Continued  from  Page  15 

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REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

WASHINGTON 

Continued   on  Pa^e  18 

Recognition  was  given  to 
Charles  L.  Lewis  in  the  Wes- 
tern Edition,  April  1967  issue 
American  Fruit  Grower,  pg.  44. 

"Wisconsin,  Cranberry  Grow- 
er Honored  —  Because  of  'out- 
standing contributions  to  ag- 
riculture,' Charles  L.  Lewis,  78- 
year-old  grower  residing  hx 
Shell  Lake,  was  recently  hon- 
ored by  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin's agricultural  College.  Lewis 
was  hailed  as  a  'builder  of  the 
cranberry  industry,  supporter  of 
local  economy,  servant  of  his 
community,  and  a  academic 
scholar.' 

Thie  veteran  grower  manages 
two  cranberry  farms.  He  served 
as  vice-president  and  board 
member  of  National  Cranberry 
Association,     now     known     as 

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After  42  years  in  the  pro- 
duce industry,  Ben  is  retiring. 
The  Dean  Foods  Company, 
3600  North  River  Road,  Frank- 
hn  Park,  Illinois,  who  purchased 
the  Indian  Trail  Cranberry 
Company  in  April,  1965,  will 
retain  Mr.  Pannkuk  on  a  con- 
sulting basis   until   the   end    of 


1968,  Mr.  Pannkuk  will  continue 
to  make  him  home  in  Wisconsin 
Rapids, 

After  attending  Iowa  Univer- 
sity and  Des  Moines  College 
where  he  majored  in  Economics 
and  Accounting,  he  worked  in 
banking  until  1926  when  he  left 
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the  manager  of  the  Waterloo 
Branch  at  that  time.  His  first 
job  was  in  the  accounting  de- 
partment, then  as  part-time 
floor  salesman,  and  later  he 
was  given  a  part-time  territory 
and  in  1927,  a  full-time  sales 
job.  In  1930,  he  moved  to  Roch- 
ester, Minnesota  as  city  sales- 
man and  a  year  later  was  made 
a  branch  manager.  Mr.  Pann- 
kuk managed  branches  in  Aus- 
tin, Rochester,  and  Estherville, 
Iowa. 

In  1946,  Mr.  Pannkuk  left 
the  Gamble  Robinson  Company 
and  went  with  the  Fleming 
Company,  Topeka,  Kansas,  as 
department  head  of  perishable 
operations,  fresh  and  frozen. 

In  1953,  wanting  to  try  the 
produce  business  in  the  grow- 
ing and  shipping  areas,  Mr. 
Pannkuk  joined  the  Indian  Trail 
Cranberry  Company  as  general 
manager.  In  1955,  Mr.  Pannkuk 
bought  out  Mr.  Gary  Getzin's 
interest  in  the  company  and 
was  made  vice-president  in 
charge  of  all  opei;ations.  In 
1957,  Mr.  Pannkuk  was  made 
president  of  the  company,  which 
position  he  held  until  the  com- 
pany was   sold. 

Mr.  Pannkuk  states  that  he 
plans  on  being  active,  as  he 
enjoys  good  health  and  feels 
that  by  runing  his  six  miles  a 
day,  playing  golf,  doing  some 
fishing  —  and  keeping  mentally 
alert,  he  should  be  around  for 
some  time. 


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Weather 

Below  normal  temperatures 
prevailed  over  most  of  Wiscon- 
sin the  last  two  weeks  of  April. 
During  this  period  cool  show- 
ers were  received  over  much  of 
the  state,  maintaining  high 
moisture  levels  in  all  but  a  few 
localities,  especially  in  southern 
sections  of  the  state  where 
warm  showers  are  needed  • . 

The  first  week  of  May  began 
with  mild  weather  and  showers 
and  thunderstorms  common 
throughout  the  state  over  the 
weekend.  Rainfall  amounts  gen- 
erally ranged  between  ^4  and 
1  inch  with  the  least  amounts 
falling  in  the  relatively  dry 
southwest  counties.  Colder  air 
pressed  southeastward  across 
the  state  behind  the  showers 
entering  the  northwest  on  the 
1st  and  the  southeast  on  the 
2nd.    The  remaining  days  were 


very  cold  with  subtreezmg  niglit. 
time  temperatures  the  rule. 
Several  new  record  low  tem- 
peratures were  set  during  the 
period.  A  few  very  light  snow 
flurries  was  the  only  additional 
precipitation  during  the  period. 
Mostly  sunny  skies  and  brisk, 
dry  winds  resulted  in  good  dry. 
ing  conditions  in  spite  of  the 
unseasonably  cold  tempera- 
tures. 

The  7th  was  pleasant  but 
rather  cool.  Showers  and 
thunderstorms  on  the  8th  with 
the  9th  windy  and  cold. 

The  weather  continued  unsea. 
sonably  cold  with  maximum 
temperatures  near  60  degrees 
and  minima  near  30  on  most 
days.  Below  freezing  occurred 
on  several  nights  in  all  parts  of 
the  state.  Showers  occurred  on 
the  8th  in  most  areas  and  a 
more  general  rain  fell  on  the 
11th  and  into  the  12th  over 
the  last.  Rainfall  in  excess  of  2 
inches  were  common  in  the  ex- 
treme south  with  amounts  ta- 
pering off  northward  to  an  inch 
.or  so  in  the  north.  An  inch  or 
two  of  snow  covered  the  ground 
in  the  extreme  northern  tier 
of  countie-s  along  the  Michigan 
border  on  the  12th. 

Light  frost  occurred  again 
on  several  nights.  One  warm 
day  did  occur  the  18th,  when 
the  mercury  rose  to  91  degrees 
in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  Scat- 
tered light  thunderstorms  moved 


across  the  southern  half  of  the 
state  during  the  afternoon  and 
evening  hours  on  the  18th.  A 
few  small  tornadoes  with  short 
tracks  were  observed  but  dam- 
age was  reported  as  minor. 
Rainfall  amounts  averaged  0.1" 
over  western  portions  and  0.3" 
in  the  east.  No  rain  fell  in  the 
north.  Humidity  of  the  air  was 
low  and  soils  dried  out  rapidly 
in  spite  of  the  cool  tempera- 
tures. The  21st-22nd  developed 
mostly  sunny  and  quite  cool. 
Scattered  light  rain  and  snow 
in  the  north.  Frost  again  in 
most  areas  morning  of  the  23rd. 
Sunny  and  warmer  in  the  after- 
noon. 


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Some  cranberries  get  picked  and  packed  and  sent  to  mar- 
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Some  years  they  fetch  a  pretty  good  price.  And  other  years 
...well,  that's  agriculture  for  you. 

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growers  than  any  other  cranberry. 

Every  year,  people  buy  more  of  them  than  all  other 
cranberries  combined. 

Because,  every  year,  Ocean  Spray  does  more  things  with 
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Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
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Meeting 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Co. 
Dperative,  Inc.  held  its  seven- 
teenth annual  meeting  in  May. 

Members  were  informed  the 
1966  crop  pool  earned  $14.93 
per  barrel  (100  lbs.)  and  final 
payment  would  be  made  im- 
mediately. 

Elected  Directors  and  oflfi- 
cers  for  the  ensuing  year  are: 
Harold  A.  C.  Bumpus  of  Plym- 
outh, president;  Robert  D.  Wil- 
liams of  South  Carver,  vice- 
president;  Orrin  G.  Colley  of 
Duxbury,  Treasurer  and  Clerk; 
Charles  E.  Pratt  of  North  Car- 
ver; Mrs.  Kathleen  A.  Shaw, 
South  Carver;  and  Waino  E, 
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Wisconsin  Wet  .  .  . 
Crop  Late 

Early  June  saw  a  great  deal 
of  rain  in  Wisconsin  with  the 
result  that  there  is  now  so 
much  water  around  that  the 
growers  are  not  able  to  plant 
as  much  as  they  wanted  to.  Some 
of  the  beds  may  have  to  wait 
until  next  year  but  some  of  the 
growers  have  the  vines  and 
have  been  unable  to  get  them 
intO'  the  ground  because  they 
are  unable  to  get  on  the  beds 
due  to  continuing  rainfall.  Some 
of  the  vines  that  were  set 
for  planting  could  not  be  put 
in  and  were  lost. 

The  crop  is  about  ten  days 
late  and  just  how  well  it  will 
do-  is  hard  to  tell  but  size  will 
make  the  big  difiFerence. 

There  was  some  some  damage 
on  some  of  the  northern 
marshes  and  on  some  of  the 
marshes  it  was  as  high  as  15%. 

Weeds  and  grasses  are  posing 
a  problem  with  all  the  rain  and 
in  some  instances  the  beds  are 
too  soft  to  be  clipped,  which 
gives  the  grass  an  even  better 
chance  to  crowd  the  vine  out. 

The  Hayward  area  was  dam- 
aged by  hail  on  Wednesday, 
the  28th  of  June.  This  will 
make  some  difference  in  the 
tonnage  of  this  area  but  the 
final  results  will  not  be  known 
until  it  can  be  seen  how  the 
vines  have  recovered. 


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Camera  Along 
on  Vacation  Trip 

The  traveler  who  returns 
from  an  interesting  trip  with- 
out a  photographic  record  of 
places  and  people,  often  finds 
that  he  missea  these  lasting  re- 
minders. Details  may  fade 
from  the  mind,  but  a  snapshot 
remains  the  same. 

To  get  a  satisfactory  photo- 
graphic record,  start  planning 
ahead  of  time. 

Know  your  camera.  If  it's  a 
new  one,  take  several  rolls  of 
shots  under  different  circum- 
stances to  be  familiar^  with  the 
several  types  of  color  and  black 
and  white  film.  Learn  which 
film  gives  the  qualities  for 
which  you  are  looking,  those 
which  react  best  in  your  cam- 
era in  the  situations  in  which 
you  will  be  shooting.  When 
problems  arise,  there  will  be 
time  to  solve  them. 

Before  starting  your  trip 
check  the  camera  thoroughly: 
shutter,  film  winder,  range  fin- 
der, light  meter,  take  along 
lens  tissue  and  a  lens  brush. 
Wrap  the  camera  in  thin  layers 
of  foam  rubber  to  avoid  vibra- 
tions, particularly  if  you  travel 
by  air. 

Keep  gadgets  to  a  minimum. 
Take  a  haze  filter  and  a  grad- 
uated yellow  filter  for  black 
and  white  film.  For  color  film, 
take  a  skylight  filter  to  elim- 
inate haze. 

Although  film  can  be  bought 
almost  anywhere,  it  is  often 
quite  expensive  outside  the 
country.  Unless  your  trip  is  of 
long  duration,  take  whatever 
you  plan  to  use.  Processing  ser- 
vice is  widely  available,  and 
there  is  little  trouble  on  black 
and  white.  If  you  are  traveling 
for  longer  than  a  month,  you 
may  do  best  by  sending  home 
your  exposed  color  film  by  air- 
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Two 


A  new  machine  being  used 
at  Cranguyma  Farms,  Long 
Beach,  Washington  is  an  Appli- 
gator,  built  by  Hurd  Machinery, 
Harrisburg,  Oregon.  This  large 
piece  of  equipment  rides  on 
rear  tires  66  x  43  and  a  forward 
tire  44  x  41.  The  tires  carry 
5  pounds  pressure  and  there 
is  4  Ib./sq.  in.  when  unloaded, 
ground  pressure.  The  total 
weight  is  6000  lbs. 

The  power  unit  ig  a  G.M.C. 
truck  engine^  with  4  speed 
transmission  and  overdrive,  and 
will  travel  up  to  60  miles  per 
hour. 

There  are  three  set  ups  for 
the  machine: 

1.  Hydraulic   Dump 

2.  Granular  fertilizer  spreader 
with  screw  conveyor  to  regu- 
late the  speed;  whirl  plate  pow. 
ered  by  hydromatic  and  it  can 
carry  up  to  3  tons  of  fertilizer 
at  one   time. 

3.  500  gal.  spray  tank  with 
40  foot  boom;  spray  pump  agi- 
tator with  controlled  speed. 

Cranguyma  Farms  has  about 
100  acres  in  cranberry  produc- 
tion and  this  equipment  has 
enabled  one  man  to  accomplish 
the  work  of  many,  where  labor 
supply  is  very  low. 


Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

S  Hell!  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORAfVIVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Dr.  Chester  Cross  left  for 
Japan  on  June  8th,  he  will  re- 
turn the  last  week  of  July.  He 
stopped  off  in  California  to  at- 
tend graduation  exercises  for 
his  son  Peter  at  California  In- 
stitute of  Technology  on  June 
9th.  Chet's  trip  to  Japan  is  the 
result  of  an  invitation  by  the 
Japan  Society  for  Promoting 
Science  and  is  sponsored  by 
this  group. 

Daniel  Brown,  who  just  com- 
pleted his  freshman  year  at 
the  University  of  Massachusetts, 
is  working  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  again  this  summer. 
Danny  will  work  under  the  di- 
rection of  Dr.  Devlin  on  sev- 
eral  projects. 

Richard  Cunningham,  a  fresh- 
man   at    Brown    University,    is 


working  for  Dr.  Bert  Zucker- 
man  this  summer.  Dick  will 
work  on  several  phases  of  nem- 
atode research. 

Marian  Mackiewicz,  a  native 
of  Poland,  began  working  for 
Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  this  month. 
He  will  stay  here  about  a  year 
to  a  year  and  a  half  work- 
ing on  nematode  problems. 

Frost 
There  were  a  total  of  9  frost 
warnings  released  during  the 
spring  of  1967,  compared  with 
13,  in  1966,  22  in  1965  and  18 
in  1964.  This  includes  afternoon 
and  evening  warnings.  Frost 
damage  has  been  extremely 
light  this  spring,  probably  less 
than  Vz  percent  of  the  crop. 
We  wish  to  thank  both  George 
Rounsville  and  Kenneth  Roche- 
fort  for  their  excellent  work  in 


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These  fellows  are  on  the  job 
every  afternoon  and  evening 
during  the  frost  season  and 
their  work  is  greatly  apprecia- 
ted. We  are  also  indebted  to 
the  weather  observers,  tele- 
phone distributors,  radio  sta- 
tions and  the  U.  S.  Weather 
Bureau  personnel  for  the  part 
they  play  in  this  service  which 
is  sponsored  by  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Growers  Association. 

Annual   Meeting 

The  80th  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers Association  will  be  held 
Tuesday,  August  22  at  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station 
beginning  at  10:00  A.M.  The 
program  is  nearly  complete  at 
this  time  and  will  include  ma- 
chinery and  equipment  exhibits, 
guided  tours  of  the  State  Bog 
and  a  chicken  barbeque  at 
lunch.  After  lunch,  there  will 
be  a  short  business  meeting,  a 
talk  by  Mr.  Louis  McLean  of 
Velsicol  Chemical  Corp.  and 
the  crop  report  by  Mr.  Byron 
S.  Peterson  of  the  Crop  Re- 
porting Service. 

Continued   on   page    10 


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Thunder  Lake 
Reports . . . 


Thunder  Lake  planted  about 
2V^  acres  of  Pilgrims  this  spring 
and  new  has  a  total  of  six  acres 
of  Pilgrims.  On  the  West  Coast, 
this  variety  cup  counted  800 
barrels  to  the  acre.  They  should 
do  equally  well  here. 

Thunder  Lake  also  shipped 
to  Nova  Scotia  recently  several 
varieties  for  their  experimental 
planting  and  their  nursery, 
which  is  being  re-activated, 
not  only  with  the  varieties  from 
Wisconsin  but  with  additional 
vines  they  will  get  from  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

We  received  a  shipment  of 
Bergmans  from  the  Fuller-Ham- 
mond Company  and  we  planted 
1%  acres  of  this  variety,  which 
is  probably  the  only  planting  of 
this  variety  in  the  state.  This 
variety  is  popular  in  Massachu- 
setts and  New  jersey  but  has 
not  been  platend  in  Wisconsin, 
even   in   an   experimental   way. 

A  visit  was  recently  made 
by  Dr.  J.  F.  Davis  of  the  Soils 
Department,  Michigan  State 
University  and  Karl  Larson  and 
Jim  Neal,  who  are  in  charge  of 
the  experimental  station  in 
Newberry,  Michigan  and  hope 
to  follow  up  their  work  in  the 
experimental  plot  they  have  at 
Newberry,  which  is  a  very  good 
property.  In  fact,  there  is  no 
reason  that  Michigan  should 
not  be  as  successful  in  cran- 
berries as  Wisconsin  as  the 
conditions  are  practically  iden- 
tical. 

Thunder  Lake  also  procured 
a  vine  of  unknown  variety  we 
heard  of  from  Mr.  Norman  Le- 
Munyan,  who  has  an  experi- 
mental plot  in  New  Jersey  and 
we  set  them  out  here  to  see  if 

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Growers   have  been  blamed  for  the  rise   in 
"ood  prices   which  have   been   so   dramatically 
apposed  by  housewife  picketing   of  supermar- 
kets in  areas  from  one  coast  to  the  other. 
The  facts  are  these: 
'  In  comparison  to  a  little  over  a  decade 

ago,  the  growers  get  a  smaller  share  of  the 
money  paid  by  an  average  family  for  food. 
Fifteen  years  ago  the  grower  would  get  47 
cents  on  the  dollar.  Today  he  does  well  to  get 
40  cents  of  that  same  dollar. 

*  Growers  receive  about  2.7%  of  the  nat- 
ional income.  This  is  lowest  of  any  economic 
group. 

*  Marketing  has  been  the  reason  for  a 
28%  increase  in  the  cost  of  food  during  the 
past  15  years. 

America's  city  dwellers  hold  other  misconcep- 
tions about  farming.  It  seems  reasonable  to 
believe  that  they  have  no  idea  how  much  the 
rise  in  retail  food  prices  reflects' a  the  quickly 
rising  costs  of  processing,  packaging,  transpor- 
tation, warehousing  and  retailing.  High  costs 
of  labor  create  pressures  at  all  levels  of 
distribution. 

John  Q.  Jennings,  writing  in  the :  Farm  Jour- 
nal, stated  that  "food  marketing  e.xpe:  ses  have 
jumped  from  53  cents  of  the  food  dollar  be- 
fore the  Korean  War  to  60  cents  now  —  while 
the  farmers  share  was  dropping  from  47  cents 
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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   Rivei ,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticultuce 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

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increased  the  demand  for  fresh,  frozen  and  con- 
venience foods  —  items  that  require  advanced 
techniques  to  preserve,  process   and  transport. 

Growers  are  also  paying  more  for  help.  Wages 
for  farm  labor  have  increased  628%  since  parity 
measurements  started  in  1910.  Still,  union  or- 
ganizers maintain  that  the  estimated  360, 
000  farm  workers,  if  unionized,  could  demand 
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The  1967  Wisconsin  State 
Cranberry  Growers'  Association's 
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held  August  16  at  the  William 
Harkner  marsh  just  south  of 
Millston,  Wisconsin. 


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controls,  chemicals,  etc.  There 
will  be  no  charge  to  any  or- 
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etc.  Mr.  Eugene  Savage,  the 
county  agent  at  Black  River 
Falls  and  Mr.  G.  C.  Klingbeil, 
Extension  Specialist,  Univ.  of 
Wis.  will  coordinate  the  day 
which  will  begin  at  10:00  a.m. 
and  hopefully  be  through  by 
3:30  p.m.  We  expect  to  have 
from  150  to  200  growers  at 
this  meeting. 


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Jersey  Blueberry  Harvest 
Down  1 0  to  20'^ 

This  year's  blueberry  harvest 
which  in  now  in  full  swing  will 
be  10  to  20  percent  below  1966 
states  Phil  Marucci,  head  of  the 
N.J.  Blueberry-Cranberry  Lab 
New  Lisbon, 

Mr.  Marucci  blamed  the  shoi 
crop  on  winter  injury  plus  poor 
pollinating  conditions  during  a 
severely  cold  spring.  Despite 
new  fields  coming  into  bearing, 
Phil  said  the  N.  J.  harves 
would  be  doWn  from  the  1966 
crop  of  2,100,000  crates. 

The  state  berry  specialist  said 
that  damage  to  early  varieties 
was  severe  in  the  Pemberton- 
Ghatsworth  sector  with  little 
if  any  damage  in  the  Atlantic 
Gounty  growing  areas. 

Harry  Bush,  manager  of  the 
Blueberry  Cooperative  Associa- 
tion, New  Lisbon,  was  less  op- 
timistic about  crop  propects. 
He  reported  that  a  recent  sur- 
vey of  member  growers  indi- 
cates the  yield  might  be  down 
as  much  as  25  percent. 

A  prehminary  survey  showed 
an  expected  reduction  of  29 
percent  in  the  crop  but  the 
later  survey  indicated  some  im- 
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Six 


I 

spring  minimum  temperature 

probabilities  in  the  vicinity  of 
:ranberry  bogs 
in  new  jersey 


CLARENCE  M.  SAKAMOTO 
and  HAROLD  SCOTT 


This  particular  study  was 
prompted  by  the  question:  "If 
a  cranberry  bog  was  drained  in 
the  spring,  what  is  the  chance 
of  receiving  a  critically  low 
temperature  thereafter?"  A  re- 
lated and  possibly  more  im- 
portant question  from  a  prac- 
tical view  is:  "If  one  drained 
his  bog  after  a  particular  spring 
date,  how  many  more  critically 
lew  temperatures  can  one  ex- 
pect?" 

The  earlier  the  bogs  are 
drained,  the  greater  the  poten- 
tial for  growtn  and  yield,  pro- 
vided no  damaing  temperatures 
occurs  after  drainage. 

Not  only  are  the  answers  to 
these  questions  potentially  use- 
ful in  long-range  planning,  but 
they  may  provide  information 
which  affects  day-to-day  decis- 
ions. For  example,  short-lived 
warm  periods  during  early 
spring  can  mislead  growers  into 
draining  their  bogs  prematurely. 
On  the  other  hand,  if  the  water 
level  in  the  reservoir  is  low,  it 
may  be  best  to  delay  drainage 
until  the  frost  danger  is  over, 
even  though  a  warm  spring 
may  be  in  progress. 

Although  growers  generally 
know  when  bogs  should  oe 
drained  so  as  to  minimize  the 
danger  from  low  temperatures, 
these  periods  have  been  ex- 
pressed as  "not  too  good"  or 
"good,"  meaning  potential  dan- 
ger from  low  temperature.  Tem- 
perature probability  tables  for 
the  cranberry- growing  area  of 
New  Jersey  on   a  microclimatic 

Continued   on   Next   Pa^e 


TABLE  1 

DATES  ON 
INDICATED 

UHIGH  CHANCE  OF  LAST  OCCURRENCE  OF 
TEMPERATURE  (OR  LOVER)  DECREASES  TO 

INDIAN  HILLS 

32 
28 
24 

90% 

75% 

PROBABILITY 
67%            66% 

33% 

25% 

10% 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

16 

4 

16 

APR 
APR 
HAR 

23 
11 
24 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

25 
14 
27 

APR 
APR 
APR 

30 

19 

2 

MAY  5 
APR  24 
APR     8 

MAY  8 
APR  27 
APR  11 

MAY  18 
MAY  4 
APR  18 

BELLEPLAIN 

32 

28 
24 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

14 

25 

6 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

21 

2 

14 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

24 

5 

18 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

29 
11 
24 

MAY  4 
APR  17 
MAR  30 

MAY  7 
APR  10 
APR     2 

MAY  14 
APR  18 
APR  11 

PLEAS ANT VILLE  32 
28 
24 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

13 
28 
15 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

20 

6 

23 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

23 

9 

27 

APR 
APR 
APR 

28 

15 

2 

MAY  3 
APR  21, 
APR     8 

MAY  6 
APR  25 
APR  11 

MAY  15 
MAY  3 
APR  20 

PENBERTON 

32 
28 
24 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

8 

23 

8 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

14 
31 
16 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

17 

2 

19 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

22 

8 

24 

APR  26 
APR  13 
MAR  30 

APR  29 
APR  I<? 
APR     2 

MAY     6 

APR  24 
APR  10 

FREEHOLD 

32 
28 
24 

APR     3 
MAR  21 
MAR  11 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

9 
29 
18 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

12 

1 

21 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

17 

6 

27 

APR  22 
APR  11 
APR     1 

APR  24 
APR,  14 
APR     4 

MAY  1 
APR  22 
APR  12 

TUCIERTON 

32 
28 
24 

MAR 
MAR 
MAR 

31 

18 

5 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

7 
26 
13 

APR 
MAR 
MAR 

10 
29 
17 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

15 

4 

23 

AHi  20 
APR  10 
MAR  29 

APR  23 
APR  13 
APR     2 

APR  30 
APR  21 
APR  10 

HAMMONTON 

32 

28 
24 

APR 
Mar 
MAR 

6 

25 

9 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

12 

1 

15 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

15 

4 

19 

APR 
APR 
MAR 

20 

B 

25 

APR  25 
APR  15 
MAR  30 

APR  27 
APR  17 
APR     2 

MAY  4 
APR  25 
APR  10 

figure  I.  Av€ragt  daU  of  lot  32*F 
or  lower  in  the  Cranberry  growing 
area*  of  New  Jertey.  Dark  area  m- 
tide  hatched  Une  reprewenU  general 
CTarU>errjf  fteld*.  Approxlmaieii/  3000 
acrea  are  grown. 


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Seven 


Sj)ring  Minimum  Temperature 

Continued  from  page  7 

scale  do  not  exist.  However, 
probability  of  the  last  thres- 
hold low  temperature  on  a 
macroclimatic  scale  for  some 
stations  in  New  Jersey  has  been 
analyzed  by  Havens  and  Mc- 
Guire.' 

Thirty  years  of  shelter  mini- 
mum (five-foot  level)  tempera- 
tures were  analyzed  to  deter- 
nnine: 

(a)  the  date  and  its  associa- 
ted probability  of  the 
last  spring  32  degrees  F, 
28  degrees  F,  and  24  de- 
grees F  or  lower, 

(b)  the  expected  number  of 
critical  low  temperatures 
after  a  certain  drainage 
date. 

Seven  stations  -encompassing  the 
cranberry  bog  area  were  uti- 
lized to  answer  (a)  above. 
These  included  Indian  Mills, 
Pleasantville,  Pemberton,  Tuc- 
erton,  Belleplain,  Freehold,  and 
Hammonton.  Only  one  station, 
Pemberton,  was  used  to  an- 
swer question  (b).  Pemberton 
was  selected  because  of  the 
length  of  its  continuous  record 
and  because  of  its  compatibility 
with  Whitesbog,  New  Jersey, 
the  bog  which  is  frequently 
used  by  growers  as  a  "reference" 
bog.  Whitesbog  is  also  a  lo- 
cation where  bog  temperatures 
are  observed  in  addition  to 
standard  instrument  shelter 
temperatures.  The  microcli- 
matic variation  in  cranberry 
fields  is  large.  Unfortimately, 
except  for  Whitesbog,  stand- 
ardized observation  of  tlie  bog 
surface  has  not  been  recorded, 
but,  as  indicated  earlier,  grow- 
ers in  New  Jersey  have  been 
able  to  refer  to  Whitesbog  and 
make  necessary  corrections  ap- 
plicable to  their  bogs. 

Figure  1  shows  the  average 
date  of  the  last  spring  32  de- 
grees F  (or  lower)  tempera- 
tures. This  average  date  means 
that  in  the  thirty  years  of  ree- 

Eight 


ord,  32  degrees  F  or  lower  oc- 
curred prior  to  the  specifitKl 
date  in  fifteen  out  of  the  thirty 
years.  Several  other  sites  (dates 
in  parentheses)  with  less  than 
thirty  years  were  also  used  as 
a  guide  to  draw  the  isolines  on 
the  map.  In  general,  the  aver- 
age date  in  the  cranberry  fields 
occurs  between  April  20  thru 
April  30  in  South  Jersey. 

Since  the  data  were  based  on 
the  standard  shelter  (five  feet) 
height,  one  must  consider  the 
likelihood  that  the  bog  level 
will  be  considerably  colder 
than  the  five-foot  level.  To  de- 
termine the  relationship  be- 
tween these  two  levels,  the 
data  at  Whitesbog  were  plotted 
in  Figure  2.  Two  lines  were 
arbitrarily  drawn  to  separate 
the  meterological  conditions 
under  which  these  observations 
were  recorded.  For  example, 
conditions  on  the  left  side  of 
the  left  line  are  "clear  nights 
and  calm  winds,"  while  those 
on  the  right  side  of  the  right 
line  in  the  figure  represent  ob- 


servations during  "cloudy  nightj 
and/or  windy."  Under  ideal 
conditions    of    clear    night    and 

calm  wind,  the  difference  be- 
tween the  two  levels  can  be  in 
excess  of  10  degrees.  For  ex- 
ample, a  30  degrees  F  obser 
vation  at  the  shelter  level  may 
correspond  to  an  18  degrees  F 
bog  temperature  observation 
Generally,  however,  one  can  ex- 
pect a  five  to  10  degrees'  drop 
from  the  five-foot  level  to  the 
bog  surface.  With  this  in  mind, 
Figure  1  could  be  re-interpreted 
to  mean  the  average  date  of 
the  fast  temperature  22  degre^-s 
F  to  27  degrees  F  or  lower. 
These  figures  are  significant  i 
from  the  standpoint  that  they| 
represent  critically  low  tem- 
peratures from  bud  formation 
to  flowering  in   the   spring. 

Other  levels  of  probability 
and  two.  other  threshold  tem- 
peratures (at  five  feet)  are 
also  included  in  Table  1.  Prob- 
ability levels  from  10  percent 
through  90  percent  are  showTi. 
For  example,  at  Pemberton  on 


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April  29  there  is  still  a  25  per- 
cent chance  that  at  least  an- 
other 32  degrees  or  lower  tem- 
perature will  occur.  The  prob- 
abihty  that  the  last  32  degrees 
F  or  lower  has  occurred  on 
May  6  drops  to  10  percent.  At 
Tuckerton  the  corresponding 
chance,  10  percent  occurs  ear- 
lier, on  April  30. 

It  must  be  remembered  that 
Table  1  refers  to  the  chance  of 
the  last  occurrence  of  speci- 
fied temperatures.  It  should 
also  be  emphasized  that  even 
though  a  low  temperature  has 
occurred  after  a  given  date  as- 
sociated with  a  given  chance, 
there  is  no  assurance  that  an- 
other low  temperature  will  or 
will  not  occur.  In  this  respect, 
it  is  advisable  that  one  keep 
current  of  the  daily,  as  well 
as  the  three-  and  five-day  fore- 
casts. 

Cranberry  growers  possess  a 
satisfactory  frost-  protection 
method  in  flooding;  therefore, 
they    may    find    that    the    fre- 


quency of  certain  low  tempera- 
tures in  a  particular  week  may 
be  a  more  useful  bit  of  infor- 
mation to  them.  This  frequency 
or  number  of  certain  specified 
temperature  has  been  analyzed 
for  the  period  March  1  thru 
May  9  (figure  3).  For  sim- 
plicity, this  period  has  been  di- 
vided into  10  climatological 
weeks  of  seven  days  each,  be- 
ginning with  March  1-7  as  the 
first  week. 


Figure  3  depicts  the  prob- 
ability or  percent  frequency  of 
24  degrees  F,  28  degrees  F  (or 
lower)  for  each  of  the  clima- 
tological week  beginning  with 
March  1-7.  For  example,  if  it 
was  desired  to  determine  the 
number  of  32  degrees  F  or 
lower  temperature  one  can  ex- 
pect in  week  four  (March  22- 
28),  proceed  upward  in  Fig- 
ure 3  until  intersecting  the  32 
degree  line.  One  finds  that  the 
frequency  is  40  percent,  or  ap- 
proximately three  days.  Simi- 
larly, if  one  wanted  to  deter- 
mine the   frequency  of  28  de- 


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grees  or  lower  during  week  6 
(April  4-11),  the  curve  indi- 
cates that  it  is  about  10  per- 
cent or,  roughly,  one  day  in  that 
week. 

It  should  be  pointed  out  that 
the  frequency  refers  only  to 
the  week  in  question  or  for 
a  duration  of  seven  days  only. 
In  this  respect,  Figure  3  dif- 
fers from  Table  1  in  that  Fig- 
ure 3  refers  to  weekly  inter- 
vals and  frequency  or  expected 
number  of  certain  low  tempera- 
tures, but  Table  1  refers  to  the 
chance  of  a  certain  threshold 
temperature  on  a  given  date 
and,  therefore,  for  the  season 
(spring)   in  question. 

From  an  applied  point-of- 
view,  data  provided  by  Figure 
3  may  be  more  useful  that  that 
of  Table  1,  although  both  can 
provide  useful   information. 

From  an  applied  point-of- 
view,  data  provided  by  Figure 
3  may  be  more  useful  than  that 
of  Table  1,  although  both  can 
provide  useful  information. 

Data  such  as  Figure  3  and 
Table  1  can  Ije  utilized  efiFec- 
tively  if  one  also  considers  the 
short-range  forecasts,  including 
the  daily  and  five-day  forecast. 

Results  of  some  climatologi- 
cal analyses  in  the  vicinity  of 
cranberry  fields  of  New  Jersey 
have  been  presented  which  pro- 
vide potentially  yseful  infor- 
mation in  making  a  manage- 
ment decision  o 

'  Havens,  A.  V.  and  McGuire,  J. 
K.,  SFRING  AND  FALL 
LOW-TEMPERATURE 
PROBABILITIES.  Bulletin 
801,  New  Jersey  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  Rutgers 
—The  State  University.  June, 
1961. 


Clarence  M.  Sakamoto,  Ph.D.  is  Ag- 
ricultural Meterologist,  Assistant  Pro- 
0  fessor  of  Heterology,  Rutgers  —  The 
State  University  and  ESSA,  Weather 
Bureau  and  Harold  Scott  is  Me- 
terologist at  the  Institute  of  E»jm- 
Tonmental  Research,  ESSA,  Weather 
Bureau. 


mine 


Nb8S.Statioii 
8  Field  Notes 

Continued  from  page  3 


Crop  Prospects 
From  all  reports  and  obser- 
vations it  appears  that  Massa- 
chusetts has  another  heavj' 
bloom,  particularly  on  the  Early 
Blacks.  Most  bogs  are  in  ex- 
cellent shape,  the  herbicide 
treatments  have  been  quite  ef- 
fective generally  and  injury 
from  frost  or  winterkill  is  very 
light.  We  have  the  potential 
for  another  large  crop. 

We  want  to  urge  growers  to 
cooperate  with  the  New  Eng- 
land Crop  Reporting  Service  by 
mailing  their  crop  estimates,  in 
August,  to  Mr.  B.  S.  Peterson. 
A  large  number  of  reports 
makes  a  more  accurate  estimate 
possible  and  adds  to  the  value 
of  this  service. 

Weather 

Tlie  month  cf  Jnne  was 
slightly  less  than  a  degree  a 
day  below  normal.  It  was  warm 
the  first  few  days,  then  settled 
down  to  about  2  weeks  of  av- 
erage temperatures,  followed 
by  a  cool  spell  from  the  19th 
through  the  23rd  and  then 
Avarm  the  last  week  of  the 
month.  Precipitation  totalled 
2.79  inches  with  the  only  real 
rainy  period  occurring  from  the 
19th  through  the  21st  when 
2.59  inclies  was  recorded.  The 
month  ended  about  Vz  inch  be- 
low average,  but  we  are  still 
3V4  inches  above  average  for 
1967  and  IIV2  inches  ahead  of 
1966  at   this  time. 


Insects    and    Weeds 

The  first  fruitworm  moth  was 
caught  in  Prof.  Tomlinson's 
black-light  trap  on  the  eve- 
ning of  June  11  which  is  about 
the  usual  time  compared  with 
many    other   years. 

Ten 


Large  numbers  of  girdler 
moths  have  been  noted  on 
many  bogs  during  June,  this 
pest  has  been  on  the  increase  in 
recent  years,  because  of  oiu" 
dry  summers.  Bill  Tomlinson 
advises  the  dieldrin  or  DDT 
treatments  listed  on  the  Insect 
Control  Chart  give  good  con- 
trol of  the  larval  or  worm  stage. 
These  treatments  should  not  be 
applied  when  the  bog  is  in 
bloom.  Bill  also  warns  that 
growers  should  be  alert  to  pos- 
sible late  infestations  of  fruit- 
worm  and  Sparganothis  fruit- 
worm  this   year. 


Dalapon  may  be  used  until 
the  end  of  July  for  treating 
ditch  weeds  or  poverty  and 
switch  grasses  on  shore.  Fuel 
oil  is  helpful  for  weed  control 
in  dry  ditches.  Shores  and  dikes 
may  be  sprayed  with  a  solu- 
tion of  2,  4,  5-T  and  water  to 
control  broadleaved  weeds,  this 
is  especially  good  on  poison 
ivy.  Salt  solution,  1  pound  of 
salt  to  a  gallon  of  water  applied 
as  a  fine  spray  at  2(X)  gaHons 
per  acre,  will  burn  off  wild  bean 
and  other  tender  weeds. 


Essential  for 
Motoring  Trips 


If  you  are  planning  a  trip  by 
auto,  don't  neglect  the  most  im- 
portant item  for  carefree  tra- 
vel ...  be  sure  your  car  gets  a 
thorough  checking  over  before 
you  start  on  your  trip. 

Be  sure  to  always  have  your 
license  and  registration  along. 
Take  along  an  extra  set  of  keys 
for  the  ignition,  glove  compart- 
ment and  trunk.  Be  sure  to  have 
a  flashlight,  trouble  lights  and 
a  sign  or  some  type  of  warning 
device  for  possible  roadside  re- 
pairs. 

Make  certain  all  lights  oper- 
ate properly;  check  all  tires  and 
spares  for  wear  and  pressure; 
check  the  oil,  spark  plugs,  lub- 
rication, brakes,  battery  and 
cooling  system;  and  make  sure 
you  have  the  proper  tools  for 
any  emergencies. 


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Broiled  Gourmet  Ham 


Sliced  Ham    (to   serve  4) 

Cooked  asparagus  spears 

4  thick  slices  Ocean    Spray    canned    jellied    cranberry    sauce 

4  thick  slices  Cheddar  Cheese 

Broil  ham  to  desired  degree  of  doneness.  Place  ham  slices  in 
flat  casserole  dish.  Place  2  or  3  spears  of  cooked  asparagus  dn 
top  of  each  serving.  Then  place  a  slice  of  cranberry  sauce 
and  a  slice  of  cheese  (in  opposite  direction  so  that  the  cran- 
berry sauce  shows).  Place  under  broiler  until  cheese  melts. 
Serve  immediately.  Makes  4  servings. 


Irozen  Cranberry  Cheese  Salad 


2  (3-oz.)  packages  cream 

cheese 
1  cap  mayonnaise 
1  cup  ^nrhipping  cream 
K  cap  ripe  olives,  sliced  thin 


1  cup  crushed  pineapple, 

drained 
1  cap  Ocean  Spray  Jellied 

Cranberry  Saace,  cabed 


Cream  the  cheese  and  mix  well  Avith  mayonnaise.  Whip  cream  and  add.  Fold 
in  shced  ohves,  crushed  pineapple  and  cranberry  sauce  cubes.  Pack  in  refrig- 
erator tray  and  freeze  for  3  to  4  hours.  Shce  and  serve  on  lettuce. 


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Photos  1  thru  4  -  General  views  of  Makepeace  bogs,  Wareham,  Massachusetts 
Photos  5  thru  8  -  Views  showing  cleaning  and  rebuilding  of  Makepeace  bogs 

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THE  GIST  OF  JUICES 

(a  LA  cranberry) 

Travel  broadens  the  palate 
as  well  as  the  eye  and  there's 
no  better  proof  of  this  than 
today's  swinging  homemaker 
who  just  naturally  takes  a 
lively  interest  in  the  new  foods 
and  recipes  ...  as  well  as  the 
sights  and  sounds  ...  on  her 
vacation.  This  increased  so- 
phistication on  her  part,  has  led 
to  the  planning  of  more  menus 
for  family  meals  and  it  may 
account  in  part  for  the  wildfire 
success  of  once-regional  food5 
such  as  cranberry  juice. 

One  old  Cape  Cod  recipe  re- 
quired a  boiling  kettle  and  a 
good  measure  of  oatmeal  to 
clarify  the  juice,  hardly  the 
type  of  cooking  to  spread 
among  busy  homemakers,  today. 

When  cranberry  juice  did  ap- 
pear in  a  bottle,  ready  to  serve, 
however,  homemakers  were  well 
prepared  to  try  the  unusual, 
tangy-tasting  red  juice.  And 
they  not  only  liked  it,  but  they 
soon  came  up  with  a  variety  of 
uses  for  it  Today  it  is  served 
not   only   as  a   breakfast  juice, 


but  as  a  between-meal  snack 
and  as  an  appetizer  before  din-i 
ner.  It's  mixed  with  tea  and 
other  fruit  juices  for  party 
punches.  It's  carried  in  a 
thermos  when  the  family 
travels. 

All  this  has  not  been  ignored 
by  the  cranberry  cooperative 
M>hich  first  put  cranberry  juice 
on  the  market.  They  followed 
cranberry  juice  cocktail  with  a 
low  calorie  version  which  has 
only  12  calories  to  4  ounces  of 
juice.  Then  since  cranberry  juice 
is  such  a  natural  mixer,  cran- 
berry-apple juice  appeared  on 
the   market. 


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A  Visit  to  the  Bogs  of 

POTTER 

& 
SONS 

Wisconsin  -  grown  cranberries 
are  'water  picked.'  Mechanical 
pickers,  traveling  the  marsh 
flooded  to  a  depth  of  six  inches 
for  the  harvest,  scoop  up  the 
berries  and  load  them  by  con- 
veyor belt  into  flat  boats  towed 
along  behind. 

The  mechanical  picker  has 
fingers  similar  to  the  tines  of  a 
fork  and  these  get  under  the 
berries  and  hold  them  while 
the  vines  are  rolled  away  by  the 
forward  motion  of  the  machine. 

Until  about  ten  years  ago 
cranberry  raking  was  done  by 
hand,  and  in  the  earlier  years, 
berries  were  picked  by  hand 
without'  equipment.  Mechani- 
cal pickers  do  the  work  of 
about  eight  men  with  hand 
rakes.  In  the  days  of  hand 
picking  it  was  the   custom   for 


several  hundred  people  from 
the  surrounding  area  to  join  in 
the  harvest. 

In  the  photo  you  see  an  hy- 
draulic lift  mounted  on  the  back 
of  a  truck  lifting  the  boats 
and  dumping  the  fresh  picked 
berries  into  a  truck  for  haul- 
ing. At  first  glance  one  would 
think  the  job  of  running  the 
mechanical  picker  to  be  an 
easy  one.  Not  so!  The  picking 
is  only  done  in  one  direction. 
The  driver  must  get  out  at  the 
end  of  the  bog  and  place  plank- 
ing under  his  tracks  to  climb 
out.  Then  there  is  the  problem 
of  getting  stuck,  refueling  and 
many  others  that  are  not  ob- 
vious at  first  glance. 

The  Potter  &  Sens  bogs  are 
located  west  on  route  54  out 
of  Port  Edwards  in  Wood 
county,  Wis.  Wood  county  is 
the  largest  cranberry  produc- 
ing county  in  Wisconsin. 

The  picked  berries  are  taken 
to  the  new  $400,000  receiving 
and  screening  plant  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.  in  Bab- 
cock,  Wisconsin. 


The  unique  feature  of  this 
plant,  first  of  its  kind  in  the  in- 
dustry, is  the  50  x  100  foot  re- 
ceiving pool.  This  pool  is  ca- 
able  of  holding  600,000  pounds 
of  berries.  A  constant  flow  of 
water  in  this  pools  washes  off 
the  leaves  and  debris  and  the 
berries  then  move  across  clean- 
ers, graders  and  dryers  before 
they  are  placed  into  bulk  bins 
or  60  poimd  kraft  bags. 

The  bulk  of  cranberries  from 
the  Babcock  plant  is  shipped 
to  the  Ocean  Spray  plant  in 
Chicago.  The  rest  go  to  the 
company's  plant  in  Markham, 
Wash.,  or  to  special  buyers. 


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the  year-'round  berries 
with  the  bounce! 


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Apr/7  Bros.  Purchase  Two  New  Trocfors 


SWEET-AND-SOUR  SAUCE:  This 
sauce  is  delicious  served  over  fish  which 
has  been  wrapped  in  greased  foil  and 
grilled  over  hot  coals.  (1)  Drain  1  can 
(1-lb.)  pineapple  tidbits,  reserving  1  cup 
syrup  and  14  cup  tidbits.  (Use  remain- 
ing tidbits  in  a  salad.)  (2)  Saute  1  clove 
garlic,  crushed,  and  3^  cup  coarsely 
chopped  onion  in  3  tablespoons  butter 
or  margarine.  (3)  Add  %  cup  light  brown 
sugar,  the  pineapple  syrup,  3^  cup  vin- 
egar, }4  cup  each  sherry,  soy  sauce  and 
chopped  crystallized  ginger.  (4)  Mix  3 
tablespoons  cornstarch  with  enough 
water  to  make  a  smooth  paste  and  add 
to  sauce,  stirring  constantly  until  thick- 
ened. (5)  Add  1  green  pepper,  cut  into 
slivers,  and  the  reserved  pineapple 
tidbits.  Cook  sauce  for  3  minutes.  Yield: 
1  quart. 

BARBECUE  MARINADE:  For  lamb. 

(1)  Mix  1  clove  garlic,  crushed,  %  cup 
salad  oil,  %  cup  chopped  onion,  14  cup 
wine  or  cider  vinegar,  2  teaspoons  bar- 
becue spice,  1  }/2  teaspoons  salt,  14  tea- 
spoon freshly  ground  pepper,  }4  tea- 
spoon oregano  and  1  bay  leaf,  crushed. 

(2)  Pour  over  a  boned  leg  of  lamb  which 
has  been  placed  in  a  large  bowl.  Cover 
and  refrigerate  overnight  or  as  long  as 
a  day  or  two.  (3)  Remove  lamb  from 
marinade  and  barbecue  to  desired  done- 
ness,  turning  and  basting  frequently 
with  the  marinade.  Yield:  about  2  cups 
marinade.  This  is  also  delicious  with 
lamb  shanks  or  chops. 

SPICY  STEAK  MARINADE:  (1) 
Mix  together  14  cup  lemon  juice,  1 
tablespoon  onion  juice,  1  teaspoon  celery 
salt,  14  teaspoon  each  garlic  jiiice  and 
powdered  coriander,  and  14  teaspoon 
charcoal  seasoning,  if  you  like.  (2)  Pour 
marinade  over  steak,  cover  and  refrig- 
erate for  4  hours.  Turn  the  meat  in 
the  marinade  from  time  to  time.  (3) 
Drain  marinade  from  the  meat  and  grill 
to  desired  doneness.  Makes  about  }4 
cup  marinade.  Good  on  all  steaks. 

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Morris    April    Bros.,    Eatmor  the  two  huge  tractor  rigs  shown 

Division,  Inc.,  prominent  cran-  here.    The    gentleman    pictured 

berry    processors    of    Millville,  beside  the  trucks  is  Mr.  Morris 

New  Jersey,  recently  purchased  April. 

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The  new  Buckner  1967  Ag- 
ricultural Sprinkler  Catalog  is 
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Industries,  Inc.,  Fresno  man- 
facturers  of  agricultural,  indus- 
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and  irrigation   equipment. 

The  1967  edition  of  the  cat- 
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ucts and  features  newly  de- 
signed performance  charts  and 
a    new    precipitation    chart. 

A  new  anti-back-splash  at- 
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and  large  capacity  rocket-jet 
sprinklers,  available  in  both 
full  and  part  circle  models,  A 
new  line  of  maintenance  acces- 
sories is  presented  for  the  first 
time  along  with  a  heavy-duty 
electric  remote  control  globe 
valve. 

Performance  charts  for  the 
complete  line  of  Buckner  agri- 
cultural sprinklers  have  been 
redesigned  for  easy  reading. 
When  used  with  the  new  pre- 
cipitation chart  all  the  infor- 
mation necessary  to  estimate 
and  design  an  efficiently  opera- 
ting irrigation  system  is  avail- 
able in  the  one  catalog. 

The  Buckner  1967  agricul- 
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303.  511,  5n.  555,  540. 

5*5.  5900.  5910  13 

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June  was  about  average  in 
temperature  and  drier  than 
normal  in  .the  cranberry  region 
of  New  Jersey.  The  tempera- 
ture averaged  70.6  degrees, 
about  normal.  Precipitation  to- 
taled only  2.01  inches,  which 
is  1.70  inches  less  than  nor- 
mal. 

For  the  first  six  months  of 
1967  •rainfall  has  amounted  to 
only  19.09  inches,  about  1.75 
inches  less  than  normal.  How- 
ever, in  the  first  five  days  of 
July  1.70  inches  of  rain  oc- 
curred to  make  up  most  of  the 
deficiency.  As  of  now,  water 
supplies  on  New  Jersey  bogs 
are  much  better  than  they  have 
been  in  the  previous  three 
years    of   drought. 

Blossoming  on  cranberry  bogs 
is   about   a   week   to    ten    days 


later  than  last  year  and  at 
least  two  weeks  later  than 
usual.  There  will,  apparently, 
be  a  long  lingering  period  of 
bloom,  as  many  open  blos- 
soms and  very  small  closed 
ones  are  observed  on  the 
same  upright.  In  a  few  rare 
cases  two  new  blossoming  up- 
rights were  observed  to  have 
issued  from  one  terminal  bud 
of  an  old  upright. 

Black-headed  fireworm  was 
moderately  abundant  in  the 
first  generation,  but  seems  to 
have  been  well  controlled  by 
parathion-DDT  aireal  applica- 
tions. Girdler  moth  flight  is 
very  heavy  on  some  bogs,  par- 
ticularly grassy  ones. 


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Weather 

With  our  hottest  day  of  the 
year  coming  July  1  with  89  de- 


R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


Serving  Agriculture 


Helicopter   Application 
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West  Wareham,   Mass. 

295-1553 


grees  F  we  were  glad  that  there 
has  been  plenty  of  water  —  for 
the  sprinklers  were  going  ino'^t 
of  the  day.  Here  at  the  coast 
the  breeze  usually  comes  up 
about  noon  and  it  did  not  miss 
that  day,  but  the  inland  heat 
still  held  for  most  of  the  bog 
area.  The  high  temperature 
for  June  was  75  on  the  4th,  with 
a  mean  high  for  the  month  of 
63.2.  The  low  for  the  month 
was  43  degrees  F  on  the  3rd 
and  the  mean  low  51.5. 

Our  precipitation  has  been 
light  this  month  with  only  1.43 
inches  total  and  .94  inches 
coming  on  the  21st.  This  makes 
a  total  for  the  six  months  of 
1967  of  52.28  inches  compared 
to  the  first  six  months  of  1966 
with   38.44   inches. 


Field  Day 
Our  June  24  Field  Day  was 
a  fine  success  with  more  than 
170  coming  for  the  day.  Many 
fam'ilies  came  for  the  first  time 
and  took  advantage  of  the  ex- 
tremely low  clam  tides.  Some 
went  clam  digging  for  the  first 
time,  and  were  well  rewarded. 
Mr.  Shawa  is  on  leave  until  the 
10th  of  July,  so  the  Cranberry 
Vine  will  be  coming  out  soon 
after  that. 

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Eighteen 


DANIEL  JAMES  CROWLEY  - 
SPRINKLER  PIONEER 


by  LEONARD  W.  YOUNG 

Asst.   to   the  Director  of 

Agricultural   Research, 

Washington   State    University 


In  four  of  the  five  main  cran- 
berry-producing states,  frost 
protection  with  sprinkler  irri- 
gation is  the  usual  practice. 
Many  installations  are  fully 
automatic  and  the  grower  only 
awakens  with  the  warning  sig- 
nal on  a  freezing  night  to  make 
sure  everything  is  working  be- 
fore he  goes  back  to  sleep. 

In  Massachusetts,  Dr.  Ches- 
ter E.  Cross,  Head  of  the 
Cranberry  Station  at  East 
Wareham,  estimates  that  5,000 
acres  of  bogs  are  protected  with 
sprinklers  and  says  that  each 
year  sees  new  large  acreages 
equipped  for  the  same  purpose. 
Another  5,000  acres  in  Wiscon- 
sin are  protected  this  way  ac- 
cording to  Vernon  Goldswor- 
thy.  President  of  Cranberry 
Products,  Inc.,  at  Eagle  River. 

In  Oregon,  about  60  to  75% 
of  the  state's  600  acres  now 
rely  upon  sprinkler  protec- 
tion reports  Fred  Hagelstein, 
County  Extension  Agent,  and 
in  the  state  the  percentage  is 
near  100  where  the  acreage  is 
about  1,000.  There  are  many 
reports  that  the  same  system 
is  being  used  on  other  crops 
that  are  adaptable. 

When  you  look  at  a  field  bur- 
ied under  ice  on  a  cold  morning, 
it  is  hard  to  understand  how 
anyone  could  think  of  that  as 
a  way  to  save  crops  from  ex- 
tinction. It  looks  as  if  the  di- 
sease would  be  preferable  to 
the  cure. 


per  year  which  was  to  pay  his 
salary  and  provide  the  funds 
to  operate  an  experimental  bog 
near  Long  Beach  and  Ilwaco. 
With  his  meager  funds,  he  tac- 
kled all  of  the  problems  as 
fast  as  he  could  and  when  it 
got  freeing  cold  at  night  he 
tried  firing  and  smudging.  Like 
many  others  had,  he  found  that 
the  heat  went  straight  up  and 
the  vines  froze.  The  situation 
was  about  as  black  as  the 
smudge  he  was  making. 

In  the  midst  of  the  gloom,  he 
remembered  a  lecture  and 
demonstration  by  one  of  his 
physics  professors  at  Washing- 
ton State,  Prof,  Brenton  Steele 
had  showed  his  class  that  each 
gram  of  water  holds  80  calories 
of  latent  heat  which,  when  the 
water  freezes,  is  not  destroyed. 
It  moves.  If  that  heat  would 
move  in  the  right  direction, 
Crowley  thought,  it  might  do 
the  trick. 

For  the  next  frosty  night  he 
was  prepared  with  barrels  of 
water  and  sprinklers.  After  a 
long  night  session,  the  wet  and 
cold  Crowley  had  proved  to 
himelf  that  he  had  saved  that 
portion  of  the  crop  while  the 
rest  of  the  bog  showed  frost 
damage.  He  was  convinced 
but  it  wasn't  so  easy  to  con- 
vince those  in  charge  of  his 
program.  In  fact,  he  had  to 
keep  his  frost  control  experi- 
ments on  a  low  kiey  for  sev- 
eral years  so  his  superiors 
wouldn't  rule  them  out. 

Crowley  finished  his  degree  The  next  year,  Crowley  bor- 
work  at  Washington  State  Uni-  rowed  some  better  sprinkling 
versity  in  1923  and  went  back 

to   the   cranberry  country  with         Continued  on  Page  22 
a  state  appropriation  of  $4,500 

Nineteen 


The  idea  can  be  traced  back 
to  the  trials  and  tribulations 
of  a  young  plant  pathologist  by 
the  name  of  Daniel  James 
Crowley  who  was  sent  into 
the  cranberry  country  of  Wash- 
ington in  1922  to  save  the  then 
small  industry  from  failure.  It 
was  his  first  assignment  with  the 
Washington  Agricultural  Ex- 
periment Station.  Now  retired, 
45  years  later,  he  still  lives 
close  to  where  he  began  his 
work  and  where  his  son  is  now 
in  the  cranberry  business. 

Jim  Crowley's  assignment 
was  a  big  one  —  to  tackle  the 
problems  of  weeds,  insects  and 
diseases  and,  in  addition,  a 
mysterious  "blight"  which  could 
destroy  the  crop  in  one  night. 
Many  growers   were  giving  up 

because  they   couldn't   fight  it. 

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Young  Crowley  was  pre- 
pared to  fight  insects  and  di- 
seases with  the  "modem"  sprays 
of  1922  and  he  had  high  hopes 
that  he  could  cope  with  the 
weeds.  He  and  his  department 
head,  Dr.  F.  D,  Heald,  were 
intrigued  by  the  mystery  blight. 
Tn  June,  when  the  bHght  with- 
ered the  crop  overnight,  Jim 
was  pretty  upset  to  discover 
that  it  was  nothing  more  or 
less  than  frost  damage.  He  knew 
frost  could  be  staved  ofiF  with 
flooding  but,  while  the  state  of 
Washington  is  well  supplied 
with  rivers  cf  water,  there  was 
not  enough  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  bogs  to  flood  them  in  an 
emergency. 


Wisconsin  Gov.  Knowles 
Discusses  World  Food 

Officials  of  major  corpora- 
tions met  with  Governor  War- 
ren P.  Knowles  recently  to 
discuss  their  roles  in  meeting 
the  swiftly  developing  world 
food  crisis  and  to  view  the  site 
of  the  coming  World  Food  Ex- 
position September  15-24. 

Foodpower  more  than  fire- 
power will  shape  the  future  of 
mankind,  industry  leaders  now 
agree. 

Objectives  of  the  World  Food 
Exposition  in  seeking  means  of 
expanding  world  food  supply 
and  distribution  were  approved 
by  Willis  C.  Scholl,  president 
of  Allis-Chalmers  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  Milwaukee.  Ways 
must  be  found  to  step  up  food 
production  in  other  countries 
as  in  the  United  States.  Ameri- 
can farmers  can't  do  it  alone, 
he  said.  He  emphasized  that 
farmers  should  have  better 
prices  for  their  products. 


Threat  of  famine  as  world 
population  doubles  will  push 
up  the  price  of  land,  said  Ray 
E.  Rowland,  board  chairman  of 
Ralston-Purina  Company,  St. 
Louis.  He  advises  the  coming 
generation  of  young  farmers  to 
hold  onto  the  family  farm, 
"It's    the    most    precious    thing 


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Other  industry  leaders  pres- 
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Chicago,  Illinois;  Robert  J.  Dil- 
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Wisconsin;  Oscar  G.  Mayer, 
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W.  Parker,  vice  president-mar- 
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facturing Company,  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin. 

Conducting  the  tour  were 
Wilbur  N.  Renk,  president  of 
the  World  Food  &  Agricultural 
Foundation,  Inc.,  sponsoring 
the  Exposition,  and  Foundation 
members  Dean  Glenn  S.  Pound, 
University  of  Wisconsin  Col- 
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Wisconsin, 

Growers  are  greatly  interested 
in  planting  Stevens  and  quite 
a  little  acreage  was  planted  so 
far  this  year  and  the  only  thing 
that  stops  additional  acreage 
frrom  being  planted  is  the 
shortage  of  planting  stock.  This 
may  result  in  less  acres  of 
Stevens  being  planted  in  the 
next  two  or  three  years  and 
there  is  just  not  enough  plant- 
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of  the  demand,  not  only  in 
Wisconsin  but  on  both  the  East 
and  West  Coasts  and  in  Can- 
ada. Mr.  Charles  Larocque 
has  quite  a  lot  of  acreage  now 
in  Stevens  and  his  property  is 
near  Drummondville,  Quebec. 
He  plans  to  plant  more  in  the 
future  as  planting  stock  be- 
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SPRINKLER  PIONEER 

Continued  from  page  19 

equipment  and  used  it  on  a 
much  larger  area.  By  June 
1,  it  was  evident  that  the  pro- 
tected area  was  weeks  ahead  of 
the  surrounding  crop  which 
had  suflFered  setbacks  with 
each  frost.  In  the  1925  progress 
report  of  the  Washington  Agri- 
cultural Experiment  Station, 
the  researcher  included  a  con- 
servative estimate  of  what 
could  be  done  with  his  radical 
idea. 

Finally,  some  eight  years 
after  his  first  work,  Crowley 
was  allowed  to  use  a  $500  allo- 
cation of  funds  to  dig  a  sump 
to  collect  aijiple  water,  install  a 
second-hand  gas  engine  and 
pump  and  lay  out  enough  lines 
and  sprinklers  to  demonstrate 
his  idea  on  a  scale  large 
enough  to  convince  growers  to 
use  it.  Even  then  the  director 
of  agricultural  research  said  he 
hoped  Crowley  knew  what  he 
was  doing. 

Nowadays,  in  the  cranberry 
bogs  of  Washington,  this  kind 
of  protection  is  taken  for 
granted.  When  the  temperature 
reaches  the  danger  point,  ther- 
mostats in  dozens  of  bogs  send 
signals  to  the  owners'  bed- 
rooms and  tjo  the  pumps  which 
are  always  ready  to  go  to  work. 
Crowley's  adaptation  of  the 
fact  he  learned  in  class  45  years 
ago  has  been  a  big  factor  in 
making  the  cranberry  industry 
an  important  one  in  his  own 
state  and  in  adding  to  the  suc- 
cess of  it  in  other  states. 


Editors  Note:  Mr.  Crowley's 
official  report  on  his  sprinkler 
work  may  be  found  on  page  66 
of  the  36th  Annual  Report  (6- 
30-1926)  of  the  State  College 
of    Wash.,  Agri.    Exp.    Station. 

Twenty -tb)o 


Hanson  Pilot  Killed  in  Crash 


A  light  single-engine  plane 
crashed  and  burned  in  a  cran- 
berry bog  opposite  Little  Sandy 
Pond,  oif  Route  27,  Bryantville, 
Mass.  at  6:51  P.M.  Thursday, 
July  13  killing  pilot  ,Benjamin 
W.  Atwood,  46,  of  Hanson  and 
injuring  a  passenger. 

Atwood,  of  984  Main  Street, 
was.  one  of  the  first  jet  pilots 
for  the  Air  Force  and  presently 
owned  and  operated  a  cran- 
berry bog  dusting  service,  Cran- 
berry Sprayers,  Inc.,  located  at 
his  airfield,  Cranland  Airport, 
off  Monponsett  Street 

Atwood's  body  was  burned 
beyond    recognition    when    the 


two-seater  plane  flipped  upon 
crashing.  He  was  identified  by 
papers  found  in  his  wallet. 

The  passenger,  Wilfred  B. 
Jefferson,  of  28  Liberty  Street, 
Hanson,  was  thrown  from  the 
plane  sustaining  serious  internal 
and  head  injuries.  He  was  taken 
to  Brockton  Hospital  where  he 
is  reported  in  fair  condition. 

Mr.  Atwood  owned  his  own 
business.  Cranberry  Sprayers, 
Inc.,  and  was  a  spray  pilot.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  VFW 
Posts  in  both  Hanson  and 
Whitman. 


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a  Marketing  Agreement  with 
Komatsu  Manufacturing  Co., 
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announced  by  Charles  B.  See- 
Ig,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Construction 
Equipment  Division  of  WABCO 
of  Peoria,  111. 

The    five-year    contract   gives 
WABCO     exclusive     rights     to 
market    the    complete    line 
Komatsu    Crawler    Tractors 
the  United   States. 

Komatsu  (1966  sales:  U. 
$223  million)  is  a  sizeable  pro- 
ducer of  constniction  and  ag- 
ricultural equipment,  heavy  in- 


of 
in 


S. 


dustrial  machinery,  and  steel 
castings.  In  business  since  1921, 
Komatsu  has  been  manufactur- 
ing crawler  tractors  for  more 
than  35  years. 

WABCO,  a  major  manufac- 
turer of  construction  and  mining 
equipment,  will  sell,  rent,  and 
service  the  Komatsu  tractors 
through  a  wholly-owned  sub- 
sidiary, WABCO  Distribution 
Corporation. 

"Because  of  their  high  quality 
standards,"  states  Seelig,  "we 
are  confident  that  Komatsu 
tractors  will  gain  strong  custo- 
mer acceptance  here  in  the 
United  States  as  they  have 
already  throughout  most  of  the 
world." 


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magazine  because-  we  feel  that  they 
will  he  of  interest  to  our  readers. 
Further  information  should  be  ob- 
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facturers and  distributors  —  CRAN- 
BERRIES will  consider  items  sub- 
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Twenty -three 


REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 
WASHINGTON 

Continued  from  page  18 

Ocean  Spray  Visits 

Ocean  Spray  officials  visited 
the  Peninsula  June  21st  and 
met  with  the  members  for  a 
luncheon  meeting.  Guests  of 
Norman  Brateng,  local  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
national  association  were  Ed- 
ward Gelsthorpe,  Richard  La- 
Geze,  Edward  Gaughn,  Gilbert 
Beaton  and  Robert  Lucas. 


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WISniRIR 


A  large  high  pressure  system 
persisted  through  the  1st  week 
over  the  Lake  Superior  region 
resulting    in    dry    northeasterly 
winds    across    Wisconsin.     Skis 
remained    cloudless     over     the 
northern  half  of  the  state  while 
conditions  varied  between  clear 
and  cloudy  over  the  south.  Cool 
nights    kept    average    tempera- 
tures a    degree    or    two    below 
normal  in  the  north   and  4  to 
8  degrees  below  normal  in  the 
south.     No    rain    fell    over  the 
northern    half    while    the    rain 
of  May  28  brought  amounts  of 
14   to  1"  in  the  south.  Amounts 
in    excess    of    1"    fell    in    some 
southcentral  counties. 


The  type  of  weather  pattern 
that    usually     brings     extended 
periods  of  very  heavy  precipi- 
tation  to   Wisconsin   developed 
early  the  2nd  week  as  a  front 
became     stationary     diagonally 
southwest    to    northeast    across 
the  state.    Heavy  showers  and 
thunderstorms    developed   daily 
on  either  side  of  this  front  after 
the  6th,  thoroughly  soaking  the 
previously  dry  soils.    The  show, 
ers    of   the  8th    and   9th    were 
locally  severe   with  hard    driv- 
ing    rains,     hail,     and     strong 
winds.    With  the  increased  hu- 
midity,  nighttime  temperatures 
rose  into  the  Sffs  or  low  60's 
while    daytime   highs  remained 
mostly  in  the  70's. 

The  persistent  wet  weather 
pattern  continued  with  heavy 
rains  in  most  sections.  Several 
small  tornadoes  accompanied 
the  showers  on  the  11th  south 
and  east,  and  hail  was  reported 
in  some  east-central  areas  the 
12th. 

The  heavy  shower  activity 
continued  unabated  through 
June  16th  in  most  areas  of  the 
state.  Heavy  rain  fell  daily 
somewhere  in  the  state  with 
the  2-weekly  amounts  averaging 
4  to  6  inches.  Locally  amounts 
totalled  8  to  10  inches  in  west- 
central  and  central  counties,  or 
about  twice  the  normal  amounts 
for  the  entire  month  of  June. 
Summerlike  weather  with  high 
temperatures      and     humidities 


prevailed  through  the  18th. 
Cooler  and  drier  air  finally  re- 
placed the  tropical  air  mass 
with  good  drying  conditions  on 
the  19th.  More  humid  air  and 
showers  returned  the  20th.  The 
21st  was  sunny  and  dry. 
This  type  of  weather  alternated 
with  periods  of  cloudy  and 
showery  conditions.  Precipita- 
tion was  light  in  most  areas, 
but  spotty  moderate  amounts 
fell  in  the  north  and  in  the  ex- 
treme south. 

The  25th  was  rainy  and  quite 
cool.  Clear  and  cool  on  the 
27th.  Increasing  temperatuers 
with  showers  returning  to  the 
state  characterized  the  28th. 


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the  beauty  of  grain  and  tex- 
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and  recreation  rooms. 

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paneling  today  than  ever  be- 
fore. 

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monly used  are  oak,  cherry, 
walnut,  pecan,  gum,  yellow 
poplar,  birch,  mahogany,  other 
tropical  hardwoods  as  well  as 
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because  it  is  almost  impossible 
to  "go  w*rong"  on  room  effects 
with  a  material  of  natural 
beauty  like  wood. 

One  modem  application  is 
use  of  the  same  wood  on  both 
the  outside  and  inside  of  the 
house.  This  utilization  of  house 
siding  as  paneling  is  effective 
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Wisconsin   Extension   Specialist 
Writes  of  Visit  to  Northwest 
Cranberry   Growing  Areas 


The  following  is  the  text  of 
a  letter  written  to  Mr.  Vernon 
Goldsworthy  of  Cranberry  Prod- 
ucts, Inc.  of  Eagle  River,  Wis- 
consin by  G.  C.  Klingbeil,  Ex- 
tension SpeciaUst  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin.  "Goldy" 
sent  it  along  to  us  with  the 
feeling  that  other  growers 
would  find  some  interest  in  it. 


Dear   Goldy: 

I  have  just  returned  from 
my  rather  extensive  visit  to  the 
fruit  growing  regions  of  tne 
Pacific  Northwest,  and  during 
the  course  of  the  visit  I  had 
opportunity  to  see  a  good  num- 
ber of  cranberry  properties. 
Spent  several  days  at  the  Long 
Beach  Experiment  Station  and 
as  you  suggested  I  visited 
the  marshes  on  Lulu  Island 
just  south  of  Vancouver.  I  had 
an  opportunity  to  get  onto  the 
property  of  Mr.  Norman 
Holmes,  unfortunately  I  did  not 
meet  him  personally.  It  is  my 
honest  opinion  that  the  damage 
on  his  vines,  particularly  Stev- 
ens, was  neither  insect  or  di- 
sease but  I  think  just  lack  of 
suflBcient  moisture.  This  situ- 
ation occurs  and  is  not  uncom- 
mon in  some  of  the  marshes 
in  that  area.    One  other  tiling 


that  was  quite  obvious  to  me 
was  the  poor  distribution  that 
some  growers  get  on  the  ap- 
plication of  chemicals  for 
weed  control.  It  is  quite  appar- 
ent that  their  cyclone-type 
seeders  or  similar  devices  do 
not  have  he  degree  of  precision 
that  we  have  in  the  granular 
spreaders  here  in  Wisconsin. 

One  of  the  interesting  ex- 
periences I  had  was  participa- 
ting in  the  summer  meeting  at 
the  Long  Beach  Experiment 
Station.  They  had  one  of  the 
largest  crowds  ever  at  the 
cranberry  meeting,  and  I  hon- 
estly believe  I  met  a  sizable 
portion  of  all  the  growers  in 
the  Northwest.  My  only  re- 
gret is  that  I  did  not  have 
more  time  and  funds  to  make 
a  more  detailed  visit  to  the 
area. 

Sincerely, 

G.  C.  Klingbeil, 
Extension  Specialist 


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The  weather  has  not  changed 
too  much,  and  we  are  still  at 
least  a  week  and  possibly  ten 
days  late.  Right  now  we  are 
in  full  bloom,  and  I  think  I 
have  never  seen  the  bees,  both 
honeybees  an  d  bumblebees, 
working  as  hard  as  they  have 
been  this  year,  so  we  should 
have  excellent  pollenation.  AM 
indications  are  that  Wisconsin's 
crop  should  be  a  little  larger 
than  last  year  with  about  525, 
000  barrels. 

With  what  Wisconsin  has 
now  planted  this  year,  we 
should  have  approximately  800, 
000  barrels  in  the  next  few 
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age  is  now  under  sprinkling 
system  and  additional  sprink- 
ling systems  are  being  put  in 
on  some  additional  acreage  for 
next  year. 

Planting  stock  is  completely 
sold  out  for  next  year  as  far  as 
Stevens  are  concerned  and  even 
Searles  are  not  top  plentiful, 
because  people  hesitate  to  cut 
them  due  to  the  shortage  of\ 
help.  I 

Cranberry  Products  has  been' 
shipping  cranberry  sauce  to 
both  London  and  Hong  Kong 
under  private  label,  and  we ' 
expect  to  ship  additional  quan- 
tities to  other  countries  in  Eur- 
ope in  the  immediate  future. 
While  the  amount  is  small,  at 
least  there  is  some  interest  in 
foreign  countries.  We  assume, 
however,  most  of  it  is  being 
used  by  Americans  there. 

We  are  getting  son^e  berries 
from  the  state  of  Washington 
for  processing;  and  of  course, 
these  are  McFarlins  and  should 
make  excellent  cranberry  cock- 
tail, which  is  becoming  quite  an 
item  with  us. 


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Station 

I  Held  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORAIMVILLE 
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Nnonals 
Dr.  Wes.  Miller  has  left  the 
Cranberry  Station  to  take  a  po- 
sition with  the  U.  S.  Govern- 
ment in  Gulf  Breeze,  Florida. 
Wes  had  been  with  us  for 
nearly  three  years  and  was  our 
biochemist.  He  will  be  work- 
ing for  the  Fish  and  Wildlife 
Service  in  his  new  job.  We 
enjoyed  having  him  with  us  and 
extend  our  best  wishes  to  Wes 
and  Mrs.  Miller  in  their  new 
undertaking. 

Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  attended 
the  conference  on  Control  of 
Plant  Parasitic  Nematodes  from 
July  5  to  8  at  MacDonald  Col- 
lege near  Montreal,  Canada. 
Bert  conducted  a  seminar  on 
advances  in  this  field. 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended 
the    6th    Annual    International 


Conference  on  Plant  Growth 
Regulators  from  July  23  to  30 
held  at  Carleton  University  in 
Ottawa,  Canada.  Attendance 
to  this  conference  is  by  invita- 
tion only. 

Dr.  Chester  Cross  returned 
from  his  trip  to  Japan  on  July 
26  and  appears  to  have  sur- 
vived it  very  nicely.  Chet  re- 
ports that  he  did  not  see  any 
cranberries  or  cranberry  prod- 
ucts in  the  stores.  The  common 
fruits  seem  to  be  bananas,  wa- 
termelons and  pineapples,  with 
lesser  amounts  of  strawberries, 
apples  and  peaches;  common 
vegetables  are  tomatoes,  egg- 
plant, corn  an^  cabbage,  with 
some  lettuce,  potatoes  and  cu- 
cumbers also.  Pineapple  and 
tomato  are  the  favored  juices; 
of  course,  rice  and  fish  are  the 
staples  of  the  diet. 


WmUmt 

The  month  of  July  was  nearly 
1  degree  a  day  below  normal 
with  no  great  extremes  in  tem- 
perature. The  month  was  hu- 
mid, cloudy,  foggy  and  soggy. 
There  were  very  few  clear  days, 
in  fact,  the  U.  S.  Weather  Bur- 
eau called  it  the  least  sunny 
July  in  70  years.  Precipitation 
totalled  4.56  inches,  which  was 
about  1%  inches  above  average. 
This  rainfall  was  well  distribu- 
ted throughout  the  month  with 
16  days  having  measurable 
amounts.  We  are  now  5  inches 
above  average  for  the  year  to 
date  and  over  15  inches  ahead 
of  last  year  at  this  time.  Water 
supplies  are  in  excellent  shape 
at  this  time  and  the  vines  are 
making  considerable  growth 
which  may  be  a  problem  at 
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EXERCISE  ON  FUTILITY 

Each  month,  when  it  becomes  time  to 
,  write  the  editorial,  a  great  many  thoughts 
come  to  mind.  We  could,  with  little  diffi- 
culty, keep  these  editorials  within  the  area 
of  cranberries  and  the  people  who  grow  and 
process  them  and  are  involved  with  them 
in  any  way.  It  is  our  feeling,  however,  that 
there  is  much  going  on  in  the  world,  that 
requires  the  thought  and  attention  of  all. 

The  recent  United  Nations  General  As- 
sembly meeting  over  the  Middle  East  crisis 
made  a  great  impression  on  my  mind  and 
started  me  thinking  about  this  month's 
editorial. 

While  peace  held  in  the  balance,  while 
the  future  of  many  people  in  the  Middle 
East  ran  out,  and  while  the  U.  N.  had  per- 
haps its  biggest  chance  to  prove  itself  — 
nothing  happened.  Nothing  to  show  an  end 
to  the  downward  spiral  of  integrity,  faith 
and  kindness  through  which  we  are  passing. 

The  speeches — useless.  Many  were  based 
not  on  fact  but  on  nationalistic  self-esteem. 
There,  for  all  to  see  on  the  TV  screen,  were 
hate-filled  charges  and  counter-charges. 
Speeches  drenched  in  centuries  of  ethnic 
hates  and  religious  intolerance. 

On  and  on  and  on.  And,  while  all  this 
was  going  on,  people  were  dying  uselessly 
and  the  U.  N.  became  a  political  tool  tainted 
with  the  stench  of  many  centuries  of  de- 
cadent protocol  and  diplomacy. 

Speeches  of  the  two  Great  Powers 
caused  other  nations  to  align  themselves 
with  one  or  the  other.  The  current  balance 
of  power  cannot  settle  anything  of  impor- 
tance as  many  now  are  forced  to  admit. 

It  would  seem  that  Red  China  is  the 
nation  which  is  benefiting  most  from  these 
exchanges.  All  other  nations  are  getting 
themselves  in  a  position  where  they  must 
side  with  either  the  U.  S.  or  Russia  —  or 
abstain.  No  one  is  fooled  by  the  latter  tactic. 

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action  for  peaceful  world  balance  by  Rus- 
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because  of  their  "sovereignty." 

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Editor's  Note:  In  reply  to  the  request  made  in  our  feature 
story  in  the  May  Issue^  we  received  the  following  item 
from  the  state  of  Washington.  It  is  a  report,  written  in 
June  of  1917  by  a  Professor  Melanders ,  Chairman  of  Ento- 
mology of  Washington  State  University  to  Professor  George 
Severance  J  Acting  Director  of  Experiment  Stations. 
'Ihe  response  to  our  featuring  stories  of  the  cranberry 
industry  at  the  turn  of  the  century  was  so  gratifying 
that  we  are  going  to  attempt  to  obtain  more  from  other 
growing  areas  for  future  publication.  We  would  particu- 
larly like  to  hear  from  New  Jersey,  Wisconsin,  Oregon 
and  Canada. 


The  cranberry  industry  in 
Washington  is  young  but  al- 
ready important.  Nearly  or  quite 
one  million  dollars  is  invested 
and  six  hundred  acres  of  the 
3000  acres  of  peat  marsh  avail- 
able in  south  western  Wash- 
ington are  now  set  out  to  cran- 
berries. Some  of  this  has  been 
bearing  six  years,  sufficiently 
long  to  show  that  the  industry 
is  well  based  and  to  show  also 
that  many  problems  face  the 
growers  which  the  experience 
gained  in  the  older  bogs  of  the 
eastern  states  will  not  satisfy. 
The  output  last  year  amounted 
to  2250  barrels  from  the  North 
Beach  Peninsula  in  Pacific 
County,  a  stated  average  of  90 
barrels  per  acre  for  the  bear- 
ing bogs.  Three  selling  organi- 
zations have  been  established, 
one  of  them,  the  Washington 
Cranberry  Association,  has  fifty- 
one  members.  These  associa- 
tions are  able  to  spread  any  in- 
formation the  college  might  ob- 
tain among  practically  all  the 
growers,  for  they  are  mutually 
interested  in  the  development 
of  their  industry.  Some  of  the 
larger  growers  are  H.  M.  Wil- 
liams, J.  A.  McAfee,  J.  M.  Ar- 
thur,   W.    B.    Murdock,    A.    B. 


Moore,  W.  M.  Round,  Dr.  H.  S. 
Gane,  Dr.  G.  W.  Hill  and  Dr. 
Lee  W.  Paul.  The  Williams 
holdings,  called  Cranmoor,  in- 
clude 400  acres.  Dr.  Paul,  who 
is  Mayor  of  Ilwaco,  courteously 
drove  me  in  his  auto  to  visit 
many  of  the  bogs,  both  those 
in  excellent  cultivation  and 
those  that  have  been  neglected. 
J.  W.  Howerton,  Secretary  of 
Ilwaco  Cranberry  Company, 
furnished  much  information  re- 
garding the  industry,  and  M.  E. 
Sinclair,  Secretary  of  the  Ilwaco 
Commercial  Club  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  Southwestern 
Washington  Bank,  likewise  took 
me  in  his  car  to  see  growers 
near  Long  Beach. 

These  cranberry  growers  of 
the  Peninsula  are  largely  grop- 
ing in  the  dark.  Mr.  WilUams 
in  his  early  years  worked  with 
cranberries  on  the  Atlantic 
Coast  and  has  brought  with 
him  almost  all  the  information 
that  based  the  industry.  Dr. 
Gane  and  but  one  or  two  of  the 
other  men  have  visited  the  eas- 
tern fields  to  obtain  informa- 
tion. Otherwise,  the  growers 
have  been  appealing  to  the  Ore. 
gon    Experimental  Station    and 


to  the  Federal  Department  of 
Agriculture.  Dr.  Shear,  of  the 
Bureau  of  Plant  Industry,  an 
expert  on  cranberry  fungi,  has 
visited  the  Washington  bogs. 
As  the  only  commercial  bogs  in 
the  United  States  are  located  in 
Massachusetts,  New  Jersey  and 
Wisconsin,  and  as  the  condi- 
tions in  Washington  as  regards 
insects,  fungi,  soils,  climate,  la- 
bor, marketing,  and  every  fac- 
tor affecting  the  industry,  are 
so  entirely  different  from  those 
of  the  East,  the  growers  feel 
entitled  to  call  upon  our  Ex- 
periment Station  for  aid  in  es- 
tablishing the  infant  industry. 

Three  varieties  of  cranber- 
ries are  grown  in  the  North 
Beach  Peninsula,  the  Cape  Cod, 
a  low  runner,  the  Howe,  more 
erect  and  with  dark  berries, 
and  the  McFarland.  The  grow- 
ers are  going  to  a  great  expense 
in  preparing  the  bogs.  The  peat 
marsh  is  first  ditched  and 
trenched  for  drainage,  leveled 
by  scalping  off  all  vegetation, 
sanded  either  by  pumping-ma- 
chinery  or  by  hand  so  as  to 
cover  the  rich  soil  with  a  layer 
of  sand.  When  thus  prepared 
the  plants  are  mathemLitically 
■set  out  on  a  square  plan  from 
eight  to  sixteen  inches  apart. 
In  a  couple  of  years  they  be- 
gin to  bear,  when  the  ground 
becomes  matted  with  the  inter- 
locking plants.  Bogs  along  the 
Atlantic  are  flooded  over  winter 
to  hold  back  the  plants  from 
extreme  cold.  This  practice  does 
not  obtain  in  Washington,  and 

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undoubtedly  makes  some  dif- 
ference in  the  depredations  of 
insects  and  fungi. 

One  of  the  main  difficulties  en- 
countered is  the  labor  problem^ 
The  eastern  method  of  scoop- 
ing the  berries  at  harvest  by 
special  machinery  has  not  been 
adopted,  apparently  because 
the  western  vines  grow  too 
flat.  Accordingly  the  expense 
of  hand  picking  is  ten-fold 
greater  than  on  the  Atlantic, 
amounting  to  nearly  three  dol- 
lars per  barrel.  Because  of  the 
isolation  of  the  peninsula,  hav- 
ing as  sole  communication  a 
narrow-gauge  railroad  which 
maintains  a  double-price  sched- 
ule, the  cost  of  marketing  is 
further  increased. 

Spraying  is  regularly  attemp- 
ted, but  what  to  use,  at  what 
concentrations  or  in  what  com- 
binations, and  when  to  apply, 
are  unsolved  riddles.  Dr.  Paul 
has  a  voluminous  scrapbook  in- 
to which  he  gleans  all  sorts 
of  information  about  cranber- 
ries. This  is  his  principle  guide, 
and  if  some  eastern  farm  jour- 
nal advises  Bordeau  spraying 
before  blossoming,  he  follows 
the  injunction.  Many  of  the 
growers  are  using  lime-sulphur 
spray,  but  on  whose  authority  I 
could  not  ascertain.  They  mix 
whale-oil  soap  with  Bordeaux 
as  a  spreader,  not  knowing  that 
an  insoluble  curdy  copper  and 
calcium  soap  is  thus  formed 
which  is  the  antithesis  of  a 
spreader.  Some  desire  to  spray 
with  nicotine,  but  are  not  sure; 
nor  are  they  at  all  certain  of 
the  use  of  arsenicals  .  The  dates 
for  spraying  can  be  determined 
only  by  a  study  of  the  insects 
and  fungi  involved,  and  the 
concentrations  best  adapted  and 
the  materials  best  to  use  should 
not  be  left  to  the  growers  for 
experimentation.  The  more  pro- 
gressive growers  have  been  ma- 
king comparative  tests  of  lime- 
sulphur  and  Bordeaux,  but  not 

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knowing    when    to   spray    these 
tests  have  little  value.   The  foli- 
age of  the  cranberry  is  very  re- 
sistant to  spray  injury,  but  tests 
of  safe  combinations   and   c-on- 
centrations  of  spraying  materi- 
als   should    be    made.     Messrs. 
Boyer    and    Son    have    installed 
an     elaborate     and     expensive 
spraying  system.    A  pumphouse 
has    been   built    and    equipped 
with  a  large-sized  orchard  pow- 
er sprayer,  dismounted  and  per- 
manentJy  connected  with  a  sys- 
tem of  galvanized  piping  which 
extends  through  the  entire  bog. 
Laterals  lead  off  at  200-foot  in- 
tervals from  the  main  pipe,  each 
controlled    by   separate    cut-off. 
By  this  means  the  bog  can  be 
sprayed  in  a  half-day,  but  the 
expense    of    so    elaborate     an 
equipment   seems   hardly   justi- 
fied. 

The  principal  problems  con- 
fronting the  Washington  cran- 
berry growers  fall  into  the  fol- 
lowing heads:  (a)  cultural. 
(b)  woods,  (c)  fungi  or  physi- 
ological troubles,   (d)  insects. 

Cultural 
The  best  distance  for  set- 
ting plants  is  still  to  be  deter- 
mined. As  some  growers  set 
out  four  times  as  many  plants 
to  the  acre  as  others,  there  is 
much  opportunity  for  observa- 
tion. Variety  tests  and  even 
the  possibility  of  breeding  a 
western  berry  might  be  looked 
into.  Some  growers  are  ferti- 
lizing the  bogs,  but  they  have 
no  definite  knowledge  of  how 
this  should  be  done.  They  have 
opened  a  quarry  of  natural 
shell-limestone  near-by,  and 
are  grinding  this  for  fertilizer. 
Whether  this  is  the  proper  ma- 
terial to  use  should  be  deter- 
mined by  the  Experiment  Sta- 
tion. 

Fungi,    ate. 

An  inspection  of  some  of  the 
best  kept  bogs  showed  an 
abundance  of  what  is  locally 
called  "false  bloom."  This  was 


evident  on  every  square  foot 
of  |Tound,  but  is  different  from 
the  eastern  disease  of  that 
name,  producing  a  fleshy  growth 
ol  the  leaves  resembling  the 
peach  leaf-curl  disease.  The 
growers  attempt  to  control  this 
by  spraying,  but  having  no 
knowledge  of  when  to  spray  or 
what  to  use  are  not  making 
much  headway.  They  complain 
of  a  fruit  rot  that  spoils  the 
berries,  of  a  pithy  berry,  of  a 
blight  that  curls  over  the  run- 
ners and  causes  a  rotting  of  the . 
plants  ( of  a  disease  that  black-  > 
ens  the  vines  and  causes  a 
dropping  of  the  leaves),  and 
of  a  disease  that  produces  pink 
spots  on  the  foliage.  The  last, 
however,  is  ascribed  to  the 
muggy  weather  prevalent  dur- 
ing June  and  July.  Another 
trouble  affects  the  keeping 
qualities  of  the  oerries,  but  is 
thought  to  be  physiological  in 
nature,  for  it  is  said  to  be  moft 
apparent  in  the  fruit  from  young 
vines. 

WMds 

Apparently  the  most  serious 
trouble  confronting  the  cran- 
berry growers  is  the  keeping 
down  of  the  weeds.  Sanding 
over  the  bogs  helps  in  this  re-  | 
spect,  especially  if  sand  is  free  j 
from  weed  seeds.  The  nature 
of  cranberry  culture,  where 
the  entire  ground  is  matted 
with  the  plants,  prevents  hoeing 
and  the  weeds  therefore  must 
be  pulled  out  singly  by  hand. 
Many  places  had  every  cran- 
berry plant  crowded  out  by 
weeds,  a  complete  extermina- 
tion over  areas  of  a  square  rod 
to  a  place.  The  worst  weed  en- 
countered is  an  Equisetum. 
There  are  three  distinct  species 
of  Equisetum  present,  but  one 
species  particularly  is  advanc- 
ing through  the  bogs,  crowd- 
ing out  the  cranberries,  and 
can  not  be  checked  except  by 
persistently  picking  off  by  hand 
the  shoots  as  fast  as  they  come 
up  from  the  underground  run- 
ners.    Even    where   the    weeds 


may  not  exterminate  the  ber- 
ries the  shade  they  give  pre- 
vents proper  coloring  of  the 
fruit  and  lessens  the  value  of 
the  crop.  In  one  field  I  noticed 
the  following  species  cf  plants 
invading  the  cranberry  bog 
and  all  doing  more  or  less 
harm:  Sorrel,  Horsetail  Grass, 
Sedge,  Rush,  Yellow-Flag,  Vio- 
let, Fire-weed,  Dandelion,  Wild 
Parsnip,  Skunk  Cabbage,  Live- 
forever,  Mint,  Willow,  Alder 
and  several  species  of  mosses. 
Sorrel  is  widely  distributed,  but 
is  thought  to  be  checked  by 
repeatedly  cutting  it  down 
during  three  years.  Spraying 
the  bogs  with  lime-sulphur  is 
said  to  reduce  the  mosses.  It 
might  be  possible  to  devise 
some  method  of  spraying  to 
check  others  of  the  weeds,  but 
at  any  rate  the  weed  problem 
is  one  on  which  the  growers 
need  instruction. 

Inttctf 

So  far,  with  one  exception, 
insects  have  not  done  material 
damage  to  the  cranberries  of 
Washington.  The  exception  is 
the  Fire-worm,  called  by  the 
growers  the  Tip-worm,  but  a 
totally  different  insect  from  the 
tip-worm  of  the  East.  This 
Fire-worm  as  a  caterpillar 
spins  together  the  leaves  at  the 
tips  of  the  uprights  and  feeds 
within  this  shelter.  The  affec- 
ted plants  later  become  brown 
as  if  seared  by  firfie,  and  the 
work  of  the  summer  brood  de- 
stroys the  blossom  buds  of  the 
coming  year  so  as  to  prevent  a 
future  crop.  When  the  life- 
history  is  traced  through,  the 
dates  for  arsenical  spraying 
can  be  definitely  prescribed. 
In  the  meantime  the  growers 
who  have  this  species  to  con- 
tend with  are  spraying  with  a 
mixture  wonderfully  made,  a 
concoction  of  arsenate  of  lead, 
Bordeaux,  and  soap.  Mr.  Ad- 
ams stated  his  intention  to  use 
a  nicotine  spray  for  this  insect. 
In  his  case  the  fire-worm  was 
present  over  almost  every  two 
inches    of    the    bog    and    last 


year  had  completely  burned  the 
plants.  The  adjacent  field 
owned  by  Chris  Storsett,  now 
in  Norway,  was  so  wormy  with 
Fire-worm  and  a  berry  worm 
that  it  was  not  picked  last  fall. 
An  underground  worm  that 
girdles  the  vines  was  reported 
at  Wm.  Litsche,  near  Nah- 
cotta.  Several  growers  had 
heard  of  this  insect  but  I  did 
not  see  any  specimens.  A  Geo- 
metrid  caterpillar,  probably  a 
native  species  that  has  acci- 
dentally invaded  the  bogs,  was 
reported  by  Dr.  Paul,  who  has 
noticed  also  the  berry  worm 
that  was  said  to  /be  destructive 
at  Storsett's.  A  most  unusual 
insect  pest  was  a  species  of 
Caddice  fly  which  came  as 
Periwinkles  into  a  flooded  beg 
and  fed  on  the  cranberry 
plants.  I  noticed  a  number  of  a 
Tettigonia  leaf-hopper  on  the 
Olson  bog. 

Recommendations 

Sooner  or  later  it  would  be 
advisable  for  the  experiment 
Station  to  gain. some  first-hand 
information  by  placing  a  work- 
er in  the  cranberry  fields  of 
South-western  Washington.  The 
industry  is  young  and  its  prob- 
lems are  unsolved.  If  finances 
prohibit  the  full-time  employ- 
ment of  an  investigator  at  pres- 
ent, perhaps  some  immediate 
headway  might  be  made  by  a 
cooperative  study  through 
County  Agent  Neslon.  I  would 
suggest  that  some  run-away 
bog,  such  as  the  Storsett  place, 
be  reclaimed.  This  little  bog 
probably  has  represented  in  it 
all  the  weeds,  fungi  and  in- 
sects of  the  peninsula.  With 
the  combined  advice  of  the 
Horticulturist,  Plant  Pathologist, 
Chemist  and  Entomologist, 
some  progress  might  be  made, 
at  least  in  trying  to  adapt  eas- 
tern methods  to  western  need,«. 
Such  a  procedure  would  ori- 
ent our  ideas  with  reference  to 
the  needs  of  the  cranberry 
growers  and  put  uis  in '  better 
position  to  plan  future  inves- 
tigations. 


Old  Facts 

About 

WISCONSIN 


In  1901  the  United  States 
cranberry  crop  was  1,200,000 
barrels.  In  1893  it  was  1,000,- 
000   barrels. 

L.  J.  Fosdick,  owner  of  the 
Springbrook  Meadows  Cran- 
berry Marsh  in  South  Carver, 
Massachusetts,  was  packing 
cranberry  sauce  in  glass  in  1903 
under  the  "I  Like't"  brand. 

In  1Q02  Andrew  Bissa  took 
cranberries   to   Europe. 

In  1907  M.  D.  Potter  stated 
he  had  been  raking  cranberries 
in  the  water  for  16  years. 

In  the  early  1900's  Creeping 
Sedge  was  a  problem  in  Wis- 
consin. Although  it  was  not 
identified  as  such,  from  the 
description  it  was  apparently 
Creeping  Sedge. 

The  first  cultivated  cranberry 
bog  was  made  in  Cassvill,  N.j. 
in  1849. 

In  1903  Wisconsin  Cranberry 
Experimental  Stations  com- 
prised about  ten  acres  of  land. 
Niow  Wisconsin  does  not  have 
a  Cranberry  Experimental  Sta- 
tion, and  there  are  experimen- 
tal stations  in  every  other  grow- 
ing area  —  Massachusetts,  New 
Jersey,  Washington  and  even 
in  Nova  Scotia  and  Ontario, 
Canada.  Ontario  province  ac- 
tually has  two  experimental 
stations,  although  there  are 
less  than  1,000  barrels  of 
cranberries  grown  there. 

Old  crop  records  show  cran- 
berries were  grown  in  Iowa, 
Nebraska,  South  Dakota,  North 
Dakota,  Kansas  and  Illinois. 

In  1910  the  Wisconsin  Cran- 
berry crop  was  16,000  barrels 
and  in  1911  it  was  29,000  bar- 
rels. 

NINE 


OCEAN  SPRAY 
INITIATES 
QUALITY  CONTROL 
FOR  FALL  FRESH 
CRANBERRY 
SHIPMENTS 


With  sales  of  all  processed 
cranberry  products  currently 
booming,  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  Hanson,  Mass., 
has  announced  plans  intended 
to  assure  retailers  a  plentiful 
supply  of  top  quality  berries 
with  longer  shelf  life  during 
the  upcoming  fresh  berry  sea- 
son this  fall. 

Since    cranberries    grown   for 


the  fresh  fruit  market  require 
special  treatment  during  grow- 
ing, harvesting,  handling,  and 
delivery.  Ocean  Spray  has  set 
up  a  comprehensive  quality 
control  program.  The  program 
provides  a  premium  payment 
to  growers  who  pre-qualify  their 
fruit  and  then  meet  the  pre- 
scribed requirments  on  delivery. 

Controls  set  up  by  agreement 
between  Ocean  Spray  and  its 
grower-members  include  selec- 
tion of  the  best-keeping  varie- 
ties of  berries  for  the  fresh  mar- 
ket; uniformity  of  color  before 
harvesting;  storage  in  Va  barrel 
boxes  (33  pounds)  to  prevent 
crushing;  use  of  fertilizers  and 
fungicides  approved  by  the 
USDA,  FDA  and  Ocean  Spray 
management;  and  orderly  de- 
livery by  prearrangement  to 
Ocean   Spray  receiving  plants. 

Financial  incentives  to  grow- 
ers delivering  qualifying  pre- 
mium berries  designated  for  the 
fresh     cranberry     market     will 


range  up  to  $1.50  per  hundred- 
weight. The  grower  incentives 
are  not  expected  to  affect 
wholesale  prices,  according  to 
Ocean  Spray,  as  the  program 
is  designed  to  eliminate  waste 
and  excessive  handling  at  re- 
ceiving plants. 

Adherence  to  all  specifications 
of  the  code  are  to  be  checked 
by  Ocean  Spray  personnel  in 
the  field  as  well  as  at  receiving 
station  laboratories. 

The  fresh  fruit  program  fol- 
lows incentive  programs  pre- 
viously initiated  by  Ocean 
Spray  for  grower-members  de- 
livering cranberries  for  use  in 
the  cooperative's  cranberry 
juice  cocktail  and  other  pro- 
cessed products. 

An  estimated  20  per  cent  of 
all  cranberries  produced  by 
grower-members  this  fall  will 
be  marketed  under  the  new 
fresh  fruit  program.  Harvesting 
is  expected  to  begin  soon  after 
Labor  Day. 


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Attention 
Orowers . 


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14  Incident-Fvee  Years  of  Custom  Avvlication 


Is  it  worth  the  risk  you  take 
to  use  dangerous  chemicals 
through  your  sprinkler  sys- 
tem when  your  work  can  be 
handled  by  experienced  pro- 
fessionals- 

•  Repeated  applications  may 
violate    tolerance    levels. 

•  Minimum  well  timed  heli- 
copter applications  give  su- 
perior control  covering 
edges  and  corners  not  ac- 
cessible   to    sprinklers. 

•  All  custom  applications  are 
tax  deductible ! 


TEN 


Personal  Safety 

In  Chemical 
Handling 


TJie  information  contained  in  the 
following  article  is  from  California 
Aerial  Applicator  Proceedings  and 
was  written  by  Irma  West,  M.D., 
of  the  Bureau  of  Occupational 
Health,  California  State  Department 
of  Public  Health.  Although  it  was 
pTimariltj  written  for  use  as  part  of 
a  slide  presentation  for  Agricultural 
Aifcraft  Operators,  ^ve-felt  tlmt  the 
question  and  pHstoer^ -portion  of  this 
presentation  would  -be  of  use  to  our 
readers,  therefore  we  have  -included 
it  in  this  issue.  Our  sifKere  thanks 
to  the  author  and  the  California 
Extension  Service  for  having  granted 
us   permission   to   use   it. 


"Do  it  yourselF'  chemical 
safety  is  not  easy.  The  more  in- 
formation that  becomes  availa- 
ble the  more  confusing  it  all 
becomes.  In  my  opinion  there 
is  a  great  need  to  boil  down 
into  a  few  basic  guiding  princi- 
ples what  everyone  who  must 
handle  hazardous  chemicals 
should   know. 

Safety  information  about 
chemicals  can  be  divided 
roughly  into  three  categories: 
(1)  What  ycu  have  to  know; 
(2)What  is  nice  to  know;  and 
(3)  What  many  think  they 
know  but  is   wrong. 

Here  are  5  questions.  If  you 
can  answer  these  questions  ac- 
curately about  each  chemical 
and  each  chemical  mixture  with 
which  you  work,  you  have  all 
of  the  information  you  need  to 
proceed  safely.  Of  course  you 
must  act  appropriately  on  the 
basis  of  this  information.  These 
questions   are: 

1.  How  can  the  chemical  get 
into  the   body? 


2.  How  can  I  prevent  it  from 
entering  or  contacting  me? 

3.  How  much  can  harm  me? 

4.  What  are  the  harmful 
effects? 

5.  What  should  be  done  if 
harmful  effects  occur  or 
are  hkely  to  occur? 

How  does  one  find  the  an- 
swers to  these  questions?  The 
first  steps  in  the  process  of  learn- 
ing is  reading.  The  first  piece  of 
literature  to  read  is  the  label 
on  the  container  each  time  be- 
fore use.  If  you  have  not  read 
the  label  it  is  not  safe  to  open 
the  container.  Not  all  of  the 
information  you  need  is  on  the 
label  but  you  will  be  surprised 
how  much  is.  The  next  piece 
of  literature  to  read  are  the 
safety  data  sheets  and  bulletins 
provided  by  the  manufacturer 
and  the  government  agencies. 
If  you  need  further  information 
discuss  the  matter  with  or 
write  to  an  expert  on  the  sub- 
ject. 

Here  is  an  example  of  the 
answers  to  these  questions  with 
respect  to  work  with  parathion: 

1.  How  does  it  enter  the  body? 
For   workers   the  skin  is   by 

far  the  most  important  route. 
Inhalation  of  dust  and  sprays 
are  also  important.  Swallowed 
parathion  is  rapidly  absorbed 
and  this  route  is  often  the  most 
important  in  suicide  or  acci- 
dental poisoning  of  children. 

2.  How    can    it    be    prevented 
from   entering   the    body? 
Impervious    barriers  must  be 

set  up  between  the  source  of 
parathion  and  the  skin,  eyes, 
nose  and  mouth.  The  closer  the 
barriers  to  the  source  of  para- 
thion the  more  effective.  Barri- 
ers worn  by  the  worker  (respir- 
ators, goggles,  protective  cloth- 
ing) are  much  less  efficient  but 
sometimes  the  only  choice.  The 
more  reliance  placed  on  per- 
sonal protective  gear  the  greater 
the  need  for  close  supervision 
and  well-informed  careful 
workers.  When  skin  barriers 
fail  or  are  incomplete,  soap  and 


water  must  be  used  to  remove 
the  chemical  to  prevent  further 
absorption.  Do  not  work  alone 
with  hazardous  chemicals.  If 
barriers  fail  and  you  become 
sick  you  must  have  help. 

3.  How   much    can    harm? 

3-9  drops  concentrate  swal- 
lowed or  13  drops  absorbed 
through  the  skin  is  the  esti- 
mated fatal  dose  to  an  adult. 
2  mg.  ( ^  drop )  by  mouth  has 
killed  a  5-year-old  child.  Child- 
ren and  infants  are  much  more 
vulnerable  to  parathion  because 
of  small  size  and  certain  diffi- 
culties in  detoxification  ability. 

4.  Acute  poisoning  only  known 
effect 

Destroys  an  important  en- 
zyme, chohnesterase.  Poisoning 
usually  follows  several  hours 
after  last  exposure.  Signs  and 
symptoms  most  described  are 
fatigue,  headache,  blurred  vi- 
sion, nausea,  sweating,  giddi- 
ness, tightness  in  chest,  stomach 
cramps,  and  vomiting.  If  expo- 
sure has  been  sufficient,  pin- 
point pupils,  'vomiting,  tremors, 
difficult  breathing,  convulsions, 
collapse  and  coma  may  follow. 

(Effect  of  chronic  or  con- 
tinued reduction  of  chohnes- 
terase by  small  doses  of  para- 
thion which  are  not  enough  to 
cause  noticeable  symptoms  has 
not  yet  been  adequately  investi- 
gated. ) 

5.  What  to  do  if  harmful  effects 
occur? 

Here  are  the  essential  points 
to  remember  if  you  are  called 
upon  to  provide  first  aid  for  a 
worker  who  is  a  parathion  poi- 
soning victim: 

DO: 

a.  Give  mouth-to-mouth  arti- 
ficial respiration  if  breathing  is 
labored  or  stopped. 

b.  Deccmtaminate  him  by  re- 
moving clothing  and  bathing 
with  soap  and  water.  If  para- 
thion swallowed  try  to  induce 

Continued  on  page  17 

ELEVEN 


Thompson-Hayward 

Chemical  Company 

Celebrates 

50th  Anniversary 


.*^ 


Robert  Thompson 


Letters  of  congratulations 
from  Japan,  Germany,  and 
Canada,  and  visitors  from  all 
over  the  United  States,  poured 
into  the  Kansas  headquarters 
of  Thompson-Hayward  Chemi- 
cal Company  as  the  company 
celebrated  its  50th  Anniversary. 

An  open  house  and  barbecue 
for  5(X)  business  and  civic 
leaders  was  held  on  June  23, 
1967.  On  the  following  day  a 
similar  event  was  held  for  em- 
ployees, their,  families  and 
friends. 

Highhghting  the  open  house 
was  a  dedication  ceremony  for 
the  Technical  Center  which 
was  named  in  honor  of  the 
company's  founder,  Charles  T. 
Thompson.  The  Charles  T. 
Thompson  Technical  Center  is 
comprised  of  research  labora- 
tories, engineering  and  manu- 
facturing oflBces  and  a  newly 
completed  pilot  plant. 

TWELVE 


Robert  S.  Thompson,  presi- 
dent of  T-H,  and  son  of  the 
founder,  pointed  up  the  need 
for  the  new  Charles  T.  Thomp- 
son Technical  Center.  tAt  the 
dedication,  he  said  "Since 
World  War  II  we  have  been 
venturing  more  and  more  into 
basic  chemical  manufacturing."' 
The  company,  which  was 
founded  in  1917,  to  distribute 
chemicals  made  a  name  for  it- 
self as  a  regional  formulator 
and  distributor  in  the  Midwest. 
Today,  it  is  a  nationally  known 
company  with  several  proprie- 
tary products  in  its  line  of  in- 
dustrial, agricultural,  nutritional 
and    laundry    chemicals. 

At    the   luncheon  Pieter   van 
den  Berg,  president  of  Consoli- 
dated     Electronics      Industries 
Corporation,    (CONI)    and  Oli- 
ver   T.    Brewster,   president    of 
Philips    Electronics  and   Pharm- 
aceutical    Industries,      ( PEPI ) , 
discussed   the    1961    merger   of 
Thompson-Hayward   with  their 
corporationis.      ThompsonnHay-r 
ward   is    the   chemical    arm    of 
PEPI.    Mr.   Brewster   explained 
how  T-H,  through  North  Ameri- 
can Phillips,  has  access  to  the 
basic  research  of  N.  V.  Philips- 
Duphar,  in  the  animal  nutrition 
and  pesticide  fields.  As  a  result 
of  its  own  R&D  program  and 
the  tie-in  with  Philips-Duphar, 
T-H  has   added  several  signifi- 
cant proprietary  products  to  its 
agricultural  chemical  line. 


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GROWERS  WARNED  OF 
OVERUSE  OF 
CHEMICALS 

Cranberries  magazine  has 
been  asked  to  include  in 
this  issue,  a  word  of  warn- 
ing to  growers  who  have 
been  reported  to  be  over- 
using pesticides  such  as 
malathion,   parathion^  etc. 


Reports  have  been  heard 
that  some  growers  have 
been  using  these  and  other 
pesticides  through  their 
sprinkler  systems  in 
amounts  greater  than  those 
recommended  and  that 
some  have  been  doing  so 
beyond  the  recommended 
cut-off  date  prior  to  har- 
vest. 

Although  all  pesticides 
mentioned  on  Insect  and 
Disease  Control  charts  as 
well  as  Weed  Control 
charts  are  registered  and 
cleared  for  the  suggested 
uses  in  accordance  with 
state  and  federal  laws  and 
regulations,  they  are  also 
dangerous  and  their  im- 
proper use  or  overuse  can 
be  deadly. 

Acute  poisoning  is  only 
known  effect.  Poisoning 
usually  follows  several 
hours   after   last   exposure. 


Signs  and  symptoms  most 
described  are  fatigue,  head- 
ache, blurred  visioi^ 
nausea,  sweating,  giddi- 
ness, tightness  in  chest, 
stomach  cramps  and  vomit- 
ing. If  exposure  has  been 
sufficient,  pinpoint  pupils^ 
vomiting,  tremors,  difficult 
breathing,  convulsions,  col- 
lapse and  coma  may  follow. 

Every  precaution  should 
be  taken  to  see  that  no 
is  applied  to  berries  since 
more  than  is  recommended 
an  overuse  could  leave  a 
residue  on  berries  which 
could  be  harmful  or  even 
fatal  if  too  much  to  be 
completely  washed  off  in 
the   cleaning  process. 

This  information  may  be 
general  knowledge  to  most 
of  those  reading  it,  but  it 
is  our  belief  that  it  bears 
repeating,  if  only  to  jog 
our  memory. 


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HARRY  MOULTER   PICKED  Sprinkler  Use  Increases 
FOR  AF  TRAINING  I  n  Wi  s  c  ons  i  n 

Airman  Harry  J.  Mculter,  Jr., 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  J. 
Moulter,  Sr.  of  Shady  Lane, 
Pemberton  New  Jersey,  has 
been  selected  for  technical 
ti^ining  at  Goodfellow  AFB, 
Texas,  as  a  U.S.  Air  Force  com- 
munications-analysis   specialist. 


The  airman  recently  comple- 
ted basic  training  at  Lackland 
AB,  Tex.  His  new  school  is 
part  of  the  Air  Training  Com- 
mand which  conducts  hundreds 
cf  specialized  courses  to  pro- 
vide technically  trained  per- 
sonnel for  the  nation's  aero- 
space force. 

Airman  Moulter's  father  is 
assistant  to  Phil  Marucci  at  the 
New  Jersey  Cranberry-Blue- 
berry Experiment  Station  in 
New  Lisbon,  N.  J. 


Word  received  recently  from 
Mr.  Vernon  Goldsworthy  indi- 
cates that  approximately  75% 
of  the  Wisconsin  acreage  is 
presently  under  sprinklers  and 
that  quite  a  few  growers  had 
additional  sprinklers  installed 
this  Spring  which  has  brought 
the  total  up  to  that  figure. 


Additional  sprinklers  will  be 
added  next  year  but,  as  must 
be  expected,  the  rate  will  de- 
crease since  there  is  not  much 
acreage  left  to  be  placed  un- 
der sprinklers  and  some  grow- 
ers will  probably  never  put  all 
of  their  acreage  under  sprink- 
lers for  one  reason  or  another. 


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Clinton  Macauley,  I 

New  Jersey  Grower 
Joins  Commission  , 

James  F.  Wright,  Executive 
Director  of  the  Delaware  River 
Basin  Commission  has  an- 
nounced the  appointment  of 
Clinton  Macauley  {Cranberries 
Feb.  1966),  Pilgrim  Lakes 
Farm,  New  Gretna,  New  Jersey 
as  special  assistant  to  Chief  En. 
gineer  Herbert  A.  Hewlett. 

Hewlett,  head  of  the  Com- 
mission's Planning  Division, 
said  the  new  staflF  member  will 
be  assigned  to  program  control 
under  his  direction,  and  will 
handle  a  variety  of  technical 
assignments.  Mr.  Macauley  as- 
sumed his  new  post  July  5. 

The  Commission  is  an  inter- 
state-federal agency  established] 
in  1961  under  the  Delaware ' 
Basin  Compact  to  guide  the 
regional  planning,  development 
and  management  of  the  valley  s 
water  resources. 

The  13,000-square  mile  basin, 
including  portions  of  New  Jw- 
sey,  New  York,  Pennsylvania 
and  Delaware,  supports  a  pop- 
ulation of  7  million  persons 
and  faces  demands  for  water 
supply,  waste  disposal,  recrea- 
tion and  other  water  benefits 
far  out  of  proportion  to  its 
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Rexcel  Announces 
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Thompson  Industries  Com- 
pany, a  division  of  Rexall  Drug 
and  Chemical  Co.,  recently  an- 
nounced they  now  have  the 
most  complete  line  of  formed 
plastic  containers  and  lids 
available   in  the  packaging   in- 


dustry. The  hi-impact  polys- 
tyrene tub-and  cup-shaped  con- 
tainers, marketed  under  the 
registered  trademark  mama 
"REXCEL,"  feature  fifteen  sep- 
arate containers  and  seven  dif- 
ferent lids,  including  the  new 
bi-axially  oriented  styrene  hds. 
Custom  design  services  for 
special  packaging  problems  are 
also   offered  by  Thompson. 


The  complete  line  of  "REX- 
CEL" containers  and  lids  have 
found  wide  acceptance  in  food 
processing  industries.  Produce 
packagers  are  using  them  for 
fruits  and  vegetables  with  con- 
sumer preference  growing  for 
these  resuseable  and  recloseable 
containers,  wider  uses  and  ap- 
plication are  being  found  daily. 

Thompson  offers  three-color 
imprinting  on  white  containers 
and  white  or  clear  lid  for  mix- 
imum  effectiveness  in  colorful 
presentation  of  brand  name 
and  product  identification. 
Over-all  ink  coverage  of  the 
entire  lid,  including  rim,  can 
also  be  provided.  Containers 
made  from  colored  plastics  are 
available  on  special  order. 

Container  plants  are  located 
in  Ludlow,  Mass.  and  Santa 
Ana,  Calif,  with  sales  oflBces  in 
major  cities  across  the  nation. 

Additional  information  on 
the  new  REXCEL  polystyrene 
container  line  may  be  obtained 
by  writing:  Packaging  Sales 
EHvision  of  Thompson  Indus- 
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FIFTEEN 


A  LETTER 

TO  THE  EDITOR 


Upper  Canard,  N.  S, 

Dear  Mr.  Chartier, 

The  news  items  in  Cranber^ 
ries  are  always  read  with  inter- 
est, as  well  as  the  personal 
stories  of  the  growers  and 
their  lives.  Your  June  issue  was 
no  exception,  and  it  was  a  real 
pleasure  to  learn  that  our  old 
friraid  and  grower,  George  Ma- 
son of  Merigomish  is  still  look- 
ing after  his  bogs.  He  has  al- 
ways been  a  fine  person  to  meet 
and  to  work  with. 

One  little  error  crept  in  to 
the  story,  in  no  way  connec- 
ted with  you  or  Mr.  Mason.  It 
had  to  do  with  the  circumstan- 
ces which  forced  the  fantastic 
price  of  around  $8.00  per  quar- 
ter-barrel box,  which  you  said 
Mr.  Mason  could  not  recall. 


The  matter  goes  back  to  the 
period  before,  during  and  af- 
ter World  War  II.    When  one 


stops  to  consider  that  a  lot  of 
the  people  working  among 
cranberries  today  do  not  even 
remember  the  war,  it  is  scarce- 
ly surprising  that  the  details 
are  hazy  for  many  others. 

Canada  has  never  produced 
more  than  a  small  share  of  the 
cranberries  consumed  in  Can- 
ada. The  shortage  has  come 
from  United  States,  and  in  the 
period  mentioned,  chiefly  from 
Cape  Cod.  Prices  in  Canada 
were  normally  Cape  Cod  plus 
the  cost  of  bringing  them  in. 
Canada  has  always  bought 
more  farm  and  manufactured 
products  from  the  United  States 
than  she  has  sold  to  them.  Pay- 
ments were  made  through  a 
complex  international  exchange 
among  whom  Canada  and  the 
United  States  both  did  busi- 
ness. During  War  II  this  in- 
ternational business  was  inter- 
rupted and  Canada  wa  abrupt- 
ly faced  with  a  balance  of  pay- 
ment deficit  with  United  States. 


Uolmar  Jjeliinq  Uo.,  ^nc. 

W  COMMERCIAL  STREET  /  BOSTON.  MASS.  Q2109 


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IN  STOCK  -  IWEBIME  DELIVERY  ! 

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Phone  344-^^366 


To  meet  this,  steps  were  taken 
to  hmit  the  purchases  Canada 
would  make  from  United 
States.  Cranberries  were  listed 
as  non-essential  imports  and 
Cape  Cod  cranberries  ceased 
to  enter  Canada.  Bidding  in 
Canada  for  the  small  quantity 
of  Canadian  cranberries  became 
very  keen  and  the  prices  rose 
to  the  unheard  of  levels  Mr, 
Mason  mentioned. 

Meanwhile    Cape    Cod    was 
having  its  boom  as  well  as  its 
troubles.    Purchases  for  the  U. 
S.  army  introduced  a  new  mar- 
ket   demand    and     encouraged 
many  growers  to  renovate  old 
bogs,    just    at    the    time    when 
the    new    insecticides     boosted 
general  yields.  Cessation  of  U. 
S.    government    buying    at    the 
close  of  the  war  left  a  sudden 
surplus    and    Cape   Cod   prices 
tumbled  to  a  modem  low.  This 
coincided    with    the    shortages 
and  high  prices  in  Canada.  The 
barriers  were  suddenly  removed 
in  the  middle  of  the  marketing 
season.     Prices    in    Cape    Cod 
edged  up  slightly,  but  the  flood 
of  Cape  Cod  berries  in  Canada 
knocked   the   bottom   from   the 
Canadian      market.      Canadian 
growers   who   had  booked   sale 
orders  from  the  trade  had  de- 
liveries refused  and  orders  can- 
celled.   Within  a  month  Cana- 
dian prices  tumbled  to  half  or 
less  their  earlier  figure. 

This,  in  brief,  was  the  blow 
from  which  the  Canadian  in- 
dustry, at  least  in  the  Mari- 
time Provinces,  has  never  re- 
covered, although  there  is 
some  present  revival  of  interest, 
and  British  Columbia  is  ex- 
panding its  acreage  rapidly. 

Yours  very  truly, 

E.  L.  Eaton 


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S I XTEEN 


PERSONAL  SAFETY   IN 
CHEMICAL  HANDLING 

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1  vomiting.  If  in  the  eye,  wash 
with  clean  water  for  15  minutes. 
Protect  yourself  from  parathion 
contaminating  the  victim. 

c.  Take  the  victim  to  a  doc- 
tor as  promptly  as  possible*. 

d.  Provide  the  doctor  with 
the  complete  label  on  the 
chemical  container  or  write 
down  for  him  a  complete  hst 
of  ingredients  from  the  label. 

DONT: 

a.  Leave  anyone  alone  who 
may  be  poisoned.  If  there  is 
any  doubt  whatsoever  take  him 
to  a  doctor. 

b.  Do  not  give  atropine  tab- 
lets or  any  other  drug  or  medi- 
cine and  send  victim  back  to 
work  (oral  atropine  tablets  of 
no   value  in   an  emergency). 

d.  Never  give  anything  by 
mouth  to  an  unconscious  vic- 
tim. 

Here  is  a  list,  the  ways  in 
which  chemicals  have  been 
known  to  harm  people.  All 
workers  should  be  aware  cf  all 
of  the  eflPects  which  are  to  be 
guarded  against  concerning 
each  chemical  with  which  they 
i  work. 

1.  Fire  and  explosion. 

2.  Poisoning     —     acute     and 
chronic. 

3.  Damage  to  eyes  and  skin 
_^  —  chemical  burns,  inflam- 
■         mation,     photosensitization 

of   skin,    staining   cf  skin. 

4.  Inflammation   of  breathing 
passages,    chemical    pneu-. 
monia,    choking. 

5.  Allergic  reactions  —  hives, 
asthma,  hay  fever,  rashes, 

m       etc. 

6.  Cancer. 

7.  Genetic  and  teratogenic 
(damage  to  fetus  before 
birth)    effects. 


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SEVENTEEN' 


Wei  Season  Raises 
Havoc  With  New  Jersey 
Blueberry  Growers 


New  Jersey  Blueberry  grow- 
ers are  being  forced  to  allow 
acres  of  the  waterlogged  fruit 
to  "rot  on  the  bush." 

Rainfall,  which  has  been 
above  normal,  heavy  dew  and 
high  humidity  have  caused 
berries  to  be  soft  and  mushy. 

Pemberton  Borough  Council- 
man F.  Lyman  Simpkins,  who 
is  also  a  grower,  was  quoted 
as  saying  "It's  heartbreaking. 
Our  plight  can't  be  blamed  on 
any  one  thing,  we're  just  vic- 
tims  of  nature." 

He  also  pointed  out  that,  al- 
though the  berries  may  not  ap- 


pear split  or  overly  soft  during 
the  picking  and  sorting  proc- 
esses, the  are  apt  to  burst  open 
once  they  have  been  packed 
and   sealed   in   cellophane. 

"It  happened  to  me  just  this 
week,"  Simpkins  related.  "I 
spent  a  whole  day  picking  and 
packing  the  Herbert  variet)- 
and  they  looked  beautiful.  By 
the  time  they  reached  the 
buyer,  the  packages  were  full 
of  juice." 

The  berries  have  been 
robbed  of  their  normal  "drying 
out"  period  due  to  the  exten- 
ded period  of  wet  weather,  ac 
cording  to  a  spokesman  of  the 
Tru-Blu  Cooperative  Associa- 
tion in  New  Lisbon.  The  of- 
ficial, Michael  Scepansky,  went 
on  to  say  "This  year  we  have 
experienced  the  longest  unin- 
terrupted period  of  high  hu- 
midity since  I  can  remember," 
adding,   "and    a   wet   season   is 


'much  harder  on  the  fruit  than 
a  dry  one.  Scepansky  went  on 
to  say  that  the  wholesale  price 
of  berries  is  down  about  10 
percent  over  last  year.  "Some 
farmers  are  responsible  for 
hurting  the  market  by  feeding 
it  inferior  berries." 

As  if  all  this  wasn't  enough, 
the  New  Jersey  growers  are 
again  faced  with  labor  prob- 
lems. Many  are  demanding  the 
$1.25  per  hour  minimum  wage 
or  they  refuse  to  work.  Adding 
even  to  this  problem,  many  of 
the  berries,  due  to  their  soft- 
ness, cannot  be  picked  by  ma- 
chines and  so  must  be  picked 
by  hand. 

There  appears  to  a  brighter 
side  to  the  story,  however,  as 
the  late  varieties  of  berries 
seem  to  be  more  suitable  qual- 
ity and  should  do  something  to 
elevate  the  local  growers  from 
the   depths   of  despair. 


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NEW  JERSEY 


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A  very  rainy  July  was  very 
harmful  to  the  blueberry  Indus, 
try  of  Burlington  County.  Fre- 
quent and  heavy  rains  caused 
berries  to  become  moldy  and 
abnormally  watery.  Growers 
could  not  send  berries  of  such 
quality  to  market  and,  as  a  re- 
sult a  large  proportion  of  the 
early  varieties  were  not  har- 
vested. 

Excessive  rain  occurred 
throughout  the  main  blueberry 
and  cranberry  producing  areas. 
A  few  of  the  heavy  showers 
missed  the  New  Lisbon  Station, 
and  the  data  from  that  Station 
does  not  truly  represent  the 
excessive  rain  experienced  by 
many  growers.  Nevertheless, 
there  were  thirteen  rainy  days 


and  a  total  of  5.93  inches  of 
precipitation  recorded  there.  At 
Buddtcwn,  only  about  five  miles 
west,  more  than  seven  inches 
of  rainfall  occurred.  In  Chats- 
worth,  in  the  heart  of  the  blue- 
berry and  cranberry  area,  wea- 
ther observer  Earl  Kershner  re- 
coded  a  total  of  5,77  inches 
on  ten  days. 

The  total  rainfall  at  the  New 
Lisbon  station  was  1.60  inches 
above  normal  for  the  month. 
The  total  for  1967  now  stands 
at  25.02  which  is  only  0.13 
inches  above  normal  for  the 
January  through  July  period. 

The  average  temperature  was 
74.2  degrees  F,  about  1  degree 
cooler  than  normal.  There  were 
only  six  ninety  degree  days.  In 
July  the  average  number  of  90 
degree  days  is  ten,  and  in  1966 
there  were  fourteen,  two  of 
which  were  over  100  degrees. 

While  the  excessive  rains  have 
caused  great  damage  to  the 
blueberry  crop  the  effect  en  the 


R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


Serving  Agriculture 


Helicopter  Application 
Division 

CHEMAPCO,   INC. 


Cranberry  Highway 

West  Wareham,  Mass. 

295-1553 


cranberry  crop,  as  of  now,  has 
been  good.  Blossoming  was 
very  prolific  and  pollination 
was  excellent.  If  severe  weather 
does  not  occur  between  now 
and  harvest,  and  the  berries 
can  be  kept  free  of  fungus  rots, 
the  outlook  is  for  a  near  record 
cranberry  crop  in  New  Jersey 
this  year. 


WISHINGTOII 


The  hottest  day  of  the  year 
in  Washington  thus  far  has  been 
July  1  with  90  degrees  followed 
by  the  remainder  of  the  month 
with  the  mean  high  of  66.38 
degrees.  The  last  four  days 
had  71,  69,  70,  and  68.  Our 
mean  low  was  49.58  with  a  low 
in  the  bog  of  39  on  the  27th, 
■so  most  of  the  area  is  enjoying 
the  sunshine. 

The  precipitation  total  for 
the  month  was  .24  inches  with 
.22  coming  on  the  18th  and 
19th  to  break  a  21  day  period 
with  no   precipitation. 

We  are  taking  a  soil  tem- 
perature each  day  and  the  last 
three  days  of  the  month  the  soil 

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Farm  Credit  Service 

Box  7,  Taunton,  Mass.  02781     1  \ 
Tel.   617  824-7578 


Production  Credit  Loans 

Land  Bank  Mortgages 

• 

OfRce — 362,  Route  44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS.  \\ 

Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager    \\ 


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SWEDISH  STYLE 
FRUIT  SOUP 

1  quart  cranberry  juice  cocktail 

V4  cup  minute  tapioca 

1  lemon,  thinly  sliced 

6  whole  cloves 

Vi  teaspoon  nutmeg 

1  can  (11  ounce)  mandarin  or- 
ange sections,  drained 

1  can   ( 15V2  oz. )   pineapple 
chunks,  drained 

1  package  ( 10  ounce )  frozen 
strawberries  with  sugar,  de- 
frosted 

%  cup  grenadine  syrup 

Vs  teaspoon  salt 

Combine  cranberry  juice 
cocktail,  tapioca,  lemon,  cloves, 
and  nutmeg  in  saucepan.  Bring 
to  boil;  simmer  gently  about 
10  minutes.  Add  remaining  in- 
gredients. Chill.  Serve  plain 
or  topped  with  'sour  cream  or 
whipped  cream.  Yield:  IVz  cups. 


A  Dish  that's  Different - 
Swedish  Style  Fruit  Soup 


The  name  of  the  game  is 
serving  something  diflFerent  and 
it's  fun  to  play  when  you  en- 
tertain. If  you're  looking  for 
somethmg  unusual  for  your  next 
company  dirmer,  you  can't  miss 
with  Swedish  fruit  soup.  Served 
chilled  for  dessert,  it's  an  old 
Swedish  custom  that's  delight- 
fully new  to  most  Americans. 

Making  the  fruit  soup  is  sim- 
plicity itself,  for  you  start  with 
cranberry  juice  cocktail  and  use 
canned  and  frozen  fruits. 

Just  combine  a  quart  of  fruit 
juice  with  a  little  minute  tap- 
ioca, lemon  slices,  cloveS,  and 
nutmeg,  and  simmer  gently 
for  about  10  minutes.  Add 
mandarin  orange  slices,  pine- 
apple chunks,  frozen  strawber- 
ries, and  a  little  grenadine 
syrup,  and  chill  the  mixture. 

Serve  it  topped  with  sour  or 
whipped  cream  and  accom- 
panied with  tiny  cookies.  Or 
you  can  pour  it  over  cake  slices 
or  ice  cream.  It  can  also  be 
used  as  an  appetizer. 


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FARM  CREDIT 
BANKS  OF  ST.  PAUL 
DEDICATES 
NEW   BUILDING 


,  On  Thursday,  August  24,  a 
dedication  program  was  held 
to  celebrate  the  opening  of  the 
new  Farm  Credit  Banks  Build- 
ing in  St.  Paul,   Minnesota. 

Several  thousand  people 
heard  Governor  R.  B.  Tootell 
of  the  Farm  Credit  Administra- 
tion speak  on  the  accomplish- 
ments of  this  organization. 

The  Land  Bank  has  over 
$620  million  in  loans  outstand- 
ing to  59,000  farmers  and 
ranchers.  In  its  50  years  of 
operation,  loans  totaling  $1.8 
billion  have  been  made  to  more 
than  284,000  farmers  and 
ranchers.  Terms  of  loans  range 
from  5  to  35  years.  They  are 
tailored  to  the  debt-repayment 
capacity  of  the  borrowers,  the 
earning  power  of  the  farms, 
and  the  des^bility  of  the  land 
oflFered  as  s«3urity.  The  Land 
Bank  is  owned  entirely  by  the 
farmers  and  ranchers  who  use 
its  services. 


The  Intermediate  Credit  Bank 
obtains  funds  from  investors 
and  makes  these  funds  availa- 
ble for  farm  production  pur- 
poses through  52  local  Produc- 
tion Credit  Associations  and 
agricultural  credit  companies. 
Each  year,  short  and  intermedi- 
ate term  loans  for  famterj  are 
discounted  at  the  rate  of  liiore 
than  one-half  biUion  dolliirs. 
At  present  it  has  over  $400 
million  outstanding.  Tne  inter- 
mediate Credit  Bank  also  pro- 
vides supervision  and  assis- 
tance to  PCA's  to  enable  them 
to  make  sound  credit  available 
to  farmers. 

Highlights  of  the  two-day 
observance  of  the  dedication  of 
the  new  building  included  the 
banquet,  individual  stock- 
holders' meetings,  special  State 
Fair  party  and  Farm  Credit 
Day  at  the  Minnesota  State 
Fair. 

Cranberries  congratulates  this 
fine  organization  and  wishes 
them  continued  success. 


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TWENTY-ONE 


SEARCH  FOR 

CINDERELLA  OF  THE  WORLD 
AT  WORLD  FOOD 
EXPOSITION 


The  search  is  on  for  Cin- 
derella of  the  World,  whose 
foot  must  fit  the  legendary 
glass  shpper  for  her  role  as  of- 
ficial hostess  of  the  World  Food 
Exposition  September  15  to  24 
in  Madison,  Wisconsin. 

Bruce  C.   Walter,   Executive, 
I  Director     of     the     Exposition, 
'  tried   the   glass   shpper   on  the 
I  foot  of  Miss   Betty   Wong,  20, 
medical    technician    at    Univer- 
sity   Hospital    and    found    that 
it  fit..    Miss  Wong  was  bom  in 
China,   but   her  parents  moved 
to  South  America,   so  she  rep- 
resents   two    countries    in    the 
Cinderella  competition. 

Candidates  are  still  sought 
for  the  Cinderella  role.  Many 
will  represent  food  commodity 


groups,  and  will  serve  as  ex- 
hibit hostesses  at  the  Exposition. 

Cinderella  pageant  finals  will 
be  Saturday,  September  9,  and 
will  be  televised  on  a  state- 
wide network  at  7:30  to  8:30 
p.m.,  the  hour  prior  to  the  an- 
nual Miss  America  pageant. 

North  Central  Airlines  has 
volunteered  its  luxurious  execu- 
tive plane  to  escort  Cinderella 
of  the  World  on  t>ress  tour  of 
leading  cities.  Tuesday,  Sep- 
tember 12.  She  will  appear  in 
John  Gary  and  Rosemary  Cloo- 
ney  stage  shows  daily  in  Me- 
morial Coliseum  at  World  Food 
Exposition.  Matching  her  glass 
shppers  will  be  an  original 
Manchester  gown  with  twink- 
ling hght  bouflFant  skirt. 


Tvd 


B^lS 


Here's  Checklist 
for  Home  Lighting 

Whether  a  family  is  buying 
a  new  home  or  remodeling  the 
present  one,  the  installation  of 
modem  lighting  is  an  import- 
ant must  in  living  better  elec- 
trically. 

Here's  m  svggested  check  list 
for  home  buyers  or  remodelers : 

Outside  —  Individual  lights 
for  entrances,  porches  and 
driveways. 

Stairs  and  halls  —  Spot  ceil- 
ing fixtures  over  all  stairs  and 
in  ^ach  hall,  controlling  them 
by  switches  at  each  end. 

Bathroom  —  Fixtures  above 
and  on  each  side  of  mirror.  Al- 
ways turn  on  lights  when  using 
medicine  bottles.  Night  light  is 
an  added  safety  measure. 

Bedroom  —  A  large  center 
ceiling  fixture  controlled  by 
switches  at  the  door  and  near 
the  bed. 

Kitchen  —  Ceiling  fixture 
plus  lights  over  all  working 
areas,  including  sink,  range 
and  counters. 

Basement  and  attic  —  Lights 
over  laundry  area,  furnace, 
storage  area  and  work  benches. 

Closets  —  Wall  or  ceiling  fix- 
tures, preferably  operated  by 
door  switch. 

HANDSOME  FLOOR  ACCENTS 
FOR  YOUR  HOME 

More  and  more  home  maga- 
zines are  showing  rooms  dec- 
orated with  smallfer  rugs  to 
allow  more  of  the  rich,  mellow 
appearance  of  the  wood  floors 
to  set  off  the  color  and  texture 
of  the  rug.  "Why  cover  this 
beautiful  floor,"  one  western 
housewife  asked?  "I  like  the 
warm,  neutral  colors  of  my 
west  coast  hemlock  floor  and 
would  prefer  to  let  the  rug 
be  framed  with  this  lovely 
flooring." 


NEW  DEVELOP^AEN^ 
IN  AERIAL  SPRAYING 
OF  INSECTICIDES 


Madison,  —  A  new  develop- 
ment in  the  aerial  spraying  of 
insecticides  drastically  reduces 
the  cost  of  insect  control  in 
field  crops. 

The  technique  consists  of  ap- 
plication by  airplane  of  concen- 
trated but  low-toxicity  chemi- 
cals at  low  volumes  of  a  few 
ounces  per  acre.  University  of 
Wisconsin  insect  specialist  J. 
W.  Apple  is  giving  serious  re- 
search attention  to  the  possi- 
bility of  using  these  "ultra  low- 
volume"  (ULV)  sprays  in 
commercial   crop   production. 

His  experiments  show  that 
concentrated  malathion  and 
dimethoate  give  94-100  percent 
control  of  alfalfa  insects  when 
applied  as  a  low-volume  aerial 
spray  amounting  to  a  few  fluid 
ounces  per  acre.  The  treatment 
controlled  pea  aphids,  leaf- 
hoppers,  plant  bugs,  and  grass- 
hoppers. 

In    Apple's     study,     a    light 

plane    carrying    the    undiluted 

'chemical   flew  at   levels   of   10 

1  and  25  feet  abovp  the  ground. 

'  Eight  nozzles  were  used  for  a 

,  spray  treatment  of  one  pint  per 

I  acre,  and  16  no77l'=>«;  were  used 

to    deliver    two    pints    of    the 

chemical  per  acre. 


Conventional  methods  of 
aerial  spraying  use  chemicals 
diluted  with  water  or  other  ad- 
ditives, Apple  explains.  For 
efi^ective  insect  control,  conven- 
tional aerial  spraying  usually 
requires  application  of  three  to 
five  gallons  per  acre  of  diluted 
insecticide.  Several  flights  are 
required  to  spray  a  field  of  a 
thousand  acres. 

One  airplane  spraying  concen, 
trated  insecticides  can  treat  as 
much  area  as  four  aircraft  using 
the  conventional  spray. 

A  plane  carrying  concentrated 
insecticide  can  treat  several 
fields  in  one  trip,  whereas  sev- 
eral trips  are  required  per  field 
using  conventional  spray. 

The  new  method  of  aerial 
spraying  does  away  with  the 
mixing  tanks.  The  concentrated 
need  for  a  water  supply  and 
insecticide  also  gives  better  pest 
control  because  it  does  not  con- 
tain emulsifiers  and  therefore 
may  resist  weathering. 


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Light  bulb  snatchers  will  be 
pleased  to  know  that  there  la  A 
new  electric  light  bulb  avail- 
able that  is  guaranteed  to  last 
five  years! 

Exhaustive  tests  of  bulbs, 
made  by  independent  testing 
laboratories,  prove  that  the 
ordinary  light  bulb  lasts  only 
750  hours,  or  about  thsee 
months. 

At  this  rate,  the  average 
home,  which  has  about  thirty- 
five  electric  light  bulbs,  has  to 
have  a  light  replaced  some* 
where  in  the  house  every  week. 

This  annoyance  is  banished 
with  the  new  bulb  which  lasts 
for  17,000  hours  of  life! 

The  cost  is  about  one  dollar, 
and  over  a  period  of  time  there 
is  a  70%  saving  on  your 
lighting. 


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REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

WASHINGTON 

Continued    from  page  19 

temperature  ranged  higher  than 
the  temperature  outside,  in  fact 
all  month  it  ranged  2  to  3  de- 
grees above  the  high  for  the 
day.  The  bogs  are  dry  and 
most  growers  are  watering  at 
least  four  hours  a  week.  New 
plantings  need  more  water  than 
old  growth  so  the  ponds  are 
getting  quite  low. 

The  Cranberry  Vine  came 
out  this  last  month  with  a 
summary  of  the  Field  Day  ac- 
tivities. 


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"Rain,  rain  go  away,  come 
again  another  day."  This  is  a 
chant  beginning  to  be  heard  in 
the  Wisconsin  area.  Through- 
out June  temperatures  were 
generally  below  normal,  with 
precipitation  above  normal. 
June  provided  ideal  weather  for 
growth  but  was  also  excellent 
weather  for  weeds  to  thrive  on. 

Cool  and  showery  weather 
prevailed  during  tihe  first  week 
of  July.  Daily  temperatures 
were    below    normal    and  then 


abruptly  rose  to  above  normal 
levels  June  30th  .  (The  showers 
were  spotty  and  fell  for  several 
days.  Richland  Center  reported 
4.71  inches  in  a  very  heavy 
shower  June  29  for  a  weekly 
total  of  nearly  6Vz  inches.  June 
rainfall  was  frequent  and  heavy 
throughout  the  state.  Monthly 
amounts  averaged  7  to  8  inches 
north  of  a  line  from  LaCrosse 
to  Green  Bay  with  5  to  7  in- 
ches south  of  that  line  except 
for  7  to  8  inches  again  in  the 
extreme  southeastern  counties. 
Locally,  throughout  the  state, 
amounts  have  been  in  the  10 
to  15  inch  range. 

A  strong  cold  front  pushed 
southward  across  the  state  on 
July  1  ushering  in  a  week  of  un- 
seasonably cool  temperatures. 
Thunderstorms  accompanied  the 
cold  front  across  the  state  bring- 
ing 1  inch  rainfall  amounts  to 
the  central  belt  of  counties 
roughly  from  Minneapolis  to 
Green  Bay  around  midnight 
June  30  to  July  1.  Damaging 
winds  occured  in  Dunn  and  St. 
Croix  counties  and  again  in 
Calumet  ad  Manitowoc  coun- 
ties. A  small  tornado  was  re- 
ported at  Chilton.  Scattered 
thunderstorms  with  some  hail 
developed  on  the  afternoon  of 
July  3rd  throughout  the  state. 
The  balance  of  the  week  was 
cool  and  dry. 

While  temperatures  continued 
to  average  2  to  3  degrees  below 


normal  daily  highs  were  in 
or  near  the  90's.  Frequent  scat- 
tered thunderstorms  left  only 
spotty  precipitation  in  a  narrow 
band  through  the  south  cen- 
tral portion  of  the  state.  Only 
2  stations  reported  in  excess  of 
1  inch:  Lynxville  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi, with  1.47,  and  Madison 
with  1.06. 

The  22nd  was  sunny  and 
warm  with  reports  of  90  degree 
temperatures  around  the  state. 
A  small  tornado  was  reported 
in  north  Fond  du  Lac  County 
the  23rd.  A  cool  air  mass  came 
over  the  state  the  evening  of  the 
24th  lowering  temperatures  gen- 
erally; the  25th  was  sunny  and 
pleasant. 


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Prospects  Good  for  'tl 
Jersey  Cranberry  Crop 

Good  prospects  for  the  1967 
New  Jersey  cranberry  crop  are 
indicated  by  the  New  Jersey 
Crop  Reporting  Service  in  its 
first  production  forecast  of  tlie 
season. 

This  year's  harvest  is  expected 
to  yield  157,000  barrels  or 
15,700,000  pounds,  16  per  cent 
more  than  the  1966  crop  and 
32  per  cent  above  the  1961-65 
average.  Cool,  damp  weather 
delayed  bloom,  which  averaged 
about  10  days  later  than  normal, 
but  berries  have  developed 
rapidly,  with  most  nmning 
medium  to  large  in  size.  De- 
spite the  wet  weather,  there 
appears  to  be  few  problems 
with  rotting  of  berries. 

Nationally,  cranberry  produc- 
tion this  year  is  estimated  at 
1,515,000  barrels,  5  per  cent  less 
than  last  year's  record  high 
crop,  but  15  per  cent  above  av- 
erage. 

Smaller  crops  are  anticipated 
in  Massachusetts,  Wisconsin 
and  Washington.  Oregon,  along 
with  New  Jersey,  is  expected  to 
have  a  larger  crop  than  last 
year.  These  are  the  five  impor- 
tant cranberry-producing  states. 
New  Jersey  ranks  third  in  the 
nation  in  cranberry  production. 


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Vinegar 
2%  cups  sugar 

1  tablespoon  cinnamon 
1  teaspoon  ground  cloves 
Wash  and  pick  over  the  cran- 
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and  cook  until  they  burst.  Force 
through  a  sieve.  Add  the  other 
ingredients,  return  the  mixture  to 
the  fire  and  simmer  until  thick. 
Seal  in  clean,  hot  jars.  Serve  as  a 
relish  with  fowl  or  meat. 


N^\%s  Cranberry 

Miss  Patricia  Dianne  Vinje 
will  represent  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry as  Miss  Cranberry  in  the 
"Cinderella  of  the  World"  con- 
test which  is  being  presented 
as  part  of  the  World  Food  Ex- 
position in  Madison,  Wis., 
Sept.  15  to  24.  She  is  sponsored 
by  the  Wisconsin  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  and  the 
Niational  Cranberry  Institute. 

Miss  Vinje  an  18-year-old, 
five-foot-four,  blue-eyed  brun- 
ette comes  from  Middleton, 
Wis.,  where  she  graduated  from 
Middleton  High  School.  She  is 
presently  enrolled  in  the  School 
of  Home  Economics  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  where  she 
plan  to  major  in  fashion  design- 
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Many  states,  commodity  or- 
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associations  have  selected  girls 
to  enter  the  "Cinderella  of  the 
World"  contest.  Ten  girls  will 
be  selected  for  the  final  contest 
which  will  be  televised  in  Wis- 
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GOLDY    REPORTS    ON 
NOVA    SCOTIA    TRIP 

It  looks  like  there  will  he  cuii- 
siderable  land  available  in  the 
maritime  provinces  for  the  cul- 
ture of  cranberries,  and  I  do  nou 
think  the  conditions  will  be  much 
different  than  those  found  in 
Massachusetts. 

Most  of  the  marshes  that  have 
been  in  existence  in  the  past, 
which  probably  total  around  300 
acres,  have  been  pretty  much 
abandoned,  but  three  men,  Mur- 
ray Porter,  Gerald  Porter,  and 
A.  B.  Balcom,  have  set  about  re- 
vamping three  or  four  of  the  old 
properties  and  rejuvenating,  and 
will  plant  about  15  acres  in  1967. 

Cordon  W.  Baker,  at  Middleton, 
Nova  Scotia,  another  grower  we 
visited,  has  a  property  divided 
pretty  much  between  Early 
Blacks  and  Howes.  He  sells  his 
cranberries  pretty  much  fresh 
fruit    to   the    retail    trade. 

The  Experimental  Station  at 
Kentville  is  giving  the  prospec- 
tive growers  a  lot  of  help  in  get- 
ting into  the  cranberry  business 
and  are  trying  to  do  everything 
to  promote  the  cranberry  indus- 
try in  the  maritime  provinces. 
They  have  already  given  a  lot  of 
help  and  have  a  number  of  people 
in  the  Experimental  Station  work- 
ing on  improving  the  existiyiy 
cranberry  marshes  as  well  as 
developing  new  ones.  I  was  much 
surprised  at  the  help  that  the 
cranberry  industry  is  receiving 
from  the  government  at  Nova. 
Scotia  even  though  the  entire 
acreage  in  production  now  is  only 
about  fifty  acres.  Their  Experi- 
mental Statio7i  is  working  pri- 
marily with  developing  new  va- 
rieties for  Nova  Scotia  but  are 
also     very     much     interested     in 

Continued   on   page  22 


Mass. 
Cranberry 
Station 
I  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  attended 
tlie  59th  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
American  Phytopathological  So- 
ciety at  Washington,  D.C.  from 
August  19  through  25. 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended 
the  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Biological 
Sciences  (A.  I.  B.  S.)  at  Texas 
A  &  M,  College  Station,  Texas, 
from  August  28  through  31. 
Bob  presented  a  paper  on 
"Chemical  Inducement  of  An- 
thocyanin  Pigmentattion  in  Vac- 
cinium  macrocarpon.  Variety 
Early  Black."  This  paper  de- 
scribes the  preliminary  work 
with  chemical  treatments  to  in- 
crease the  red  color  in  cran- 
berries as  an  aid  to  earlier 
harvest. 


Crop  Estimate 
The  official  crop  estimate  re- 
leased by  the  New  England 
Crop  Reporting  Service  indi- 
cates Massachusetts  with  a  pro- 
spective 1967  crop  of  700,000 
barrels.  This  is  9  percent  smaller 
than  last  year's  crop  of  768,000 
barrels,  but  7  percent  above 
the  5  year  average.  For  the 
other  arejas.  New  Jersey  is 
157,000  barrels  up  16  percent 
from  last  year  and  32  percent 
above  average.  Wisconsin 
500,000  barrels,  down  2  percent 
from  last  year  out  19  percent 
above  average.  The  Washington 
crop  is  estimated  at  101,000 
barrels,  down  25  percent  from 
last  year's  large  crop,  but  16 
percent  above  average;  Oregon 
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from  last  year's  record  crop,  out 
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Frost    Warning    Service 

The     frost    warning     service, 
sponsored    by    the    Cape    Cod 
Cranberry  Growers  Association, 
is    in    operation  this    fall.    The 
telephone   answering   service   is 
also    very    popular    and     very 
helpful.  Frost  information  is  re- 
corded  daily   and   growers  that 
are    interested    may    telephone 
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noon and  evening  for  the  latest 
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this  number  contributing  to  the 
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Mrs.  Edith  Savary  Hall,  Great 
Neck  Road,  Wareham,  Mass., 
wife  of  the  late  Clarence  J.  F. 
Hall,  passed  away  Sunday,  Sep. 
tember  3,  1967  at  Tobey  Hospi- 
tal, Wareham,  where  she  had 
been  a  patient  for  over  a  month. 

She  was  born  in  Tacoma, 
Washington,  September  12, 
1894,  daughter  of  Walter  B.  and 
Ellen  F.  (Bourne)  Savary.  She 
came  to  Wareham  when  2  years 
old  and  with  the  exception  of 
residing  in  New  Bedford  a  short 
time,  she  had  been  a  resident 
of  Wareham  nearly  70  years. 
She  graduated  from  Wareham 
High  School  and  Boston  Nor- 
mal Art  School  and  for  several 
years  was  an  art  supervisor  in 
the  public  schools  in  Fairhaven, 
Acushnet  and  Sandwich. 

Mrs.  Hall  is  well  known  for 
her  interest  in  the  cranberry 
industry  in  which  she  was  as- 
sociated with  her  late  husband 
in  the  publication  of  "Cran- 
berries," the  national  cranberry 
magazine;  also  her  interest  in 
the  field  of  art  and  area  histori- 
cal events. 

She  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  Marion  Art  Center  and  also 
a  member  of  the  Wareham  His- 
torical Society. 

Services  were  held  at  the 
Cornwell  Memorial  Chapel. 
Wareham,  Wednesday,  Septem- 
ber 6,  at  10:30  A.M.,  with 
burial  at  tbe  Center  Cemetery. 

Surviors  are  a  son,  David  D. 
Hall,  Forest  Hills,  New  York 
and  a  brother,  Warren  H.  Sav- 
ary of  Plainfield,  New  Jersey 
and  Wareham. 


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The  community  of  Boone,  N.  C.  has  a 
rather  dubious  honor. 

It  has  been  selected  by  the  Office  of  Econ- 
omic Opportunity  to  receive  a  grant  in  the 
amount  of  $179,000  through  Community  Ac- 
tion, Inc.  of  that  city,  which  is  to  be  used 
to  publish  a  weekly  newspaper  and  to  dis- 
tribute it  free  to  everybody  in  four  counties, 
". . .  including  those  who   can't  read." 

Needless  to  say  this  has  caused  consider- 
able unhappiness  to  the  weekly  newspapers 
in  the  area  which  also  cover  all  the  com- 
munity news. 

The  explanation  by  those  involved  with 
the  new  enterprise,  or  perhaps  more  properly 
those  who  were  involved  in  making  the  de- 
cision to  publish  a  new  weekly,  was  that  not 
enough  people  subscribe  and  read  the  pre- 
sent newspapers. 

A  rather  good  point  was  made  by  the 
Asheville,  N.  C.  Citizen  when  it  stated  "If 
the  OEO  can  publish  a  weekly  newspaper 
in  Northwest  North  Carolina  . . .  Washington 
can  . . .  develop  —  gradually,  insidiously  ■ — • 
a  federal  press,  financed  by  taxpayers' 
money  and  telling  the  American  people  only 
what  it  wants  them  to  hear.  That  is  not 
likely?  No,  it  is  not  likely.  It  is  still  possible. 
That  is  the  prime  tactic  of  dictatorship,  with 
a  controlled  press  the  main  tool." 

In  a  country  where  individual  liberty  de- 
pends to  such  an  extent  upon  the  expression 
of  thousands  of  weekly  and  daily  news- 
papers, this  is  an  intolerable  precedent. 

The  role  as  public  consciences  and  watch- 
dogs of  government  of  our  newspapers  can- 
not be  replaced. 

Following  a  storm  of  protest,  the  action 
to  establish  a  "federal  newspaper"  has  been 
reversed.  Congress  has  further  stipulated 
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CORRESPONDENTS  -  ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   Rivei ,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


establishing  or  operating  a  general  coverage 
newspaper,  magazine,  radio  station  or  tele- 
vision station." 

This  is  proof  in  itself  that  the  voice  of  the 
press  and  that  of  the  American  people  still 
carry  some  weight  when  the  issue  directly 
touches  fundamental  principles  of  individual 
freedom. 


Cranherries   is  published   monthly   by  Comor  Publishers,  P.O.  Box  J      Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360. 
Second  Class  Postage  Paid  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts  P.O.   Subscriptions  $4.00,  Foreign  $5.00  per  year 


American  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association 
98th  Summer  Meeting 


The  98th  Summer  Meeting  of 
the  American  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers Association  was  held  on 
August  31st,  with  about  seventy 
in  attendance.  Tliere  was  a 
morning  program  held  at  the 
Chatswcrth  Fire  House  and  a 
tour  of  cranberry  bogs  in  the 
afternoon  following  an  excellent 
lunch  served  by  the  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  of  the  Chats  wordi 
Volunteer  Fire  Department. 

In  the  morning  session  Jack 
St.  Pierre  of  the  New  Jersey 
Crop  Reporting  Service  gave 
the  crop  estimates  for  New 
Jersey  and  the  other  cranberry- 
producing  states.  He  stated  that 
New  Jersey  growers  seemed 
even  more  optimistic  than  the 
official  estimate  indicated.  The 
New  Jersey  estimate  of  157,000 
barrels  is  16%  higher  than  1966 
and  32%  above  the  1961-1965 
average.  The  size  of  berries  was 
running  slightly  better  than  in 
1966  and  there  was  surprisingly 
little  rot  encountered  despite 
the   exceedingly   wet    weather. 

Walter  Fort  and  Garfield  Dc 
Marco,  New  Jersey  Representa. 
fives  on  the  Marketing  Order 
Committee  reported  on  the  re- 
cent meeting  of  that  group. 
There  will  be  no  set  aside  in 
the  1967  crop.  Fort  commented 
on  the  Committee's  concern 
over  the  quality  situation.  Con- 
trary to  St.  Pierre's  observations, 
he  reported  more  severe  rot 
conditions  than  usual  in  New 
jersey  and  indicated  that  re- 
ports in  other  states  were  simi- 
lar. He  felt  that  excessive  water 
content  berries  induced  by  the 
recent  heavy  rains  could  reduce 
the  quality  even  of  berries 
which  did  not  rot.  A  dry  warm 
period  was  needed  in  New  Jer- 
sey to  improve  quality. 

Phil  Marucci  discussed  the 
pollinating  period  of  cran- 
berries.   He    showed    that    this 

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was  the  most  important  time  of 
year  for  the  cranberry  and  that 
weather  during  this  period  had 
much  to  do  with  the  success 
or  failure  of  a  crop.  He  pre- 
sented data  to  show  that  early 
blossoms  produced  a  very  high 
proportion  of  the  crop  while 
the  late  lingering  bloom  was 
relatively  unimportant.  When 
bees  were  excluded  from  Early 
Black  vines  for  the  first  two 
weeks  of  blossoming,  fruit  set 
was  very  poor;  but  when  bees 
were  allowed  access  to  vines 
for  the  first  two  weeks  and  ex- 
cluded for  the  last,  the  set  was 
almost  as  good  as  where  the 
pollinators  were  free  to  work 
for  the  entire  four-week  blos- 
soming period. 

Charles  Doehlert,  retired  di- 
rector of  the  Cranberry  and 
Blueberry  Laboratory,  gave  a 
short  talk.  Charhe  gave  evi- 
dence that  he  is  still  interested 
in  cranberries  and  that  he  is 
keeping  abreast  of  develop- 
ments. He  complimented  grow- 
ers for  their  vigor  and  initiative 
in  bringing  about  an  improve- 
ment in  production. 

A  tour  of  the  De  Marco 
Bogs  at  Chatsworth  was  led  by 
Earl  Kershner,  supervisor  of 
the  property  and  now  serving 
as  President  of  the  American 
Cranberry  Growers'  Association. 
Growers  saw  cranberry  bogs  in 
an  excellent  state  of  culture 
with  very  good  crops.  Particu- 
larly impressive  were  a  small 
Wilcox  bog  which  had  an  ex- 
tremely good  crop  of  large  near- 
ly mature  berries,  and  a  Crop- 
per bog,  which  had  a  very 
heavy  crop  of  attractive  berries. 
This  variety  was  a  favorite  of 
the  late  Tony  De  Marco.  For 
many  years  the  Cropper  did 
not  produce  well  because  of 
excessive  false  blossom  disesae, 
but  this  condition  has  been  im- 
proved by  the  intensive  leaf- 
hopper  control  program  carried 
out  on  this  property.  Growers 
also  saw  the  newly  installed 
deep  well  on  this  property.  It 
delivers      6,000      gallons       per 


minute,  capable  of  restoring 
dried  out  reservoirs  at  the  rate 
of  IVa  ft.  per  acre  per  hour. 

Another  feature  of  the  tour 
was  a  visit  to  the  Oswego 
Research  Bogs.  Here  growers 
saw  demonstrations  of  the  value 
of  Casoron®  as  a  weed  control 
agent.  The  value  of  dense  plant- 
ing of  vines  and  fertili2:ation 
was  also  demonstrated.  Some 
bogs  are  producing  a  good  com- 
mercial crop  although  they  are 
only  in  their  third  season  of 
growth. 


TV  Set  Won  by 
Wisconsin  Rapids  Man 
At  State  CGA  Meet 

The  Wisconsin  Production 
Credit  Association  provided  a 
portable  television  set  to  be 
given  to  tJie  lucky  number 
drawn  from  those  registered  at 
their  exhibit  during  the  summer 
meeting  of  the  Wisconsin  State 
Cranberry  Growers'  Association 
held  at  the  William  Harkner 
marsli  near  Millston,  Wisconsin. 

Shown  in  the  photo  are  (left 
to  right)  Allan  Hjelsand,  Wau- 
sau  PGA  Branch  Manager;  Roy 
Potter,  Potter  &  Sons  Cranberry 
Co.,  Wisconsin  Rapids,  winner 
of  the  television  set;  and  Cyn- 
thia Boone,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Don  Boone,  Madison,  who  was 
selecte<l  to  do  the  drawing. 


Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  Anoual  Meeting 


The  79th  Annual  Meeting  of  was   given  by  Bob  St.  Jacques  culty.    Although     our    national 

the      Cape       Cod      Cranberry  who   read   the  minutes    of   the  crop  has  increased  by  approxi- 

Growers   Association    was   held  last  meeting.  mately     300,000    barrels     since 

on  a  warm  and  sunny  August  _  ,,      .        ,,      ^        .      .  1962,    the    industry    has    been 

22  at  the  Mass.  Cranberry  Ex-  Following  the  Secretary  s  re-  ^^j^  ^^  ^^^^^^  ^^.^  j^^^^^  ^^^p 

periment  Station  in  East  Ware-  g^^*'    ^,^-    "f^PPi,  ^^^^  ,  ^''^-  without  the  use  of  a  set-aside, 

ham,  Mass.  Beaton  for  the  Treasurer  s  re-  ^^  ^^^^  ^.^^  .^  ^^^  ^^            ^^^^ 

X.    .    f  .T.                   cn^  fl..ir  ^""'l'  A      '   ^^'  T    Q        ,   ^l  t^^  estimated  trade  demand  for 

Most  of  the  grower^  and  their  cepted,  as  was  the   Secretary  s  ^^^^^^^^.        f.^^j^.    frozen    and 

and    guests    gathered    in    mid-  report.  processed  i^  the  U.S.  would  be 

S^pTyf  lUXtafl^nTr:  The   Chairman    of   the   Mar-  1,075,000    barrels.    Today    tl.s 

station^  slaS  ^ These   tours    and  ^^^  Committee  would  meet  the  is  a  remarkable  step,"  Mr.  Ol- 

the    equipment    displays  'were  following  day  in  Boston  to  de-  son  said,  "for  an  industry  which 

th    ^sticallv  attended  termine   what   action   it   would  has    been   more   or  less  m   the 

en    usi             y                  .  ^^^^    ^^  went  on  to  say  that  doldrums    for    years."    He    ex- 

At  about  nooon  the  usual,  the  Cranberry  Marketing  Order  plained  that  the  Committee  had 
dehciously  prepared  chicken-  was  first  voted  upon  by  the  been  free  to  make  decisions  and 
cranberry  barbecue  was  served  growers  throughout  the  United  conduct  its  activities  with  no 
to  nearly  two  hundred  people.  States  in  1962  and  received  a  interference  from  the  Depart- 
All  were  high  in  their  praise  of  favorable  vote.  There  have  been  ment  of  Agriculture.  He  said 
the  efforts  of  those  who  pre-  two  referenda  since  1962  when  that,  on  the  contrary,  ihey  have 
pared  and  served  this  very  fine  the  growers  had  an  opportunity  been  most  cooperative  and  help, 
meal.  There  was  an  abundance  to  decide  whether  or  not  they  ful  to  the  Committee  in  explain- 
for  everyone,  it  might  be  added,  wanted  the  Marketing  Order  to  fng  the  rules  under  wliicli  they 

Following   the  barbecue    the  continue  in  force.  Each  year  the  have  to  operate.  Mr.  Olson  also 

l-ollowmg   tne    Darbecue,   tne  rentage    of    those    favoring  stated    that    he    felt  that    e-ven 

tCreitr^tTnmfa'lmeeT*  ^^e    MO    has    increased.    ^The  Lough  Thad  not  been '  neces- 

ng     Seated    a^    the    sieSce?;  P^^^P^^  ^^^^^  ^^  «"^  T  'l  -ry'to    invoke    the'   set-aside 

^k'tfoS  were  Pres^^^^^^^^  *he  P-^^    ^  ^ -J"^^^^^^  since   1962,   it  was  essential  to 

Panni    of    the    CCOGA     along  ^"^    cranberries    which    appear  ^he  industry  to   keep   the   MO 

i7h    ^ah^T  H     St     facnues  *«  ^^  ^^  ^^"^^^^  °"  ^"  ^^^^'^  ^^  in  effect  in  case  of  some  extra- 

r^.nH.Hnn  S..?;t.rv   nid    Mr  '  ^^^  "^^^^^*  ^^"^^"^'"  ^'-  ^^^°"  ordinary    situation.     He    noted 

SXUTerureT'ofIhe  f*^^'    '^  t^^et  Sr^  *^^*'.  ^'p^^^"*  *^,^  ^^^^  ^^^'^^ 

CCCCA  invoked  the   set-aside  pro-  service    is    insignificant    and  is 

vision  only  once  and  this   was  ^^  ^he  order  of  one  half  cent 

President    Pappi    extended   a  during  the  first  year  of  its  op-  per  barrel.  The  MO  will  again 

hearty  welcome  to  the  members  eratioa.  At  that  time  the  Com-  he     placed     on    a     referendum 

and   friends   of  the   association  mittee  voted   on  a   10  percent  sometime    in    1968.    Mr.    Olson 

and   expressed   his    gratification  set-aside    which    amounted    to  concluded     by     expressing    his 

at  having  such  a  large  turnout  about  150,000  barrels."  He  also  thanks  to  the  other  members  of 

as    it   "indicates   that    you    are  stated   that,    even   though    this  ^he  Committee  who  have  given 

taking  an  active  interest  in  your  was   an  entirely  new  operation  ^^  much  time   and  thought  to 

association."  He  then  asked  for  in  the  industry  it  was  carried  ^gg    ^-hat    the    MO    functioned 

the     Secretary's     report    which  out  with   a   minimum  of   diffi-  efficiently. 

SEVEN 


President  Pappi  then  .called 
upon  Orrin  Colley  to  say  a  few 
words  on  the  work  of  the  Cran- 
iberry  Institute.  Mr.  Colley  men- 
tioned that  the  Institute  was 
primarily,  involved  in  overseas 
promotion  programs,  although 
contacts  are  still  maintained  in 
Washington,  D.C.  He  read  ex- 
cerpts from  a  booklet  entitled 
"Fresh  Cranberry"  which 
sounded  not  unlike  a  piece  of 
promotional  material  which  any 
American  group  might  publish. 
The  punch  was  that  this  booklet 
was  Russian  and  had  been 
picked  up  at  the  World  Trade 
Fair  in  Paris  two  years  ago. 

Mr.  Colley  went  on  to  ex- 
plain that  the  Institute  was 
working  primarily  in  the  United 
Kingdom  and  that  this  year  was 
a  rather  disappointing  one  from 
the  standpoint  of  gross  sales. 
This  was  primarily  due  to  the 
economic  retrictions  which  the 
British  government  has  placed 
on  its  people  in  order  to  keep 
their  trade  activities  somewhat 
in  balance.  This,  however,  is 
probably  more  because  of  what 
actually  happened  in  this 
country  years  ago  in  the  pro- 
motion and  merchandising  of 
cranberry  sauce.  There  was  a 
time  when  most  of  our  cran- 
berry products  were  sold  dur- 
ing the  Thanksgiving  and 
Christmas  period  and  this 
reached  somewhat  of  a  static 
figure  and  beyond  that  business 
was  very  slow.  This  is  what  is 

happening  in  the  U.  K.  and 
some  of  the  ether  markets  to  a 
lesser  degree  as  far  as  volume 
is  concerned  in  Europe  where 
they  do  not  have  the  Thanks- 
giving market  and  are  left  with 
only  the  Christmas  market. 
There  has  been  a  steady  im- 
provement in  sales  each  year 
for  the  Christmas  market  but 
the  rest  of  the  year  has  just 
"fallen  flat."  "We  do  think,'  Mr. 
Colley  stated,  "that  with  the 
advent  of  cranberry  juice  cock- 
tail, cranapple  juice,  cranorange 
relish  and  even  products  which 


may  be  adapted  to  the  British 
or  other  countries,  the  market 
has  a  good  chance  of  improv- 
ing." "Ocean  Spray  tells  us  that 
they  are  selling  to  some  27 
coutries  around  the  world.  In- 
dian Trail  Cranberry  Products, 
and  some  of  the  other  inde- 
pendents are  selling  to  foreign 
markets  and  it  won't  be  long 
before  this  will  make  a  very 
sizeable  contribution  to  the 
overall  economic  benefit  of  the 
industry."  Mr.  Colley  con- 
cluded. 

Following  this  report,  Mrs. 
Beaton  was  asked  to  report  on 
the  Frost  Warning  Service.  She 
began  by  mentioning  the  finan- 
cial statues  of  the  FWS  and 
stat^  that  it  now  comprised  of 
219  subscribers.  There  were  109 
contribution.s  to  the  answering 
service. 

Bill  Atwood  was  then  asked 
to  bring  the  association  up-to- 
date  on  the  statiis  of  the  Car- 
doza  property  which  it  pur- 
chased two  years  ago.  This  con. 
sists  of  between  three  and  four 
acres  of  land  situated  in  the 
back  of  the  main  building  of 
the  Experiment  Station.  The 
purpose  for  the  purchase  of 
this  land  was  to  turn  it  over  to 
the  University  of  Massachusetts 
for  further  expansion  of  the 
Cranberry    Experiment    Station. 

The  reason  the  property  has 
not  yet  been  turned  over  to  the 
state  is  because  "we  are  waiting 
for  the  final  plans  of  the  new 
route  25  which  will  be  going 
just  beyond  the  corner  of  the 
main  building.  We-  think  it  will 
cut  through  quite  a  bit  of  this 
property  which  will  make  it  of 
no  use  to  the  University  or  the 
Experiment  Station.  Until  we 
find  out  how  much  of  our  land 
it  will  take,  we  intend  to  hold 
on  to  it/'  in  Mr.  Atwood's 
words.  He  concluded  by  stating 
that,  should  the  Station  need 
any  of  the  land  before  final 
plans  are  known,  tJiey  would 
certainly  be  free  to  use  it. 


Mr.  Pappi  then  told  the  gath 
ering  that,  at  a  recent  meetinj 
of  the  Board  of  Directors,  i 
was  voted  to  appoint  a  com 
mittee  to  investigate  the  feas 
ability  of  setting  up  a  rewar( 
system  for  the  conviction  o 
persons  in  connection  with  thef 
or  vandalism  on  cranberry  bogs 
This  committee  consists  of  Bel 
St.  Jacques,  Chairman;  Howarc 
Whelan,  Bill  Atwood,  Bol 
Pierce  and  Ken  Beaton.  He  thei 
asked  anyone  who  had  any  sug 
gestions  on  this  subject  to  make 
them  known  to  the  committee 

At  this  time,  Dr,  Cheste 
Cross,  Director  of  the  Mass 
Cranberry  Experiment  Statioi 
was  asked  to  report  on  the  acti 
vities  of  his  staff. 

In  opening  his  remarks,  Dr 
Cross  mentioned  how  difficul 
it  was  becoming  to  remain  cur 
rent  "with  the  volume  and  tht 
scope  of  the  work  being  done 
here  at  the  Cranberry  Experi 
ment  Station."  He  stated  tha 
man  were  impressed  witli  the 
number  of  people  working  a 
the  Station  and  the  sophisticatec 
methods  and  equipment  the) 
now  work  with.  It  must  Ix 
stated  that  the  members  of  tht 
staff  work  as  a  team  and  tha 
almost  all  of  the  findings  anc 
developments  are  a  result  of  thi 
close  cooperation  of  all  mem- 
bers of  the  staff. 

In  describing  some  of  the 
jvork  being  done  at  the  Station 
Dr.  Cross  explained,  "we  are 
working  on  pigment  enhance 
ment  studies.  We  are  trying 
growth  regulators  to  see  how 
they  affect  the  maturation  oi 
cranberries,  how  it  affects  the 
development  of  color  in  the 
crops."  He  pointed  out  tha'" 
half  of  all  the  cranberries  raises 
in  the  U.S.  today  are  sold  a 
juice  and  you  can't  sell  pin 
cranberry  juice  and  have  peopl 
think  that  they  are  not  bein 
cheated." 


"Fungicides.    Wc    are    usinu  ^ 
them  now  and  think  that  most 


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of  those  who  used  them  this 
year  are  going  to  be  very  happy 
they  did  because  we  have  a 
very  weak  and  tender  crop  that 
is  caused  by  an  over  abundance 
of  moisture  and  humidity,  al- 
most continually  so,"  Dr.  Cross 
jstated.  He  went  on  to  say  that 
["fungicides  tend  to  retard  ma- 
turing and  tend  to  make  the 
Sometimes  green  after  a  long 
underberries  remain  green, 
period  in  storage.  This  is  also 
true  for  some  of  the  fertilizers, 
too,  when  they  are  overused 
and  we  get  excessive  rainfall." 

"There  is  another  a^spect  in 
the  picking  of  the  fall  crop.  If 
you  protect  all  your  berries 
from  frost  or  near-frost  tem- 
peratures, we  are  convinced 
that  the  coloration  of  the  re- 
maining or  unharvested  fruit 
is  delayed.  We  think  that  frost, 
provided  it  is  not  of  so  low  a 
temperature  as  to  kill  the  berry 
or  to  soften  it,  enhances  color- 
ing, and  we  are  studying  this, 
for  with  the  large  area  esti- 
mated    at    5000    acres     under 


sprinklers  it  should  be  rela- 
tively easy  to  protect  only  when 
the  berries  actually  need  pro- 
tection from  low  temperatures." 

At  the  Cranberry  Station  they 
are  also  trying  to  evaluate  the 
newer,  hybrid  varieties  of  cran- 
berries. These  are  the  ones 
made  as  crosses  many  years 
ago.  Made  in  New  Jersey,  se- 
lections made  and  transported 
to  Massachusetts  they  now 
have  some  150  selections  of 
these  hybrid  varieties  and  are 
making  some  extensive  testing 
of  these  on  juice  yield  under 
an  agreement  with  Ocean 
Spray.  Whether  these  new 
varieties  will  give  a  high  yield 
qf  good  colored  juice,  the  pec- 
tin content,  capacity  for  pro- 
ducing a  jelHed  sauce  and 
pigment  intensity  are  being 
explored. 

Also'  going  on  at  the  Station 
are  fairy  ring  control  studies. 
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by  many  growers  with  fairy 
ring,  attempted  some  experi- 
mental work  on  his  own.  This 
led  to  the  entire  staflF  getting 
into  the  act.  They  now  have  an 
excellent  control  for  the  fairy 
ring,  using  Ferbam.  Residue  an- 
alysis show  that,  although 
"massive  quantities"  are  being 
used,  a  new  residue  tolerance 
will  not  be  needed  for  the  Fer- 
bam. There  are  great  hopes  for 
the  clearance  of  this  new  usage 
of  Ferbam  through  the  FDA 
and  this  might  come  this  fall. 
It  is  fortunate  in  one  respect 
that  many  companies  are  pro- 
ducing and  marketing  Ferbam. 
This  raises  the  hope  that,  if  one 
company  is  not  interested  in 
assisting  with  getting  FDA 
clearance,  perhaps  another  one 
will. 

Evaluation  is  taking  place  at 
the  station  of  the  fungicide 
Difolotan  a  chemical  which 
has  a  very  high  anti-fungus 
action,  so  high  that  the  other 
materials  such  as  Maneb,  Zineb, 
Ferbam,  all  require  rather  large 
poundage  of  material  in  order 
I  to  get  a  reasonable  control.  Di- 
folitan  is  so  strong  that  half  or 
less  than  half  of  the  amount  of 
material  and  still  get  very  ex- 
cellent rot  control.  Clearance 
has  been  applied  for  but  there 
is  nothing  to  report  in  this  case. 

Also  being  evaluated  is  a  95% 
Ferbam  instead  of  the  normal 
761 

"We  are  comparing  three 
versus  two  sprinkler  apphca- 
tions  of  fungicide.  This  is  being 
done  with  Ferbam,  Maneb  and 
Zineb  and,  I  believe  Difolitan 
also  through  sprinklers  in  order 
to  determine  whether  or  not 
the  reduced  concentration  used 
in  a  three  application  rate  will 
give  the  same  amount  of  control 
without  inhibition  of  color  de- 
velopment in  the  crop  plant," 
Dr.  Cross  explained.  This  is' 
being  done  with  sprinklers  and 
it  means  that  each  application 
through  the  sprinklers  in  the 
three   treatment  plan  will  con- 


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tain  six  instead  of  nine  pounds 
of  the  active  ingredients." 

Studies   in   the  rate   and   the 
pathways    of    Parathion    break- 
down   are  being    made    at   the 
station.  Trying  to  find  out  what 
agents      are      responsible      for 
breaking  down   such   a  poison- 
ous and  vakiable  chemical  com- 
pound.  They  are  working  with 
algae,  fungi,  bacteria  and  nema. 
todes.  Studies  involve  the  stages 
of   breakdown  of   such    an   or- 
ganic   molecule    as    Parathion; 
into   what  chemicals   is  it  first 
broken    down;    do    these    break 
down      products,       themselves, 
have  a  life  and  a  toxicity  that 
would    be    of    interest    to    the 
FDA  or  to  the  cranberry  con- 
sumer.   These    studies    require 
considerable  time  and  efFort  but 
will   be  invaluable  when   com- 
pleted, although  the  connection 
with   these   and   the   bogs  may 
not   be    too  readily    seen.    The 
necessity  of  having  these  facts 
should  be  obvious  if  clearance 
for  the  use  of  Parathion  is  to  be 


Bob  St,   Jacques 
CCCGA  secretary 
reads  minutes  of 
last  meeting 
at  79th  Annual 
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given,    for    example,    on    bogs 
located    near    a    public    water 
supply.    Thus,    this  research    is 
quite  important  to  the  growers. 
Some  of  the  work  is  of  such  im- 
portance   and    is    bearing  such 
a  relationship  to  the  cranberry 
industry      that      the      National 
Science     Foundation     and     the 
National    Institutes    of    Health 
have  subsidized  some  of  the  re- 
search   work.    Some    very    sub- 
stantial      grants      have      been 
awarded    the    Mass.    Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  and  that  is 
why   some   of  the  people   seen 
working  at  the  station  are  not, 
technically,  hired  by  the  Com- 
monwealth    of    Mass.     or    the 
University    of   Mass.,    although 
they  are  paid  by  the  U  Mass. 
treasurer  and  are  all  approved 
by  the  University.  The  money, 
however,  comes  from  grants  by 
the   above  agencies.   "They  are 
extremely  interested  in  some  of 
tbe    work    being    done    at    the 
station  and  it  is  gratifying,"  Dr. 
Cross    noted,    "that    this    work 
is   recognized  in  such   a  way." 

Continuing  to  report  on  the 
work  beiing  done  at  the  Experi- 
ment Station,  its  Director  men- 
tioned  in   some    detail    the    at- 
tempt to    cultivate  g   metazoin 
animal  on  a  chemically  defined 
medium.  If  this  could  be  solved 
it  would  mean  that  nematodes 
could    be    produced    in    large 
quantities    and    then    its     diet 
varied    so    that   all    manner   of 
changes  in  the  organism   itself 
could    be    observed.    Much    ex- 
citement was   generated   at  tbe 
station   when    one   of   the   staff 
announced  that  he  had  his  first 
"babies"    on    a    chemically   de- 
fined medium.  These  were  baby 
nematodes.  They  never  did  get 
very  large  and  the  problem  has 
not  been  solved  —  yet.  "This  is 
an  area  of  research  where  it  is 
felt  that  a  contribution  can  be 
made,    not    only    to    cranberry 
growers,  not  only  to  the  water 
resources  of  the  area  but  to  the 
scientific  world   of  parasitology 
in  general."  Dr.  Cross  explained. 


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Also  being  continued  are  the 
screening  evaluation  studies  on 
insecticides   and   they   are   con- 
centrating on  five  of  the  more 
important      insects,      the     root 
grubs,     the     gridlers,     the     tip 
worms,    the    fruit    worms    and 
the   sparganothis   fruitworm.   "I 
am  certain  that  all  of  you  have 
made  the  acquaintance  of  these 
pests.  Some  of  them  are  still  at 
work,"  Dr.  Cross  stated. 

He    also     mentioned     having 
been    told    just    that    morning 
(Augu§t      22)      that      growers 
should  look  out  for  fnore  fruit- 
worm  eggs  since  the  flight  the 
previous  night  had  been  heavy. 
He  advised  not  to  stop  counting 
fruitworm    eggs    yet.    He    also 
cautioned    growers    to   be    very 
careful  about  the  time  sequence 
between  the  last  fruitworm  ap- 
plication and  the  harvest  of  the 
fruit.   Low  volume   insecticides 
are  being  tried  to  control  these 
pests.      Black      light      trapping 

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and  relay  services.  


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Plymouth  1390k. 


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99.1  mg.     2:30  9:30 

94.3  mg.     3:00  9:30 

97.3  mg.     3:30  9:00 


Annual    Meeting 

The  annual  meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  was  held  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  on  August 
22.  The  crowd  was  estimated 
at  approximately  300,  as  large 
as  any  in  recent  years.  The 
guest  speaker  was  Mr.  i^ouis 
McLean,  formerly  Secretary  of 
the  Velsicol  Chemical  Corp.  His 
talk  was  entitled  "The  Coming 
Storm"  and  concerned  food 
shortages  and  over-population. 
Officers  of  the  association 
elected    for    the    coming    year 


were:  Bob  Hiller,  president; 
Bill  Atwood,  1st  Vice  President; 
Bob  St.  Jacques  2nd  Vice  Presi- 
dent; and  Mrs.  Ruth  Beaton, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 

Weather 

The  month  of  August  aver- 
aged 1  degree  a  day  cooler  than 
normal.  There  were  no  really 
hot  days  during  the  month, 
with  85  degrees  the  warmest 
recorded.  The  first  week  was 
average,  2nd  week  cool,  the 
warmest  period  came  from  the 
15th  through  the  20th  and  the 
last  10  days  were  on  the  cool 


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We  are  prepared  to  cover 
your  cranberry  bog  needs 
immediately.  Two  new  heli- 
copters with  modern  equip- 
ment, operated  by  experi- 
enced  and  skilled  f>ersonnel. 


sida  Total  rainfall  was  5.12 
inches  which  is  about  0.8  inch 
above  average.  The  first  half  ol 
the  month  was  wet,  with  many 
small  storms,  the  last  half  was 
better,  with  one  big-  storm  on 
the  25th  and  26th  accounHng 
for  2.41  inches.  We  are  now 
nearly  6  inches  aboveaverage  for 
the  year  and  about  15  inches 
ahead  of  1966  to   date. 

Fall    Management 

The  following  suggestions  on  < 
fall  management  are  oflFered  for 
consideration:    1)    It  is   an   ex- 
cellent practice  where  water  is 
available,  to  flood  bogs  immedi- 
ately  after  harvest   This   gives 
the  vines  a  good  drink  of  water, 
which  helps   revive  them   after 
the  rough  harvesting  operation 
and    allows    broken    vines    and 
other  harmful  trash  to  be  col- 
lected and  disposed  of.  2)  Thin 
or  weak  areas  of  vines  on  the 
bog  which  are  easily  seen  dur- 
ing the  picking  operation  should 
receive  an  application  of  ferti- 
lizer.   This    will   strengthen   the 
vines   without   promoting   weed 
growth.  The  old  bucket  techni- 
que of   walking   the   bogs   and 
spreading  the  fertilizer  by  hand 
on  areas  that  need  it,  is  still  a 
good   practice.   3)    Casoron,   or 
any  of  our  other  approved  her- 
bicides, should  be  used  to  clean 

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studies  are  also  being  continued. 
Flight  pattern  studies  can  be 
extremely  helpful  for  the  better 
timing  of  control  sprays.  If  it 
could  be  known  when  peak  egg 
laying  takes  place  we  know 
that  five  das  after  egg  laying 
that  the  eggs  cap  be  expected 
to  hatch.  This  is  the  time  inter- 
val in  which  controls  must  be 
worked.  After  this  time  period 
it  would  be  too  late  since  the 
worm  would  be  inside  the  berry 
and  its  control  would  be  diffi- 
cult. With  continued  black  light 
study  and  regular  observations, 
year  after  year,  taking  into  con- 
sideration weather  conditions  at 
the  time  the  flights  occur  it  is 
expected  that  much  more  ac- 
curate predictions  as  to  when 
to  apply  the  insecticide  for  best 
control. 

"In  a  quite  seperate  area  of 
inquiry,"  Dr.  Cross  continued, 
*'the  design  and  construction  of 
an  elevator  and  cleaner  for 
flood  harvested  cranberries  is 
nearly  ready  for  testing."  "We 
have  worked  hard  on  this.  We 
feel  that  water  harvesting  is 
coming.  We  think  that  there 
are  a  great  many  of  our  growers 
who  are  interested  in  saving 
that  20  percent  of  the  fruit  that 
is  normally  left  on  the  vines  by 
going  to  a  more  expensive  har- 
vest to  salvage  this  additional 
20  barrels  to  the  acre.  It  could 
very  well  be  economically  feasi- 
ble." 

He  mentioned  that  consider- 
able progress  has  been  made 
on  a  test  model  of  a  new  type 
dry  picking  machine  which 
Stan  Norton,  who  is  developing 
it,  hopes  to  be  able  to  test  on 
the  1968  crop. 

A  completely  automatic  sys- 
tem for  frost  control  which  uses 
sprinklers  and  which  is  pow- 
ered by  a  gasoline  engine  which 

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has  been  converted  to  propane 
gas  has  been  installed  and  is 
ready  for  test  this  fall.  Com- 
bined with  this  is  a  telephone 
alarm  system  which  rings  a  bell 
when  the  temperature  drops 
and  the  machine  ought  to  have 
turned  on  the  frost  protection 
device  (more  on  this  in  a 
future  issue  of  Cranberries). 
This  will  alert  the  grower  to 
check  to  see  if  the  device  did 
turn  itself  on  as  it  should  have 
done.  Dr.  Cross  added:  "I 
think  that  something  of  this  sort 
is  wholly  consistent  with  the 
advance  in  this  technological 
ages" 

He  concluded  his  report  by 
touching  on  agricultural  chemi- 
cals again,  mentioning  that, 
after  many  discouraging  delays 
a  high  priority  has  finally  been 
placed  on  Meleic  Hydracide 
clearance  by  Uniroyal.  He  ex- 
plained that  he  had  thought 
clearance  would  have  been  peti- 


tioned and  approved  before  his 
return  from  his  trip  to  Japan 
but  rather  found  that  this  was 
not  so.  Now  that  this  has 
finally  begun,  he  feels  that 
quick  action  is  almost  certain. 
He  stated  that  the  Station  staff 
had  worked  on  this  chemical 
since  1960  and  has  proven  its 
worth  and  that  this  was  the 
compound  that  they  were  de- 
pending for  their  final  wild 
bean  and  poverty  grass  control. 

On  another  aspect  of  research 
Dr.  Cross  said:  "We  have  in- 
creased fruit  set.  Normally  we 
get  only  a  20  or  25  percent  of 
the  flowers  of  cranberries  to  set 
fruit.  With  the  growth  regula- 
tors we  have  got  as  high  as 
80  percent." 

He  went  on  to  explain  that 
there  are,  however,  side  efiFects 
to  this  80  percent  set.  The  ber- 
ries   are    quite    small,    thus  the 

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Bill  Tomlinson^  second  from  right ^  and  Irving 
'''Dee"  DeMoranville ^  extreme  right,  hack  to 
camera  in  one  of  many  informal  'brainstorming" 
sessions  at  CCCGA  meeting. 


CCCGA   MEETING 


Continued   from  page  16 

yield  is  increased  only  a  little. 
"With  increased  research,"  the 
Director  said,  "it  seeems  quite 
possible  that  the  set  can  be  in- 
creaed  a  little  more  than  the 
20-25  percent  and  still  not  sac- 
rifice the  size  of  the  berries  in 
order  to  get  an  overall,  substan- 
tial yield  increase."  There  ap- 
pear to  be  headaches  involved 
in  this  research  but  they  do 
not  seem  to  be  insurmountable. 

In  conclusion  Dr.  Cross  stated 
that  the  Rocky  Pond  bog  was 
being  used  for  a  lot  of  the  ex- 
perimental work.  He  said  it  was 
hazardous  to  put  unregistered 
chemicals  on  private  property 
and  that  is  why  the  state  bogs 
are  covered  with  stakes  and  the 
are  even  worse.  "We  are  not 
six  acres  of  Rocky  Pond  bogs 
slowing  down  or  delaying  or 
giving  up  on  field  experimenta- 
tion," said  Dr.  Cross,  "I  think 
there    are  far    more    plots    out 


now  than  there  were  years  ago 
when  field  experiments  were 
the  core  and  the  first  line  of 
effort  of  our  cranberry  staff." 
"We  are  working  on  aquatic 
weed  control.  We  are  working 
very  hard  on  the  clearance  of 
one  compound.  It  ought  to  be 
cleared.  We  see  no  reason  why 
it  should  not,  but  delays  in 
Washington  seem   to   be  it." 

The  report  was  not  complete 
to  Dr.  Cross'  satisfaction  since 
he  had  not  mentioned  a  lot  of 
service  work  that  get  done.  He 
said  that  he  didn't  feel  that  the 
staff  was  neglecting  this  kind 
of  work  but  went  on  to  say 
"on  the  other  hand,  when  we 
are  out  visiting  a  grower  we  are 
doing  just  one  task,  we  are 
facing  just  one  problem  on  one 
place.  It's  much  better,  I  think, 
for  our  staff  to  be  engaged  here, 
trying  to  find  answers  to  more 
general  problems  so  that  all  of 
you  can  be  better  informed 
when  they  come  together." 

Following  Dr.  Cross'  report, 
CCCGA  President  Pappi  intro- 
duced  representatives    of   sales 


agencies  and  asked  them  to 
preent  their  view  to  the  audi- 
ence. 

First  to  speak  was  Robert 
Hiller  of  the  Peter  Lesage 
agency.  He  stated  that  the  num- 
ber of  berries  on  hand  as  of 
August  1  was  far  greater  than 
anticipated  and  greater  than  it 
was  hoped  for.  This  made  it 
difficult  to  make  predictions. 
"Demand  for  Pals  one  pound 
window  boxes  of  fresh  fruit  is 
better  than  it  was  a  year  ago. 
Likewise  demand  from  or  in- 
quiries for  berries  from  pro- 
cessors is  good  although  the 
buyer  or  processors  have  to 
await  the  Marketing  Order's 
decision  and  the  crop  forecast 
before  they  can  fully  evaluate 
their  position  in  regard  to  the 
coming  market,"  Mr.  Hiller  re- 
ported. 

The  next  to  speak  was  Mr. 
John  Decas  of  Decas  Brothers. 
"In  regard  to  the  1967  crop, 
from  our  point  of  view,  the 
crop,  it  seems,  isn't  going  to 
live   up   to   what  the   potential 

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was  early  this  spring,"  Mr. 
Decas  began.  "I  think  perhaps 
this  is  fortunate.  I  think  the 
potential  as  existed  then  was 
such  that  it,  along  with  the  in- 
ventory that  exists  would  have 
probably     created     a     situation 

which  would  have  been  difficult 
to  deal  with  at  this  time." 

He  went  on  to  say  that  from 
the  point  of  view  of  his  growers 
and  the  crops  that  they  were 
growing  this  year,  along  with 
the  existing  demand  it  would 
seem  that  the  1967  crop  would 
be  "definitely  marketable  and 
at  a  sound  value."  As  far  as 
set  aside  is  concerned,  John 
said  that  it  appeared  that  there 
would  not  be  a  need  for  it  this 
year. 

In  concluding  his  report,  Mr. 
Decas  stated  tliat  in  the  past 
the  independents  were  quick  to 
criticize    Ocean    Spray    policies 


when  they  felt  that  these  poli- 
cies had  been  detrimental  to 
them  or  to  the  industry.  Now, 
however,  he  feels  that  the  in- 
dependents should  speak  up  and 
publicly  acknowledge  the  fact 
that  Ocean  Spray  policy  and  its 
present  leadership  is  such  that 
they  are  doing  a  wonderful  job 
in  new  products,  promotion  and 
quality  programs  and  the  in- 
dustry should  be  aware  and 
cognizant  of  the  fact  that  all 
this  is  beneficial  to  them. 

The  representative  of  Ocean 
Spray,  Mr.  Gilbert  Beaton,  was 
the  next  to  address  the  gather- 
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prospects. 

Mr.  Beaton  began  by  extend- 
ing the  best  wishes  of  Ed  Gels- 
thorpe.  Ocean  Spray  general 
manager  who  sent  regrets  that 
he  was  unable  to  attend  per- 
sonally due  to  a  prior  commit- 
ment. 

"Sales  last  year  went  very 
well  at  Ocean  Spray,"  Mr. 
Beaton  stated.  "In  juices  we 
have  been  showing  a  25  to  35 
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sales  are  showing  approximately 
an  8  to  9  percent  increase." 

He  felt  that  this  rate  of  in- 
crease, although  small,  is  prom- 
ising if  it  can  be  maintained 
year  after  year.  He  feels  that 
this  is  to  be  looked  forward  to 
unless  the  industry  comes  up 
with  a  "really  fabulous  product' 
which  would  increase  profits  a 
bit  more. 

He  went  on  to  say:  "We  an- 
ticipate sales  this  coming  year 
will  be  up  5  or  6  percent.  We 
anticipate  sales  this  coming  year 
will  be  on  the  same  basis  as  last 
year  or  an  increase  of 
$4,500,000." 

He    thanked    Mr.    Decas    for 
his  kind  words  regarding  Ocean 
Spray  and    said    that    "through 
cooperation    this    industry    can 
go  ahead  so  much  further  than 
we  can  by  picking  at  one  an- 
other." He  went  on  to  say  that 
the    reserve    in    finished    goods 
this  year  is  going  to  be  substan. 
tially  larger  than  it  was  a  year 
ago.  The  marketing  people  have 
complained    for    the    last    few 
years  that  they  have  not  been 
able  to  ship  on  order,  that  they 
have  had  to  back  order  or  par- 
tially ship  orders  and  that  this 
has  hurt  them  in  the  total  over- 
all  picture    of  sales.    With   the 
reserve    that    is    available    this 
year   there  should  be  no  need 
for  back  orders  and  shipments 
should    go   out    on    time.    It   is 
hopecj.  that    this    will    increase 
sales.   The  reserve   is    adequate 
but  not  excessive.  He  went  on 
to   speak  briefly  on  a   National 
Allotment   program    now   being 
discussed.   (Cranberries  will  try 
to    have    more    details    on    this 
program  in  a  future  issue). 

He  explained  that  Ocean 
Spray  is  still  actively  engaged 
in  new  products.  "Any  item 
that  we  can  put  a  cranberry  in, 
we  are  interested  in  selling," 
he   stated. 

"\\'ithout  definitely  increasing 
the   price  of   our  products,   wv 

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There  is   no    doubt   that  the 
drought  h-as  been  broken  in  the 
New    Jersey    cranberry    region. 
!  During  August  a  total  of  10.22 
inches    of   rainfall   occurred  on 
thirteen  days.  Included  in  these 
!  were    two    very    intense    rains: 
t  2.09  on  the  6th  and  3.51  on  tlie 
10th.  This  was  the  third  rain- 
:  iest  August   on   record    at    the 
'  New    Lisbon  Weather    Station. 
August    1932,    with    a   total    of 
12.77  inches  and  August  1958, 
with  a  total  of  10.80  inches,  ex- 
ceeded the   1967   total,   but  in 
both    of   these    years    torrential 
rains,  attendant  with  hurricanes, 
accounted  for  much  of  the  rain. 

The  total  rainfall  during  the 
important  growing  months  of 
May  through  August  is  23.67, 
which  is  about  seven  and  one- 
half  inches   more  than  normal 


for  this  period.  The  total  for 
the  January  through  August 
period  for  this  year  now  stands 
at  37.02  inches,  compared  to 
the  normal  of  29.66  inches. 

The  temperatures  during  the 
month  were  quite  mild  and  av- 
eraged 72.6,  which  is  about  one 
degree  cooler  than  normal. 
There  was  only  one  90  degree 
day  during  the  month,  on  the 
19th.  Temperatures  plunged  in- 
to the  cool  50's  on  eight  days, 
and  the  minimum  daily  tem- 
perature never  rose  to  the  70's. 

The  wet  weather  has  caused 
more  than  normal  rot  on  some 
cranberry  bogs  in  the  State,  but 
in  general,  where  the  intensive 
ground  spraying  with  fungi- 
cides has  been  practiced,  there 
does  not  appear  to  be  an  un- 
usual amount  of  rot.  Fruit- 
worms  and  fireworms  have  not 
caused  significant  damage,  but 
there  is  a  little  more  tipworm 
evident  this  year  than  normal. 
The  crop  prospect  for  New  Jer- 
sey at  this  time  indicates  about 


157,000  barrels.  In  terms  of 
yield  per  acre,  this  would  be 
a  record  crop  for  New  Jersey. 


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A  quote  from  the  local  news- 
paper, the  Chinook  Observer, 
"precipitation  in  this  area  dur- 
ing August  was  just  about  as 
effective  as  wringing  a  dry 
dishrag."  We  had  a  total  of  .15 
with  .10  inches  on  the  20th. 
Without  a  good  supply  of  rain 
in  the  next  two  weeks  the  Long 
Beach  area  growers  will  not 
have  enough  water  to  get 
through  harvest.  Grayland 
Growers  are  looking  forward  to 
a  good  crop  and  good  weatner 
for  harvest. 

It  has  been  wonderful 
weather  for  the  tourist  and  sal- 
mon fishing  has  been  extra 
special,  with  good  growing 
weather  for  the  cranberry  bogs, 
but  the  area  around  .Long 
Beach  is  certainly  looking  for 
water  for  their  harvest. 

We  had  several  days  with 
temperatures    in    the    70's    and 

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CCCGA   MEETING 

Continued   from  page  18 

are  going  to  have  a  slight  re- 
duction in  price  return.  What 
is  done  at  Ocean  Spray  in  this 
regard,  I  know  will  be  in  the 
best  interest  of  all,"  Mr.  Beaton 
said. 

"In  1961,"  he  went  on,  "our 
average  national  crop  per  acre 
was  61  barrels,  in  1964  it  was 
65  barrels  per  acre,  in  1965  it 
was  69  barrels  per  acre  on  a 
national  basis.  At  this  time  there 
are  a  thousand  acres  of  new 
cranberry  bogs  going  into  pro- 
duction this  year  in  the  U.S." 
"We  are  definitely  going  to  out. 
produce  the  best-selling  organi, 
zation  in  the  country  unless  we 
have  crop  control  or  can  look 
forward  to  a  considerable  re- 
duction to  ourselves  as 
growers,"  he   concluded. 

The  next  item  on  the  agenda 
was  the  nomination  and  elec- 
tion of  officers  for  the  coming 
year.  Nominated  were,  for  Pres. 
ident,  Robert  Hiller;  for  First 
Vice-President,  William  Atwood; 
for  Second  Vice-President, 
Robert  St.  Jacques;  for  Secre- 
tary, Ruth  Beaton;  for  Treas- 
urer, Ruth  Beaton.  Nominated 
to  be  Directors  were  Chester 
E.  Cross,  Oscar  Norton,  Alfred 
Pappi,  Kenneth  Beaton,  Carlton 
Colhns,  Paul  Morse,  Edwin 
Heleen  and  David  Mann. 
Honorary  Directors  were  Dr. 
Herbert  F.  Bergman  and  Joseph 
L.  Kelley.  All  the  nominees 
were  elected  to  office. 

Ray  Morse  of  the  Nominating 
Committee  stepped  to  the 
microphone  to  express,  for  the 
entire  association,  their  appre- 
ciation for  the  services  rendered 
by  the  outgoing  officers  and 
directors. 

The  following  "old  friends" 
and  "new  acquaintances"  were 
introduced  to  the  gathering: 
Philip  Good  of  the  Mass.  Farm 

TWENTY 


Bureau  Federation;  Guy  Paris, 
market  reporter  for  the  State 
Department  of  Agriculture; 
Byron  Peterson  of  the  Crop 
Reporting  Service;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  D.  Stevens;  Dr.  Her- 
Kelley;  Robert  Ewing,  County 
bert  F.  Bergman;  Joseph  L. 
Agent,  Plymouth  County  Bu- 
reau; Dominic  Marini,  County 
Extension  Agent,  Plymouth 
County;  Oscar  Johnson,  John 
Farrar,  Dennis  Crowley,  Uni- 
versity of  Mass.;  Frederick 
Troy,  U.  of  Mass.;  Richard 
Beattie,  U.  of  Mass.;  Dr.  A.  A. 
Speilman,  Dean  of  School  of 
Agriculture,  U.  of  Mass.;  Dr. 
Oswald  Tippo,  U.  of  Mass.  and 
Mr.  Charles  McNamara,  Com- 
missioner of  Agriculture,  Com- 
monwealth of  Massachusetts. 

Richard  Beattie  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Mass.  spoke  for  the 
University  officials  and  ex- 
tended their  greetings  and  their 
regret  that  they  had  to  leave 
before  the  end  of  the  meeting. 
He  also  commended  the  out- 
going officers  of  the  CCCGA 
and  the  association  as  a  whole 
for  their  enthusiastic  support  of 
the  Mass.  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment  Station   and  its   staff. 

The  main  speaker,  Mr.  Louis 
McLean  an  official  of  the  Velsi- 
col  Corporation  of  Chicago, 
was  introduced  by  Dr.  Cross 
and  the  text  of  his  address  will 
be    found  in  a  future  issue  . 

To  conclude  the  day's  activi- 
ties, the  1967  Crop  Forecast 
was  presented  to  the  growers 
by  Byron  Peterson  of  the  N.  E. 
Crop  Reporting  Service.  It  was 
as  follows: 
U.S.  Total: 

1966  1967 

1,557,800        1,515,000 
Massachusetts 

800,000  700,000 

New  Jersey 

141,000  157,000 

Wisconsin 

477,000  500,000 

Washington 

95,000  101,000 

Oregon 

44,800  57,000 


Following  the  reading  of  the 
crop  forecast  and  final  remarks 
by  the  Association  President, 
the  meeting  was  adjourned 
Remarks  overheard  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  day's  activities 
indicated  the  satisfaction  of 
those  who  attended. 


A  Few  Pesticide 
Safety  Dont's 

—  Don't  save  or  re-use  empty 
pesticide   containers. 

—  Don't  leave  mothballs  where 
children  can  find  them. 

—  Don't  use  a  pesticide  in  the 
home  if  a  gas  mask  is  required 
when  using   it. 

—  Don't  use  your  mouth  to  blow 
out  clogged  sprayer  lines  or 
nozzle  tips,  or  siphon  a  pesti- 
cide from  a  container. 

—  Don't  smoke  while  handling 
pesticides. 

—  Don't  spray  or  dust  outdoors 
when  the   wind  is  high. 

—  Don't  apply  pesticides  near 
wells  wher^  they  might  con- 
taminate  the   drinking   water. 


CRANBERRY  CRUNCH 

1  cup  uncooked  rolled  oats 
Va  cup  all-purpose  flour 
1  cup  brown  sugar 
lo  cup  butter 

1  pound  can  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berry Sauce  (Jellied  or  Whole 
Berry) 
1  quart  vanilla  ice  cream 
Heat  oven  to  350°  F.  Mix  oats, 
flour,    and    brown    sugar.    Cut    in 
butter  until  crumbly.  Place  half  of 
this    mixture    in    an    8    x    8    inch 
greased    cake     dish.     Cover     with 
cranberry  sauce.  Top  with  balance 
of  mixture.  Bake  45  minutes  at  350 
degrees    F.    Serve  hot    in    sqiaares 
topped  with   scoops  of  vanilla  ice 
cream.  Serves  6  to  8. 


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MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued   from  page  14 

up  weedy  areas.  Allow  the  bog 
a  week  or  ten  days  to  recover 
from  picking  before  applying 
any  herbicide.  Casoron  should 
not  be  used  until  the  tempera- 
tures are  cool,  it  is  broken  down 
and  passes  off  into  the  air  very 
1  quickly  when  temperatures  are 
60  degrees  or  above  and  smaller 
amounts  are  lost  at  tempera- 
tures as  low  as  40  degrees.  4) 
Girdler,  which  is  becoming  a 
more  common  pest,  can  be  con- 
trolled by  flooding  for  a  5-day 
period  in  late  September,  ap- 
plying a  coat  of  sand  sometime 
before  the  start  of  the  next 
growing  season,  or  by  the  use 
of  aldrin  or  dieldrin.  Root  grub 
can  also  be  controlled  by  using 
aldrin  or  dieldrin.  For  more 
specific  recommendations  on 
using  these  insecticides,  con- 
sult your  cranberry  insect  con- 
trol chart. 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WASHINGTON 

Continued    from  page  19 

80's  with  a  high  of  85°  August 
25  and  the  low  for  the  month 
42°  also  on  that  day,  bog  low  of 
39°  that  night.  Fall  is  approach- 
ing with  the  blueberries  turning 
their  lovely  fall  reds  and  golds. 

Some  growers  are  using  Mala- 
thion  in  designated  dosage  per 
acre  to  bring  the  high  color 
wanted  for  fresh  market  and 
juice   berries. 

General  harvest  preparations 
are  underway  in  Washington.. 
Cranberry  Club,  Long  Beaeh 
held  a  pot-luck  dinner  at  the 
home  of  Donna  and  Ralph  Tid- 
rick  for  the  September  meeting. 
The  North  Bay  Cranberry  Club 
had  a  pot-luck  dinner  at  the 
George  Cleaver  bog  for  their 
September  meeting.  Grayland 
Advisory    Committee   met  Sep- 


tember 6  at  the  Cecil  Richard's 
Warehouse. 


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Normal  summer  weather  pre- 
vailed during  the  last  week  of 
August.  Temperatures  were 
within  a  degree  or  two  of  their 
long  term  averages,  and  pre- 
cipitation though  often  scat- 
tered and  unevenly  distributed 
—  averaged  V2"  to  11/2"  in  most 
areas.  The  smallest  weekly 
totals  generally  were  reported 
in  the  southwestern  counties 
which  are  also  the  areas  most 
in  need  of  additional  moisture. 
Rainfall  was  most  widespread 
with  the  thunderstorms  of  July 
22-23,  while  the  shower  activity 

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TWENTY-ONE 


GOLDY  writes: 


Continued  from  page  2 

doing  what  they  can  in  helping 
the  growers  with  their  jungus 
and  insect  problems. 

One  of  the  things  that  sur- 
prised me  quite  a  lot  was  the 
amount  of  false  blossom  on  some 
of  the  old  bogs.  It  was  hard  to 
tell  what  varieties  were  planted 
on  these  properties,  although  ori- 
ginally there  were  Howes  and 
Early  Blacks,  but  the  majority 
of  the  vines  seemed  to  be  Natives 
that  have  been  planted  in  years 
past. 

One  of  the  things  they  are 
going  to  have  to  do  if  the  indus- 
try is  going  to  survive  is  to  con- 
trol the  leaf  hopper  which  spreads 
false  blossom.  Fireworm  are  in 
evidence  but  the  growers  gen- 
erally will  have  little  trouble 
controlling  them,  as  well  as  the 
fruitworm  which  seemed  to  be 
not  very  abundant  while  we  were 
there. 

To    me    the   main    problent    of 
developing    the    cranberry   indus- 
try    in     the     maritime    provinces 
will  be  how  to  market  the  berries 
once  they  are  grown,  and  I  think 
this  is  the  main  concern  of  every- 
one who  is  iiiterested  in  the  cran- 
berry   industry,    as    there   is    not 
much  use  to  grow  cranberries  if 
you   cannot   sell  them.   They    can 
use   a   small  amount    locally,    but 
the  biggest  part  of  the  production 
would    have    to    be    sold    on    the 
Montreal      jnarket      or     perhaps 
shipped  to  the  United  States  and 
have   processors    make    cranberry 
sauce,  but  so  far  there  is  not  too 
much   interest   in    going   into   the 
market  of  cranberry  sauce  under 
private    label,    as    the    crop    has 
been  too  erratic.  Some  years  they 
get  very  few  cranberries  because 
of     frost     injury,     although     this 
could   be  corrected   with   the   itse 
of  sprinklers   or   other   means    of 
frost  protection. 

TWENTY-TWO 


Actually  the  production  of  cran- 
berries has  dropped  in  the  last 
few  years  and  practically  all  of 
the  older  growers  who  have  been 
in  the  business  have  apparently 
lost  interest  in  it,  and  it  will  be 
up  to  the  new  people  coming 
along  to  develop  the  cranberry 
acreage,  as  well  as  finding  an 
outlet  for  the  cranberries  that 
they  produce. 

The  first  native  commercial 
cranberry  development  took  place 
in  Kings  County,  Nova  Scotia  and 
there  have  been  isome  bogs  estab- 
lished in  New  Brunswick  arid  on 
Prince  Edward  Island,  but  these 
have  been  pretty  much  native 
stands  that  have  been  somewhat 
improved,  but  right  now,  their 
production  is  not  of  much  impor- 
tance, 

MISCELLANEOUS    NOTES 

We  are  now  shipping  cranberry 
sauce  to  Hong  Kong,  Yakahama, 
Switzerland  and  several  European 
countries  under  private   label. 

Mr.  LeMunyon  of  New  Jersey 
visited  us  here  yesterday  and  then 
went  down  to  visit  som,e  of  the 
other  marshes  I  have  around 
Tomah  and  Manitowish  Waters, 
and  he  also  spent  sonne  time  in 
the  Wisconsin  Rapids  area.  I 
know  him  primarily  because  he 
sent  me  some  vines  which  1 
wanted  to  try  here  in  Wisconsin. 

The  season  is  still  late  and  cool, 
and  the  berries  are  small  and 
green;  but  we  are  hoping  for  a 
pretty  good  September  so  we  can 
get  some  size  to  them  as  well  as 
color.  The  Tip  Worra  seemed  to 
work  pretty  hard  this  year 
throughout  the  state  and  may 
affect  the   budding  for  next  year. 

Another  thing  of  interest  is 
that  the  vines  are  already  begin- 
ning to  become  quite  dormant 
and  are  beginning  to  change  color, 
which  is  quite  unusual.  Usually 
they  don't  change  color  until  we 
start  to  harvest.  Apparently  they 
are  going  into  their  winter  con- 
dition, because  of  the  cool  seasoTi, 
much    earlier    than    usual. 


Wisconsin  State  CGA 
Presented  Public 
Address  System 

At  tJie  summer  meeting  of 
the  Wisconsin  State  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association,  Mr.  Fred- 
erick Gebhardt,  Black  River 
Falls,  Wisconsin,  presented  to 
the  Wisconsin  Association  a 
much-needed  public  address 
System. 

Mr.  Gebhardt  made  the 
presetation  to  Mr.  G.  C.  Kling- 
beil,  representing  the  Associa- 
tion with  the  following  com- 
ment. 

"For  several  years  I  h&ve 
attended  a  good  number  of 
meetings;  many  of  Ihem  in  the 
field.  One  of  the  problems  at 
such  meetings  is  lack  of  com- 
munication and  understanding 
due  to  the  inability  to  hear 
what  is  being  presented;  also, 
questions  and  answers. 

Therefore,  may  I  present  this 
public  address  system  to  the 
Wisconsin  State  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association  for  the 
use  of  Wisconsin's  cranberry 
industry.  I  wish  to  dedicate 
it  and  its  use  to  the  memory 
of  my  parents,  Mr.  Frederick 
W.  Gebhardt  and  Mrs.  Ida  May 
Kinkead  Gebhardt,  pioneer 
cranberry  growers  of  west  cen- 
tral Wisconsin." 

Shown  in  the  above  photo 
from  left  to  right:  Mr.  Stuart 
Pederson,  Warrens,  Wisconsin, 
president  of  the  WCGA;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frederick  Gebhardt, 
Black   River  Falls,    A\'isconsin. 


Use  Color  to  Perk-Up 
Drab.  Older  Houses 


Color  coordination  is  the  eas- 
iest and  most  beautiful  way  to 
add  charm  and  life  to  a  drab 
room  or  hall;  and  the  modern 
trend  is  to  use  a  predominant 
shade  with  one  or  two  contrast- 
ing color  accents. 

The  biggest  problem  may 
seem  where  to  begin  .  .  .  one 
successful  method  is  to  take 
your  favorite  picture,  fabric, 
wallpaper-design,  or  carpet 
used  in  the  area,  and  pick  out 
the  shade  that  pleases  you  the 
most. 

Remember,  it  will  be  the 
dominant  hue  in  the  room. 
Maybe  you  will  choose  pearl 
grey,  deep  spruce  green,  or  a 
golden  yellow,  and  use  it  for 
half  or  two-thirds  of  the  color 
area  in  the  room  in  such  items 
as  paint,  carpet  and  upholstery. 
For  accent,  use  one  or  two 
cheery  contrasting  colors  in 
relatively  small  amounts.  Pil- 
lows, pictures,  decorations, 
lamp  shades,  and  curtains  can 
be  used  as  color  accents. 

Remember,  your  room  is  like 
a  box  —  with  the  ceiling  as  the 
top  —  the  floor,  the  bottom  — 
and  the  four  sides. 

Forget  about  the  odd  jogs 
and  windows.  Concentrate  on 
the  large  general  area. 

Here  are  a  few  questions  and 
answers  that  are  often  asked. 


Should  a  ceiling  be  dark  or 
light? 

A  dark  ceiling  makes  the 
room  seem  lower,  and  absorbs 
the  light.  If  the  room  is  small, 
better  use  white  or  a  pastel. 

Should  wood  trim  match  the 
walls? 

Use  either  way.  Matching 
walls  and  trims  make  a  space 
look  larger.  A  spacious  room 
achieves  eye-appeal  with  con- 
trasting paint  trim. 

How  can  an  all-wood  room 
be  varied? 

Stain  the  floor  a  deeper  tone, 
and  add  bright  colors  in  the 
furnishings.  A  room  with  wood 
paneling  can  be  varied  with  a 
color-bright  ceiling  and  drap- 
eries. 

How  about  the  inside  of 
shelves? 

Paint  them  the  same  color 
as  the  walls  if  you  want  to 
minimize  the  built-in,  or  con- 
trasting paint,  for  the  interiors 
only,  to  cause  attention  to 
books  or  a  hobby  collection. 

A  last  word  of  caution,  since 
all  colors  have  a  psychological 
effect,  have  a  family  conference 
and  decide  together  which  hues 
you'd  like  most  to  live  with. 
The  results  achieved  with  the 
right  color  schemes  are  highly 
rewarding! 


Scalloped  Oysters 

1  pint  oysters 

2  cups  medium-coarse  cracker 
crumbs 

}/2  cup  butter  or  margarine,  melted 
%  cup  light  cream 
3^  teaspoon  Worcestershire  sauce 
3^  teaspoon  salt 

Drain  oysters,  reserving  }/i  cup 
liquor.  Combinecrumbsand  butter. 
Spread  ]/i  of  crumbs  in  greased 
8xl3<^-inch  round  pan.  Cover  with 
half  the  oysters.  Sprinkle  with  pep- 
per. Using  another  third  of  the 
crumbs,  spread  a  second  layer; 
cover  with  rest  of  oysters.  Sprin- 
kle with  pepper.  Combine  cream, 
reserved  oyster  liquor,  Worcester- 
shire, and  salt.  Pour  over  the  oys- 
ters. Top  with  last  of  crumbs.  Bake 
in  moderate  oven  (350°)  about  40 
minutes.  Makes  4  servings. 


CRANBERRY   RELISH    RING 

Makes  8  to   10  servings 
1    package  (3  ounces)  cherry-flavor 

gelatin 
1    cup   boiling   v/ater 
%   cup   cold   water 

1  can  (1  pound)  v/hole-fruit  cranberry 

sauce 
V2   cup  diced   celery 
3  tablespoons   pickle   relish 

2  tablespoons   lemon    juice 
Salad   greens 

1.  Dissolve  gelatin  in  boiling  water  in 
medium-size  bowl ;  stir  in  cold  water. 
Break  up  cranberry  sauce  in  can  with 
a  fork,  then  stir  into  gelatin  mixture 
with  celery,  pickle  relish,  and  lemon 
juice. 

2.  Chill  until  mixture  is  syrupy-thick, 
then  spoon  into  a  5-cup  ring  mold. 
Chill  2  hours,  or  until  firm. 

3.  When  ready  to  serve,  run  a  sharp-tip, 
thin-blade  knife  around  top  of  mold, 
then  dip  mold  very  quickly  in  and  out 
of  a  pan  of  hot  water.  Invert  onto  serv- 
ing plate ;  lift  oflf  mold.  Fill  center  of 
ring  with  crisp  greens.  Serve  with 
your  favorite  salad  dressing. 

TWENTY-THREE 


REGIONAL  NEWS    NOTES 

WISCONSIN 

Contirujed    from   page  2 


during  the  remiiindcr  of  the 
week  was  very  spotty.  Cool 
temperatures  in  the  40's  were 
recorded  at  many  stations 
throughout  the  state  on  the 
morning  of  the  28th. 

Fine  summer  weather  con- 
tinued with  temperatures  near 
or  shghtly  below  their  long 
term  normals.  Shower  activity 
increased  somewhat  as  July 
ended  wdth  widespread  rains  on 
several  days.  The  western  %  of 
the  state  generally  received  1/  " 
to  1"  rainfall  with  less  near  the 
Lake  Michigan  shores.  Some  2" 
to  4"  totals  were  recorded  from 
Burnett  and  Polk  counties 
southeastward  into  Marathon 
and  Wood  counties  on  August 
1  and  2.  Scattered  hail  and 
wind  damage  was  associated 
with  these  showers.  Small  tor- 
nados with  short  tracks  touched 
down  briefly  near  Richland 
Center  and  Madison  early  on 
July  2nd. 


Showers  and  thunderstorms 
fell  throughout  the  state  prior 
to  August  9th  with  amounts 
averaging  nearly  an  inch  in  the 
northeast  and  in  the  southwest. 


Elsewhere  rainfall  ranged  most- 
ly between  V4"  and  W.  A 
strong  cold  front  with  a  large 
cold  high  pressure  system  be- 
hind it,  pushed  across  the  state 
early  on  the  9th  bringing  sunny 
and  cool  weather  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  week.  Early 
morning  temperatures  on  the 
10th  and  11th  were  generally 
in  the  30's  and  40's  throughout 
the  state  with  scattered  light 
frost  in  some  low  areas.  Many 
stations  recorded  new  record 
lew  temperatures  for  the  date. 

Temperatures  warmed  gradu- 
ally during  the  week  from  the 
cool  readings  in  the  30's  and 
40's  of  the  August  12-13  week- 
end. Precipitation  continued 
sparse.  Showers  occun-ed  in 
most  areas  on  the  17th-18th. 
Heaviest  rainfall  \\'as  in  the  ex- 
treme southern  counties  witii 
Beloit  receiving  nearly  2  inches. 
Elsewhere,  rainfall  was  ime\'en- 
ly  distributed  ^vith  many  west- 
central  and  east-central  areas 
receiving  less  than  one-tenth 
inch. 

The  weather  continued  very 
cool  and  dry.  As  had  been  so 
characteristic  of  this  summer, 
frequent  northerly  winds  pre- 
vailed during  the  week  bringing 
cool  and  dry  air  down  from 
Canada.  Days  were  generally 
sunny  with  temperatures  in  the 
70's  or  low  80's  while  nights 
were  clear  and  cool  wdth  the 
mercury  dipping  down  into  the 


40's.  Near  freezing  tempera- 
tures at  standard  thermometer 
shelter  height  occurred  in  many 
areas  with  29°  and  31°  reported 
at  Breed  in  Oconto  County  on 
the  22nd  and  23rd.  Rainfall  was 
very  light. 

A  strong  low  pressure  system 
with  winds  more  typical  of 
autumn  crossed  the  state  on 
the  24th  bringing  good  rains  in 
the  1"  to  2"  category  to  most 
northern  and  central  districts. 
Lesser  amounts  fell  in  the  south. 
Cradual- clearing  from  the  west 
took  place  on  the  25th  with 
weather  sunny  and  pleasant  on 
the  26th. 


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NATURAL  RESOURCES 
FIELD  DAY 


Demonstrations  of  the  "tree 
monkey,"  a  new  automatic,  self- 
propelled,  pruning  device,  featured 
tlie  equipment  demonstrations  at 
the  Natural  Resources  Field  Day  on 
Saturday,  September  30.  The  Field 
Day  was  held  at  the  property  of 
Mr,  &  Mrs.  Kenneth  Wood  on 
Orange   Street,   Bridgewater. 

The  "tree  monkey"  was  in- 
vented in  Switzerland  and  is  being 
manufactured  in  West  Germany.  It 
climbs  a  tree  automatically,  sawing 
off  branches  as  it  climbs.  Wlien  it 
reaches  a  pre-determined  height,  a 
timing  mechanism  releases  and  the 
machine  returns  down  the  trimk. 

An  electronic  skidding  device, 
invented  by  Archie  DeMaranville, 
Hanover  sawmill  operator,  was 
demonstrated  at  the  Field  Day  as 
well  as  other  equipment  including 
chain  saws,  mist  blowers,  brush 
cutters  and  other  forestry  equip- 
ment. 

"Multi-Use  Land  Management" 
is  the  theme  of  the  Field  Day,  in- 
cluding forest  management,  wildlife 
management  and  recreation.  In- 
cluded in  the  talks  will  be  a  discus- 
sion of  the  management  of  White 
Pine  as  a  Commercial  Resource, 
Elements  of  Aesthetic  Forestry, 
and  Recreational  Potentials  for 
Privately  Owned  woodlands. 

Higliligliting  the  program  was 
Tree  Farm  Award  presentations  in 
recognition  of  outstanding  forest 
management  to  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Wood 
and  several  other  Southeastern 
Massachusetts  woodland  owners. 

Mr.  Tallcott,  owner  of  the  Sy- 
mington property  in  Plymouth  was 
one  of  the  recipients  of  the  Tree 
Farm  Award  at  the  Natural  Re- 
sources Field  Day. 

Representatives  of  public  and 
private  agencies  were  present  to  ex- 
plain their  programs  and  services 
available  to  land  owners.  These 
include  a  Private  Forestry  Consult- 
ant, the  Soil  Conservation  Service, 
Agricultural  Stabilization  and  Con- 
servation Service  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Division  of  Fisheries  and 
Game, 

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NOVA  SCOTIA 

In  a  recent  issue  of  CRAN- 
BERRIES, Mr.  Vernon  Goldswor- 
thy  wrote  of  his  recent  trip  to 
Nova  Scotia  to  visit  growers  in  that 
Province,  We  have  just  received  the 
photo  below  which  shows  left  to 
right,  Gordon  Baker  of  Middleton, 
owner  of  Fundy  Cranberries,  Ltd,, 
and*  operates  a  6-acre  bog  at  Mar- 


garetsville;  Murray  Porter,  Kent- 
ville;  A,  B.  Balcom,  Wolfville,  part- 
ners of  Annapolis  Valley  Cranber- 
ries, Ltd.,  and  owners  of  several 
bogs  in  Kings  County;  Vernon 
Goldsworthy,  Eagle  River,  Wiscon- 
sin, a  most  welcome  visitor  to  Nova 
Scotia. 

Our  thanks  to  Mr.  R.  A,  Murray 
of  the  N.  S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture for  having  sent  us  the 
photo. 


Research  Botanist  Attends 
Blueberry  Culture  Symposium 

Dr.  Ivan  V.  Hall  of  the  Re- 
search Station  at  Kentville,  Nova 
Scotia,attended  the  first  symposium 
on  blueberry  culture  in  Europe  held 
at  Venlo  in  the  Netherlands,  July 
27  &  28  and  presented  a  paper  on 
the  pollination  of  the  highbush 
blueberry.  This  meeting  was  spon- 
sored by  the  International  Society 
of  Horticultural  Science.  Before  re- 
turning home.  Dr.  Hall  visited 
several  research  stations  in  England 
including  East  Mailing  Research  Sta- 
tion, Kew  Botanical  Gardens,  Ef- 
ford  Horticultural  Station  near 
Lymington,  the  British  Museum 
of  Natural  History  and  other  points 
of  interest  in  London.  Dr.  Hall  was 
accompanied  on  the  trip  by  his 
wife,  Carol. 


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Inc.,  had  its  annual  meeting  and 
election  of  directors  and  officers 
for  the  coming  year.  They  are  as 
follows: 

Vernon  Goldsworth- President 

Richard  Indermuehle- 
Vice  President 

Ralph  Sampson-Treasurer 

Howard  Querry- Secretary 

Charles  Goldsworthy- 

Vice  President  in  Charge 
of  Sales 

The  crop  is  running  about  20% 
under  most  growers  estimates  here 
in  Wisconsin.  The  Searles  in  parti- 
cular are  not  good  this  year,  as 
they  are  the  smallest  I  have  seen 
them  and  very  green.  There  will 
not  be  much  han>esting  until  around 
the  first  of  October  and  if  we  get 
an  early  fall  this  might  mean  some 
of  the  Wisconsin  berries  do  not 
get  harvested,  as  once  they  freeze 
in  the  ice  seldom  melts  enough  to 
get  them  out  again.  We  can  protect 
them  from  freezing  by  putting 
plenty  of  water  on  them,  but  if  we 
get  two  or  three  inches  of  ice  on 
top  of  the  water  you  can  forget 
about  getting  the  berries  out  unless 
the  ice  thaws  as  you  cannot  get 
them  out  under  the  ice. 

Mr.  Bob  Murray  and  Mr.  Murray 
Porter  of  Nova  Scotia  spent  several 
days  in  Wisconsin  this  week.  They 
visited  the  cranberry  processing 
plant  of  Cranberry  Products  in  Eagle 
River,  Wisconsin,  and  watched  our 
cranberry  sauce  operation  as  well 
as  the  making  of  cranberry  cocktail. 
They  were  also  quite  interested  in 
our  cranberry  gift  house,  which  is 
owned  by  Cranberry  Products,  Inc. 

Some  time  was  spent  visiting  th^ 
growers  in  the  Manitowish  Waters 
area,  and  then  Ben  Pannkuk  met 
them  and  took  them  down  to  Wis- 
consin Rapids  where  they  visited 
in  that  area  for  a  day  or  so.  They 
also  saw  the  new  plant  in  Babcock,\ 
Wisconsin,  which  belongs  to  Ocean 
Spray,    where    they   were  met  by 

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Mass. 

Crankerry 

Station 

8  Field  Notes 

Personals 

Dr.  Wes  Miller,  Andrew  Charig 
and  the  author  have  a  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  June  issue  of  Weed 
Research  the  Official  Journal  of  the 
European  Weed  Research  Council. 
The  title  is  "Effect  of  Water  on  the 
Persistence  of  Dichlobenil."  This 
paper  is  a  report  of  the  effects  of 
water  on  Casoron  persistence  in 
cranberry  bog  soil.  Reprints  of  this 
paper  are  available. 

Market  Report 

The  first  cranberry  market  re- 
port for  fresh  fruit  was  released  Oc- 
tober 2  from  Agricultural  Market- 
ing News  Service  under  the  direc- 
tion of  John  O'Neil  in  Boston.  This 
will  be  the  14th  season  that  these 
weekly  reports  have  been  prepared 
for  growers  and  shippers.  The  re- 
ports include  current  information 
on  the  movement  of  fresh  w.anber- 
ries  by  rail  and  truck,  price  and 


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extension  cranberry  specialist 


terminal  market  conditions  in  the 
leading  cities  in  the  United  States. 
Those  who  wish  to  continue  receiv- 
ing this  report  should  return  the 
necessary  form  to  Mr.  O'Neil.  Any- 
one else  interested  in  this  report 
may  receive  it  by  writing  to  the 
Agricultural  Marketing  News  Ser- 
vice, 408  Atlantic  Avenue,  Room 
705,  Boston,  Mass.,  02210  request- 
ing that  his  name  be  added  to  the 
cranberry  mailing  list. 

Weather 

The  month  of  September  was  on 
the  cold  side,  averaging  slightly 
more  than  IVi  degrees  a  day  below 
normal.  The  first  two  days  of  the 
month  were  cool  followed  by  a 
warm  spell  from  the  4th  through 
the  6th,  another  cool  period  from 
the  10th  through  16th,  warm  the 
17th  through  21st  and  cool  the 
23rd  through  26th.  The  maximum 
temperature  was  80'  degrees  on  the 


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was  generally  sunny  and  dry  with 
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the  29th  and  30th.  We  are  4^^ 
inches  above  normal  for  1967  to 
date  and  12  inches  ahead  of  1966 
for  the  same  period. 

Harvest 

A  few  growers  began  harvesting 
on  September  12th,  but  general 
harvest  did  not  begin  until  the 
17th,  Even  with  this  very  late 
start  the  berries  were  not  well 
colored  the  first  week.  Size  was  not 
as  good  as  expected  and  many 
growers  were  either  under  or  just 
making  theii  crop  estimates.  About 
50  percent  of  the  crop  had  been 
harvested  up  to  October  4.  There 
have  been  four  general  frost  warn- 
ings released  from  the  Cranberry 
Station  as  of  October  5. 


Late  Fall  Management 

The  following  suggestions  on  late 
fall  management  are  offered  to  the 
growers  for  their  consideration.  1) 
Woody  plants  such  as  hardback, 
meadow  sweet  and  bayberry  should 
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will  greatly  improve  the  picking 
operation  next  season.  2)  A  potato 
digger  can  be  used  in  the  shore 
ditches  to  pull  out  runners  of  small 
bramble,  Virginia  creeper  or  morn- 
ing glory  which  may  be  crossing  the 
ditch  from  shore.  3)  Casoron  can 
be  applied  at  the  rate  of  100 
pounds  per  acre  for  control  of 
loosestrife,  aster  mud  rush,  needle 
grass,  summer  grass,  cut  grass,  nut 
grass,  cotton  grass,  marsh  St.  Johns- 
wort,  ragweed,  blue  joint,  spagnum 
moss  and  wool  grass.  Casoron 
should  be  used  in  cold  weather 
(after  November  15)  preferably  just 
before  a  rain.  It  is  less  likely  to 
harm  vines  that  are  healthy  and 
vigorous.  4)  This  is  an  excellent 
time  to  take  and/or  prune  the  bog, 
also  do  not  forget  the  trash  flood 
where  water  supplies  are  available. 
These  are  very  valuable  practices 
that  wUl  keep  the  bog  in  shape  for 
peak  production  next  year.  5)  Any 
bog  that  has  not  received  sand  for 
the  past  five  years  or  more,  should 
be  sanded  as  soon  as  possible,  pre- 
ferably this  fall  or  winter.  Sanding, 
pruning  and  raking  should  be  post- 
poned until  next  spring  on  those 
bogs  that  do  not  have  water  for 
winter  protection  because  the  vines 
are  more  susceptible  to  winter  in- 
jury following  these  operations. 

Ferbam  for  Fairy  Ring 

The  Cranberry  Experiment  Sta- 
tion has  been  notified  of  the 
acceptance  by  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture  of  an 
additional  use  for  ferbam  to  con- 
trol Fairy  Ring. 

The  registered  use  reads  as  fol- 
lows: 

"For  control  of  Fairy  Ring  dis- 
ease (Psilocybe  agrariella  vaccinii) 
in  cranberries,  make  a  mixture  of 
7-1/8  pounds  of  95  per  cent  ferbam 
wettable  powder  in  100  gallons  of 
water.  Apply  one  gallon  per  square 
foot  to  the  diseased  area  and  up  to 
3  feet  outside  of  the  advancing 
ring  of  dead  plants.  Apply  in  the 
fall  immediately  after  harvest." 

We  suggest  that  the  area  2  feet 
behind  the  diseased  plants  be 
treated  also. 

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Quite  a  stir  has  been  created  by  Labor  Secre- 
tary Wirtz's  proposed  rulings  for  governing  hazard- 
ous occupations  in  agriculture  for  youth  under  16 
years  of  age. 

A  fight  is  being  waged  against  the  new  ruling 
by  L.  W.  Randt,  Chairman  of  the  Studies  and  Re- 
search Committee  of  the  Farm  Conference  of  the 
National  Safety  Council,  who  claims  that  farm 
safety  is  being  used  as  a  tool  to  force  additional 
industry  criteria  into  agriculture  as  well  as  to  bring 
unions  closer  to  the  farm. 

This  is  being  denied  by  those  who  have  formu- 
lated ihe  proposed  rulings.  They  say  that  the  welfare 
of  the  youth  was  the  only  concern.  The  grower, 
perhaps  the  most  involved  with  the  rulings,  was  not 
consulted,  as  usual.  Randt  cited  the  most  major  ob- 
jections as  follows: 

In  soliciting  the  recommendations  on  hazard- 
ous occupations  for  youth  under  16,  the  labor  depart- 
ment failed  to  differentiate  between  "Hazardous" 
and  "extremely  hazardous." 

The  farm  public  was  not  consulted  and  infor- 
mation from  persons  who  are  farm-oriented  was  not 
gathered  as  to  what  constitutes  "particularly  hazard- 
ous" employment. 

Such  a  ruling  would  certainly  have  an  adverse 
effect  on  existing  FFA  and  4-H  youth  programs. 

Another  major  complaint  is  that  the  labor 
department  failed  to  advise  consultants  and  the  farm 
public  of  the  penalties  connected  with  failure  to 
comply  with  these  rulings. 

How  would  the  grower  be  affected  by  rulings 
which  would  prohibit  the  operation  of  a  truck, 
tractor,  or  even  riding  on  such  equipment;  working 
from  a  ladder  or  scaffold  over  20  feet  high? 

Needless  to  say  it  would  leave  the  employer 
with  very  serious  doubts  as  to  the  hiring  of  youth  in 
this  age  bracket. 

Although  it  is  true  that  these  rulings  do  not 
apply  to  youth  under  16  working  on  their  parents' 
farm  but  it  would  to  a  neighbor's  boy  seeking  work 
on  your  farm— to  the  high  school  students  in  rural 
communities  who  often  perform  an  important  part 
of  a  grower's  work. 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -  ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   Rivei ,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,    Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


For  the  most  part  we  agree  with  Randt's 
statement  that  the  department  of  labor  was  ne- 
glectful in  failing  to  consult  those  who  are  closest 
to  farming  and  farm  safety  and  those  who,  particu- 
larly, have  knowledge  of  what  is  and  what  is  not  to 
be  considered  "particularly  hazardous"  to  youth. 

It  would  be  well  to  apprise  your  congressman 
of  your  feelings  on  the  subject  since  this  amendment 
to  the  Fair  Labor  Standards  Act  is  still  under  con- 
sideration in  Washington. 


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ROYAL   COURT  of  the  196  7  Bandon  Cranberry  Festival 
encircle  Queen  Marilyn  Hall  for  their  official  photograph. 
Princesses  and  their  escorts  (from  left)  are  Princess  Phyllis 
Howard  and  her  escort,  Mike  Morris;  Princess  Sue  Finical 
and  Steve  Fox;  Queen  Marilyn  ana  her  escort.  Rick  Joward, 


and  Princess  Sylvia  Smith  and  her  escort,  George 
Seated  in  front  are  Jerry  Vedder,  crown  bearer. 
Ash  ton,  who  presented  Queen  Marilyn  with  a 
rosebuds  from  the  Festival  Association. 


MacDonald. 
and  Tammy 
sheaf  of  red 


COVERED  WAGON,  entered  in  the  Bandon  Heights  division 
of  the  paruce  by  Mrs.  Darlene  Terp's  jirst  jrade.    von  the 
second-place  red  ribbon  for  its  authenticity  and  or^jinclity. 
All  the  utensils  that  sturdy  pioneers  vculd  need  along  the 


route  could  be  seen  iiangint;  Jrom  the  side  of  the  wagon, 
while  "Ma  (Mrs.  TerpJ  and  Pa"  rode  up  front  to  fend  off 
the  indians. 


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"FFONTIER  SCHOOLING  at  the  Cranberry  town  By-The-  Mrs  Harold  Sorenson,  the  teacher,  and  her  pupils-dressed 
Se  "  placed  second  in  the  Ocean  Crest  section  of  the  scnool  as  children  did  when  they  attended  the  one-room  schools 
division  of  the  parade,  oj  ion^  ag:. 


PACIFIC  HIGH  School  band,  in  their  colorful  purple  and      playing  several  selections  for  the  appreciative  crowd  along 
white  uniforms,   marched  in   the   Grand  Festival  Parade,       the  route. 


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The  Massachusetts  General  Court 
has  been  the  scene  of  two  important 
actions  to  the  cranberry  industry 
of  Massachusetts.  Both  of  these 
actions  signify  a  trend  in  social 
thinking  and  action  that  places  agri- 
culture in  a  back-seat  position.  The 
proponents  of  such  legislation  with 
reckless  abandon  took  after  what 
they  call  the  "people's  rights"  in 
order  to  obtain  their  objectives. 

The  first  case  is  that  of  the 
attempt  to  revoke  by  legislative 
action,  the  licenses  which  were 
held  by  cranberry  growers  to  draw 
water  out  of  three  ponds  in  the 
Wareham-Plymouth  area.  The  basic 
question  here  was:  Who  had  the 
right  to  the  water?  Did  the  cran- 
berry grower  who  is  making  his 
living  through  the  use  of  the  water 
to  raise  and  protect  his  crops,  or 
did  the  water  belong  to  the  individ- 
ual who  had  worked  elsewhere  and 
was  in  a  position  to  have  a  second 
home  for  its  recreational  value? 
There  are  many  legislators  who 
sympathize  with  the  summer  resi- 
dents and  who  under  ordinary  con- 
ditions or  circumstances  would  have 
voted  with  the  summer  people  as 
they  have  in  their  districts  far 
more  people  who  go  to  recreation 
areas  than  they  do  farmers.  In  fact, 
a  great  many  do  not  have  farmers 
in  their  district. 

The  development  of  the  issue 
as  to  whether  a  man  has  the  riglit 
through  legislative  action  to  have 
his  livelihood  taken  away  or  im- 
paired was  one  of  the  things  that 
led  to  the  final  disposition  of  the 
legislation  into  a  catch-all  type  of 
study,  one  which  seldom,  if  ever, 
yields  any  significant  findings.  In 
this  case  as  in  other  matters  af- 
fecting farmers'  rights,  farmers  must 
take  into  consideration  the  thinking 
of  those  who  become  objectors  to 


agriculture.  They  must  also  take 
into  consideration  the  basic  phil- 
osophy regarding  private  rights  and 
ownership  of  property.  The  farmers' 
concepts  of  these  values  have  held 
strong,  while  the  remaining  mem- 
bers of  our  society  have  become 
liberals  to  the  extent  that  some 
feel  that  the  deed  to  the  property 
really  doesn't  give  any  special  riglits 
to  the  land  owner  except  immediate 
use  of  the  property.  That  is,  long 
range  use  and  development  of  the 
property  belongs  to  the  people  and 
its  government. 


The  second  issue  affecting  agri- 
culture and  the  cranberry  industry 
is  that  of  the  minimum  wage  and 
housing  bill  which  is  yet  to  be 
signed  by  the  Governor.  The  ex- 
perience of  this  particular  piece 
of  legislation  has  been  most  inter- 
esting and  quite  alarming.  To  have 
the  exposure  to  the  thoughts  of 
those  people  who  backed  the  so- 
called  "visitors  amendment"  was 
most  revealing  and  would  cause  a 
man  to  worry  towards  the  future. 

This  particular  piece  of  legis- 
lation was  worked  out  by  a  compro- 
mise on  the  part  of  the  principal 
proponents  of  the  legislation,  the 
A.F.O.L.-  C.I.O.-the  Farm  Bureau 
and  the  Committee  on  Labor  and 
Industries.  The  compromise  bill  has 
been  passed  with  the  exception  of 
an  amendment  relative  to  visitors. 
Farm  Bureau  and  farmers  made  a 
gain  through  holding  out  for  a 
better  amendment.  The  amendment 
as  it  stands  today  affords  farmers 
protection  from  the  unscrupulous 
and  the  nuisance  type  of  visitor  to 
the  farms.  The  approach  taken  by 
supporters  of  the  Commonwealth 
Service  Corps  was  similar  to  tliat 


taken  by  the  proponents  of  the  |j 
water  legislation.  They  did  not  care 
for  the  farmers'  personal  problems. 
They  became  totally  over-involved 
in  problems  of  the  worker  that  did 
not  exist.  Not  only  did  farmers  get 
crucified  by  these  people  with  their 
cleverly  worded  statements,  but  also 
the  Department  of  Public  Health, 
Puerto  Rican  government,  the  Mass- 
achusetts Council  of  Churches  and 
other  groups  who  for  the  past  half 
dozen  years  have  been  working 
together,  developing  a  program  that 
was  beginning  to  bear  fruit.  Much 
damage  has  been  done  to  this  pro- 
gram as  farmers  are  unable  to  iden- 
tify as  to  which  group  a  visitor 
might  belong  to. 


The  cranberry  industry  has  been 
the  "whipping  boy"  of  various  or- 
ganizations regarding  housing  in  bog 
areas.  By  getting  understanding  of 
the  issue  as  it  relates  to  the  price 
received  by  growers  for  their  crops 
in  the  past  few  years,  many  people 
began  to  realize  that  the  cranberry 
industry  could  not  take  and  invest 
a  great  deal  of  money  into  housing. 
These  people  were  assured  that 
the  day  would  come  and  it  has 
come  when  the  cranberry  growers 
are  improving  their  quarters.  Today 
some  of  the  finest  quarters  in  Mass- 
achusetts are  located  in  the  bogs  of 
Plymouth  and  Barnstable  counties. 

The  fight  has  just  gone  through 
a  battle.  It  is  far  from  won.  As 
society  becomes  more  liberal  and 
with  this  liberalism  less  regard  for 
a  man's  property  rights,  we  are 
faced  with  a  future  that  calls  for 
the  need  of  a  militant  organization 
that  is  prepared  to  face  the  future. 
Emerson  once  wrote  "The  future 
belongs  to  those  who  prepare  for 
it."  Farmers  must  be  prepared. 


EIGHT 


"  LooK^Hilda!  SoTTKone  just+urned  onthe  cratxherry  juice! 


NINE 


Wisconsin  Harvest 

Expected  To  Be 
20%  Off 

CRANBERRY  PRODUCTION 

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Var\  weather  this  past  summer 
is  expecied  to  result  in  a  20%  drop 
in  •'•^10   1967  cranberry'  harvest  in 
the  state  of  Wisconsin. 

Vernon  Goldsworthy,  president 
of   Cranberry    Products,   Inc.   of 
Eagle  River,  said  harvesting  was  at 
least  two  weeks  late. 

With  a  smaller  harvesting  season 
and  a  shortage  of  workers,  Mr. 
Goldsworthy  said  "It  will  be  hard 
to  get  all  the  berries  harvested  be- 
fore the  end  of  October." 


Bandon,  Oregon  Expects 
30%  Increase  In 
This  Year's  Crop 


The  1967  cranberry  harvest  in 
the  Bandon,  Oregon  area  was  in  full 
swing  as  of  mid-October,  William  T. 
Dufort,  field  manager  for  Ocean 
Spray's  Bandon  plant  reports  area 
production  could  reach  55,000  bar- 
rels which  would  be  an  increase  of 
nearly  30%  over  last  Year's  crop  of 
43,000  barrels. 

Growth  on  the  local  bogs  has 
been  good  and  the  anticipated 
yields  appear  excellent  on  550 
acres  of  cranberry  property.  If  this 
estimate  holds  up  the  crop  wUl  be 
the  largest  on  record. 

Cranberry  production  in  Oregon 
for  1967  was  forecast  at  57,000 
barrels,  according  to  the  recent  esti- 
mate by  the  Oregon  Crop  and  Live- 
stock Reporting  Service,  and  in- 
cludes 5,000  barrels  harvested  on 
the  North  Oregon  coast. 


New  Jersey  Woman 
Finds  Balloon  in  Bog 

A  Chatsworth  New  Jersey  wo- 
man always  believed  that  if  you 
found  something  that  doesn't  be- 
long to  you  return  it. 

That  is  why  when  Mrs.  Joel 
Mick  found  a  deflated  red  balloon 
stamped  "Souvenir  of  Philadelphia 
Zoo"  several  weeks  ago  in  the 
Chatsworth  cranberry  bogs,  she 
stuffed  it  in  an  envelope  and  sent 
it  back  to  zoo  officials. 

She  included  a  note,  telling  what 
a  "big  bang"  she  got  out  of  finding 
the  balloon  in  the  bogs  at  Jenkins 
Neck,  a  short  distance  from  her 
home. 

Jenkins  Neck,  a  map  discloses, 
is  a  good  40  miles  from  the  zoo, 
where   helium-filled   balloons   are 
sold  for  25  cents  apiece. 


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Mr.  George  Klingbiel,  George 
showed  them  the  various  herbicide 
plots  they  had  in  the  state  and 
then  took  them  to  Madison,  where 
they  left  for  home. 

Mr.  R.  P.  Damme,  who  originally 
owned  a  cranberry  marsh  in  Wis- 
consin Rapids  but  sold  it  and  moved 
to  the  state  of  Washington,  was  a 
caller  at  Cranberry  Products,  Inc., 
this  week. 

There  was  a  cranberry  exhibit  at 
the  Detroit  State  Fair  and  we  fur- 
nished a  cranberry  rake  and  other 
literature  for  the  exhibit.  The  State 
of  Michigan  is  becoming  quite  inter- 
ested in  promoting  cranberries  in 
their  state  and  the  following  people 
will  visit  Cranberry  Products,  Inc., 
and  some  of  the  growers  marshes 
on  Tuesday,  October  3.  The  gentle- 
men who  will  be  visiting  us  are  Dr. 
Davis,  Mr.  Dick  Christenson,  Dr. 
Wittwer,  Mr.  Jim  Neal,  and  Mr.  Karl 
E.  Larson. 

A  good  many  growers  are  com- 
plaining about  the  tip  worm  injury 
this  year  and  a  good  part  of  this 
damage  will  not  bud  up  so  that  we 
have  a  good  crop  in  1968.  The 
tips  that  are  injured  are  just  failing 
to  set  fruit  buds  because  of  the 
poor  growing  season.  I  believe  this 
tip  worm  injury  is  the  most  severe, 
on  the  Wisconsin  cranberry  marshes, 
that  I  have  seen  in  the  many  years  I 
have  been  connected  with  the  cran- 
berry industry  both  as  an  Entomol- 
ogist when  I  worked  for  the  state 
of  Wisconsin,  and  as  a  cranberry 
grower  for  a  number  of  years. 

An  interest  in  lingon berries  has 
attracted  some  people  in  Milwaukee 
who  plan  to  put  in  40  acres  of 
lingonberries  providing  they  can  get 
the  plants  from  Alaska  or  some 
similar  source.  Thunder  Lake  has 
had  some  lingonberries  on  an  ex- 
perimental scale  for  several  years 
and  they  are  doing  very  well  but 
how  well  they  will  do  commer- 
cially will  be  another  matter. 

THIRTEEN 


'Sands'  Area  United 
by  Marketing  Group 


Wisconsin  Rapids,  Wise.  —  Mar- 
keting directors  of  32  state  depart- 
ments of  agriculture  toured  the 
"golden  sands"  country  Tuesday  to 
see  how  Wisconsin  grows  and  mar- 
kets cranberries  and  potatoes. 

Leading  the  tour  was  Robert 
Thayer,  state  marketing  director, 
and  the  host  of  the  48th  annual 
conference  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Marketing  Officials. 

Wisconsin  ranks  second  in  cran- 
berry production  to  Massachusetts 
and  its  500,000  barrel  output  is 
about  40%  of  the  national  crop. 
Much  of  the  production  is  centered 
here. 

Ocean  Spray  Tour 

The  group  toured  the  nearby 
facilities  of  Ocean  Spray,  Inc.,  a 
national  co-operative  marketing 
about  80%  of  the  crop  and  the 
same  percentage  of  Wisconsin  ber- 
ries. It  is  headquartered  in  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Lester  Gordon,  Tomah,  vice 
president,  told  the  group  that  the 
35  year  old  co-op  had  $65  million 
in  sales  of  last  year's  crop  a  60% 
increase  over  four  years  ago. 

Gordon  credits  new  products  for 
the  increase.  Being  developed  at 
present  are  48  new  cranberry  pro- 
ducts and  being  test  marketed  now 
are  dried  raisinlike  cranberries  and 

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drinks    of  cranberry   juice    mixed 
with    orange    and    apricot. 

Gordon   was  luncheon  host  to 
the  group  at  the  Wilbern  Supper 
Club  here  where  the  owner,  Tom 
Wilbern,  has  some  unusual  methods 
of  marketing  cranberries. 

Wilbern  has  developed  a  deli- 
cious cranberry  bread  and  passed 
out  recipes  for  it.  He  sells  10,000 
loaves  a  year  in  addition  to  those 
served  with  meals.  Also  on  each 
table  are  cranberry  juice  and  relish. 

At  the  bar,  cranberry  juice  is  th' 
base  for  a  Cape  Codder  or  Scarlet 
O'Hara. 

Wilbem's  is  considered  one  ol 
the  state's  gourmet  establishments. 


NOVA  SCOTIA 
REPORTS  "FAIRLY 
GOOD  YEAR" 

In    a   letter  received  from  Mi 
I.  V.  Hall,  Research  Station,  Kent  ' 
ville,  N.  S.,  he  states,  "We  have  hac 
a   fairly  good  year  for  cranberry 
production.   Our  spring  was  ver> 
cold  and  growth  did  not  start  mucl 
before  the  first  of  June  but  ther 
things  really  grew  as  we  had  warm 
temperatures  and  plenty  of  mois- 
ture. We  had  one  heavy  frost  on 
October  7  but  growers  protected 
their  crops  with  irrigation  water. 
Harvesting  of  the  fruit  is  now  well 
advanced   and   the   berries  are  of 
good  color." 


IN  THE  LAST  ISSUE  .  .  . 

Phil  Marucci  reported  on  the  98th 
Annual  summer  meeting  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Growers' 
Association    in  New  Jersey. 

Below  are  two  candid  shots  of  the 
tours  which  were  received  after 
publication  of  September  issue. 


PhU  Marucci  is  demonstrating  some 
Wilcox  vines  to  Charles  Doehlert, 
formerly  director  of  the  Cranberry- 
Blueberry  Lab,  while  other  cranberry 
growers  look  on.  The  Wilcox  was 
named  after  Raymond  B.  Wilcox, 
formerly  stationed  at  the  Cranberry- 
.  Blueberry  Lab  in  New  Jersey. 


This  is  a  picture  of  the  out-pouring  of 
water  from  Tony  De  Marco 's  deep  well. 
The  picture  is  not  as  impressive  as  the 
actual  sight,  since  it  cannot  reveal  the 
velocity  with  which  it  gushes  out. 


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FOURTEEN 


NEW  PILOT  PLANT  COMPLETED 

BY  THOMPSON-HAYWARD  CHEMICAL  COMPANY 


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A  new  pilot  plant,  part  of  the 
Charles   T.   Thompson   Technical 
Center,  has  been  completed  by  the 
Thompson-Hayward  Chemical  Co., 
Kansas  City,  Kansas. 

Built  at  a  cost  of  $350,000,  the 
pilot    plant   will    be   used   in   the 
company's   research   and   develop- 
ment    program.     Need    for    the 
Technical    Center    facilities   devel- 


oped as  Thompson-Hayward  has 
increased  emphasis  on  basic  manu- 
facturing, formulating  techniques, 
and  the  development  of  its  -line 
of  proprietary  products.  The  com- 
pany's interests  are  indicated  by 
its  four  marketing  divisions  —  In- 
dustrial Chemicals,  Agricultural 
Chemicals,  Animal  Nutrition  and 
Laundry  Chemicals  Divisions. 


Designed  to  meet  Thompson- 
Hayward's  needs  for  the  develop- 
ment of  pesticides,  surfactants,  and 
related  chemicals  —  the  pilot  plant 
is  divided  into  three  parts.  A  dry 
formulating  building  is  used  to  pre- 
pare various  formulations  for  field 
testing  of  pesticides.  A  process 
building  is  used  to  evaluate  new 
processes  and  to  provide  engineer- 
ing data.  The  third  ^^ection,  a  lab- 
oratory, is  used  for  immediate 
testing  of  products  made  in  the 
pilot  plant. 

Supervisor  of  the  new  plant  is 
V.  Kumar  Gupta  who  hs»s  a  B.S. 
degree  in  Chemical  Engineering 
from  Punjob  University,  India,  and 
an  M.S.  degree  in  Chemical  En- 
gineering from  the  Oklahoma  State 
University.  Vice  President  for  Re- 
search and  Development  at  Thomp- 
son-Hayward is  Lindley  S.  DeAtley, 
who  has  been  with  Thompson- 
Hayward  over  twenty  years  and  has 
observed  the  change  from  chemical 
sales  to  manufacturing. 

According  to  Robert  S.  Thomp- 
son, president  of  Thompson-Hay- 
ward, fufure  growth  of  this 
company  will  largely  be  in  the  area 
of  basic  manufacturing  and  the 
development  of  proprietary  pro- 
ducts, but  without  reducing  the 
company's  role  as  a  major  dis- 
tributor  of  chemical    products. 


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FIFTEEN 


aN' 


ITS  ^PPLEIiil 


How  to  buy  your  money's  worth 

With  their  shiny  bright-color  coats,  apples  are  their  own 
best  display  packages.  In  most  supermarkets  you'll  find 
them  stacked  to  buy  by  the  piece  or  ix)und,  in  tray  packs, 
and  in  family-size  transparent  bags.  Often  the  packaged 
ones  are  labeled  with  the  kind  of  apple,  its  U.  S.  grade 
(such  as  EXTRA  FANCY  or  fancy),  and  the  supermarket 
brand  name — all  quality  buying  helps  for  you.  Learn  to  rec- 
ognize a  few  varieties,  so  you  can  pick  out  the  kinds  your 
farnily  likes  best  and  those  that  best  suit  your  need.  (See 
page  34  for  a  chart  on  the  sez'en  leaders.)  While  most  of 
our  apple  crop  comes  from  just  five  states,  many  areas 
also  sell  other  locally  grown  specialties.  It's  smart  shop- 
ping to  watch  for  them  when  their  seasons  are  on,  for  they 
are  often  the  thriftiest. 

Eating  vs.  cooking  apples 

Tart  firm  apples  are  generally  referred  to  as  cooking  apples, 
and  the  sweeter  varieties  as  eating  apples,  although  many 
kind.s  are  tagged  "all-purpose."  When  you  buy,  select  firm, 
l)right  fruit,  noticing  the  size  as  well  as  the  variety.  An 
apple  that's  about  2j^  inches  in  diameter  is  ideal  for  all- 
round  use.  Smaller  fruit — usually  lower  in  price — is  perfect 
for  turning  into  sauce  and  pie,  or  serving  to  children ;  large 
fruit  is  best  for  baking.  Tip :  If  you  buy  just  one  kind,  sort 
out  the  beauties  for  snacktimes,  then  cook  the  rest. 

What  are  "CA"  apples? 

In  the  trade,  "CA"  apples  are  those  hand-picked  at  their 
peak  of  perfection  and  stored  at  once  in  "controlled- 
atmosphere"  (CA)  vaults  that  literally  put  the  fruit  to 
.sleep  and  keep  its  fresh-picked  flavor  and  crispness  until 
springtime — formerly  an  out-of-season  appletime.  Today 
only  about  10%  of  the  total  apple  crop  is  stored  in  these 
CA  vaults,  but  more  and  more  of  each  year's  harvest  is 
being  marked  for  them.  Naturally  we  pay  more  for  a  hand- 
some red  or  golden  Delicious  or  a  Rome  Beauty  in  June 
than  we  do  in  the  fall,  when  the  new  apple  harvest  is  in, 
but  the  eating  pleasure  it  gives  is  worth  the  extra  pennies. 


SIXTEEN 


HOW  v,e  choose -f.S,^.V,e 

To  whom  should  Christmas  cords  be 
sent?  It  is  thoughtful  to  send  a  holi- 
day greeting  to  close  friends,  neigh- 
bors (in  suburban  communities),  rela- 
tives, and  those  who  have  been  espe- 
cially kind  or  helpful  in  some  way  dur- 
ing the  year.  It  is  correct  to  send  a 
card  to  any  social  acquaintance  with 
whom  you  have  a  pleasant  and  fairly 
consistent  relationship. 

•  Cards  may  be  sent  to  bereaved  per- 
sons or  those  in  mourning  if  care  is 
taken  to  avoid  verse  or  scenes  that  in- 
dicate merrymaking.  A  handwritten 
message  that  says  your  family  is  think- 
ing of  the  recipient  is  a  tactful  way  of 
letting  the  person  know  that  he  or  she, 
even  though  socially  inactive,  is  re- 
membered. 

•  Cards  may  be  sent  to  friends  of 
other  faiths.  The  cards  should  then 
not  have  a  religious  theme. 

When  and  how  should  Christmas  cords 
be  mailed?  Mail  Christmas  cards  by 
December  15.  This  helps  an  over- 
burdened Post  Office  and  also  lets 
those  who  receive  your  cards  enjoy 
them  at  leisure.  The  cards  that  arrive 
first  usually  make  a  lasting  impression. 
They  are  intended  to  convey  greetings 
for  a  season  rather  than  just  for  a 
specific  day. 

•  All  cards  should  be  sent  by  first- 
class  mail.  If  mailing  first  class  be- 
comes too  costly  because  of  the  large 
number  of  cards  sent,  it  is  better  to 
prune  your  list  than  to  send  the  cards 
by  other  than  first-class  mail. 

How  should  Christmas  cords  be  ad- 
dressed? A  social  greeting  card  is  al- 
ways sent  to  the  home  address  and 
should  include  the  name  of  both  hus- 
band and  wife  even  if  only  one  of  the 
couple  is  known  to  the  sender.  Correct 
forms  for  addressing  envelopes  are  the 
same  as  for  other  social  correspond- 
ence. 

•  Do  not  add  "and  family"  to  the 
names  on  the  envelope.  If  you  want  to 
include  the  family,  this  may  be  done  in 
a  personal  note  you  write  on  the  card. 


THE 

COMING 
STORM 

By  LOUIS  A.  McLEAN 


LOUISA.  MCLEAN 


The  following  is  part  of  an  address 
delivered  by  Mr.  Louis  A.  McLean  an  of 
ficial  of  the  Velsicol  Corporation  of 
Chicago  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers'  Associa- 
tion in  August.  The  conclusion  will  be 
published  in  the  next  issue  of  Cran- 
berries. 


The  Scriptures  tell  us  Elijah, 
knowing  of  a  coming  storm, 
sent  his  servant  seven  consecu- 
tive days  to  look  cut  over  the 
horizon  for  a  sign  of  its  ap- 
proach. The  first  six  days  he 
saw  nothing.  On  the  seventh 
he  reported,  "There  ariseth  a 
little  cloud  out  of  the  sea  like 
a  man's  hand."  And  the  Scrip- 
tures conclude  "And  it  came 
to  pass  in  the  meanwhile,  that 
clouds  and  wind,  and  there 
the  heaven  was  black  with 
was  a  great  rain." 

Like  Elijah's  servant,  we,  the- 
American  people,  have  been 
told  by  demographer  after 
demographer,  those  who  com- 
pute population  trends,  of  the 
mounting  world  food  crisis  and 
we  have  heard  nothing.  We 
have  heard  nothing  despite  the 
fact  each  prediction  has  been 
more  dire.  For  example,  the 
United  Nations  estimate  in  1954 
of  the  world's  1980  population 
was    3.6    bilhon.    In    1965,    the 


1980  prediction  had  been  re- 
vised up  to  4.3  billion,  a  20  per 
cent  increase  in  the  estimate  in 
a   single   decade. 

Despite  daily  press  reference 
to^  the  world  food  crisis,  the 
greatest  material  problem  ever 
to  have  faced  mankind,  we,  the 
American  people,  have  no  real 
conception  or  appreciation  of 
it.  Like  Elijah's  servant,  we  see 
it  as  a  "little  cloud"  distant  on 
the  horizon,  not  appreciating 
what  that  "little  cloud"  por- 
tends. Yet  that  "little  cloud" 
presages  famine,  plagues  and 
major  wars.  And  we  cannot  pro- 
tect ourselves  in  this  age  of 
intercontinental  missies  by 
erecting  a  Chinese  Wall  of  in- 
diflFerence  around  us. 

It  is  essential  we  fully  under- 
stand the  problem  of  exploding 
food  needs  here  and  through- 
out the  world  and  the  necessi- 
ties to  solution,  if  there  is  to 
be  solution^ 

I  have  come  here  today  to 
state  the  problem,  to  explain 
how  our  past  food  abundance 
in  the  United  States  was  made 
possible;  and  to  note  some  of 
the  steps  that  must  be  taken 
to  increase  production  of  food 
here  and  throughout  the  world. 
I  cannot  state  the  full  prescrip- 
tion. I  know  of  no  one  who  can. 


First,  the  problem. 

Plague,  pestilence  and  hunger 
have     always     faced    primitive 
peoples.   Today,  primitive   peo- 
ples   and  peoples    of   the   less- 
developed    nations    suffer    from 
plague,  pestilence  and  hunger  for 
the  same  reason  —  they   do  not 
have  the  things,  nor  the  know- 
ledge of  how  to  use  the  things 
necessary  for  their  own  better- 
ment.   The    great   majority    of 
those    peoples    live    under    cli- 
matic   conditions     accentuating 
adverse  factors  to  such  an  ex- 
tent they  have   little  health  or 
energy   to   help   themselves.    In 
interior  areas  of  Latin  America 
the  life  span  is  so  short  a  per- 
son with  gray  hair  is   a  rarity 
and  thus   revered.  In  underde- 
veloped   countries    the    experi- 
ence   of    centuries    has    taught 
the  people  their  social  security 
—  or  rather  their  possibihty  of 
existence    beyond    an    age    we 
consider    as     early     maturity  — 
must  be  provided  by  their  child, 
ren.  Birth  rates  are  high  for  this 
reason  and  for  another  reason, 
noted  by  an  Indian  official.  He 
observed,  in  the  rural  areas  of 
India  where  electricity  had  been 
introduced,  shortening  the  long 
nights,   the  birth  rate  had  de- 
creased by  about  50  per  cent. 

Much  has  been  said  about 
the  population  explosion  and 
the  fact  birth  rates  must  de- 
crease if  the  world  food  crisis 
is  to  be  solved.  Granting  this 
truth,  too  few  understand  that 
the  population  explosion  in  the 
underdeveloped  countries  is  not 
due  to  an  increase  in  birth  rates, 
it  is  due  to  an  increase  in  the 
survival  rate.  Greater  percent- 
ages of  each  generation  survi- 
ving to  reproductive  years  com- 
pound the  increase  without  any 
increase  in  birth  rates.  And 
many  predictions  of  populations 
to  come  still  appear  to  be  un- 
derestimated because  of  an  as- 
sumption that  the  high  repro- 
ductive age  for  females  is  20 
to  29,  whereas,  where  the  prob- 

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lem  is  the  greatest,  in  warm 
climes,  the  age  starts  much 
earher. 


Understandably,  one  of  the  first 
efforts   of  developing  nations  is 
to  improve  the  health  of  their 
people.  If   debilitating   diseases 
are  permitted  to  run  rampant, 
people    cannot    strive    for    self- 
improvement.  Over  100  million 
lives  have  been  saved  by  ma- 
laria  control    efforts    since    the 
advent  of  modem  insecticides  in 
the  mid  40's,  including  over  one 
million    in    the    United    States. 
Great    strides   have   been  made 
to    control    other    vector-borne 
diseases.    However,    many    con- 
tinue their  toll   and  make  self- 
help    impossible  in  large   areas 
of  the  world.  In  tropical  Africa, 
the  tsetse  fly  prevents  progress. 
Millions     of     Latin     Americans 
currently  are  weakened  and  will 
die  of  Chagas'  disease,  spread 
by  the  kissing  bug.   The  survi- 
val rate  of  peoples  so  afflicted 
must  better    and    their   popula- 
tions   further    increase,    before 
such  peoples,  who  think  as  we 
would   under   their   circumstan- 
ces, can  be  expected  to  appreci. 
ablv  decrease  their  birth  rates. 


And  the  survival  rate  must 
be  improved  by  increased  pro- 
duction of  food  —  better  nour- 
ishment. 

World  deaths  due  to  starva- 
tion   and    malnutrition    anout   a 
decade  ago  were  in  the  6,000- 
7,000  per  day  range.  Five  years 
ago  the  estimate  was  10,000  per 
day.  Last  year  the  estimate  was 
12,000  per  day,  over  four  million 
per  year.  Diseases  we  consider 
as     minor     are     major     factors 
among   the    malnourished.    For 
example,     an     Egyptian     child 
with  measles  faces  a  possibility 
of  death  50  times  greater  than 
if  he  lived  in  the  United  States. 
It  should  be  obvious  to  all,  the 
mental    and    physical    crippling 
effects  of  malnutrition   substan- 
tially must  be  reduced  before  a 
people  can  adequately  self-pro- 
vide. 

Last  August,  in  addressing 
the  National  Academy  of 
Sciences,  Roger  Revelle,  of  the 
Harvard  Center  for  Population 
Studies,  produced  an  interesting 
list  of  differences  distinguishing 
the  developed  from  the  de- 
veloping nations.  He  placed 
nations  with  a  per  capita  gross 


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to  one  side  and  nations  with  a 
per   capita    gross    national   pro- 
duct in  excess   of  $480  on  the 
other.    He    came   up   with   this 
list  of   differences.  This  listing 
is  helpful  in  understanding  the 
problems     of     those     suffering 
from    inadequate     diet  —  inade- 
quate  in  calories   and  deficient 
in  protein  content. 

1.  In  underdeveloped  countries 
more    than    50    children  out   of 

every  1,000  live  births  die  be- 
fore age  one.  In  developed 
countries  infant  mortaUties  are 
under  50. 

2.  In  developed  countries 
most  young  children  die  during 
the  first  28  days  of  life  (child- 
ren most  of  whom  would  be 
still-births  in  underdeveloped 
countries).  In  the  Underde- 
veloped countries,  more  children 
die  between  the  ages  of  si.\ 
months  and  two  years  than  dur- 
ing the  neonatal  period. 

3.  In  underdeveloped  countries 
the  annual  birth  rate  is  almost 
always  more  than  34  per  1,000 
of  population.  In  developed 
countries,  the  rate  ranges  from 
30  down  to  13. 

4.  In  developed  countries 
people  live  past  middle  age, 
ultimately  dying  primarily  from 
cardiovascular  diseases  and 
neoplasms;  while  in  underde- 
veloped countries  the  principal 
killers  are  childhood  diseases, 
resulting  from  a  combination  of 
infection  and  malnutrition. 

5.  Populations  of  developed 
countries  range  from  40  per 
cent  to  80  per  cent  urban,  while 
underdeveloped  countries  are 
56  per  cent  to  95  per  cent  rural 
( In  the  United  States  less  than 
7  per  cent  of  our  population 
lives  on  farms  and  about  half 
of  tliat  number  have  other  oo 
cupations. ) 

6.  Twenty  per  cent  (20  per 
cent)  to  90  per  cent  of  adults 
in  underdeveloped  countries  can 

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NEW  JERSEY 


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Weather 

After  an  excessively  rainy  sum- 
mer Pluvius  relented  and  this  has 
provided  cranberry  growers  with 
good  conditions  for  the  harvesting 
of  an  excellent  crop.  Only  1.97 
inches  of  rain  occurred  in  Septem- 
ber. This  was  less  than  occurred  on 
two  separate  rainy  days  in  August. 
It  was  almost  two  inches  shy  of  the 
normal  rainfall  for  September 
(3.91)  and  was  considerably  less 
than  the  9.81  inch  deluge  which 
was  recorded  in  the  same  month 
last  year. 

Total  rainfall  for  the  first  nine 
months  of  the  year  stands  at  37.21 
inches,  which  is  3.64  inches  more 
than  normal. 

In  regard  to  temperature  the 
month  was  much  cooler  than  nor- 
mal. The  average  temperature  was 
67.2  degrees  F,  or  about  3.8  de- 


grees lower  than  normal.  Frost  calls  The    deluge    began    September 

were  quite  frequent  with  tempera-  28th   and  through  October  5   we 

tures  below  32  degrees  F  occurring  have    had    8.95    inches    with    the 

on  cranberry  bogs  on  seven  nights,  greatest   coming   October  3,  2.05 

The    lowest    bog   temperature    re-  inches   for   that  day.  The   overall 

ported  for  the  State  in  September  precipitation  for  the  month  of  Sep- 

was  26  degrees  on  several  bogs  on  tember  was  4.60  inches  with  eleven 

two  different  nights.  The  amount  days    of  recordable   precipitation, 

of  frost  damage  sustained  is  negligi-  The  week  of  Sept.  8  through  11th 

t>l6-  had  almost  2  inches  but  otherwise 

Harvest  the    wonderful   sunshine   and  nice 

The  harvesting  operation  is  pro-  weather  prevailed.  The  ground  was 

ceeding  satisfactorily  and  the  vol-  ^f /"^  *^   ^^^  ^^.^^^  J^^^  sat  when 

ume  of  berries  coming  off  the  bogs  '^  ^'''^  '^^'^^^  '^^"^^"g- 

indicates  that  this  crop  may  set  a  ^,                ,  ■  i    r-      .,             ., 

record  for  New  Jersey  in  terms  of  ^^i  I"f "  ^igh  for  the  month 

yield  per  acre.  The  unusually  large  "^^^  i^'V.T^^iJ'^^  ^  ^'f  °^  ^^ 

amount   of  rot  being  encountered  ^J  /^^  ^^th.  The  inean  low  was 

may  possibly  prevent  this.  Size  is  48.17  degrees  and  the  actud  low 

very  good  and  color  is  satisfactory,  "^^^  ^8  the  23rd  with  a  36  degree 

but  not  ideal  ^°w  in  the  bog.  We  have  had  such 

lovely  days  but  not  the  cold  nights 

'             v^j?k^                               '  that  are  needed  to  bring  on  good 

IlllUn  I  n  U  I  Ull  ^^^  growers  are  just  getting  har- 

vest started,  and  the  greatest  num- 
ber are  waiting  until  next  week  to 
The  rains  have  come  finally,  and   ^^S^"    ^^^""^   the    11th    or  such. 
Long  Beach  area  will  have  enough    Cranguyma  was  the   first  to  start 
water  to  get  by  for  harvest.  commercial   harvest   October   3rd, 

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for  good  color  by  then.  The  vine 
growth  is  heavy  and  also  the  crop. 


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neither  read  nor  write.  In  de- 
veloped countries,  the  propor- 
tion of  iUiterates  is  small,  less 
than  20  per  cent. 

7.  Although  the  underdevel- 
oped countries  occupy  a  some- 
what smaller  land  area  com- 
pared to  developed  countries, 
they  contain  twice  as  many 
people.  Thus,  population  den- 
sity is  more  than  twice  that  of 
developed  countries. 

8.  Of  prime  significance  is 
that  the  economic  spread  be- 
tween the  rich  countries  and 
the  poor  countries  has  increased 
greatly  in  the  last  30  years.  For 
example,  from  '35  to  63  the  per 
capita  national  product  of  the 
United  States,  stated  in  con- 
stant prices,  rose  from  about 
$1,300  to  $3,100.  In  the  poorer 
countries  there  has  been  very 
little  increase  in  absolute  terms. 
It  is  obvious  the  technological 
revolution  during  this  period  is 
what  has  enabled  the  developed 
countries  to  self-generate  econ- 
omic growth.  The  technological 
revolution  has  had  only  one 
critically  important  effect  in  the 
poor  countries  —  a  marked  in- 
duction in  death  rates,  still  too 
high. 

We  who  live  in  a  country 
where  no  one  need  be  hungry, 
where  no  one  need  be  malnour- 
ished, have  difficulty  in  under- 
standing what  it  is  to.be  poor 
in  underdeveloped  countries. 
Most  of  us  have  forgotten  the 
weakening  effects  of  malaria 
that  plagued  many  of  our  south- 
ern states  before  World  War  II. 
It  is  difficult  for  us  to  under- 
stand that  we  started  the  tech- 
nological revolution  of  the  last 
30  years  with  reasonably  ade- 
quate storage  and  transporta- 
tion facilities,  relatively  non- 
existent now  in  many  of  the 
underdeveloped  countries.  Since 
the  mid  40  s,  we  have  brought 
into  use  modem  insecticides, 
herbicides  rodenticides  and  other 

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pesticides.   We  have  vastly  in- 
creased   the   use    of   fertilizers. 
We  \iAve  developed  better  varie. 
ties    of    plants,    productive    hy- 
brids   and    strains    more    resist- 
ant to  local  diseases.  We  have 
placed   into    use    more  efficient 
farm   machinery   and   we  have 
vastly  improved  the  processing 
and  distribution  of  food,  there- 
by increasing  the  percentage  of 
harvested    crops    reaching    the 
dinner  plate.  For  example,  the 
plastic  wrap  on  the  head  of  let- 
tuce  delivers  the    entire   head, 
including  the  green  leaves.  Just 
a  few  years  ago  it  was  neces- 
sary for  each  handler  to  shuck 

off  the  outer  damaged  leaves, 
leaving  only  the  small  wliite 
center  for  the  housewife  to  pur- 
chase. In  many  parts  of  the 
world,  slash  and  bum  farming 
is  practiced  today,  without  even 
the  aid  of  the  steel  plow. 

Now  that  the  facets  of  the 
problem  have  been  partially 
sketched,  it  is  fair,  although  I 
beheve  unnecessary,  to  ask  the 
question  'Hew  does  the  world 
food  crisis  affect  us?'  Certainly 
there  is  no  need  to  emphasize 
to  an  American  audience  the 
moral  obligation  to  assist. 

Also,  is  it  not  obvious  that, 
if  you  and  I  lived  in  a  country 
suffering  from  hunger,  malnu- 
trition and  disease  and  could 
see  no  real  possibility  of  better- 
ment for  us,  nor  for  our  child- 
ren —  if  we  were  so  busy  eking 
out  an  existence  and  had  suf- 
fered so  much  from  want  and 
disease  we  had  no  time  and 
little  abiUty  to  learn  —  would 
not  you  and  I  lock  to  anyone 
as  a  "Messiah"  who  promised 
betterment?  Might  we  not  es- 
pouse a  new  social  order  and 
trade  personal  freedom  for 
promised  gain?  I  think  we 
might  well  revolt  against  the 
status  quo  because  we  had  no 
real  comprehension  of  the  enor- 
mous natural  factors  that  thwart 
solution  by  the  best-intended 
governments.  Most  certainly 
once   we  had   traded   our  free- 


dom we  could  be  driven  to 
greater  accomplishment,  just  as 
the  pyramids  of  Egypt  and  the 
temples  of  Rome  were  impelled 
by  the  whip.  And  we  could  be 
driven  to  sack  the  rich  nations 
of  the  world  as  serfs  and  slaves 
have  been  driven  throughout 
history. 

It  is  unfortunate  truth;  the 
great  difficulty  in  solving  the 
world  food  crisis  is  that  intelli- 
gent efforts  to  solve  the  prob- 
lem necessarily  must  increase 
the  survival  rate  and  accentuate 
the  problem  prior  to  ultimate 
solution.  We  cannot  reasonably 
expect  offsetting  reductions  in 
birth  rates  to  precede  better 
health,  adequate  food,  rudi- 
mentary education  and  some 
degree  of  economic  develop- 
ment. We  can  hope;  we  can 
encourage  and  emphasize;  but 
we  must  be  realistic. 

During  the  last  two  decades, 
there  have  been  many  false 
starts  in  attempting  to  solve  the 
problem  and  a  critical  loss  of 
time  has  occurred.  Some  under- 
developed nations,  noting  that 
developed  nations  were  more 
industrialized,  have  erred  in  at- 
tempts to  establish  heavy  in- 
dustries as  a  first  step.  Others, 
urgently  needing  exchange, 
have  stressed  a  cash  export 
crop  to  the  prejudice  of  pro- 
duction of  food  for  their  own 
people.  The  developed  nations 
have  erred  in  supplying  food 
assistance,  without  conditions, 
thus  encouraging  such  prac- 
tices to  continue.  I  do  not  mean 
to  suggest  that  much  good  has 
not  been  accomplished,  for 
there  have  been  notable  im- 
provements in  production  in 
many  underdeveloped  countries; 
but,  in  general,  tliey  have  not 
kept  pace  with  greater  surviv- 
ing populations. 

If  it  were  possible  to  wave 
a  magic  wand,  of  course,  we 
would  wish  all  good  things  at 
once  for  all  people.  American 
farmers  would  wish  it,  if  for 
no    other   reason    than   the  fact 


the  best  fed  people  are  our  best  Next,  we  should  ask  What  Our  percentage  ot  income 
cash  customers  for  agricultural  did  we  do  since  World  War  II  spent  for  food  steadily  de- 
products.  The  better  off  a  man  to  practically  double  our  per  cre^^sed  until  about  a  year  ago. 
is   the  better  he  will  eat.  acre  yields?"   And  we  must  ask  Despite    all    the    hue    and    cry 

It    seems    obvious,    the    first  ourselves  and  learn  how  many  about  rising    food    costs,    farm 

step  in  solving  the  world  food  of  those   things,  or   how  many  prices   do   not  approach^  parity 

problem  and  the  population  ex-  different  things,  can  be  utilized  and  we  enjoy  the  world's  most 

plosion,  which  are  inseperable,  by  hungry  nations  so  that  they  abundant  and^  wholesome   diet 

is  to  better  the  health  of  people,  may  self-provide.  at    the    world's    lowest   income 

Basically,  improvement  of  health  A    self-examination    discloses  cost.  We  spend  between  18  per 

requires    reduction    of    disease  that   modem    insecticides   have  cent    of    spendable   income    on 

and  an  adequate  and  balanced  been  the  key.   By  assuring  the  food.  Even  our  good  Canadian 

diet  so  that  the  individual  will  farmer  a  crop  to  harvest,  they  neighbors  spend  3  per  cent  to 

not   be   handicapped    nor  crip-  have  made  it  possible  for  him  4  per  cent  more  of  their  income 

pled    by     diseases     considered  to    confidently   make   other   in-  on  food   than  we   do,   because 

minor   by    well-fed   people.  vestments,  with  the  knowledge  they   must   import   more   warm 

those  other  investments   would  climate  foods.  We  spend  from 

Shortly  after  World  War  II,  ^^y    jj.  ^^^  y^^^^  economically  8  per  cent  to  25  per  cent  less 

the  World  Health  Organization  f^^j^i^^  therefore,  for  our  farm-  of    our    spendable    income    on 

fostered  the  use  of  modern  m-  ^^^  ^^  invest  in  fertihzers,  better  food  than  do  the  citizens  of  ad- 

secticides    to    bring    several    of  y^rieties    and    more    expensive  vanced   European  nations,   less 

the  major  vectorbome  diseases  ^^^^^  herbicides  and  other  pesti-  than  half  that  spent  by  people 

under    partial    control,   nameJy  ^j^^^     ^^^     better     equipment,  living  behind  the  Iron  Curtain, 

malaria.  As  had  been  noted,  the  ^.^j^  ^^^   assurance  of  regular  and  less  than  one-third  of  that 

success  of  those  efforts  has  in-  harvests,  processors   and  distri-  being   spent  by  peoples   living 

creased    the    need    for    greater  ^^^^j-g  ^^^^  y^^^^  able  to  vastly  in  the  underdeveloped  countries, 

efforts  on  the  agricultural  front,  •        ^yg  ^heir  facilities  and  dis- 

if    those    protected    troni    epi-  ^ribution.  Our  pubHc  has  bene- 

demic    are    to    enjoy    suiticient  ^^^    greatly    throughout    this  Continued  on  Page  22 

good   health   to    self-provide.  r>eTio± 


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The  Coming  Storm 


Continued  from  Page  21 

We  fail  to  appreciate  what 
our  low  food  costs  have  meant 
to  us:  for  example,  the  many 
new  cars,  TVs,  better  clothes, 
and  houses  we  have  been  able 
to  purchase  with  the  money 
saved  that  other  people  must 
spend  for  food. 

Now,  how  many  of  the  things 
we  have  done  to  improve  yields 
can  we  expect  underdeveloped 
nations  to  do?  First,  it  must  be 
remembered,  much  of  the  area 
in  question  is  tropical  or  semi- 
tropical  where  there  is  no  annu- 
al freeze  to  reduce  insects  and 
rodents.  It  has  been  estimated 
for  example,  that  in  India  ro- 
dents destroy  more  food  than 
the  total  imported.  (And  may 
I  comment  on  a  common  mis- 
conception. Rodents  are  not  a 
religious  symbol  in  India,  They 
swarm  there  for  the  same  rea- 
son rodents  outnumber  the 
human  population  here,  especi- 
ally in  our  slum  areas  where 
our  poor  live  lacking  the  means 
and  will  to  take  concerted  ac- 
tion to  control  them  by  full  use 
of  rodenticides  and  sanitary 
measures.)  As  has  been  true 
here,  the  fuller  use  of  modem 
insecticides  is  the  key  to  in- 
creased production  in  underde- 
veloped countries.  Without  their 
use  many  other  investments, 
except  for  rodenticides,  often 
will  not  produce  economic  re- 
sults. 

Frequently,  the  next  step  re- 
quires simultaneous  investments 
and  invention.  In  Monsoon 
areas  pre-emergent  herbicides 
must  be  used  with  fertilizer; 
otherwise,  by  the  time  the  Mon- 
soons  are  over  tc  permit  field 
access,  the  weeds,  responding 
fater,  choke  out  the  crop.  In 
some  instances  new  varieties 
must  be  developed  before  ferti- 
lizers can  be  used,  for  native 
varieties  may  respond  negative- 


ly. Our  varieties  are  often  use- 
less. (The  Rockefeller  Founda- 
tion is  sponsoring  yeoman  work 
to  breed  better  varieties  for 
those  growing  areas  where  re- 
search is  greatly  needed.)  Ag- 
ricultural sciences  must  be  de- 
veloped throughout  the  world. 

Of  course,  there  are  many 
opportunities  for  uncomplicated 
improvements.  Some  native 
varieties  do  respond  to  fertilizer. 
Undoubtedly  many  of  our  com- 
panies will  build  additional 
fertilizer  plants  in  those  areas, 
where  raw  materials  exist. 
Limited  areas  can  be  brought 
under  irrigation. 

Large  areas  can  be  returned 
to  cultivation  by  the  use  of 
herbicides.  Furtick  has  noted, 
for  example,  that  the  English 
blackberry,  brought  into  both 
Chile  and  Australia  for  living 
fences,  ran  rampant,  taking 
over  thousands  of  acres.  In 
Australia,  under  high  economic 
conditions,  the  land  was  re- 
claimed for  agricultural  use  by 
applying  2,  4,  5-T.  In  Chile, 
under  different  economic  con- 
ditions, the  valuable  and  needed 
rich  land  was  not  reclaimed. 

The  problems  to  solve  are 
many.  This  does  not  mean  that 
nothing  can  be  done,  but  indi- 
cates that  great  efforts  can  re- 
sult in  great  accomplishments. 
Consider  the  agricultural  ac- 
complishments achieved  in  '65 
in  South  Viet  Nam  even  under 
war  conditions;  fertilizing  two 
million  acres  produced  an  ad- 
ditional $12  milion  in  crops.  In- 
sect control  on  growing  crops 
saved  $28  miUion.  Rodent  con- 
trol, in  killing  ten  milhon  rats, 
saved  $53  milhon.  New  seeds 
increased  yields  by  20-50  per 
cent  where  used* 

Most  of  us  recognize  the 
need  for  the  developed  nations 
to  provide  stopgap  gifts  and 
credit  sales  of  food  to  hungry 
nations  willing  to  try  to  help 
themselves  —  those  willing  to 
work  for  self-improvement  and 
provide     incentives  —  assurance 


to  their  farmers  that  greater 
efforts  will  bring  greater  re- 
wards. 

We  have  not  been  alone  in 
past  efforts.  Canadian  wheat  aid 
to  India  in  '66  was  one  milhon 
to  our  8.3  million  tons,  with 
one-tenth  of  our  population. 
This  is  not  a  full  comparison 
but  it  serves  to  illustrate  we  are 
not  alone  in  aid  efforts. 

Unflortunately,  pesticides, 

which  have  played  a  prime  role 
in    our    own    increased    yields, 
have  been  a  subject  of  contro- 
versy   here    for   more    than    a 
decade.    Despite    the    fact   per- 
mitted residues   on  foods  have 
resulted  in  no  instance  of  illness 
since  the  advent  of  modem  in- 
secticides in  the  mid  40's,  the 
controversy  reached  a  crescendo 
in  the   early  60's.    As   a  result, 
unnecessary      restriction     were 
placed  on  uses  when  new  an- 
alytical    instmments    made     it 
possible    to   measure   negligible 
residues     previously     undetect- 
able.   These    same  instruments 
made    it    possible    to    measure 
harmless   residues   in  milk.  We 
had    an    artifiicial   zero    residue 
rule  for  milk,  although  the  same 
chemicals     were    permitted    in 
other  foods.  The  net  effect  was 
to    increase   insect    damage    to 
crops   fed   cattle,  especially   al- 
falfa, our  most  important  forage 
crop,    and   root   crops,   such   as 
potatoes,    where    rotated    with 
sugar  beets,  and  the  pulp  of  the 
latter  fed  to  cattle. 

Another  effect  of  the  contro- 
versy is  that  it  created  such 
uncertainties  in  the  market 
place,  expenditiires  of  millions 
to  discover  and  develop  new 
insecticides  could  not  be  haz- 
arded. It  is  over  12  years  since 
a  major  new  one  has  come  to 
market.  Tliis  is  of  extreme  im- 
portance when  we  consider  that 
not  more  than  12  chemicals 
account  for  approximately  90 
per  cent  of  our  agricultural  uses 
of  insecticides. 

To  be  concluded 
in  the  November  issue 


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TWENTV-TWO 


ol3iruAi^y 


F.  Nelson  Blount 


Millionaire  industrialist  F.  Nel- 
son Blount,  49,  owner  of  the  well- 
known  Edaville  Railroad  at  South 
Carver,  Massachusetts,  was  killed 
when  the  single-engine  plane  he 
was  flying  crashed  into  a  tree  in 
Marlboro,  N,  H. 

Blount,  who  lived  in  Dublin, 
N.H.  was  apparently  trying  to  make 
an  emergency  landing  in  a  nearby 
field. 

Born  in  Warren,  R.I.,  Blount 
grew  up  in  the  age  of  the  steam 
locomotive  and  never  outgrew  the 
fascination  he  developed  for  them 
while  a  youth.  When  a  young  man 
of  18,  he  co-authored  a  book 
"Along  the  Iron  Trail"  which  told 
of  his  love  for  steam  railroading. 

This  love  for  steam  engines  was 
put  aside  for  some  years  during 
which  time  Blount  amassed  his  for- 
tune, having  been  involved  with 
the  operation  of  his  family's  sea 
food  business  and  shipbuilding  firm. 
He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  construc- 
tion of  stern  fishing  trawlers. 


In  1955  Blount  bought  Edaville 
Railroad  which  included  six  miles 
track  through  cranberry  bogs  in 
Southeastern  Massachusetts. 


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Five  years  later,  after  having 
moved  to  Dublin,  N.H,,  he  founded 
Steamtown,  where  he  collected 
some  40  vintage  steam  locomotives 
and  purchased  the  Green  Mountain 
Railroad  in  Vermont.  He  often  was 
at  the  throttle  himself. 

He  once  described  himself  as  a 
man  who  shifted  from  a  youthful 
love  of  steam,  to  a  love  of  money 
to  a  love  of  railroads  again,  and  fin- 
ally to  a  love  of  God."  "For  we 
brought  nothing  into  this  world," 
he  repeated  in  a  1965  interview 
"and  it  is  sure  that  we  can  carry 
nothing  out."  This  quotation  from 
the  Bible,  Timothy  6:7. 

This  change  occured,  he  said, 
following  the  near-fatal  auto  acci- 
dent involving  his  wife  several  years 
ago.  He  became  a  lay  preacher 
and  subsequently  gave  his  800-acre 
farm  in  DubHn  for  use  as  a  Christian 
prep  school. 

^^^^m^^^g^^m^^^m      Besides  his  v^fe,  Mrs.  Ruth  Rich- 

mond  Palmer  Blount,  he  leaves  a 
daughter,  Carolyn,  and  four  sons. 
ESSOTANE  

PROPANE  REGIONAL  NEWS  HOTES  -  Continued 

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INSTALLED  -  SERVICED 

A  deep  low  pressure  system 
accompanied     by     strong     winds 

crossed   the    state    on   August    26 

bringing  the  first  widespread  soak- 
ing rain  since  June  to  northern 
and  central  areas.  Amounts  averaged 
2"  across  the  north  and  about  1" 
over  central  portions.  Generally  less 
than  /4"  fell  in  the  southern  tiers  of 
counties.  Scattered  thundershowers 
occurred  in  tlie  southeast  during 
the  afternoon  hours  of  the  29th 
ahead  of  a  cold  front  approaching 
from  the  northwest.  Some  rainfall 
amounts  exceeded  1"  eastward 
from  north  of  Madison  to  Mil- 
waukee's north  side.  The  dry 
Continued  on  Page  24 


INC. 


JOSEPH    BALBONI &  SONS 


62    MAIN    STREET 

KINGSTON,    MASS. 


TWENTY-THREE 


WISCONSIN 

Continued  from  Page 

southwest  corner  of  Wisconsin 
again  was  bypassed  by  this  week's 
rain.  Following  the  cold  front  on 
the  29th  a  large  high  pressure  sys- 
tem with  central  pressure  of  1034 
millibars  (30.53")  settled  across  the 
state.  This  is  probably  the  highest 
pressure  ever  reported  in  the  state 
during  August.  Near  freezing  tem- 
peratures with  frost  on  low  lands 
occurred  on  the  mornings  of  Aug- 
ust 31  and  September  1.  August 
was  an  unusually  cool  month  com- 
ing on  the  heels  of  a  cool  July 
and  near  normal  June.  The  pre- 
vious comparably  cool  August  oc- 
curred in  1915.  Both  June  and 
July  were  very  cool  that  year,  also. 

Sunny  and  dry  weather  pre- 
vailed during  the  first  week  of 
October.  Daytime  temperatures 
were  mild  with  70's  or  low  80's 
the  rule.  Nights  continued  very 
cool  with  minimum  temperatures 
in  the  upper  30's  or  low  40's 
recorded  in  most  areas  by  sunrise. 
No  rain  was  reported  during  the 
week  except  for  a  few  very  light 
and  scattered  showers  in  the  south 
and  east  during  afternoon  and 
evening  hours  on  the  8th. 

A  cold  front  brought  a  fresh 
supply  of  cool  and  dry  air  down 
across  Wisconsin.  Near  freezing 
temperatures  were  recorded 
throughout  the  state  on  the  morn- 
ings of  the  10th  and  11th.  A  few 
li^t  showers  nosed  their  way  into 
the  northwestern  corner  of  the 
state  on  the  11  th  hopefully  signal- 
ling a  change  in  the  weather  pattern 
to  a  milder,  wetter  regime. 


Moist  tropical  air  entered  the 
state  on  the  13th  resulting  in 
cloudy  weather  with  high  night- 
time temperatures  and  fog  on  the 
remaining  days.  Frequent  heavy 
showers  soaked  western  and  central 
counties  on  the  14th  and  15th 
while  areas  east  of  a  line  from 
JanesvUle  to  Green  Bay  got  little 
or  no  rain.  Some  4"  to  6"  totals 
were  reported  in  the  dry  southwest 
and  in  some  northcentral  and 
northwestern  counties. 

The  weather  of  the  third  week 
generally  was  warm  and  humid. 
This  was  one  of  the  few  weeks  this 
summer  with  temperatures  averag- 
ing well  above  normal.  Moist  tropi- 
cal air  covered  the  state  through 
the  20th  when  a  cold  front  dis- 
placed the  moist  warm  air  with 
cooler  and  drier  air  from  Canada. 
Showers  fell  on  several  days  across 
the  state.  The  counties  along  Lake 
Michigan  which  were  bypassed  by 
the  rains  of  the  previous  week 
received  the  heaviest  amounts. 
These  showers  occurred  over  the 
south  and  east  on  the  19th-20th 
and  over  the  north  and  east  on  the 
21st. 

Strong  upper  winds  moved 
weather  systems  rapidly  across  the 
state  resulting  in  alternate  days  of 
cool  weather  with  northerly  winds 
behind  the  cold  fronts  and  mild 
days  with  winds  out  of  the  south 
ahead  of  the  fronts.  Light  frost 
occurred  on  the  morning  of  the 
24th  in  many   areas. 

Temperatures  averaged  much  be- 
low normal  during  the  last  week. 
Light  frost  occurred  in  many  areas 
early   on  the   24th,  but  the  main 


push  of  cold  air  down  across  the 
state  took  place  on  the  26th  and 
27th.  As  the  cloudiness  cleared  off 
gradually  from  the  west,  early 
morning  temperatures  on  the  28th 
and  29th  dropped  to  their  lowest 
levels  so  far  this  season  with  upper 
lO's  and  20's  the  rule  throughout 
the  north  and  west.  Persistent 
cloudiness  over  southeastern  and 
east-central  districts  kept  minima 
in  these  areas  in  the  30's.  Rainfall 
was  restricted  to  the  southeast 
third  of  the  state  with  2"  falls 
around  Racine  and  Kenosha  and 
the  26th  artd  following  days.  Far- 
ther north  and  west  rainfall 
amounts  tapered  off  with  less  than 
1/10"  falling  north  of  a  line  from 
LaCrosse  to  Green  Bay. 


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FOR  CRANBERRIES 

Agricultural  experiments  with 
cranberries  here  and  in  other  Upper 
Peninsula  communities  could  some- 
day make  Michigan  a  leader  in 
cranberry  production. 

"Wisconsin's  cranberry  produc- 
tion is  higher  than  that  of  New 
Jersey  or  Massachusetts,"  says  J.  F. 
Davis,  a  Michigan  State  university 
professor  of  soil  science. 

"And  from  tlie  information 
available  Michigan  can  produce 
yields  equal  to  those  produced  in 
Wisconsin." 

Another  arrow  pointing  toward 
the  cranberry  as  a  possible  Michi- 
gan product  is  an  experimental  pro 
ject  conducted  in  Luce  county  by 
Newberry  businessmen. 

The  county  chamber  of  com- 
merce, with  technical  assistance 
from  the  MSU  Co-operative  exten- 
sion service,  conducted  a  successful 
experiment  to  grow  cranberries  in 
the  Upper  Peninsula  in  quantities 
sufficient  to  make  the  berries  com- 
mercially attractive. 

The  project  has  been  named  a 
regional  winner  in  the  agricultural 
development  of  the  year  contest 
connected  with  Michigan  Week  ac- 
tivities. The  13  regional  winners 
competed  for  the  1967  state  award. 
Judging  took  place  during  the  Mich 
igan  state  fair  Aug.  25  to  Sept.  4. 

Yields  as  much  as  14,600  pounds 
per  acre  were  reported  taken  from 
the  small  test  plots  in  the  experi- 
mental area,  said  Karl  Larson, 
Sault  Ste,  Marie.  He  is  agricultural 
agent  for  Chippewa,  Luce  and  Mack- 
inac counties. 

"Yields  of  8,000  to  10,000 
pounds  per  acre  are  considefed 
sufficient  to  meet  the  standards  of 
commercial  production,"  he  said. 

The  county  reports  that  several 
commercial  firms  already  are  inter- 
ested in  the  experiment,  which  dates 
back  to  1954  when  a  Wisconsin 
cranberry  processing  company  in- 
quired about  bog  lands  in  the  New- 
berry area. 


EXECUTIVES  IN  LONDON 
FOR  WORLD  NEWS- 
MARKETING  CONFERENCE 

Fourteen  top  management  ex- 
ecutives of  the  food  and  dairy 
industries  met  in  London  with  63 
other  vice  presidents  and  presidents 
of  leading  corporations  in  America 
for  an  international  affairs  and  mar- 
keting conference. 

The  fourteen  executives  took 
part  in  a  five-day  seminar,  "Fore- 
cast: 1968/World  in  Perspective," 
held  in  London  by  Group  W  (West- 
inghouse  Broadcasting  Company). 

Group  W  commentators  and 
foreign  correspondents  addressing 
the  conference  included  Rod  Mac- 
Leish,  Chief  Group  W  commentator; 
Erwin  Canham,  Group  W  commen- 
tator and  Editor-in-Chief  of  The 
Christian  Science  Monitor;  Carl 
Rowan,  Group  W  commentator  and 
former  Director  of  the  U.S.LA.; 
Jerry  Landay,  Chief  of  Foreign 
News  Service;  Bernard  Redmont, 
Paris  correspondent;  Ron  Milligan, 
Saigon  correspondent;  and  Sid  Davis, 
White  House  correspondent. 

The  meeting  was  an  outgrowth 
of  Group  W's  policy  of  briefing 
its  executives  on  world  affairs,  ex- 
tended to  include  executives  from 
other  major  companies  in  the  U.S. 
The  conference  will  provide  a  com- 
prehensive fill-in  on  major  issues 
affecting  the  future  course  of  world 
events,  as  well  as  an  introduction  of 
the  American  executives  to  their 
counterparts  in  British  industry, 
advertising  and  marketing. 


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"GOOD  YEAR" 

It  has  been  a  good  year  for 
the  cranberry  business. 

Ocean  Spray's  sales  for  the  year 
ending  August  31,  1967  were  $57 
million.  Compare  that  with  the 
$37.3    milHon    of    1964. 

It  has  been  good  from  a  grow- 
er's point  of  view,  too.  As  a 
marketing  cooperative,  Ocean  Spray 
serves  about  1,000  growers  who 
are  also  shareholders  and  thus  own- 
ers. This  year  the  return  to  them 
was  $15.57  a  barrel  and  $1.00 
in   stock. 

In  1964  the  growers  received 
1 1.46  and  41  cents  in  stock, 

Massachusetts  growers  alone  re- 
ceived more  than  $9  million  from 
Ocean  Spray  last  year. 

General  Manager  Edward  Gels- 
thorpe  who  has  been  heavy  on 
advertising  in  all  media  with  em- 
phasis on  television  feels  "it  has 
paid  off." 


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The  Wisconsin  crop  will  probably 
nin  50,000-75,000  barrels  under 
the  government  estimate  due  to  the 
small  berries  and  poor  growing  sea- 
son in  the  summer  of  1 96  7. 

Everything  was  han'ested  pretty 
much  by  the  end  of  October  al- 
though there  was  a  little  han'esting 
done  early  in  November  and  at 
least  one  or  two  growers  may  have 
a  small  amount  of  acreage  that  will 
not  be  harvested  at  all  because  they 
will  freeze  in  before  they  can  get 
them  out. 

Tip  Worm  Serious 

The  tip  worm  in  Wisconsin  was 
very  serious  this  year  and  I  am  sure 
is  going  to  have  a  detrimental  effect 
on  the  Wisconsin  crop  next  year, 
particularly  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  state.  Normally  the  vines  out- 
grow tip  worm  damage  and  bud  up 
but  this  year  because  of  the  poor 
growing  season  the  vines  were  not 
able  to  recover  from  tip  worm 
damage  and  set  fruit  buds  for  next 
year.  Growers  all  over  the  state  are 
complaining  about  the  tip  worm 
damage,  which  is  the  most  serious 
it  has  been  as  far  back  as  anyone 
can  remember. 

Nova  Scotia  Consultant 

Some  of  the  growers  in  Nova 
Scotia  asked  me  to-  be  a  consultant 
for  them  next  year  and  this  I  plan 
to  do.  The  industry'  is  being  revived 
in  Nova  Scotia,  as  you  know,  and 
some  new  acreage  will  be  planted 
next  year  I  think  the  new  acreage 
will  be  mostly  planted  to  Stevens  or 
Searles  Jumbo,  although  some  acre- 
age will  probably  be  planted  to  Ben 
I. ears.  The  native  varieties  they 
have  are  not  as  good  a  producer  as 
some  of  the  new  varieties,  and  also 
the  old  varieties  have  proven  quite 
susceptible  to  false  blossom,  which 
could  be  quite  a  sericms  disease  in 
Nova  Scotia. 

Continued  on  Page  4 


Mass. 

Crankerry 

Station 

S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORAIMVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Dr.  Karl  Deubert  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Cranberry  Station 
professional  staff  on  October  1.  Karl 
will  assume  the  duties  as  our  Station 
biochemist  replacing  Dr.  Miller  who 
accepted  another  position  during 
the  summer.  Dr.  Deubert  has  been 
working  at  the  Station  for  Dr. 
Zuckerman  during  the  past 
li^  years.  He  is  a  native  of  Germany 
and  also  worked  in  Honduras  before 
coming  here.  Karl  is  an  extremely 
competent  professional  and  we  are 
all  happy  to  have  him  as  a  member 
of  our  team. 

Dr.  Cross  attended  a  symposium 
on  pesticide  persistence  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  from  October  25  to  27. 

Dr.  Devlin  and  the  author  at- 
tended  the  New  England  Agricul- 


tural Chemicals  Conference  in  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire  on  October 

25. 

Dr.  Devlin  and  the  author  have 
published  a  paper  in  Volume  20  of 
Fhysiologia  Plantamm.  The  title  is 
"Influence  oi  Gibberellic  Acid  and 
Gibrel  on  Fruit  Set  and  Yield  in 
Vaccinium  macrocarpon  cv.  Early 
Black."  This  describes  the  effect  of 
sprays  of  pure  gibberellic  acid  and 
a  commercial  preparation  containing 
gibberellic  acid  on  the  set,  yield  and 
size  of  cranberries.  Reprints  of  this 
paper  are  available  on  request. 

Harvest  and  Frost 

The  Massachusetts  cranberry  har- 
vest was  vertually  completed  by  the 
end  of  October.  This  is  about  the 
same  time  as  the  past  three  years, 


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even  thougli  we  were  later  starting 
this  year. 

The  frost  warning  service  was 
terminated  for  the  season  on  Octo- 
ber 31.  We  sent  out  20  general  frost 
warnings  during  the  fall,  with  nearly 
all  occurring  in  October.  This  in- 
cludes both  afternoon  and  evening 
warnings  and  compares  with  20 
sent  out  last  fall  and  26  in  the  fall 
of  1965.  Frost  losses  were  very 
small  this  year,  the  cold  nights 
were  September  25  with  tempera- 
tures as  low  as  23°  and  October  7 
with  temperatures  down  to  21°. 

Once  again  we  would  like  to 
express  our  appreciation  to  George 
Rounsville  for  his  very  fine  work 
in  calculating  and  formulating  the 
frost  warnings.  We  are  also  indebted 
to  the  U.  S.  Weather  Bureau,  our 
cooperative  weather  observers,  the 
telephone  distributors,  and  five  radio 
stations  and  the  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Growers  Association. 

Weather 

The  temperature  for  the  month 
of  October  was  slightly  more  than 
one   degree   a   day   below  normal. 

Continued  on  Page  4 


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Continued  from  Page  3 

There  were  no  extended  warm  or 
cold  periods.  The  warm  periods 
were  from  the  2nd  through  5th, 
9th,  10th  and  17th.  Cold  periods 
were  from  the  6th  through  8th, 
12th  through  14th,  22nd  througli 
24th  and  29th  through  31st.  Maxi- 
mum temperature  was  81  degrees 
on  the  5th  and  the  minimum  29 
degrees  on  the  30th.  Rainfall  totalled 

3.23  inches  or  about  Va  inch  below 
average.  The  major  storms  came  on 
the  10th,  26th  and  28th.  We  are  now 
4  inches  above  average  for  the  year 
to  date  and  about  12H  inches  ahead 
of  1966  for  the  same  period. 


GOLDY  WRITES 

Continued  from  Page  2 

Sanding  to  be  done  in  Wisconsin 

Plans  are  for  considerable  sand- 
ing this  winter  and  there  will  prob- 
ably be  more  acreage  sanded  this 
year  than  last  unless  we  get  very 
heavy  snows.  Last  year  there  was 
very  little  sanding  done  because  of 
the  heavy  snow,  but  growers  are 
planning  now  to  carry  out  a  very 
extensive  sanding  program  in  the 
state  and  to  start  very  shortly,  and 
just  as  soon  as  the  ice  is  heavy 
anough  to  carry  the  trucks. 

90%  Sprinklers  by  '68 

In  talking  to  the  people  who 
supply  sprinkling  systems  to  the 
growers  in  Wisconsin,  they  estimate 
that  approximately  90%  of  the 
Wisconsin  cranberry  acreage  will  be 
under  sprinkling  systems  by  next 
year.  Growers  are  well  sold  on  the 
sprinkling  systems,  not  only  fur 
frost  protection,  but  believe  it  in- 
creases the  yield  per  acre  by  about 
25  barrels,  and  it  is  very  helpful  in 
reducing  the  growth  of  grass  and 
weeds,  particularly  wire  grass. 


CRANBERRY  JUICE 
TESTED  TO  REDUCE 
URINARY  ODORS 

By  Charles  R.  DuGan 
and  Paul  S.  Cardaciotto 

One  of  the  most  disagreeable 
factors  in  working  with  geriatric 
patients,  particularly  those  who  are 
incontinent,  is  urinary  odor  which 
frequently  permeates  the  entire  en- 
vironment where  patients  are  housed. 
Through  the  years,  many  methods 
have  been  employed  in  an  effort 
to  reduce  or  destroy  urinary  odors. 
The  methods  were  frequently  ex- 
pensive and  inefficient,  and  in  many 
instances  did  not  diminish  odor  to 
a  suitable  level  to  make  working 
conditions  enjoyable.  Some  of  the 
methods  employed  have  been:  spray- 
ing or  atomizing  a  deodorizing  ma- 
terial into  the  air  on  a  scheduled 
basis;  mopping  the  floors  with  de- 
odorizing materials;  placing  open 
containers  of  deodorizers  about  the 
area;  using  electrical  deodorizing 
units.  These  methods  have  been 
partly  successful. 

Some  months  ago,  one  of  the 
authors  noted  a  report  in  one  of 
the  medical  journals  stating  that 
cranberry  juice  was  used  in  de- 
odorizing wards  having  incontinent 
patients.  On  inquiry,  it  was  found 
that  the  report  concerned  small 
nursing  homes.  The  study  involved 
such  a  small  number  of  people  that 
the  results  were  inconclusive.  This 
stimulated  interest  in  a  larger  study 
sample. 

The  program  carried  out  by  the 
authors  included  a  larger  number  of 
patients,  male  and  female,  and  as- 
sured a  better  study  sample.  In  the 
two  geriatric  wards  used  in  this 
program  there  were  110  male  pa- 
tients in  one  and  110  female  pa- 
tients in  the  other.  Both  wards  were 
alike  in  size,  ventilation,  light,  and 
other  facilities.  Most  of  the  patients, 
but  not  all,  were  incontinent.  All 
cleaning  and  sanitizing  materials 
which  helped  to  deodorize  the  area 
were  removed  for  one  week  prior 
to  commencing  the  project. 


During  the  study  project,  an  all- 
purpose  detergent  with  low  odor 
and  no  deodorizing  potential  was 
used,  and  during  this  period,  odor 
levels  were  obtained  chemically  as 
well  as  subjectively  noted  by  per- 
sonnel. 

The  values  presented  by  chemical 
determinations  of  urine  and  air  re- 
flect little  change  after  the  adminis- 
tration of  cranberry  juice  was  begun. 
The  observations  and  subjective  im- 
pressions of  ward  personnel  were 
more  significant. 

After  the  first  week  of  cranberry 
juice,  personnel  noted  that  the  odors 
were  less  evident  in  the  wards.  As 
the  dose  was  increased,  the  odors 
became  markedly  reduced.  It  was 
also  reported  by  the  ward  personnel 
that  the  patients  who  had  com- 
plained of  a  burning  sensation  on 
urination  no  longer  complained  of 
discomfort.  The  voiding  seemed  to 
be  more  frequent.  Those  incontinent 
patients  who  had  had  a  strong  odor 
about  them  seemingly  had  less  odor 
when  receiving  cranberry  juice  regu- 
larly. The  urine  odor  on  clothing 
and  bed  linen  was  reduced  markedly. 

The  female  ward  seemed  to  de- 
rive more  benefit  from  cranberry 
juice  than  the  male  ward  by  the 
decreased  odor. 

During  the  administration  of  the 
cranberry  juice  no  untoward  reac- 
tions were  noted  in  any  of  the 
patients,  and  all  accepted  the  cran- 
berry juice  readily  except  one  male 
patient  who  refused  it. 

Conclusions: 

Chemical  measurements  on  the 
air  sampled  from  the  wards  failed 
to  reveal  significant  change  after 
the  patients  received  the  cranberry 
juice.  However,  the  cranberry  juice 
seemed  effective  in  the  reduction  of 
ammoniacai  urinary  odors. 

Although  an  optimum  dose  was 
not  determined,  it  appears  that 
large  doses  of  cranberry  juice  are 
not  necessary  to  effect  the  decrease 

in  urinary  odor. 


SSUE   OF  NOVEMBER,    1967    /    VOL.    32   —   NO.    7 


1967  Harvest 


The  following  is  a  preliminary  harvest  account 
based  on  the  facts  and  figures  we  have  presently 
available: 

Massachusetts - 

After  a  late  start,  the  harvest  was  completed 
by  the  end  of  October.  This  was  about  the  same 
time  as  last  year  and  yield  appears  to  be  close 
to   1966. 

New  Jersey- 

On  November  3rd,  the  harvest  was  about  in 
with  only  a  few  growers  needing  a  week  or  so 
more.  The  estimate  of  157,000  seems  to  be  holding 
true  and  some  growers  picked  well  over  100  barrels 
an  acre.  Color  was  fair  and  the  size  was  generally 
larger  than  normal. 


Washington- 

The  Washington  harvest  proceeded  normally,  but 
the  crop  this  year  was  not  as  high  as  last  year's.  The 
warm  weather  and  lack  of  water  hurt  the  size  of  the 
berries,  and  it  was  noted  that  the  color  was  off 
in  many  are^s. 


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Editor 
BERNARD  S.  MARVIN 

Publisher 
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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle  River,   Wisconsin 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New^  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Station 

New^  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


Wisconsin 

As   the   harvest   neared   the  end,  some  growers  Oregon— 
are  finding  their  crops  below  the  estimate  of  515,000  The  prediction  of  57,000  barrels  in  Oregon  was 

barrels.  The  berries  harvested  near  the  end  had  better  felt  by  many  growers  to  be  very  close  to  the  final 

color  than  those  picked  earlier.  Although  the  cold  harvest   figures.   The   growth   and   color   has   been 

weather  in  September  cut  down  the  berry  size,  the  good,  and  the  1967  harvest  should  be  the  largest 

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Water  pickers  at  Potter  and  Sons  greatly  shorten  average 
picking  time. 

The  loaded  boats  are  dumped  into  trucks  and  are  hauled 
to  the  main  receiving  plant. 


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Over  the  years,  harvest  timd 
at  Potter  and  Sons  bogs  in  Wis- 
consin, has  changed  considerably. 
Only  a  decade  ago,  the  bogs  were 
hand  raked  and  several  hundred 
r^eople  from  the  area  gathered 
or  this  most  important  time  of 
the  year. 

Today,  however,  one  person 
is  able  to  do  the  work  of  many 
md  a  look  at  the  following 
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CRANBERRY 
?OLHNATtON 

by  PHILIP  E.  MARUCCI 

Cranberry  and   Blueberry  Research   Laboratory 

Rutgers   University 

New  Lisbon,   N.  J. 


THE  cranberry  industry  of  the  United 
States  is  now  about  150  years  old. 
Growing  cranberries,  one  of  the  very 
few  native  American  fruits  now  in 
commerce,  is  an  important  economic 
enterprise  in  the  states  of  Massachu- 
setts, Wisconsin,  New  Jersey,  Washing- 
ton and  Oregon.  A  total  of  about 
21,000  acres  are  devoted  to  this  crop 
which  had  a  value  in  1966  of  about  26 
million  dollars  in  the  unprocessed  form. 
Despite  rapid  improvements  recently 
made  in  culture  methods  and  in  yields 
per  acre,  the  subject  of  pollination  of 
cranberries  has  received  very  little  study. 
Dr.  Chester  Cross,  director  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Cranberry  Experiment  Sta- 
tion, referring  to  the  prevalent  opinions 
regarding  the  occasional  failure  of  cran- 
berry flowers  to  set  good  crops,  presents 
a  wide  divergence  of  reasons,  including 
a   belief   in   wind   pollination    ( 1 ) . 

The  importance  of  the  role  of  the 
honey  bee  in  cranberry  pollination  has 
only  been  proven  relatively  recently,  by 
Farrar  and  Bain  in  1947  (2).  Before 
this  there  had  been  two  contrasting 
views  regarding  the  mode  of  cranberry 
pollination.  Franklin  recognized  the 
value  of  bees  as  necessary  agents  in 
accomplishing  pollination  but,  at  that 
time  (1940),  he  considered  that  the 
population  of  wild  bees  in  Massachu- 
setts bog  areas  was  sufficient  to  pro- 
mote adequate  set  (3).  Roberts  and 
Struckmeyer  (4),  working  in  Wiscon- 
sin in  1941,  gave  the  opinion  that  pol- 
lination was  apparently  brought  about 
by  wind  borne  pollen  reaching  the  pis- 
til. They  stated  that  honey  bees  did 
not  touch  the  pistil  in  visiting  the  cran- 
berry flowers  but  that  "their  jarring 
of  the  blossoms  during  their  visits  would 
appear  to  be  of  prime  importance  in 
any  aid  to  pollination  which  they  ren- 
der." Farrar  and  Bain  (2)  showed  very 
clearly  that  honey  bees  do  work  blos- 
soms in  such  a  manner  as  to  achieve 
pollination  and  that  the  lack  of  pol- 
linating insects  reduced  yields  to  negli- 
gible amounts  (see  table  1). 

Working  in  New  Jersey  in  1948  and 
1949  the  late  Professor  Robert  S.  Fil- 
mer  presented  data,  shown  in  table  1, 


8 


to  show  that  wind  and  the  mechanical 
jarring  of  blossoms  were  ineffective  in 
promoting  pollination  of  cranberries 
(5).  He  also  found  that  the  then  new 
organic  fungicides,  fermate  and  zerlate, 
which  are  necessarily  applied  during 
full  bloom,  did  not  interfere  with  pol- 
lination, while  DDT  was  definitely  de- 
leterious. He  obtained  an  excellent  set 
of  cranberries  by  concentrating  honey 
bees  at  the  rate  of  one  hive  per  2.5 
acres,  which  was  at  the  time  consider- 
ably more  than  was  generally  used 
commercially.  He  also  noted  that  the 
wild  bee  population  was  inadequate 
and  that  the  set  of  berries  decreased 
as  the  distance  from  the  hives  in- 
creased. 

In  1953,  Filmer  showed  that  the 
yield  of  cranberries  could  be  increased 
from  12  to  34  barrels  per  acre  by  in- 
creasing the  population  of  honey  bees 
from  1  hive  per  2  acres  to  /  hive  per 
acre  (6).  His  study  of  a  large  mass 
of  data  indicated  that  high  yields  of 
cranberries  were  associated  with  high 
numbers  of  blossoming  uprights  per 
unit  area.  The  wide  range  of  blossom- 
ing uprights  and  blossoms  per  square 
foot  which  he  found  on  individual  bogs, 
and  from  bog  to  bog  on  the  same  prop- 
erty, led  him  to  believe  that  cultural 
and  environmental  factors  which  af- 
fected blossom  concentration  were  very 
important  in  cranberry  production. 

Filmer,  Marucci  and  Moulter  (7) 
conducted  cage  tests  on  an  abandoned 
unsprayed  cranberry  bog  where  thrips 
were  believed  to  be  inordinately  abun- 
dant in  the  blossoms.  Although  the 
cages  could  not  exclude  thrips,  the  set 
of  berries  in  the  caged  areas  was  only 
1  per  cent.  These  berries  were  all  tiny 
and  had  a  seed  content  which  averaged 
only  2.71.  Pollination  of  vines  just  out- 
side the  cage  was  much  better  and  ber- 
ries were  much  larger. 

The  relationship  of  the  size  of  cran- 
berries to  the  seed  content  was  studied 
in  New  Jersey  in  1956  and  1957  by 
Filmer,  Marucci  and  Moulter  (7).  They 
found  a  direct  relationship  between  size 
and  seed  count  in  the  Champion,  Howe, 
Early  Black  and  Jersey  varieties.  Berries 


having  only  one  of  the  four  carpels 
with  seeds  were  almost  always  small. 
Large  berries  had  maximum  seed  counts 
ranging  from  32  per  berry  in  Championi 
to  20  in  Howes.  The  average  seed  count 
was  12  for  Early  Blacks,  Howes  and 
Jerseys  and  17  for  Champion.  Only 
one  berry  in  8000  examined  contained 
no  seeds.  Roberts  and  Struckmeyer 
found  that  in  Wisconsin  seedless  cran- 
berries were  "not  uncommon"   (4). 

In  1956  and  1957  Marucci  and  Fil- 
mer (8)  studied  cranberry  blossom 
blast.  Cranberry  blossoms  which  fail 
to  set  fruit,  unlike  those  of  deciduous 
fruits  such  as  apple  or  peach,  do  not 
drop  but  dry  up  and  remain  affixed 
to  the  stem.  These  are  called  "blasts" 
and  the  fact  that  they  almost  always 
greatly  outnumber  berries  is  a  condi- 
tion which  can  understandably  be  of 
concern  to  growers.  It  was  concluded 
that  blasted  blossoms  are  merely  the  re- 
sult of  natural  attrition  or  overproduc- 
tion of  blossoms.  This  was  evidenced 
by    the    fact    that    uprights    which    had 


A  cronberry  upright,  or  the  "fruiting  spur" 
of  the  cranberry.  Usually  one  to  six  blos- 
soms are  produced  per  upright  with  an  aver- 
age'of  about  three  in  New  Jersey.  The  aver- 
age number  of  berries  borne  on  an  upright 
in  this  State  is  about  1.25.  Note  the  shape 
of  the  individual  cranberry  flower.  In  sil- 
houette it  resembles  the  neck  and  head  of  | 
a  crane;  hence  the  name  "craneberry," 
which  became  contracted  to  cranberry.  Photo 
by  J.  H.  Lovell. 


smaller  numbers  of  blossoms  had  a 
lower  blasting  rate  (higher  percentage 
set)  than  uprights  with  larger  numbers 
of  blossoms.  Artificial  pruning  of  blos- 
soms from  uprights  resulted  in  a  higher 
percentage  set  of  the  remaining  blos- 
soms. Blossoming  and  fruiting  data 
showed  that  well-managed  bogs  had 
more  blossoms  and  more  berries  per 
square  foot  but  they  did  not  have  more 
berries  per  blossoming  upright  and  they 
actually  had  more  blossom  blast.  High 
bee  concentrates  can  reduce  blast  by 
enabling  the  cranberry  plant  to  produce 
at  its  maximum  potential  but,  even  at 
this  level,  it  is  only  rarely  possible  to 
reduce  blasting  of  blossoms  much  below 
50  percent  in  New  Jersey.  In  regard 
to  the  percentage  of  blossoms  which 
form  berries  in  Massachusetts,  Berg- 
man (9)  states  that  "records  of  many 
years  show  that  seldom  do  more  than 
40  percent  of  the  blossoms  set  fruit." 

Unusually  high  percentage  sets  (low 
blast  rates)  are  sometimes  observed  in 
New  Jersey  in  areas  on  bogs  where 
vines  of  several  varieties  are  growing 
intermingled.  Milton  Strieker  (10),  a 
prominent  New  Jersey  beekeeper,  spec- 
ulated in  1943  on  the  advantages  of 
cross  pollination  when  he  noticed  an 
unusually  high  percentage  set  of  fruit 
(73  percent)  in  vines  containing  a  mix- 
ture of  several  "native  Jersey"  vari- 
eties. In  preliminary  tests,  Marucci  and 
Filmer  presented  data  which  showed 
that  higher  percentage  sets,  larger  ber- 
ries and  higher  seed  counts  were  bene- 
fits which  resulted  from  cross-pollina- 
tion. 

Cranberry  growers  in  New  Jersey  are 
now  using  honey  bees  more  intensively 
than  ever  before.  It  is  fairly  well  ac- 
knowledged that  this  has  helped  to 
bring  about  the  recent  upsurge  in  yields 
per  acre  in  this  state.  There  is  a  good 
relationship  between  beekeepers  and 
growers  but  problems  peculiar  to  cran- 


berries may  make  the  beekeeper  reluc- 
tant to  place  his  bees  on  bogs.  The 
most  serious  is  the  unusually  high  in- 
cidence of  European  foulbrood  disease 
which  occurs  in  bees  set  out  on  the  New 
Jersey  cranberry  area.  Another  deter- 
rent is  the  inability  of  hives  to  produce 
much  honey  on  cranberry  bogs  in  this 
state;  in  many  cases  colonies  deteriorate 
in  size  and  morale  during  their  stay 
in   these  areas. 

Cranberry  blossoms  are  apparently 
poor  producers  of  nectar  and  pollen  and 
honey  bees  are  not  eager  to  work  them. 
Even  strong  hives  will  not  do  much 
foraging  on  bogs  until  blossoming  has 
been  under  way  for  about  7  to  10  days. 
Competitive  blossoms  during  cranberry 
blossoming  time  may  be  a  factor.  The 
main  plants  blossoming  in  the  environ- 
ment of  New  Jersey  bogs  during  the 
important  pollination  season  of  cran- 
berries are  wild  azalea  {Azalea  viscosa), 
privet  Andromeda  [Xolisma  ligustrina), 
stagger  bush  {Pieris  mariana),  leuco- 
thoe  [Leucothoe  racemosa) ,  blue  huck- 
leberry {Gaylussacia  frondosa),  inkberry 
{Ilex  glabra)  and  various  water  lilies. 
However,  most  of  these  plants  are  near 
the  end  of  their  flowering  periods  at 
the  time  that  cranberries  begin  to  blos- 
som. Generally  more  activity  of  honey 
bees  can  be  observed  along  ditch  banks, 
especially  in  seasons  of  drought.  In 
such  years  the  activity  of  bees  on  cran- 
berries after  a  rain  is  appreciably  im- 
proved. Some  bogs  are  inherently  more 
attractive  to  honey  bees  than  others 
and  this  may  be  related  with  soil  mois- 
ture. 

Two  characteristics  of  the  cranberry 
flower  fortunately  balance  out  its  un- 
attractiveness  to  bees  and  aid  in  fruit 
setting.  The  cranberry  pollen  grain  is 
divided  into  four  cells  (tetrad)  and  is 
capable  of  producing  four  functional 
germ  tubes.  This  fact,  discovered  by 
Roberts    and    Struckmeyer    (4),    makes 


Table  I.     Simimary  of  Data  Showing  Lack  of  Fruit  Set  in  the  Absence  of  Bees 


%  Blossoms 

Berries  per 

Berries  per 

Set 

Square  Foot 

Upright 

Farrar  and  Bain  ( 2 )  Wisconsin  data 

Bee  Cage 

— 

171 

— 

Gage  with  no  bees 

— 

10 

— 

Open  pollination 

— 

124 

^- 

Filmer  (5)  New  Jersey  data 

Cage  with  no  bees 

Blossoms  jarred 

7.1 

15 

0.26 

Blossoms  not  jarred 

5.8 

14 

0.21 

Open  pollination 

52.0 

116 

2.00 

Filmer,  Marucci  and  Moulter  (un- 

published) New  Jersey  data 

Bee  Cage 

34.4 

99 

1.10 

Cage  with  no  bees 

1.7 

5 

0.06 

Open  Pollination 

35.8 

106 

1.09 

it  possible  to  achieve  good  pollination 
with  relatively  fewer  transfers  of  pollen 
by  the  pollinators.  A  second  fortunate 
circumstance  is  the  long  flowering  per- 
iod which  may  extend  over  4  weeks, 
which  insures  that  sufficient  blossoms 
will  be  pollinated  even  though  the  bees 
may  not  be  very  active  during  the  first 
week  of  flowering.  Marucci  (unpub- 
lished data)  manipulated  small  cages 
on  a  cranberry  bog  of  the  Howe  va- 
riety to  exclude  bees  in  order  to  de- 
termine the  effect  of  various  exclusion 
periods  on  fruit  set.  He  found  that  the 
percentage  of  blossoms  forming  fruit 
was  not  reduced  when  bees  were  ex- 
cluded for  one  or  two  weeks.  Surpris- 
ingly, even  a  3-week  exclusion  period 
was  not  harmful  if  an  open  period  of 
1  week  was  allowed  during  the  peak 
of  bloom,  but  a  1-week  open  period  at 
the  beginning  of  blossoming  greatly  re- 
duced  set. 

The  cranberry  industry  is  heartened 
by  the  recent  initiation  of  research  by 
U.  S.  D.  A.  apiculturists  on  the  prob- 
lems associated  with  bees  on  cranberry 
bogs.  Already  Dr.  A.  Michaels  and  his 
associates  have  obtained  interesting  and 
promising  results  on  the  nutritional  as- 
pects of  European  foulbrood  disease  and 
also  on  the  development  of  a  strain  of 
cranberry  pollen-collecting  bee.  • 

References 

( 1 )  Cross,  C.  E.  Cranberry  flowers 
and  pollination,  in  Mass.  Agr.  Exp. 
Sta.  Pub.  No.  435.    1966. 

(2)  Farrar,  C.  L.  and  Henry  F.  Bain. 
Honey  bees  as  pollinators  of  cranber- 
ries.   Cranberries  11(9).    Jan.  1947. 

(3)  Franklin,  Henry  J.  Cranberry 
growing  in  Massachusetts.  Mass.  Agr. 
Exp.   Sta.  Bull.  371.    1940. 

(4)  Roberts,  R.  H.  and  B.  E.  Struck- 
meyer. Growth  and  fruiting  of  the  cran- 
berry. Proc.  Amer.  Soc.  Hort.  Sci.  40. 
1942. 

(5)  Filmer,  Robert  S.  Cranberry 
pollination  studies.  Proc.  Amer.  Cran- 
berry  Growers'   Assoc.    Aug.   25,    1949. 

(6)  Filmer,  Robert  S.  Cranberry 
pollination  studies.  Proc.  Amer.  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Assoc.    Aug.   20,   1953. 

(7)  Filmer,  Robert  S.,  P.  E.  Maruc- 
ci and  H.  J.  Moulter.  Seed  counts  and 
size  of  cranberries.  Proc.  Axner.  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Assoc. 

(8)  Marucci,  P.  E.  and  R.  S.  FUmer. 
Cranberry  blossom  blast  is  not  caused 
by  a  disease.  New  Jersey  Agr.  Nov.- 
Dec,   1957. 

(9)  Bergman,  H.  F.  Flowering  and 
friiiting  characteristics  of  the  cranberry 
in  New  Jersey.  Proc.  Amer.  Cranberry 
Growers'  Assoc.    Feb.  4,  1954. 

(10)  Strieker,  Milton  H.  Bees  and 
pollinating  cranberries.  Proc.  Amer. 
Growers'  Assoc.    Jan.  26,  1946. 


Reprinted  from  June,  1967,  American  Bee  Journal 
Vol.  107  (6):  212-213 


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berry grower  and  a  surveyor.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Vincentown 
Masonic  Lodge,  the  Consistory  of 
Collingswood;  the  Crescent  Temple 
Shrine  of  Trenton,  the  Mt.  Holly 
Elks  Lodge  and  the  Trinity  Episco- 
pal Church  of  Vincentown. 

Surviving  are  his  wife,  Stella 
Pitman  Haines;  a  son.  Dr.  Charles 
Edgar  Haines,  Jr.  of  Nashville,  Tenn; 
a  daughter,  Mrs.  Alfred  Kay  Hobbs 
of  Lunenburg,  Mass;  five  grand- 
children and  two  great  grandchildren. 


MRS.  C.  A.  JASPERSON  Mrs.  Jaspcrson  was  the  last  sur- 

viving charter  member  of  Chapter 
Mrs.  Clarence  A.  Jasperson,  89,  O,  PEO  Sisterhood,  in  which  she 
391  Wisconsin  River  Dr.,  i\)rt  Ed-  held  membership  for  43  years.  She 
wards,  Wisconsin,  died  at  5:50  a.m.  was  also  a  charter  member  of  the 
recently  at  Riverview  Hospital  where  Study  and  Recreation  Club  of  Port 
she  had  been  a  patient  for  two  days.  Edwards. 
Cause  of  death  was  a  stroke. 


Funeral  services  were  held  in  the 
Community  Methodist  Church,  Port 
Edwards,  the  Rev.  David  Spear  of- 
ficiating, with  burial  at  Forest  Hill 
Cemetery. 

Mrs.  Jasperson,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Harriet  W.  Whittlesey, 
was  the  daughter  of  pioneers  in 
the  cranberry  industry.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sherman  Whittlesey  who  came 
here  in  1870  and  established  the 
Whittlesey  Marsh.  She  was  born  in 
Wisconsin  Rapids  and  was  married 
at  Cranmoor  to  Clarence  A.  Jasper- 
son on  June  14,  1905. 

Her  husband,  a  long-time  Ne- 
koosa-Edwards  Paper  Co.  executive, 
died  May  4,  1962.  Also  preceding 
her  in  death  were  two  brothers, 
Charles  and  Harry  Whittlesey. 

Surviving  are  a  son,  Newell  Jas- 
pcrson, Rt.  3;  three  grandchildren; 
a  niece,  Virginia  Whittlesey,  Wau- 
paca, and  a  nephew,  John  Whittle- 
sey, Fargo,  N.  D. 


WILHO  ROSS 

Wilho  Ross,  56,  former  manager 
of  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.  at 
Markham,  Washington,  passed  away 
Friday,  November  3,  1967  in  Aber- 
deen, Washington  following  an  ex- 
tended illness. 

He  was  born  in  Aberdeen  Sep- 
tember 25,  1911,  and  retired  from 
the  cranberry  business  a  few  years 
ago. 

Funeral  services  were  held  Mon- 
day, November  6. 


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A  Green  Tree  Is  A  Safer  Tree 

Keep  the  tree  green  for  a  much  longer  period. 
Eliminate  daily  sweep-ups  of  needles  on  the  rug. 
Use  this  simple  household  formula  to  prolong  the 
life  of  the  tree  or  holiday  evergreens. 


Household  Formula 

for 

Keeping  Christmas  Trees  Green 

1/4  cup  Green  Garde  micronized  iron 

1  gallon  hot  water 

2  cups  light  Karo  com  syrup 
4  teaspoons  Clorox  or  other 

chlorinated  household  bleach 

Mix  micronized  iron  into  hot  water.   Stir  in  com  syrup  and  bleach.  The  Green  Garde 
does  not  completely  dissolve.  It  makes  a  bluish,  green  mixture  with  particles  which 
settle  to  the  bottom.   Saw  about  one  inch  from  bottom  of  tree  trunk  to  remove  any 
clotted  resins  and  to  level  the  base.  Pound  or  smash  the  base  of  the  trunk  with  a 
hammer  or  axe  to  crush  the  fibers.   Stand  the  tree  in  a  tree  holder  and  pour  in  the 
solution.  Add  warm  tap  water  daily,  as  needed,  to  keep  it  filled. 

NOTE;  Green  Garde  with  micronized  iron,  a  natural  horticultural  iron,  is  available 
at  florists,  garden  supply  and  hardware  stores.  Get  Karo  syrup  and  a  chlori- 
nated bleach  at  your  favorite  grocery  store  or  supermarket. 


15 


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CRANBERRY  HARVEST  PIE 

2  packages  pie  crust  mix 
1  '/2  cups  sugar 

Vi  cup  cornstarch 

3  tablespoons  water 

4  cups  (1  pound)  fresh  cranberries, 
rinsed  and  drained 

1  package  (12  ounces)  frozen-in 
syrup  blueberries,  thawed 

2  tablespoons  butter  or  margarine 

Prepare  pastry  according  to  pack- 
age directions;  set  aside  '4  for  dec- 
oration. Use  Vi  of  the  remaining 
pastry  to  line  the  bottom  and  sides 
of  an  ungrcased  10-inch  pie  pan. 
Combine  remaining  ingredients  ex- 
cept butter;  pour  mixture  into  lined 
pic  pan.  Dot  with  butter.  Roll  out 
other  /^  of  pastry  and  place  over 
filling,  crimping  edges  to  seal  and 
cutting  a  few  slits  in  top  to  allow 
steam  to  escape.  Roll  out  pastry 
reserved  for  decoration  and  cut  out 
leaves  of  pastry.  Brush  leaves  with 
water  and  put  them  on  top  of  the 
pie.  Bake  in  hot  oven  (425*'  F.) 
45  to  50  minutes  or  until  crust  is 
richly  browned.  Cool  and  cut  into 
wedges. 


AWORD  ABOUT  PIE 

Pic,  that  many-splendored  de- 
light, has  been  described  as  a  dish 
of  fish,  fowl,  meat  or  fruit  with  a 
crust  for  a  cover.  For  centuries  it 
has  been  pleasing  the  palate  of  man 
as  a  savory  main  dinner  course  a 
sweet  dessert  and  even  a  filling 
item  on  the  hearty  breakfasts  of 
Colonial  days. 

When  the  English  ladies  came  to 
this  country,  they  brought  with 
them  their  favorite  recipes  for  meat 
pies  and  sweet  tarts.  However,  pie 
with  a  top  and  bottom  crust  as  we 
know  it  today,  was  strictly  a  North- 
American  innovation,  created  by 
thrifty  housewives  to  save  on  the 
filling. 

Our  appetite  for  pic  was  so  ex- 
pansive by  the  19th  century  that 
some  food  experts  became  con- 
cerned! Mm  Parloa's  Kitchen  Com- 
panion published  in  1887  had  these 
words  of  caution  concerning  pie: 
"Unfortunately,  some  housekeepers 
-and  their  families  -would  feel  lost 
if  a  day  passed  without  the  usual 
quantity  of  pie.  Wiser  housekeepers 
have  pies  only  occasionally,  and 
when  the  fruits  and  vegetables  of 
which  they  are  made  are  at  their 
best." 

But  what  kind  of  pie?  How  about 
cranberry  pie  with  its  filling  of  the 
season's  tangy,  ruby  red  berries. 
With  freshly  haiA'CSted  cranberries 
in  plentiful  supply  now,  it's  a  choice 
that's  sure  to  please.  If  you  want  to 
be  technical,  you  could  say  that 
cranberry  pic  is  more  traditional 
even  than  that  perennial  favorite, 
.apple  pie,  for  cranberries  were  one 
of  the  first  native  fruits  discovered 
bv  the  Pilgrims. 


MINCEMEAT  FRUIT  CAKE  PIE 

1  unbaked  9-inch  pastry  shell 

1  cup  flour 

I  teaspoon  cinnamon 

Vi  teaspoon  salt 

V'i  teaspoon  clove 

V^  teaspoon  allspice 

1/3  cup  margarine 

1/3  cup  dark  corn  syrup 

Vi  cup  candied  fruit 

l'/2  cups  ready-to-use  mincemeat 

Vi  cup  chopped  walnuts 

3  eggs,  separated 

Mix  tlour,  cinnamon,  salt,  clove 
and  allspice  together  in  mixing  bowl. 
Cut  in  margarine  until  coarse  crumbs 
form.  Combine  corn  syrup  anc 
candied  fruit,  then  stir  into  crumb 
mixture  with  mincemeat  and  nuts. 
Beat  egg  whites  until  soft  peaks  form 
when  beater  is  raised,  then  beat  egg 
yolks  until  thick  and  lemon  colored. 
Fold  egg  yolks,  then  beaten  egg 
whites  into  flour-fruit  mixture.  Pour 
into  unbaked  pastry  shell.  Bake  in 
350  degrees  F.  (moderate)  oven 
until  center  is  firm,  about  I  hour. 
Serve  warm. 


16 


THE 

COMING 
STORM 

By  LOUIS  A.  McLEAN 


Long  ago  it  became  apparent 
that  the  pesticide  controversy 
was  led  by  two  types  of  critics 
—  purposeful  and  compulsive. 
The  purposeful  include  those 
who  use  the  controversy  to  sell 
natural  foods  at  unnatural 
prices,  to  give  color  to  their 
books,  writings  and  statements, 
to^  gain  notoriety,  or  in  any  way 
profit  from  the  controversy.  The 
compulsive  were  described  by 
Sigmund  Freud  in  "Totem  and 
Taboo"  as  neurotics,  driven  by 
primitive  subconscious  fears  to 
the  point  that  they  see  more 
reality  in  what  they  imagine 
than  in  fact. 

If  you  read  medical  journals 
"Nutritional  Quackery"  by  Stare 
(paper  delivered  to  National 
Congress  on  Medical  Quackery, 
AMA  and  FDA,  reported  in 
The  New  Physician,  June, 
1966),  "Why  People  Become  the 
Victims  of  Medical  Quackery" 
by  Bernard  (Amer.  Journ.,  Pub- 
lic Health,  August,  1965),  and 
"Psychodynamics  of  Group  Op- 
position to  Health  Programs" 
by  Marmor,  et  al  (Amer.  Journ. 
of  Orthopsychistry,  April, 
1960),  you  will  learn  that  the 
same  purposeful  and  compul- 
sive types,  the  anti-pesticide 
people,  in  almost  every  instance 


hold  numerous  beliefs  in  nutri- 
tional quackery,  medical 
quackery,  and  oppose  public 
health  programs.  The  compul- 
sive see  simplicity  as  purity, 
feel  rejected  by  mankind  and 
man-endeavors,  such  as  science, 
medicine  and  business.  They 
are  not  able  to  adjust  to  the 
assaults  on  ego  we  all  experi- 
ence: failure  to  achieve  the  ul- 
timate socially  or  in  business, 
and  especially  the  ego-shatter- 
ing fact  we  all  grow  older.  Thus, 
while  they  seek  youth  and 
purity  in  the  simple  and  primi- 
tive, they  suffer  increasing  fear 
of  loss  of  health  and  physical 
powers,  and,  while  presenting 
a  holier-than-thou  attitude,  are 
actually  preoccupied  wdth  the 
subject  of  sexual  potency  to 
such  an  extent  sex  is  never  a 
subjet  of  jest. 

The  anti-pesticide  leader,  as 
distinguished  from  the  fair- 
minded  person  who  is  merely 
misinformed  about  pesticides, 
can  almost  always  be  identified 
by  the  numerous  varient  views 
he  holds  against  regular  foods, 
chlorination  and  fluoridation  of 
health  programs,  animal  experi- 
water,  vaccination,  public 
mentation,  food  additives,  medi- 
cine, science,  and  the  business 
community,  or  by  his  insistence 
that  insecticides  should  be  mis- 
termed  "biocides." 

The  anti-pesticide  controversy 
anti-fertilizer  and  anti-all  chemi- 
cals as  well,  not  only  was  anti- 
social, it  was  unnecessary.  You 
will  recall  a  few  years  ago  the 
Senate  Committee  on  Govern- 
ment Operations  (the  Ribicoft 
Committee)  held  special  hear- 
ings on  pesticides  providing  a 
forum  whereby  many  with  vari- 
ant and  anti-pesticide  views 
gained  nationwide  pubUcity. 
Their  predictions  of  coming 
disaster  engendered  unneces- 
sary fears  in  the  minds  of  many. 
The  calm,  sage  advice  of  in- 
formed experts,  appearing  at  the 
same  forum,  largely  went  un- 
heralded. It  is  noteworthy, 
therefore,    that    the    Report,    m 


commenting  on  the  benefit-risk 
equation,  observed  that  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  informa- 
tion available  to  scientists,  ad- 
ministrators in  government,  aca- 
demic institutions  and  private 
industry  was  "far  more  extensive 
than  was  generally  recognized. 
Thus,  predictions  of  impending 
disaster  aroused  great  anxiety, 
not  because  there  was  insuffi- 
cient evidence  available  to  chal- 
lenge these  prophesies,  but  be- 
cause the  public  was  simply  net 
sufficiently  aware  of  the  exist- 
ence of  this  information." 

In  short,  the  Report  con- 
cluded that  all  the  furor  of  four 
years  ago  was  unnecessary.  The 
fears  implanted  in  the  minds  of 
many  were  unfounded.  Regret- 
tably, fears  implanted  in  the 
mind  are  not  easily  erased  by  a 
report,  even  if  the  report  were 
to  be  given  the  publicity  of  the 
original  false  accusations.  And 
fears  and  concern,  even  if  un- 
founded, remain  damaging  to 
the  health  and  well-being  of 
those    obsessed   with    fear. 

Unfortunately,  those  anti- 
chemical  critics,  purposeful  and 
compulsive,  who,  by  tongue  and 
pen,  spread  the  poison  of  false 
fear,  prior  to,  during  and  since 
those  Senate  hearings,  will  not 
be  quieted  by  the  Committee's 
conclusions  that  the  anxieties 
they  raised  were  unnecessary 
and  based  on  the  ignorance  of 
those  making  the  false  accusa- 
tions. 

The  same  types  who  have  led 
the  pesticide  controversy,  en- 
couraged by  the  unnecessary 
restrictions  they  have  caused  to 
be  placed  on  the  use  of  the 
farmer's  chemical  tools,  continue 
their  efforts  against  the  use  of 
pesticides  and  fertilizers  essen- 
tial to  food  production.  Because 
their  basic  philosophies  are  anti- 
social, they  are  also  anti-food 
aid. 

Just  recently  one  of  the 
"natural"  foods  magazines  stated 

Continued  Next  Page 

17 


that  our  trouble  was  that  we 
grow  too  much,  store  too  much 
and  give  away  too  much.  The 
fact  is,  we  have  never  had  a 
surplus  of  fruits  and  vegetables. 
For  years  we  have  imported 
more  meat  than  we  have  ex- 
ported. We  have  seen  our  dairy 
supplies  and  number  of  dairy 
farmers  diminish.  Imports  of 
dairy  products,  on  a  whole  milk 
basis,  trebled  in  '66  over  '65 
and  may  nearly  again  double 
in  '67  Our  so-called  surpluses 
of  grain  a  few  years  ago  have 
reduced  to  less  than  reasonable 
reserves.  A  year  ago  we  had  an 
estimated  60  million  idle  acres. 
Allotments  for  soybeans  have 
been  increased  only  sufficient  to 
permit  us  to  satisfy  increasing 
dometic  demand  and  continue 
sales  to  our  cashcustomers,  with 
nothing  extra  to  supply  badly 
needed  soybean  protein  to  hun- 
gry peoples.  Other  acres  were 
approved  for  small  grains,  a 
total  of  approximately  35 
million  acres  out  of  the  60 
million.  Yet,  because  incentives 
are  not  present,  idled  acres, 
many  of  which  are  marginal, 
were  not  brought  into  produc- 
tion.    Tlie     funds     authorized 


under  the  Food  for  Peace  Act, 
adopted  by  thQ  last  Congress, 
an  expenditure  of  about  five 
times  what  our  teen-age  daugh- 
ters spend  on  beauty  aids,  or 
about  one-thirtieth  of  our 
planned  military  expenditures, 
will  not  be  made  in  '67.  And 
what  is  worse,  eflForts  toward 
agricultural  research  and  train- 
ing, so  that  other  peoples  may 
help  themselves,  gain  less  and 
less    support. 

It  is  most  unfortunate  we  did 
not  face  the  world  food  crisis 
a  decade  ago  and  take  the  kind 
of  action  —  stopgap  aid  and  ed- 
ucational eflForts  to  friendly 
peoples  willing  to  help  them- 
selves —  suggested  by  the  pre- 
sent Act.  It  is  ironic  that  as  we 
have  begun  to  realize  the  gravi- 
ty of  the  problem  and  work  tf) 
solution  we  have  less  will  and 
ability  to  aid  in  solution. 

I  well  remember  four  years 
ago  and  only  a  year  ago,  when, 
after  completing  comments 
about  the  world  food  crisis,  I 
was  approached  by  two  differ- 
ent men  who  have  spent  a  life- 
time ih  agricultural  matters. 
One  was  from  outside  of  gov- 


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emment,  the  other  holds  a  high 
government  position.  Their  poli- 
tical philosophies,  I  believe,  are 
opposite.  Each,  in  effect,  said 
to  me,  although  it  was  true 
there  were  many  hungry  people 
in  other  countries,  our  problem 
was  one  of  surpluses.  I  knoM^ 
that  most  then  would  have 
agreed  with  them.  Nevertheless, 
it  was  true  then  as  it  is  now  — 
we  never  had  a  surplus  prob- 
lem. We  had  a  failure  of  dis- 
tribution. The  same  monies  ex- 
pended to  reduce  and  store 
what  we  then  considered  sur- 
pluses, if  used  for  incentives 
to  produce  more  and  intelH- 
gently  distribute  food  and  edu- 
cate others  to  self-provide, 
would  have  cost  us  no  more, 
would  have  strengthened  our 
farming  community  and  would 
have  done  much  to  reduce  the 
likelihood  of  more  Viet  Nams. 

There  are  many  ways  we  cau 
increase  production  if  incen- 
tives are  provided  and  if  Amer- 
ican farmers  are  not  unrealisti- 
cally  restricted.  We  can  make 
greater  uses  of  insecticioes,  her. 
bicides  and  fertilizers,  adding 
billions  to  our  agricultural  pro- 
duction. Despite  our  own 
rapidly  expanding  population, 
hunger  need  not  face  us.  We 
cannot  expect,  however,  to  con- 
tinue the  rate  of  increase  of 
yields  as  in  the  past  tvvo 
decades.  During  that  period, 
modem  pesticides,  hybrids  and 
fertilizers  were  introduced  or 
placed  to  substantial  use.  The 
gain  from  here  on  will  tend  to 
level  off,  absent  new  techno- 
logical discoveries.  The  time  is 
here,  however,  for  every  think- 
ing person  to  encourage  in- 
creased production  of  food. 

Already  serious  authors,  the 
Paddocks  in  Famine  - 1975/,  are 
urging  the  write-off  of  whole 
continents  of  humans  as  beyond 
help.  The  President  of  Pakistan 
has  predicted  that  within  ten 
years,  to  survive,  his  people  will 
be  forced  to  eat  the  flesh  of  all 
those  who  die,  except  from  in- 
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18 


UVii> 


NEWS  Hi 


li  jERSEy 


Cool,  dry  weather  prevailed  dur- 
ing the  month  of  October  in  the 
cranberry  region  of  New  Jersey. 
For  the  second  straight  month  after 
an  excessively  rainy  summer,  rain- 
fall was  below  normal.  Only  four 
rainy  days  occurred  during  the 
month  and  the  total  precipitation 
was  only  1.88  inches,  or  1.44  inches 
less  than  normal. 

The  total  rainfall  for  September 
and  October  was  only  3.85,  a  de- 
ficiency of  almost  three  inches 
(2.98).  This  is  quite  a  contrast  to 
last  year  when  the  September-Octo- 
ber total  was  15.61  or  almost  twelve 
inches  more  than  this  year.  Last 
year's  dry  summer  was  followed  by 
a  very  wet  fall;  this  year  the  reverse 
has  been  the  case. 

The  dry  autumn  did  not  counter- 
balance the  surplus  rain  of  the 
summer  months.  The  total  rainfall 


for  the  first  ten  months  of  1967 
now  stands  at  39.09  which  is  2.40 
inches  more  than  normal. 

18  Frost  Calls 

In  regard  to  temperatup-.  Octo- 
ber averaged  54. 1 ,  2.2  degrees  cooler 
than  normal.  Extremes  in  tempera- 
ture in  the  weather  shelter  at  the 
upland  weather  station  of  the  Cran- 
berry &  Blueberry  Lab  were  88°  F. 
on  October  5  and  24"  on  the  30th. 
Bog  temperatures  were,  of  course, 
much  lower.  Some  extremely  low 
temperatures  reported  on  cranberry 
bogs  were  26°  on  the  13th,  19°  on 
the  20th,  20°  on  the  22nd,  21°  on 
the  23rd,  15°  on  the  29th,  13°  on 
the  30th  and  18°  on  the  31st.  Frost 
calls  were  taped  by  the  frost  warning 
service  at  the  Cranberry  &  Blueberry 
Laboratory  on  eighteen  days.  This 
service  is  financed  by  donations 
from  the  cranberry  growers.  A  frost 
warning  committee  consisting  of 
Isaiah  Haines,  Joe  Palmer,  Eddie 
Budd  and  Phil  Marucci  cooperate 
v/ith  the  Weather  Bureau  in  issuing 
these  forecasts.  Mrs.  Geraldine  Van 
Derzee,  secretary  at  the  Cranberry 
&    Blueberry    Lab;   Mrs.   Caroline 


R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


Serving  Agriculture 


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Division 

CHEMAPCO,   INC. 


Cranberry  Highway 

West  Wareham,   Mass. 

295-1553 


Taylor,  secretaiy  at  Whitesbog;  and 
Lou  Grant,  foreman  at  Whitesbog, 
are  able  assistants  in  this  work. 


Harvest 

As  of  November  3  the  cranberry 
harvest  was  nearing  completion  with 
a  few  growers  needing  only  about  a 
week  more.  The  crop  appears  to  be 
running  close  to  the  estimate  of 
157,000  barrels  for  the  State.  Several 
growers  harvested  well  over  one 
hundred  barrels  per  acre.  Fruit  rots 
were  a  problem  in  a  few  localities, 
but  fruitworm  and  other  insect 
damage  was  very  slight.  Color  was 
fair  and  the  size  of  berries  was 
generally  larger  than  normal. 


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1967  Harvest 

Harvest  in  Washington  proceeded 
normally  with  Cranguyma  Farms 
starting  October  3  and  the  others 
harvesting  as  berries  colored  up. 
Grayland  growers  began  about  the 
same  time  with  the  peak  in  both 
areas  about  October  25.  The  Ocean 
Spray  receiving  plant  at  Long  Beach, 
now  in  its  4th  year,  carried  two  full 
crews  during  harvest  peak  with  few 


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Office— 362.  Route  44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

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The  Coming  Storm 

Continued  from  Page  18 

fectious  diseases.  The  Pakis- 
tanis I  know  will  not  resort  to 
cannibalism  to  survive.  Nor  is 
it  possible  to  write  off  a  billion 
people,  a  third  of  the  world's 
population.  If  they  are  aban- 
doned by  constructive  forces, 
coercive  forces  \v\\\  take  over. 
Regettably,  genocide  has  not 
been  limited  to  ancient  history. 
The  approach  of  catastrophe, 
however,  demands  effort  now, 
and  catastrophe  is  very  close. 
June  5th,  the  Associated  Press 
reported:  "A  Roman  Catholic 
bishop  has  said  that  some 
mothers  in  an  area  of  southern 
Peru  are  killing  their  babies 
rather  than  see  them  starve." 

As   I   noted   in   opening,   like 
Elijah's  servant  who  saw  noth- 
ing on  the  horizon  for  six  days 
and    did    not    understand    the 
portent  of  the  "litde  cloud"  he 
saw    on    the    seventh,    so,    too 
many  today  fail  to  see  the  food 
picture  here  or  appreciate  what 
world  hunger  means  to  us.  For 
example,  in  the  President's  Jan- 
uary State  of  the  Union  Mes- 
sage,   he    stated    that  the    two 
most  important  problems  facing 
the  country  were  (1)  the  possi- 
bility   of    atomic    warfare,    and 
(2)    the  world    food    problem. 
'At    the    close    of    his    speech   I 
listened    to    six    different    com- 
mentators. I  listened  in  vain  for 
at  least  one  of  them  to  suggest 
that     food     might    be    classed 
number  one  instead  of  number 
two,  because  its  need  is  a  cause 
of   wars    of.  all   kinds.   Instead, 
while   each   discussed  war,  not 
one  mentioned  the  world  food 
crisis,  despite  the  emphasis  the 
President  had   given  to  it. 

Commentators  and  newspaper 
reporters  have  a  knack  for 
knowing  what  is  "news"  to  the 
public.  It  is  to  the  public's  dis- 
credit and  not  their's,  therefore, 
that  the  world  food  crisis  is  not 
"news"  but  regarded  only  as  a 
"little  cloud"  on  the  horizon. 

20 


It  is  the  urgent  obligation  of 
each  of  us,  all  in  any  way  con- 
nected with  agriculture,  to  em- 
phazize  what  that  little  cloud 
portends  —  a  "great  rain"  of 
problems   "in  the   meanwhile." 


REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES  -  Continued 


problems.  The  new  receiving  plant 
at  Markham  found  several  problems 
to  be  worked  out,  the  main  one  was 
the  clogging  of  the  Key  floatation 
machine  with  debris  with  the  ber- 
ries. 

The  crop  this  year  was  not  as 
high  as  1966  but  a  good  crop  and 
above  average.  The  berries  did  not 
size  up  due  to  warm  weather  and 
water  shortage.  Many  growers  waited 
for  color  which  hasn't  been  too 
good,  and  late  harvested  berries 
show  a  high  percent  of  rot  due  to 
over  maturity  and  breakdown  of 
fruit. 


There  are  still  a  few  growers 
finishing  up  their  harvest  with  Cran- 
guyma  Farms  to  finish  about  the 
middle  of  November.  Several  War- 
renton,  Oregon  growers  bring  their 
cranberries  across  the  Columbia 
Astoria  Bridge  to  the  Long  Beach 
cleaning  plant. 

Weather 

We  had  ample  rain  to  make 
water  harvest  requirements  during 
the  month  of  October  with  a  total 
of  16.09  inches,  the  greatest  amount 
for  one  day  was  2.05  inches  on  the 
3rd,  with  a  six  day  total  (first 
through  sixth)  of  6.81  inches. 

The  nicest  day  of  October  came 
on  the  17th  with  76°  to  enjoy. 
With  lots  of  rain  and  wind  the 
mean  high  was  61.13"  and  the 
mean  low  45.77°.  We  had  a  couple 
of  nights  when  the  temperature 
dropped  to  3 1  °  in  the  bog,  the  1 9th 
and  25th,  but  generally  the  weather 
is  still  mild. 

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BRIEF   HISTORY  OF 
PRODUCTION  CREDIT 
ASSOCIATIONS 


In  the  early  thirties,  short-term 
credit  for  farmers  was  a  "some- 
times" thing.  It  was  easily  had 
when  times  were  good,  but  hard  to 
come  by  when  the  going  got  rough 
and  cash  was  needed  most.  In  1933, 
Congress  passed  the  Farm  Credit 
Act,  which  allowed  farmers  to  estab- 
lish, through  Production  Credit  As- 
sociations, their  own  short-term 
credit  organizations,  designed  to  fit 


their    own    specific    credit    needs. 

Since  that  time,  Production  Credit 
Associations  throughout  the  country 
have  proved  time  and  time  again 
their  ability  to  serve  dependably 
'through  good  times  and  bad,  during 
depression,  war,  boom,  drouglits, 
floods  and  recessions. 

Lending  funds  for  PCAs  are  ob- 
tained througli  the  Federal  Inter- 
mediate Credit  Banks  from  the  sale 
of  securities  to  the  investing  public. 
These  securities  are  backed  by  the 
notes  of  the  borrowing  farmers. 
Althougli  each  PCA  is  a  part  of  a 
nationwide  system,  they  are  each 
truly  local  in  character.  Only  the 
borrowing,  owner  members  have 
the  power  to  elect  a  board  of  direc- 
tors with  authority  to  adopt  aggres- 
sive lendmg  policies  that  will  effect- 
ively meet  the  credit  requirements 
of  progressive  farmers  in  the  area. 

PCAs  make  various  kinds  of 
loans  but   generally   fall   into  two 


major  classifications.  The  first  is 
operating  loans  for  production  pur- 
poses and  the  other  is  intermediate 
term  loans  for  capital  outlay.  More 
specifically  for  cranberry  growers 
in  Wisconsin,  operating  loans  may 
be  used  for  sanding,  dike  and  bed 
maintenance,  fertilizer,  weed  and 
insect  control,  fuel  and  utilities, 
labor  harvest  cost— in  fact  for  any 
production  cost  on  the  marsh. 


Intermediate-term  loans  are  avail- 
able for  marsh  development  and 
expansion,  including  purchase  of 
new  and  improved  vine  varieties, 
sprinkler  systems,  marsh  and  grading 
equipment  and  buildings.  Depending 
on  the  growers'  needs,  terms  are 
usually  three  to  seven  years. 

PCA  offices  serving  the  cranberry 
growers  in  Wisconsin  are  located  in 
Antigo,  Wausau,  Marshfield,  Neills- 
ville.  Luck,  Barron,  Mauston,  Med- 
ford,  Tomah,  Stevens  Point  and 
Black  River  Falls. 


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most  profitable 
move  you  make 
all  year! 


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CRANBERRY  CUTTINGS  FAVORED  BY  MIST  TREATMENT 


By  M.  N.  Dana 

Department  of  Horticulture, 

University  of  Wisconsin 

The  installation  by  the  cranberry 
industry  of  solid-set  overhead 
sprinklers  challenges  growers  to  find 
additional  uses  for  this  expensive 
but  efficient  equipment.  One  of 
the  adaptations  that  offers  chances 
of  success  is  the  maintenance  of 
optimum  con.ditions  for  rooting  and 
establishment  of  new  plantings. 

The  most  serious  deterrent  to 
the  rooting  of  a  cranberry  cutting 
is  the  inadequacy  of  moisture  with- 
in the  cranberry  tissues.  As  placed 
in  the  field,  the  cutting  has  no  root 
system  to  absorb  and  transport 
moisture  into  the  plant.  At  the 
same  time  the  leaves  are  losing 
moisture  to  the  air  through  tran- 
spiration. The  net  result  is  a  de- 
pletion of  water  in  the  plant  and 
a  stress  condition  that  results  in 
slow  growth  and  often  death  of 
portions  of,  or  the  entire  cutting. 

Traditionally,  by  flooding,  and 
maintaining  full  ditches  the  growers 
have  maintained  soil  moisture  at  a 
relatively  higli  level  in  the  early 
weeks  of  new  planting  to  provide 
maximum  opportunity  for  water 
absorption  througli  the  cut  ends 
and  bark  tissue  of  the  cutting.  At 
the  same  time  this  high  soil  mois- 
ture has  favored  reduced  soil  aera- 
tion which  tends  to  depress  root 
development.  Thus,  by  gaining  an 
advantage  of  higli  soil  moisture 
there  has  been  some  loss  of  soil 
aeration  and  less  than  optimum 
conditions  for  plant  rooting. 

The  amount  of  water  loss 
througli  transpiration  is  a  function 
of  temperature,  relative  humidity 
of  the  air  surrounding  the  leaf,  and 
available  moisture  within  the  plant. 
Any  condition  that  reduces  the 
temperature  or  increases  the  relative 
humidity  of  the  air  will  reduce  the 
rate  of  transpiration  and  thus  the 
demand  for  water  by  the  plant. 
Here,  then,  is  where  the  sprinkler 


irrigation  can  be  beneficial.  A  fre- 
quent, light  application  of  water 
will  provide  free  water  on  plant 
and  soil  surfaces.  As  this  water 
evaporates  it  withdraws  heat  from 
the  surface  on  which  it  is  located; 
i.e.,  leaves,  thus  cooling  this  surface. 
The  evaporated  water  contributes 
moisture  to  the  air  as  water  vapor 
and  thus  increases  the  relative  hu- 
midity. Such  a  free  water  surface 
may  make  a  considerable  contribu- 
tion to  the  relative  humidity  in  the 
2-3  inch  /.one  of  the  atmosphere 
immediately  above  the  soil,  the 
/.one  of  concern  for  protection  of 
the  cranberry  cuttings.  Applications 
of  the  extent  visualized  may  not 
saturate  the  soil  and  thus  interfere 
with  soil  aeration.  If  this  is  true, 
then  nearly  ideal  conditions  for 
rooting  of  cuttings  would  be  ob- 
tained. 

Rooting  cuttings  under  mist  ap- 
plications is  not  a  new  concept  in 
plant  propagation.  Commercial  nur- 
serymen use  this  method  for  en- 
couraging rooting  of  many  species 
of  softwood  and  hardwood  cuttings. 
Commonly  the  mist  is  applied  for 
a  few  seconds  followed  by  an  inter- 
val of  minutes  with  no  mist  at 
which  time  the  mist  comes  on 
again.  A  cranberry  grower  would 
find  it  difficult  and  expensive  to 
provide  the  necessary  control  equip- 
ment for  such  applications,  but 
two  or  three  short  periods  of  irri- 
gation during  the  heat  of  the  day 
would  go  a  long  way  toward  re- 
ducing the  internal  stress  on  the 
plant. 

The  placing  of  small  no/zlcs  on 
high  risers  and  increasing  the  pump 
pressure  will  permit  maximum  dis- 
tribution of  the  desirable  fine  drop- 
lets. The  intent  of  this  method  is  to 
apply  only  adequate  water  to  wet 
all  surfaces,  not  to  soak  the  soil. 

One  grower  in  Wisconsin,  Mr. 
Albert  Amundsen,  adopted  this 
method  this  summer.  Unfortu- 
nately,  he    did  not  start   the  mist 


system  tor  a  few  days  after  plant- 
ing and  thus  maximum  benefit  was 
not  attained.  However,  after  ii> 
stalling  the  system  his  cranberry 
vines  grew  quickly  and  vigorously 
and  have  now  established  a  good 
cover  over  the  soil  in  one  summer. 
Perhaps  more  important  is  the  ex- 
cellent "catch"  of  vines  that  was 
obtained.  Mr.  Amundsen  is  enthusi- 
astic about  this  way  of  establishing 
new  buds  and  promises  never  to 
plant  any  more  without  this  man- 
agement provision.  It  is  his  belief 
that  a  commercial  fruit  crop  may 
be  harvested  from  this  planting  in 
the  third  year  which  is  unusual 
for  this  area  of  Wisconsin. 


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October  started  sunny  and  pleas- 
ant with  mild  temperatures  prevail- 
ing during  the  early  part  of  the 
period  as  the  state  enjoyed  a  short 
spell  of  Indian  Summer  weather. 
Maximum  temperatures  rose  to  near 
the  80-degree  mark  in  most  areas  of 
the  state  daily  throughout  the  4th 
with  low  and  middle  80's  reported 
on  the  4th.  A  fairly  high  moisture 
content  of  the  cloudless  air  kept 
nighttime  temperatures  well  above 
freezing.  Cooler,  cloudy  air  entered 
the  state  on  the  5th  returning  tem- 
peratures to  more  seasonal  levels.  A 
low  pressure  system  developed  over 
the  plains  states  on  the  5th  and  6th 
and  crossed  through  Wisconsin  over 
the  weekend. 

Freezing  temperatures  occurred 
in  all  parts  of  the  state  on  the  1 1th- 
12th  with  temperatures  in  the  25- 
30  degree  range  even  on  the  shores 
of  Lake  Michigan  and  about  5  de- 
grees cooler  elsewhere.  Heavy  rain 
of  about  2  inches  fell  on  the  7th 
and  8th  from  southwestern  counties 
northeastward  to  the  Uoor  Peninsula. 
Lesser  amounts  fell  to  the  southeast 
and  northeast. 


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WISCONSIN    FARM   GROUP 
SPONSORS   BOOTH   AT 
LINCOLN   COUNTY    FAIR 


The  Lincoln  County  (Wisconsin) 
Farm  Management  Association 
which  is  composed  of  five  indi- 
vidual groups  is  now  holding  adult 
classes  for  farmers  within  the 
county. 

Allen  Bullis,  Agricultural  instruc- 
tor with  the  Merrill  School  of  Vo- 
cational,    Technical     and    Adult 
Education  is  the  coordinator. 


The  annual  dairy  promotion  be- 
gan  fifteen   years   ago.   Each   year 
the  group  sponsors  a  booth  at  the 
Lincoln  County    Fair    advertising 
some  special  dairy  product. 

As  shown  in  the  accompanying 
photo  Cranberries  was  the  1967 
theme  for  this  group. 

The  chocolate  covered  cranber- 
ries at  the  fair  were  made  by  the 
Bob  White  Candy  Co.  of  Madison. 
The  cranberry  sherbet  was  made  by 
the  Seeger  Dairy  of  Merrill  from 
puree  made  by  Eagle  River  Cran- 
berry Products.  The  Cranberry  top- 
ping on  the  Sundae  sold  at  the  fair 
was   made   by    Allen    Bullis   from 


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cranberry  sauce  from  Eagle  Kiver. 
Raspberries  were  used  to  blend  witli 
the  cranberries. 

The  Cranberry  Soda  contained 
cranberry  cocktail  from  Eagle  River 
The  Cranberry  Bread  on  display  was 
made  by  the  Three  Lakes  Bakery, 
The  Cranberry  Pie  for  Alamode 
was  made  by  Dorothy  Peters  of 
Merrill  (reported  to  be  one  of  Mer- 
rill's better  cooks)  from  fresh  frozen 
cranberries  from  the  Copper  River 
Development  Corp. 

Recipes  for  cranberry  dishes 
were  passed  out  at  the  booth. 

The  painting  of  the  display  was 
done  by  Heidemann  Display 
of  Merrill. 


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University   of   Wisconsin 

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Y>u  may  be  raising 
a  future  television  star 

If  you're  an  Ocean  Spray  grower,  you* re  raising  some  pretty 
famous  berries. 

Or  they  will  be  as  soon  as  we  get  our  hands  on  them. 

They're  going  to  be  photographed  and  written  up  in  magazines 
and  newspapers.  They're  going  to  be  talked  about  on  radio. 

And  millions  of  people  are  going  to  see  them  on  television. 
Not  just  here  and  there.  Coast  to  coast.  Not  just  now  and  then. 
\ear  round. 

It  s  this  kind  of  consistent  Ocean  Spray  advertising  that's  gotten 
more  people  to  buy  more  cranberries  than  ever  before.  More  of 
your  cranberries. 

Of  course,  if  you're  not  an  Ocean  Spray  grower,  you  may  never 
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sided over  their  annual  meeting 
held  in  Portland,  Maine  last  month. 

About  100  delegates  and  guests 
attended  with  five  Canadian  prov- 
inces and  thirteen  U.  S.  producing 
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The  Council,  which  is  devoted  to 
the  promotion  of  wild  and  culti- 
vated blueberry  products,  set  up  an 
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plans  to  put  more  emphases  on 
promoting  blueberries  on  a  year- 
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Biology,  Nova  Scotia  Department 
of  Agriculture. 


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If  you  happen  to  see  this  unidentified  flying  object 
hovering  about  a  foot  over  a  New  Jersey  cranberry  bog 
next  summer,  it  win  probably  be  piloted  by  a  Princeton 
research  engineer. 

The  university's  Advanced  Flight  Concepts  Labora- 


Looking  like  something  out  of  a 
science  fiction  movie,  the  aircraft 
pictured  will  be  seen  more  and 
more  as  time  goes  by,  particu- 
larly in  tlie  area  of  the  New  Jersey 
cranberry  bogs.  It  is  a  crop  spraying 
aircraft  called  the  Ag-GEM  1.  It  is 
designed  to  fly  only  about  one  foot 
off  the  ground  as  it  deposits  spray 
on  growing  crops. 

It  has  been  proving  itself  during 
experimental  spraying  of  cranberry 
bogs  in  New  Jersey  and,  althougli 
control  of  fruit  rat  was  not  equal 
to  that  possible  with  conventional 
boom  spraying,  it  has  shown  itself 
to  be  about  as  effective  as  airplanes 
or  helicopters. 

The  airborne  vehicle  is  not  now 
in  commercial  production  but  it  is 
hoped  that  further  improvements 
and  modifications  will  prove  that 
it  can  be  commercially  produced. 
The  cost  of  the  experimental  proto- 
type was  placed  at  approximately 
$23,000.  Manufacturers  have  stated 


tory  has  been  collaborating  with  plant  pathologists  at 
Rutgers  in  testing  the  effectiveness  of  the  Ag-GEM 
(which  is  the  name  of  the  craft  shown  above)  for 
spraying  crops.  (See  story  Page  6C) 


that  they  feel  Ag-GEM  can  be 
produced  at  a  cost  considerably 
less  than  an  airplane  equipped  to  do 
the  same  job. 

The  principle  of  Ag-GEM  is  not 
new.  This  type  of  vehicle  has  been 
designed  and  built  since  the  1950's. 
It  becomes  airborne  by  a  blast  of 
air  which  develops  a  cushion  of  air 
under  the  machine.  Princeton  Uni- 
versity has  long  been  considering 
the  use  of  this  type  of  vehicle  in 
agricultural  applications. 

As  early  as  1964,  Princeton's 
largest  GEM  made  a  series  of  flights 
over  full-grown  potato  fields  to 
test  the  extent  of  damage  caused  by 
the  vehicle's  downwash  of  air.  The 
next  logical  step  seemed  to  be  the 
cranberry  crops.  Two  plant  path- 
ologists at  Rutgers  University  be- 
came interested  in  just  this  appli- 
cation. The  size  of  the  New  Jersey 

Continued  on  Next  Page 


CHRISTMAS  1967 


SUPPORT  THE  1967 


CHRISTMAS  SEAL  DRIVE 


USDA  PUBLISHES  ANNUAL 
YEAR  BOOK 

The  1967  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture's  yearbook  Outdoors 
U.  S.  A.  is  now  available  and  may 
be  obtained  from  your  Senator  or 
Congressman.  They  have  been  given 
a  limited  number  for  free  distribu- 
tion, so  we  advise  you  to  write 
them  soon.  This  year's  edition  is 
perhaps  the  finest  ever  published 
and  the  information  in  it  is  very 
well  presented. 


Ag-GEM  1 

Continued  from  Page  One 

cranberry  industry,  the  present 
method  of  spraying  and  the  cran- 
berry's hardy  characteristics  made 
for  an  ideal  experiment. 

The  aircraft  is  a  three-seater. 
It  is  12  feet  in  diameter,  weiglis 
700  pounds.  It  carries  a  700-pound 
payload  and  is  able  to  attain  a 
speed  of  about  45  miles  per  hour. 
Its  power  is  derived  from  two  45- 
horsepower  Nelson  two-cycle  en- 
gines. One  of  these  engines  pro- 
vides the  "air  cushion"  while  the 
other  provides  the  movement  over 
the  ground. 


Treatments  were  applied  on  plots 
100  feet  long  and  12  feet  wide. 
There  were  two  treatments,  one 
using  the  fungicide  spray  and  the 
other  without  spray.  These  were 
compared  to  plots  of  equal  size 
which  were  not  flown  over.  Each 
of  these  treatments  was  repeated 
twice,  except  for  the  sprayed  treat- 
ment which  was  repeated  four  times. 

The  bog  used  for  this  experiment 
was  an  established  one  with  a  his- 
tory of  severe  fruit  rot  caused  by 
numerous  fungi.  The  treatments 
were  applied  at  mid-bloom.  Two 
subsequent  applications  were  made 
at  approximately  two-week  inter- 
vals. At  the  time  of  commercial 
harvest,  in  October,  square  foot 
plots  were  picked  at  random  in 
each  of  the  areas.  The  number  of 
berries  and  percentage  of  fruit  rot 
for  each  of  the  samplings  were  de- 
termined. 

There  was  no  difference  in  the 
number  of  berries  or  percentage  of 
rotted  fruit  in  either  the  unsprayed 
areas  flown  over  and  those  not 
flown  over.  It  was  determined  that 
very  few  flowers  or  immature  fruit 
were  removed  by  the  downwash  of 
the  aircraft. 


areas.  These  results  are  comparable 
to  those  with  fixed-wing  aircraft  or 
helicopter  on  cranberries.  It  was  not 
equal  to  that  possible  with  boom 
sprayers.  In  the  opinion  of  Dr. 
Springer  and  Dr.  Stretch,  the  ar- 
rangement of  the  nozzles  at  the 
periphery  of  the  baffle  plate  was 
not  adequate  since  it  was  difficult 
to  get  uniform  distribution  of  the 
spray.  They  feel  certain  that,  by 
proper  placement  of  the  nozzles 
and  increasing  pressure,  better  cov- 
erage and  control  may  be  possible. 

The  pathologists  feel  that  this 
ground  effect  machine  is  particularly 
promising  for  use  on  cranberries 
although  it  did  its  job  about  half 
as  fast  as  an  airplane,  two-thirds 
as  fast  as  a  helicopter.  It  is  obviously 
much  faster  than  boom-spray  opera- 
tion. 

"Initial  cost  and  operating  costs 
should  be  competitive  with  other 
spray  methods,"  the  two  patholo- 
gists concluded  in  their  report.  "The 
inherent  safety,  good  maneuvera- 
bility and  rapid  coverage  are  suf- 
ficient reasons  for  further  research 
on  the  Ag-GEM  as  an  agricultural 
pesticide  applicator." 


During  the  summer  of  1965, 
under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Allan  W. 
Stretch,  plant  pathologist  of  USDA's 
Crops  Research  Division,  and  Dr. 
John  K.  Springer,  extension  plant 
pathologist.  New  Jersey  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  further  tests 
were  made.  Princeton's  research  en- 
gineer, Walter  B.  Nixon,  made  a 
series  of  crop-spraying  passes  over 
one  acre  of  the  Double  Trouble 
cranberry  farm  in  Tom's  River,  N.J. 

A  maneb  pungicide  was  applied  In    the    plots   receiving   maneb 

at   the   rate   of  three   pounds  (80  spray  the  percentage  of  rotted  fruit 

percent  WP)  in  60  gallons  of  water  was  23  percent  as  compared  to  86 

per  acre  at  a  ground  speed  of  seven  to   87  percent    in    the    unsprayed 

to  deliver  the  spray  material,  how-    ^^ 
ever,  the  use  of  higli-volume,  low-  >f 
pressure  pumps  was  considered  un- 
suitable   for    fungicide   application  "^ 
because  droplet  size  is  too  large.  . 

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S  Field  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  attended 
a  meeting  of  the  Northeastern  Divi- 
sion of  the  American  Phytopatho- 
logical  Society  held  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, Ithaca,  New  York  from 
November  1  to  4. 

Weather 

The  month  of  November  was 
very  cold,  averaging  nearly  5  de- 
grees a  day  below  normal.  This  was 
the  coldest  November  in  our  records 
here  at  the  Station.  The  only  warm 
period  was  from  the  2nd  through 
4th,  with  two  unseasonably  cold 
periods  from  the  14th  througli  22nd 
and  the  last  4  days  of  the  month. 
Maximum  temperature  was  66  de- 
grees on  the  3rd  and  the  minimum 
13  degrees  on  the  17th.  Rainfall 
totalled  4.40  inches  for  the  month 
which  is  0.2  inches  below  average. 
The  major  storms  occurred  on  the 
7th,  22nd,  23rd  and  25th.  We  are 
now  nearly  4  inches  above  average 
for  1967  to  date  and  about  12 
inches  ahead  of  1966  for  the  same 


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earliest  snowfall  since  1962  and  we 
have  to  go  back  to  November  1955 
to  find  a  larger  amount. 

Crop  Estimate 

The  official  crop  estimate  re- 
leased on  November  16  by  the  New 
England  Crop  Reporting  Service 
shows  Massachusetts  with  a  crop  of 
560,000  barrels.  This  is  down  a 
whopping  27  percent  from  last 
year  and  a  sharp  drop  from  the 
October  estimate  or  700,000  barrels. 
Cool,  humid  and  wet  weather  during 
the  blossoming  period  in  July  re- 
sulted in  a  reduced  set  of  fruit,  and 
the  quality  was  also  definitely  on 
the  weak  side  which  accounts  for  a 
large  part  of  the  reduction.  The 
other  producing  states  were  in  bet- 
ter    shape     with     Wisconsin     at 


500,000  barrels  and  Oregon  at 
57,000  barrels  holding  to  prior  es- 
timates. New  Jersey  at  163,000 
barrels  was  up  6,000  and  Washing- 
ton at  128,000  barrels  up  13,000 
from  the  October  estimates.  The 
national  crop  is  now  estimated  at 
1,408,000  barrels,  down  190,000 
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Issue  of  December  1967  /  Volume  32  -  No.  8 


MARKET  REPORT 

Combined  rail  and  truck  shipments  during  the 
first  week  of  December  equalled  tiie  weekly  move- 
ment of  last  season  for  the  same  comparable  week. 
Shipments  to  the  fresh  market  were  approximately 
80  carlots  behind  last  years  number,  but  heavier  pack- 
ing was  expected.  The  limiting  factor  on  the  overall 
business  of  the  season  was  the  quantity  of  good 
berries,  although  the  remaining  berries  were  mostly 
contracted  for. 

The  demand  for  berries  was  fair,  but  the  market 
was  steady.  Cartons  containing  twenty-four  one 
pound  film  bags  of  window  boxes  were  for  Howes 
$5.50—5.85.  The  price  was  mostly  $5.85  with  some 
sales  being  subject  to  a  promotional  discount. 

MEET  THE  NEW  EDITOR 

Bernard  Marvin  comes  to  Cranberries  with  valuable 
literary  experience  and  the  skill  of  an  accomplished 
photographer.  Mr.  Marvin  plans  to  meet  the  growers 
and  is  working  on  plans  for  many  interesting  articles. 
Any  help  our  readers  can  give  in  the  way  of  suggested 
material  should  be  directed  to  this  office. 

IBM  -  1967 

Perhaps  our  readers  have  noticed  the  new  typo- 
graphic designs  used  in  the  last  two  issues.  This 
involves  an  entirely  new  concept  in  typesetting- 
replacing  the  Linotype  machine  with  a  modern  IBM 
Composer  not  much  larger  than  an  electric  type- 
writer. Among  other  advantages,  accuracy  is  more 
easily  attained  and  readibility  is  assured.  Any  com- 
ments—critical or  complimentary— about  the  new 
type  style  or  any  other  facet  of  Cranberries  will 
be  gratefully  received  by  our  editor. 


CRANBERRIES 

THE  MATIONAI.  CRA.\BhRK)   MACA/.IM-: 
-  Our  31st   Year  of  Puhlication   - 

editor 

BERNARD   A.    MARVIN 
publisher 

I.  STANLEY  COBB 


Established     1936     by    Clarence     J.     Hall     at     Wareham,     Mass. 


advisors  -  correspondents 

Wisconsin 

VERNON  GOLDSWORTHY 
Eagle   River,   Wisconsin 

Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille.  Oregon 

Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East    Wareham,    Massachusetts 

New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry   Station 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


CRANBERRIES  is  published  once  a  month  by  C'oiiior 
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OUR  COVER 

The  cover  picture  originally  appeared  in  Cran- 
berries as  the  Christmas  cover  in  Deccmbei  \'-)(i2. 
The  drawing  was  printed  in  black  ink  iind  was 
rendered  by  the  late  Mrs.  Hdith  S.  Hall,  To:  \nray 
years  associate  editor  of  Cranberries  'iid  wife  oi  \\>c 
late  Clarence  J.  Hall,founderof  the  niaga/inc. 


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related  to  Bandon,Oregon 


Editor's  note-Tfie  following  speech  re- 
fers to  a  statistical  study  on  frost  in 
the  cranberry  bog  and  was  delivered 
to  the  Bandon,   Oregon  Cranberry  Club 
by  Mr.  Earl  M.  Bates,  Meteorologist  in 
Charge,  E.S.S.A.    Weather  Bureau, 
Eugene,  Oregon. 


I  thank  you  for  the  invitation  to 
meet  with  this  club.  You  folks 
represent  an  important  element  in 
the  agricultural  economy  of  this 
state.  In  its  service  to  agriculture, 
the  Environmental  Science  Services 
Administration,  of  which  the 
Weather  Bureau  is  a  part,  needs  to 
become  acquainted  with  you  people 
and  your  problems  where  weather 
is  a  factor.  Let's  talk  about  what 
the  Weather  Bureau,  with  the  coop- 
eration of  several  persons  of  your 
community,  has  done  up  to  this 
time. 

In  1962,  the  Weather  Bureau 
made  its  first  efforts  in  trying  to 
forecast  conditions  under  which 
these  cranberry  bogs  would  have 
frost.  We  were  all  new  to  this 
particular  problem  and  some  of  the 
forecasters  were  even  new  to  the 
western  Oregon  area  in  general.  We 
had  no  climatological  record  of  the 
bogs  and  no  specialized  knowledge 
to  draw  on.  We  had  to  develop  our 


skill  from  day  to  day  and  profit  by 
our  errors.  We  made  a  good  many 
errors.  In  general  practice,  meteor- 
ologists forecast  for  temperature  of 
free  air,  which  is  measured  in 
standard  shelters  at  about  5  feet 
above  the  surface.  To  a  great  ex- 
tent, we  started  out  in  that  way 
and  discovered  that  at  times  when 
we  forecast  temperatures  of  40  or 
42  degrees,  the  bogs  had  frost.  The 
agricultural  service  office  on  the 
Oregon  State  University  campus  and 
the  Extension  Service  gave  us  what 
helpful  suggestions  they  could,  and 
we  closed  a  first  season  with  many 
disappointments,  but  with  a  broad 
experience  and  some  meteorological 
record  for  analysis  and  research.  We 
knew  we  faced  a  speciaHzed  prob- 
lem. 

Each  winter  since  then,  we  have 
combined  the  preceding  years  of 
record  and  analyzed  them  to  see 
what  we  could  do  to  refine  our 
forecasting  technique  and  produce 
a  special  minimum  temperature  fore- 
cast that  would  apply  to  the  cran- 
berry bog  area.  Several  persons 
have  entered  into  this  program  be- 
sides Weather  Bureau  personnel. 

Two  general  problems  faced  us. 
One  was:  Why  do  the  cranberry 
bogs  on  niglits  of  fair  weather 
conditions  get  so  much  colder  than 
the  prevailing  niglit  time  tempera- 
ture along  the  general  Oregon  coast? 


The  second  problem  was  to  find 
how  to  forecast  the  temperature 
after  learning  something  about  the 
environment. 

The  climate  of  the  area  is  what 
climatologists  or  geographers  call 
"marine  west  coast,"  which  is  a 
climate  of  mild  temperature  with 
few,  if  any,  extremes  either  cold  or 
hot.  We  have  coastal  climatic  rec- 
ords where  a  whole  year  has  passed 
with  no  frost  occurring.  We  knew, 
however,  this  was  not  true  in  the 
particular  cHmate  of  the  bogs.  We 
have  found  that  on  clear  nights, 
cranberry  plants  suffer  a  substantial 
radiation  problem.  This  is  because 
of  the  bog  material.  This  wet  bog 
material  is  an  insulator  between  the 
earth  beneath  and  the  plant  above, 
very  similar  to  the  insulation  which 
you  probably  all  have  in  the  ceilings 
of  your  homes.  This  is  a  prime 
reason  why  you  cranberry  people 
experience  frost  in  your  growing 
areas  even  in  the  month  of  June 
when  in  general  the  Washington 
and  Oregon  coasts  experience  mild 
night  temperatures.  There  are  other 
factors  at  play.  Cloudiness,  or  the 
lack  of  it,  has  an  important  influ- 
ence, and  wind  flow  is  another  im- 
portant factor.  The  bogs,  by  their 
depressed  situation,  may  experience 
very  calm  air  in  the  first  10  or  20 
feet  above  the  plants,  and  this,  with 
other  suitable  conditions,  can  permit 
frost.  On  cloudy  niglits  or  nights 
with  some  wind,  a  common  tern- 


perature  prevails  throughout  the 
coastal  community;  that  is,  bogs 
are  as  mild  as  any  part  of  the  coast. 
On  clear  nights  with  Hght  wind, 
radiation  in  the  bogs  causes  critically 
low  temperatures  in  the  spring  and 
early  summer.  As  stated,  the  bog 
material  is  an  insulator.  It  pre- 
vents heat  from  rising  from  the  earth 
beneath.  The  plants  stand  above 
tliis  insulator  a-  d  are  exposed  to 
the  sky.  We  ali  recognize  that  at 
night  there  is  no,  or  nearly  no,  heat 
radiated  to  the  plants  from  the  sky, 
and  the  little  plants  are  rapidly 
radiating  out  their  store  of  heat 
toward  the  open  sky.  On  a  calm 
night  with  Httle  or  no  stirring  in  the 

air,  no  warmer  air  from  50  to  100 
feet  above  the  plant  is  brought 
down  to  the  plants  by  stirring. 
Thus,  the  plants  and  the  very  shallow 
layer  of  air  right  around  them  get 
colder  and  colder.  Essentially,  they 
have  no  heat  source.  The  result  you 
growers  know  very  well  is  frost. 

By  the  close  of  the  1965  season, 
we  had  a  pretty  good  understanding 
of  why  the  very  shallow  layer  of  air 
in  the  bogs  got  cooler  than  the 
general  coastal  area  night  air.  Also, 
our  accumulation  of  observations 
from  the  Ray  Bates  cranberry  bog 
was  sufficiently  great  to  let  us 
attempt  a  statistical  study  of  certain 
climatic  variables  and  how  they 
influenced  this  night  time  low  tem- 
perature. We  had  to  analyze  the 
very  special  condition  in  the  bog  as 
much  as  possible,  but  also  consider 
other  influences.  So  Mr.  Bates'  dili- 
gence to  observations  had  provided 
us  with  a  base  to  work  from. 

We  studied  a  combination  of  the 
following:  the  4  o'clock  afternoon 
temperature  in  the  bog,  wind  direc- 
tion and  dew  point  in  the  bog,  the 
cloudiness  or  lack  of  it  in  the  over- 
head sky,  and  temperature  of  the 
air  about  5000  feet  above  the  sur- 
face. F^^om  a  thorough  study  of 
this,  a  statistical  equation  was  gener- 
ated which  is  able  to  forecast  a 
temperature.  The  lorccast  made  by 
this  equation  applied  specifically  to 
the  cranberry  bogs  and  is  very  often 
different   from    the   general   night 


time  temperature  forecast  on  the 
Oregon  coast.  We  know  that  this 
temperature  forecast  made  statisti- 
cally is  not  perfect,  but  it  is  a  real 
aid  to  the  forecaster.  In  particular, 
this  statistical  forecast  anticipates 
no  change  in  the  atmospheric  con- 
ditions throughout  the  night.  This 
is  one  of  its  weaknesses.  Probably 
most  of  us  expect  from  having  lived 
around  this  Oregon  coastal  section 
very  long  that  there  will  be  two  or 
three  changes  through  a  night. 
Knowing  this,  the  forecaster  studies 
the  general  weather  pattern  of  west- 
ern Oregon  and  the  nearby  coastal 
water  area,  and  makes  determina- 
tions as  to  cloud  cover  changes  to 
be  expected  in  the  night  and  the 
wind  flow  pattern.  These  things 
may  cause  the  forecaster  to  alter 
the  statistical  forecast  figure  to  a 
higher  or  a  lower  value,  or  if  he 
anticipates  no  change  at  all  through 
the  night,  he  may  accept  the  statis- 
tical forecast  as  it  is.  There  is  a 
great  deal  of  thought  put  into  each 
forecast  before  it  is  released  for 
broadcast  because  the  man  making 
this  forecast  realizes  that  the  action 
of  several  farmers  to  protect  or  not 
protect  a  crop  in  the  face  of  po- 
tential frost  danger  depends  upon 
that  particular  forecast. 

Let  us  now  look  at  the  forecast 
from  the  grower's  point  of  view.  We 
know  that  the  data  for  developing 
the  statistical  forecast  was  collected 
at  the  Ray  Bates  bog,  and  thereiore 
the  statistical  forecast  and  the  final 
forecast  we  issue,  which  is  influ- 
enced by  the  statistical,  is  for  'he 
Ray  Bates  bog.  Our  daily  sourci  of 
observational  information  is  also 
currently  from  the  bog.  So  let  us 
remember  that  the  forecast  ns  \  ou 
hear  it  broadcast  is  for  a  particular 
location,  and  it  must  be  for  iliat 
location  because  at  this  time-  no 
other  information  is  availablf  to 
the  forecaster.  This  is  not  to  say 
that  the  for<\:ast  is  not  useful  to' 
the  whole  fi.nidon  cranbeny  m 
dustry.  There  rt.imh'  is  :i  rlosr. 
relation->hip  h-^iwtuni  all  the  cran- 
berry bog<=;  Id.ri.  Thry  al'  havf  otn 
thing  in  commor'  .vm\  tnat  i"  "la; 
the  bogs  are  l)asu;all)   compovii  o* 


the  insulating  peat  material  and 
therefore  all  bogs  on  a  given  night 
tend  to  get  colder  than  the  sur- 
rounding community.  Thus,  when 
conditions  indicate  a  frost  potential 
for  one  bog,  certainly  all  the  bogs 
are  in  danger  of  some  degree  of 
frost,  although  temperatures  may 
vary  up  and  down  a  few  degrees 
from  place  to  place. 

Perhaps  some  of  you  here  know 
that  your  bogs  are  more  exposed  to 
wind  than  are  the  Bates  bogs,  and 
therefore  they  are  a  little  less 
troubled  by  frost.  Each  growing 
area  throughout  the  community 
likely  has  its  own  characteristic 
features  which  make  it  a  cool  spot 
or  a  warm  spot.  If  you  individual 
growers  know  that  your  crop  area 
is  a  cool  or  a  warm  spot  in  relation 
to  the  Bates  location,  this  will  be  a 
valuable  asset  to  you  in  interpreting 
the  forecast  as  you  hear  it  broadcast 
over  KWRO  radio  or  KCBY-TV. 
For  example,  if  you  know  that  on 
the  average  clear  night  your  growing 
area  is  two  or  three  degrees  lower  in 
temperature  than  is  Mr.  Bates's,  then 
if  you  hear  a  given  forecast  broad- 
cast, you  quickly  subtract  your  two 
or  three  degree  variation  from  that 
forecast,  and  you  have  a  reasonable 
estimate  for  your  own  fields.  1  hope 
that  you  will  remember  that  you 
can  use  local  peculiarities  of  terrain 
features,  water  bodies,  wind  flow 
and  cloud  change  to  your  own 
advantage  in  interpreting  the  tem- 
perature forecast,  arid  if  any  of  you 
have  questions  about  this,  we  will 
be  glad  to  try  \<  vjisruss  them  with 
you. 

In  fr  )s*  protection,  we  know 
that  growers  of  other  fruiis  use  a 
variety  of  methods  and  equipment. 
^  ou  pei-plt:  may  be  fortunate  in 
having  one  rnethod  that  seems  to  be 
most  suitable.  Heaters  such  as  wax 
candles  and  gas  or  oil  burners  prob- 
ably have  little  use  because  a  re- 
liable temperature  inversion  in  the 
lower  an  is  not  often  present. 
Surface  based  wind  machines  or  the 
blast  fron;  lielicopters  might  work, 
but  it  IS  questionable  tttai  >  itner  of 

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Andrew  Lampen,  President  of  FICB,  St. 
Paul,  left;  Dave  Boorman,  Agrifax  Co- 
ordinator, and  Mrs.  Doris  Markuson, 
IBM  Technician,  check  a  profit  and 
loss  print  out  from  the  IBM  360l30 
computer. 


In  addition,  a  primary  objective 
of  the  Production  Credit  Association 
is  to  provide  a  field  staff  qualified 
to  counsel  farmers  using  Agrifax  in 
reporting  information  and  inter- 
preting their  reports.  PCA  personnel 
will  provide  this  counseling  solely 
in  an  advisory  capacity.  They  will 
not  become  participants  in  the 
management  of  farm  operations. 

Greatest  emphasis  in  the  Agrifax 
program  is  placed  on  management 
through  enterprise  analysis.  But  be- 
cause some  farmers  only  want  basic 
tax  data  from  Agrifax,  PCA  offers 
a  basic  plan  with  options. 


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6 


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NEW  EQUIPMENT  SPEEDS 
UP  PCA  ACCOUNTING 
SERVICE   FOR   FARMERS 

A  new  electronic  farm  record 
accounting  system  designed  to  im- 
prove service  to  farmer-customers 
was  introduced  September  by 
Seventh  Farm  Credit  District  Pro- 
duction Credit  Associations. 

Called  Agrifax,  the  system  was 


inx/i    o^A  on              *       n  of»^    T+  A  farmer  may  sign  up  for  the 

IBM   360-30  cumputer   system.  It  i        i  •  u  •  ^i,,^^c. 

•11        1        .u     iDN/i  i/im  c.„c+^r>.  basic  program  onlv,  which  mcludes 

will  replace  the  IBM  1401  system  .         ^    ^j                         .,  a^^.^ 

u  ■            A   *           ^^c   f^.rr.  income  and  expense  reports,  depre 

now   bemg  u§ed  to  process  farm  ^^^^^_    ,^..^,1.    .nH    tnt.l   f.m 
records. 


Althougli  PCAs  are  confident 
their  new  Agrifax  facilities  could 
easily  handle  many  more  farm  rec- 
ords than  are  now  expected  for 
1968,  they  are  as  yet  unwilling  to 
sign  up  more  farmers  than  can  be 
adequately  served  at  one  time. 

More  emphasis  will  be  placed  on 

f    *  1         u  A     ^  ^  «;l,^t  KqcJc  lact    cducatiou  and  training  of  PCA  per- 
first  launched  on  a  pilot  basis  last  ,n^n  .  ^    uJl^^. 

sonnel  during  1967  to  supply  better 

counseling    for    farmers    and    thus 

give  them  the  knowledge  and  help 

they  need  to  make  maximum  use 


year. 

Seventy  farmers  from  Minnesota, 
North  Dakota,  Wisconsin  and  Mich- 
igan were  included  in  the  District's 
initial  project. 

The  Agrifax  program  this  year 
has  advanced  to  Phase  II  with  an 
enrollment  of  slightly  more  than 
500  farmers.  Plans  are  to  expand 
Agrifax  to  from  1,500  to  2,000 
farmers  by  1968. 

Expansion  is  based  on  anticipated 


of  Agrifax 

Agrifax  provides  farmers  with  an 


elation  schedules  and  total  farm 
analysis.  The  current  charge  for 
this  basic  service  ranges  from  SI 25 
to  $200,  depending  primarily  on 
the  amount  of  processing  needed 
on  any  particular  farm  operation. 

Enterprise  analysis  designed  to 
provide  valuable  management  in- 
formation is  available  as  an  option 
to  the  basic  fee.  These  options  are 
available  at  a  cost  of  from  $10  to 
$20  per  year,  depending  on  the 
type  of  enterprise. 

All  of  these  fees  are  character- 
istic of  farms  with  gross  income  of 
up  to  $50,000  a  year  (the  purchase 
price    of    feeder   livestock    is   not 


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I7th  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF 
fHE  MASSACHUSETTS  FARM 
BUREAU  FEDERATION 

The  47th  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau  Federa- 
ion  is  now  history.  Out  of  the 
neeting  came  the  number  of  reso- 
utions  and  activities  that  would  be 


as  guide  lines  will  assist  the  Farm 
Bureau  in  determining  the  efforts 
which  can  be  made  in  helping  the 
cranberry  industry. 

Farm  labor  was  also  discussed 
and  the  delegates  adopted  the 
twolve  point  program  for  farm  labor 
as  outlined  by  the  Secretary  in  his 
address  as  a  basis  of  Farm  Bureau's 


)finterest  to  the  cranberry  industry,    policy  dealing  with  the  Common- 
wealth Service  Corps. 

The  delegates  also  established 
policy  directing  Farm  Bureau  to 
work  in  the  area  of  protecting  the 
interest  of  Agricultural  employers 
and  employees  in  the  field  of  hous- 
ing, wages,  and  the  like. 

A  rather  complete  program  was 
set  forth  in  the  resolution  dealing 
with  natural  resources,  including 
air  and  water. 

The  resolution  reads  as  follows: 
"Whereas  Farm  Bureau  is  keenly 
aware  of  the  seriousness  of  the 
problem  of  air  and  water  pollution, 
of  the  rapid  loss  of  farm  land  and 


the  nation's  natural  resources  and 
whereas  much  hasty  if  well  inten- 
tioned  legislation  is  being  prepared 
in  the  name  of  conservation,  there- 
fore, may  it  be  resolved  that  Farm 
Bureau  support  natural  resource 
conservation  measures  only  after 
the  most  careful  scrutiny,  especially 
as  to  their  effect  on  the  continual 
practical  operation  of  our  free  enter- 
prise system." 

The  delegates  also  passed  a  reso- 
lution dealing  with  continued  op- 
position to  the  inland  wetlands 
bill  which  is  currently  before  the 
Massachusetts  General  Court. 

The  resolutions  passed  at  the 
annual  meeting  become  the  program 
of  work  for  the  Farm  Bureau  during 
the  year.  They  serve  as  directives 
and  as  guide  lines  for  the  activities 
of  the  organization.  It  is  only 
through  an  organization  such  as 
Farm  Bureau  that  farmers  can  have 
an  effective  voice  in  matters  of 
interest  to  them. 


The  cranberry  industry  should 
dso  be  interested  in  the  fact  that 
)avid  Mann  of  Head  of  the  Bay  rd., 
Buzzards  Bay,  was  promoted  to 
;irst  Vice-President  of  the  Federa- 
ion  and  that  Alfred  Pappi  has  been 
jlected  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
;he  Federation  as  a  representative 
Tom  Plymouth  County. 

The  resolutions  dealing  with  the 
cranberry  industry  reflect  Fami 
Bureau's  concern  over  current  prob- 
lems facing  the  industry.  Among 
;the  resolutions  are: 

The  establishment  of  a  cranberry 
advisory  committee  to  be  appointed 
by  the  President  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Farm  Bureau  Federation.  Farm 
Bureau  has  a  number  of  commodity 
committees  and  has  had  a  fruit 
committee  on  which  cranberry 
growers  have  had  representation. 
Since  cranberries  are  raised  in  three 
counties  in  Massachusetts,  the  dele- 
gates called  for  the  appointment 
of  a  standing  committee  to  deal 
through  the  Farm  Bureau  structure 
with  problems  facing  the  cranberry 
industry.  The  establishment  of  such 
a  committee  will  complement  exist- 
ing cranberry  clubs  and  associations 
in  their  efforts  to  develop  sound 
programs  for  the  cranberry  industry. 

A  second  resolution  called  for 
the  American  Farm  Bureau  and 
Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau  to  assist 
the  cranberry  industry  in  developing 
programs  to  combat  possible  surplus 
production  in  the  industry.  The 
delegates  also  expressed  their  con-  . 

cam  in  an  additional  resolution  The  Massachusetts  Department  products,  carnations  apples,  green- 
that  Farm  Bureau  work  toward  of  Agriculture  had  a  fine  display  of  house  tomatoes,  shade  tobacco  and 
bringing  the  farm  production  into  products  at  the  100th  Anniversary  maple  sugar,  candy  and  syrup. 
more  favorable  supply  and  demand  of  the  National  Grange  in  Syracuse,  \  map  of  the  state  was  featured 
without  the  use  of  subsidies;  these  New  York.  The  revolving  exhibit  ^^^  ^as  made  with  over  900  fresh 
two    resolutions   working   together    featured      cranberries,      cranberry    carnations. 

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NEW  JERSEY 


The  past  month  was  the  coldest 
November  in  39  years  at  the  weather 
station  of  the  Cranberry-Bkieberry 
Lab  at  New  Lisbon.  The  mean  daily 
maximum  was  51.0,  the  mean  daily 
minimum  was  30.2  and  the  daily 
mean  temperature  was  40.6  degrees, 
which  is  5.6  degrees  below  normal. 
Temperatures  were  below  freezing 
on  nineteen  nights  with  minimums 
on  cranberry  bogs  going  below  20 
degrees  on  fifteen  nights.  An  unusu- 
ally low  reading  for  November,  1 1 
degrees,  was  recorded  on  tluee 
nights;  the  6th,  8th  and  9th.  On 
the  upland,  in  the  weather  shelter, 
the  minimum  for  the  month  was 
17  degrees. 

The  heaviest  snow  ever  to  occur 
here  in  November  was  recorded  on 

OREGON 

On  the  October  cover  of  Cran- 
berries we  featured  the  Bandon, 
Oregon  Cranberry  Festival.  The 
story  was  well  received  in  Oregon, 
for  the  front  page  of  the  Bandon 
newspaper.  Western  World,  carried 
a  large  picture  of  Cranberries  mag- 
azine. 


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the  last  day  of  the  month,  when 
seven  inches  fell.  In  this  region 
snows  in  November  are  infrequent 
and  usually  very  light.  It  has  snowed 
a  total  of  only  15  times  in  twelve  of 
the  past  39  years.  The  previous 
record  snow  for  this  month  was 
six  inches  on  November  27,  1938. 

For  the  third  successive  month 
there  has  been  a  large  deficiency  of 
rainfall.  In  november  there  were 
twelve  rainy  days  but  most  were 
mere  sprinkles  and  the  total  precipi- 
tation was  only  1.96  inches,  about 
I'/i  inches  below  normal.  Ironically, 
although  excessive  rains  caused  much 
serious  damage  to  the  blueberry 
crop  this  year,  it  may  go  into  the 
records  as  a  normal  or  even  drier- 
than-normal  year.  The  total  rainfall 
for  the  first  eleven  months  now 
stands  at  41.05  inches  which  leaves 
us  with  a  requirement  of  only  2.09 
inches  in  December  to  equal  the 
average  annual  rainfall.  If  December 
follows  the  trend  of  the  last  three 
months,    less   than    two    inches   of 


Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager 


precipitation  will  occur  and  1967 
will  go  into  the  record  as  deficient 
in  rainfall. 

As  a  result  of  the  unusually  cold 
weather  in  November  the  cranberry 
vines  reddened  much  earlier  than 
normal.  This  is  not  considered  harm- 
ful to  next  year's  crop. 

The  New  Jersey  Crop  Reporting 
Service  has  issued  a  report  whicl 
gave  the  State's  cranberry  crop  a: 
163,000  barrels.  This  is  the  larges 
cranberry  crop  produced  in  Ne\^ 
Jersey  since  1937.  From  the  stand 
point  of  yield  per  acre  it  ties  th( 
all-time  high  of  fifty-one  barrels  pei 
acre  set  in  1965.  Acreage  was  esti 
mated  as  3,200  in  1967  and  3,00( 
in  1965. 

Continued  on  Page  20 


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FROST  FORECASTING 
as  related  to  Bandon,  Ore. 

Continued  from  Page  7 
these  air  movement  methods  would 
equal  the  sprinkling  method.  If  a 
water  source  failed  in  this  cranberry 
growing  community,  then  artificial 
wind  movement  might  be  a  good 
thing  to  try. 

Sprinkling  provides  a  heat  source 
for  plants,  and  if  an  ice  coating 
forms,  it  is  an  insulator  against 
further  cooling.  Sprinkling  has  also 
proven  useful  in  strawberry  crops 
and  has  shown  promise  in  orchard 
crops.  If  the  Weather  Bureau  can 
provide  you  with  a  useful  warning 
of  dangerous  temperature,  it  looks 
as  thougii  you  have  an  adequate 
protection  method. 

We  feel  that  we  had  somewhat 
greater  success  in  forecasting  in  the 
1966  season  than  we  had  in  previous 
seasons.  This  is  due,  of  course,  to 
the  sum  of  experience  over  several 
years  plus  the  fact  that  we  did  have 
a  statistical  formula  to  aid  us.  Also, 
we  asked  Mr.  Bates  to  give  us  a 
more  detailed  cloud  observation, 
and  this  has  been  helpful.  We  want 
to  continue  to  study  this  problem, 
and  we  hope  that  our  accuracy  can 
be  improved.  More  observational 
data    from    other    sections  of  the 


cranberry  growing  area  would  be 
useful.  During"  the  month  of  AprU 
last  season,  we  had  a  communication 
problem  and  station  KWRO  was 
unable  to  receive  the  forecasts. 
Finally  the  telephone  company 
cleared  that  up.  We  will  watch 
carefully  this  season  and  attempt 
to  avoid  such  a  mishap. 

When  the  frost  forecasting  pro- 
gram begins  this  spring,  if  there  are 
problems  about  it  that  bother  you 
people,  or  if  you  have  suggestions 
for  change  that  we  might  be  able  to 
include,  you  should  make  this 
known  to  your  county  agent,  Mr. 
Keir,  who  will  contact  us. 

For  the  Weather  Bureau,  I  want 
to  acknowledge  that  without  the 
help  of  several  persons,  we  could 
not  very  well  carry  on  our  efforts 
of  this  detailed  temperature  fore- 
casting. Mr.  Ray  Bates  has  faithfully 
each  day,  seven  days  per  week, 
through  tlie  past  five  growing  sea- 
sons, made  an  observation  and  has 
called  it  to  our  office.  We  thank 
him  for  this  important  work.  Mr. 
Leonard  Epling  and  his  staff  at 
Station  KWRO  in  Coquille  have 
performed  a  real  service  for  us  by 
making  the  information  quickly 
available  to  the  growers  after  we 
released  the  forecast.  Mr.  Harry 
Kirk  of  KCBY-TV  and  his  broadcast 


staff  at  Coos  Bay  have  also  per- 
formed this  valuable  service  for  the 
Weather  Bureau  and  to  this  cran- 
berry producing  community  b> 
timely  broadcasts  of  the  forecast 
Your  County  Agents,  Mr.  Free 
Hagelstein  and  David  Keir  have 
kept  us  informed. 

Robert  Black,  whom  I  hope  yoi 
have  been  able  to  meet,  is  from  th( 
Weather  Bureau's  Agricultural  Ad 
visory  Office  in  Meteorology  at  th( 
Oregon  State  University.  That  offic< 
has  assisted  Mr.  Bates  and  mad( 
suggestions  to  us  in  forecasting. 

Gentlemen:  If  you  have  ques 
tions,  I'd  be  glad  to  try  to  discus 
them  with  you,  and  I  am  sure  Mr 
Black  would  also  welcome  ques 
tions.  It  has  been  pleasant  to  visi 
with  you  this  evening,  and  we  hopi 
that  you  have  a  most  successfu 
season. 


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United  States  cranberry  produc- 
tion is  now  indicated  in  a  Govern- 
ment crop  reporting  bulletin  at 
785,000  barrels,  or  second  only  in 
quantity  to  the  all-time  record  of 
1937  with  a  877,000  barrel  crop. 

The  amount  of  labor  available  for 
screening,  packing  and  shipping  was 
altogether  too  scanty  and  there  was 
a  cry  from  the  screenhouse  foremen 
that  not  enough  boxes  were  avail- 
able. 


One  of  the  minor  casualties  of 
these  war  times  is  the  fact  that  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hllis  D.  Atwood  of  Carver, 


Massachusetts  will  be  unable  to  of- 
fer to  fellow  cranberry  growers  and 
the  public,  their  great  annual  Christ- 
mas-New Year  display.  As  they  say, 
this  is  the  year  of  dimouts  and 
blackouts  are  the  order  along  the 
coast  rather  than  brilliant  Christmas 
pageants.  But  our  hope  and  convic- 
tion may  be  added  to  that  of  the 
Atwood's  "that  the  hghts  of  Peace- 
dale  will  again  shine  out  their  mes- 
sage to  the  world." 


yt 


ders  for  fresh  fruit,  are  placing  cran- 
berries in  the  category  of  foods 
essential  to  those  most  active  in 
the  prosecution  of  the  war. 


The  government  has  just  given 
permission  to  manufacturers  to  pro- 
ceed withthte  production  of  Cryo- 
lite for  the  agricultural  field  for 
1943,  relieving  the  fears  of  the 
insecticide  situation  next  season, 
as  Derris  and  Pyrethrum  have  been 
frozen. 


Cranberry  Canners,  Inc.  this  year 
estimates  its  pack  will  be  300,000 
barrels  and  of  this,  539f  will  be  used 
by  government  agencies.  These  or- 


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HOLIDAY 

DELLA  ROBBIA  SALAD 

(Makes  8  servings) 

2  cups  fresh  cranberries,  rinsed 
and  drained 

Vi  cup  granulated  sugar 

Vi,  cup  white  vinegar 

1  teaspoon  pickling  spice 

3  cups  diced  cooked  ham 

3  cups  cooked  elbow  macaroni 
1  cup  diced  celery 
V2  cup  sliced  scallions 
Lettuce  leaves 
%  cup  mayonnaise 

Combine  cranberries,  sugar, 
vinegar  and  pickling  spice  in  a  sauce- 
pan and  cook  over  low  heat  until 
mixture  starts  to  bubble;  then  sim- 
mer 5  minutes.  Drain  and  reserve 
syrup.  Cliill  cranberries  and  syrup. 
Toss  ham,  macaroni,  celery ,  scallions 
and  cranberries  together,  then  pour 
into  a  salad  bowl  lined  with  lettuce 
leaves.  Combine  mayonnaise  with 
enough  of  the  cranberry  syrup  to 
make  it  the  consistency  of  heavy 
cream.  Serve  salad  with  some  of 
the  mayonnaise  spooned  on  each 
serving. 


CANDIED  CRANBERRIES 

(Makes  V/i  cups) 

2  cups  fresh  cranberries 
1  cup  granulated  sugar 
Va.  teaspoon  ground  cinnamon 
Dash  of  ground  cloves 

Preheat  oven  to  350"  F.  Spread 
cranberries  in  a  single  layer  in  a 
shallow  baking  pan.  Combine  sugar 
and  spices;  sprinkle  mixture  evenly 
over  the  top  of  the  cranberries. 
Cover  with  foil  or  a  lid  and  bake  in 
a  moderate  oven  (350"  F.)  for  40 
to  50  minutes.  Shake  pan  occasion- 
ally to  coat  berries  in  sugar  syrup. 
Chill  before  serving. 

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TIERED  CRANBERRY 
FRUIT  CAKE 

3  packages  {Wh  ounces  each) 
applesauce  raisin  cake  mix  or  2 
packages  (19'/2  ounces  each) 
applesauce  raisin  cake  mix 

1  cup  chopped  nuts 

2  cups  fresh  cranberries,  rinsed, 
drained  and  chopped 

2  packages  fluffy  white  frosting  mix 
1  cup  boiling  cranberry  juice  cocktail 
Spiced  cranberries  and  mixed 
candied  fruit 

Prepare  cake  mix  according  to 
package  directions,  folding  in 
chopped  nuts  and  cranberries. 
Divide  batter  between  3  greased 
and  floured  10,  8  and  6-inch  layer 
cake  pans.  Bake  at  375"  F.  30  to 
35  minutes  for  10-inch  pan,  25  to 
30  minutes  for  8-inch  pan  and  20 
to  25  minutes  for  6-inch  pan.  Let 
cakes  stand  in  pans  for  10  minutes 
before  removing;  then  remove  from 
pans  and  cool  layers  on  racks. 
Prepare  frosting  mix  according  to 
package  directions  using  boiling 
cranberry  juice  instead  of  wa  er 
Frost  top  and  sides  of  10-inch 
layer;  top  with  8-inch  layer;  frost 
top  and  sides;  top  with  6-Inch  layer; 
frost  top  and  sides.  Decorate  edges 
of  cake  layers  with  mixed  candied 
fruit  and  candied  cranberries 


CONSUMERS  ADVISED  TO 
SHOP  EARLY  FOR 
HOLIDAY  CRANBERRIES 

Due  to  unusual  summer  weather 
conditions  on  the  East  Coast,  last- 
minute  shoppers  may  find  fresh 
cranberries  for  the  holiday  table  in 
limited  supply. 

With  harvesting  of  this  fall's 
cranberry  crop  completed  in  most 
major  growing  areas,  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.,  reports  the  yield 
of  berries  especially  grown  for  fresh 
produce  shelves  has  fallen  below 
early  estimates.  Supplies  of  the 
fresh  berry,  a  traditional  accompani- 
ment for  turkey  and  chicken,  and 
a  basic  ingredient  in  holiday  breads, 
pies  and  sauces,  may  begin  to  run 
low  as  shoppers  stock  up  for  holi- 
day meals. 

To  homemakers  intent  on 
squeezing  the  most  from  the  1 
pound  packages  of  fresh  cranberries, 
Ocean  Spray  has  this  advice.  Buy 
early,  storing  extra  berries  for  latei 
use  by  freezing  them  in  the  package. 
Mbc  in  other  fruits  and  nuts  to 
increase  the  yield  of  your  fresh 
cranberry  sauce  and  relish  recipes. 

An  unusually  wet  summer  ir 
New  England  was  responsible  foi 
lower-than-average  crops  of  Howe; 
and  Early  Blacks,  two  deep-red 
varieties  of  cranberries  grown  foi 
use  in  fresh  form.  The  situation  i; 
being  helped  somewhat  by  fair-to 
normal  crops  in  Wisconsin,  anothe 
major  producer  of  berries  for  fresi 
I'.se. 

Ocean  Spray,  which  maintain 
a  rigid  quality  control  procedun 
for  all  berries  distributed  in  fresI 
form,  expects  meantime  to  hav( 
adequate  supplies  of  its  processe< 
products  (cranberry  sauces,  relisl 
and  juices)  on  hand  during  th 
holidays  and  the  coming  year. 


NOTES   FROM  OREGON 


The  harvest  is  completed  and 
from  all  indications  the  Oregon 
cranberry  crop  will  set  a  new  record. 
The  crop  from  this  area  will  surpass 
the  52,000  barrels  which  were  es- 
timated before  harvest. 

Harvest  and  Color 

Dr.  Ralph  Garren  of  the  depart- 
ment of  horticulture  at  Oregon  State 
University  again  conducted  trials 
in  this  area  to  determine  the  effect 
of  different  materials  on  berry  col- 
oring. Included  in  these  trials  was 
Malathion  which  is  registered  for 
use  as  an  insecticide  but  when  used 
just  prior  to  harvest  has  been  ob- 
served as  enhancing  berry  coloring. 
Several  growers  are  using  Malathion 
for  this  purpose. 

Dr.  Garren  reports  excellent  re- 
sults from  trials  conducted  this 
year.  Malathion  was  applied  on 
September  18  at  two  different  rates 


and  marked  differences  in  berry 
coloring  were  noticed  on  both  treat- 
ments within  five  to  six  days  after 
treatment.  Treated  berries  made 
number  11  or  12  on  the  color 
chart  whereas  untreated  berries 
ranged  only  from  5  to  7. 

One  word  of  caution!  Prehm- 
inary  indications  from  these  trials 
indicate  that  there  might  be  some 
sliglit  reduction  in  berry  size.  Con- 
sequently, Garren  feels  that  this 
practice  miglit  be  best  recommended 
only  for  use  when  desirable  color 
cannot  be  obtained  naturally  or 
where  growers  wish  to  harvest  early. 

Berry  Rot  and  Deformity 

Although  yields  were  generally 
good  to  excellent  for  this  year's 
crop,  there  is  some  concern  regard- 
ing quality.  Soft  fruit  rots  and 
deformed  "monkey  face"  berries 
were   a  problem   on   some  of  our 


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local  bogs.  Soft  fruit  may  well  be 
associated  with  higher  rates  of  nitro- 
gen being  applied  to  increase  pro- 
duction. Growers  who  are  affected 
by  this  problem  might  well  check 
back  on  their  fertilizer  practices 
during  the  past  couple  of  years. 

Monkey  faced  or  deformed  ber- 
ries is  related  to  injury  of  the  bud 
or  bloom.  Frost  injury  has  been 
beheved  to  be  the  only  cause  for 
such  deformation, however,  because 
of  the  relatively  mild  winter  and 
sporadic  occurance  of  monkey  face 
berries  this  fall,  there  is  speculation 
that  there  may  be  other  causes  for 
this  problem. 

Dead  Areas  in  Bogs 

During  the  past  couple  of  years 
there  has  been  increasing  prevalance 
of  spots  in  bogs  with  weakened  or 
dying  vines.  We  have  been  studying 
this  problem  and,  although  we  have 
uncovered  some  contributing  causes, 
it  is  still  felt  that  the  solution  to 
the  problem  is  not  yet  fully  known. 
A  major  fungus  found  in  the^e 
spots  has  been  Guignardia  vaccini. 
However,  in  many  cases  these  areas 
do  not  respond  fully  to  fungicide 
treatment.  In  a  few  other  cases  we 
have  found  symphillids,  a  tiny  in- 
sect which  feeds  on  the  roots. 

Because  we  have  found  fungus 
diseases  associated  with  many  of 
these  cases  of  weakened  or  dying 
vines,  we  are  recommending  fungi- 
cide treatment.  A  dormant  spray 
applied  now  (November-December) 
is  as  important  as  are  other  sprays 
applied  during  the  growing  season. 
Use  liquid  lime  sulfur  or  Polysol  at 
the  rate  of  six  gallons  per  hundred 
gallons  of  water  (18  gallons  Polysol 
per  acre)  plus  one  to  two  ounces  of 
a  wetting  agent.  This  can  be  fol- 
lowed by  late  dormant  and  summer 
applications  of  other  materials  such 
as  Ferbam,  Maneb  or  Captan. 
Always    remember    not    to    apply 


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VIASS.  BLUEBERRY 
GROWERS  HOLD 
ANNUAL  MEETING 

Joseph  Webby  of  Brockton,  Mass- 
achusetts was  elected  President  of 
he  Massachusetts  Cultivated  Blue- 
jerry  Growers  Association  at  the 
\ssociation's  annual  meeting  on 
December  2,  1967,  in  Hanson, 

Also  elected  were  Richard 
vlurray,  Hanson,  Vice  President; 
ind  Mrs.  Mary  Mullen,  Hanson, 
Jecretary-Treasurer.  George  Mullen, 
ianson;  Joseph  Gildea,  Bridgewater 
md  Leo  Salva,  Swansea  were  elected 
Directors  of  the  Association.  0. 
iVellington  Stewart,  Kingston  and 
C)harles  W.  Williams,  East  Bridge- 
vater  were  named  Co-Chairmen  of 
he  Research  Committee. 

Retiring  President  Harold  Wood- 
vard,  Segreganset,  conducted  the 
)usiness  meeting  and  speaking  pro- 
gram. Retiring  Secretary  LiUian. 
iUiot,  Hanson  was  recognized  for 
ler  12  years  of  outstanding  service 
n  this  position  and  it  was  voted  to 
;end  her  a  check  in  appreciation  of 
ler  fine  work. 


Speakers  included  Joseph  Webby, 
who  discussed  netting  to  protect 
blueberries  from  the  birds.  "There 
is  no  net  without  netting,"  he 
stated.  Larger  and  sweeter  berries 
can  be  produced  under  netting  since 
they  can  be  left  on  the  bush  until 
completely  ripe.  Mr.  Webby  also 
discussed  the  different  kinds  of 
netting  available. 

Dominic  Marini,  Regional  Agri- 
cultural Specialist  discussed  the  pre- 
vention of  rabbit  damage  to  blue- 
berries. He  pointed  out  that  there 
are  several  methods .  available  in- 
cluding removal  of  brush  and  other 
cover,  hunting,  trapping,  fencing 
them  out,  and  the  use  of  taste 
repellants.  "Repellants  are  perhaps 
the  easiest  and  most  effective  means 
of  preventing  damage,"  he  explained. 
They  must  be  thoroughly  applied 
and  the  use  of  a  sticker  increases 
the  length  of  time  that  they  remain 
effective. 

Professor  WilhamTomlinson,  En- 
tomologist at  the  Cranberry  Station, 
East  Wareham,  discussed  blueberry 
insect  pests.  He  explained  that  the 
cranberry  and  cherry  fruitworms 
are  usually  the  most  serious  blue- 
berry insect  pests.  "In  1967,  con- 


R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  Inc. 


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ditions  favored  the  blueberry  maggot 
and  it  became  a  serious  problem," 
he  pointed  out.  The  maggot  prefers 
ripe  fruit  and  a  control  program 
must  begin  just  as  the  first  berries 
start  to  ripen.  At  least  two  to 
three  treatments  must  be  made  at 
10  day  intervals.  Malathion  and 
Carbaryl  were  recommended  for 
control. 

The  meeting  was  preceded  by 
dinner  served  by  members  of  Hanson 
Grange  and  a  musical  program  with 
vocal  selections  by  Mrs,  Joseph 
Gildea,  Bridgewater,  Charles  W,  Wil- 
liams and  Dominic  A.  Marini  both 
of  East  Bridgewater,  Accompanist 
was  Joseph  Gildea,  Bridgewater, 


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The  Wisconsin  marshes  are 
practically  all  flooded  now  and 
everyone  has  plenty  of  water.  The 
northern  part  of  the  state  has  plenty 
of  snow,  but  in  the  central  part  of 
the  state  there  is  practically  no 
snow  as  of  December  1. 

Many  of  the  growers  in  Wiscon- 
sin are  getting  new  acreage  ready  to 
plant  this  year  faster  than  they  ever 
have  before  because  they  have  heard 
of  the  possibility  of  a  restriction  in 
new  acreage  and  tonnage  in  the 
future.  Actually  all  this  information 
has  done  has  been  to  more  or  less 
wave  a  red  flag  in  front  of  the 
growers  and  encourage  them  to 
proceed  at  a  very  much  faster  pace 
than  they  would  have  normally. 

More  sprinklers  are  going  in  next 
year  and  very  shortly,  it  seems  to 
me,  there  will  be  about  90%  of  the 
Wisconsin  acreage  under  sprinklers. 

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APPLE  GROWERS 
HONOR  3  IN  STATE 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Bassett, 
Baraboo,  and  Prof.  George  Klingbeil 
of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  have 
been  cited  for  outstanding  service 
to  the  Wisconsin  fruit  industry  by 
the  Wisconsin  Apple  and  Horticul- 
tural council. 

The  group  held  its  annual  meet- 
ing jointly  with  Minnesota  apple 
growers. 

REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  12 


WISCOIISIK 


November's  weather  was  rather 
uneventful.  Temperatures  averaged 
sliglitly  below  normal  and  precipi- 
tation was  light,  particularly  over 
the  northwest  half  of  the  state. 
Southern  and  eastern  areas  did  re- 
ceive some  good  rains  on  the  first 
two  days  of  the  month,  but  not 
enough  to  bring  the  total  up  to 
the  2  to  2Vi  inches  normally  expected 
for  the  month.  All  sections  of  the 
state,  however,  reported  ample  soil 
moisture  due  to  the  heavy  rains  of 
October.  None  of  the  extensive  low 
pressure  systems  so  typical  of  the 
Great  Lakes  region  in  November 
crossed  Wisconsin  this  year. 


NOTICE  TO  WISCONSIN 
GROWERS 

The  date  of  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Wisconsin  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association  has 
been  changed  from  Wednesday, 
January  17,  to  Thursday,  Jan- 
uary 18. 

The  tentative  meeting  place 
is  YMCA,  Port  Edwards,  Wis- 
consin. 

More  details  will  be  sent 
out  by  the  Wisconsin  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  at  a  later 
date. 

One  deep  low  did  cross  the  Lake 
Superior  region  on  October  24, 
dumping  locally  heavy  snow  in  the 
extreme  north  central  counties  down 
wind  from  the  lake.  One  inch  of 
snow  also  briefly  covered  the  ground 
in  the  south  already  on  October  27. 
Additional  very  Hght  snow  fell  in 
November;  but  on  the  survey  date 
December  1,  only  1  to  4  inch  snow 
depths  were  reported  in  the  north 
except  for  heavier  amounts  in 
northern  portions  of  Iron  and  Vilas 
counties. 

The  first  zero-degree  tempera- 
tures of  the  season  were  recorded 
in  the  north  on  November  29. 
Most  smaller  streams  and  shallow 
lakes  were  ice  covered  by  the  end  of 
November. 


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T  ated  by  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries, 
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^  by  the  firm  of  Automatic  Retailers 
of  America,  Inc.,  according  to  Ed- 
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officer  of  Ocean  Spray.  The  cran- 
berry Houses,  located  in  Onset, 
Hanover,  Hyannis,  Orleans  and  Fal- 
mouth, are  both  restaurant  and  gift 
shop  operations. 

Ocean  Spray  will  retain  its  owner- 
ship of  the  Cranberry  Houses,  and 
continue  to  make  policy  decisions 
regarding  them;  however,  actual 
management  of  the  houses  will 
rest  with  the  Philadelphia  firm, 
which  in  addition  to  operating  many 
institutional  cafeterias,  handles  such 
famed  restaurants  as  that  located 
in  Lincoln  Center  in  New  York 
City.  Through  this  new  association. 
Ocean  Spray  hopes  to  extend  its 
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In  a  statement  to  employees, 
management  spokesmen  had  the 
following  comments  on  the  new 
policy: 

"As  many  of  you  know,  Ocean 
Spray  has  for  the  last  four  years 
expanded  what  was  once  a  very 
modest  retail  store  into  five  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberry  Houses.  The  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberry  Houses  have  been 
a  combination  restaurant,  fountain 
service,  bakery,  and  gift  shop  oper- 
ation. 

"It  has  been  apparent  to  me  for 
some  time  that  our  knowledge  of 
this  form  of  retailing  was  not  ade- 
quate to  continue  to  build  and 
expand  the  Cranberry  Houses  into 
a  satisfactorily  profitable  operation. 
An  expression  you  are  all  familiar 
with  certainly  can  be  applied  in 
this  case:  'A  shoemaker  should 
stick  to  his  last.'  It  is  my  feeling 
that  we  stick  to  our  last.  That  is, 
providing  consumer  food  products 
for  grocery  store  distribution  and 
turning  the  retail  portion  of  our 
business  as  represented  by  the  Cran- 
berry Houses  over  to  experts  whose 
primary  job  it  is  to  manage  such 
operations. 


"With  this  philosophy  in  mind, 
and  expected  Jan.  8,  1968,  we 
have  retained  Automatic  Retailers 
of  America,  Inc.  from  Philadelphia 
to  manage  the  Cranberry  House 
operation  in  its  every  detail. 

"Automatic  Retailers  of  America 
is  a  corporation  whose  1966  sales 
were  $303,000,000.  Over  one  half 
of  this  volume  is  in  managing  eating 
establishments  of  all  kinds  and  sizes. 
These  range  from  Sherry's  in  the 
new  Lincoln  Center  of  the  Perform- 
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college  and  industrial  cafeterias. 


"Please  be  assured  that  the  over- 
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Houses  and  their  goals  will  continue 
to  be  supervised  by  Ocean  Spray 
and  we  look  forward  to  this  new 
relationship  with  Retailers  of  Amer- 
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pand the  size,  number,  and  profita- 
bility of  the  Cranberry  Houses  while 
at  the  same  time  offering  greater 
opportunity  for  the  Cranberry 
House  employees. 

"Above  all,  we  appreciate  the 
efforts  of  all  those  Ocean  Spray 
personnel  associated  with  the  Cran- 
berry Houses  who  have  worked  so 
loyally  and  diligently  over  these 
past  few  years." 


MASS.  CRANBERRY 

CLUB  MEETINGS 

The  tentative  dates  for  the  1968 
Cranberry    Club    Meetings    are   as 
follows: 
Barnstable  County: 

Barnstable  -  February  1,  7:30 
P.M.  (Special  meeting  on  produc- 
tion-allotment plan.) 

Barnstable -Fehnxary  15,7:30 
P.M. 

Barnstable  -March  21,  7:30 
P.M. 

Plymouth  County: 

Kingston  -  January  30,  7:30 
P.M.  (Special  meeting  on  produc- 
tion-allotment plan.) 

Rochester  -  January  31,  2:00 
P.M.  (Special  meeting  on  produc- 
tion-allotment plan.) 

Kingston  -  February  13,  7:30 
P.M. 

Rochester  -  February  14,  2:00 
P.M. 

Kingston  -  March  19,  7:30  P.M. 

Rochester -March  20,  2:00  P.M. 

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Cranberry  Rule 
Hearing  Slated 

Hearings  on  changes  in  the  Fed- 
eral Marketing  Agreement  and  Order 
for  cranberries  have  been  announced 
by  tlie  Agriculture  Department.  One 
hearing  will  be  in  Wisconsin, 

The  amendments,  proposed  by 
the  cranberry  marketing  committee, 
would  authorize  a  producer  allot- 
ment program,  establish  a  crop 
year  from  Sept.  1  to  Aug.  31  and 
change  the  referendum  requirement 
for  continuance  of  the  order  from 
once  every  two  years  to  once  every 
four  years. 


The  Wisconsin  hearing  will  be  at 
9  A.M.  Feb.  9  at  the  Wood  County 
courthouse,  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Others  will  be  in  Massachusetts, 
New  Jersey  and  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington. 


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OXYGEN   DEFICIENCY 
WARNING 


As  issued  by  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station,  East  Wareham,  Mass. 

The  present  cold  weather  and 
recent  snow  has  resulted  in  condi- 
tions that  could  cause  oxygen  de- 
ficiency on  flooded  bogs.  Cold 
weather  is  expected  to  continue. 
The  only  practical  method  of  elim- 
inating the  oxygen  deficiency  hazard 
is  to  remove  completely  the  winter 
flood  at  this  time. 

Shallow-flooded,  level  bogs  prob- 
ably have  most  of  the  vines  em- 
bedded in  ice.  These  should  not  be 
touched.  Deep-flooded,  unlevel  bogs 
should  be  fully  drained  if  the  grower 
can  replace  the  flood  later  to  pre- 
vent winter-killing. 

Growers  without  reflooding 
capacity  must  make  the  difficult 
decision  of  1)  pulling  off  the  flood 
to  avoid  oxygen-deficiency  injury 
in  hopes  the  present  snow  and  ice 
will  last  into  March,  or  2)  leave  the 
flood  on,  protecting  from  winter- 
kill but  taking  the  chance  of  leaf- 
drop. 


By  the  kind  of  slip  natural 
in  a  jittery  world,  the  Secretary 
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by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Drs.  Bert  Zuckerman  and  Karl 
Deubert  attended  the  NE-34  meeting 
in  New  York  City  from  December  5 
to  7.  Tliis  is  the  northeastern  re- 
gional meeting  of  nematologists  and 
progress  reports  on  projects  were 
presented  at  the  meeting. 

Drs.  Deubert  and  Zuckerman 
are  co-authors  of  a  paper  published 
in  Volume  13  of  Nematologica. 
The  title  is  "Preparation  of  Fresh 
Frozen  Sections  of  Free-Living  and 
Plant  Parasitic  Nematodes  with  a 
Cold  Microtome."  This  paper  de- 
scribes a  technique  for  preparing 
fresh  frozen  sections  of  small  ob- 
jects such  as  nentatodes  for  enzyme 
studies. 

Drs.  Paracer  and  Zuckerman  also 
have  a  short  paper  in  the  same  issue 
of  Nematologica  dealing  with  prop- 
agating specific  nematodes  under 
sterile  culture  conditions. 

Andrew  Charig,  research  assistant 
in  our  bio-chemistry  lab  for  the 
past  2H  years  resigned  the  end  of 


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Weather 

December  averaged  nearly  2  de- 
grees a  day  above  normal  with  warm 
periods  on  the  3rd  and  4th,  8th  and 
9th,  12th  through  14th  and  19th 
througli  22nd.  The  cold  periods 
were  few  and  brief,  occurring  on 
the  1st  and  2nd,  15th  and  16th 
and  24th  and  25th.  Maximum  tem- 
perature was  57  degrees  on  the  12th 
and  minimum  10  degrees  on  the 
25th.  Precipitation  for  the  month 
totalled  5.96  inches  or  \%  inches 
above  average.  Major  storms  were 
on  the  4th,  11th  and  12th,  and 
29th.  Snowfall  was  8.1  inches  which 
is  about  3  inches  above  average. 


Snow  occurred  on  the  11th,  23rd 
and  29th. 

For  the  year  1967,  the  tempera- 
ture was  far  below  normal  with  a 
-652  degrees  or  about  VA  degrees 
a  day  on  the  cold  side.  Total 
precipitation  was  52.52  inches, 
which  is  about  SVi  inches  above 
average  at  the  Cranberry  Station 
and  was  nearly  16  inches  aliead  of 
1966.  Snowfall  totalled  52.6  inches 
or  nearly  double  the  thirty-year 
average.  Maximum  temperature  was 
86  degrees  on  July  10  and  the 
minimum  was  -6  degrees  on  Febru- 
ary 13.  These  are  temperatures 
recorded  in  the  weather  shelter 
here  at  the  Station.  Largest  single 

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CRAl^BERRIES 

THE  NATIONAL  CRANBERRY  MAGAZINE 
-  Our  31st  Year  of  Publication  - 

editor 

BERNARD   A.   MARVIN 
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I.  STANLEY  COBB 


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steps  to  protect  young  people  against  hazardous 
employment  and  to  increase  job  opportunities  for 
them. 

The  actions  were: 

He  is  identifying  those  occupations  which  are 
particularly  hazardous  to  youths  working  in 
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January  1,  1968. 

He  has  made  certain  modifications  on  the 
Hazardous  Occupations  Orders  2  and  7  con- 
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drivers  and  elevator  operators.  These  changes 
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of  the  continuous  reviews  to  insure  the  orders  reflect 
the  changes  in  conditions  and  legislations. 

Cover  Photo 

Interrupted  from  their  work  to  pose  for  posterity, 
*  these  five  workers  were  part  of  a  crew  that  dug  the 
ditches    for    most    of   the   very    early    Washington 
cranberry  bogs. 

This  photo,  taken  in  1912  is  part  of  a  group  of  old 
photos  showing  the  early  days  of  cranberry  growing 
in  Washington. 


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A  measure  of  berries  as  tlier  appeared  on  a  post  earJ 
in  1913. 


The  first  cranberry  bog  in  Wash- 
ington was  planted  by  Robert 
Chabot  in  1883,  and  also  by  him  in 
the  North  Beach  area  in  1894. 
Many  of  these  early  bogs  went  out 
of  production  because  growers 
couldn't  find  the  answers  to  the 
problems.  Years  later,  in  1925  the 
Cranberry-Blueberry  Experiment 
Station,  now  known  as  the  Coastal 
Experiment  Station,  was  begun  at 
Long  Beach, 

In  the  Grayland  area,  the  first 
bog  was  begun  by  Ed  Bunn  in 
1912.  He  sold  six  cranberry  tracts 
to  Finnish  settlers  and  their  bogs 
were  started  in  1913  and  1914. 
This  was  perhaps  the  first  of  the 
Finnish  settlement  in  the  Grayland 
area,  and  many  of  these  people  are 
still  growing  cranberries  there. 

Featured  are  several  photographs 
taken  during  these  early  years  of 
the  industry.  They  were  sent  to  us 
through  the  generosity  of  the 
Coastal  Washington  Experiment  Sta- 
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DIE-BACK  OF  CRANBERRY  IN  WISCONSIN 


A  serious  die-back  of  cranberry 
vines  was  reported  from  several 
cranberry  marshes  in  northern  Wis- 
consin in  the  summer  of  1966 
(^Cranberries,  Sept,  1966,  p.  24). 
A  survey  showed  that  the  disease 
was  widespread  in  the  north  and 
was  present  to  a  lesser  extent  in 
central  districts,  though  the  total 
damage  in  many  marshes  was  only 
slight.  Both  fruiting  uprights  and 
runners  died  from  the  tip  down, 
with  damage  particularly  severe 
where  vine  growth  was  rank,  Searles 
^  variety  appeared  to  be  more  sus- 
ceptible than  other  varieties.  Occa- 
sionally both  diseased  and  healthy 
uprights  occurred  on  the  same  hori- 
zontal runner,  with  the  healthy 
upright  sometimes  distal  to  the 
diseased  one.  Roots  of  diseased 
vines  appeared  to  be  healthy,  so  a 
theory  of  root  damage  is  donsidered 
inadequate  as  an  explanation  of  the 
disease.  Unusually  hot  weather  in 
northern  Wisconsin  {Cranberries, 
Aug.  1966,  p.  24)  prior  to  serious 
outbreak  of  vine  die-back,  seems  to 
have  been  an  important  factor  in 
the  onset  of  the  disease. 

Samples  of  vines  were  collected 
in  September  from  five  marshes  and 
isolations  made  from  stems  of  both 
dying  and  apparently  healthy  vines 
tliat  had  been  first  surface  sterilized 
in  0.6%  sodium  hypochlorite.  Other 
samples  were  collected  in  the  same 
month  from  four  apparently  disease- 
free  beds  and  isolations  similarly 
made  from  them.  The  fungi  most 
often  isolated  and  the  frequency 
with  which  they  were  found  are 
indicated  in  Table  1 . 

Of  the  sbc  fungi  \vs,\.Q6.,Altemaria, 
Cladosporium  and  Epicoccum  are 
considered  to  be  only  saprophytes 


by 

R.  J.  FRIEND  and  D.  M.  BOONE, 

Department  of  Plant  Pathology, 

University  of  Wisconsin 

in  cranberry,  i.  e.,  living  on'dead  or 
dying  tissues.  Altemaria  and  Epi- 
coccum were  both  recovered  from 
a  majority  of  stems  regardless  of 
whether  they  were  diseased  or 
healthy.  Cladosporium  was  not  re- 
covered often  enough  to  implicate 
it  in  the  disease.  This  evidence 
indicates  that  the  disease  cannot 
reasonably  be  attributed  to  any  of 
these  three  fungi.  They  were  most 
probably  growing  only  in  the  dead 
tissues  on  the  surface  of  the  stems. 


The  finding  that  Godronia,  the 
cause  of  end  rot  of  cranberries,  was 
recovered  from  fewer  diseased  than 
healthy  stems  indicates  that  it  was 
not  the  cause  of  die-back. 

The  remaining  two  fungi  listed, 
Diaporthe,  the  cause  of  "viscid  rot" 
of  cranberries,  and  Fusarium,  were 
both  recovered  more  frequently  from 
diseased  than  healthy  stems.  This 
partial  correlation  with  disease  in- 
cidence indicates  that  these  fungi 
possibly  may  have  been  responsible 
for  the  disease.  Diaporthe  had  the 
better  correlation  with  die-back  and 
therefore  is  implicated  more  strongly 
than  Fusarium. 

Whenever  a  fungal  disease  is  pres- 
ent in  a  cranberry  bed,  it  can  be 
expected  that  some  vines  would  be 
infected  but  not  yet  show  any 
symptoms.  Diaporthe  was  isolated 
from  13%  of  the  apparently  healthy 
stems  from  beds  with  die-back  but 
from  only  2.5%  of  the  upriglits 
from  beds  apparently  free  from  the 
disease.  The  corresponding  percent- 
ages for  Fusarium  were  27%  and 
13%. 

The  possibility  is  recognized  that 
the  high  frequency  with  which  these 


two  fungi  were  recovered  from 
dying  stems  may  be  a  result  of  the 
disease  and  not  the  cause,  i.  e.,  the 
fungi  may  have  invaded  stems  pref- 
erentially after  they  had  been  killed. 
The  presence  of  Fusarium  is  more 
likely  to  be  explained  in  this  way 
because  it  can  grow  more  rapidly 
than  Diaporthe  and  most  of  the 
other  fungi  commonly  encountered 
in  this  study. 

Diaporthe  and  Fusarium  can 
cause  in  other  plants  damage  some- 
what similar  to  die-back  in  cran- 
berry. Several  species  of  Fusarium 
are  able  to  invade  living  plants, 
especially  if  the  tissue  concerned 
is  damaged  or  senescent.  Several 
species  of  Diaporthe  are  known  to 
cause  fruit  rot  or  die-back  in  other 
plants.  Usually,  before  Diaporthe 
can  cause  such  die-back,  the  plants 
need  to  be  in  a  weakened  condition. 

If  either  Diaporthe  or  Fusarium 
did  cause  die-back,  why  was  it  not 
recovered  in  every  diseased  stem? 
Diaporthe  grows  less  vigorously  than 
some  other  fungi  isolated,  therefore 
it  is  likely  to  be  overgrown  when 
present  in  isolation  plates,  and  con- 
sequently   escape    detection.    This 

fungus  may  have  been  present  but 
escaped  detection  in  those  diseased 
stems  from  which  it  was  not  re- 
covered. Fusarium  was  likely  to  be 
recovered  whenever  it  was  present 
because  it  is  able  to  grow  very 
rapidly. 

Diaporthe  has  been  associated 
previously  with  die-back  of  cran- 
berry. In  the  summer  of  1965  die- 
back  of  vines  was  seen  to  a  minor 
extent  in  two  marshes  in  central 
Wisconsin  and  Diaporthe  was  often 
found  to  be  present  in  diseased  but 


not  in  healthy  stems.  From  work   vines.   Fortunately,   in    most  years    season    may    have    contributed    to 
done    in    the    1950's,   H.   F.   Bain    die-back  causes  only  minor  damage,     disease  development  by  weakening  jJ 


reported  (personal  communication) 
finding  this  fungus  rather  consis- 
tently associated  with  die-back  in 
cranberry. 


the  vines  and  favoring  invasion  of||( 
In   summary,  there   is  evidence    the  stems  by  the  fungus, 
indicating  that  the  die-back  of  cran- 
berry in  Wisconsin  during  the  1966 


As  yet   no  treatment  has  been    season   was  caused  by   the  fungus 
worked  out  to  prevent  die-back  of  Diaporthe.  Hot  weather  early  in  the 


TABLE  1 -Fungi  isolated  from  healthy  and  diseased  cranberry  stems  in 
Wisconsin  in  September  1966 


*  Number  of  stems  from  which  the  fungus  was  recovered 
**  Percentage  of  stems  from  which  the  fungus  was  recovered 


NOTE:  Research  supported  in 
part  by  funds  provided  by  the 
cranberry  growers  of  Wisconsin. 


Source 

Number 

Fungus    Isolated 

of 

of 

Sample 

Stems 
Plated 

Alternaria 

Cladosporium 

Diaporthe 

(Phomopsis) 

Epic  oc  cum 

Fusarium 

Godronia 

Marsh  1 

Healthy 

10 

10* 

— 

— 

5 

1 

2 

Diseased 

7 

7 

— 

6 

7 

— 

Marsh  2 

Healthy 

5 

5 

1 

— 

4 

2 

— 

Diseased 

5 

5 

1 

4 

2 

3 

— 

Marsh  3 

Healthy 

5 

5 

— 

— 

4 

3 

— 

Diseased 

4 

4 

1 

1 

2 

3 

— 

Marsh  4 

Healthy 

5 

4 

1 

2 

4 

— 

— 

Diseased 

4 

3 

— 

3 

— 

— 

1 

Marsh  5 

Healthy 

5 

5 

2 

2 

1 

1 

3 

Diseased 

5 

4 

1 

2 

5 

3 

— 

Total  {%) 

Healthy 

30 

97** 

13 

13 

60 

27 

17 

Diseased 

25 

92 

12 

64 

64 

44 

4 

Healthy 

Stems  (%) 

from  four 

80 

85 

6 

2.5 

69 

13 

23 

disease- 

free  beds 

10 


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NEW  JERSEY 


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The  month  of  December  was 
rather  mild  and  wet.  Temperature 
averaged  37.7  degrees,  which  is  2.5 
degrees  warmer  than  normal.  Pre- 
cipitation occurred  on  1 1  days, 
totaling  5.54  inches  above  normal. 
Snow  fell  on  two  days  and  totaled 
6  inches. 

The  year  1967  goes  into  the 
record  as  unusually  cold  and  rainy. 
The  annual  precipitation  was  46.59 
inches,  about  V-h  inches  above 
normal.  Much  of  the  rain  was  con- 
centrated during  the  growing  season 
causing  serious  damage  to  the  blue- 
berry crop  of  the  state.  In  July  and 
August  there  were  a  total  of  31 
rainy  days  and  16,15  inches  of 
rain.  This  did  not  cause  harm  to  the 
cranberry  crop.  There  was  a  higher 
than  normal  incidence  of  rotten 
berries  and  excessive  vine  growth 
did  hamper  the  coloring  of  berries. 
However,  this  was  counterbalanced 
by  the  larger  size  of  berries.  At  the 
year's  end  water  in  the  reservoirs 
throughout  the  cranberry  area  was 
in  adequate  supply. 


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The  average  annual  temperature 
for  1967  was  52.0  degrees,  about 
2.4  degrees  colder  than  normal. 
Only  the  first  and  last  month  of  the 
year  were  above  normal  in  tempera- 
ture, the  remaining  ten  were  all 
below  normal.  May  and  November 
were  particularly  cold;  record  low 
mean  temperatures  were  established 
for  these  months  (53.4  degrees  or 
8.2  degrees  below  normal  for  May, 
and  40.6  or  5.6  degrees  below 
normal  for  Novemb-.).  The  main 
cranberry  harvest  months  of  Sep- 
tember and  October  were  cold  and 
dry  and  although  frost  calls  were 
frequent  a  good  water  supply  pre- 
vented serious  damage. 

The  most  recent  estimate  of  the 
New  Jersey  cranberry  crop  in  1967 
by  the  Crop  Reporting  Service  gives 
the  figure  of  163,000  barrels.  This 
is  the  highest  production  in  this 
state  since  1937  when  it  was  166,- 
000  barrels.  Acreage  in  1937  was 
12,000;  it  is  only  3,200  now. 


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The  harvest  finished  up  in  the 
Long  Beach  area  with  a  total  of 
42,629  barrels  put  througli  the  Long 
Beach  Ocean  Spray  cleaning  plant. 
This  is  their  largest  total  and  due 
mainly  to  the  large  crop  from  Cran- 
guyma  Farms  this  year.  A  report 
came  from  Bell  Farms,  Ltd.,  Rich- 
mond, B.  C,  "Bell  Farms  report  a 
record  232  barrels  per  acre  on  a  31 
acre  section  with  some  2  acre  fields 
going  as  high  as  284  barrels  per 
acre.  Favorable  weather  conditions 
throughout  the  year,  little  or  no 
frost  during  the  critical  spring  and 
fall  periods,  good  fertilizer  manage- 
ment and  good  timing  of  pest  control 

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snowfall  was  11.5  inches  on  March 
15  and  16.  The  largest  precipitation 
total  for  any  storm  was  5.26  inches 
from  May  24  to  26  and  we  have  to 
go  back  26  years  to  June  1941  to 
find  a  larger  total.  We  recorded  3.79 
inches  in  a  twenty-four  hour  period 
during  this  storm.  There  were  a 
total  of  5  storms  during  1967  when 
over  2  inches  of  precipitation  was 
recorded. 
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Schedule  on  Page  One 

sprays,  all  have  contributed  to  this 
extraordinary  production." 

December  brought  a  good  supply 
of  moisture  once  again  with  a 
total  of  15.31".  This  brings  the 
total  for  the  year  to  95.78",  the 
highest  recorded  here  since  1960, 
with  the  1961  total  92.02".  It  was 
also  the  dryest  total  for  the  months 
of  June,  July  and  August  in  the 
seven  years. 

The  weather  has  been  rather 
mild,  and  then  cold  spells  with  a 
flurry  of  snow.  The  high  for  the 
month  was  53  degrees  on  the  8th, 
9th  and  10th,  with  a  mean  high  of 
46.93  degrees.  The  low  came  on  the 
13th  with  20  degrees  and  a  bog  low 
of  18  degrees  that  day.  The  mean 
low  was  36.87  degrees. 

The  Fall  issues  of  several  maga- 
zines have  been  sent  to  us  with 
special  articles  on  cranberries.  Tracks 
Ahead,  pubHshed  by  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  has  an  article  writ- 
ten about  the  industry  in  Washington 
and  Oregon,  with  pictures  taken 
this  year  at  harvest  time  at  Cran- 
guyma  Farms.  Chemicals,  Pittsburgh 
Plate  and  Glass  Chemical  Division 
publication  has  a  very  colorful  article 
and  also  the  Food  Marketing  in 
New  England,  and  Wisconsin  Tales 
and  Trails.  These  certainly  make  a 
colorful  display  of  the  harvesting 
of  the  cranberry  in  the  several  areas 
of  the  United  States. 

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High  Court  Rule 
Limits  Farm  Co-Op 


Agricultural  cooperatives  must 
limit  their  membership  to  producers 
in  order  to  hold  on  to  their  anti- 
trust exemption,  the  U.  S.  Supreme 
Court  ruled  last  week. 

In  a  ruling  expected  to  have 
significant  bearing  on  future  organi- 
zation setup  of  all  agricultural  co- 
ops, the  higli  court  decided  that 
Sunkist  Growers,  Los  Angeles,  was 
n6t  entitled  to  antitrust  exemption 
because  15  per  cent  of  its  members 
are  not  grower  cooperatives  but 
private,  profit-making  corporations 
operating  packing  houses.  These 
"agency  associations"  are  not  organ- 
ized under  the  Capper-Volstead  Act, 
which  exempts  co-ops. 

Case-SwayneCo.,  an  orange  juice 
manufacturer,  brouglit  the  case  to 
the  higli  court,  charging  Sunkist 
with  conspiracy  co  refrain  trade  in 
product  citrus  fruit. 

The  Ninth  Circuit  Court  of  Ap- 
peals ruled  that  a  primafacie  case 
of  monopoly  never  existed  on  the 
part  of  Sunkist,  but  that  it  had 
antitrust  immunity  because  of  its 
co-operative  status. 

The  Supreme  Court  ruling  re- 
versed the  Appeals  Court,  and 
remanded  the  case  for  further  pro- 
ceedings. 

Section  1  of  the  Capper-Volstead 
Act  specifically  exempts  from  anti- 
trust law  collective  activity  in  proc- 
essing and  marketing  by  "persons 
engaged  in  the  production  of  agri- 
cultural products." 

Sunkist  had  argued  that  the  legis- 
lative intent  of  Congress  in  that 
legislation  was  to  allow  any  kind  of 
organization  in  which  benefits  of 
collective  marketing  inured  to  the 
grower. 


But  the  court  ruled  that  Sunkist's 
argument  "misconceives  the  require- 
ments of  the  act  and  runs  counter 
to  the  relevent  legislative  history." 

The  act  states  that  the  collective 
activity  privileged  under  it  is  limited 
"in  quite  specific  terms  to  producers 
of  agricultural  products,"  the  higli 
court  said. 


"We  think  that  Congress  did  not 
intend  to  allow  an  organization 
with  such  non-producer  interests  to 
avail  itself  of  the  Capper-Volstead 
exemption." 

Sunkist  argued  that  the  agency 
packing  houses,  by  charging  cost 
plus  a  fixed  fee  fori  its  services, 
did  not  participate  directly  in  profits 
or  losses  coming  from  Sunkist  sys- 
tem's collective  marketing  of  fruit. 

However,  the  high  court  ruled 
that  the  agency  associations  "parti- 
cipate in  the  control  and  policy 
making  of  Sunkist." 

Four  justices  agreed  with  the 
result  of  the  decision,  but  questioned 
its  effects,  which  could  expose  Sun- 
kist to  antitrust  liabilities  far  beyond 
this  one  particular  suit.  They  filed 
separate  opinions. 

Justice  John  Harlan  concurred 
in  part  and  dissented  in  part,  saying 
he  would  not  hold  Sunkist  liable 
for  past  acts  merely  because  the 
agency  associations  participated  in 
the  organization  through  member- 
ship. 

However,  Justice  Harlan  also  in- 
dicated that  in  the  future  co-ops 
may  not  qualify  for  the  exemption 
if  they  have  non-producer  members. 


Justice  Byron  White  and  Potter 
Stewart  indicated  that  Sunkist's  im- 
munity was  only  partially  lost  as  a 
result  of  the  agency  association 
members. 

The  two  justices  said  Case- 
Swayne  should  not  recover  for  in- 
juries to  its  business  caused  by 
intercooperative  or  intergrower 
transactions  of  Sunkist  which  are 
still  exempt.  Damages  should  be 
liable  only  from  transactions  be- 
tween exempt  and  non-exempt  ele- 
ments of  Sunkist,  the  two  justices 
indicated. 

Justice  William  Douglas  said  he 
doubted  the  opinion  of  the  court 
since  "the  extent  of  participation 
by  non-grower  elements"  in  the 
agreements  had  "hardly  been  ex- 
plored" by  the  high  court. 

In  another  decision  last  week, 
tiie  Supreme  Court  ruled  that  com- 
panies must  give  preference  in  after- 
strike  hiring  to  employees  who  were 
on  strike  before  taking  on  new 
ones  with  the  same  qualifications. 

Thus  the  court  upheld  a  ruling 
of  the  National  Labor  Relations 
Board  that  Fleetwood  Trailer  Co. 
was  guilty  of  an  unfair  labor  prac- 
tice. 


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With  no  new  farm  machinery 
available,  without  rationing,  the  pro- 
gram for  this  winter  and  next  spring 
for  the  growers  should  be  to  get 
what  equipment  he  has  in  the  best 
possible  shape  for  next  year.  Second 
hand  farm  machinery  may,  at  least 
at  present,  still  be  bought  if  it  can 
be  obtained,  even  though  a  dealer 
must  not  keep  a  used  piece  of 
machinery  in  stock  more  than  60 
days  without  either  repairing  it  for 
use  or  scrapping  it  for  junk. 


The  cranberry  crop  is  now  esti- 
mated to  have  totaled  787,200  bbls. 
and  is  the  second  largest  on  record, 
in  a  release  from  the  U.  S.  Dept.  of 
Agriculture  on  December  28.  That 
checks  with  the  American  Cranberry 
Exchange  figure  practically  exactly, 
so  it  seems  a  fact  that  the  growers 
have  in  the  war  year  of  1942 
produced  a  bumper  crop.  Produc- 
tion in  all  five  states  was  above 
last  year. 


With  the  government  making  in- 
creased purchases  of  cranberries,  a 
coordinated  effort  must  be  made  to 
keep  up  the  production,  members 
of  the  Wisconsin  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  were  told  at  the  annual 
meeting  in  Wisconsin 


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Local  Board  Release  Number 
186,  which  is  an  amendment  to 
Release  164,  provides  a  more  com- 
plete basis  for  consideration  of  the 
occupational  classification  and  de- 
ferment of  draft  registrants  engaged 
in  agriculture.  To  serve  as  a  guide 
to  local  boards.  Selective  Service 
has  prepared  a  table  of  Agricultural 
products  in  two  parts,  the  products 
in  part  one  essential  to  the  war 
effort,  and  those  in  part  two  not 
essential.  Cranberries  are  listed  in 
group  one. 


Government  officials  made 
known  at  the  Food  Processors  Con- 
ference in  Chicago  December  14  to 
19  that  their  requirements  for  de- 
hydrated cranberries  in  1943  will 
be  4,900,000  lbs.,  calling  for  490,000 
bbls.  of  berries,  it  is  announced  by 
Cranberry  Canners,  Inc.  This  is 
part  of  a  vast  increase  in  the  de- 
hydrating program  by  the  govern- 
ment which  calls  for  total  require- 
ment oi  1,500,000,000  lbs.  of  foods, 
including  dried  milk,  eggs,  meat, 
fruits  and  vegetables. 


WASHINGTON  HAS 
RECORD  YIELD 


A  good  yield  from  the  bogs  at 
Cranguyma  boosted  the  peninsular 
cranberry  production  to  a  record 
42,630  barrels,  stated  J.  Wilson 
Blair,  manager  of  the  receiving  plant 
at  Long  Beach. 

Washington  was  put  into  national 
third  place,  with  Massachusetts  first 
and  Wisconsin  second. 

Except  for  the  Cranguyma  opera- 
tion, most  of  the  local  growers 
reported  a  slight  drop  in  the  yield 
over  last  year. 


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THE  CRANBERRY  BOUNCE 

Try  these  quick  tricks  with  the 
season's  fresh  red  cranberries  and 
you'll  be  bouncing  out  of  the  kit- 
chen in  no  time  flat! 


Breezy  salads— slice  or  chop  V^ 
cup  of  fresh  cranberries  into  a 
green  salad  and  top  with  French 
or  Italian-style  salad  dressing.  Jel- 
lied salads-stir  up  to  1  cup  chopped 
fresh  cranberries  into  orange,  cherry 
or  other  red  gelatin  salad  mix. 


LAYERED  TURKEY 
AND  STUFFING  PIE 

6  slices  bacon 

1  package  (8  ounces)  stuffing  mix 

1  cup  fresh  cranberries,  rinsed, 

drained  and  chopped 
Grated  rind  of  1  small  lemon 
6  thick  slices  cooked  turkey  or 

chicken 
1  can  (10%  ounces)  condensed 

cream  of  mushroom  soup 
1/3  cup  light  cream 
1/2  cup  coarsely  crumbled  potato 
chips 

Dice  bacon  and  fry  until  crisp. 
Prepare  stuffing  mix  according  to 
package  directions  adding  bacon  fat 
instead  of  butter,  if  desired;  then 
add  cranberries,  bacon  and  lemon 
rind.  Press  this  mixture  into  the 
bottom  and  sides  of  a  heavily  greased 
10-inch  pie  plate.  Place  turkey  slices 
in  the  center  of  lined  pan.  Mix 
soup  with  cream  and  pour  evenly 
over  the  entire  top  of  pie.  Sprinkle 
top  with  potato  chips.  Bake  at 
400°  F.  for  20  to  25  minutes  or 
until  top  is  lightly  browned. 


Show-stopping  muffins— add  1 
cup  of  coarsely  chopped  fresh  cran- 
berries to  orange,  bran  or  date 
muffin  mix  prepared  according  to 
package  directions.  Tea  bread— com- 
bine 1  cup  of  coarsely  chopped 
fresh  cranberries  with  Vi  of  a  9- 
ounce  package  of  mincemeat;  fold 
into  1  package  pound  cake  mix 
prepared  according  to  package  direc- 
tions. Bake  in  slow  oven  (325°  F.) 
VA  to  VA  hours.  Makes  1  9x5-inch 
loaf. 


Snappy  shortcake  -  combine  1 
cup  chopped  fresh  cranberries,  1 
chopped  apple,  1  diced  banana  and 
2/3  cup  sugar.  Chill  2  to  3  hours  to 
blend  flavors  and  serve  spooned 
over  6  shortcake  biscuits.  Makes 
6  servings.  Ice  cream  sauce  Hawaiian 
—combine  and  chill  1  cup  ground 
fresh  cranberries,  1  cup  drained 
pineapple  tidbits,  1/3  cup  flaked 
coconut,  1  cup  sugar,  and  1/8 
teaspoon  ground  cloves.  Makes  about 
Wa  cups  sauce. 

Quick-as-a-wink  stuffing— add  1 
cup  coarsely  chopped  fresh  cran- 
berries and  2  tablespoons  sugar  to 
18-ounce  package  seasoned  stuffing 
mix  prepared  according  to  package 
directions.  Makes  about  6  cups 
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pound  of  chicken,  turkey  or  duck.) 

Crisp  'n  quick  relish-put  4  cups 
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stalk  of  celery  and  add  with  V*  cup 
chopped  nuts  to  mixture;  chUl  sev- 
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about  4  cups. 


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Vi  cup  granulated  sugar 
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2  cups  finely  diced  fresh  frozen 

melon 
Vi  cup  coarsely  broken  pecans 

Combine  all  ingredients  and  chill 
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Q— I  just  got  a  letter  from  my  stock 
broker  asking  for  my  social  security 
number.  He  said  if  I  don't  give  it  I 
will  be  subject  to  a  penalty.  What  is 
the  penalty  he's  talking  about? 

A— The  law  that  requires  payments  of 
dividends  and  interest  amounting  to 
$10  or  more  to  be  identified  by  the 
social  security  number  of  the  recipient 
also  imposes  a  penalty  of  S5  for  failure 
to  comply.  This  penalty  can  apply 
each  time  a  payment  is  not  identified 
on  the  report  banks,  corporations  and 
savings  institutions  are  required  to 
make  to  IRS. 


Q— Are  tax  disputes  settled  with  your 
Appellate    Division    ever   opened  up 
T  again? 

A— They  are  not  reopened  unless  evi- 
dence of  fraud,  malfeasance,  conceal- 
ment, misrepresentation  of  facts  or  an 
important  mathematical  mistake  is  dis- 
covered. Taxpayers  reaching  an  agree- 
,  ment  with  Appellate  can  do  so  with 
the  assurance  that  aside  from  the 
reasons  mentioned  above,  the  agree- 
ment will  be  final. 


Q— I  don't  understand  the  letter  you 
sent  me  about  my  return.  What  should 
I  do? 

A— Call  your  local  IRS  office  about  the 
letter.  When  you  do,  have  the  letter 
handy  for  reference  purposes. 

If  the  letter  was  sent  from  the  service 
center,  the  requested  information 
should  be  sent  there  unless  other 
instructions  are  given. 

Q— I  was  granted  an  extension  of 
time  to  file  my  return.  I  sent  the 
return  in  last  month  with  what  I  owed 
but  now  I  get  a  bill  for  interest. 
Doesn't  the  extension  of  time  take 
care  of  that? 

!  A— No,  the  extension  of  time  excuses 
I  you  from  the  penalties  for  not  filing  a 
■  timely  return.  The  law  requires  interest 
to  be  assessed  on  taxes  that  are  not 
paid  when  they  are  due  and  this  cannot 
be  prevented  by  obtaining  an  extension 
of  time. 


Q— I'm  being  asked  for  my  social 
security  number  by  my  savings  bank. 
What  do  they  need  it  for? 

A— All  payers  of  dividends  and  interest 
are  required  by  law  to  report  payments 
amounting  to  $10  or  more  a  year  to 
IRS.  The  law  further  requires  these 
payments  to  be  identified  by  the 
social  security  number  of  the  recipient. 


Q— My  neighbor  told  me  I  could  take 
a  two  cent  credit  for  every  gallon  of 
gas  I  use  in  my  motor  boat.  Is  that 
right? 

A— Yes.  A  credit  of  two  cents  for  each 
gallon  of  gasoline  you  use  in  operating 
a  motor  boat,  airplane  or  power  lawn 
mower  may  be  taken  when  you  file 
your  income  tax  return. 

Publication  No.  378,  "Federal  Gas 
Tax  Credit  on  Refund  for  Nonhigliway 
and  Transit  Users,"  contains  informa- 
tion about  other  credits  available  to 
such  users  of  gas  and  oil.  You  may 
obtain  a  copy  by  sending  a  post  card 
to  your  District  Office, 

Q— What  kind  of  records  do  you  need 
to  establish  a  theft  loss?  Our  house  was 
broken  into  while  we  were  away  on 
vacation. 

A— To  establish  a  deduction  for  a 
theft  loss  you  must:  (1)  show  the  date 
the  theft  was  discovered;  (2)  show  the 
property  was  stolen  and  not  lost  or 
mislaid;  (3)  establish  ownership;  (4)' 
show  evidence  of  value  of  property;  (5) 
show  any  amount  taken  or  allowable 
for  depreciation;  and  (6)  show  the 
amount  of  insurance  or  other  compen- 
sation for  the  loss  received  or  recover- 
able. 

The  reimbursed  amount  in  excess 
of  $100  is  deductible  for  each  theft 
of  non-business  property. 

Q— In  June,  I  changed  jobs  and  had  to 
relocate.  The  house  I  owned  prior  to 
my  transferring  cost  $23,000. 1  needed 
money  to  buy  a  new  home  and  had  to 
sell  my  old  home  at  a  loss  of  $9,500. 
Can  I  deduct  this  loss  on  my  next  five 
years'  tax  returns? 


A-No,  you  may  not.  Losses  on  the 
sale  of  a  personal  residence  are  con- 
sidered to  be  a  personal  non-deduction 
loss. 

Q— My  wife  is  recuperating  from  a 
rather  serious  operation.  She  is  not 
able  to  do  her  housework  and  there- 
fore I  have  a  girl  come  in  to  clean,  etc. 
Can  this  expense  be  considered  as  a 
medical  deduction,  since  my  wife  nor- 
mally does  this  work? 

A— You  may  not  claim  as  a  medical 
deduction  the  amounts  paid  for  domes- 
tic help.  This  is  true  even  though  you 
may  have  obtained  the  help  on  the 
recommendation  of  your  doctor  be- 
cause of  the  physical  inability  of  your 
wife  to  perform  house"hold  duties. 

Q— I  retired  in  early  July  and  applied 
for  Social  Security.  I  also  have  a  small 
monthly  pension.  I  own  some  stocks 
that  have  increased  in  value.  If  I  sell 
these  stocks,  will  it  reduce  my  social 
security  benefits? 

A— Social  Security  benefits  will  be 
reduced  for  earned  income  in  excess  of 
a  certain  amount.  Dividend  income, 
interest  income,  and  income  from 
sale  of  capital  assets  are  not  considered 
to  be  earned  income  for  social  security 
purposes  and,  therefore,  would  not 
reduce  your  benefits. 

Q— I  have  my  own  business.  How  much 
can  I  put  aside  each  year  for  retire- 
ment? 

A— You  may  put  as  much  as  $2,500  a 
year  into  a  plan  or  10  percent  of  your 
"earned  income,"  whichever  is  less. 
However,  only  one  half  of  this  amount 
can  be  deducted.  For  tax  years  begin- 
ning after  December  31,  1967,  the 
fuU  amount  of  the  permissible  con- 
tribution can  be  deducted. 

If  you  do  create  a  retirement  plan  for 
yourself  each  of  your  full-time  em- 
ployees with  three  or  more  years  of 
service  must  be  included. 

Q— I  just  sold  my  house  and  had  to 
pay  a  penalty  on  my  mortgage  since 
I  paid  it  up  early.  Can  I  deduct  this 
penalty  when  I  file  my  tax  return  next 
year  or  do  I  add  the  penalty  in  as  a 
cost  of  selling  the  house? 

A— The  penalty  for  paying  off  a  mort- 
gage before  the  due  date  is  considered 
an  interest  charge  and  should  be  in- 
cluded with  your  other  interest  pay- 
ments when  you  itemize  deductions. 


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QUESTION  box 


promising.  Paraquat  needs  clearing 
before  it  can  be  used.  Also  a  mix- 
ture of  Simazine  2  lbs.  gran.,  Casoron 
4  lbs.  gran,  and  2,4-D  4  lbs.  gran, 
act.  per  acre  proved  to  be  effective 
Q-Is  it  necessary  to  apply  fun-  without  any  injury  to  the  bog. 
gicides  to  young  non-bearing  bog? 


A-One  could  apply   fumigants 
to  the  soil  such  as  Vapam  or  others. 


Fungicides 

Q-What  fungicide  and  when  to 
apply  for  controlling  rose-bloom? 

A-Maneb  80%  W.P.  or  Zineb 
75%  W.P.  or  Ziram  76%  W,P.,  use 
at  VA  lbs,/ 100  gal.  Pre  blossom, 
followed  by  2  additional  sprays 
after  fruit  has  set.  Allow  2  weeks 
to  lapse  between  each  of  the  last 
2  applications. 

Q— Does  hot  weather  cause  in- 
jury after  applying  any  fungicide? 

A-Yes,  mostly  the  sulfurs— par- 
ticularly lime-sulfur  solution. 

Q-What  is  the  benefit  of  apply- 
ing polysol  or  liquid  lime  sulphur  in 
the  fall? 

A— The  benefits  are  a  general 
clean-up  spray  after  harvest. 

Q— Zineb  didn't  control  red-leaf, 
could  you  recommend  another  fun-    ing  in  a  bog? 
gicide    that    will,   when  to  apply, 
and  what  dosage? 

A— Same  as  in  (1)  above.  Per- 
haps Ziram  or  Maneb  might  be 
used.  We  don't  understand  the  ex- 
act timing  apparently. 

Q— Dead  spots  on  my  bog  are 
getting  wider  every  year.  Is  there 
anything  that  can  be  done  about  it? 


Salmonberry  is  a  woody  plant 
and  resistant  to  all  selective  chem- 
icals used  on  cranberries.  Brush 
killer  (2,4,5  T  and  2,4-D  mbcture) 
is  the  only  solution  to  it.  Apply 
this  material  by  a  swab  and  avoid 


A— It  is  a  good  procedure  to  do 
so  in  order  to  prevent  a  buildup  of 
diseases  which  later  become  diffi- 
cult to  control  in  bearing  bogs, 

Q— Do  we  have  red-gall  of  cran- 
berries in  Western  Washington  and    any  dripping  on  vine 
is  it  confused  with  botrytis? 

A— I  have  never  seen  red-gall  in 
any  of  our  bogs  in  Western  Wash- 
ington, It  is  not  confused  with  Q— Would  powder  or  finely 
Botrytis,  The  latter  kills  and  decays  ground  coal  have  any  beneficial 
weakened  tissues;  red  gall  is  as  the    effect  on  a  cranberry  bog?  Would 


Fertility 


name  implies— a  growth  or  gall. 


Herbicides 


Q— How  do  you  eradicate  3- 
starred  rush,  cut  grass,  reed  grass, 
buttercup,  and  Salmonberry  grow- 


A— Three-starred  rush,  cut  grass 
and  reed  grass  can  be  controlled  by 
applying  gran.  Casoron  4  lbs.  plus 
gran.  Simazine  2  lbs.  actual  per 
acre  when  weeds  start  to  germinate. 

Buttercup  is  a  real  problem.  Ex- 
perimental work  showed  that  Para- 
quat, as  little  as  half  a  pound  mixed 
with   2  lbs.  act.  Simazine  W.P.  is 


it  act  as  a  fungicide? 

A— Coal  is  composed  principally 
of  carbon  in  a  relatively  pure  form 
along  with  small  amounts  of  im- 
purities. There  would  be  no  fungi- 
cide effect  since  carbon  is  a  rather 
inactive  material.  Carbon  might  act 
as  an  absorbing  agent  and  tend  to 
make  the  herbicides  and  soil  insecti- 
cides and  fungicides  less  effective. 
The  impurities  in  the  coal  could 
possibly  furnish  needed  fertilizer 
elements  but  they  would  probably 
be  in  an  unavailable  form  and  be  of 
no  practical  benefit  to  the  cranberry 
vine. 

Q— How  could  I  control  a  vegeta- 
tive bog? 

A— Excessive  vegetative  growth 
is  generally  caused  by   too  much 


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Editor's  Note:  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Cranberry  Vine,  the  publication  of  the  Coastal 
Washington  Research  &  Extension  Unit,  Long  Beach,  Washington,  we  found  a  wealth  of 
information,  result  of  the  1967  annual  Field  Day.  We  were  particularly  interested  in  the 
"Question  Box"  section  of  this  report,  part  of  which  we  have  reprinted  here  for  our  readers. 
They  will  be  concluded  in  later  issues. 


native  nitrogen  in  the  soil.  A  tem- 
porary surge  in  vegetative  growth 
can  be  caused  by  severe  freeze 
injury  also,  if  most  of  the  blossoms 
are  killed,  allowing  all  the  strength 
I  of  the  cranberry  plant  to  go  into 
vegetative  growth.  This  generally 
is  for  only  one  season.  If,  on  the 
other  hand,  the  vegetative  growth 
is  caused  by  too  high  a  soil  fer- 
tility, then  the  only  available  remedy 
at  present  is  to  resand  after  pruning 
the  vines  rather  severely  and  allow- 
ing the  vines  to  regrow.  This  is  a 
slow  process  and  generally  takes 
several  years;  however,  it  can  be 
done. 


There  is  another  method  that 
can  be  used  with  the  sanding.  This 
is  to  apply  high  rates  of  phosphorus 
and  potash  to  the  area  which  is 
over-vegetative.  The  results  of  field 
trials  on  overly  vegetative  cranberry 
vines  have  shown  that  phosphorus 
and  potash  applied  at  the  rate  of 
100-150  lbs.  of  phosphorus  and 
150-200  lbs.  of  potassium  per  acre 
over  a  period  of  2  to  3  years  will 
help  in  controlling  the  vegetative 
growth.  This  is  a  rather  costly 
process  and  would  not  be  econom- 
ically feasible  except  as  a  spot 
treatment  on  rather  small  areas  of 
overly  vigorous  vines. 


Using  resanding  and  a  subsequent 
severe  pruning  each  year  for  several 
years  and  allowing  the  vine  growth 
to  use  up  the  nitrogen  in  the  soil 
would  probably  be  the  most  eco- 
nomical way  of  controlling  this  but 
it  would  take  several  years. 

Tests  are  being  conducted  at  the 
present  time  with  several  new  chem- 
icals known  as  growth  retardants. 
These  have  the  function  of  restrict- 
ing vine  growth.  After  these  tests 
are  completed  and  we  find  out  how 
to  control  the  effect  of  these  chem- 
icals, we  hope  to  have  them  cleared 
for  use  in  controlling  heavy  vegeta- 
tive growth.  However,  at  the  present 
time  there  are  several  undesirable 
side  effects  as  well  as  the  question 


of  not  knowing  for  sure  when  they 
should  be  applied  for  a  specific 
purpose.  These  chemicals  also  con- 
trol the  amount  of  blossoming  to 
some  extent.  They  control  the 
amount  of  growth  on  the  fruiting 
uprights  and  also  the  resistance  to 
cold  injury  and  the  growth  in  the 
spring.  We  do  not  have  all  the 
answers  to  these  questions  as  yet. 
We  hope  to,  in  a  year  or  two,  after 
further  field  trials  and  laboratory 
work  is  completed. 


A— To  the  contrary,  green  berries 
usually  contain  higher  pectin  than 
over-ripe  berries  and  normally  make 
a  good  jelly. 


Maturity  and  Post  Harvest 

Q— Growers  in  the  East  pick 
their  berries  on  the  green  side. 
Does  Ocean  Spray  have  any  trouble 
in  making  jelly  out  of  the  green 
berries? 


Insecticides 

Q— Does  Diazinon  control  mites? 

A— Diazinon  is  not  a  mitecide. 
It  is  an  insecticide  that  cranberry 
growers  use  to  control  fireworm 
and  fruitworm.  Fortunately,  Diazi- 
non does  not  kill  mites'  predetors 
as  other  insecticides  and  indirectly 
preserves  the  predetors  which  feed 
on  mites  and  this  controls  the  mites. 


(Concluded  Next  Month) 


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Continued  from  Page  12 

list  we  are  finishing  up  the  revision 
of  the  listing  and  several  have  not 
returned  their  cards.  If  you  do  not 
get  an  issue  of  the  Cranberry  Vine 
in  February  and  would  still  like  one 
just  send  in  the  card  that  was  en- 
closed in  the  last  issue. 

Many  growers  have  applied  their 
dormant  spray  such  as  Hquid  lime 
sulfur.  Check  your  spray  charts  for 
other  Ustings.  For  control  of  several 
weed  species  during  the  winter  Dala- 
pon,Simazine,may  be  used  through 
January. 

The  date  for  the  1968  Annual 
Field  Day  will  be  Saturday  June 
29.  This  will  be  good  clam  digging 
on  our  28  mile  beach  also,  with 
minus  tides  in  the  morning.  So 
plan  to  bring  the  family  and  have 
a  wonderful  time. 


corridor  stretching  from  north  east- 
em  counties  down  through  central 
state  to  the  south  western  corner. 
In  the  north  snow  cover  extends 
across  the  extreme  northern  coun- 
ties the  full  width  of  the  state. 

Weather  Summary 

Cloudy  and  mild  weather  was 
the  rule  during  the  first  half  of 
December.  This  was  one  of  the 
rare  occasions  during  1967  with 
two  or  more  successive  weeks  having 
temperatures  averaging  well  above 
the  seasonal  levels.  Though,  as  often 
is  the  case  during  mild  spells  in 
winter,  the  moist  southerly  winds 
were  usually  accompanied  by  clouds, 
fog  or  drizzle  by  the  time  they 
penetrate  as  far  north  as  Wisconsin. 

Precipitation  was  light  in  most 
areas  with  most  weather  activity 
by-passing  the  state.  A  few  thunder 
showers  did  occur  in  the  south  and 
east  on  the  7th,  and  a  moderate 
freezing  rain  coated  much  of  the 
state  on  the  17th. 

Snow  fall  was  almost  totally 
absent  during  the  two  weeks  except 
for  a  few  light  flurries. 


Jack  Frost  slowly  but  surely 
tightened  his  grip  in  northern  Wis- 
consin soils  and  moved  persistently 
southward.  Thus  report  funeral  di- 
rectors and  cemetery  caretakers  as 
of  December  15.  Frost  has  firmly 
established  itself  in  the  ground  from 
2  to  18  inches  over  the  state  the 
past  two  weekSi  The  areas  of  deepest 
penetration,  however,  are  limited 
to  north  central  and  north  western 
counties.  Penetration  there  ranges 
from  6  to  18  inches  in  local  areas 
but  generally  the  depth  was  from 
6  to  12  inches.  Last  year  the  state 
average  was  about  7  inches  with 
northern  and  central  counties  rang- 
ing from  3  to  18  inches.  So  you 
might  say  Jack  Frost  is  making  his 
normal  sneaky  approach. 

Light  snow  has  fallen  and  disap- 
peared since  the  last  report  but  as 
of  December  15  snow  in  measure- 
able  amounts  was  found  only  in 
local  areas  and  in  a  long  narrow 

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FROST  PROTECTION 
BY  FOAM  SEEN 

Farmers  some  day  may  be  able 
to  protect  fruits  and  vegetables 
from  early  frost  by  spraying  a 
blanket  of  protein  foam  over  them. 
Scientists  at  Canada's  agriculture 
department  say  that  the  foam  can 
keep  plants  13  degrees  warmer  than 
the  atmosphere  for  up  to  18  hours 
and  then  disintegrate  with  no  ap- 
parent damage  to  the  plants. 


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GROWERS 

The  date  of  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Wisconsin  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association  has 
been  changed  from  Wednesday, 
January  17,  to  Thursday,  Jan- 
uary 18. 


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Mr.  Robert  A,  Murray,  Small 
Fruits  Specialist  of  the  Nova  Scotia 
Department  of  Agriculture  and  Mar- 
keting and  Mr.  Murray  D.  Porter, 
Cranberry  Grower  with  Annapolis 
Valley  Cranberries  Limited,  have 
recently  completed  a  report  on 
their  tour  of  cranberry  operations 
in  Wisconsin  and  Quebec.  They 
feel  that  improvement  of  the  in- 
dustry in  Nova  Scotia  should  be 
based  on  the  cultural  and  water 
harvesting  methods  used  in  Wiscon- 
sin and  Quebec.  If  cranberry  growing 
is  continued  in  Nova  Scotia,  there 
must  be  a  continuing  search  to 
follow  the  best  methods  employed 
anywhere  on  the  continent.  They 
report  that  growers  in  Wisconsin 
felt  that  they  would  rather  start 
"rom  an  undeveloped  bog  rather 
than  try  to  revitalize  an  old  bog 
slanted  to  poor  varieties.  In  devel- 
oping a  new  bog  they  would  plant 
the  best  varieties  available.  They 
also  felt  that  much  of  the  progress 
in  Wisconsin  was  due  to  the  hiring 
of  "knowledgeable  consultants" 
whose  advice  is  respected. 


Funds  for  this  project  were  ob- 
tained from  ARDA  Project  22033 
entitled  Cranberry  Feasibility  Study 
in  Western  Nova  Scotia. 


MASS.  CRANBERRY 
CLUB  MEETINGS 

The  remaining  dates  for  the  1968 
Cranberry  Club  meetings  are  as 
follows: 

Barnstable  County: 

Barnstable  -  March  21,  7:30 
P.M. 

Plymouth  County: 

Kingston  -  March  19,  7:30  P.M. 
Rochester -March  20,  2:00  P.M. 


GELSTHORPE  SPEAKS  TO 
WISCONSIN  CRANBERRY 
GROWERS  ASSOCIATION 

The  executive  vice  president  and 
general  manager  of  Ocean  Spray, 
Inc.,  presented  what  he  termed  a 
program  to  keep  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry financially  healthy  in  a  talk 
to  some  200  members  of  the  Wis- 
consin Cranberry  Growers  Associa- 
tion Thursday,  January  18. 

Speaking  at  the  annual  conven- 
tion of  the  group  in  the  South 
Wood  County  YMCA,  Ed  Gels- 
thorpe  described  present  efforts 
being  made  to  develop  new  markets 
for  cranberries,  and  strongly  en- 
dorsed a  proposed  amendment  to 
the  cranberry  marketing  order  which 
would  set  up  production  allotments 
in  six  years. 

Gerald  Brockman,  Rt.  1,  Vesper, 
was  elected  president  of  the  associa- 
tion, succeeding  Stuart  Pedersen  of 

Warrens. 

Succeeding  Brockman  as  vice 
president  is  Charles  Goldsworthy 
of  Eagle  River.  Prof.  G.  C.  Klingbeil, 
extension  horticulturist  for  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  was  re-elected 
secretary  and  educational  director. 

Paul  Jonjak  of  Hayward  was 
named  treasurer,  succeeding  Richard 
Indemuehle  of  Manitowish  Waters. 
Re-elected  directors  were  Robert 
Gottschalk  of  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Fred  Barber  of  Warrens  and  Fred 
Bartling  of  Manitowish  Waters. 

Under  the  proposed  amendment 
to  the  marketing  order,  production 
on  all  acres  in  commercial  produc- 
tion as  of  next  Aug.  1  will  be 
checked  for  six  years.  The  average 
of  the  two  highest  years  would 
then  be  the  grower's  allotment. 

The  total  production  each  year, 
starting  in  1974,  would  then  be 
divided  into  the  allotment,  and  each 
grower  would  be  told  how  much  he 
could  market  that  year. 

A  hearing  on  the  proposal  was 
held  Feb.  9  in  the  Courthouse  in 
Wisconsin  Rapids.  Other  hearings 
are  planned  in  major  American 
cranberry  growing  areas.  Growers 


will  vote  in  May  on  the  regular 
marketing  order  and  in  June  on 
the  proposed  amendment. 

Gelsthorpe  warned  growers  of 
impending  competition  with  Can- 
ada, which  he  said  will  soon  be  pro- 
ducing 70,000  barrels  of  cranberries 
a  year.  That  nation,  he  said,  will  be 
able  to  consume  only  25,000  barrels 
and  the  rest  will  be  aimed  at  the 
American  market. 

If  United  States  growers  accept 
the  allotment  proposal,  Gelsthorpe 
said,  Canadian  growers  will  be  asked 
to  cooperate  voluntarily.  If  the 
amendment  is  approved,  it  can  be 
enforced  in  the  United  States  by  the 
secretary  of  agriculture,  he  said. 

Tony  Jonjak  of  Hayward  of- 
fered a  resolution  calling  on  the 
cranberry  marketing  order  com- 
mittee to  use  the  Soil  Conservation 
Service  in  determining  each  grower's 
acreage  next  August.  After  the  lan- 
guage was  modified  to  call  for  the 
use  of  an  appropriate  goverrmient 
agency,  the  resolution  was  approved. 

Continued  on  Page  24 


A  Congressional  bill  which  would 
allow  special  tax  credits  for  busi- 
nesses which  establishes  new  opera- 
tions in  rural  and  small  towns  areas 
has  the  support  of  a  majority  of  the 
nation's  independent  businessmen, 
the  National  Federation  of  Inde- 
pendent Business  says. 


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$10,500  GIVEN  FOR 
CRANBERRY  RESEARCH 
WORK  IN  WISCONSIN 

The  University  of  Wisconsin 
and  Weather  Bureau  of  the  U.  S. 
Commerce  Department  will  receive 
grants  together  totaling  $10,500 
for  cranberry  research  and  frost 
warning  services,  state  agriculture 
secretary  D.N.  McDowell  announced 
recently. 

The  funds  are  raised  through 
a  state  cranberry  marketing  order 
supported  by  check-offs  from  all 
cranberries  sold  by  state  growers. 

McDowell,  who  allocates  the 
funds  upon  recommendation  of  an 
industry  advisory  committee,  says 
UW  researchers  will  receive  $8,000 
for  studies  in  horticulture,  path- 
ology and  entomology.  The  weather 
bureau's  frost  warning  service  will 
get  $2,500. 

Growers  approved  the  state  mar- 
keting  order   in   July,   1965,  and 
will  vote  on  the  measure  again  this, 
year,   as   statutes   require   a   refer- 
endum  on   the  assessments  every 
three  years. 

The  order  has  raised  $18,150 
over  the  past  two  years,  and  the 
estimated  revenue  for  1967  should 
top  $9,000,  according  to  McDowell. 


GOLDSWORTHY  RECEIVES  MEDAL 


About  one  year  ago,  the  Federal 
Land  Bank  of  St.  Paul,  along  with 
the  other  eleven  Federal  Land 
Banks,  embarked  on  their  50th  Ann- 
iversary Observance. 

On  AprU  3,  1967,  over  90  U.S. 
Congressmen  participated  in  a  "Spe- 
cial Orders,"  in  which  they  paid 
tribute  to  the  Federal  Land  Bank 
System,  and  "America's  Farmers: 
Providers  of  Plenty." 

Many  other  special  events  have 
taken  place  across  the  country  to 
carry  out  the  Anniversary  theme. 
One  of  the  most  meaningful  facts  of 
the  program  is  the  awarding  of  the 
50th  Anniversary  Commemorative 
Medals  to  individuals  and  organ- 
izations having  made  outstanding 
contributions  to  American  agricul- 
ture. 

The  Commemorative  Medals  were 

1.  Authorized  by   the  89th 
Congress 

2.  Approved  by  the  President 
of  the  United  States 

3.  Struck  by  a  U.S.  Mint  in  a 
limited  quantity. 


The  first  of  these  medals  wa 
awarded  to  President  Johnson  at  th" 
White  House.  Former  President  Ei 
senhower  received  one  at  a  later  date 

Recently  at  the  Wisconsin  Stat 
Cranberry  Growers  meeting,  a  com 
memorative  medal  was  presented  t« 
Mr.VernonGoldsworthy  for  "havin; 
been  in  the  development,  productioi 
and  marketing  of  the  cranberr 
industry  since  1933  with  a  desire  t< 
share  his  knowledge  and  experience 
with  others  well  known  in  the  agri 
cultural  world. 


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Personals 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended  the 
Technical  Committee  Meeting  of 
INE-55  and  the  Northeastern  Weed 

ontrol  Conference  from  January  1 
through  6.  Both  meetings  were 
leld  in  New  York  City.  Dr.  Devlin 
was  Secretary  of  the  NE-55  com- 
mittee and  has  now  been  elected 
[i^hairman  of  this  group.  This  is 
northeastern  regional  project  on 
iquatic  weeds.  Bob  also  presented 
paper  at  the  Weed  Conference. 
The  title  was  "Effect  of  Dichlobenil 
ion  Anthocyanin  Development  in 
Vaccinium  Macrocarpon  (Var.  Early 

lack)."  This  paper  describes  the 
jffect  of  casoron  on  the  color 
ievelopment  of  Early  Blacks  in  the 
laid  and  storage. 

Prof.  Stan  Norton  attended  the 
ixecutive  Committee  Meeting  of 
»JE^4  in  New  York  City  from 
anuary  7  to  9.  This  is  a  regional 
)roject  on  mechanical  harvesting  of 
Tuits  and  vegetables  and  Stan  is 
chairman  of  the  group. 

Dr.  Wes  MUler,  Prof.  Bill  Tom- 
inson  and  Dr.  Robert  Norgren  have 
I  paper  published  in  the  September 
1967  issue  of  the  Pesticides  Mon- 
toring  Journal.  The  title  is  "Per- 
sistence and  Movement  of  Parathion 
n  Irrigation  Waters."  This  paper 
ieals  with  movement  of  parathion 
rom  a  treated  cranberry  bog  to 
issociated  water  systems  and  the 
ength  of  time  necessary  for  the 
Desticide  to  break  down  to  non 
oxic  levels. 

Weather 

January  averaged  over  4  degrees 
day  below  normal  and  for  the 
first  two  weeks  was  about  12  de- 


grees a  day  below  normal.  The 
warmest  temperature  was  47  degrees 
on  the  19th  and  the  coldest,  -10 
degrees  on  the  12th.  Cold  periods 
were  from  the  1st  through  13th  and 
16th-17th,  warm  periods  were  few 
and  far  between  and  came  on  the 
14th  and  the  19th-21st.  On  the 
8th  the  maximum  temperature 
could  only  get  up  to  6  degrees  and 
we  thought  this  might  be  a  record 
but  we  found  that  on  February  10, 
1934  the  temperature  only  made 
it  to  2  degrees  and  on  February  16, 
1943  only  up  to  1  degree.  The 
record  low  for  January  was  -24 
degrees  in  1942. 

Precipitation  totalled  3,15  inches 
or  nearly  VA  inches  below  average. 
Major  precipitation  occurred  on  the 
7th,  15th  and  26th.  Snowfall  was 


10.2  inches  or  a  little  above  normal. 
The  largest  snowstorm  was  5  inches 
on  the  7th. 

Charts 

The  cranberry  pesticide  charts 
have  been  revised  and  are  being 
printed.  The  Cranberry  Station  will 
mail  the  new  charts  to  the  growers 
in  March.  The  assistance  and  ob- 
servations of  the  growers  who  helped 
with  the  chart  revision  are  always 
greatly  appreciated.  Plans  do  not 
call  for  a  revision  of  the  fertilizer 
chart,  so  growers  should  not  discard 
their  copy.  There  is  a  supply  of 
these  charts  still  available  at  the 
Station.  Anyone  who  needs  one 
should  send  the  Station  a  request. 
Dr.  Chandler's  fertilizer  bulletin  is 
also  available. 


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Issue  of  February  1968  /  Volume  32  -  No.  10 

Amendment 

All  readers  are  urged  to  study  the  proposed 
amendments  to  the  Marketing  Agreement  and  Order 
which  we  have  reprinted  in  full  on  page  10.  In  that 
the  proposal  will  affect  all  growers  and  handlers  alike, 
it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  everyone  know 
and  fully  understand  the  contents. 

Public  hearings  are  now  being  held  for  the  purpose 
of  a  full  and  complete  detailed  discussion  on  the  order. 
Local  and  regional  clubs  are  engaging  in  frank  and 
informative  question  and  answer  periods  so  that  there 
can  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  meaning  of  the  phrases 
Base  Quantity,  Annual  Allotment,  EstabHshed  Acre- 
age and  Fiscal  Period." 

The  Marketing  Committee  has  proposed  this  amend- 
ment after  long  and  thoughtful  research  on  the  past 
patterns  of  production  and  trends*of  the  consumer 
market.  With  these  facts,  they  have  made  forecasts  of 
the  future  markets.  Their  projected  figures  are  cause 
for  concern. 

Although  the  potential  market  and  production 
iiicreases,  it  may  be  noted  that  production  will  in  the 
near  future,  far  surpass  the  market  demand.  When  this 
happens,  it  has  been  said  that  the  set-aside  provision 
as  presently  written,  will  not  be  sufficient  to  keep 
the  price  up  and  a  very  low  dollar  barrel  is  certain. 

This  program  has  been  initiated  for  the  industry, 
by  the  industry.  It  is  in  no  way  a  government  fiat. 
The  United  States  Dept.  of  Agriculture  will  be  the 
agency  to  insure  the  legality  of  the  order,  for  a  fair 
and  equitable  operation  for  all.  The  enforcement  is 
charged  to  the  Marketing  Committee. 

Read,  study  and  ask  questions.  When  the  time 
comes  for  the  referendum,  you  are  urged  to  vote.  In 
this  manner,  the  proposal  will  either  be  accepted  or 
rejected  in  a  truly  fair  and  democratic  atmosphere, 
with  a  clear  understanding  of  what  was  offered  on  the 
ballot. 

The  proposal,  should  it  be  accepted,  will  then  be 
placed  directly  into  the  responsible  hands  of  the 
grower. 

It's  up  to  you. 

This  Month's  Cover 

This  month's  cover  was  drawn  by  artist  Barbara 
St,  Onge  of  Kingston,  Mass.  She  made  the  drawing 
while  observing  skaters  of  all  sizes  enjoying  themselves 
on  a  frozen  cranberry  bog. 

The  scene  is  typical  of  cranberry  areas  and  we  have 
entitled  it  "Saturday  Afternoon." 


CRANBERRIES 

THE  NATIONAL  CRANBERRY  MAGAZINE 
-  Our  J  1st  Year  of  Publication  - 

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BERNARD  A. 


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Wisconsin 

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Oregon 

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Washington 

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Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

Long  Beach,  Washington 

Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director  Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment  Station 

East  Wareham,   Massachusetts 

New   Jersey 

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New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


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Canada;  all  other  countries  $6,00  a  year,  foreign  remit- 
tances must  equal   U.S.   funds. 

Copyright  1968  by  Com  or  Publishers 

publication 


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New  Agway  Cash  Supplement  Hospital  Plan 
pays  like  a  salary  when  you  need  it  most. 


^105  per  week  (^15  per  day)  to  any  Agway  farmer-member 

or  wife  while  in  the  hospital. 


26-week  protection  costs  only  ^30  a  year  per  person. 


No  medical  examination  by  enrolling  now. 

Any  Agway  member  can  enroll  in  the  Cash  Supplement 
Plan  before  the  start  of  the  program  on  March  1,  without  a 
physical  exam  or  health  statement.  After  March  1,  an  exam- 
ination or  health  statement  is  required  of  all  members 
whether  presently  insured  or  not.  Act  now.  Don't  be  frozen 
out  of  this  plan.  Take  advantage  of  this  "open  door"  enroll- 
ment period. 

Enroll  now  for  immediate  coverage  on  March  1. 

For  presently  insured  members.  Anyone  currently  enrolled 
in  Agway  Members  Insurance  will  be  covered  March  1  for 
both  illness  and  accident  by  signing  up  now  for  this  new 
Agway  Cash  Supplement  Plan. 

Members  not  currently  insured  by  Agway  can  enjoy  the 
same  Cash  Supplement  Plan  at  the  same  low  cost  by  signing 
up  now.  Accident  coverage  will  be  effective  immediately 
on  March  1.  Illness  protection  will  be  effective  June  1  if 
you  enroll  before  March  1. 

Tax-free  checks  come  to  you. 

Pay  medical  bills,  hired  help,  house  bills— use  the  money 
any  way  you  choose,  because  the  $15-yer-day  check  ($105 
weekly)  pays  you,  not  the  hospital. 

Even  if  you  never  have  to  run  your  farm  from  a  hospital 
bed,  this  $15-per-day  cash  supplement  is  worth  having.  It 
protects  you,  your  wife,  and  your  savings  when  you  need 
cash  most.  And  the  cost  is  low— only  $30  per  person  per 
year— far  less  than  you'd  pay  for  this  protection  if  you 
bought  it  elsewhere.  You'll  save  30% -50%  or  more  by  par- 
ticipating in  a  true  group  plan  that  is  operated  exclusively 
for  the  benefit  of  Agway  farmer-members.  Protect  yourself 
and  your  wife  for  only  $60  per  year. 

Whatever  insurance  program  you  now  have,  this  Agway 
Cash  Supplement  can  strengthen  or  broaden  it  inexpensive- 


ly. The  plan  is  available  to  all  Agway  members  under  6i 
(Medicare  age)  whether  or  not  they  are  Agway  insurec 
now. 

You  must,  of  course,  be  out  of  the  hospital  on  the  daj 
your  Agway  Cash  Supplement  Plan  becomes  effective. 

Don't  take  chances. 

Fill  out  the  coupon  below,  and  get  complete 
details  on  the  protection  you  need  to  safe* 
guard  your  savings  and  your  farm. 

Why  not  fill  out  the  coupon  right  now? 

This  literature  is  merely  intended  to  give  you  a  brief  de 
scription  of  the  Agway  Cash  Supplement  Plan.  A  complete 
description  of  the  benefits  and  all  provisions  of  the  program 
are  subject  to  the  group  policy  issued  to  the  Agway  Inc 
Group  Trust. 

MORE  INFORMATION  COUPON 

Agway  Inc.,  Dept.  #M1,  P.O.  Box  1333 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.   13201 

n  Send  me  a  free  brochure,  "Sick  Pay  for 
Farmers." 

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TO  ALL  TO  WHOM  THESE  PRESENTS  SHALL  COME: 

Robert    C.   Zimmerman 


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-,  Secretary  of  State 


of  the  State  of  Wisconsin  and  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  thereof,  do  hereby  certify  that  the 
annexed        Zero?.  copy  of  Articles   of   IncorDoi-st  ion  of 

Ihe  Wisconsin  State  Orsnberry  Grower's  Assooiation 


Filftd  Wovember  liith,    1688 

has  been  compared  by  me  wHh  the  record  on  file  in  this  Department  and  that  the  same  is 
a  true  copy  thereof,  and  of  the  whole  of  such  record;  that  I  am  the  legal  custodian  of  such 
record,  and  that  this  certification  is  in  due  form. 


In  Testimony  Whereof,  I  have  hereunto 
set  my  hand  and  affixed  the  Great  Seal 
of  the  State  at  the  Capitol,  m  the  City 
of  Madison,  this  -Jiih  day  of  — Aii^JS t^ 


A.p.  197^7 


ROaZalr  C.  ZZMWERMAN.  Sncretaty  of  Stat* 


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It  would  seem  that  the  drafters 
of  the  original  Articles  of  Organ- 
ization for  the  Wisconsin  State  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association  were  well 
tuned  to  the  problems  of  the  future. 

The  paper,  drawn  up  80  years 
ago,  clearly  outlined  many  of  the 
conditions  and  concern  for  the  in- 
dustry, thoughts  on  the  protection 
of  the  consumer  and  general  wel- 
fare for  the  grower.  Since  that  time 
everyone  in  the  industry  has  worked 
hard  to  efficiently  regulate,  honestly 
promote  and  scientifically  increase 
production. 

Cranberry  cultivation  has  come  a 
long  way  since  1888,  so  far  in  fact, 
that  the  time  for  another  review  of 
the  past  and  a  look  into  the  future 
is  the  order  of  the  day.  The  order, 
of  course,  is  in  the  form  of  an  amend- 
ment to  the  present  Marketing 
Order,  where  men  "by  obtaining 
statistics  and  information"  are  at- 
tempting to  set  forth  a  program  for 
the  protection  of  our  future. 

And  so  in  1968,  the  cranberry 
industry  continues  to  search  out 
potential  problems  and  once  again 
try  to  solve  them  from  within. 


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ents, that  the  undersigned,  adult 
residents  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin, 
do  hereby  make,  sign,  and  agree  to 
the  following: 

ARTICLES  OF  ORGANIZATION 

ARTICLE  FIRST.-The  under- 
signed have  associated,  and  do  here- 
by associate  themselves  together,  for 
the  purpose  of  forming  a  corpora- 
tion under  the  Revised  Statutes  of 
the  State  of  Wisconsin  for  the  year 
A.D.  1878,  and  the  acts  amendatory 
thereto,  the  business  and  purposes 
of  which  corporation  shall  be  to  ad- 
vance the  interests  of  all  engaged  In 
the  cultivation  of  Cranberries  in  this 
state,   by    obtaining  statistics  and 


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information  of  the  condition  of  the 
crop  in  this  and  other  states,  from 
time  to  time;  by  establishing  and 
taking  measures  to  insure  the  use 
of  uniform  packages  for  marketing 
the  fruit,  so  as  to  secure  the  con- 
fidence of  dealers  and  purchasers 
by  this  evidence  of  fair  and  honor- 
able dealing;  to  enlarge  the  area  of 
the  market  for  this  fruit,  through 
definite  and  direct  action;  and  gen- 
erally, by  all  legitimate  and  honor- 
able means  to  advance  the  interests 
of  the  cranberry  cultivator;  the 
carrying  on  of  a  general  mercantile 
business  in  connection  with  the 
foregoing,  all  of  which  said  business 
is  to  be  carried  on  within  the  State 
of  Wisconsin,  and  especially  within 
the  county  of  Juneau  in  said  State. 


AR TICLE  SECOND.  -The  Name 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  The 
Cranberry  Grower's  Association  and 
its  location  shall  be  in  the  State  of 
Wisconsin. 

ARTICLE  THIRD. -The  Capital 
Stock  of  said  corporation  shall  be 
Nothing. 

ARTICLE  FOURTH.-The  gen- 
eral officers  of  said  corporation 
shall  be  a  President,  Vice-President, 
Secretary,  and  Treasurer,  Stati- 
sticians Cor.  Secretary  and  the  Board 
of  Directors  shall  consist  of  Pres., 
Vice  Pres.,  Secretary  and  two  other 
Members. 


ARTICLE  FIFTH.- The  princi- 
pal duties  of  the  President  shall  be 
to  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  and  to  have  a 
general  supervision  of  the  affairs 
of  the  corporation  and  such  other 
duties  as  are  usually  implied  in  like 
offices  in  similar  associations. 

The  principal  duties  of  the  Vice 

president  shall  be  to  discharge  the 

duties  of  the  President  in  the  event 

of  the  absence  or  disability,  for  any 

'  cause  whatever,  of  the  latter. 

I  The  principal  duties  of  the  Secre- 
Itary  shall  be  to  countersign  all 
deeds,  leases  and  conveyances  exe- 
cuted by  the  corporation,  affix  the 
seal  of  the  corporation  thereto,  and 
to  such  other  papers  as  shall  be  re- 


quired or  directed  to  be  sealed,  and 
to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Board  of  Direcotrs,  and 
to  safely  and  systematically  keep  all 
books,  papers,  records  and  docu- 


RECEIVED  lAl  OFFICE 
Of  SECfiETABY    OF  STATE. 


ments  belonging  to  the  corpora- 
tion, or  in  any  wise  pertaining  to  the 
business  thereof.  Also  to  act  as 
Treasurer  and  perform  duties  such 
as  are  usually  implied  in  like  offices 


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in  similar  associations. 

The  first  meeting  for  election  of 
officers  was  held  at  Tomah,  Wise., 
the  fifth  day  of  January,  Eighteen 
Hundred  Eighty^even. 

The  principal  duties  of  the  Treas- 
urer shall  be  to  keep  and  account 
for  all  moneys,  credits  and  property 
of  any  and  every  nature,  of  the  cor- 
poration, which  shall  come  into  his 
hands,  and  to  keep  an  accurate 
account  of  all  moneys  received  and 
disbursed,  and  proper  vouchers  for 
moneys  disbursed,  and  to  render 
such  accounts,  statements  and  in- 
ventories of  moneys  received  and 
disbursed,  and  of  money  and  prop- 
erty on  hand,  and  generally  of  all 
matters  pertaining  to  this  office, 
as  shall  be  required  by  the  Board 
of  Directors. 

The  Board  of  Directors  may  pro- 
vide for  the  appointment  of  such 
additional  officers  as  they  may  deem 
for  the  best  interest  of  the  corpora- 
tion. 

Whenever  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors may  so  order,  the  offices  of 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  may  be  held 
by  the  same  person. 

The  said  officers  shall  perform 
such  additional  or  different  duties 
as  shall  from  time  to  time  be  im- 
posed or  required  by  the  Board  of 
Directors,  or  as  may  be  prescribed 
from  time  to  time  by  the  by-laws. 

ARTICLE  SEVENTH. -IhQse  ar- 
ticles' may  be  amended  by  resolu- 
tion, setting  forth  such  amendment 
or  amendments,  adopted  at  any 
meeting. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF.  We  have 
hereunto  set  our  hands,  this  Twen- 
ty-third day  of  August,  A.  D.  1888. 

C.  E.  MARRINER,  President 
WILLIAM  L.  MEGOW, 

Vice  president 
H.  O.  KRUSCHKE 
J.H.  TREAT,Sec.&Treas. 

Signed  in  Presence  of: 
Ellen  F.  Megow 
N.  H.  H.  Cash 


CONSUMER  AND  MARKETING  SERVICE 
HANDLING  OF  CRANBERRIES  GROWN  IN  CERTAIN  STATES  ..  PROPOSED  AMENDMENTS 

[Reprinted  from  Federal  Register  of  J anuary  9.    1968  (33   F.R.  283)] 


10 


I  7  CFR  Part  929  1 
[Docket  No.  AO-341-A2] 

HANDLING  OF  CRANBERRIES  GROWN 
IN  CERTAIN  STATES 

Proposed   Amendments   to   the   Mar- 
keting Agreement  and  Order 

Pursuant  to  the  Agrlcultxiral  Market- 
ing Agreement  Act  of  1937,  as  amended 
(sees.  1-19,  48  Stat.  31,  as  amended;  7 
U.S.C.  601-674) ,  and  in  accordance  with 
the  applicable  rules  of  practice  and  pro- 
cedure governing  proceedings  to  formu- 
late marketing  agreements  and  market- 
ing orders  (7  CFR  Part  900),  notice  Is 
hereby  given  of  a  public  hearing  to  be 
held  in  the  town  hall,  Wareham,  Mass., 
beginning  at  9  a.m.,  local  time,  February 
5,  1968,  in  the  Mount  Laurel  Room,  Holi- 
day Motel,  Enit  4,  New  Jersey  T\u-npike, 
Moorestown,  N.J.,  beginning  at  10:30 
a.m.,  local  time,  February  7,  1968,  In  the 
Court  House  Auditorium,  Wood  Coimty 
Courthouse,  400  Market  Street,  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids,  Wis.,  beginning  at  9  a.m., 
local  time,  February  9,  1968,  and  In  the 
Willapa  Grange  Hall,  Gray  land,  Wash., 
beginning  at  9  a.m.,  local  time,  February 
13,  1968,  with  respect  to  proposed  fur- 
ther amendments  of  the  marketing 
agreement  and  Order  No.  929  (7  CFR 
Part  929) ,  hereinafter  referred  to  as  the 
"marketing  agreement"  and  "order,"  re- 
spectively, regulating  the  handling  of 
cranberries  grown  In  the  States  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, Rhode  Island,  Connecticut, 
New  Jersey.  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Min- 
nesota, Oregon,  Washington,  and  Long 
Island  in  the  State  of  New  York.  The  pro- 
posed amendments  have  not  received  the 
approval  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

The  public  hearing  is  for  the  purpose 
of  receiving  evidence  with  respect  to  the 
economic  and  marketing  conditions 
which  relate  to  the  proposed  amend- 
ments, hereinafter  set  forth,  and  to  any 
appropriate  modifications  thereof. 

The  following  amendments  to  the  mar- 
keting agreement  and  order  have  been 
proposed  by  the  Cranberry  Marketing 
Committee,  the  administrative  agency  es- 
tablished pursuant  to  the  marketing 
agreement  and  order: 

1.  Revise  §  929.6  Fiscal  period  to  read 
as  follows: 

§  929.6     Fiscal  period. 

"Fiscal  period"  is  synonymous  with 
"fiscal  year"  and  "crop  year"  and  means 
the  12-month  period  beginning  Septem- 
ber 1  of  one  year  and  ending  August  31 
of  the  following  year. 

2.  Add  a  new  §  929.13  reading  as  fol- 
lows: 

§  929.13      Das«  quantity. 

"Base  quantity"  means  the  number  of 
pounds  of  cranberries  established  for  a 
grower  by  the  committee  pursuant  to 
S  929.48. 

3.  Add  a  new  §  929.14  reading  as 
follows : 

§929.14      Marketable  quantity. 

"Marketable  quantity"  means  for  a 
crop  year  the  number  of  pounds  of  cran- 
berries necessary  to  meet  the  total  mar- 
ket demand  and  to  provide  for  an  ade- 
quate carryover. 

4.  Add  a  new  §  929.15  reading  as 
follows: 

§929.15      Annual  allotment. 

"Annual  allotment"  means  for  a 
grower  In  a  particular  crop  year  a  quan- 
tity equivalent  to  the  number  of  pounds 
of  cranberries  detennined  by  multiplying 


the  base  quantity  of  such  grower  by  the 
tdlotment  percentage  established  pursu- 
ant to  §  929.49  for  such  crop  year. 

5.  Add  a  new  §  929.16  reading  as 
follows: 

§  929.16      Established  cranberry  acreage. 

"Established  cranberry  acreage"  means 
acreage  which  is  presently  producing 
cranberries  on  a  commercial  basis  or 
acreage  which  has  been  recently  planted 
or  will  be  planted  prior  to  August  1,  1968, 
to  produce  cranberries  on  a  commercial 
basis. 

§929.21       [Amended] 

6.  Amend  §  929.21  Term  of  office  by 
deleting  therefrom  "August  1  and  ending 
on  the  last  day  of  July"  and  substituting 
therefor  "September  1  and  ending  on  the 
following  August  31." 

§  929.22      [Amended] 

7.  Amend  §  929.22  Nomination  by  de- 
leting "July  15"  therefrom  and  substitut- 
ing therefor  "July  1." 

8.  Redesignate  §  929.50  as  §  929.46  and 
revise  it  to  read  as  follows : 

§  929.46      Marketing  policy. 

(a)  Each  year  prior  to  May  1  the  com- 
mittee shall  estimate  the  marketable 
quantity  for  the  following  crop  year. 

(b)  Each  crop  year  prior  to  making 
any  recommendations  pursuant  to  sub- 
paragraphs (7)  and  (8)  of  this  para- 
graph, or  §  929.51,  the  committee  shall 
submit  to  the  Secretary  a  report  setting 
forth  its  marketing  policy  for  the  crop 
year.  Such  marketing  policy  shall  con- 
tain the  basis  therefor  and  information 
relating  to: 

(1)  The  estimated  total  production  of 
cranberries; 

(2)  The  expected  general  quality  of 
such  cranberry  production; 

(3)  The  estimated  carryover,  as  of 
September  1,  of  frozen  cranberries  and 
other  cranberry  products; 

(4)  The  expected  demand  conditions 
for  cranberries  in  different  market 
outlets ; 

(5)  Supplies  of  competing  commodi- 
ties; 

(6)  Trend  and  level  of  consumer 
Income; 

(7)  The  recommended  desirable  total 
marketable  quantity  of  cranberries,  in- 
cluding a  recommended  adequate  carry- 
over into  the  following  crop  year  of  fro- 
zen cranberries  and  other  cranberry 
products; 

(8)  Regulation  pursuant  to  5  929.52 
expected  to  be  recommended  by  the  com- 
mittee during  the  crop  year  together 
with  its  recommendations  of  the  free  and 
restricted  percentages;  and  beginning 
with  1974-75  crop  year,  the  recom- 
mended allotment  percentage,  if  any,  for 
the  crop  year;  and 

(i)  Other  factors  having  a  bearing  on 
the  marketing  of  cfanberries. 

9.  Add  a  new  §  929.47  reading  as 
follows : 

§  929.47      Preliminary  regulation. 

(a)  Beginning  with  the  1968-69  crop 
year,  and  continuing  for  each  crop  year 
thereafter  through  August  31,  1974,  no 
handler  shall  handle,  as  the  first  handler 
thereof,  cranberries  purchased  by  him 
from  a  grower  or  acquired  by  him  for 
handling  for  the  account  of  a  grower 
until  he  has  determined  the  identity  of 
the  grower  and  the  quantity  of  cran- 
berries attributed  to  such  grov;er.  The 
handler  shall  furnish  such  information 
to  the  committee  at  such  times  and  in 
such  forms  as  the  committee,  with  the 


approval  of  the  Secretary,  may  request. 

(b)  So  that  each  producer  may  qualify 
for  a  base  quantity  pursuant  to  9  929.48, 
the  committee  shall  furnish  each  pro- 
ducer early  in  each  calendar  year,  a  form 
to  be  filed  with  the  committee  whereon 
the  producer  reports  the  location  of  his 
bog(s) ,  the  acreage  he  intends  to  harvest 
for  cranberries,  and  such  other  informa- 
tion as  the  committee  needs  to  establish 
a  base  quantity  for  such  producer. 

10.  Add  a  new  §  929.48  reading  as 
follows : 

§  929.48     Base  quantities. 

(a)  Determination  of  base  quantities. 
(1)  Upon  the  Secretary  finding  not  later 
than  March  1,  1974,  that  the  six  crop 
years  1968-69  through  1973-74  constitute 
a  representative  period  in  terms  of  pro- 
duction of  cranberries  for  market  from 
cranberry  producing  acreage  established 
prior  to  August  1,  1968,  and  the  conse- 
quent producer  sales  of  such  cranber- 
ries, a  base  quantity  shall  be  computed 
not  later  than  May  1,  1974,  for  each 
qualified  grower  which  shall  be,  except  as 
otherwise  provided  in  subparagraph  (3) 
of  this  paragraph,  a  quantity  of  cran- 
berries equal  to  that  obtained  by  multi- 
plying the  grower's  established  cran- 
berry acreage  as  of  February  1,  1974,  es- 
tablished prior  to  August  1,  1968,  by  the 
average  of  his  average  per  acre  sales  for 
the  2  crop  years,  within  the  aforesaid 
period,  during  which  his  greatest  sales 
were  made :  Provided.  That  if  such  acre- 
age was  not  under  control  of  such 
grower  during  the  entire  period  1968-69 
through  1973-74,  the  grower  having  con- 
trol on  February  1,  1974,  shall  be  issued 
a  base-quantity  on  the  basis  of  sales  made 
from  such  acreage. 

(2)  In  accordance  with  this  paragraph 
(a)  and  based  on  reports  of  handlers, 
certifications  by  growers,  and  other  in- 
formation, the  committee  shall  estab- 
lish each  grower's  base  quantity  and,  ex- 
cept as  hereinafter  provided,  assign  such 
base  quantity  to  such  grower. 

(3)  Beginning  with  January  1.  1966, 
and  through  the  crop  year  1973  if  a 
grower  loses  cranberry  acreage  due  to  tin- 
usual  circumstance  such  as  any  power 
of  eminent  domain  during  the  period,  he 
shall  be  permitted  to  relocate  cranberry 
acreage  within  4  years  from  time  of  loss 
that  will  produce  in  units  equal  to  that 
lost  and  the  committee  shall  until  such 
relocated  acreage  reaches  maturity  com- 
pute a  base  quantity  for  such  grower 
equal  to  (i)  the  amount  likely  to  be  pro- 
duced from  the  new  acreage,  as  deter- 
mined by  the  committee,  or  (ii)  the  aver- 
age quantity  marketed  from  a  like  acre- 
age in  the  area  of  relocation  during  the 
2  crop  years  of  the  aforesaid  period  when 
such  average  was  highest. 

(4)  The  committee,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Secretary,  shall  adopt  rules  and 
regulations  as  necessary  to  implement 
the  provisions  of  this  section. 

(b)  Additional  base  quantities.  Each 
crop  year  beginning  in  1974-75,  If  It  ap- 
pears that  the  market  demand  for  cran- 
berries exceeds  the  aggregate  base  quan- 
tities, the  committee  shall  consider  the 
need  for  granting,  and  If  appropriate, 
grant,  with  the  approval  of  the  Secretary, 
additional  base  quantities,  to  either  a 
new  grower  or  to  existing  growers  for  the 
purpose  of  satisfying  the  Increased  mar- 
ket demand  for  cranberries.  Such  addi- 
tional base  quantities  shall  be  granted. 
Insofar  as  practicable,  on  the  following 
basis: 

( 1 )  To  increase  all  existing  base  quan- 
tities; and 

(2)  To  Increase  the  base  quantity  of 
existing   growers   and   establish   a   base 

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headquarters. 

To  be  completed  in  two  phases, 
the    expansion    is   being   financed 
through   industrial    revenue  bonds 
issued  by  Kansas  City,  Kansas.  The 
first   phase   will    cost    1.4  million 
dollars  to  complete  five  new  pro- 
jects. Under  this  plan  the-city  will 
lease  the  new  facilities  to  Thompson- 
Hayward   until  the  bond  issue  is 
paid   off,   C.   W,    Brenneisen,   Jr., 
:ity  attorney,  emphasized  that  the 
Donds  are  paid  off  from  revenue 
rom  the  facility  and  not  from  taxes. 
According    to    Willis    H.    Hart, 
iirector  of  manufacturing  for  the 
;ompany,  the  first  phase  will  in- 
;lude   expansion    of  research  and 
jroduction    facilities    at    the    100 
icre   plant    site    at   5200  Speaker 
load.  These  projects  include  com- 
)letion  of  a  pilot  plant,  and  steam 
;enerator   plant   (each   95%   com- 
)leted),  an  in-plant  fire  protection 
ystem,  a  liquid  formulation  plant, 
jid  a  herbicide  plant. 

The  new  hquid  formulation  plant 
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tig  facilities  for  industrial  and 
gricultural  products.  Already  active 
1  herbicide  manufacture,  the  new 
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Hart  said  that  these  projects 
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me  the  company  expects  to  be  in 
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me  will  be  needed  for  the  manu- 
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Completion  of  the  first  phase, 
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Walter  Z.  Fort 


by  BERNARD  A.  MARVIN 


is,  they  are  no  longer  interested  in 
coming  here  to  work."  Mr.  Fort 
added  that  he  used  to  depend  on 
labor  from  Philadelphia,  but  with 
the  poverty  programs  and  all,  "even 
they  aren't  interested." 

"As  far  as  fresh  fruit  is  concerned, 
there  is  a  severe  labor  problem  with 
large  shippers,  especially  Ocean 
Spray.  You  bring  a  crew  in  to  work, 
you've  got  to  keep  them  working.  At 
one  time  all  fresh  fruit  was  packed  at 
the  individual's  packing  house.  You 
could  call  them  today  and  tomorrow 
it  would  be  ready.  When  the  fruit 
went  to  market. ...it  was  a  real  fresh 
packed  product.  Today  we  pack  the 
berries  ahead  of  time  in  order  to 
keep  the  labor  going."  Mr.  Fort 
feels  it  is  quite  a  problem,  for  the 
fruit  sits  around  a  couple  of  days 
and  begins  to  deteriorate.  When 
the  berries  end  up  on  the  store 
shelf,  they  have  broken  down  more 
than  they  normally  should. 


Walter  Z.  Fort,  Pemberton,  New 
Jersey  is  a  busy  man  indeed.  As 
Secretary-Manager  of  the  Growers 
Cranberry  Co.,  his  time  is  well  taken 
up  with  the  problems  of  the  growers 
and  marketing  alike. 

While  Eatmor  Cranberries  was  in 
business,  Mr.  Fort  was  their  area 
manager.  When  they  dissolved,  a 
group  of  growers  banded  together 


-  -  new/  jerseu 

low  to  where  the  v  I 


"We're  educated  now 

insect  control  problem  is  important.  More  on  Fresh  Fruit 
This  is  one  of  the  big  factors  as  far  as  •       Over  the  years  it  has  been  taken 

our  production  here  in  New  Jersey  for  granted  the  fruit  could  be  picked 

is  concerned."  and  shipped  at  any  time.  Mr.  Fort 

Mr.  Fort  Speaks  Out  on  Labor  ^^^^^^  that  proper  scheduUng  and 

The   biggest  percentage  of  the  timing  are  important  economic  fac- 

fruit  is  canned  and  what  is  marketed  tors  with  all  in  the  cranberry  in- 

is  shipped  north  to  Canada  and  south  ^ustry . 

all  the  way  to  Florida.  He  says.  The  berries  must  have  good  color 


and  decided  to  keep  the  company     however,  the  fresh  fruit  market  has    or  there  is  a  mark  against  them 


going.  He  was  hired  to  market  and 
manage  for  them. 

Mr.  Fort  was  born  in  New  Jersey 
and    today   resides   with   his  wife 


diminished  and  cites  these  reasons 
why. 

"Labor  is  getting  harder  to  find 
each  year  to  package  fruit  and  those 


Helen,  son  Roy  and  daughter  Faith     people  who  were  originally  inter- 
Ann  on  a  property  near  the  New     ested  in  fresh  fruit  no  longer  are 
Jersey  Blueberry  and  Cranberry  Ex- 
periment Station. 

As  an  amateur  photographer,  Mr. 
Fort  has  tied  his  hobby  into  his 
vocation.  When  he  first  took  the 


because  there  isn't  enough  price 
differential  between  fresh  and 
canned." 


Ocean  Spray  is  making  greater  de- 
mands for  good  color,  especially 
since  their  production  of  cocktail. 
"Production  wise,"  Mr.  Fort  said, 
"we  are  getting  up  to  a  million  and 
a  half  barrels  and  I  believe  we  will 
have  to  give  some  serious  thought 
to  building  up  the  fresh  fruit  mar- 
ket." 


Consumer  Trends 

The  trend  seems  to  be,  with  most 


The  growers  in  his  area  depended 

••  -~  .-.-v  .v.v^.v  i^iv  pretty  much  on  Puerto  Rican  labor.  •— ^— ...  .v.  w^,  „,..,.. .w^^ 

job,  one  of  his  biggest  problems  was  The   laborers  have   always  picked  consumers  at  least,  that  the  canned 

to  convince  the  growers  there  were  New  Jersey  berries  following  the  fruit  is  far  more  popular  because  of 

insects  on  the  bogs  and  the  severe  harvest    of  tomatoes   and   apples,  the  ease  in  preparation  and  the  lack 

damage    they   could   do.    The    tip  "They  are  no  longer  coming  into  of  work  involved.  Mr.  Fort  would 

worm,  for  example,  is  so  very  small-  the  country  as  they  should.  Labor  like  to  see  a  vast  education  program 

so   he   photographed    them    for  a  unions  have  gotten  into-the  picture  initiated  to  acquaint  the  shoppers 

slide  presentation.  His  shdes  were  pretty   much    and  confused  these  with  the  versatile  fresh  berries.  In 

usually  shown  at  the  meetings  and  people  more  than  ever.  The  result  his  personal  campaign,  he  urges  the 
14 


people  in  his  own  area  to  try  the 
fresh  product.  "But,"  he  says,  "the 
next  time  in  the  store,  they  will 
pick  up  the  can  instead." 

Problems  with  Water  Harvesting 

The  DeMarco  and  Haines  opera- 
tions are  typical  of  the  trend  toward 
water  harvesting.  They  have  gone  to 
water  harvesting  because  it's  faster 
and  more  economical  on  a  per 
barrel  basis.  But  the  money  and 
time  involved  in  cutting  up  a  bog 
to  get  ready  for  water  harvesting  is 
astounding.  "You  must  really  know 
what  you're  doing  when  you  finally 
decide  on  this.  The  bog  must  only 
be  flooded  for  twenty-four  hours 
maximum   time,   in  order  not  to 


impair  the  quality  of  the  berries. 
Also,  the  berries  are  good  for  only 
about  three  days  after  flooding— 
and  you  must  quickly  clean  and 
move  them  to  the  freezer  or  canning 
house.  Breakdown  at  this  stage  is 
rapid.  The  solution  to  the  fresh 
fruit  problem  will  not  be  found 
with  water  harvesting  because  the 
berries  won't  stand  up.  Don't  try 
letting  them  sit  around  a  day  or 
two  either.  You'll  lose  everything." 

Enthusiasm  Not  Lacking 

In  spite  of  the  foregoing  prob- 
lems and  the  period  of  extended 
drought  which  brought  losses  and 
hardship  to  the  cranberry  growers. 


New  Jersey  remains  an  important 
producer  in  the  cranberry  industry. 
That  confidence  and  enthusiasm  are 
present  here  is  evidenced  by  the 
modern  development  in  the  new 
Whitesbog  section  {Cranberries,  De- 
cember 1966)  and  the  mammoth 
redevelopment  on  the  "Sims  Place" 
property.  Walt  Fort  points  out  that 
most  New  Jersey  growers  do  not 
derive  their  entire  livelihood  from 
cranberries,  many  combining  their 
bogs  with  huge  blueberry  fields,  and 
even  with  burgeoning  industry  and 
population  increases  which  are  gob- 
bling acreage,  the  cranberry  industry 
in  New  Jersey  will  be  around  for  a 
long,  long  time. 


PROPOSED  AMENDMENT- Continued  from  Page  10 


quantity  for  new  growers  as  a  result  of 
new  acreages  to  be  planted  to  cranberries 
to  meet  new  demands. 

11.  Add    a   new    8  929.49    reading    as 
follows : 

§  929.49      Marketable  quanlity,  allotment 
percentage,  and  annual  allotment. 

(a)  Marketable  quantity  and  allot- 
ment percentage.  Beginning  with  the 
197 .  -75  crop  year,  if  the  Secretarir  finds 
from  the  recommendation  of  the  com- 
mittee or  from  other  available  informa- 
tion that  limiting  the  quantity  of  cran- 
berries that  may  be  purchased  from,  or 
handled  on  behalf  of,  growers  would  tend 
to  effectuate  the  declared  policy  of  the 
act,  he  shall  determine  and  establish  the 
marketable  quantity  for  such  crop  year. 
The  marketable  quantity  shall  be  appor- 
tioned among  growers  by  applying  the 
allotment  percentage  to  each  grower's 
base  quantity,  established  pursuant  to 
I  929.48.  The  allotment  percentage  shall 
be  established  by  the  Secretary  and  shall 
equal  the  marketable  quantity  divided 
by  the  total  of  all  growers'  base  quan- 
tities. Except  as  provided  in  paragraph 
(c)  of  this  section,  no  handler  shall  pur- 
chase or  handle  on  behalf  of  any  grower 
cranberries  not  within  such  grower's  an- 
nual allotment.  In  any  crop  year  begin- 
ning with  the  crop  year  commencing 
September  1,  1974,  in  which  the  produc- 
tion of  cranberries  is  estimated  by  the 
committee  to  be  equal  to  or  less  than  Its 
recommended  marketable  quantity,  the 
committee  may  recommend  and  the  Sec  ■ 
retary  may  increase  or  suspend  the  allot- 
ment percentage  applicable  to  any  year. 
In  the  event  it  is  found  that  the  market 
demand  is  greater  than  the  marketable 
quantity  previously  set,  the  committee 
may  recommend  and  the  Secretary  may 
increase  such  quantity. 

(b)  Issuance  of  annual  allotments. 
The  committee  shall  require  each  grower 
to  qualify  for  his  aUotment  by  filing  with 
the  committee,  on  or  before  February 
1,  1974,  and  by  the  same  date  each  year 
thereafter,  a  CMC  form  wherein  the 
grower  states  such  information  as  where 
he  intends  to  produce  his  annual  allot- 
ment, the  acreage  he  intends  to  harvest, 
changes  in  location,  if  any,  and  such 
other  information,  including  a  copy  of 
any  lease  agreement,  as  is  necessary  to 


administer  this  part.  On  or  before  May 
1,  1974,  and  by  the  same  date  each  year 
thereafter,  the  committee  shall  issue  to 
each  grower  an  annual  allotment  deter- 
mined by  applying  the  allotment  percent- 
age established  pursuant  to  paragraph 
(a)  of  this  section  to  the  grower's  base 
quantity. 

(c)  Filling  deficiencies  in  annual  al- 
lotments. When  a  grower,  beginning  in 
1974,  does  not  produce  cranberries  equal 
to  his  computed  annual  allotment,  he 
may  (1)  fill  any  deficit  in  his  annual  al- 
lotment by  obtaining  cranberries  from 
another  grower  who  has  produced  a 
quantity  of  cranberries  In  excess  of  his 
computed  annual  allotment,  (2)  trans- 
fer any  unused  portion  of  his  allotment 
to  another  grower,  or  (3)  transfer  his 
unused  allotment  to  a  handler  who  shall 
allocate  the  unused  allotment  to  another 
grower  or  growers  with  insufQcient  allot- 
ment. As  a  conditimi  to  any  such  transfer 
each  grower  or  handler  shall  furnish  a 
full  report  of  each  such  transaction  to 
the  conunittee,  including  the  names  of 
the  parties,  the  quantity  involved  in  the 
transaction,  and  such  other  information 
as  will  enable  the  committee  to  adminis- 
ter this  provision.  The  committee,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Secretary,  may 
modify  the  provisions  with  respect  to  fill- 
ing deficiencies. 

(d)  A  grower  or  handler  with  any  defi- 
ciency of  allotment  should  notify  the 
committee  of  such  deficiency  in  order  to 
provide  adequate  marketable  cranberries 
to  meet  the  market  demand. 

As  a'  service  to  growers  and  handlers, 
the  committee  shall  act  as  a  clearing 
house  of  information  of  producers  with 
deficits  in  production  and  the  availabil- 
ity of  cranberries  In  excess  of  salable. 
Such  Information  shall  be  available  at 
the  committee  office  to  any  producer  or 
handler  upon  request. 

12.    Add   a   new    S  929.50   reading   as 
follows : 
§  929.50     Transfers. 

(a)  Of  location.  A  grower  may  trans- 
fer from  the  acreage  to  which  the  cran- 
berries are  attributed  on  which  his  base 
quantity  was  established  to  other  land 
which  he  owns  or  leases,  except  if  he  is 
leasing  such  base  quantity  acreage  no 
transfer  shall  be  approved  imless  the 
owner  of  such  land  consents  to  the  trans- 


fer. Notwithstanding  the  date  of  August 
1,  1968,  §  929.48(a),  the  land  to  which 
the  grower's  annual  base  quantity  has 
been  transferred  may  be  planted  at  any 
time.  The  committee  shaU,  by  such 
means  as  are  provided  in  8  929.49(b), 
obtain  information  as  to  the  location  (s) 
where  each  grower  intends  to  produce 
his  base  quantity. 

(b)  To  another  grower.  A  grower  may 
transfer  all  or  part  of  a  base  quantity 
from  himself  to  another  grower,  but  if 
the  transferor  is  not  the  owner  of  the 
producing  acreag^,  the  consent  of  the 
owner  shall  be  required  prior  to  the  com- 
mittee's granting  an  aimual  allotment  on 
such  base  quantity.  Also,  such  a  trans- 
fer shall  be  recognized  only  uix)n  the 
transferor  and  transferee  notifying  the 
committee  in  writing  and  the  transferee 
submitting  evidence  of  capability  to  pro- 
duce and  harvest  the  annual  base  quan- 
tity referable  thereto. 

13.  Revise  paragraph  (d)  of  {  929.68 
Tet~mination  lo  read  as  follows: 

§  929.68     Termination. 

•  •  •  «  • 

(d)  The  Secretary  shall  conduct  a 
referendiun  during  the  month  of  May 
1975,  to  ascertain  whether  continuance 
of  this  part  is  favored  by  the  growers  as 
set  forth  In  paragraph  (c)  of  this  sec- 
tion. The  Secretary  shall  conduct  such  a 
referendum  during  the  month  of  May 
of  every  fourth  year  thereafter. 

The  Fruit  and  Vegetable  Division,  Con- 
simier  and  Marketing  Service,  has  pro- 
posed that  consideration  be  given  to 
making  such  other  changes  in  the  mar- 
keting agreement  and  order  as  may  be 
necessary  to  make  the  entire  marketing 
agreement  and  order  conform  with  any 
amendments  thereto  that  may  result 
from  this  hearing. 

Copies  of  the  notice  of  hearing  may  be 
obtained  from  the  Director,  Fruit  and 
Vegetable  Division,  Consumer  and  Mar- 
keting Service,  U.S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. Washington,  D.C.  20250. 

Dated:  January  4,  1968. 

John  C.  Blttm, 
Deputy  Administrator, 
Regulatory  Programs. 

[F.B.    Doc.    6B-317;     Filed,    Jan.    8,     1968; 
8:62  ajn.] 


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the  office.  The  sun  is  blazing  through 
the  windows  and  outside  it  is  warm 
and  pleasant  (out  of  the  breeze 
which  is  coming  from  the  north). 

This  wonderful  weather  enables 
the  growers  in  this  area  to  get  out 
and  get  the  needed  pruning  accom- 
plished. You  can  well  imagine  what 
a  nice  day  means  this  early  in  the 
year. 

The  next  issue  of  the  Cranberry 
Vine  wUl  be  coming  out  later  in 
February  with  information  of  inter- 
est to  the  western  area.  Azmi  Shawa 
spoke  to  the  growers  of  the  three 
areas  this  past  month  on  his  work 
with  Nutra-Phos,  a  nutritional  foliar 
spray,  and  its  benefits  for  the  Cran- 
berry vine  and  fruit. 

Dr.  Charles  Doughty  spoke  to  the 
Grayland  area  growers  at  the  Feb- 
ruary meeting  and  wUl  speak  in  Long 
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The  precipitation  for  the  month 
was  down  from  last  month  some 
what  with  only  13.39  inches,  with 
2.32  the  greatest  on  the  13th. 
January  1967  recorded  24.52  inches. 

The  temperature  rose  to  a  de- 
lightful 63°  on  the  23rd  with  a  mean 
high  of  48.2°  F.  The  low  for  the 
month  came  on  the  26th  22°  F 
with  a  20°  reading  on  the  bog.  The 
mean  low  was  36.1°  F. 


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The  first  thirteen  days  in  January 
in  the  cranberry  belt  of  New  Jersey 
would  have  suited  penguins  and 
the  Green  Bay  Packers.  The  tem- 
perature during  this  period  rose 
above  the  freezing  point  for  a  very 
short    time    on    only    three   days. 


Zero  or  below  zero  was  recorded  oi 
three  mornings.  The  lowest  tern 
perature  recorded  in  the  weathe 
shelter  at  the  laboratory  was  i*"^ 
below  zero  on  the  12th,  but  in 
nearby  blueberry  field  in  New  Lis 
bon  a  reliable  unsheltered  ther 
mometer  registered  17  below  zero 
Light  snows  in  late  December  an( 
early  January  kept  a  continuou 
snow  cover  on  the  ground  through 
out  the  first  two  weeks  of  th( 
month.  This  made  for  hazardou 
driving  and  on  cranberry  bogs,  wher 
ice  thickness  reached  ten  inches 
there  was  a  rapid  depletion  o 
oxygen  in  the  flood  water.  Oi 
January  12th  the  Cranberry  an( 
Blueberry  Lab  issued  an  oxygei 
deficiency  warning  to  cranbern 
growers  and  most  of  them  immedi 
ately  dropped  the  ice  on  thei 
bogs. 


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A  heavy  rain  of  1.99  inches  on 
[anuary  14th  and  15th  relieved 
the  icy  conditions  and  presaged  a 
radical  change  in  the  weather.  The 
latter  half  of  the  month  was  rela- 
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nonth  up  to  28.1  which  was  still 
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ith  an  average  temperature  of 
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to  note  that  the  first  fifteen  days 
pf  the  past  month  averaged  20.7.) 
;irhe  coldest  winter  weather  in  the 
forty-year  history  of  the  New  Lisbon 
station  was  February  1934  when 
the  average  temperature  was 
only  18°  F.  It  went  down  to  zero 
or  below  on  four  nights  in  the 
weather  shelter  and  ten  times 
in  bliieberry  fields.  The  low  recorded 
in  the  weather  shelter  was  17° 
below  on  February  9,  1934.  It  was 
well  below  20  below  zero  in  blue- 
berry fields  on  that  night  and  went 
below  1 5  below  zero  on  three  other 
nights. 

Rainfall  in  January  totaled  only 
2.66  inches,  or  about  0.58  less 
.than  normal.  Although  snow  cover 
persisted  for  about  half  of  the 
month,  only  three  light  "dustings" 
amounting  to  a  total  of  three  inches 
occurred. 

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F  THE  FAIRY 
CRANBERRY 


B.  M.  Zuckerman,  K.  J.  Rochefort 
and  G.  B.  Rounsvillel 


Summary 

Fairy  ring  has  hitherto  been  an 
exceedingly  difficult  disease  to  con- 
trol. Based  on  the  experiments  re- 
ported herein,  the  following  treat- 
ment is  recommended:  For  control 
of  fairy  ring  disease  in  cranberries, 
'apply  ferbam  as  a  drench  at  the  rate 
3f  6.84  lbs.  (actual)/ 100  gallons  of 
^vater,  one  gallon  per  square  foot. 
Treat  up  to  3  feet  outside  and  2  feet 
within  the  ring.  Apply  in  the  fall 
immediately  after  harvest. 

[ntroduction 

Parasitism  of  tlie  cultivated  cran- 
=jberry  by  the  fungus  Psilocybe 
igrariella  Atk.,  var.  vaccinii  Charles 
esults  in  a  disease  called  fairy  ring. 
The  fungus  is  a  root  parasite,  but  the 
iianner  in  which  it  attacks  the  root 
system  has  not  been  studied.  A  brief 
•eference  to  the  symptoms  of  the 
iisease,  as  described  by  Shear, 
Jtevens  and  Bain  (1),  is  necessary  to 
in  understanding  of  the  control 
neasure  reported  herein.  These 
luthors  write  as  follows:  "The  first 
agn  of  the  disease  is  a  small  area  of 
lead  or  weak  vines  in  a  bog . . . 
he  area  of  dead  vines  advances  out- 
l^ard  in  all  directions  at  a  rate  of  1 
o  Wi  feet  per  year.  When  the  dead 
ea  reaches  a  diameter  of  from  4  to 
feet  the  middle  usually  becomes 
ed  over  with  healthy  cranberry 
lants,  thus  forming  the  ring  . . . 
Vs  the  mycelium  of  the  fungus 
idvances  outward,  the  ring  increases 
n  size,  and  the  dying  out  of  the 
iingus  growth  of  previous  years 
jermits  the  cranberry  vines  to  grow 
back  inside  the  ring."  It  should 
dso  be  noted  that  during  the  period 
3f  vine  regrowth,  the  area  within 


the  ring  frequently  becomes  heavily 
infested  with  weeds,  with  the  result 
that  the  bog  productivity  is  sig- 
nificantly decreased. 

A  more  recent  observation  con- 
cerning this  disease  and  related  to 
changing  cultural  practices  must  be 
cited.  Prior  to  the  advent  of 
mechanical  harvesting  machines, 
fairy  ring  was  a  disease  of  fairly 
minor  importance,  since  very  few 
bogs  were  affected  and  those  gener- 
ally had  only  a  small  number  of 
rings.  However,  when  in  the  1950's, 
picking  machines  came  into  general 
use,  the  fairy  ring  disease  quickly 
assumed  a  more  serious  aspect.  The 
reason  for  this  change  was  that  the 
picking  machine  frequently  uproots 
vines  and  carries  them  and  the 
adhering  soil  for  distances  often  in 
excess  of  50  feet.  Thus,  after  a 
machine  passes  through  a  diseased 
area,  the  fungus  is  often  transferred 
to  areas  of  healthy  vines,  where  it 
soon  initiates  a  new  fairy  ring.  In 
extreme  cases  an  acre  of  bog  may, 
within  a  period  of  2-3  years,  exhibit 
10  or  more  newly  started  rings. 

The  previously  recommended 
control  for  the  disease  was  by 
ditching,  a  practice  which  is  both 
expensive  and  impractical  because 
of  the  existing  labor  situation,  and 
the  application  of  copper  sulfate  at 
the  rate  of  1  gallon  of  5%  solution 
per  square  foot.  Following  treat- 
ment with  copper  sulfate  at  this 
dosage,  observation  has  shown  that 
cranberry  vines  do  not  grow  in  the 
treated  area  for  periods  in  excess  of 
1 0  years.  For  this  reason  this  method 
of  control  is  no  longer  recom- 
mended. A  new  control  method. 


resulting  in  effective  control  of  the 
disease,  and  giving  no  apparent 
phytotoxicity  to  cranberry  vines,  is 
reported  in  this  paper. 


Materials  and  Methods 

The  following  chemical  treat- 
ments were  evaluated  for  the  control 
of  fairy  ring. 

1)  Ferbam  applied  as  a  drench  at 
the  rate  of  6.84  lbs.  (actual)/ 100 
gallons  of  water,  one  gallon  per 
square  foot, 

2)  Ferbam  appHed  as  a  drench  at 
the  rate  of  6.84  lbs,  (actual)/ 100 
gallons  of  water,  one-half  gallon  per 
square  foot, 

3)  Ferbam  applied  with  soil  injec- 
tor at  the  rate  of  6,84  lbs,  (actual)/ 
100  gallons  of  water,  one  gallon  per 
square  foot. 

The  chemical  was  applied  up  to 
three  feet  outside  the  advancing  ring 
of  dead  plants  and  two  feet  within 
the  inner  ring  of  dead  plants.  Appli- 
cations were  made  in  the  fall,  im- 
mediately after  harvest,  to  avoid 
damage  to  the  current  year  crop. 
The  efficiency  of  the  treatment  was 
evaluated  by  applying  the  chemical 
to  one-half  of  the  ring  and  leaving 
the  remaining  half  untreated.  Several 
other  areas  infected  by  the  fungus 
were  also  treated  and  the  succeed- 
ing crop  of  berries  collected  for 
residue  analysis  (Table  1). 

Results 

Excellent  control  of  the  disease 
was  obtained  when  ferbam  was 
apphed  as  a  drench  at  the  rate  of 
6.84  lbs.  (actual)/ 100  gallons  of 
water,  one  gallon  per  square  foot. 

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The  criterion  used  in  this  evaluation  tion.  In  contrast,  untreated  edges  of 

was  that  newly  killed  vines  did  not  the   same   ring   showed  numerous 

appear  along  the  outer  edge  of  the  newly  killed  vines.  There  was  no 

ring  in  the  year  following  applica-  apparent  evidence  of  phytotoxicity. 


Table  1.  Residue  analysis  of  cranberries  in  bog  areas  treated  with  ferbam 
at  the  rate  of  6.84  lbs.  (actual)/lOO  gallons  of  water,  one  gallon 
per  square  foot. 

Bog  if  Time  of  application  Replicate  No.  Timeof  harvest  Residue  (ppmfr 


1  September,  1965 

2  September,  1965 

3  September,  1965 

4  May,  1966a 


1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 


August,  1966 
August,  1966 
August,  1966 
August,  1966 


0.25 
0.25 
0.25 
0.30 
0.50 
0.47 
0.44 
0.44 


Treatment  with  the  ferbam 
drench  at  one^ialf  gallon  per  square 
foot  was  not  as  effective,  for  in  a 
few  small  treated  areas  the  vines 
continued  to  die  the  year  following 
treatment.  The  injector  method  was 
ineffective,  for  in  this  experiment 
the  disease  appeared  to  be  spreading 
almost  as  rapidly  in  the  treated  area 
as  in  the  untreated  area. 

The  results  of  the  residue  analysis 
indicate  that,  despite  the  massive 
dosage  of  chemical  appUed  to  a  very 
small  area,  berries  picked  the  yeai 
following  treatment  contained  fer 
bam  residues  well  below  the  toler-j 
ance  limits  established  for  thi: 
chemical  (Table  1), 


1.  Respectively,  Professor,  Laboratoiib^ 
Assistant,    Assistant    Farm    Superinten 
dent,  University  of  Massachusetts  Cran'" 
berry  Experiment  Station,  East  Wareham 
Massachusetts. 


a.  Applied  before  flowering. 

b.  Residue  analyses  carried  out  by  the  FMC  Corporation, 
Niagara  Chemical  Division,  Middleport,  New  York. 


Literature  Cited 

(1)  SHEAR,  C.  L.,  N.  E.  STEVENS 
and  H.  F.  BAIN.  1931.  Fungous  disease 
of  the  cultivated  cranberry.  U.S.D.A 
Tech.  Bui.  258. 


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[dward  V.  Lipman  (left)  and  Stewart 

m  their  election  by  State  Secretary  of 

LIPMAN  AND  JOHNSON 
ELECTED  TO  N.J.  STATE 
BOARD  OF  AGRICULTURE 

Edward  V.  Lipman,  8  Edgebrook 
Road,  New  Brunswick,  and 
Stewart  S.  Johnson,  Great  Meadows 
(Warren  County),  were  elected  to 
the    New   Jersey   State    Board    of 


S.  Johnson  (ri^t)  are  congratulated 

Agriculture  Phillip  Alampi. 

Agriculture  at  the  close  of  the 
State  Agricultural  Convention  at 
Trenton,  January  25. 

Lipman  is  New  Jersey  area  and 
production  manager  for  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.,  and  is  owner 
and  operator  of  the  Jeffrey's  Branch 
Cranberry  Company,  Toms  River. 
Johnson  has  45  head  of  dairy  cattle 
on    a    190-acre    farm    near   Great 


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for  frost  control 
and  Irrigation 

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ALL  ALUMINUM 
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Johns  Manville  Plastic 

Pipe   and   Fittings 

WE   ALSO   HAVE   SOME    1  V/'   and   2"  ALUMINUM   PIPE 
FOR     SALE     AT     THE     PLYMOUTH     WAREHOUSE. 

LARCHMONT     ENGINEERING 

LEXINGTON.  MASS.  VO  2-2550 

BILL    STEARNS 

99    Warren    Ave.      Plymouth,    Mass.       (716-6048) 

Larchmont    Eng.    Rep. 


Meadows.  He  is  president  of  the 
Warren  County  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture. 

The  men  will  take  office  for 
four  years  on  July  1 ,  upon  official 
appointment  by  Governor  Richard 
J.  Hughes.  They  will  succeed  Elia 
Clemenson  of  Estell  Manor  and 
Charles  V.  N.  Davis  of  New  Centre, 
whose  terms  will  expire  June  30. 

Edward  V.  Lipman 

Lipman  joined  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  Bordentown,  in  1946, 
first  serving  as  director  of  grower 
relations  for  New  Jersey,  then  for 
New  Jersey  and  Wisconsin,  before 
becoming  an  area  manager. 

Between  1950  and  1964,  he  was 
also  managing  director  of  the  New 
Jersey  Farm  Equipment  Dealers' 
Association.  He  acquired  his  Ocean 
County  cranberry  bogs  in  1951. 

He  is  a  graduate  of  Rutgers 
University  in  agriculture  and  a  re- 
cipient of  a  master's  degree  from 
Rutgers  in  agricultural  economics 
and  farm  management.  His  career 
has  also  included  work  in  mer- 
chandising and  with  the  U.  S.  De- 
partment of  Agriculture. 

Stewart  S.  Johnson 

Johnson  has  farmed  all  of  his 
adult  life  and  has  been  active  in 
agricultural  and  community  affairs 
for  many  years.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  Warren  County  Board  of 
Agriculture  for  13  years  and  has 
served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  as 
well  as  in  his  present  post  as  presi- 
dent. 

He  has  served  on  the  Warren 
County  Agricultural  Stabilization 
and  Conservation  Committee  for 
nine  years  and  has  been  chairman 
for  the  last  five  years.  He  served  a 
three-year  term  on  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  of  the  Farmers  Home 
Administration  and  was  a  director 
of  the  Warren  County  United  Milk 
Producers  Association. 

Johnson  is  a  former  4-H  Club 
leader  and  former  Boy  Scout  Master. 


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Q-Our  son  is  in  the  U.  S.  Air  Force 
and  will  soon  be  transferred  to  an  aii 
base  in  Europe.  Will  his  pay  be  tax 
exempt  now? 

A— Your  son  will  continue  to  receivi 
taxable  pay  even  thougli  he  is  outside 
of  the  United  States.  1  think  you  may 
be  confused  with  the  combat  pay 
exclusion.  This  provision  permits  ser- 
vicemen to  exclude  the  service  pay 
received  while  serving  in  a  combat 
zone.  At  the  present  time,  only  Viet 
Nam  and  the  waters  adjacent  thereto 
have  been  designated  as  a  combat  zone. 

Q— I  recently  sold  some  property.  How 
do  I  report  the  profit  and  must  I  ffle 
an  estimated  tax  return? 

A— The  profit  should  be  reported  on 
Schedule  D  of  Form  1040.  If  you 
owned  and  held  the  property  for  six 
months  or  more,  the  sale  could  qualify 
as  a  long  term  capital  gain.  It  is 
suggested  that  you  do  file  an  estimated 
tax  return  to  reflect  the  profit  on  the 
sale  of  this  property.  The  form  number 
is  1040ES. 

Q-I  am  selling  my  home  and,  in  order 
to  obtain  a  mortgage  for  the  buyer,  I 
have  been  told  I  will  have  to  pay 
points.  Are  these  points  deductible? 

A-Points  paid  when  either  buying  or 
selling  a  residence  are  not  interest  and, 
therefore,  are  not  deductible.  Such 
amounts  paid  when  buying  a  home 
are  added  to  the  purchase  price  in 
determining  your  basis  and,  when  in- 
curred in  the  sale  of  your  residence, 
they  are  a  selling  expense,  as  in  your 
case. 

Q-For  the  first  time  in  15  years, 
I  find  that  I  will  have  to  pay  income 
tax  on  the  sale  of  long-term  stocks.  All 
my  other  income  is  exempt  (social 
security).  What  do  I  put  in  the  occupa- 
tion block  on  the  tax  return? 

A— Your  name,  address  and,  of 
course,  your  social  security  number 
must  appear  on  the  return.  In  the 
block  for  occupation,  indicate  you're 
retired. 


Q— Does  a  person  who  receives  a  fee 
whUe  acting  as  an  executrix  of  a  will 
have  to  include  the  full  amount  re- 
ceived on  her  tax  return? 

A— Fees  received  by  executors,  ad- 
ministrators, etc.,  are  taxable  income 
and  must  be  reported  on  your  tax 
return  as  other  income, 

Q— Does  a  person  who  inherits 
$2,500  from  a  deceased  friend  have 
to  include  the  full  amount  in  their 
income  tax  return? 

A— No.  Gifts,  inheritances,  specific 
bequests  are  exempt  from  income 
tax  and,  therefore,  are  not  required  to 
be  reported  on  an  income  tax  return. 


of  $1,600.  If  you  earned  $6,600  from 
wages  per  W-2  form,  you  would  not 
be  subject  to  self-employment  tax, 

Q— My  cleaning  woman  doesn't  have 
a  Social  Security  number.  Should  I 
just  leave  that  mformation  out  when 
I  file  the  quarterly  return  on  wages  I 
pay  her? 

A-No,  a  Social  Security  number  i; 
needed  so  that  her  earnings  may  bi 
properly  credited  to  her  account.  Thi; 
win  help  make  sure  that  she  receive 
the  Social  Security  benefits  she  i 
entitled  to. 

Apphcation  for  a  Social  Security 
number  should  be  made  on  Form  SS-! 
available  at  local  IRS  and  Social  Secu 
rity  Administration  offices, 

Q— My  company  wants  me  to  tak 
over  for  someone  who  is  ill  in  one  o 
our  branch  plants.  It's  too  far  for  m 
to  commute  so  I  will  have  to  rent  ai 
apartment  temporarily.  Are  my  livin 
expenses  while  I'm  away  on  this  assigg 
ment  deductible? 


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CRAN  RED  SETS  COLOR  SCHEME 

February  may  be  the  shortest 
month  of  the  year,  but  it  is  jam- 
packed  with  holidays  and  obser- 
/ances  for  two  famous  presidents, 
two  saints,  the  Boy  Scouts,  the 
beginning  of  Lent  and  Madri  Gras. 
kVith  Valentine's  Day  setting  the 
polor  scheme  for  the  month,  you 
jieed  look  no  further  for  a  special 
loliday  food  than  that  cheery, 
3ouncy  red  fruit,  the  cranberry. 

On  February  14,  we  commemo- 
•ate  not  one  but  two  saints  with  the 
lame  of  Valentine.  History  tells  us 
hat  both  saints  lived  during  the 
eign  of  the  Emperor  Claudius  of 
!lome,  .  .and  both  died  on  the  same 
lay. .  .neither  aware  that  in  centuries 
o  come  their  day  would  coincide 
vith  the  exchange  or  pretty  greeting 
ards  covered  with  lace  and  flowers. 
3ut  one  big  heart  made  from  tangy 
iranberry-orange  relish  is  all  that's 
leeded  to  convey  "Happy  Valen- 
ine's  Day"  on  a  cake  covered  with 
"rilly  coconut  "lace." 


CRANBERRY  DRUM  CAKE 

(Makes  14  214-inch  cakes) 

1  package  (1  pound,  1  ounce) 
pound  cake  mix 

Vi  cup  water 

2  eggs 

1  can  (8  ounce)  Ocean  Spray 

jellied  cranberry  sauce,  cut 

into  VS-inch  cubes 
2  packages  (13  Va  ounces  each) 

vanilla  buttercream  frosting 

mix 
Red  food  coloring 
Round  colored  toothpicks 
Miniature  marshmallows 

Prepare  pound  cake  mix,  adding 
water  and  eggs  as  directed  on  pack- 
age. Grease  a  15  ^/i-inch  jelly-roll  pan 
and  line  it  with  foil.  Pour  in  batter; 
sprinkle  with  cranberry  sauce  cubes. 
Bake  in  a  moderate  oven  (350°  F.) 
20  to  25  minutes  or  until  top  is 
brown.  Remove  cake  from  pan  then 
peel  off  and  finish  cooling  on  a  rack. 
Cut  cake  with  cookie  cutter  into 
28  2^^-inch  rounds.  Prepare  frosting 
mix  as  label  directs.  Remove  1  cup 
of  the  frosting  and  tint  a  deep  red. 
Spread  some  white  frosting  between 
2  rounds  of  cake  and  on  sides  and 
top.  Repeat,  using  remaining  .cake 
rounds.  Put  red  frosting  into  a 
pastry  bag  and  pipe  a  ring  of  frosting 
around  top  edge  of  each  cake.  Pipe 
diagonal  lines  around  side  of  each 
cake  to  resemble  drum  strings.  Serve 
each  cake  with  2  toothpicks  topped 
with  marshmallows  for  "drum- 
sticks." 


For  Washington's  or  Lincoln's 
birthdays,  the  cranberry's  holiday 
red  color  shows  off  in  a  surprise 
filling  for  individual  drum  desserts 
"nade  from  cake  and  served 
iivith  clever  marshmallow-toothpick 
'drumsticks."  Served  with  cranberry 
bunch  these  little  cranberry  drums 
nake  a  fine  party  treat  for  the  small 
"ry  and  their  friends. 


CRAN  HEART  CAKE 

(Serves  8  to  10) 

1  package  (1  pound,  3  ounces) 
spice  cake  mix 

2  eggs 

1  can  (1  pound)  Ocean  Spray  whole 
berry  cranberry  sauce 

1/3  cup  finely  chopped  nuts 

2  packages  (13  ^2  ounces  each) 
vanilla  buttercream  frosting 
mix 

Red  food  coloring 

1  cup  Ocean  Spray  cranberry -orange 

relish 
1  cup  flaked  coconut 

Combine  cake  mix,  eggs,  cran- 
berry sauce  and  nuts.  (Do  not  add 
water  to  batter).  Pour  batter  into  a 
well  greased  and  floured  13x9x2- 
inch  pan.  Bake  as  label  directs,  then 


cool  on  a  rack.  Prepare  frosting  as 
label  directs.  Tint  frosting  pink  with 
red  food  coloring  and  spread  on  top 
and  sides  of  cake.  Mark  a  large 
heart  on  top  of  cake  with  a  tooth- 
pick. Fill  in  heart  with  a  layer  of 
cranberry-orange  relish.  Outline 
heart  with  coconut.  Press  remaining 
coconut  into  the  sides  of  the  cake. 
If  desired,  surround  cake  with  lace 
paper  doilies.  p^ 


REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  12 


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NISCINSIN 


Very  Cold  Weather,  Deeper  Frost 

Temperatures  since  the  last  re- 
port on  December  29,  1967  have 
been  near  the  zero  mark  or  below 
much  of  the  time.  This  drove  frost 
to  its  deepest  level  for  this  time  of 
the  year  since  this  report  was  started 
in  1962.  Much  of  the  frost  penetra- 
tion reported  on  January  12,  1968 
was,  twice  what  it  was  two  weeks 
previously  and  in  some  areas  as 
much  as  four  times.  Many  areas, 
but  especially  those  along  the  west- 
ern edge  of  the  state,  are  reporting 
what  would  normally  be  mid-winter 
frost  depths,  according  to  funeral 
directors  and  cemetery  caretakers 
reporting  to  the  Wisconsin  Statis- 
tical Reporting  Service.  Deepest 
penetrations  reported  to  date  are 
66  inches  at  Barron,  50  inches  at 
Iron  River,  48  at  LaCrosse  and 
Amery,  40  inches  at  Ellsworth,  and 
36  inches  at  Chippewa  Falls, 
Superior  and  Whitehall.  A  year  ago 
this  time  the  average  frost  depth 
in  the  state  was  12.5  inches  but 
this  year  it  is  21.3  inches.  Frost 
depths  this  year  are  also  much  more 
uniform  than  a  year  ago. 

Snow  cover  over  the  state  this 
year  is  much  lighter  than  a  year 
ago.  This  year  the  southern  two- 
thirds  of  the  state  has  from  1  to  6 
inches  of  snow  as  compared  with 
a  4  to  18  inch  cover  a  year  ago.  In 
the  northwest  area  a  year  ago  depths 
of  12  to  36  inches  of  snow  were 
not  uncommon  while  this  year  the 
average  is  only  3  to  8  inches. 

Cold,  wintry  weather  prevailed 
in  Wisconsin  during  the  first  two 
weeks  of  January.  Minimum  tem- 
peratures were  below  zero  in  most 
areas  daily  during  the  1 2-day  period 
from  December  30  through  January 
10   with    maximum    temperatures 

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also  remaining  well  below  zero  on 
a  few  cold,  windy  days.  Lows  in  the 
—30  to  —40  degree  range  occurred 
on  several  days  in  scattered  locations 
in  northwestern  and  central 
counties.  After  January  10th  the 
cold  moderated  markedly  with  tem- 
peratures nearing  the  freezing  mark. 

Precipitation  continued  very 
light  with  no  heavy  snow  reported 
in  most  areas  so  far  this  winter.  The 
deepest  snow  cover  of  8  to  12  inches 
generally  was  found  from  portage 
and  Waupaca  Counties  northward 
to  the  Michigan  border.  The  snow 
cover  throughout  the  State  was 
of  unusually  low  water  equivalent— 
a  reflection  of  the  frequent  light 
falls  of  powdery  snow  at  relatively 
low  temperatures. 


the  production  of  their  crops  and 
on  legislation  which  may  affect, 
them. 

They  were  urged  by  Dr.  M.N. 
Dana  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin 
to  use  more  nitrogen  to  get  better 
production,  and  warned  by  Dr.  Don 
Boone,  also  of  UW,  that  too  much 
nitrogen  will  lead  to  rotting  ol 
stored  berries. 

Insect  control  methods  were  out- 
lined by  Dr.  C.  F.  Koval  of  the  U\^ 
department  of  entomology.  A  repon 
was  given  on  research  being  con 
ducted  through  funds  given  by  thf 
association,  and  a  contract  with  thf 
U.S.  Weather  Bureau  to  provide 
frost  warnings-  during  1968  wa: 
approved. 


W.  C.  G.  A.  MEETING- 
Continued  from  Page  1 

It  was  noted  that  present  plans 
call  only  for  a  statement  from  the 
owner.  Jonjak  said  he  wanted 
stronger  assurances  that  accurate 
figures  would  be  used. 

Gelsthorpe  reported  on  efforts  to 
open  up  markets  for  cranberries  in 
Europe  and  said  tests  are  being  con- 
ducted right  now  in  three  West 
German  cities,  as  well  as  in  Great 
Britain.  Efforts  are  being  made,  he 
said,  to  find  economical  ways  of 
shipping  cranberry  puree  or  frozen 
cranberries  to  Europe  for  processing. 

An  interesting  part  of  Gels- 
thorpe's  talk  was  his  report  on  the 
increasing  use  of  cranberries  in  med- 
icine. 

It  has  been  found,  he  said,  that 
drinking  cranberry  juice  seems  to 
eliminate  strong  odors  from  a 
person's  urine,  so  the  juice  is  in 
increasing  demand  in  nursing  homes, 
hospitals  and  other  places  where 
patients  are  unable  to  control  their 
bladders.  (See  Cranberries,  Novem- 
ber, 1967) 

Experiments  are  being  con- 
ducted, Gelsthorpe  said,  in  using 
cranberry  juice  in  the  treatment  of 
diaper  rash  and  urinary  infections. 

Growers  attending  the  conference 
heard  reports  on  subjects  bearing  on 


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pick  cranberries. 


Every  year,  millions  of  people  who  don't  know  a  bog  from  a 
back  forty  pick  tons  of  cranberries  and  never  get  a  blooper. 

They  do  it  the  easy  way.  They  just  look  for  the  Ocean  Spray 
label.  On  cans  and  bottles  and  jars. 

Because  to  millions  of  people,  Ocean  Spray  means  cranberries. 

In  stores  all  over  the  country,  they're  picking  more  cranberries 
than  they  ever  picked  before.  In  all  shapes  and  forms  and  com- 
binations. 

They  don't  know  as  much  about  cranberries  as  cranberiy 
growers.  But  they  know  about  Ocean  Spray.  And  that's  good  ;!^ 
enough  for  them. 


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CRANBERRIES 

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man  and  Karl  Deubert  attended  a 
meeting  with  officials  of  the  Rein- 
hold  Publishing  Co.  in  New  York 
on  February  15.  This  meeting  was 
to  discuss  the  pubUshing  of  a  new 
biology  textbook  for  college  fresh- 
men, co-authored  by  Bob,  Bert  and 
Karl.  The  book  will  be  pubHshed 
in  the  summer  of  1969. 

Drs.  Karl  Deubert  and  Bert  Zuck- 
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the  October  1967  issue  of  Experi- 
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allow  these  nematodes  to  grow  and 
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natural  state. 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  and  the  author 
have  an  article  in  the  January  1968 
issue  of  Weeds.  The  title  is  "In- 
fluence of  Dichlobenil  on  Yield, 
Size  and  Pigmentation  of  Cran- 
berries." This  article  presents  data 
on  the  influence  of  casoron,  used 
at  various  rates  in  the  spring  and 
fall  for  two  successive  years,  on 
color  development,  yield  and  size 
of  Early  Black  cranberries.- 

Weather 

February  was  a  very  cold  month 
averaging  over  4  degrees  a  day 
below  normal.  The  only  warm  peri- 
ods were  on  the  2nd  and  3rd,  17th 
and  28th  and  29th.  Cold  spells 
were  from  the  7th  through  16th 
and  18th  through  the  25th.  As 
cold  as  this  month  was  it  was  still 
a  long  ways  from  the  record  cold 
February  of  1934  when  the  tem- 
perature averaged  12  degrees  a  day 


below  normal.  Maximum  tempera- 
ture was  52  degrees  occurring  on 
the  2nd  and  the  minimum  was 
3  degrees  on  the  21st.  By  March  1 
there  were  about  8-10  inches  of  ice 
on  most  bogs  which  is  unusual  for 
this  time  of  year.  There  has  been 
more  ice  sanding  done  this  winter 
than  any  winter  in  recent  years. 

Precipitation  totalled  only  0.91 
inches  which  is  more  than  2Vi 
inches  below  average.  This  is  the 
driest  February  on  record  at  the 
Cranberry  Station.  The  only  storm 
of  any  consequence  occurred  on 
the  3rd  when  0.82  inch  was  re- 
corded. We  are  now  about  3%  inches 
below  average  for  the  first  two 
months  of  1968.  Snowfall  was  very 
light  and  totalled  only  1.8  inches 
which  is  only  25  percent  of  average, 
but  in  February  1954  we  recorded 
no  snow  at  all. 


Frost  Warning 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  is  again  sponsoring  the 
telephone  frost  warning  service.  Ap- 
phcations  were  mailed  to  all 
growers  in  early  March.  If  a  grower 
has  not  received  an  appUcation,  he 
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treasurer  of  the  association,  Jeffer- 
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particularly  helpful  when  a  grower 
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various  reasons.  There  is  a  message 
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local  bogs  to  gather  some  winter 
photos  of  the  snow  and  all,  we 
briefly  interrupted  a  young  lad 
attempting  to  sail  his  toy  boat 
in  a  ditch.  After  watching  him 
for  a  few  minutes  we  asked  if 
it  wasn't  a  bit  cold  for  boat- 
ing. "Oh  no,  sir,"  he  returned, 
"Spring  is  just  around  the 
corner!" 

The  remainder  of  the  day 
was  spent  shooting  photos  of 
what  we  thought  to  be  appeal- 
ing views.  Cranberry  bogs  are 
not  famous  for  being  scenic 
wonders,  considering  all  those 
calendars  with  mountains 
framed  in  snowy  birches.  But 
bogs  are  truly  a  match  to 
any  area  in  scenic  beauty  and 
Winter  design,  but  we're  not 
too  sure  the  youngster  con- 
vinced us  about  the  early 
arrival  of  Spring.  We  know 
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It  was  the  driest  February  in 
thirty-nine  years  in  the  cranberry 
beh  of  New  Jersey  last  month. 

It  was  the  driest  February  in 
thirty-nine  years  in  the  cranberry 
belt  of  New  Jersey  last  month. 
Precipitation  totaled  only  1.36 
inches  or  about  1.58  inches  less 
than  normal.  Two  coastal  storms 
barely  brushed  by  leaving  light 
'dustings"  of  snow;  one  inch  on 
the  10th  and  one-half  inch  on  the 
21st.  The  year  is  starting  off  dry  as 
both  January  and  February  have 
been  below  normal  in  precipitation, 
with  an  accumulated  deficiency  of 
2.26  inches.  However,  the  "mini- 
drought"  was  ended  by  a  storm  on 

February  29th  and  March  1st,  which 
deposited  four  and  one-half  inches 
of  snow  mixed  with  rain.  This,  con- 
verted to  rain,  gave  1,38  inches. 
Only  .31  of  this  was  recorded  in 
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hardship    throughout   Burlington 
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The  temperature  for  the  second 
consecutive  month  was  much  below 
normal.  The  average  daily  tempera- 
ture for  February  was  29.1  degrees 
F,  about  five  degrees  colder  than 
normal.  Extremes  were  51  degrees 
on  February  2nd  and  4  degrees  on 
the  21st  and  22nd. 

The  extremely  cold  and  windy 
weather  is  causing  some  damage  to 
fruit  buds  on  high  edges  of  bogs 

where  the  vines  are  not  properly 
flooded.  On  bog  number  five  (State 
bogs  at  Oswego)  which  is  kept 
unflooded,  samples  on  February 
21st  revealed  that  five  per  cent  of 
the  fruit  buds  had  already  been 
destroyed.  Oxygen  conditions  in 
the  flood  water  of  bogs  did  not 
become  critical  during  the  month. 


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unless    the   cranberry   vines   show 

Q-YeUow  tips  are  increasing  in  ^^^^^    f^^^^^  symptoms,  indicating 

my  bog.  What  is  the  cause  and  how  ^^^^  t^ere  is  a  need  for  such  ele- 

do  I  cure  it.  ments.  Plants  can  only  use  a  very 

A— The  most  common  cause  of  small  amount  of  these  minor  ele- 
yellow  tips  is  a  lack  of  zinc  and/or  ments  such  as  iron,  zinc,  copper, 
iron.  Low  nitrogen  levels  in  the  manganese,  boron,  and  for  this 
soil  will  also  cause  a  slight  yellowing  reason  only  a  small  amount  is 
and  reddening  of  the  foliage.  Zinc  necessary  in  the  soil.  When  you  use 
deficiency  and  iron  deficiency  can  yearly  applications  of  these  mater- 
be  corrected  by  using  compounds  ials  when  there  is  already  sufficient 
containing  these  elements.  Zinc  levels  in  the  soil,  you  are  not 
chelate  and  iron  chelate  may  be  helping  the  cranberry  plant.  You 
apphed  either  as  a  soil  application  may,  in  fact,  get  certain  of  these 


According  to  soil  analysis  calcium 
has  been  found  to  be  in  low  con- 
centration in  cranberry  bogs.  Cal- 
cium can  be  applied  to  bogs  at  the 
minimum  rate  of  half  a  ton  per 
acre.  It  can  be  obtained  in  two 
forms: 

1.  Agricultural  Gypsum  contains 
90%  Calcium  sulphate  and  17% 
combined  sulfur. 

2.  Limestone  flour  contains  95% 
Calciiim  carbonate  and  2%  mag- 
nesium. 

Q— How  would  you  apply  lime 
to  a  cranberry  bog  at  the  rate  of 
1000  lbs.  per  acre?  "' 

A— The  only  way  to  apply  gyp- on 

sum  is  with  a  spreader  or  by  broad- th 

casting,    the   hard  way,  by  hand.th. 

Limestone  flour  can  be  dissolved  infli 

water    and    applied    through    thenij 

sprinklers.  ju 

.    .„  ,  Q— How  long  does  it  take  cran-,. 

become  toxic  If  they  are  present  m    ^^^^^    ^^    ^^^^^   ^^^.^.  ,j^j 

For  a  foliage  application  of  zinc  too  high  level  m  the  soil  particularly    ^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^    compared    to: 

chelate  or  zinc  sulphate  use  one  to  boron  which  is  a  weU-known  herbi-  "i 

four  pounds  per  acre  in  200  to  300  cide  at  high  rates, 
gallons   of  water.  For  a  dry  soil         Q-What  dre  the  benefits  of  using 

application,  use  10-40  lbs.  of  either  calcium  on  a  bog?  What  kind  and 

per  acre,  depending  upon  the  severity  how  many  pounds  per  acre? 
of  the  symptoms.  For  correction 
of  iron   deficiency   use   either  an 

iron  chelate,  ferrous  sulphate,  or         1-  To  promote  early  root  form- 
ferrous   ammonium  sulphate.  Dry  ation  and  growth. 


or  as  a  foliage  spray.  In  some 
instances  the  soil  application  gives 
a  more  lasting  effect.  However,  the 
results  are  seen  a  little  more  slowly. 


materials  high  enough  that  they 
could  become  toxic  to  the  plants. 
Most  all  of  the  minor  elements  can 


A— The  functions  of  Calcium  are: 


application  of  ferrous  sulphate  is 
made  at  10-20  lbs.  per  acre.  For 
ferrous  ammonium  sulphate  or  che- 
lated iron  in  a  dry  application  use 
15-30  lbs.  of  either.  For  a  foliar 


2.  Improve  general  plant  vigor. 

3.  Influence     intake    of    other 
plant  nutrition. 

4.  Increase  calcium  content  of 


application,  use  1-3  lbs.  of  any  of  fruit  which  produces  sounder  berries 
these  three  per  acre  in  200-300  and  consequently  reduces  rot  per- 
gallons  of  water.  centage. 


liquid  form,  and  how  long  does  itj^^ 
last  in  the  soil?  p^j 

A-When  dry  fertilizer,  that  is  the  liei 
complete  balanced  fertilizer,  or  ever  ooi 
ammonium  sulphate  or  urea,  or  any  41 
dry  fertilizer,  is  applied  dry  to  the  ly 
vines,  the  material  falls  through  tht  "K 
vines  and  into  the  trash  on  top  o  P'ei 
the  soil.  If  there  is  sufficient  mois'u'i 
ture  present,  it  starts  to  dissolve  anc  lie  I 
leach  into  the  soil.  However,  mos   ^ 
of  it  will  remain  there  in  the  dr)  ),f 
state    or   in    a   partially    dissolveciuj^ 
state  on  top  of  this  trash  until  raii  ^  j^ 
or  sprinkler  irrigation  follows.  Tht  ^^^ 
nitrogen,  phosphorus,  and  potassiun  ^ 
til  at  are  used  in  the  complete  bal|^.  ^ 


Editor's  Note:  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Cranberry  Vine,  the  publication  of  the  Coastal 
Washington  Research  &  Extension  Unit,  Long  Beach,  Washington,  we  found  a  wealth  of 
information,  result  of  the  1967  annual  Field  Day.  We  were  particularly  interested  in  the 
"Question  Box"  section  of  this  report,  part  of  which  we  have  reprinted  here  for  our  readers. 


lovei 
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anced  fertilizer  are  the  soluble  forms. 
Once  rain  or  irrigation  has  dissolved 
the  material,  it  moves  into  the  soil 
quite  rapidly  and  is  immediately 
I  available  to  the  plants. 

The  speed  with  which  the  plants 
utilize  the  material  once  it  gets  into 
the  soil  around  the  roots  depends 
on  the  stage  of  growth  and  the 
growth  activity  of  the  plant  itself. 
During  the  warm  part  of  the  season 
when  the  soil  is  relatively  warm,  the 
response  to  fertilizer  can  be  seen 
quite  rapidly.  On  the  other  hand, 
if  fertilizer  is  applied  when  the 
soil  is  cold,  then  it  may  be  weeks 
or  even  a  month,  before  much 
response  can  be  seen. 


Liquid  fertilizers  could  be  used, 
however,  again  the  speed  with  which 
;hey  are  used  would  depend  on 
vhether  or  not  there  was  sufficient 
noisture,  rain  or  irrigation,  to  carry 
hem  in  to  the  root  zone.  There  is 
he  added  advantage  to  liquid  fer- 
ilizer,  however,  in  that  some  of  it 
vill  be  absorbed  by  the  foliage  of 
he  plant.  There  is  some  danger 
rom  liquid  fertilizers  in  that  they 
an  cause  a  severe  burn  if  they  are 
pplied  at  too  strong  a  concentra- 
ion.  If  they  are  applied  through  the 
prinkler  system,  the  majority  of 
hem  would  be  carried  in  to  the 
oot  zone.  Some  probably  would 
tick  on  the  leaves  and  be  absorbed 
y  the  foliage,  if  the  sprinklers 
/ere  operated  just  long  enough  to 
pread  the  fertilizer  onto  the  vines 
ut  not  long  enough  to  wash  it  off 
lie  leaves. 

As  far  as  the  lasting  qualities  of 
le  two  types  of  fertilizer,  once 
le  material  is  dissolved  and  carried 
1  to  the  root  zone,  the  soluble 
Drms  are  used  fairly  readily  or  else 
ley  are  leached  farther  down  in  to 
le  soil  and  carried  away  by  water 

lovement.  Nitrogen  particularly 
aches  very  readily  if  excessive 
dn  or  water  is  apphed  to  the  soil, 
losphorus  leaches  much  more 
owly   as  does  potash,  but  they. 


too,  will  leach  out  to  some  extent. 
For  this  reason,  it  is  advisable  to 

apply  only  as  much  fertilizer  as  is 
needed  for  a  particular  time.  It 
becomes  uneconomical  and  much 
of  the  fertilizer  elements  are  lost 
if  they  are  applied  in  excess  and  are 
followed  by  heavy  rain  or  sprinkler 
irrigation.  Liquid  forms  of  fertilizer 
require  a  lesser  amount  of  rain  or 
irrigation  to  carry  them  in  to  the 
root  zone.  Various  forms  of  liquid 
fertilizers  have  been  used  exten- 
sively on  other  crops.  One  applica- 
tion of  phosphorus  and  potash  per 
season  generally  is  all  that  is  needed. 
It  is  well  to  spread  out  the  amount 


of  nitrogen  applied  in  two,  or 
possibly  three,  applications  so  that 
only  a  limited  amount  is  available 
to  the  plant  at  any  one  time.  In 
doing  this  the  amount  of  runner 
growth  will  be  held  to  a  minimum 
and  the  plants  are  much  less  apt  to 
be  thrown  into  an  over  vegetative 
stage. 


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16 


CRANBERRY  VARIETIES 


By  Ivan  V.  HaU 

Research  Station 

Kentville,  Nova  Scotia 


I  have  been  asked  by  Mr.  Murray 
to  speak  on  varieties  suitable  for 
planting  in  Nova  Scotia.  Since  I 
haven't  been  involved  in  marketing 
different  varieties,  and  our  variety 
trial  is  just  approaching  the  fruiting 
stage  I  don't  consider  myself  much 
of  an  authority.  I  rely  heavily  on 
what  the  late  Dr.  Fred  Chandler 
told  me  and  what  we  saw  and  heard 
on  our  visit  to  Cape  Cod  in  the  fall 
of  1966. 

There  are  two  or  three  points  I 
would  like  to  stress.  First,  the 
variety  you  plant  will  depend  some- 
what on  your  market.  If  you  are 
going  to  sell  your  product  as  fresh 
fruit  then  you  must  have  good 
color  and  a  berry  that  has  a  fairly 
long  shelf-life.  Size  of  the  berry,  I 
don't  think  is  too  important,  if  you 
are  getting  comparable  yields.  To 
market  an  appreciable  increase  in 
production  we  would  have  to  process 
the  berries.  As  you  are  well  aware, 
you  need  intense  color  for  juice 
"  and  other  qualities  for  sauce.  There- 
fore, the  grower  needs  to  decide 
before  planting  a  variety,  what  his 
ultimate  market  outlet  will  be. 


The  second  point  I  wish  to  make 
is  that  planting  is  somewhat  limited 
to  the  varieties  available,  especially 
if  you  desire  to  get  going  in  1968. 
I  think  most  of  us  are  agreed  that 
"natives"  are  not  productive  enough 
to  plant  in  this  day  and  age.  The 
variety,  Howes  is  felt  by  many  to 
be  too  late  in  maturing  for  Nova 
Scotian  conditions  and  Early  Black 
is  not  recommended  in  some  areas 
on  account  of  at  least  low  produc- 
tivity. There  would  be  plenty  of 
vines    of  the   above   varieties   for 
planting,  but  I  sense  that  you  are 
not  interested  in  these.  Three' years 
ago  through  the  kindness  of  friends 
in  Massachusetts  we  were  able  to 
get    a    nucleus    of   stock   of  five 
varieties,  namely:  Beckwith,  Berg- 
man, Franklin,  Stevens  and  Pilgrim. 
We  have  propagated  a  large  number 
of  cuttings  of  Bergman,  FrankUn 
and  Stevens  for  the  joint  provincial— 
ARDA   nursery  and  I  think  that 
within  a  year  or  so  we  can  supply 
reasonable    demands    for   planting 
stock  of  these  three  varieties.  We 
also  have  a  small  supply  of  vines 
of  a  new  variety,  CN.  If  any  grower 
wants  to  do  his  own  propagation  I 
think  we  could  arrange  to  get  him 
started  in  a  modest  way.  Cranberry 
cuttings  are  easy  to  propagate  and 
I  wouldn't  expect  any  varietal  dif- 
ferences in  rooting  provided  con- 
ditions and  media  were  satisfactory. 
100%  rooting  should  be  possible. 

A  point  which  should  have  con- 
siderable bearing  on  the  choice  of 
a  variety  is  how  much  of  the  crop 
is  lost  in  harvesting.  Some  growers 
will  tell  you  that  they  are  losing 
from  20  to  30%  of  their  crop  during 
raking.  To  overcome  this  loss  many 
cranberry  areas  have  switched  to 
water  harvesting  and  this  has 
changed  the  varietal  picture  drasti- 
cally. The  variety  Stevens  is  now 
one  of  the  leading  varieties  in  Wis- 
consin because  it  is  well  suited  to 
water  harvesting.  One  word  of  cau- 
tion, I  beUeve,  is  in  order.  Growing 
conditions  in  Wisconsin  are  quite 
different  than  in  Nova  Scotia  and  a 
variety  that  is  well  suited  there  is 
not  necessarily  well  adapted  to  our 
conditions.  On  the  other  hand  Cape 
Cod  is  very  close  to  western  Nova 
Scotia  and  the  climate  is  not  too 


different.  I  think  we  can  expect 
that  the  varietal  response  there  will 
be  similar  to  what  we  will  get  here. 

Already  I  have  intimated  that  we 
do  have  the  start  of  a  nursery  and 
some  of  varieties  planted  in  it.  The 
varieties  planted  in  the  nursery  as 
of  January  26,  1968  are:  (1)  Berg- 
man, (2)  Franklin,  (3)  Stevens,  (4) 
Black  Veil,  (5)  CN,  (6)  Bain  McFar- 
lin,  and  (7)  Ben  Lear. 

If  any  of  you  growers  are  inter- 
ested in  obtaining  vines  I  think  you 
should  apply  to  Mr.  Murray  and 
you  will  receive  them  as  they  be- 
,cbme  available.  A  year  ago  it  was 
proposed  that  a  committee  con- 
sisting of  3  would  be  responsible 
for  allocating  vines.  One  representa- 
tive on  the  committee  would  be 
from  the  provincial  government,  one 
from  the  Research  Station  and  the 
third  member  was  to  be  a  grower. 

Up  to  this  point  I  have  been 

very  evasive  as  to  what  is  the  best 

variety  to  plant.  Bearing  in  mind 

what  I  have  already  said,  there  are 

two  varieties  which  have  impressed 

me  with  their  color,  size,  yield  and 

performance  in  Massachusetts.  They 

are  Bergman  and  Franklin  and  were 

recommended     to     me     by     Dr. 

Chandler.  Bergman  (a  cross  between 

Early   Black  x  Searles)  has  given 

yields  in  British  Columbia  of  nearly 

100  barrels  to  the  acre.  Franklin 

(Early  Black  x  Howes)  might  not 

be   as  productive   but  it  has  the 

advantage    of   blooming  late   and 

maturing  early  which  would  get  it 

by  several  frosts  and  this  is  a  factor 

we  must  consider.  Franklin  appeared 

to  me  to  have  good  color.  Both  of 

these   varieties  would  be  suitable 

as   fresh   fruit.  For  these  reasons 

we    have    planted    these   varieties 

heavily   in  the  nursery.  The  new 

variety  CN  was  also  planted  as  we 

felt   it  had  good  potential  if  we 

went  into  processing. 

On  the  basis  of  what  we  know 

now  I  would  not  plant  McFarlin 

which  requires  a  very  long  growing 

season. 

In  summary,  I  wish  to  say  that 

the  choice  of  a  high  yielding  variety 

suited    to    our    condition   and   in 

demand  on  the  market  will  go  a 

long   way  in  making  a  cranberry 

operation  successful.  j  7 


AMERICAN  CRANBERRY  GROWERS'  ASSOCIATION 
ANNUAL  WINTER  MEETING 
FEBRUARY  15th,   1968 


The  98th  winter  meeting  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Growers'  Asso- 
ciation was  held  at  the  Concord  Inn, 
Mount  Holly, New  Jersey,  on  Febru- 
ary 15th.  President  Earl  Kershner 
presided. 

Jack  St.  Pierre  of  New  Jersey 
Crop  Reporting  Service  presented 
crop  estimates  for  New  Jersey  and 
the  nation.  The  New  Jersey  esti- 
mate for  1967  was  put  at  163,000 
barrels.  This  was  the  largest  cran- 
berry crop  in  the  State  since  1937 
when  166,000  barrels  were  produced. 
However,  the  acreage  in  New  Jersey 
in  1937  was  11,500  while  it  was 
only  3,200  in  1967.  Thus  a  very 
great  improvement  in  yield  per  acre 
has  occurred  over  the  past  thirty 
years. 

Dr.  Paul  Eck  of  the  Rutgers 
University  Department  of  Horticul- 
ture and  Forestry  presented  a  paper 
on  the  improvement  of  color  in 
cranberries  by  the  appUcation  of 
sprays.  Malathion  gave  marked  im- 
provement in  the  red  coloration  of 
berries  in  1966  in  sprays  appUed 
before  harvest.  In  1967  tests  in- 
cluded lAA  and  Alar  as  well  as 
malathion.  Malathion  at  two  and 
one-half  pounds  per  acre  again  gave 
very  good  results  while  the  other 
materials  were  ineffective.  Dr.  Eck 
theorized  that  anthocyanins,  the 
red  pigments,  aic  atinmlated  while 
prctein  synthesis  may  be  retarded 
by  the  malathion.  The  end  result 
appears  to  be  commercially  desirable 
but  more  tests  are  necessary  before 
the  method  can  be  recommended 
for  use  on  a  large  scale. 

Dr.  Allen  Stretch  of  U.S.D.A.,  a 
pathologist  stationed  at  Rutgers  Uni- 
versity, reported  on  cranberry  rot 
control  tests  in  1967.  Adequate 
control  was  obtained  by  aerial  ap- 
plication of  fungicides  when  the 
incidence  of  rot  was  low.  In  areas 
of  a  high  degree  of  rot  infection  the 
ground  treatments  proved  more  ef- 
fective. Tests  with  Dithane  M-45 

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used  with  and  without  commercial 
sticker-spreaders  did  not  reveal  any 
advantages  resulting  from  the  use  of 
these  additives.  A  new  ferbam  form- 
ulation containing  ninety-five  per 
cent  active  material  ostensibly  had 
better  handling  and  spreading  prop- 
erties but  did  not  give  better  con- 
trol than  the  conventional  seventy- 
five  per  cent  wettable  powder  in 
ground  spraying  tests.  Dr.  Stretch 
gave  encouraging  data  to  growers 
planning  to  use  small  on-the-bog 
sprayers  instead  of  the  more  labori- 
ous Wisconsin  boom.  Tests  indicated 
that  adequate  control  can  be  ob- 
tained by  reducing  the  gallonage 
of  spray  but  keeping  the  amount  of 
fungicides  per  acre  constant.  There 
was  no  significant  reduction  in 
control  of  rot  when  the  volume  per 
acre  was  reduced  from  three  hun- 
dred gallons  to  one  hundred  gallons. 
(Eddie  Budd  has  obtained  excellent 
control  of  rot  on  his  bogs  at  Retreat 
using  a  sprayer  of  his  own  design 
which  he  runs  directly  on  the  bogs, 
and  which  sprays  out  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  gallons  per 
acre.  This  sprayer  was  demonstrated 
at  last  summer's  A.C.G.A.  meeting.) 

Joe  Stewart  who  has  succeeded  the 
much-esteemed  late  Professor  Filmer 
as  the  apiculturist  at  Rutgers,  told 
of  efforts  to  standardize  bee  hives 
used  for  pollination  in  blueberries 
and  cranberries.  A  great  variation 
was  found  in  the  size  and  quality  of 
bee  liives  rented  and  this  did  not 
directly  relate  with  the  size  of  the 
rental  fee.  In  cooperation  with  the 
State  Department  of  Agriculture 
and  the  bee  keepers  minimum  stand- 
ards have  been  set  up  for  bee  liives 
to  be  used  in  pollination.  Tliis  will 
serve  to  assure  the  growers  that  they 
will  have  an  adequate  number  of 
healthy  active  bees  to  get  the  op- 
timum amount  of  fruit  set.  Stewart 
also  described  interesting  experi- 
ments in  which  he  is  attempting  to 
develop  a  genetic  strain  of  honey 


bee  which  will  show  a  preference 
for  collecting  cranberry  pollen.  A 
honey  bee  has  been  developed  by 
U.S.D.A.  apiculturists  which  prefers 
alfalfa  pollen  and  Stewart  is  em- 
ploying the  same  techniques.  He  has 
obtained  some  interesting  differ- 
ences in  pollen  collection  between 
hives,  but  more  data  is  necessary. 
One  interesting  observation  was  that 
the  honey  bees  did  not  begin  to 
collect  cranberry  pollen  until  after 

ten  o'clock  (A.M.).  Bees  placed 
directly  on  bogs  collected  less  cran- 
berry pollen  than  hives  placed  two 
hundred  yards  away. 

Pliil  Marucci  presented  data  to 
show  that  oxygen  deficiency  in  the 
winter  flood  can  severely  limit  blos- 
som and  fruit  production  in  New 
Jersey  and  urged  greater  attention 
to  oxygen  deficiency  warnings.  He 
also  gave  data  on  productiveness  of 
new  varieties.  Wilcox,  Stevens,  and 
Pilgrims  and  two  numbered  seedHngs 
appear  to  be  more  productive  ini 
New  Jersey  than  the  standard  Early ' 
Blacks  and  Howes.  In  each  of  the 
past  three  years  random  samples 
taken  from  the  standard  varieties 
and  new  ones  revealed  that  the 
newer  varieties  were  out-producing 
the  older  ones.  Early  Blacks  often 
produced  more  berries  per  unit  area 
but  the  larger  size  of  the  newer! 
varieties  caused  them  to  outyield 
the  Early  Blacks  in  terms  of  weiglit. 

In  a  business  session  after  lunch 
Ed  Lipman  reported  on  the  annual 
State  Agricultural  Convention.  The 
efforts  of  agricultural  interests  to 
soften  some  of  the  provisions  in  the 
new  migrant  labor  bill  were  a  failure." 
Ed  reported  that  this  bill  has  passed 
and  that  it  is  expected  to  woik  a 
hardship  on  farmers  of  the  State 
This  was  Ed's  last  convention  as  a 
delegate  of  the  cranberry  associa- 
tion. He  has  resigned  as  delegate  to 
accept  a  position  on  the  New  Jersey 
State  Board  of  Agriculture.  Ed  is 
the  first  cranberry  grower  ever  to 
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WISCONSIN    CRANBERRY    RESEARCH    REPORT 

prepared  for  the 

Advisory  Board  of  the  Marketing 
Order  for  Cranberries 
December  6,  1967 


The  funds  collected  under  the 
Marketing  Order  for  Cranberries 
and  allocated  to  the  College  of 
Agriculture,  University  of  Wisconsin 
for  the  support  of  research  on 
cranberry  production  have  been 
used  to  supplement  other  cranberry 
research  funds.  The  funds  were 
assigned  to  a  project  entitled  "Cul- 
ture and  Protection  of  Cranberries." 
This  is  a  project  with  financial 
support  from  the  Federal  Grant 
received  by  the  Wisconsin  Agricul- 
tural Experiment  Station.  The  proj- 
ect is  a  joint  effort  between  the 
Departments  of  Horticulture  and 
Plant  Pathology  of  the  Wisconsin 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station 
with  the  cranberry  gift  funds  divided 
equally  between  the  two  depart- 
ments. 

The  financial  support  received, 
from  the  industry  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Horticulture  has  permitted 
expansion  of  the  cranberry  research 
program  into  the  areas  of  nutrition 
and  fruit  set.  We  now  have  one 
graduate  assistant  working  on  the 
problem  of  phosphorus  nutrition. 
Althougli  his  primary  goal  is  to 
produce  information  on  which  to 
base  fertilizer  programs  for  the 
rapid  establishment  of  new  plant- 
ings, we  hope  that  the  effort  will 
also  produce  valuable  information 
for  the  better  management  of  bear- 
ing beds.  The  study  involves  cor- 
relation of  soil  phosphorus 
measurements  with  foliar  analysis, 
yields  and  growth  of  cranberry 
plants.  The  inter-relationships  of 
phosphorus  solubility  and  the  ac- 
tivity of  other  elements  in  the 
soil  will  be  studied. 

A  second  graduate  assistant  is 
exploring  the  area  of  foliar  analysis 
as  a  diagnostic  tool  for  determining 
the  nutrient  status  of  bearing  vines. 


Samples  of  vines  are  harvested  at 
intervals  during  the  growing  season 
and  are  then  separated  into  com- 
ponent parts  (old  leaves,  new  leaves, 
old  stems,  new  stems)  and  analyzed 
for  numerous  nutrient  elements.  The 
goal  of  the  program  is  to  determine 
seasonal  changes  in  nutrients,  the 
segment  of  the  vine  that  best  indi- 
cates the  status  of  a  particular 
nutrient,  and  the  inter-relationships 
of  soil  conditions  and  cranberry  vin 
of  soil  condition  and  cranberry  vine 
nutrient  content.  The  tissue  samples 
are  analyzed  ly  the  Wisconsin 
Alumni  Research  Foundation  and 
the  statistical  analysis  of  data  will 
be  done  by  the  Computer  Science 
Laboratory. 

A  third  graduate  assistant  is  just 
organizing  a  study  on  the  factors 
involved  in  fruit  set  of  cranberries. 
His  goal  is  to  determine  the  times  of 
flower  opening,  pollen  shedding  and 
receptivity  of  the  stigma  and  the 
inter-relationships  between  humid- 
ity and  temperature  in  pollen  trans- 
fer and  germination.  He  will  also 
determine  differences  in  varietal  be- 
havior in  flower  development  and 
seek  means  to  encourage  fuU  fruit 
set. 

The  weed  control  work  is  con- 
tinuing with  primary  emphasis  on 
annual  grass  and  creeping  sedge 
control.  The  evaluation  of  herbi- 
cides and  methods  for  reducing 
marsh  invasion  by  weeds  continues. 

The  program  of  research  in  the 
Department  of  Plant  Pathology  has 
expanded  and  intensified  with  the 
availability  of  industry  funds.  The 
disease  of  "vine  dieback,"  so  pre- 
valent in  1966,  was  studied  to  deter- 
mine the  casual  organism,  if  there 
be  one,  and  to  evaluate  the  pre- 
disposing factors.  Numerous  isola- 
tions from  affected  vines  and  exten- 


tive  field  studies  of  disease  preval- 
ence were  made.  The  work  con- 
tinues. 


The  "black  rot"  disease  and 
"ringspot"  disease  are  under  inten- 
sive study.  Affected  fruit  and  vines 
are  used  in  attempts  to  isolate  casual 
organisms  and  to  study  them  under 
laboratory  control.  The  ringspot  dis- 
ease has  only  been  reported  recently 
and  should  be  studied  for  its  hazard 
to  the  industry. 


T*""  disease  problem  of  greatest 
concern  to  the  growers  is  that  of 
fruit  breakdown  and  harvest.  A 
comprehensive  program  to  identify 
the  organisms  and  conditions  leading 
to  storage  breakdown  of  fruit  is 
underway.  The  study  will  determine 
the  relationships  of  temperature, 
humidity,  variety,  berry  source  and 
organisms  to  the  rate  and  amount 
of  storage  loss  (shrinkage). 


Detailed  descriptions  of  symp- 
toms, geographic  distribution,  eco- 
nomic importance,  casual  agents, 
transmission  and  means  of  control 
of  cranberry  diseases  will  be  included 
in  a  bulletin  now  in  preparation. 


The  industry  funds  have  permit- 
ted the  expansion  of  several  pro- 
grams that  promise  to  yield  useful 
results  in  the  future.  The  kinds  of 
studies  currently  in  progress  require 
meticulous  care  and  long  hours  of 
routine  to  produce  knowledge  that 
may  be  interpreted  to  the  growers 
in  the  form  of  recommendations. 

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studies  Under  Way  in  Miami 


Man  Walks  Through  Parathlon 
Spray  To  See  If  It's  Deadly 


By  MARY  FARRIS 


Scientific  curiosity  about  the 
dangers  of  parathion,  a  deadly  in- 
secticide which  has  killed  several 
people  in  the  last  few  months, 
recently  lead  one  man  to  walk 
through  the  drift  of  parathion  spray 
while  another  man  followed  to  see 
if  the  parathion  induced  illness. 

"We  had  lawn  spraymen  getting 
sick,"  said  Dr.  John  Davies,  director 
of  the  community  studies  on  pesti- 
cides. "We  wanted  to  find  out  more 
about  it." 

Spraying  with  parathion  has  since 
been  outlawed  inside  the  Miami 
city  limits. 

John  Welke,  industrial  hygienist 
with  the  same  program,  was  the 
man  being  sprayed.  He  plays  down 
his  part  in  what  was  surely  one  of 
the  bravest  experiments  of  recent 
times.  Inhalation  of  parathion  can 
kill  you. 

"I  exposed  myself  to  the  drift 
from  the  spray,"  Welke  said.  "During 
the  day  I  followed  the  lawn  spray- 
man  around  from  job  to  job.  But  I 
knew  there  was  no  danger  — I 
watched  the  spray  man  make  the 
mixture,  to  be  sure  it  was  the  right 
strength,  not  above  the  proper  level." 

Dr.  Davies  went  with  him  as  a 
scientific  observer.  If  anything  had 
gone  wrong,  Welke  would  have  had 
prompt  medical  attention. 

At  the  end  of  the  day,  Welke 
was  still  healthy,  but  Dr.  Davies 
warns  against  forming  any  wrong 
conclusions  because  of  this. 

"This  does  not  mean  you  can't 
get  sick,"  Dr.  Davies  said.  "You  can. 
At  the  same  time,  we  had  lawn 
spraymen  who  were  getting  sick." 

He  explained  that  some  people 
are  more  susceptible  than  others, 

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and  that  also  the  lawn  spraymen 
were  subject  to  constant  exposure, 
day  in  and  day  out,  so  that  in  spite 
of  protective  covering  the  insecti- 
cide built  up  in  their  bodies. 

Dr.  Davies,  who  came  from  Wales 
ten  years  ago,  looks  like  the  Holly- 
wood version  of  a  British  school 
teacher.  He  peeks  over  his  glasses, 
which  are  half  way  down  his  nose 
and  always  a  Uttle  awry,  and  speaks 
with  a  British  accent. 

He  heads  the  Dade  County  branch 
of  the  pesticide  study  program, 
which  is  funded  by  the  federal 
government.  Many  highly  trained 
technical  men  and  assistants  are  on 
his  staff.  The  program  is  doing  re- 
search on  the  acute  chronic  effects 
of  pesticides  and  is  being  carried  on 
in  16  different  states. 

Dr.  Davies  is  also  on  the  commit- 
tee to  make  recommendations  for 
proposed  legislation  to  control  the 
use  of  pesticides.  "I  think  it  is  very 
difficult  to  give  a  blanket  recom- 
mendation on  desirable  legislation," 
he  said. 

"We  need  objectivity.  Pesticides 
are  necessary.  This  area  was  com- 
pletely uninhabitable  not  so  long 
ago.  Malaria  and  yellow  fever,  den- 
gue fever,  encephe litis— all  of  these 
are  examples  of  diseases  spread  by 
pests,  in  the  past  rendering  certain 
areas  of  the  world  uninhabitable." 

He  also  said  that  with  the  popu- 
lation explosion,  the  world  cannot 
afford  to  endanger  the  food  supply 
and  pesticides  are  necessary  for  that 
end. 

"My  responsibility  is  to  investi- 
gate the  health  effects  of  pesticides 
on  man,"  he  stated.  "We  are  trying 
to  find  out  what  is  fact."  He  said 


the  worst  danger  is  for  the  wrong 
material  to  fall  in  the  hands  of 
untrained  persons. 

One  big  problem  is  the  introduc- 
tion of  parathion  into  urban  areas, 
Dr.  Davies  said.  "Most  commonly 
the  father  brings  it  back  from  the 
fields,  or  a  peddler  sells  it.  Then  we 
have  to  chase  him  like  chasing  a 
typhoid  carrier." 

Children  are  thus  exposed  to  the 
powder,  he  said,  often  causing  sick- 
ness and  sometimes  death.  "Only 
a  short  while  back,  a  family  bought 
some  second-hand  furniture.  Para- 
thion was  in  the  drawer,  and  a 
child  became  sick." 

There  are  several  pesticides  re- 
search programs  being  carried  on  in 
Florida.  In  addition  to  the  com- 
munity study  program,  there  is  a 
pesticides  research  laboratory  on 
the  south  campus  of  the  University 
of  Miami  in  Perrine.  It  also  is  feder- 
ally funded. 

The  laboratory  is  making  studies 
on  the  acute  and  chronic  toxicity  of 
pesticides  to  mammals.  Special  in- 
vestigations are  in  progress  with  < 
squirrel  and  rhesus  monkeys.  They  I 
are  doing  research  on  biological 
changes  induced  by  pesticides. 

A  study  in  pesticides  in  water 
suppUes  is  being  carried  on  by  the 
Geological  Survey,  with  the  cooper- 
ation of  the  Army  Corps  of  Engin- 
eers, Central  and  Southern  Florida 
Flood  Control  District,  the  National 
Park  Service,  the  Fish  and  Game 
Commission  and  the  agricultural 
research  service. 

Continued  on  Next  Page 


"Within  the  next  few  years,  a 
lot  of  information  will  be  coming 
out  of  this  program,"  said  Aaron 
Higer  of  the  Geological  Survey  team. 
"Getting  the  research  program  set 
up  and  collecting  data  takes  time. 
Then  we  can  see  what's  happening." 

He  said  the  researchers  are  trying 
to  summarize  the  situation  so  that 
they  can  analyze  it  three  or  four 
times  a  year  and  see  any  changes. 
"So  far,  we  have  found  just  traces 
of .  pesticides  in  ground  water,"  he 
said,  indicating  that  at  present  it  was 
not  enough  to  be  dangerous. 

"There  are  one  or  two  small 
areas,  such  as  Lake  Apopka,  where 
reports  of  the  Game  and  Fish  Com- 
mission show  high  values  and  pos- 
sible fish  kills. 

"We  are  hoping  to  institute  a 
program  of  education  for  these 
people  using  this  material,"  Higer 
said.  "Maybe  a  permit  will  be  neces- 
sary. We  are  not  a  legislative  body. 
All  we  can  do  is  make  suggestions." 


AMENDMENT  HEARING 
HELD  IN  WISCONSIN 

Beaton  admitted,  under  cross 
'questioning,  that  he  did  not  know 
of  any  specific  firm  interested  in 
such  a  move.  He  said  conunercial 
canneries  were  opposed  to  the  order 
"because  they  want  to  buy  as 
ijcheaply  as  possible." 

"  Under  the  proposal,  total  acreage 
would  be  counted.  An  acre  produ- 
cing 15  barrels  or  more  would 
qualify  it  as  a  commercial  acre. 
Also  to  be  counted  would  be  new 
acreage  planted  by  Aug.  1.  The 
grower's  average  yield  of  his  best 
two  years  between  1968  and  1974 
would  be  multiplied  by  his  acres  to 
establish  his  production  base. 

jj  The  market  order  committee, 
Which  has  four  representatives  from 
the  co-operative  and  three  independ- 
ent operators,  would  compute  the 

I  Tiarket  demand.  This  would  be 
divided  up  among  the  growers  in 
3roportion  to  the  size  of  their  bases. 
\ppeals  from  committee  decisions 
;an  be  taken  to  agriculture  secretary. 


Among  opponents  were  Richard 
Gates  and  James  Olson,  Madison 
attorneys  for  Cranberry  Products, 
Inc.,  Eagle  River. 

Cates  and  Olson  introduced 
charts  to  show  that  Wisconsin's 
production  was  rising  while  Massa- 
chusetts' was  dropping,  and  the 
Wisconsin's  industry  was  located 
in  depressed  areas. 

The  attorneys  also  submitted  a 
telegram  from  the  Minnesota  com- 
missioner of  agriculture  opposing 
the  order  amendment  because  it 
would  curtail  that  state's  cranberry 
potential,  but  they  failed  to  have 
accepted  as  evidence  a  statement  of 
Farm  Bureau  policies  and  1966 
annual  statement  of  Ocean  Spray, 
indicating  rising  sales. 

Also  opposing  the  proposal  was 
Warren  L.  Smith,  real  estate  officer 
for  the  Great  Lakes  Indian  Agency, 
who  claimed  Lac  Court  Oreilles 
Indians  would  be  unable  to  develop 
60  acres  of  marsh  they  bought,  in 
addition  to  28  acres  they  now  grow. 

Several  Wisconsin  growers  testi- 
fied that  they  favored  the  proposal, 
pointing  out  that  modern  varieties 
of  insecticides  and  weed  killers,  and 
fast  land  clearing  methods  have 
increased  the  potential  beyond  mar- 
ket demands. 

The  nation's  cranberry  industry, 
about  one-third  of  which  is  in 
Wisconsin,  is  headed  for  overproduc- 
tion troubles  unless  future  crops 
are  put  under  the  quotas,  spokes- 
men for  the  largest  grower  group 
claim. 

But  other  spokesmen  challenged 
such  a  system,  claiming  it  would 
curtail  development  of  distressed 
areas,  shut  out  new  growers  and 
concentrate  suppUes  in  one  organ- 
ization. 

At  issue  is  a  proposed  amend- 
ment to  the  federal  cranberry  mar- 
keting order  which  would  limit  the 
amount  each  grower  could  market 
starting  with  the  1974-'75  crop 
year.  The  interim  years  would  be 
used  to  establish  allotments  linked 
to  the  number  of  acres  each  grower 
operates. 


Gilbert  Beaton,  director  of 
grower  service  for  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.,  of  Hanson,  Mass., 
warned  that  expansion  could  reach 
a  point  where  35  to  50%  of  the  crop 
would  have  to  be  thrown  away. 

Beaton  claimed  that  the  proposed 
allotment  system  would  avoid  the 
waste  of  growing  surplus.  He  said 
the  carryover  of  153,000  barrels 
(100  pounds  each)  in  1962,  had 
risen  to  415,000.  Last  year's  pro- 
duction was  1,425,000  barrels,  of 
which  500,000  came  from  Wiscon- 
sin. Ocean  Spray,  the  co-operative, 
produces  80%  of  the  volume.  It  has 
955  members,  including  107  in 
Wisconsin. 

Beaton  explained:  "We  are  the 
first  segment  of  agriculture  to  try 
to  solve  our  problems  before  they 
happen." 

Beaton,  one  of  four  members  of 
the  cranberry  marketing  committee 
to  appear,  said  he  had  projected 
expansion  at  2,200  acres  of  new 
bogs  but  this  should  be  revised 
upward  to  4,000. 

He  said  "speculator  interest"  was 
high  in  developing  new  beds  and 
that  a  large  corporation  could  buy 
half  the  growing  facilities  for  $50 
million,  let  prices  sag  for  a  few 
years,  then  buy  the  other  half  for 
$25  million. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Azmi  Shawa  and 
family  attended  a  pot-luck  dinner 
at  North  Beach.  The  dinner  was 
given  by  the  cranberry  growers  of 
that  area. 

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WISCORSII 


Wisconsin  had  some  quite  warm 
weather  in  the  first  part  of  March, 
but  by  the  week  of  March  12  it  had 
turned  cold  again,  which  is  normal 
for  this  time  of  year. 

It  has  been  a  very  good  winter  for 
sanding,  and  a  lot  of  it  has  been 
done  as  there  has  been  little  snow 
but  plenty  of  cold  weather  to  give 
ice  two  feet  and  three  feet  thick  on 
the  marshes.  Several  marshes  in  the 
central  part  of  the  state,  where  they 
have  no  snow,  have  some  vines 
sticking  out  which  have  been  dam- 
aged by  winter  kill  as  they  have  no 
water  to  refill  them  and  protect  them 
from  the  very  cold  weather  and 
extremely  strong  winds  we  have 
been  having  this  winter. 

There  is  going  to  be  a  lot  of  new 
planting  in  Wisconsin,  and  it  seems 
like  almost  every  grower  is  going 
to  get  in  as  much  as  he  can  by 
August  1st,  as  the  new  proposed 
amendment  to  the  marketing  order, 
if  it  passes,  would  prohibit  new 
acreage  going  in  as  of  August  1st. 
The  vines  are  high  and  hard  to  get 
because  so  many  people  are  putting 
in  so  much  new  acreage.  Most  of 
the  land  isn't  cleared  yet,  but  every 
available  piece  of  acreage  is  being 
made  ready  for  use  this  spring  as 
soon  as  the  frost  is  out  of  the 
ground. 

New  Gift  House 

Cranberry  sales  have  been  good, 
and  Cranberry  Products  will  open  a 
new  gift  house  in  Minocqua,  Wis- 
consin this  spring. 

Charles  Goldsworthy  and  Ralph 
Sampson  were  going  to  visit  the 
growers  early  in  March  in  Washing- 
ton, Oregon  and  British  Columbia, 

More  vines  keep  coming  out  here 
in  Wisconsin  in  the  central  part  of 
the  state,  and  there  is  no  water  to 
refill  them  as  yet;  and  there  has 

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been  some  injury  but  not  too  much 
when  you  consider  the  state  as  a 
whole. 

Charles  Larocque  in  Drummond- 
ville,  Quebec  will  plant  several  acres 
of  Stevens  this  spring,  which  he  is 
getting  from  the  Thunder  Lake 
Marsh  in  Three  Lakes. 

Cranberry  Products,  Ocean  Spray 
and  Indian  Trail  will  be  contributing 
cranberry  cocktail  for  the  Alice  in 
Dairyland  program  which  will  be 
held  this  summer. 


Mass.  Station  Field  Notes 

Continued  from  Page  3 

the  frost  season,  whether  a  trost 
warning  is  sent  or  not.  George 
Rounsville  wishes  to  remind  the 
growers  using  the  answering  service 
that  the  recorded  message  will  not 
be  available  before  1:30  in  the 
afternoon  or  8:30  in  the  evening. 
The  frost  pad  for  writing  down  the 
message  has  proved  very  popular 
and  will  be  mailed  to  growers  sub- 
scribing to  the  service.  All  applica- 
tions and  payments  should  be 
returned  by  March  25  in  order  that 


the  necessary  arrangements  can  be 
completed  prior  to  the  frost  season. 
Applications  returned  after  this  date 
will  result  in  the  subscriber's  name 
being  placed  at  the  bottom  of  the 
telephone  list.  There  were  approxi- 
mately 219  subscribers  last  season. 
Let's  hope  there  will  be  an  increase 
this  season. 

Charts 

The  1968  cranberry  insect  and 
disease  and  weed  control  charts  are 
in  the  process  of  being  printed  and 
we  hope  to  be  able  to  mail  them 
before  the  middle  of  March.  Growers 
are  reminded  to  carefully  read  the 
notes  at  the  top  of  each  chart, 
there  is  considerable  useful  informa- 
tion included  in  these  sections. 

The  only  major  change  is  on  the 
insect  and  disease  chart  and  is  a 
recommendation  for  the  control 
of  fairy  ring  using  ferbam.  This 
treatment  should  be  applied  only 
in  the  fall  after  harvest. 


Anyone  not  receiving  charts 
should  contact  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion in  East  Wareham,  Mass. 


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In  spite  of  a  howling,  wet  snow- 
storm on  the  day  and  night  of 
fanuary  28,  18  hardy  souls  attended 
i  meeting  of  the  South  Shore 
Cranberry  Club  in  Kingston,  and  a 
part  of  a  fine  program  was  arranged 
3y  County  Agent  Joseph  Brown. 

¥ 
Cranberries,  as  concerned  to  the 
soil  conservation  program,  for  a 
time  were  in  a  doubtful  position, 
but  in  a  recent  release  to  members, 
the  American  Cranberry  Exchange 
has  been  able  to  announce  that 
they  have  been  put  back  onto  the 
program  for  1943.  This  elimination 
from  the  program,  which  in  the  case 
of  cranberry  culture  was  in  sanding, 
had  been  a  matter  of  concern  for 
many  growers,  and  steps  have  been 
taken  to  have  cranberries  included 
with  other  crops  in  the  program. 

The  American  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers' Association  of  New  Jersey, 
meeting  at  Camden,  elected  Isaiah 
Haines  of  Whitesbog,  the  president. 
Other  officers  chosen  were  James 
Lee,  V.  P.;  second  V.  P.  Joseph 
Darlington;  statistitian,  Harry  Weiss; 
secretary-treasurer,  Charles  Beck- 
with. 

The  New  Jersey  crop  of  1943 
was  set  at  50,000  barrels.  Agri- 
culture in  wartime  was  the  theme 
of  the  meeting  and  there  was  in- 
teresting talk  on  possibilities  of 
materials  and  labor  suppUes. 


It's  the  kind  of  thing  that  pro- 
duces a  pleasant  glow  to  have  such 
large  government  orders  for  de- 
hydrated cranberries  are  now 
indicated,  whatever  proportion  of 
the  crop  it  may  turn  out  to  be. 

A  third  advance  of  $2.00  a 
barrel  has  just  been  paid  to  Cran- 
berry Canners,  Inc.  members, 
making  the  total  advance  to  date 
$  1 0.00  a  barrel.  Final  payment  will 
be  made  as  soon  as  total  earnings 
have  been  arrived  at,  Canners  an- 
nounces. In  operating  on  a  yearly 
basis  it  is  difficult  to  more  than 
estimate  the  total  returns  until  the 
end  of  the  season. 

Cranberry  Canners  is  still  working 
on  the  government  dehydrating  or- 
der for  the  1,500,000  pounds  and 
this  order  will  not  be  completed 
until  sometime  in  April.  It  is  not 
possible  to  know  the  yield  and  the 
total  returns  on  this  order  until  it 
is  completed.  As  all  earnings  of  the 
cooperative  go  to  growers  it  is  not 
possible  to  close  the  pool  until  it  is 
known  what  the  final  earnings  are. 

The  $10.00  paid  to  date  is  the 
amount  the  directors  know  has  been 
earned  so  far  this  year. 


Maximum  production  of  all  es- 
sential foods  is  a  patriotic  duty, 
and  cranberries  are  now  an  essential 
food,  and  the  conscientious  cran- 
berry grower  has  the  responsibiUty 
of  keeping  aware  of  all  new  develop- 
ments, regulations  and  possibiUties 
in  the  swiftly-changing  agricultural 
program. 


To  avoid  the  bad  box  situation 
of  last  fall  in  Massachusetts,  the 
New  England  Cranberry  Sales  Co. 
and  grower  members  have  placed 
some  orders  for  the  1943  supply, 
and  these  are  now  in  process  of 
manufacture.  Orders  have  been 
placed  with  the  Acushnet  Sawmills 
Co.,  New  Bedford,  Jesse  A.  Holmes, 
Carver,  Frank  H.  Cole,  Carver,  and 
thus  early  in  the  year  a  quantity  of 
boxes  are  being  made,  reheving  the 
strain  of  the  manufacturers  later  in 
the  season. 

In  a  bulletin  to  members  on 
December  30  the  Exchange  em- 
phasized the  importance  of  giving 
the  matter  of  shipping  boxes  prompt 
and  serious  consideration. 


Very  Uttle  insect  damage  has 
ever  been  experienced  in  Southern 
Oregon  but  damage  is  now  beginning 

to   show  up  a  Uttle,  due  to  the 
shortage  of  insecticides  last  year. 


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BERT  MITCHELL 

Bert  R.  Mitchell,  86,  of  Mather, 
Wisconsin,  died  January  31  at  the 
Tomah  Memorial  Hospital. 

Services  were  held  February  3 
at  the  White  Funeral  Home  with 
Rev.  A.  E.  Frederick  and  Rev. 
Ronald  Kuka  of  Warrens  officiating. 
Burial  was  in  the  Mather  cemetery. 

A  service  was  conducted  by  the 
Tomah  Masonic  Lodge  February  2. 

Mr.  Mitchell  is  survived  by  one 
daughter,  Mrs.  Ceroid  Parker  of 
Mather;  a  foster  daughter,  Mrs.  Herb 
(Harriet)  Zander  of  Beloit  and  three 
brothers,  Frank  of  Wilton,  Everett 
of  Sparta  and  WiUard  of  La  Crosse. 
He  was  preceded  in  death  by  his 
wife. 


Mr.  Mitchell  was  one  of  the 
original  active  cranberry  growers  in 
Wisconsin  and  has  been  in  cranberry 
business  for  at  least  50  years.  He 
operated  his  marsh  until  his  death. 


ISABEL  REZIN 

Miss  Isabel  Rezin,  72,  formerly 
of  Warrens,  died  at  her  home  in 
Fort  Meyers,  Fla.,  recently.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  a  pioneer  cranberry 
grower  in  the  Warrens  area. 

Funeral  services  were  held  at  the 
St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  War- 
rens with  the  Rev.  John  R.  Biggs 
officiating.  Interment  was  at  Forest 
Hill  Cemetery. 

Miss  Rezin  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Rudolph  March  22,  1895,  the 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard 
Rezin.  She  attended  La  Crosse  Nor- 
mal and  taught  school  before  going 
to  Chicago  to  work  as  a  proofreader. 
For   the  past  two  years  she  had 


hved  in  Florida  and  prior  to  goinf 
there  lived  at  Warrens. 

Surviving  are  two  brothers,  Rus 
sell  and  Daniel  Rezin,  both  o 
Warrens;  a  sister,  Mrs.  Berryl  Lenoch 
Fort  Meyers,  and  many  nieces 
nephews  and  cousins  in  the  area. 

Miss  Rezin  was  a  member  of  th) 
local  chapter  of  the  Daughters  o 
the  American  Revolution,  the  Whit 
Shrine,  and  Tomah  chapter  of  th' 
Order  of  Eastern  Star. 


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control  in  farming,  park  mainte- 
nance, vegetable  and  citrus  crop 
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The  DF-525  is  designed  to  deliver 
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consumption  and  maintenance,  the 
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of  62,500  cfm.  Its  self-priming  cen- 
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200  psi. 

The  new  literature  offering  fea- 
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cites  the  use  of  a  heavy  gauge 
stainless  steel  tank  which  affords 
easy,  low-cost  maintenance.  The 
corrosion-resistant  stainless  tank  is 
available  either  in  400  or  500  gallon 
capacities. 

For  operating  efficiency,  the 
sprayer's  design  incorporates: 

1.  Forty  separate  and  fully  ad- 
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in  any  desired  pattern; 

2.  A  choice  of  power  plants— 
either  a  300  cu.  in.  Ford  gasoUne 
engine  or  a  rugged  Hercules  339  cu. 
in.  diesel; 

3.  A  duo-fan  system  consisting 
of  two  26-in.  axial  fans  which 
complement  each  other  to  control 
the  intake  of  turbulence-free  air 
in  a  straight,  power  packed  air 
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Construction  features  cited  in- 
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spraying  operations.  Less  mainte- 
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mixing  basket,  agitator  blades,  and 
pump  impeller  shaft  all  made  of 
stainless  steel.  Corrosion  is  further 
averted  by  the  use  of  aluminum 
filler  hole  hardware. 

Operating  and  dimensional  data 
of  the  sprayer  is  given  in  a  handy 
table  of  specifications. 

Copies  of  the  four-page  bulletin 
describing  the  DF-525  are  available 
by  writing  to  Ampulco/Hardie,  a 
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PERX  LIQUID  COFFEE 
LIGHTENER  IN  CANS  BY  CCC 

Perx,  Mitchell  Foods  liquid  cof- 
fee lightener,  has  gone  into  regional 
test  marketing  in  one  quart  307  x 
710  cans  produced  by  Continental 
Can  Company,  making  it  one  of  the 
first  acceptable  canned  products  for 
institutional  use. 

According  to  Frank  Mitchell, 
president  of  the  Fredonia,  New 
York  firm,  "It  was  found  that  this 
type  of  can  gave  us  the  best  preser- 
vation for  our  fluid  product." 

The  new  canned  Perx  is  identical 
to  Mitchell's  frozen  product  in  both 
appearance  and  taste,  but  is  totally 
unlike  any  previously  canned  prod- 
uct—dairy or  non-dairy. 

"The  first  aseptically  canned  cof- 
fee lightener,  processed  in  a  revolu- 
tionary new  manner,  Perx  is  heated, 
cooled  and  instantly  homogenized 
in  no  more  than  AVi  seconds,"  Mr. 
Mitchell  said.  "The  product  is  then 
instantly  cooled  and  filled  under 
vacuum,"  he  added. 

In  the  new  container,  Perx  re- 
quires no  refrigeration  until  opened 
at  which  time  it  is  ready  for  instant 
use.  The  new  Hquid  coffee  Ughtener 
is  available  12  quarts  to  a  case. 

Further  information  on  the  new 
package  may  be  obtained  by  writing 
to  the  Metal  Operations  Group, 
Continental  Can  Company,  633 
Third  Avenue,  New  York,  New 
York  10017. 


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NEW  JERSEY  MEETING 

Continued  from  Page  18 

serve  on  this  important  body.  A 
motion  made  by  Walter  Fort  and 
unanimously  passed  instructed  the 
Secretary  to  record  in  the  minutes 
the  grateful  acknowledgement  of 
many  years  of  dedicated  service 
rendered  by  Ed  Lipman  in  repre- 
senting the  American  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association  in  the  State 
Agricultural  Convention. 

Tom  Darlington  was  unanimously 
elected  to  succeed  Ed  Lipman  as 
the  Association's  delegate  to  this 
convention. 

Clint  Macauley  warned  growers 
that  the  state's  appetite  for  more 
cranberry  property  for  the  Green 
Acres  Program  may  not  yet  be 
satisfied.  He  showed  copies  of  plans 
in  which  his  property  was  included 
in  a  proposed  recreation  develop- 
ment although  he  has  not  even  been 
consulted.  Macauley  recalled  that 


Commissioner  of  Conservation  and 
Economic  Development,  Robert 
Roe,  had  promised  cranberry  grow- 
ers several  years  ago  that  he  would 

not  acquire  any  more  cranberry 
land  without  the  grower's  consent. 
Despite  this,  Macauley  contended 
that  cranberry  growers  are  still  being 
harassed.  Garfield  De  Marco  allayed 
these  fears  of  further  acquisition  of 
cranberry  land  by  the  State.  He 
reviewed  legislation  being  prepared 
which  will  preclude  this  possibihty. 
One  bill  would  prohibit  the  State's 
acquiring  land  without  the  town- 
ship's approval  if  twenty  per  cent 
or  more  of  the  land  within  the 
township  is  already  pubUcly  owned. 
Since  this  is  a  condition  which 
aheady  pertains  to  ahnost  all  of 
the  townships  in  which  cranberry 
properties  are  located,  the  passage 
of  the  bill  would  virtually  eliminate 
the  possibihty  of  the  State's  take- 
over of  more  cranberry  land.  Passage 
of  the  bill  is  almost  certain. 

The  Frost  Committee  thanked 


the  membership  for  donation  of  a 
windmaster  for  use  on  frost  calls. 
This  electronic  instrument  is  now 
located  at  the  Cranberry  and  Blue- 
berry Laboratory.  It  is  a  precision 
instrument  which  continuously 
shows  wind  direction  and  velocity. 

A  question  and  answer  period 
was  conducted  on  the  amendment 
to  the  marketing  order.  Answers 
were  given  by  members  of  the 
committee  Walter  Fort,  Joe  Pahner 
and  Garfield  De  Marco. 

President  Earl  Kershner  ap- 
pointed the  following  coimnittee  tc 
arrange  for  the  Centennial  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Growers'  As- 
sociation which  will  be  observed  in 
1969:  WiUiam  S.  Haines,  Tom  Dar- 
lington, Ed  Lipman,  Walter  Fort. 
CUnton  Macauley  and  Phil  Marucci. 

Election  of  officers  produced  the 
following:  President,  Ernest  Cutts 
Jr.;  First  Vice  President,  Garfield 
De  Marco;  Second  Vice  President. 
Robert   Goodrich;   Secretary,  Phi] 

Marucci;  Treasurer,  Paul  Eck. 


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In  addition  to  the  irrigation 
advantages  it  offers  frost  pro- 
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HONEY  ALMOND  CRANBERRY 
COOLER 

(Makes  4   servings) 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  chilled 

%  cup  honey 

Vz  teaspoon  almond  extract 

Crushed  ice 

Mint  sprigs 

Combine  cranberry  juice, 
honey,  and  almond  extract;  mix 
well.  Fill  four  glasses  partially 
full  of  crushed  ice  and  add 
cranberry  juice  mixture.  Garnish 
with  mint  sprigs. 


Mountaineers  are  noted  for 
their  longevity. 

A  newspaperman  from  an 
eastern  dty  was  traveling 
through  a  backwoods  area  when 
he  saw  a  wrinkled,  bent,  old 
man  rocking  on  his  porch. 
Thinking  that  perhaps  there 
might  be  a  good  story  here,  he 
stopped  to  talk  with  the  old 
man. 

"Sir,  I'd  like  to  know  your 
secret  for  long  life?"  he  said. 

"Well,"  rephed  the  old  man, 
"I  drink  a  gallon  of  whiskey 
and  smoke  25  cigars  each  day, 
and  go  dancing  every  night," 
replied  the  old  man. 

"Remarkable,"  said  the  re- 
porter, "and  exactly  how  old 
are  you?" 

The  reply  was:  "Twenty - 
seven  years  old." 


CRANBERRY  BANANA   BOUNCE 

(Makes  4   servings) 

2  small  banimas,  mashed( about 
1  cup) 

1  pint  lemon  sherbet 

2  cups  cranberry  juice,  chilled 

I  Combine  bananas  and  sher- 
)et;  beat  with  rotary  beater 
)r  blend  in  blender  until  mix- 
ire  is   smooth.     Place   mixture 

I'n  4  tall  glasses  and  fill  each 
dth  cranberry  juice.  Stir  lightly. 
lerve    garnished    wdth    banana 

slices  and  fresh  or  frozen  cran- 
)erries  arranged  on  toothpicks, 
desired. 


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The  teen-age  boys  on  the 
corner  enjoyed  offering  little 
Tommy  a  choice  of  a  nickel  or 
dime,  and  he  inevitably  chose 
the  larger  coin  —  the  nickel. 
He  usually  went  to  the  corner 
store    and    spent    it    on    candy. 

"You're  not  that  dumb."  the 
storekeeper  said  one  day.  "You 
know  the  smaller  coin  is  worth 
more  than  the  bigger  one." 

"Course  I  do,"  Tomy  replied, 
"But  the  first  time  I  take  the 
smaller  one  I'd  be  killing  a 
good  thing." 


CRANBERRY-CELERY   RELISH 

(Makes  3  cups) 
1  pound    (4  cups)   fresh  cran- 
berries,  chopped  or  coarsely 
ground 
Vz  cup  thinly  sHced  celery 
%  cup  finely  chopped  onion 
1  cup  sugar 
1  teaspoon  tarragon  vinegar 

( optional ) 
Combine    all    ingredients;    mix 
well.     Cover    and    chill    until 
serving  time. 


CRANBERRY 
BAKED  CORNISH  HENS 

(Makes  6  servings) 
3  cups  fresh  cranberries 

1  cup  water 

V^   cup  frozen  concentrated 

orange  juice 
1%  cups  sugar 
¥4  cup  butter  or  margarine 

2  teaspoons  grated  orange  rind 
Pinch  of  poultry  seasoning 

6  Cornish  game  hens 
Salt  and  pepper 
Combine  cranberries,  water  and 
orange  juice  concentrate  in 
saucepan;  cook  over  medium 
heat  until  cranberries  begin  to 
pop.  Remove  from  heat  and 
stir  in  sugar,  butter,  orange  rind 
and  poultry  seasoning. 
Sprinkle  hens  inside  and  out 
with  salt  and  pepper.  Truss 
and  place  on  rack  in  shallow 
roasting  pan.  Roast  according 
to  package  directions.  About 
30  minutes  before  hens  are 
done,  brush  liberally  with  cran- 
berry mixture.  Continue  to 
baste  with  cranberry  mixture 
every  5  minutes  until  hens  are 
done. 

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REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  9 
Service  that  the  frost  is  deeper  over 
the  entire  State  than  it  was  two 
weeks   ago.   The  greatest  increase 
was  in   southern  Wisconsin  where 
milder    temperatures    in    the    two 
weeks  previous  to  February  9,  1968 
limited    the    frost   penetration   to 
only  a  few  inches.  The  period  ending 
February  23,  1968,  increased  frost 
depth  in  this  area  anywhere  from 
4  to  18  inches.  In  the  northernmost 
counties  the  frost  continued  to  go 
down  but  the  everage  increase  was 
less  as  they  did  have  some  snow 
cover.  Presently  there  are  two  areas 
of  the  State  where  the  average  frost 
depth  is  more  than  50  inches.  This 
is  under  a  sod  cover,  but  where  the 
soil  is  exposed  or  under  roads  the 
penetration  may  be  more  than  6 
feet.  One  of  the  deep  areas  is  in 
southern  Wood  and  Portage  Coun- 
ties and  northern  Adams  and  Wau- 
shara Counties.  The  second  area  is 
centered    around   Barron   County. 
Some  of  the  deepest  penetrations 
reported  were  Spooner,  66  inches; 
Barron,  New  Richmond,  Superior, 


Kewaunee  and  Almond,  60  inches; 
Westfield,  56  inches;  Menomonee, 
Durand,  Chippewa  Falls  and  Coloma, 
54  inches;  Mauston,  53  inches;  and 
Waupaca  and  Plainfield,  50  inches. 
The  average  depth  for  the  State  is 
35  inches,  a  9  inch  increase  in  the 
past  two  weeks  and  19  inches  more 
than  a  year  ago.  The  present  frost 
penetration  continues  to  be  deeper 
than  in  any  year  since  this  report 
was  begun  in  1962. 

Snow  cover  in  the  State  on 
February  23,  1968  was  limited  to 
the  northernmost  counties.  A  year 
ago  the  northern  half  of  the  State 
had  at  least  a  20-inch  snow  cover 
and  the  southern  half  about  10 
inches. 

In  contrast  to  the  damp  and 
mild  period  of  late  January  and 
early  February,  the  weather  since 
the  last  survey  of  February  9  turned 
very  sunny,  dry  and  cold.  All  areas 
of  the  State  received  nearly  90 
percent  of  the  possible  sunshine 
with  cold  nights  and  pleasant  days. 
Only  the  days  of  February  16-17 
were  uncomfortably  windy  and  cold. 


Precipitation  was  very  light  and 
restricted  mostly  to  snow  flurries  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  Great  Lakes.  One 
area  of  light  snow  crossed  the  State 
after  the  survey  date  on  February 
25-26.  Snowfall  amounts  continue 
to  run  way  behind  the  amounts 
expected  by  this  time  of  the  year, 
and  no  general  snowstorm  has  af- 
fected the  State  so  far  this  season. 


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Wisconsin  had  some  quite  war 
weather  in  the  first  part  of  March 
but  by  the  week  of  March  12  it  hai 
turned  cold  again,  which  is  norma 
for  this  time  of  year. 

It  has  been  a  very  good  winter  foi 
sanding,  and  a  lot  of  it  has  beei 
done.  I 


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University   of   Wisconsin 

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Some  cranberries  get  picked  and  packed  and  sent  to  mar- 
ket and  no  one  ever  hears  of  them* 

Some  years  they  fetch  a  pretty  good  price.  And  other  years 
...well,  that^s  agriculture  for  you. 

But,  some  cranberries  get  picked  and  packed  and  sent  to 
market  with  Ocean  Spray  labels  on  them. 

They  get  their  pictures  taken.  They  get  talked  about  in 
magazines  and  newspapers.  And  on  TV  and  radio  from 
coast  to  coast. 

Over  the  years,  they've  fetched  a  better  price  for  their 
growers  than  any  other  cranberry. 

Every  year,  people  buy  more  of  them  than  all  other 
cranberries  combined. 

Because,  every  year,  Ocean  Spray  does  more  things  with 
more  cranberries  than  anybody  else. 


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In  industry  as  well  as  the  home, 
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wherever  and  whenever  it  is  needed. 


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CHERRY  BILL  FAILS 
TO  PASS 

The  House  failed  this  week  by  a 
180-168  vote  to  pass  the  cherry 
marketing  order  bill  (H.  R.  4282) 
under  the  suspension  of  the  rules 
procedure,  which  requires  a  two- 
third  vote  of  those  present. 

A  letter  went  to  all  members  of 
Congress  this  week  from  Robert  B. 
Heiney,  director  of  the  NCA  Gov- 
ernment-Industry Relations  Divi- 
sion, explaining  the  canning  in- 
dustry's position  on  the  cherry 
marketing  order  bill,  and  urging 
support  for  this  position. 

The  cherry  marketing  order  bill 
would  remove  the  right  of  processors 
to  vote  in  a  referendum  on  a  cherry 
marketing  order  proposal.  The  Agri- 
cultural Marketing  Agreement  Act 
of  1937  was  amended  in  1961  to 
authorize  a  marketing  order  for 
cherries,  cranberries  and  apples  in 
certain  states,  but  to  require  a 
favorable  vote  by  at  least  50  percent 
of  the  processors  as  well  as  at  least 
66  -2/3  percent  of  the  producers 
voting  in  referendum  to  make  an 
order  effective  as  to  any  of  these 
commodities.  Congress  thus  adopted 
a  poHcy  that  marketing  orders  for 
processing  crops  should  not  be 
adopted  unless  processors  have  the 
express  right  to  approve  or  dis- 
approve a  proposed  order. 


This  year's  U.S.  exhibit  theme,  "Cook- 
ing and  Eating  American  Style,"  featured 
dishes  from  several  areas  of  the  United 
Slates  made  with  products  available  in 
grocery  stores  throughout  Germany.  A 
replica  of  a  New  England  tavern  featured 
steaming  bowls  of  clam  chowder,  baked 
beans,  and  apple  pie  with  cheese.  Shoo- 
Fly  Pie  was  popular  in  a  Pennsylvania 
Dutch  Inn,  while  chile  con  carne  was 
served    in    a    small-scale    Pueblo   hostelry. 


For   Sale 


10  ACRES  OF  CRANBERRY 
BOG 

on  Route  6 A  in  Brewster,  Mass. 

Washburn, 
Box  157,  Harwichport, 
Mass.  Tel.  432-0308 


U.S.  Foods  Make  Sales 
Mileage  at  Green  Week 

U.S.  food  products  were  well  received, 
and  American  jazz  combos.  Dixieland 
bands,  country  music,  aad  square  dancing 
were  popular  attractions  during  Ger- 
many's famous  Green  Week  food  fair — 
a  traditional  January  event  attracting 
thousands  of  German  food  businessmen 
daily. 

Products  displayed  and  marketed  from 
12  American  companies  included  pop- 
corn, fruits  and  juices,  poultry  specialties, 
soybean  products,  and  seasonings.  An 
estimated  half-million  visitors  came 
through  the  agricultural  exhibits  of  the 
23  countries  participating,  and  more  than 
350,000  visited  the  American  area.  The 
U.S.  exhibit  was  put  on  by  the  U.S.  Infor- 
mation  Agency  in  cooperation  with   FAS. 


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Since  1859 


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Our    Agtron  systems  are  now 
Available  after  two  years  of 
rigorous  bog  testing. 

The  test  results  were  dramatic 
and  proved,  that  frost  losses 
and  damage  can  be  substanti- 
ally reduced. 

It  is  now  possible  to  make 
your  frost  problems  much 
less  tediouso 


ELECTRONIC  THERMOMETER 
(Shown  measxiring  bog  temperature  under  ice) 

These  fine  Electronic  Systems  are  on  display  at  our  showroom. 


BATTERY  OPERATED  ELECTRONIC  TEMPERATURE  ALARM  SYSTEM 
($59.00  with  30  foot  cable) 


R.   F.  MORSE  &  SON 
Cranberry  Highway 
West  Wareham,  Mass.  02576 


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AGTRON 
Cranberry  Highway 
West  Wareham.  Mass.  02576 


Mass. 

Cranberry 

Station 

S  Held  Notes 


by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
extension  cranberry  specialist 


Personals 

Mr.  Bert  Zuckerman  attended 
the  thirst  Symposium  of  Tropical 
Nematology  at  the  University  of 
the  West  Indies  in  Trinidad  and  also 
at  the  University  of  Puerto  Rico 
from  March  23  to  April  18.  This 
meeting  is  by  invitation  only  and 
Bert  will  be  lecturing  at  both  Uni- 
versities on  nematology. 

Dr.  Zuckerman,  Kenneth  Roche- 
fort  and  George  Rounsville  have  a 
paper  pubHshed  in  the  January  1 968 
issue  oi  Plant  Disease  Reporter.  The 
title  is  "Control  of  Fairy  Ring 
Disease  of  the  Cultivated  Cran- 
berry." This  is  a  report  on  the 
control  of  fairy  ring  using  ferbam 
that  is  now  recommended  in  our 
1968  Insect  and  Disease  Control 
Chart. 

Prof.  Stan  Norton  has  a  new 
bulletin  pubhshed  by  the  Coopera- 
tive Extension  Service,  University 
of  Massachusetts.  The  title  is  "A 
Trash  Separator  for  Cranberry  Pick- 
ing Machines."  This  bulletin  des- 
cribes a  unit  that  is  mounted  on  the 
picking  machine  to  separate  trash 
from  berries  while  picking.  Copies 
are  available  upon  request. 

Club  Meetings 

The  March  series  of  cranberry 
meetings  were  held  at  Kingston  on 
March  19,  Rochester,  March  20,  and 
Barnstable,  March  21.  Dr.  Robert 
Devlin  discussed  "Results  of  1967 
Herbicide  Program,"  in  which  he 
presented  the  results  of  tests  using 
alanap-plus  which  is  being  recom- 
mended for  limited  use  in  Massa- 
chusetts this  year.  Prof.  William 
Tomlinson's  topic  was  "HigUights 
of  the  1967  Cranberry  Insect  Sea- 
son." Bill's  talk  will  be  printed  in 
an   early  issue.  Dr.  Karl  Deubert 


spoke  briefly  on  "Chemical  Studies"    Bob  Alberghini,  secretary-treasurer, 
and  outhned  some  of  his  preliminary    The   Southeastern  Massachusetts 


work  on  pesticide  persistence  and 
breakdown.  William  Atwood  of  the 
A.  D.  Makepeace  Co.  talked  on  "New 
Labor  Legislation"  including  the 
minimum  wage  law.  Richard  Pratt 
and  WiUiam  Annable  of  the  Soil 
Conservation  Service  discussed  "Cur- 
rent S.  C.  S.  Sprinkler  Regulations." 
The  author  gave  "Casoron  Studies 
and  Fertilizer  Trials"  in  which  data 
was  presented  on  the  effects  of  3 
year  trials  with  casoron  on  yields 
and  berry  size  as  well  as  the  enhance- 
ment of  red  color  pigments.  Ob- 
servations were  made  on  some  ferti- 
lizer tests  also. 

The  clubs  elected  officers  for 
the  new  season.  The  South  Shore 
Club  in  Kingston  elected  Alden 
Alberghini,  president,  Joe  De- 
Lorenzo,    Jr.,   vice    president   and  ''" 


Continued  on  Page  14 


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This  l/2-inch  head  utilizes  a  new  concept  in 
sprinkler  design... a  stainless  steel  flipper.  This 
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Frost  protection.  The  low  precipitation  811  Dual 
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action  provided  by  the  stainless  steel  flipper 
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Pesticide  and  herbicide  application.  The  811  Dual 
Drive  has  high  coefficient  of  uniformity.  You  can 
apply  herbicides  or  pesticides  through  the  system 
with  maximum  effectiveness. 

Establishment  of  new  plantings.  Humidity  con- 
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off  to  a  strong  start.  The  811  Dual  Drive  gives 
you  this  needed  moisture  control  through  uni- 
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The  dependability  of  the  811  Dual  Drive  is  also 
the  product  of  the  long-life,  low  maintenance 
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it . . .  low  water  pressure  won't  prevent  rotation. 

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Issue  of  April  1968  /  Volume  32  -  No.  12 

Appreciation 

"Introducing  outselves  with  this  issue,  we 
present  for  your  approval  a  monthly  magazine 
devoted  solely  to  the  best  interest  of  the  cranberry 
industry."  And  so  in  May  1936,  Lemuel  Hall  began 
the  first  issue  of  Cranberries  Magazine  with  that 
introduction  to  the  readers.  He  earnestly  stated  the 
objectives  of  the  magazine  and  appealed  for  ideas 
and  criticisms  so  that  the  industry  could  be  served 
by  a  comprehensive  journal. 

The  ideas  came,  the  readers  approval  met,  and 
for  32  years  Cranberries  Magazine  has  been  pubUshed 
each  month.  The  interest  and  aid  from  the  ranks  of 
the  grower  and  experimenter,  the  manager  and 
educator  alike  has  been  the  life  blood  of  this 
nationwide  cranberry  journal. 

In  that  May  is  the  32nd  anniversary  of  Cran- 
berries Magazine,  we  are  sending  each  subscriber, 
along  with  his  regular  monthly  edition,  a  special 
reprint  of  the  first  edition.  It  will  be  an  exar ;  .opy 
and  we  know  it  will  provide  much  entertaining 
reading.  In  this  manner,  the  staff  of  Cranberries 
Magazine  offers  a  sincere   thank  you. 

A  Political  Berry 

The  Massachusetts  Senate  has  killed  a  bill  to 
make  cranberry  juice  the  official  state  drink.  It  was 
killed  by  a  standing  vote  of  8-7  after  a  short  debate 
on  the  merits  of  apple  cider  versus  cranberry  juice. 
The  cranberry  juice  proposal  was  scoffed  at  by  the 
State  Senator  who  represents  an  apple  growing 
district,  and  thought  the  cranberry  idea  was  "a  rather 
frivolous  approach  to  a  serious  matter."  A  compro- 
mise was  introduced  by  another  Senator  who  offered 
"Let's  make  cranberry  juice  the  official  beverage  and 
the  apple  the  official  fruit  of  Massachusetts."  When 
the  whole  matter  was  over  and  the  apple  cider 
motion  was  withdrawn,  the  cranberry  bill  was  de- 
feated. 

What  this  all  proves  is  not  clear.  But  we  all 
know  how  well  cranberry  juice  may  be  mixed  with 
just  about  anything— except  politics,  that  is. 


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Jim  Misho,  left  and  Paul  Morse  check  the  area  of  their  bogs  on  a  series  of  topographic  maps. 


Jim  Misho,  left  and  Paul  Morse  discuss  their  latest  device 
which  was  recently  placed  on  the  market.  Shown  is  the 
electronic  thermometer. 


When  the  talents  of  an  agricul- 
turalist and  a  professional  mathe- 
matician are  combined,  something 
different  is  bound  to  come  about. 

Take  for  example  Paul  Morse, 
of  R.  F.  Morse  and  Son,  Wareham, 
Massachusetts  and  Jim  Misho,  math- 
ematician for  Raytheon.  They  are 
two  cranberry  growers  and  bog 
owners,  one  having  50  acres  and 
the  other  three  acres,  who  have  an 
avocation  of  devising  new  methods 
in  frost  control  and  warning,  com- 
puterized bog  management  and 
automated  bog  operation. 


For  the  past  two  years  they 
have  been  working  on  and  testing 
out  a  temperature  measuring  device 
and  an  automatic  frost  warning 
alarm.  Both  of  these  systems  are 
simple  and  inexpensive.  They  have 
been  born  out  of  the  misery  of  long 
cold  nights  beside  bogs  waiting  for 
the  threatened  frost.  These  units, 
the  first  of  many  ideas,  have  been 
tested  and  are  presently  on  the 
market.  They  are  now  involved 
with  the  early  stages  of  a  more 
sophisticated  radio  controlled  frost 
warning  system  for  larger  areas. 


Their  next  venture  might  be  a 
device  to  measure  the  dissolved 
oxygen  under  the  ice.  Their  greatest 
problem  is  to  gather  all  the  neces- 
sary components  into  a  low-cost 
package,  and  this  takes  time. 

Jim  and  Paul  are  concerned  aboii  i 
bog  management  and  just  as  most 
other  growers,  they  have  had  their 
share  of  problems  with  "modern 
technology.  They  feel  that  a  major 
step  to  overcome  the  particular  con- 
ditions of  any  bog  lies  with  the 
implementation  of  the  computei. 
The  many  variables  of  a  bog  coulil 
be  programmed  into  a  computer. 


Story  and  Photographs  by  Bernard  A.  Mart 


Years  ago  the  average  farmer  had 
the  abihty  to  be  Iris  own  computer, 
because  methods  were  fairly  simple 
and  constant.  However,  with  the 
introduction  of  more  and  more 
aids  and  a  sophisticated  system  of 
fungicides, herbicides,  fertilizers  and 
more  advanced  cultural  practices, 
problems  were  brouglit  on  by  the 
methods  employed. 

Few  growers  have  the  necessary 
time  for  meticulous  recording  of 
important  information  onto  paper. 
Even  if  this  were  done,  the  com- 
pihng  and  correlation  of  the  infor- 

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Although  the  month  started  with 
extremely  cold  stormy  weather,  it 
was  typical  of  March  and  ended  on 
a  very  mild  note  with  temperatures- 
i^eaching  up  to  80  degrees.  The 
abnormally  warm  days  more  than 
balanced  out  the  cold  ones  and  the 
month  ended  up  with  an  avera; 
temperature  of  43.70  degrees  F, 
which  is  2.1  degrees  F  above  normal. 
The  extremes  were  8  degrees  on 
March  third  and  80  degrees  on 
March  20th. 

The  month  was  rainier  than 
normal.  A  very  heavy  rain  of  2.53 
inches  on  March  12th  and  13th 
helped  to  wipe  out  the  accumulated 
deficiency  for  1968  of  more  than 
two  inches  which  had  occurred  in 
January  and  February.  The  total 
rainfall  in  1968  now  stands  at  9.98 
inches  compared  to  the  normal  of 
9.93. 

The  winter  of  1967-1968  was 
more  severe  than  normal.  It  was 
consistently  cold  during  January 
and  February  with  none  of  the 
characteristic  temporary  thaws  or 
mild  periods.  The  absence  of  snow 


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cover  and  frequent  high  winds  were 
conditions  unfavorable  for  plants 
and  much  winter  damage  is  ob- 
servable. Ornamentals  such  as  broad- 
leafed  evergreens  and  euonymous 
appear  to  be  browned  and  desicated. 
There  has  been  some  damage  to 
cranberries  along  the  high  edges  of 
bogs  where  the  winter  floods  do  not 
reach.  Bog  number  five  (State  Ex- 
perimental Bogs),  which  is  being 
kept  unflooded  all  winter,  sustained 
a  winter  kill  of  about  twelve  per 
cent  (as  of  April  third)  of  the 
terminal  buds  of  the  uprights.  This 
damage  seems  to  be  expressing  it- 
self more  with  the  onset  of  warmer 
weather;  it  was  only  five  per  cent 
on  February  21st. 

I  WJI$IIIN6TIHI  " 


The  cranberry  areas  of  Washing- 
ton are  enjoying  quite  nice  weather 
for  this  time  of  year.  Though  the 


total  precipitation  for  the  first  three 
months  has  reached  39.59,  the 
March  total  of  14.17  gave  it  a  good 
boost,  with  2.26  inches  pouring 
down  on  the  26th.  All  in  all  the 
growers  have  been  able  to  finish 
their  pruning  and  had  good  weather 
for  applying  some  herbicides  using 
Casoron+Simazine+2,4-D  for  early 
use  on  purple  aster  and  dog  wood. 
Others  are  applying  their  spring 
Casoron  application,  and  some  al- 
ready using  phosphorous  and  potash 
for  fertihty. 

We  are  experiencing  some  frost 
periods  and  most  growers  are 
sprinkhng  from  35°  and  lower  now. 
The  high  for  the  month  came  on  the 
20th  with  69° F,  the  mean  high  was 
53.87°.  The  coldest  period  was 
March  7th  a  29°  F  registered  on  the 
ridge  with  25 °F  at  bog  level.  The 
mean  low  was  only  40.45°,  so 
though  overall  the  weather  is  getting 
warmer  we  are  still  having  damaging 
frost.. 

March  20  the  growers  of  the 
Grayland  and  North  Beach  area  met 
at  the  new  Grayland  Grange  building 
with  Dr.  Folke  Johnson,  Pathologist 
from  Puyallup  who  spoke  about 
fungicides  and  dead  spots.  Dr.  D. 

Continued  on  Page  23 


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NITROGEN  FERTILIZATION 
AND  CRANBERRIES 


PART  I 


The  commercial  production  of 
cranberries  occurs  on  soil  and  man- 
agement situations  that  differ  greatly 
from  the  conditions  found  for  other 
agronomic  and  horticultural  crops. 
The  extensive  use  of  water  for  frost 
control  and  the  highly  acid  soils 
ranging  from  sands  to  peats  preclude 
the  use  of  fertilizer  programs  recom- 
mended for  other  crops  and  cer- 
tainly prevent  the  formulation  of  a 
single  program  valid  for  all  growers. 
A  grower  must  develop  a  program 
unique  to  his  operation  based  on 
his   knowledge    of    the    cranberry 
plant   and  the  factors  controlling 
nutrient  availability.  Some  factors 
influencing  the  availability  of  nitro- 
gen to  cranberry  plants  and  sug- 
gestions for  the  development  of  a 
program  for  optimum  use  of  this 
nutrient   in   cranberry    production 
will  be  discussed. 

The  fertilizer  element  that  should 
be  of  most  concern  to  cranberry 
growers  is  nitrogen,  for,  of  all 
elements,  it  is  the  most  likely  to  be 
misused,  either  as  an  under  or  an 
over  supply.  Cranberries,  like  other 
plants,  respond  rapidly  to  nitrogen 
applications.  Available  nitrogen  may 
be  lost  from  the  soil  or  replenished 
by  natural  processes  within  the  soil 
over  relatively  short  periods  of  time. 
It  is  the  factors  affecting  nitrogen 
availability  that  are  so  little  under- 
stood and  appreciated  by  growers. 


In  the  absence  of  supplemental 
fertilizer  applications,  the  nitrogen 
obtained  by  a  cranberry  plant  under 
field  conditions  may  come  from 
three  sources;  breakdown  of  soil 
organic  matter  (mineralization  of 
nitrate),  direct  fixation  from  the 
atmosphere  by  certain  soil  organ- 
isms, and  capture  by  rainfall  of 
nitrogen  compounds  in  the  atmos- 
phere. 

10 


The  mineralization  of  organic 
matter  by  soil  micro-organisms  with 
the  release  of  nitrates  for  plant 
absorption  is  the  major  source  of 
soil  nitrogen  supply  and  one  that 
is  not  controllable  by  the  grower. 

However,  in  general  terms,  a  pre- 
diction of  release  rate  may  be  made 
and  certainly  an  understanding  of 
the  influence  of  environmental  con- 
ditions on  release  rate  may  permit  a 
grower  to  better  explain  the  ob- 
served response  in  his  marsh.  If  a 
soil  is  low  in  organic  matter,  then 
there  is  Httle  opportunity  for  nitro- 
gen release.  If  the  soil  is  high  in 
organic  matter,  then  the  potential 
for  release  is  great.  In  both  soils, 
environmental  conditions  will  regu- 
late the  quantity  and  rate  of  release. 
Immediately,  then,  it  becomes  ap- 
parent that  the  nitrogen  fertilizer 
programs  for  soils  differing  greatly 
in  organic  matter  content  must  be 
developed  from  different  premises, 
i.  e.,  in  a  sand  soil  (low  organic 
matter)  nearly  all  the  needed  nitro- 
gen must  be  supplied  from  artificial 
sources  and  in  a  peat  (high  in  organic 
matter)  the  artificial  sources  need 
only  supplement  the  relatively  high 
natural  soil  supply. 

The  nitrogen  in  undecomposed 
organic  matter  is  not  directly  avail- 
able for  absorption  by  roots  of 
higher  plants.  It  is  only  through  the 
simplification  of  this  material  by 
soil  organisms  (nitrifyers)  that  com- 
plex nitrogenous  materials  are  con- 
verted to  forms  that  may  be  absorbed 
by  roots  and  again  reconstituted 
into  the  nitrogenous  materials  that 
go  to  make  up  the  leaves,  stems  and 
fruits  of  a  new  plant.  Because 
environmental  factors  exert  control 
over  the  rate  of  activity  of  the 
micro-organisms  in  this  cycle,  tem- 
perature, moisture,  and  aeration 
of  the  soil  will  exercise  influences 
on  both  the  rate  and  total  produc- 


By  Malcolm  N.  Dana 

Professor  of  Horticulture 

Department  of  Horticulture 

University  of  Wisconsin 

tion  of  available  forms  of  nitrogen. 
Of  these  factors,  temperature  is  the 
most    significant.  Micro-organisms, 
like   higher   plants,   increase    their 
activity  as  the  temperature  increases 
from  approximately  40°  F  to  ap- 
proximately 95°   F.  Furthermore, 
the  rate  of  activity  approximately 
doubles  with  each  18°  F  increase 
in  temperature;  therefore,  the  rate 
at  60°  F  is  twice  the  rate  at  40°  F 
and  the  rate  at  80°  F  is  twice  the 
rate  at  60°  F  and  4  times  the  rate 
at  40°  F.  The  actual  rate  attained 
is  influenced  by  other  factors  but 
these  figures  are  illustrative  of  the 
generalized  situation.  On  a  practical 
basis  this  means  that  during  a  period 
of  high  soil  temperatures,  available 
sou  nitrogen  will  be  in  a  relatively 
greater  supply  than  during  a  period 
of  low  temperatures  if  other  factors 
for  mineralization  are  favorable. 


Soil  moisture  is  also  a  major 
controUing  factor  in  the  rate  of 
nitrate  mineralization.  The  nitrify 
ing  organisms  are  aerobic,  that  is, 
they  require  oxygen  for  growth  and 
metabohsm.  The  oxygen  comes  froml 
the  air  in  the  open  pore  spaces  of 
the  soil.  When  a  soil  is  saturated 
with  water,  the  pore  spaces  contain 
no  air  so  the  nitrifying  organisms 
are  unable  to  work  at  full  capacity. 
In  cranberry  marshes  the  frequent 
flooding  or  irrigation  for  frost  pro- 
tection maintains  saturated  soil  con-^ 
ditions  for  extended  periods  in  thel 
early  part  of  the  growing  season 
which  minimizes  the  nitrate  miner- 
alization rate. 


While  oxygen  deficiency  reduces 
nitrate  mineralization  in  a  very  wet 
soil,  in  a  very  dry  soil  the  organisms 
are  incapable  of  maximum  activity 
due  to  the  shortage  of  moisture  for 
their  own  bodies  and  for  dissolution 
from  the  soil  complex  of  substances 
needed  for  synthesis  into  organisms. 
The  best  soil  moisture  conditions 
for  nitrate  mineralization  occur  after 
the  excess  moisture  of  irrigation  or 
rainfall  have  drained  away  and  be- 
fore the  soil  is  dry  enough  to  result 
in  wilting  of  the  cranberry  plants. 

In  addition  to  the  nitrogen  added 
to  the  soil  from  the  decomposition 
of  crop  and  weed  residues,  a  small 
amount  may  be  fixed  directly  from 
the  atmosphere  by  symbiotic  and 
non-symbiotic  micro-organisms.  The 
symbiotic  types  live  in  close  associ- 
ation with  the  roots  of  leguminous 
plants  (beans,  clover,  peas).  They 
draw  food  material  from  the  legume 
plant  and  in  turn  provide  the  legume 
with  nitrogen  for  growth.  Thus,  a 
symbiotic  or  mutually  advantageous 
system  is  estabhshed  between  the 
legume  and  the  symbiotic  bacteria. 
The  non-symbiotic  organisms    are 


free-living  in  the  soil  and  carry  on 
their  Ufe  processes  independently 
of  other  plants.  They  are  able  to 
use  nitrogen  from  the  air  for  in- 
corporation in  their  tissue  proteins. 
The  general  absence  of  leguminous 
plants  in  a  cranberry  marsh  elimi- 
nates the  possibility  of  nitrogen 
fixation  by  the  symbiotic  class  of 
organisms.  However,  the  non-sym- 
biotic organisms  may  add  small 
quantities  of  nitrogen  of  cranberry 
soils.  Nitrogen  fixed  by  either  class 
of  organisms  becomes  available  to 
cranberry  plants  only  as  the  organ- 
isms die  and  decay  and  the  nitrogen 
is  released  by  the  mineralization 
process  described  for  organic  matter. 
As  a  series  of  biological  processes, 
the  rate  of  activity  is  controlled  by 
temperature  and  moisture. 

A  minor  source  of  nitrogen  for 
utilization  by  higher  plants  comes 
from  the  capture  by  rainfall  of 
ammonia  and  other  nitrogenous 
compounds  in  the  atmosphere.  This 
process  probably  never  adds  over 
5  pounds  per  acre  per  year  of 
nitrogen. 

In  the  absence  of  supplemental 


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fertilization,  the  nitrogen  available 
for  utilization  by  the  cranberry 
plant  is  the  difference  between  the 
amount  supplied  by  the  above  des- 
cribed mechanisms  and  the  amount 
lost  by  denitrification,  leaching, 
erosion,  and  utilization  by  com- 
peting vegetation  and  micro-organ- 
isms. 

In  addition  to  the  organisms  that 
are  causing  decay  of  organic  matter 
with  resultant  production  of  avail- 
able nitrogen  (nitrate)  tbere  are  also 
some  organisms  that  act  to  further 
simplify  the  chemical  structure  of 
nitrate  and  eventually  release  the 
nitrogen  as  a  free  gas  that  returns 
to  the  atmosphere.  These  organisms, 
the  denitrifying  bacteria,  are  anaero- 
bic, that  is  they  grow  ui  the  absence 
of  oxygen.  They  assume  a  dominant 
position  in  the  nitrogen  economy 
in  soils  that  are  saturated  with 
water  and  thus  poorly  aerated.  Like 
the  nitrifying  organisms,  denitrify ers 
increase  in  activity  as  the  tempera- 
ture increases.  Thus,  a  saturated  soil 
condition  in  the  summer,  when  soil 
temperatures  are  high  results  in  a 
reduced  rate  of  nitrogen  release 
coupled  with  a  direct  loss  of  avail- 
able nitrogen  through  conversion  to 
unusable  nitrogen  gas. 

Nitrate  nitrogen,  the  final  product 
of  mineralization  and  tlie  form 
normally  absorbed  by  plants,  is 
readily  soluble  in  water  and  may 
be  carried  away  with  receding  flood 
waters  or  may  be  moved  through 
the  soil  profile  and  lost  from  the 
root  absorbing  zone.  Because  the 
nitrogen  mineralized  from  organic 
matter  is  within  the  soil  and  because 
little  mineralization  occurs  in  early 
spring,  it  is  doubtful  that  much  of 
this  nitrogen  is  dissolved  in,  and  re- 
moved by,  floods.  However,  nitrogen 
fertilizers  applied  to  the  soil  surface 
may  be  dissolved  and  moved  out  by 
any  flooding  shortly  after  a  fertilizer 
application.  The  rate  of  percolation 
through  the  soil  and  out  of  the  root 
zone  is  a  function  of  the  drainage 
rate  (pore  size)  of  the  soil. 

CONCLUDED  NEXT  MONTH 

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1968  Cranberry  Insect  and  Disease  Control  Chart 

This  chart   is   intended   to  furnish   general   recommen  dations.    More  detailed  information  may  be  obtained 
from   the  Cranberry   Experiment   Station,   East  Warehom,  Mossoehusetts. 


NOTES 


1.  HOLDING  WINTER  WATER  till  May  20  25  concontralps  emergence  of  all 
insects  and  controls  false  armyworm,  yellow-headed  fireworm  and  may 
control  or  reduce  fruitworm.  Favors  cutworm  infestation. 

2.  REFLOODLNG 

a.     Almut  May  18  for  10  hours,  controls  false  armyworm  and  blossom  worm. 

h.  \hout  June  l  and  12  for  10  hours  controls  green  spanuorm,  small  black- 
headed  fireworm,  spoiled  and  black  cutworms  and  jrmvuorm,  but  is 
likely  lo  INCREASE  I  RlIT  ROTS  and  HEDtfCE  THE  CROP. 

c.  About  May  12  and  holding  to  July  15-20  kills  all  insects  but  nith  the  loss 
of  the  crop. 

d.  Sept.  15-26.  Floodinfi  for  6  days  every  third  year  during  this  period 
discourages  girdler  and  blossom  worm. 

3.  Insecticide  sprays  may  be  applied  by  aircraft,  ground  rig,  or  sprinkler.  To 
minimize  contamination  of  streams  and  ponds  hold  bog  drainage  as  long 
as  possible  after  applying  any  pesticide. 

4.  CONCENTRATE  SI'RAYS  ni^iy  injure  new  growth,  bloom  and  small  berries, 
particularly  in  hot  humid  weather.  Flowable  formulations  or  those  with 
XYLENE  type  solvents  are  preferred  because  they  cause  less  injury. 

5.  FUNGICIDE  CONCENTRATES.  Pre-mix  with  small  amount  of  water  until 
a  smooth  suspension  is  obtained  before  final  dilution.  Use  immediately. 

B.  FUNGICIDES  and  COLOR.  It  may  be  necessary  to  delay  harvest  to  obtain 
acceptable  color  when  maneb  is  used. 

7.  SANDING  and  FERTILIZING.  Provided  blunt-nosed  leafbopper  is  con- 
trolled, frequent  resanding  and  fertilizing  hel[»s  reclaim  bogs  infected  with 
false  blossom.  Regular  uniform  sanding  helps  check  girdler  and  tipworm. 

8.  INSECT  NET.  If  50  sweeps  gather  9  cutworms,  gypsy  moth  caterpillars  or 
weevils,  36  spanworms,  or  3  blunt-oosed  leafboppers  treatment  is  necessary. 
Make  weevil  counts  when  it  is  calm,  warm  and  sunny. 


GRUB  CO.NTROL.  Rates  of  application.  (May  also  control  tipworm,  girdler 
and  cranberry  weevil  in  year  of  application  K 


Amount  of  concentrate 
per  acre  to  give: 

5  lbs.     10  lbs. 

.Amount   of   Granular 
Aldrin  or  Dieldrin  to 
give: 

5  lbs.     10  lbs. 

Aldrin  E.C.  containing 
2  lbs.  per  cjl.                    10  qts.        20  qts. 
12':  gal.)     (S  gal.) 

Dieldrin  E.C.  containing 
1.5  lbs.  per  gal. 

13'4  qts.       26':  qts. 

(3Z/sgal.)(6  4/sgaL) 

5%  Aldrin  or 
Dieldrin 

10",    ,\ldrin    or 
Dieldrin 

100  lbs.     200  lbs 

50  lbs.    100  lbs. 

Pesticides  may  deteriorate  in  storage.  It  is  usually  not  ad\-lsable  to  use 
held-over  chemicals.  Always  follow  regulations  of  the  Pesticide  Board  when 
disposing  of  unused  chemicals  and  empty  containers. 

MAXIMUM  ACTUAL  TOXICANT  per  acre  and  timing  of  last  application. 

Aldrin  0.25  lbs 21  days  before  hardest 

Aldrin   10  lbs.    when   no   fruit  present 

Carbaryl  (Sevin)  3  lbs.  spray,  4  lbs.  dust  one  day  before  harvest 

DDT  6  lbs.  35  days   before  harvest 

Dieldrin    1.25   lbs,  21    days   before   harvest 

Dieldrin   10  lbs when   no   fruit  present 

Ferbam  11.4  lbs 28  Hays  after  mid-bloom 

Guthion  1  lb 21   days  before  harvest 

.Malathion   2.5  lbs 3  days  before   harvest 

Maneb  7.5  lbs   28  days  after  midbloom 

Parathion  0.8  lbs 15  days  before  harvest 

Parathioo  1  lb 30  days   before  harvest 


Timing 


Pests 


Rrconiiiien(Ialioii<! 


Dormant 

To 

Delayed  Dormant 


ROOT  GRUB 
WHITE  GRUB 


ROOT  GRUB 
WHITE  GRUB 


.Apply  10  lbs.  aclual  DIELUKIN  or  ALDRLN  per  acre.  Dry  form  may  be 
applied  alone  or  combined  with  fertilizer  up  to  10  days  before  bloom  or 
after  harvest.  Apply  jpray  as  soon  as  bog  is  well  drained  and  before  the 
growth  is  W  long  or  after  harvest  is  compl-eted.  .Apply  before  rain  or 
water  in  thoroughly    (.Notes  3.  4  and  9) 


Drain  bog  thoroughly  from  early  April  to  May  12.  Reflow  May  12-July  20. 
Keep  well  flooded-  If  cutworm  infestation  develops  spray  C.\RB.ARYL 
2  lbs.  actual  or  PARATinON  flowable  1  lb  actual  per  acre 
or  dust  5%  CARBARYL  or  10%  DDT  +  2%  MALATHION  50  lbs.  per 
acre.  (.Votes  2c.  3,  4,  8  and  10) 


New  Growth 
Up  to  V2  Inch 


FIREWORMS 

CUTWORMS 

SPARGANOTHIS  FRUITWORM 

GYPSY  /l/\OTH 

TIPWORM 


Spray  DIELDRIN  E.  C.  (1,5  lbs.  per  gal)  1  pt  per  acre;  or  dust  I'jT, 
DIELDRIN  25-35  lbs  per  acre  DIELDRIN  may  be  combined  with 
CARBARYL  or  GUTHION  or  PARATHION  for  weevil  and  other  new 
growth  insects.  (Notes  1,  3.  4.  8  and  10) 


Spray  CARBARYL  2  lbs  actual  or  GUTHION  E.  C.  'i-1  lb. 
actual  or  P.ARATHfON  flowable  1  lb.  actual  per  acre:  or  dust  5% 
CARBARYL  or  2'r.  GUTHION  or  10';  DDT  +2'-<  MAL.ATHION  50  lbs. 
per  acre.  (Notes  1.  2,  3.  4,  8  and  10) 


V2  Inch  Growth 

To 

Hook  Stage 


New  Growth  Insects 
GREEN  SPANWORM 
TIPWORM 


Spray  PARATHION  flowable  1  lb.  actual  or  GUTHION  E.  C.  '2-1  lb. 
actual  per  acre  or  dust  10'.  DDT  +  2^t  .MALATHIO.N  or  2'"^  GUTHION 
50  lbs.  p^r  acre.  Apply  every  year  as  a  blanket  control  for  all  insects 
before  bloom    1  .\otes  1.  3,  4.  7,  8  and  10) 


See  appropriate  control  measures  under  growth  stages  above. 

PAR.ATIIION   or   DDT    +    MALATHION   as   for   New 


Hook  Stage 

To 
5%  Bloom 


All  Insects  through  Hook  Sloge 


BlUNT-NOSED  lEAFHOPPER 


GIRDLER 


CARBARYL   or 

Growth  Insects. 


10T<  DDT  +2'i  M.ALATHION  dust  50  lbs.  per  acre.  Repeat  if  necessary. 

(Notj  7) 


5%  Bloom 

To 
Mid-Bloom 


Lale  Bloom 

Hc|ie:it  ill  10  days 

for  Fruitworms 


FRUIT  ROTS  —  One  application  ineffective.  Repeot 
about  2  weeks  later  or  combine  with  first  late  bloom 
spray. 


CRANBERRY  FRUITWORM 
SPARGANOTHIS  FRUITWORM 
BLACK-HEADED  FIREWORM 
BLUNT-NOSED  lEAFHOPPER 
GIRDLER  MOTHS 


Apply  9  lbs.  80^,,  MANEB  or  76'i  FERBAM  or  7  lbs.  95-",  FERB.VM  two 
times  in  25-100  gals,  water  per  acre  by  ground  rig;  or  in  13  gals  water 
per  acre  by  aircraft  or  apply  6  lbs.  SO"-,  MANEB  or  76".  FERBAM  or 
5  lbs.  P5'f  FERBAM  three  times  by  sprinkler  at  5't  bloom  and  14  and 
28  days  later.  Avoid  applying  insecticides  during  bloom  if  possible. 
( .Votes  2b.  5,  6  and  10) 


Si.rav  PAR,\TIIION  flou-iWe  1  lb  actual  or  CAHIitKVI.  :  lh«.  actual  or 
GUTHION  E.  C.  "i-l  lb  aitii.il  per  aire  or  duM  In  ,  UDT  •  2  M.VL.i- 
THION  or  2^4  GUTHION  50  lbs.  per  acre.  Make  egg  count 
every  3  or  4  days  until  August  10  on  Early  Blacks  and  until  August 
20  on  Howes.  2  unhatched  and  unparasitized  fruitworm  eggs  to  100 
berries  calls  for  treatment.  Do  not  wait  for  appearance  of  red  berries. 
May  be  necessary  to  repeat  1  or  2  times  at  10  day  intervals  for  fruit- 
worm    (.Votes  1.  3.  4.  8.  10  and  11) 


Vfttr  Fruit  Sot 


WEEVIL 
GIRDLER  LARVAE 


1(1' ;  DIELDRIN  granules  10  lbs  per  acre  or  dust  lu'  DDT  •  2'; 
MALATHIO.N  50  lbs.  per  acre  or  sprinkle  DIELDRLN  E.  C.  6  pts.  or 
DDT  E.  C.  4  pts    per  acre,  (Notes  3.  7.  10  and  11) 


Sept.  26 
To 

Oct.  1 


Flood  6  days  (with  late  berries  on  vines  if  necessary).  (Xotes  2d  and  7) 


AfUT  Har>'est 


Apply  9  lbs.  76(  FERBAM  or  7  lbs  <ty<  FERBAM  in  100  gals,  water  at 
1  gal.  per  sq.  ft.  Treat  3  ft,  outride  and  2  ft,  within  nns  in  fall  immedi- 
ately    after   harvest     iXote   5) 


"All  pesticides  mentioned  in  this  publication  are  registered  and 
cleared  for  the  suggested  uses  in  accordance  with  stale  and  federal 
laws  and  regulations.    Where  trade  names  are  used  for  Identifica- 


tion   no   product  endor<emeni   is   implied   nor   is  discrimination    In- 
tended " 


-WARNING- 


"MOST  PESTICIDES  ARE  POISONOVS.  READ  VND  FOLLOW  ALL  DIRECTIONS  VND  SAFLTV  VKV.i  MTIUSS  4»N  I-XBLIS.  HANDLE  CARLHLI.Y 
AND  STORE  IN  ORIGINAL  CONTAINERS  WITli  COMPLETE  LABELS.  OLT  OF  REACH  OF  CHILDREN,  PETS  AND  LIVESTOCK.  "  AVOID  DRIFT 
ONTO  FORAGE   AREAS.  DO  NOT  APPLY  TO  STREAMS  OR   PONDS. 

PARATHION  and  GtTHION  are  extremely  dangerous.  Repeated  exposure  to  phosphate  type  insecticides  may.  without  symptoms,  increase  susceptibility  lo 
phosphate  poisoning.   Post  Parathion  treated  boRs  and  stay  off  at  least  48   hours   after   application. 

IMPORT.VNT:   Before  using  Farathinn  or  Guthion  obtain  a  supply  of  atropine  tablets  for  emergency  use  i  obtainable  only  with  physician's  prescription). 


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Issued  by  the  Extension  Service,  A.  A.  Spielman,  Dean  and    Director,   in   furtherance   of   Acti^   of   May   S    and   June   30, 
1914;  University  of  Massachusetts,  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  aod  County  Extension  Services  cooperatiDg. 


1968  Cranberry  Weed  Control  Chart 

This  schedule  is  intended  to  furnish  general  recommen  dations.    More  detailed  information  may  be  obtained 
from   the  Cranberry  Experiment   Station,   East  Worehcm,  Massachusetts. 

NOT  i:  s 

1.  PROVIDE  ADEQUATE  DRAINAGE  or  recommendations  below  are  of  questionable  value. 

2.  APPLY  THE  EXACT  QlI.\NTrnES  of  chemicals  recommended  to  measured  areas  and  at  the  indicated  times.  One  sq.  rod  equals  16'-  ft.  sq.  One  acre  eqaals  Ifio  sq.  rods. 

3.  WASH  EQllPMENT  with  soap  and  water  immediately  after  using.    Rinse  with  ammonia  solution  after  using  hormone  type  herbicides. 

4.  HAND  WEEDING  is  often  practical  with  scattered  green  and  woody  weeds  if  roots  are  removed. 

5.  MOWING  of  non-woody  weeds  help  to  prevent  shading  and  reduces  seed  formation. 

6.  LATE  WATER  causes  a  general  reduction  of  annual  grasses.    If  held  until  June  5,  and  if  temperatures  are  high,  small  borambles  are  usually  killed. 

7.  TO  BE  MOST  EFFECTIVE  rain  should  follow  the  application  of  iron  sulfate,  casoron  and  Chloro-IPC  within  4  days  or  bog  should  be  sprinkled  with  water. 

8.  IRON  SVLF.ATE  (ferrous)  in  excess  of  20  lbs.  per  sq.  rod  may  kill  newly  set  vines  or  mature  vines  when  they  have  been  sanded  within  18  months.    If  9  parts  of  iron  sulfate 
are  mixed  with  1  part  of  salt,  rain  or  sprinkling  is  unnecessary. 

9.  CHLORO-IPC  may  be  used  at  75  lbs.  per  acre  before  late  water  from  mid-March  to  April  10. 

CAUTIONS 

1.  CHEMICALS  not  registered  for  use  on  cranberries  must  not  be  used. 

2.  SIM.AZINE  must  be  sprayed  evenly  with  continuous  agitation  using  the  recommended  amounts.   An  overdose  may   injure  vines  or   crop    Thin  or  weak  vines  and  new 
plaotings  one  week  to  three  years  old  are  very  susceptible  to  injury.   In  the  spring  use  a  pre-emergence  spray.    May  be  used  safely  in  successive  years. 

3     VINES  SPRAYED  WITH  OIL  are  highly  inflammable.    All  broadcast  treatments  are  likely  to  reduce  the  crop  and  may  increase  sensitivity  to  low  temperatures. 

4.  CASORON  applications  by  regulation  must  be  at  least  12  months  apart.    Applications  under  sand  or  on  weak  vines  may  cause  injury. 

5.  Herbicide  use  makes  vines  more  liable  to  injury  and  crops  may  be  reduced. 


TIMING 


WEEDS 


RECOMMENDATIONS 


February 

and 

March 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


2,4-D— 2,4.5-T  or  SILVEX  —  1  gal.  ester  formulation  (4  lbs.  acid  equivalent  per  gal.)  in 
50  gals,  kerosene  or  No.  2  fuel  oil.  Wet  thoroughly.  Will  control  scrub  oak,  bullbrier, 
poison  ivy.  pitch  pine  etc. 


GREEN  SCUM 


COPPER  SULFATE  —  Distribute  evenly  on  ice  or  in  bog  flowage  4  lbs.  of  crystals  per 
acre-foot  of  water.   Treated  bogs  should  have  the  water  impounded  for  1  week. 


March 

to 

Mid  -  May 


Cut  Grass,  Manna  Grass,  Shore  Grass,  Aster,  Plan- 
tain, Needle  Grass.  Nut  Grass,  DuUchiam,  Pitch- 
fork, Mud  Rush,  Haircap  Moss,  Royal  Fern,  Bracken 
Fern,  Sensitive  Fern,  Wild  Strawberry,  Marsh  St. 
John's  Wort.  Summer  Grass,  Blue  Joint,  Loosestrife, 
Wild  Bean,  Hawkweed,  Wool  Grass,  Cotton  Grass, 
Ragweed,  Fireweed,  Spike  Rush,  Horsetail,  Sorrel, 
White  Violets.  


DICHLOBENIL  (CASORON)  —  4%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.  Apply  in  March  or 
early  April  to  avoid  high  temperatures.  —  May  be  used  before  late  water  from  mid- 
March  to  April  10.    (See  Caution  4  and  Note  7) 


DODDER,  CORNGRASS, 

WARTY  PANIC  GRASS,  CRAB  GRASS 


DICHLOBENIL  (CASORON)  —  4%  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Use  just  before  bud 
break.  (See  Caution  4  and  Note  7). 


SUMMER  GRASS 

CUT  GRASS 

SOME  UPLAND  GRASSES  ON  BOG 


CHLORO-IPC  —  20"i.  granular.  100  lbs.  per  acre  or  SIMAZINE  —  4^4  lbs.  80T.  W.P.  in 
300  gals,  water  per  acre.   Apply  by  May  1.    (See  Note  9  and  Caution  2  and  5). 


RAGWEED,   PITCHFORKS,  WARTY  PANIC 
GRASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


SIMAZINE  —  3^4  lbs.  80^  W.P.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre.   Apply  only  from  mid-April 
through  first  week  of  May.    (See  Caution  2). 


HAIRCAP  MOSS,  SORREL, 
HAIRY  PANIC  GRASS 


CHLORO-IPC  —  20'i  granular,  100  lbs.  per  acre.   By  May  1.  (Sec  Note  9  and  Caution  5), 


CORN  GRASS.  BARNYARD  GRASS, 

CRAB  GAASS,  TEAR  THUMB,  FIREWEED 


CHLORO-IPC  —  20'c  granular.  50  lbs.  per  acre  on  first  year  planting.  100  lbs.  per  acre 
on  mature  vines.   Late  April  to  bud  break.    (See  Caution  5). 


DODDER 

CHLORO-IPC  —  20'<    granular.  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Use  just  before  bud  break.    (See 

Caution  5). 

POVERTY  GRASS,  CAREX  SPP.,  SPIKE  RUSH 
WOOL  GRASS,  HAIRY  PANIC  GRASS 

WATER  WHTFE  KEROSENE  —  600-800  gals,  per  acre. 

RUSHES,  ASTERS,  GOLDEN  ROD 

STODDARD  SOLVENT  —  500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals,  per  sq.  rod).  Primarily  a  spot 
treatment. 

SPHAGNUM  MOSS 

IRON  SULFATE  —  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.    (See  Note  8). 

NUT  GRASS,  CUT  GRASS,  MUD  RUSH, 
NEEDLE  GRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH,  CORN  GRASS 


ALANAP  3 — 4  gals  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre  or  lOTc  granluar  80  lbs.  per  acre.  Do  not 
use  after  first  week  in  May.  Best  results  where  bog  surface  is  wet  before  application. 
Blossoms  may  be  injured  at  temperatures  under  32°  F  after  application. 


After 

Late  Water 

(When  winter  flood 
is  not  withdrawn) 


LOOSESTRIFE,  CUT  GRASS, 
HAIRY   PANIC  GRASS 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  —Mix  1  part  Stoddard  10  1  part  water  white  kerosene.  .Apply  e 
gals,  per  acre  within  5  days  of  withdrawal  of  the  flood. 


WOOL  CRASS,  SPIKE  RUSH,  CAREX  SPP. 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  —  800  gals,  per  acre.    Drain  late  water  May  25.    Treat 
within  8  days  when  temperature  is  below  65  degrees  and  bog  is  well  drained. 


Mid  -  May 
and 
June 


TRIPLE  AWNED  GRASS 


SMALL  BRAMBLES  ON  SHORE 


WATER  WHITE  KEROSENE  —  400  gals,  per  acre.   Apply  when  temperature  is  below 
65  degrees. 


SILVEX  —  1  gal.  ester  formulation  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  in  50  gals,  water.  300  gals,  per 
acre. 


June 
and 
July 


ROYAL  FERN,  CINNAMON  FERN 


SENSITIVE   FERN,  FEATHER  FERN 


MARSH  ST.  JOHN'S  WORT, 
CTNQUEFOIL.  ASTERS 


DITCH  WEEDS 


SHORES  and  DIKES 


IRON  SULFATE  AND  SALT  —  9  to  1  and  apply  small  amount  to  each  plant.    (See 
Note  81- 


IRON  SliLFATE  —  35  lbs.  per  sq.  rod  or  small  amount  to  each  plant.    (See  Note  7 
and  8). 


IRON  SULFATE  —  50  lbs.  per  sq.  rod.    (See  Note  7  and  8). 


DAIAPON  85%  —  M  lb.  in  5  -  6  gals,  water  per  1000  sq.  feet  of  ditch;  will  control  cat- 
tails, bur-reed,  grasses,  sedges,  and  rushes,  or  No.  2  FUEL  OIL,  for  grassy  weeds, 
drain  ditches  and  wet  thoroughly. 


2,  4,  5-T  or  SILVEX  —1^  teaspoons  per  gal.  water  or  1%  pints  per  100  gals,  water  of 
ester  formulation  (4  lbs.  acid  per  gal.)  \vill  control  poison  ivy.  wild  cherry,  maple 
sprouts,  grapevine,  and  possibly  other  broadleaved  weeds.  Avoid  drift  onto  bogs  or 
DAL.APON  85%  —  20  lbs.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre,  for  poverty  and  switch  grass. 


In  the  Fall 

after 

Harvest 


Cut  Grass.  Blue  Joint,  Aster.  Wool  Grass,  Cotton 
Grass,  Mud  Rush,  .Marsh  St.  John's  Wort,  Summer 
Grass,  Loosestrife,  Needle  Grass,  Nut  Grass,  Rag- 
weed, Sphagnum  Moss,  White  Violets. 


DICHLOBENIL  (CASORON)  —  4'.   granular  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Do  not  .-ipply  untjl  after 
November  15.    Avoid  temperatures  above  60°  F. 
(See  Caution  4). 


SUMMER  GRASS 


SIMAZINE  —  5  lbs.  80%  W.P.  in  300  gals,  water  per  acre;  or  CHLORO-IPC  20% 
granular.  50-75  lbs.  per  acre.    Do  not  apply  after  November  1. 


CHLORO-IPC  —  20^0  granular.  100  lbs.  per  acre.    Do  not  apply  after  Nov.  1. 


GOLDEN  ROD,  WILD   ROSES 


STODDARD  SOLVENT  ■ 

treatment. 


500  gals,  per  acre  (3  gals,  per  sq.  rod).  Primarily  as  spot 


POVERTY  GRASS,  SWITCH  GRASS 


DALAPON  85*70  —  10  lbs.  in  300  gals,   water  per  acre.    Will  reduce  following  crop, 
especially  on  Early  Black.    Do  not  apply  after  November  1. 


WARNING 

"All  pesticides  mentioned  in  this  publication  are  registered   and  cleared  for  the  suggested  uses  in  accordance  with  state  and  federal  laws   and  regulations. 
Where  trade  names  are  used  for  identification  no  product  endorsement  is  implied  nor  is  discrimination  intended." 

MOST  PESTICIDES  ARE   POISONOUS.     READ  AND  FOLLOW  ALL  DIRECTDNS  AND  SAFETY  PRECAUTIONS  ON  LABELS.  HANDLE  CAREFULLY  AND 
STORE   IN    ORIGINAL   CONTAINERS    WITH    COMPLETE    LABELS,    OUT   OF  REACH  OF  CHILDREN,  PETS  AND  LIVESTOCK. 


Issued  by  the  Extension  Service,  A.  A.  Spielman,  Dean  and   Director,   in   furtherance   of  Acts   of   May   8   and   June   30, 
1914;    University   of   Massachusetts,    United   States    Department  of  Agriculture,  and  County  Extension  Services  cooperating. 


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ofeiruai^y 


RUSSELL  F.SHURTLEFF 

RusseU  F.  Shurtleff,  78,  of  30 
Wilbur  St.,  Taunton,  died  April  15 
at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Middleboro. 

RusseU  F.  Shurtleff,  78,  of  30 
Wilbur  St.,  Taunton,  died  April  15 
at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Middleboro. 
Up  until  two  years  ago  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Russell  F.  Shurtleff  made  their 
home  on  Montello  St.,  North  Carver. 
Mr.  Shurtleff,  a  well-known  Carver 
cranberry  grower,  was  a  member 
of  the  Cranberry  Growers  Associa- 
tion. 

He  was  born  May  1,  1889  in 
Carver,  the  son  of  Robert  and 
Henrietta  (Eddy)  Shurtleff. 

Besides  his  widow.  Bertha  J. 
(Parker)  Shurtleff  of  Taunton,  Mr. 
Shurtleff  leaves  one  daughter,  Mrs. 
Walter  0.  (Dorothy)  Thompson  of 
Middleboro;  six  sons,  Robert  F. 
Shurtleff  of  North  Carver,  Wesley 
W.  Shurtleff  of  Plymouth,  Russell 
F.  Shurtleff  of  Middleboro,  Phihp 
V.  and  Harold  A.  Shurtleff  of 
Taunton,  and  Charles  Shurtleff  of 
Cahfornia;  30  grandchildren;  and 
30  great-grandchildren;  and  two 
sisters,  Mrs.  Goldie  Fames  of  North 
Carver  and  Miss  Abbie  Shurtleff  of 
Hanson. 

Services  were  held  at  the  North 
Carver  Congregational  Church  with 
the  Rev.  Norman  B.  Cawley  offici- 
ating. Burial  was  in  the  Shurtleff 
family  lot  in  Lakenham  Cemetery, 
North  Carver. 


MASS.    STATION    FIELD    NOTES 

Continued    from    Page    3 

Club  in  Rochester  re-elected  Dave 
Mann,  president,  John  Decas,  vice 
president  and  Russell  Hiller,  secre- 
tary-treasurer. The  Cape  Cod  Club 
re-elected  Raymond  Thatcher,  pres- 
ident, Mrs.  Holhdge,  secretary  and 
Victor  Adams,  treasurer. 

Weather 

March  averaged  out  sUghtly  on 
the  warm  side  at  about  VA.  degrees 
a  day  above  normal.  Warm  periods 
were  on  the  16th  and  17th  and 
27th  through  31st.  It  was  cold  for 
the  first  8  days  and  on  the  14th  and 
15th.  Maximum  temperature  was 
61  degrees  on  the  31st  and  the 
minimum  was  9  degrees  on  the  4th. 

Precipitation  totalled  a  whopping 
10.35  inches,  over  twice  the  average 
and  was  a  record  total  for  March  at 
the  Station.  Strangely  enough  about 
90  percent  of  this  precipitation 
occurred  in  two  storms;  2.73  inches 
fell  on  the  1 2th- 1 3th  and  6.49  inches 
on  the  17th  and  18th.  The  6.49 
inches  was  the  second  largest  storm 
we  have  ever  recorded  the  record 
occurring  in  September  1933  when 
over  IVa  inches  was  recorded  in  a 
2  day  period.  During  the  storm  of 
the  17th  and  18th  there  was  5.11 
inches  recorded  in  the  first  24-hour 
period  and  this  is  also  the  second 
largest  here  with  the  record  24  hour 
amount  of  6.09  occurring  in  Sep- 
tember 1936.  Needless  to  say  every- 
thing was  flooded  by  this  downpour 
and  some  dikes  were  washed  out. 
After  sub-normal  precipitation  in 
January  and  February  we  are  now 
about  1^  inches  above  normal  for 
1968  to  date.  Snowfall  totalled  4.5 
inches  which  is  about  1/3  below 
average. 


Preliminary  Keeping  Quality 
Forecast 

The  keeping  quahty  prospect  at 
this  time  is  only  fair.  There  are 
only  4  points  of  a  possible  1 0  which 
favor  good  keeping  next  fall,  and  all 
4  of  these  are  derived  from  one 
weather  factor.  Only  cooler  and 
drier  weather  in  April  and  May  can 
change  the  general  outlook.  There- 
fore, growers  are  advised  to  give 
serious  consideration  to  increasing 
acreage  under  late-holding  and/or 
treatment  with  fungicides  this  year. 


WinterkiU 

The  Cranberry  Station  is  of  the 
opinion  that  bogs  with  25  percent 
or  more  of  the  vines  showing 
winterkill  injury  should  not  be  dis- 
turbed or  treated  in  any  way.  This 
means  no  sanding,  fertilizing  or 
appUcations  of  herbicides  should  be 
made  to  these  bogs.  Where  the 
winterkill  injury  is  limited  to  high 
ridges  or  occasional  tufts  of  vines, 
the  bog  may  be  treated  in  the 
normal  way. 


Frost  Service 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  is  again  sponsoring  the 
telephone  frost  warning  service.  The 
telephone  answering  systems  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  will  also  be  in 
operation  again  this  season.  The 
number  for  the  answering  system 
is  295-2696  and  is  not  Usted  in  the 
telephone  directory,  being  intended 
only  for  the  use  of  the  cranberry 

growers.  The  radio  stations  will 
supplement  the  above  services  and 
are  listed  below. 


Dial 


AUTOMATIC 

SCARECROW 

Operates  on  propane  or  acet- 
ylene •  For  use  on  farms,  air- 
ports and  industrial  sites  •  Will 
not  harm   birds  or  animals. 


PRODUCT   OF    B.    M.    LAWRENCE   &    CO. 

1*    CALIFORNIA    StREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO.    CALirORNi*    4 


Station  Place           A.M. 

WEEI  Boston         590k. 

WBZ  Boston        1030k. 

WPLM  Plymouth     1390k. 

VVOCB  W.  Yarmouth  1240k 

WBSM  New  Bedford  1420k. 


P.M.        Afternoon 

Evening 

103.3  mg.     2:00 

9:00 

92.9  mg.     2:30 

9:00 

99.1  mg.     2:30 

9:30 

94.3  mg.     3:00 

9:30 

97.3  mg.     3:30 

9:00 

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A  NEW  CRANBERRY  CUTWORM 
AND  OTHER  INSECTS  OF  1967 


By  William  E.  Tomlinson,  Jr. 


The  year  1967  was  an  interesting 
one  in  Massachusetts,  at  least  to  an 
entomologist  if  not  to  cranberry 
growers.  There  was  an  outbreak  of 
a  new  cutworm  on  many  bogs, 
infestations  of  the  fruit-tree  leaf 
roller  on  some  and  late  black-headed 
fireworm  was  a  problem  on  others. 
The  excessively  cloudy,  foggy, 
showery  weather  that  plagued  the 
area  from  mid-June  to  Labor  Day 
had  everyone  guessing  as  to  the 
timeliness  and  effectiveness  of  rot 
and  insect  sprays  because  they  were 
usually  delayed  and  more  often 
than  not  were  rained  on  almost  as 
soon  as  they  were  appHed.  As  if 
these  weren't  enough  the  cool,  late 
summer  prolonged  fruitworm  ac- 
tivity so  that  there  was  a  very  late 
fruitworm  activity  in  harvested  fruit. 
The  hope  that  the  cool  wet  summer 
would  discourage  girdler  activity 
did  not  take  place  but  activity  was 
delayed  till  later  in  the  faU  than 
usual. 

The  cutworm  injury  was  first 
noted  in  late  April  when  they  were 
found  in  areas  that  appeared  browned 
and  thin  vined  because  of  skeleton- 
ized leaves.  They  resembled  blossom 
worms  in  general  appearance  and 
color,  but  it  was  too  early  for 
blossom  worm  to  be  hatched  so 
specimens  of  the  larvae  were  sent 


to  Washington  for  identification. 
The  taxanomists  there  determined 
that  it  was  a  cutworm  with  the 
scientific  name  of  Anomogymd 
dilucida  and  having  no  common 
name. 

It  is  apparently  a  native  insect, 
normally  of  limited  abundance  or 
importance.  Forbes,  in  "Lepidoptra 
of  New  York,"  states  that  larvae 
feed  in  dry  upland  areas  on  Vac- 
cinium  and  it  ranges  from  Labrador 
to  Florida.  I  presume  various  species 
of  lowbush  blueberries  are  the  Vac- 
ciniums  that  are  meant.  This  would 
account  for  its  presence  in  this  area 
and  its  abundance  on  bogs  probably 
was  the  result  of  the  drought  years 
beginning  in  the  early  1960's  and 
peaking  in  1964,  1965  and  1966. 
They  have  only  been  troublesome 
on  bogs  not  winter  flooded  or  on 
high  edges  not  flooded,  so  it  seems 
reasonable  to  think  that  winter 
flooding  and  frost  flows  have 
ordinarily  prevented  them  from  be- 
coming a  bog  pest.  Lack  of  water 
for  winter  and  frost  floods  allowed 
them  to  survive  and  build  up  on 
bogs  which  are  ordinarily  a  hostile 
environment  for  them. 

It  is  a  single  generation  a  year 
insect  with  moth  flight  and  egg 
laying  in  late  August  and  September. 
The  eggs  hatch  in  the  fall  and  the 


small  larvae  feed  by  skeletonizing 
and  notching  the  leaves  to  some 
extent  at  that  time  before  cold 
weather.  As  weather  warms  in  the 
spring  they  feed  more,  giving  the 
bog  a  brownish  cast.  They  develop 
rather  slowly  and  can  be  found 
into  mid-summer  in  the  trash  on  the 
bog  before  pupating. 

Since  they  are  cutworms  they 
should  respond  to  sprays  such  as 
carbaryl  and  parathion  which  are 
effective  against  related  species.  In 
several  instances  they  did  not  die 
easily,  but  I  don't  know  whether 
it  was  a  result  of  cool,  wet  weather 
at  the  time  of  application  or  re- 
sistance. I  suspect  the  weather  early 
in  the  season  and  increased  re- 
sistance because  of  maturity  later 
in  the  season  were  both  involved. 

The  appearance  of  fruit-tree  leaf 
rollers  on  cranberry  bogs  in  num- 
bers requiring  treatment  is  unusual. 
This  is  an  insect  with  a  very  exten- 
sive host  range  that  has  been  epi- 
demic on  oak  and  other  host  trees 
in  southeastern  Massachusetts  for 
several  seasons  and  either  larvae 
blew  onto  bogs  in  numbers  from 
nearby  trees  or  eggs  laid  on  bogs 
survived  because  of  lack  of  winter 
and  frost  flooding  during  the 
drought  in  1965  and  1966. 

The  catterpiUar  of  the  fruit-tree 
leaf  roller  is  about  5/8  inches  long 
when  fuU  grown,  cream  colored 
with  brownish  dots  on  the  back.  As 
it  grows  and  feeds  it  webs  many 
uprights  together  and  feeds  on  the 
enclosed  leaves  and  blossom  buds. 

The  moths  fly  and  lay  eggs  in 
July.  The  eggs  hatch  the  following 
spring  when  new  growth  starts. 

The  black-headed  fireworm 
caused   Httle   trouble    in  the  first 


15 


brood  except  on  a  few  Cape  bogs, 
but  the  second  generation  was  wide- 
spread and  generally  more  trouble- 
some than  early  conditions  indicated. 
Apparently  survival  and  hatching 
of  eggs  of  the  first  generation  moths 
was  very  high. 

It  is  getting  so  we  don't  remem- 
ber what  a  normal  cranberry  fruit- 
worm  year  is  like.  I  have  begun  to 
wonder   if  there   is  such  a  season 


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when  you  can  relax  after  August 
1st  and  harvest  berries  in  September 
and  October  without  a  mess  of 
worms  and  webbed  berries  in  the 
picking  boxes. 

I  have  attempted  to  correlate  late 
fruitworm  activity  with  monthly 
mean  temperatures  below  normal 
for  May,  June,  July  and  August 
using  some  of  my  recent  records 
and  inspection  reports  of  the  New 
England  Cranberry  Sales  Co.  which 
go  back  many  years.  A  cool,  wet 
spring  wasn't  necessarily  the  fore-i 
runner  of  trouble  if  July  and  August 
were  considerably  above  normal, 
but  if  July  and  August  were  at  or 
only  slightly  above  normal,  fruit- 
worm  activity  remained  behind 
schedule  after  a  cool  spring  and 
worms  in  berries  resulted.  When  the 
sums  of  the  monthly  means  for 
May,  June,  July  and  August  to- 
talled 2  or  more  degrees  below 
normal,  fruitworms  were  trouble- 
some in  early  shipments.  In  a  year 
such  as  1967  when  the  departure 
for  the  summer  was  minus  8.5°, 
or  1924,  1926  or  1956  when  de- 
partures were  minus  6°  or  more, 
severe  problems  resulted  with  worms 
in  harvested  fruit  late  into  the  fall. 


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In  most  years,  but  not  all,  a  very 
good  idea  of  late  fruitworm  ac- 
tivity can  be  predicted  by  August  1. 
If  the  sum  of  the  monthly  means 
for  May,  June  and  July  is  below 
normal,  chances  are  excellent  for 
late  fruitworms  except  when  the 
cold  trend  is  broken  by  a  much 
warmer  than  normal  August  as  oc- 
curred in  1927.  That  year  the  sum 
of  the  daily  means  for  May,  June 
and  July  was  minus  3.2°,  but  Au- 
gust ended  up  3.8°  above  normal 
and  the  inspector's  report  that  year 
was  "no  fruitworm  in  any  ship- 
ments-the  lightest  in  21  years  of 
inspection." 

Black  light  trapping  of  fruit- 
worm moths  was  continued  with 
about  the  usual  1800-2000  trapped 
at  the  State  Bog.  The  other  trap 
that  is  maintained  on  a  dry  bog  was 
way  ahead  of  any  previous  year 
with  over  10,000  moths  trapped. 
Over  half  of  these  were  females  and 
if  one  trap  5  to  6  acres  caught  that 
many  it  can  only  be  imagined  how 
many  more  were  present  and  not 
caught. 

Girdler  continued  to  be  a  prob- 
lem and  injury  appeared  late.  Hope- 
fully the  wetter  1967  growing 
season  and  an  unusually  good  winter 
for  ice  sanding  will  reverse  the 
trend  of  recent  years  and  give  us 
less  girdler  problems  in  1968. 

There  is  nothing  very  startling  or 
different  in  insect  control  recom- 
mendations for  1968.  Most  of  the 
changes  are  editorial.  However,  the 
recommendation  for  Fairy  Ring 
control  using  ferbam  is  new  to  the 
chart.  This  is  a  welcome  addition 
with  the  focus  on  more  production 
per  acre.  Bare  spots  don't  help  make 
high  averages.  This  treatment  will 
help  fill  in  old  rings  and  reduce 
those  nonproductive  bare  spots. 


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POWERED  BY  426  CU.  IN. 
CHRYSLER  ENGINE 

Ampulco/Hardie,  a  division  of 
Universal  American  Corp.,  has  de- 
vel'^ped  a  new  dual  fan  sprayer 
powered  by  a  426  cu.  in.  Chrysler 
engine  for  pest  and  disease  control 
in  orchards,  citrus  groves,  and  farm 
crop  operations.  The  heavy  duty 
engine  powers  both  the  fan  and 
pump  to  insure  delivery  of  the 
highest  concentration  of  spray  ma- 
terial at  the  highest  velocity  in  the 
air  blast  field.  Waste  is  eliminated 
as  all  spray  materials  are  totally 
suspended  in  solution. 

The  sprayer,  identified  as  the 
Hardie  DF-800  CGS,  offers  several 
time  and  labor  saving  advantages 
as  it  has  been  designed  to  cover 
more  acres  per  hour  than  any  other 
dual  fan  sprayer  yet  developed.  Its 
advanced  design  features  a  soUd 
system,  22  adjustable  air  guide  vanes, 
and  36  adjustable  nozzles  which 
enable  an  operator  to  form  any 
desired  spray  pattern. 

The  40-in.  axial  fans  comple- 
menting each  other  control  the 
intake  of  turbulence-free  air  and 
effect  full  useful  air  discharge.  Air 
enters  50  per  cent  from  the  front 
and  50  per  cent  from  the  rear,  drawn 
by  axial  flow  fans  mounted  with 
blades  opposed.  Maximum  air  velo- 
city of  the  DF-800  CGS  is  120 
mph,  and  positive  mechanical  agi- 
tation for  proper  mixing  of  the 
spray  material  is  assured  by  means 
of  a  stainless  steel  agitator. 

Built  to  exacting  specifications, 
the  DF-800  CGS  employs  a  self- 
priming  centrifugal  pump  which 
delivers  100  gallons  of  spray  mate- 
rial per  minute  at  1800  rpm  and 
125  psi.  Its  304  stainless  steel  tank 
gives  superior  resistance  to  rust  and 
corrosion.  The  use  of  stainless  steel 
eliminates  nozzle  plug-up  problems 
and  reduces  annual  maintenance 
costs.  Discharge  strainers  provide  a 
final  safeguard  against  nozzle  clog- 
ging. The  fan  construction  minimizes 
chances  of  drawing  in  dirt  and 
debris,  and  the  fan  housing  is  ac- 
cessible for  easy  cleaning. 


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The  sprayer  comes  with  remote 
controls  which  mount  on  the  tractor 
for  easy  operation.  Separate  valves 
are  provided  to  control  right  and 
left  hand  nozzles,  thus  spraying  can 
be  directed  to  one  or  both  sides. 

The  DF-800  CGS  has  16-in. 
standard  wheels— 24  in.  wheels  are 
optional— and  16.00  x  16-in.,  11.25 
X  24-in.  tires.  It  is  16  ft.,  10  in. 
long  (less  drawbar),  has  an  overall 
width  of  86  in.  and  a  tread  width 
of  66  in.  Height  of  the  sprayer  can 
be  adjusted  from  65  to  71  in.  Its 
ground  clearance  is  also  adjustable— 
from  7  in.  to  13  in.  Weight  of  the 
sprayer  is  5500  lbs.  empty. 

Further  information  about  the 
dual  fan  sprayer  is  available  by 
writing  to  Ampulco/Hardie,  a  divi- 
sion of  Universal  American  Corp., 
4200  Wissahickon  Ave.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.  19129. 


PLASTIC  TANKS  FOR 
AERIAL  SPRAYING 

Today  with  the  trend  being  larger 
farms  and  fewer  farm  laborers,  the 
farmer  and  grower  is  using  the 
small  aircraft  for  more  and  faster 
production  methods.  Typical  of  the 
use  is  crop  spraying  with  a  specially 
outfitted  plane,  the  Piper  Pawnee, 
fitted  with  150  gallon  reinforced 
plastic  tanks  built  right  into  the 
fuselage  to  hold  the  chemicals  to  be 
sprayed. 

Since  many  of  the  chemicals  are 
corrosive,  reinforced  plastic  was  the 
only  material  tested  which  proved 
successful.  In  addition.  Piper  Air- 
craft engineers  were  more  than 
pleased  with  its  light  weight  and 
its  ability  to  be  shaped  to  fit  the 
fuselage  without  costly  metal  dies. 


FOR    SALE 


FRUIT  ACRES  ....  $2,000.00 

includes  one 
Continental  F244  with  Marlow  4EIS  950  GPM  (D 
140'  head.  (Never  used).  1,000'  of  4"  Larchmont 
aluminum  pipe;  1,000'  of  3"  aluminum  pipe; 
general  orchard  heads  and  miscellaneous  elbows, 
tees,  etc. 

Materials  may  he  seen  at 

FRUIT  ACRES 

Stow,  Mass.,  or  phone  862-2550 


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lYourTax  Problems 


Q— I  realized  a  gain  when  I  recently 
sold  some  rental  property  I  had.  Do  I 
have  to  pay  tax  on  the  gain  this  year 
even  though  the  buyer  is  paying  me 
over  a  ten-year  period? 

A— If  certain  conditions  are  met, 
you  may  report  the  gain  using  the 
installment  method.  Under  this  method, 
the  gross  profit  on  a  sale  is  prorated 
over  the  period  in  which  payments 
are  received.  This  method  can  be  used 
only  if  the  seller  received  no  payments, 
or  payment  or  30  percent  or  less  of  the 
selling  price,  during  the  year  of  the 
sale. 

Q— I  have  sold  my  mutiial  fund 
shares  at  a  higher  price  than  I  paid  for 
them  and  I  have  been  paying  income 
tax  on  the  dividends  each  year.  Do  I 
have  to  file  this  gain  even  though  I 
paid  every  year  on  the  dividends? 

A— Yes,  you  have  to  report  the  gain 
on  the  sale  of  your  mutual  funds.  The 
dividend  you  correctly  reported  in 
prior  years  represents  in  effect  your 
share  of  the  profits  earned  by  the 
shares.  Most  mutual  funds  will  send  a 
statement  at  the  end  of  the  year 
instructing  the  shareholders  as  to  the 
treatment  for  tax  purposes  of  monies 
received. 

Q— I  spend  more  than  $50  every 
three  months  for  a  maid  but  I  don't 
always  use  the  same  woman.  Do  I  have 
to  pay  Social  Security  tax  for  my 
household  help? 

A— You  are  liable  for  the  tax  only 
when  you  pay  one  person  $50  or  more 
cash  wages  in  a  calendar  quarter.  If  you 
spend  $50  in  any  quarter  but  split  it 
between  several  persons,  you  are  not 
liable  for  the  tax. 


the  customer's  location  and  return. 
Since  I  must  have  my  car  available,  can 
I  claim  the  transportation  from  my 
home  to  the  office? 

A— Expenses  for  commuting  between 
your  residence  and  any  business  loca- 
tion situated  within  the  area  of  your 
tax  home  are  not  deductible.  Your 
deductible  expenses  would  only  be 
from  your  office  to  the  customer,  less 
any  reimbursement  you  receive  from 
your  employer. 

Q— The  company  I  work  for  dis- 
solved their  profit  sharing  plan  and 
made  a  payment  to  me  of  a  little  over 
$1,800.  My  question  is  do  I  have  to 
make  out  an  estimated  tax  now,  or  can 
I  wait  until  I  file  my  income  tax 
return  next  year? 

A— Since  the  payment  you  received 
was  not  subject  to  withholding  tax, 
you  should  file  an  estimated  income 
tax  form  to  reflect  this  income.  Forms 
can  be  obtained  at  any  Internal  Rev- 
enue office. 


Q-I  didn't  get  a  notice  that  the 
next  installment  of  my  estimated  tax 
was  due.  Should  I  still  go  ahead  and 
pay  this  installment?  And  if  so,  how 
should  I  identify  the  payment  to  get 
credit  for  it? 

A-Pay  the  installment  of  your 
estimated  tax  when  it  is  due  even, 
thougli  you  did  not  receive  the  usual 
notice.  To  make  sure  the  payment  is 
credited,  put  your  Social  Security 
number  on  your  check  or  money  order 
as  well  as  the  notation  that  this  is  an 
estimated  tax  payment. 


A  — You  must  report  the  gross 
amo-'.nt  of  dividends  you  receive.  As 
for  the  taxes  withheld,  you  jnay  either 
claim  the  taxes  as  an  itemized  deduc- 
tion or  claim  it  as  a  credit  against 
your  income  tax.  To  claim  it  as  a 
credit,  you  are  required  to  file  Form 
1116  along  with  your  regular  1040 
return. 

Q— If  a  man  is  past  the  age  of  72, 
is  he  required  to  pay  income  tax  on 
money  he  earns  by  working  or  gam- 
bling? 

A— Income  from  working  and  win- 
nings from  gambling  are  taxable  in- 
come and  should  be  reported  on  your 
tax  return.  This  is  true  regardless  of 
age.  However,  persons  over  65  years 
of  age  are  not  required  to  file  a  tax 
return  unless  their  income  is  $1,200 
or  more. 

Q— I  lost  my  refund  check.  Can  I 
get  another  one? 

A  Yes,  telephone  your  local  IRS 
office.  They  will  explain  the  procedure 
for  making  a  claim  for  a  duplicate 
check. 

Q— We  have  just  adopted  a  child. 
Can  we  start  claiming  her  as  a  depend- 
ent now  for  withholding  purposes? 

A— Yes.  A  legally  adopted  chUd  is 
considered  to  be  your  child  for  de- 
pendency purposes. 

Q— My  husband  filled  out  our  tax 
return  but  he  is  now  in  Viet  Nam. 
What  should  I  do  about  the  letter  I 
got  from  you  about  the  return? 

A-Telephone  your  local  IRS  office. 
They  will  give  you  all  the  help  they 
can. 


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1943 


The  Winter  is  ending  with  an 
average  temperature  not  far  from 
normal,  even,  though  there  has  been 
a  number  of  cold  spells.  It  was 
December  alone  which  kept  the 
temperature  average  for  the  Winter 
down  substantially.  The  bogs  in 
general  have  come  through  the  win- 
ter about  normally,  even  though 
,  it  isn't  the  Winter  average  tempera- 
•  ture  on  cranberry  vines  which 
counts,  but  the  extreme  lows  which 
could  do  damage  in  only  a  few 
hours.  If  there  was  not  adequate 
Winter  coverage  from  either  snow 
or  ice  in  the  early  December  cold 
there  would  have  been  severe  Winter 
kill. 


There  is  no  intention  on  Cape 
Cod,  as  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  to 
keep  the  Cape  bogs  under  water 
because  of  the  labor  shortage.  The 
individual  acreage  for  one  thing  is 
small  and  not  many  growers  could 
hold  their  bogs  under  without  losing 
their  entire  year's  production,  but 
more  primarily  there  is  the  urgent 
demand  by  our  country  for  all  the 
food,  including  cranberries,  which 
can  be  raised.  The  growers  will  take 
the  gamble  getting  the  labor  some- 
how during  the  season  and  when 
harvest  time  comes  they  will  be  out 
to  produce  all  of  their  crop  they 
can. 


There  was  Httle  sanding  in  Wis- 
consin during  the  Winter  because 
the  snow  was  too  deep  and  on  some 
of  the  marshes  no  flood  was  put  on 
at  all  because  of  the  snow,  de- 
pendance  being  placed  upon  the 
heavy  snow  to  provide  protection. 


The  New  Jersey  bogs  will  soon 
be  coming  out  of  the  Winter  floods 
of  a  Winter  in  which  there  were 
long  periods  of  below-freezing 
weather  which  made  ice  available 
for  protection  and  sanding.  While 
there  was  plenty  of  below-freezing 
weather  and  cold  there  was  no  -20 
which  would  have  injured  the  blue- 
berry crop. 


So  busy  is  Joseph  T.  Brown, 
County  Agent  for  Plymouth  County, 
that  he  says  he  is  becoming  a 
stranger  to  his  wife,  as  he  has  so 
httle  time  at  home.  The  day  he 
furnished  this  information  about 
war  work,  he  said  he  hadn't  had  an 
evening  at  home  for  the  past  four 
or  five  days  (but  was  planning  to 
sneak  in  that  evening  at  home,  if  he 
could).  For  it  seems  that  all  the  war 
jobs  of  a  county  agent,  as  outlined 
by  Mr.  Thomlin son,  apply  equally  to 
Mr.  Brown,  and  in  fact  he  seemed 
to  think  of  a  few  little  duties  that 
the  former  failed  to  mention.  Be- 
tween the  two  of  them  it  is  certain 
that  a  county  agent  in  time  of  total 
war,  1943,  is  one  of  the  most  vital 
and  hard-pressed  soldiers  on  the 
home   front. 


This  month,  in  general,  the  waters 
of  the  winter  flood  will  go  gurgling 
down  the  stream,  setting  the  stage 
for  the  second  act  of  "Cranberry 
Growing  in  World  War  II."  And,  as 
in  most  dramas,  the  introductory 
part  of  the  play  is  over  and  the  more 
serious  business  is  at  hand.  The 
action  in  this  second  act  will  be 
more  intense  and  will  require  even 


more  stamina.  From  all  the  cran- 
berry districts  comes  word  that  the 
labor  situation  will  be  more  critical 
than  last  year,  bad  as  that  was, 
particularly  in  a  few  definite  locali- 
ties. Equipment  won't  be  any  more 
plentiful,  insecticides  and  fertilizers 
are  controlled.  But  we  have  yet  to 
hear  any  real  complaining  on  the 
part  of  the  average  cranberry  grower. 


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CRANBERRY  PIE 

Pastry   for    double-crust   Q-inch 

pie 
4  cups  fresh  cranberries 
IVz   cups  light  brown  sugar, 

firmly  packed 
4  tablespoons  Hght  molasses 
Vz  teaspoon  cinnamon 
2  tablespoons  butter 
V4  teaspoon  salt 

Wash  cranberries  and  cut  in 
halves  (or  chop  coarsely).  Line 
9-inch  pie  pan  with  half  of  pas- 
try. Fill  shell  with  cranberries 
and  brown  sugar.  Dust  with 
cinnamon  and  salt.  Spoon  mo- 
lasses over  all.  Dot  with  butter. 
Cover  with  remauiing  pastry. 
Cut  vents  for  steam.  Bake  pie 
ten  minutes  in  preheated  425 
degree  oven.  Reduce  heat  to 
325  degrees  and  continue  bak- 
ing for  about  1  hour.  Serve 
with  vanilla  ice  cream. 

CRANBERRY  ICE 

1  1-pound  can  jellied  cranberry 

sauce 
1  7-ounce  bottle  lemon-lime 

carbonated  beverage 
Beat  the  cranberry  sauce  till 
smooth.  Resting  bottle  on  rim 
of  bowl,  slowly  pour  in  lemon- 
hme  carbonated  beverage.  Mix 
gently  Math  up  and  down  mo- 
tion. Pour  mixture  into  1-quart 
freezer  tray.  Freeze  till  firm. 
Break  into  chunks  with  wooden 
spoon  and  place  in  a  chilled 
bowl.  Beat  till  fluffy.  Return 
to  freezer  tray  and  freeze  tiU 
firm.   Makes  1  quart. 


Just  at  twilight  the  vacation- 
ing husband  and  wiie  parked 
their  trailer  after  a  400  mile 
drive.  Then  the  wofe  said,  with 
some  hesitation:  "Honey,  re- 
member that  flat  rock  we  used 
for  a  doorstep  at  last  night's 
stop?" 

I  remember  .  .  .  Why?" 

''Well  .  .  I  hid  the  door  key 
under  it." 


jest 

fop 

fun! 


If  the  moon  isn't  made  of 
green  cheese,  how  come  there's 
such  a  rat  race  to  see  who  gets 
to  ;it  first? 


A  child  is  something  halfway 
between  an  adult  and  a  tele- 
vision set. 

There's  one  thing  you  can 
say  for  the  men  in  charge  of 
our  government  —  they're  run- 
ning it  like  nobody's  business. 


PEANUT  &   CRANBERRY   RELISH 

1  cup    cranberries 

Vs  cup  sugar 

V4  cup  chopped  peanuts 

Vk  tsp.  salt 

1  small  orange 

1  small  apple 

Put  cranberries  through  food 
chopper  and  mix  with  sugar. 
Cut  the  orange  and  apple  into 
quarters,  remove  seeds  and  put 
through  chopper.  Combine  nuts 
with  all  ingredients.  Makes 
1%  cups. 

HAM  LEFTOVER 

If  you  decide  to  have  ham 
for  the  Holidays  instead  of  the 
usual  turkey,  this  is  a  good  way 
to  use  the  leftovers. 
4  cups  cubed  cooked  ham 
3  tablespoons  butter 
Vz  cup  water 
Vz  cup  sugar 
%  cup  fresh  cranberries 

2  tablespoons  grated  orange 

rind 
Salt  and  pepper  to  taste 

Lightly  brown  ham  in  butter. 
Bring  sugar  and  water  to  boil, 
covered  15  minutes.  Add  grated 
orange  rind  and  seasoning. 
Combine  ham  and  cranberry 
sauce  in  baking  dish  and  bake 
uncovered  at  350  degrees  for 
20  minutes. 

Add  Vz  cup  fresh  cranberries 
and  bake  10  to  15  minutes 
longer.  Good  with  candied 
yams,  green  bean  salad  (beans 
and  onions  mixed  with  French 
salad  dressing)  and  hot  corn- 
bread  sticks.  Serves  6,  made 
in  oblong   casserole. 

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WISCONSIN 


Canada,  on  the  West  Coast  and  in  problem.    The  sales  of  fresh  fruit 

Wisconsin;  but  after  this  year,  there  are  falling  every  year,  and  the  sales  jyU 

will  be  little  market  for  cranberries  of  sauce  are  not  increasing  to  any  •, 

for  planting  stock.  extent. 


trnrp 


Cranberry  sauce  sales  have  been 
about  normal  for  Easter,  but  cock-        Budding  in  Northern  Wisconsin 

tail  has  been  going  extremely  well,  is  not  too  good  on  many  marshes 

Without  the  consumption  of  cran-  so  I  do  not  look  for  growers  with 

berry   cocktail,    the   cranberry  in-  poor    budding    to    have    even    an 

dustry  would  really  have  a  serious  average  crop. 


We  have  had  extremely  warm 
weather  and  a  very  early  spring  and 
quite  a  few  growers  are  already  pre- 
paring land  for  planting  and  some 
planting  has  already  been  done. 
Just  how  much  planting  will  eventu- 
ally be  accomplished  I  do  not  know, 
but  it  will  surely  be  the  most  acreage 
that  Wisconsin  has  ever  planted  in 
the  spring  and  may  go  as  much  as 
1200  or  1500  acres,  if  everybody's 
plans  work  out  satisfactorily. 

There  is  quite  a  little  damage  on 
10  or  12  marshes  in  the  central 
part  of  the  state  from  winter  kill, 
because  they  had  no  water  to  reflow 
when  the  vines  came  out  during  the 
winter  and  early  spring.  The  injured 
vines  will  naturally  have  no  fruit 
and  will  curtail  Wisconsin 's  produc- 
tion this  year.  In  addition  quite  a 
little  acreage  will  be  mowed  for 
vines  for  planting,  which  will  further 
reduce  Wisconsin's  prospects  for 
cranberries  in  1968. 

Lloyd  Wolfe  bought  the  Clair 
Habelman  property  at  Tomah.  This 
was  an  independent  grower.  One  of 
the  few  independent  growers  in 
Wisconsin,  and  now  they  will,  of 
course,  be  with  Ocean  Spray.  Lloyd 
Wolfe  is  the  manager  for  Ocean 
Spray  in  Wisconsin. 

Dale  Johnson,  who  is  in  charge 
of  Ocean  Spray's  fresh  fruit  sales 
in  Wisconsin,  bought  the  William 
Huffman  marsh  at  Wisconsin  Rapids. 
They  formerly  sold  their  product 
through  Dean  Foods,  so  this  will 
make  another  marsh  for  Ocean 
Spray. 

Thunder  Lake  now  has  Stevens 
vines  for  shipment  to  growers  in 


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SOMETHING  OF  THE 
FUTURE 

Continued  from  Page  7 

mation  into  a  usable  pattern  is 
unlikely.  The  computer  with  its 
memory  banks  is  thinking  daily  and 
is  feeding  back  information.  When 
exact  units,  measurements  or  dates 
are  needed,  the  computer  has  instant 
recall.  There  would  be  no  delay  in 
critical  events,  and  no  consequences 
of  doing  something  one  year  which 
would  affect  production  five  years 
hence. 

This,  then,  would  be  only  the 
beginning  for  two  interested 
growers.  Their  ideas  are  complex 
and  based  on  the  future. 

Although  not  gazing  into  any 
crystal  ball,  they  feel  their  methods 
are  practical  and  valid.  They  feel 
it  will  be  only  a  matter  of  time. 
Meanwhile,  they  continue  to  think, 
formulate  and  invent. 

Far  fetched  and  out  of  tune? 
Not  really. 


WKIMeiH 


WISCINSIN 


REGIONAL  NEWS  NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  9 

Boone,  Pathologist  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  now  on  sabati- 
cal  leave  at  the  University  of  Wash- 
ington, also  attended  the  meeting 
and  spoke  to  the  gathering  of  about 
fifty  people.  These  two  will  also 
speak  to  the  Long  Beach  Cranberry 
Club  April  19th,  a  change  in  the 
regular  meeting  date  of  the  second 
Friday  of  each  month  due  to  the 
Easter  hoUday. 


Some  Frost  Still  Around 

The  surface  of  the  ground  has 
thawed  at  least  7  inches  over  the 
entire  State.  However,  the  deep 
penetration  of  the  frost  this  winter 
is  reflected  by  the  amount  of  frost 
still  underneath  the  thawed  ground. 
According  to  funeral  directors  and 
cemetery  caretakers  reporting  to  the 
Wisconsin  Statistical  Reporting  Ser- 
vice, up  to  40  inches  of  frost  can  be 
found  in  some  locations,  but  the 
southern  third  of  the  State  is  con- 
sidered frost  free.  Frost  can  be 
found  but  it  will  be  in  shaded  or 
sheltered  locations.  Ground  has  been 
worked  and  grain  planted  in  several 
counties.  In  the  central  section  of 
the  State,  surface  thawing  was  deep 
enough  for  farmers  on  sandy  and 

Continued  . 


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WISCONSIN  NOTES 

Continued  from  Page  23 

the  lighter  type  soils  to  do  some 
field  work  but  underneath  there  was 
1  to  12  inches  of  frost.  The  northern 
part  of  the  State  had  only  7  to  12 
inches  of  thawed  ground  and  there 
was  probably  13  to  24  inches  or 
more  of  frost  underneath.  Not  quite 
enough  ground  has  thawed  there 
so  that  much  field  work  can  be 
done.  Nighttime  temperatures  in 
the  north  remain  near  the  freezing 
point  which  slows  thawing. 

More  frost  was  in  the  ground  on 
April  5  th  of  this  year  than  last  year 
when  almost  the  entire  State  was 
frost  free.  There  is  less  frost  this 
year,  however,  than  we  had  in  1965 
when  the  average  frost  penetration 
for  the  State  was  29  inches  and  it 
was  not  until  mid-April  that  the 
frost  was  out. 

Weather  Summary 

Helped  by  the  continued  lack  of 
snow  cover  over  the  upper  midwest, 
the  increasing  powerful  sunshine 
caused  temperatures  to  rise  much 
above  normal  in  Wisconsin  during 
the  period  March  8-22.  Afternoon 
temperatures   near   60   degrees  or 


above,  occurred  in  many  areas  daily 
from  the  15th  through  the  19th.  A 
brief  relapse  to  colder  temperatures 
occurred  at  the  end  of  the  period, 
but  rapid  warming  returned  on  the 
24th  when  skies  cleared  and  the 
northerly  winds  subsided.  The  first 
good  rain  of  the  year  fell  in  showers 
and  thunderstorms  on  the  18th  and 
19th.  The  heaviest  amounts  of  1  to 
1/4  inches  were  reported  in  dry 
northwestern  areas.  Elsewhere 
amounts  generally  ranged  between 
Vi  to  ^A  inch,  except  slightly  less 
in  the  extreme  eastern  counties. 
Some  snow  fell  locally  on  the 
higher  land  bordering  Lake  Superior 
in  Iron  and  Ashland  Counties  on  the 

21st  and  22nd  with  Gurney  measur- 
ing about  10  inches  of  new  snow. 
Light  flurries  also  dusted  the  ex- 
treme southeast  corner  of  the  state 
on  the  22nd.  These  flurries  were 
the  fringe  effect  of  still  another 
heavy  snowstorm  which  passed  well 
south  and  east  of  Wisconsin 

Temperatures  averaged  much 
above  normal  during  the  last  week 
of  March  and  the  first  of  April. 
Afternoon  temperatures  in  the  70's 
were  common  over  much  of  the 
State  daily  from  the  25  th  through 


the  31st.  Cooler  weather  prevailed 
during  the  remaining  days  of  the 
period. 

Precipitation  was  mostly  of  the 
showery  type  with  thunderstorms 
occurring  on  several  days.  Heaviest 
rains  fell  on  March  27th  and  April 
3rd.  The  2-weekly  totals  were  quite 
evenly  distributed  with  most  areas 
receiving  between  %  and  P^  inches. 
A  small  tornado  accompanied  the 
thunderstorms  on  March  27th  in 
Trempealeau  County,  and  strong 
winds  were  corrmion  with  some 
scattered  showers  crossing  the  State 
during  the  evening  of  April  7th. 
Snow  and  sleet  fell  in  the  extreme 
northern  counties  on  the  4th  as  a 
deep  low  from  the  plains  moved 
eastward  across  the  State. 


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^u  may  be  raising 
a  future  television  star 

If  you're  an  Ocean  Spray  grower,  you're  raising  some  pretty 
famous  berries. 

Or  they  will  be  as  soon  as  we  get  our  hands  on  them. 

They're  going  to  be  photographed  and  written  up  in  magazines 
and  newspapers.  They're  going  to  be  talked  about  on  radio. 

And  millions  of  people  are  going  to  see  them  on  television. 
Not  just  here  and  there.  Coast  to  coast.  Not  just  now  and  then. 
\ear  round. 

It's  this  kind  of  consistent  Ocean  Spray  advertising  that's  gotten 
more  people  to  buy  more  cranberries  than  ever  before.  More  of 
your  cranberries. 

Of  course,  if  you  re  not  an  Ocean  Spray  grower,  you  may  never 
get  to  see  your  berries  on  television.  ^^- 


Ocean  spray. 


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