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WILHO  and  EINO  HARJU  — Good  Cranberry  Growers 
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The  taking  was  a  land  strip  of 
140  feet  from  Walpole  near  Bos- 
ton to  the  Cape. 

Those  effected  included  Nathan- 
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of  a  field,  it  is  expected.  Consider- 
able woodland  along  the  route  was 
also  taken  and  some  buildings  had 
to  be  moved. 


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CRANBERRY  AREA 

An  earthquake  struck  the  Pacific 
Coast  cranberry  area  April  29th  at 
8:30  a.  m.  The  quake  lasted  45 
seconds. 

The  quake  was  felt  as  far  south 
as  Coquille,  Oregon,  near  the  heart 
of  the  Bandon  area  cranberry 
center,  and  into  Canada  to  the 
north.  The  Washington  State  Capi- 
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after  the  quake.  In  Seattle,  Wash- 
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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


Personals 

Dr.  Karl  Deubert  is  the  newest 
member  of  our  Station  group, 
starting  work  on  April  5th.  Dr. 
Deubert  is  a  native  of  Germany 
and  also  worked  in  Honduras  for 
approximately  two  years  before 
coming  here.  He  will  be  working 
on  nematode  problems  under  Dr. 
Bert  Zuckerman  for  the  next  two 
years.  Karl  and  his  wife  are  living 
in  New  Bedford.  The  staff  of  the 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station  ex- 
tends a  warm  welcome  to  the 
Deuberts  and  wish  them  a  pleas- 
ant and  successful  stay. 

Tw^o  of  our  Wisconsin  friends, 
"Chuck"  Goldsworthy  and  Ralph 
Sampson,  visited  the  Station  re- 
cently. Several  of  our  staff,  includ- 
ing the  writer,  had  a  chance  to 
chat  with  them  during  the  visit. 
We  are  always  most  happy  to  talk 
with    cranberry    people   from    the 


other  producing  areas  and  hope 
that  whenever  any  of  you  are  in 
our  vicinity  that  you  will  reserve 
a  few  minutes  in  your  schedule 
to  stop  by  and  visit  with  us. 

We  are  very  pleased  to  note  that 
our  old  friend  "Josh''  Hall  (Cran- 
berry Magazine)  is  up  and  around 
again,  after  being  quite  ill  during 
the  late  winter.  "Josh"  is  a  fre- 
quent visitor  at  the  Station  and 
we  all  missed  him  while  he  was 
laid  up. 

Frost  Warning  Service 

We  are  pleased  to  report  an 
increase  in  the  number  of  sub- 
scribers to  the  frost  warning  serv- 
ice which  is  sponsored  by  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers  As- 
sociation. We  have  105  subscribers 
to  date  compared  to  approximately 
190  a  year  ago.  The  donations  to 
the  telephone  answering  service 
have  also  shown  a  healthy  increase 


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over  last  year.  A  second  piece  of 
answering  equipment  has  been  in- 
stalled at  the  station  this  spring. 
The  two  answering  devices  are 
hooked  up  on  the  same  line  so  that 
when  one  is  in  use  the  other  will 
take  over  and  give  the  message. 
This  saves  time  and  in  some  cases 
several  re-dialings.  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  cutworms, 
spanworms,  leafhoppers,  fire- 
worms,  sparganothis  fruitworm 
and  weevils.  The  sparganothis 
fruitworm  can  be  detected  by  care- 
ful examination  of  loosestrife  or 
the  new  cranberry  tips  for  web- 
bing. Weevils  over-winter  as  adults 
and  are  active  whenever  tempera- 
tures reach  70°  or  above.  If  these 
pests  are  controlled  in  May  or 
June,  particularly  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 


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(3)  Stoddard  solvent  or  stod- 
dard-kerosene  treatments  follow- 
ing late  water  should  be  com- 
pleted 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°  when  these  oils  are  applied. 

(4)  Casoron,  alanap-3,  Chloro- 
IPC  and  simazine  should  not  be 
applied  after  withdrawal  cf  the 
late  water  flood  as  vine  and  crop 
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(5)  Many  bogs  will  benefit  from 
an  application  of  fertilizer,  espe- 
cially where  heavy  crops  were 
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  thix) 
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  num- 
ber of  little  things,  both  good  and 
kad,  that  you  will  notice  on  your 
inspection  trips. 

Weather 

The  temperature  for  the  month 
of  April  averaged  out  approxi- 
mately 3V2  degrees  below  normal. 
By  the  end  of  the  month  the  Early 
Blacks  were  just  starting  to  ''green 
up"  and  we  estimate  that  the  bogs 
are  about  10  days  to  two  weeks 
behind  their  normal  development. 
Rainfall  totalled  3.55  inches  which 
is  about  %  inch  below  the  average 
at  the  Cranberry  Station.  The 
situation  in  regard  to  water  sup- 
plies for  frost  protection  is  very 
spotty,  some  areas  have  abun- 
dant water,  while  others  are 
extremely  short.  Vines  seem  to 
have  come  through  the  winter  in 
excellent  shape.  Winter  injury  is 
practically  nil  and  the  bud  is 
excellent. 


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Issue  of  May,    1965 -Vol.   30,   No.    1 

Second     Class     Postage     Paid     at    Wareham,       Massachusetts     Post     Office 
Published     monthly     at     Wareham,       Mnssarhiisetts.  Subscriptions     ?4.00,    Foreign,    9$. 00    per    year. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H. 


April  Starts  Cold 

April  started  out  cold  and  dry. 
The  departure  from  normal  for  the 
first  seven  days  was  a  minus  14 
for  the  month. 

Growers  were  worrying  about 
water  supplies  for  the  frost  season 
then  approaching.  They  wanted 
substantial  rain.  There  was  a  driz- 
zle and  fog  on  the  8th,  and  this 
continued  on  into  the  9th.  There 
was  just  enough  rain  to  make  the 
weather  unpleasant,  but  not 
enough  to  be  of  any  real  good  in 
adding  to  water  supplies. 

Weather  Warms  Up 

The  tenth  of  April  was  4  degrees 
above  normal,  but  for  the  month 
the  average  was  a  minus  16. 

The  minus  temperatures  for  the 
month  continued.  On  the  12th  it 
was  four  foi  the  day  and  23  for  the 
month  to  date. 

Half  Inch  of  Welcome  Rain 

On  the  12th  there  was  a  welcome 
.54  inches  of  rain  as  recorded  at 
the  East  Wareham  Station.  This 
helped  some  but  it  was  not  enough 
with  the  spring  frost  just  ahead. 
There  was  rain  again  on  the  night 
of  the   17th. 


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April  Turns  Chilly  Again 

By  the  18th  of  April  the  month 
was  4  minus  for  the  day  and  a 
37   minus  for   the  month. 

Snow  on  April  9th 

The  Massachusetts  legal  holiday 
of  Patriots'  Day,  April  19th,  was 
a  chilly  day  with  snow  on  the 
ground  in  the  cranberry  area.  The 
snow  was  preceded  by  rain  and  in 
Wareham  and  other  parts  of  the 
cranberry  area.  Boston  had  an 
inch  and  a  half  of  snow  for  the 
observance  of  the  holiday,  so  that 
holiday  events  were  carried  on 
with  snow  on  the  ground.  These 
events  included  the  famous  B.A.A. 
marathon  beginning  at  Hopkinton 
and  ending  in  Boston. 

The  19th  was  called  the  snowiest 
April  19  in  85  years.  The  night  of 
April  19  was  definitely  a  cold  one, 
with  heat  needed  in  the  homes. 


Pi'ecipitation  Slight 

Precipitation  over  the  holiday 
of  snow  mixed  wth  rain  was  only 
.08  as  recorded  at  the  State  Bog. 

The  April  19th  holiday  showed 
a  minus  of  10,  bringing  the  minus 
of  the  month  to  that  date  of  55. 

Heavy  Frost 

The  night  of  April  20th  brought 
a  heavy,  white  frost,  and  the  tem- 
perature reached  20  degrees.  No 
warning  was  sent  out  as  it  was 
estimated  the  bogs  could  withstand 
that  with  no  danger. 

Month  Continued  Cold 

April  remained  reluctant  to 
bring  real  spring  weather  perman- 
ently. The  21st  was  9  degrees 
colder  than  normal  and  the  minus 
for  the  month  to  that  date  was 
76  degrees. 

April    23    was    another    belated 


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spring  day  with  cold  winds  and  a 
light  drizzle  in  the  cranberry  area. 
The  precipitation  was  in  the  form 
of  snow  as  far  south  as  Worcester, 
Mass.,  and  more  snow  and  good 
skiing  in  the  Mountains  cf  Ver- 
mont and  New  Hampshire. 
Some  Rain 

On  the  26th  there  was  a  fairly 
good  rain  in  the  cranberry  area, 
.84  inch  as  recorded  at  the  Mass. 
Cranberry  Station.  This  was  not 
enough,  however,  to  break  the  long 
drought  conditions. 

The  temperature  that  day  was 
a  minus  11  and  for  the  mcnth  the 
minus  had  reached  a  huge  104 
degrees. 

The  last  two  days  of  April  were 
pleasant,  with  some  warmth.  But 
the  morning  of  the  30th  there  was 
frost  with  a  21  in  South  Carver. 
Springless  April 

The  month  of  April  ended  with 
a  day  of  4  degrees  plus  but  the 
temperature  for  the  month  was  a 


huge  111  degrees,  and  a  tempera- 
ture deficiency  since  Jan.  1  of  362. 
Bogs  had  not  greened  up  much  and 
the  herring  which  generally  start 
to  run  up  the  streams  to  spawn 
in  early  March  were  just  beginning 
to  run  in  sizeable  schools  as  the 
month  of  April  ended. 

Precipitation  Good 

Precipitation    for    the  month   of 

April  as  recorded  at  Massachusetts 

Cranberry  Experiment  Station  was 

3.55,  with  the  average  normal  3.85. 

May  Starts  Warm 

The  first  days  of  May  were  on 
the  plus  side,  with  temperatures 
well  up,  60's  and  70's. 


NEW    JERSEY 

April  Very  Cold 

The  maximum  average  temper- 
ature during  the  month  of  April 
was  60°;  the  minimum  was  36.3°; 
and  the  mean  average  was  48.2°, 
3.7°  less  than  normal.  There  have 


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been  only  four  Aprils  colder  than 
last  month  during  the  history  of 
this  weather  station  (1961—47.8°; 
1956—48.1°;  1943—48.1°;  and  1940 
— 47.5°).  In  1950  the  mean  average 
for  April  was  the  same  as  for 
April  this  year — 48.2°. 
Precipitation 

Precipitation  during  the  month 
was  2.5  inches,  .91  inch  below  nor- 
mal. The  total  for  the  first  4 
months  of  this  year  amounted  to 
11.87  inches,  which  is  1.30  inches 
less  than  normal.  During  the  night 
of  April  1st,  2  inches  of  snow  fell. 
This  is  the  first  snow  in  any  April 
in  the  36  years  of  weather  record- 
ing here. 

Fi-eak  Frost 

A  "freak"  frost  on  the  morning 
of  April  25th  caused  a  little  dam- 
age to  cranberry  bogs  from  which 
the  winter  flood  was  drawn  around 
April  1st  to  April  10th.  Tempera- 
tures plunged  as  low  as  16°  when 
skies  suddenly  cleared  in  contrast 
to  the  forecast  of  cloudiness  and 
probable  rain.  The  following  week- 
end the  reverse  occurred;  clearing 
skies  were  forecast  but  rain  de- 
veloped. Growers  have  grown 
wary  of  Weather  Bureau  forecasts 
and  are  planning  to  sit  up  all  night 
on  questionable  nights  rather  than 
depending  on  the  forecasts. 


WISCONSIN 

April  Cold 

April  continued  the  cold  winter 
with  temperatures  averaging  five 
degrees  below  normal.  The  first 
week  of  the  month  again  brought 
record  breaking  low  readings  with 
a  minus  eleven  at  Gordon.  All 
areas  had  from  15  to  20  degree 
below  normal  readings  during  the 
period.  The  second  week  was 
warmer  with  3  degrees  above  nor- 
mal followed  with  colder  and  a 
pronounced  warmup  at  the  end 
of  the  month.  On  the  plus  side  was 
the  above  normal  amounts  of  pre- 
cipitation with  almost  double  the 
2V2  inches  in  most  areas.  April 
Fools  Day  brought  an  8  inch  snow- 
fall in  the  upper  one-half  of  the 
state  and  two  inches  also  fell  in 
the  central  area  on  the  26th.  In 
between  there  were  several  good 
rain  showers  with  severe  weather 
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THE  HARJUS  OF  CARVER,  MASSACHUSETTS,  ARE  GOOD  EXAMPLE 
OF  CRANBERRY  GROWERS,  OF    FINNISH  DESCENT 


Wilho  and  Eino  Har ju  Operate  About  70  Acres  in  All,  Contributing 

8,000  Barrels  to  Massachusetts  Crop — These  Brothers  Own 

31-Acre  Wenatuxet  Bog  —  Hard-Working  People. 

By  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 
Among  the  growers  who  can  get  along  in  the  cranberry  business 
are  Eino  F.  and  brother  Wilho.  The  brothers  are  of  the  Harju  cranberry- 
growing  family,  originating  in  Carver,  Massachusetts.  The  Harjus  in  all 
operate  about  70  acres  of  bog.  The  Harjus  as  a  family  estimate  their 
crops  as  between  6,000  and  8,000  barrels  of  cranberries,  which  makes  a 
sizeable  contribution  to  the  Massachusetts  industry. 

Eino  and  Wilho,  operating  as  equal  partners  in  a  31 -acre  bog,  are 
the  largest  growers  of  the  family.  The  production  of  this  partnership 
goes  independent  in  marketing,  but  that  of  some  other  bog  units  of  the 
Harjus  are  sold  through  Ocean  Spray.  So  the  Harjus  are  mainly  inde- 
pendents in  marketing — but  at  one  time  Eino  sold  all  his  own  berries 
through  the  big  co-op. 

The  Harjus  are  today  much  encouraged  concerning  the  outlook  for 
the  cranberry  industry. 

Hard-Worldng   Brothers 

The  Harjus  are  hard-working 
cranberry  men.  Both  men  are  big 
and  husky.  "We  Finnish  people 
have  always  been  used  to  hard 
work,"  quoting  Eino.  "We  and  our 
parents  started  out  with  not  much 
money  and  have  had  to  work  hard. 

"We  are  the  owners.  We  are  our 
own  superintendents.  We  are  our 
own  laborers.  We  are  our  own 
mechanics  in  all  our  mechanical 
equipment.  We  have  been  brought 
up  in  cranberries  all  our  lives." 
Wilho  says  he  was  taken  out  on 
the  bog  by  his  mother  when  he 
was  six  months  old,  while  she 
weeded.  "There  isn't  much  about 
the  business  that  we  don't  know 
how  to  do.  We  are  on  the  bog 
all  the  time  to  see  that  everything 
is  done  right." 

And  the  Harjus  might  have 
added  that  they  mostly  have  a 
pretty  good  bog. 

The  Harjus  have  been  growing 
cranberries  in  Massachusetts  since 
1911.  The  start  was  made  by  Fillus, 
now  84,  who  still  owns  a  bog.  He 
was  born  in  Finland  and  came  to 
this  country  in  1902.  He  worked 
for  about  eight  years  at  Worcester 
in  the  American  Steel  and  Wire 
Company.  He  then  went  to  Carver 
and  worked  on  the  cranberry  bogs. 
In  1912  he  bought  a  place  on 
Meadow  street  in  South  Carver, 
which  was  a  farm  and  had  a  little 
cranberry  bog  of  about  two  acres. 
He  increased  that  to  about  five 
acres. 


He  still  owns  this  bog,  and  it  is 
known  as  the  family  bog.  The 
Harju  boys  learned  cranberries 
there.  Today  Eino  and  Wilho  do 
most  of  the  hard  work  on  the  bogs 
for  their  father.  There  is  a  screen- 
house  on  the  property.  This  crop 
is  sold  through  Ocean  Spray. 

Other  Hai'jus 

Besides  Eino  and  Wilho  there 
is  Reino,  known  by  his  family  as 
Ray,  who  has  a  bog  of  his  own 
in   Lakeville    and  one   in  Middle- 


boro.  These  total  about  seven  or 
eight  acres.  He  lives  in  Middle- 
boro  and  is  not  a  full-time  grower. 

Then  there  was  Toiva,  who  died 
Dsc.  21,  1961.  He  lived  in  West 
Yarmouth,  and  owned  a  bog  of 
eight  acres  in  Barnstable.  A  sister, 
Gertrude,  and  her  husband,  Oiva 
Rinne,  own  a  small  bog  of  about 
one  acre  in  Carver.  While  the  boys 
were  in  service,  Gertrude  had  to 
be  very  active  in  the  care  of  the 
bogs  and  still  does  today  at  har- 
vest time. 

Eino  and  Wilho  each  own  bogs 
individually  besides  the  31-acre 
bog.  Eino  has  11  acres  on  France 
street  in  Middleboro  and  on  Samp- 
son's Pond  in  South  Carver.  The 
bog  on  France  street  was  the  old 
"Shurtleff  Bog,''  a  piece  of  six 
acres  that  Eino  bought  in  1937. 
This  bog  has  an  85  barrel  an  acre 
average.  The  Sampson  Pond  bog 
is  the  "Winberg  Bog,"  which  has 
a  45  barrel  per  acre  average  and 
has  been  partly  rebuilt.  The  fruit 
from  these  bogs  Eino  sells  as  an 
independent. 

100-110  Barrel  Average 

Wilho,  too,  owns  a  bog  on 
France  street,  just  across  the 
Carver   town   line    in  Middleboro, 


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of  about  five   and   one-half  acres. 
Of  these  begs,  he  bought  three  in 
1947    and  then  added    two    and   a 
half  acres    more.    Wilho    says    his 
average  production  there  is  100  to 
110  barrels  per  acre.  He  sells  this 
fruit  through  Ocean  Spray. 
Wenatuxet  Bog 
The  main  interest  of   Eino  and 
Wilho    is   the   so-called    Plympton 
or     "Wenatuxet    Bog"     on    Cedar 
street   in   Plympton.    This   is  near 
East    Middleboro.     This    beautiful 
31 -acre  bog    was   formerly   owned 
by  the  late  Paul  L.  Thompson  of 
Middleboro,      a      widely      known 
grower  who  died  in  the  winter  of 
1961-62.  There  was  a  house  on  the 
property,  which  was   occupied   by 
Mr.  Thompson.  This  residence  was 
sold  by   the  Harjus.    The   "Wena- 
tuxet Bog"  dates  from  about  1910. 
Attractive  Bog 
"Wenatuxet"  is  in  seven  pieces, 
the  largest   of  which   is   10   acres; 
however,   they   make    up  a   single 
cranberry    unit.    The    land    about 
there  is  slightly  hilly  and  the  bogs 
sit  in  a  depression.  The  bogs  are 
overlooked    from    bluffs,     making 
an  exceedingly  attractive  bog  set- 
ting.   The    bogs    are    very    nearly 
level,   and  almost  weed  free.   The 
shores  are  well  cleared  back. 

The  "Wenatuxet  Bog"  is  flowed 
from  the  Wenatuxet  River.  There 
is  at  all  times  an  ample  supply  of 
water.  There  are  also  a  few  rather 


small  springs  on  the  upper  end  of 
the  bog,  and  there  is  a  natural 
rainshed  to  help  cut.  There  is  a 
small  reservoir,  which  is  now  used 
but  was  not  before. 

For  winter,  insect  or  frost  flood- 
ing, the  Harju  brothers  pump  on 
by  two  gasoline  pumps  and  drain 
off  by  gravity  back  into  the  river. 
The  pumps  are  20-  and  22-inch 
pumps.  This  is  not  a  particularly 
cold  spot,  although  temperatures 
on  frost  nights  generally  run  lower 
than  at  the  State  Bog  at  East 
Wareham. 

The  Harjus  have  not  lost  berries 
by  frost  there,  not  even  in  that 
ill-remembered  night  of  May  30, 
1960,  when  so  many  Massachusetts 
growers  lost  heavily.  They  began 
putting  the  water  on  at  5:30  in 
the  afternoon  and  by  2:30  in  the 
morning  they  were  safely  covered. 
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ment on  one  of  the  automobile 
gas  pumps  which  flood  the  bog. 
They  had  a  speedometer  on  the 
engine.  They  kept  track  of  how 
far  it  had  run  in  one  year  from 
November  to  November.  They 
found  that  if  the  engine  had  been 
driving  a  car,  the  car  would  have 
travelled  some  2,000  miles. 

They  are  satisfied,  or  nearly  so, 
with  their  water  system,  but  do 
plan  to  install  sprinklers  on  some 
acreage,   this  being   in   accordance 


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with  the  strong  trend  everywhere 
towards  more  sprinkler  systems. 
They  do  not  plan  to  cut  the  bog 
into  smaller  units  for  water  raking, 
even  though  they  understand  as 
much  as  up  to  20  percent  of  the 
crop  is  lost  on  most  dry  bogs. 
Although  the  Wenatuxet  bog  ap- 
pears to  be  level,  it  actually  is  not 
entirely  so. 

The  bog  was  built  on  a  cedar 
bottom  swamp,  one  of  the  best  bot- 
toms in  Massachusetts.  It  is  set  to 
14  acres  of  Early  Blacks  and  17 
of  late  Howes.  They  figure  they 
average  about  75  barrels  to  the 
acre.  Their  biggest  crop  picked  was 
3700  barrels  in  1960,  but  that  was 
the  year  when  the  market  was 
"shot,"  and  they  suffered  severe 
shrinkage. 

Do  Own  Frost  Work 

They  bought  the  bog  in  1959. 
They  both  put  in  their  full  time 
at  this  and  their  other  bogs.  Dur- 
ing the  growing  season  they  have 
some  help,  but  they  are  at  the 
property  working  along  with  the 
men  and  supervising.  The  bog  is 
harvested  by  two  Darlingtons  and 
three  Western  Pickers.  They  do 
their  own  frcst  work. 

Since  owning  the  Wenatuxet 
Bog  they  have  completely  resanded 
the  31  acres  twice.  They  have 
cleaned  up  all  the  shore  ditches 
and  the  cross  ditches.  They  have 
changed  the  pumping  system. 
They  rebuilt  some  bogs  and  have 
put  in  three  new  flumes,  of  steel 
construction.  There  is  good  sand 
on  the  property,  once  it  is  screened. 

They  have  a  fertilizing  program 
and  use  granular  products.  They 
have  ground  fertilizer  rigs  which 
they  can  use  on  rather  windy  days. 
They  have  a  concentrate  sprayer, 
power  sprayer,  and  a  couple  of 
dusters.  However,  they  do  most 
of  their  insect  and  weed  work 
from  the  air  and  have  used  both 
helicopters  and  straight- wing  serv- 
ice. They  have  trucks  and  half  a 
dozen  jalopies  for  sanding;  also 
a  power  shovel  and  tractors.  They 
like  to  sand  on  the  ice  as  much 
as  possible.  They  have  used  the 
new  weedicides,  Simazine,  Casoron 
and  Chloro  IPC. 

On  the  property  there  is  a  well- 
kept  screenhouse.  This  screenhouse 
is  really  one  of  three  story,  with 
a    basement.    This    basement   pro- 


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vides    excellent   storage    facilities. 
The  building  is  55  by  60  feet. 

Screen  Own  Fruit 

They  are  among  the  few  Massa- 
chusetts growers  who  still  screen 
their  own  fruit.  They  have  two 
Bailey  separators. 

Eino  used  to  sell  fresh  fruit, 
operating  under  the  brand  name 
of  "Pride  of  Carver." 

At  one  time  much  of  the  Harju 
family  berries  were  sold  through 
ihe  late  New  England  Cranberry 
Sales  Company.  They  lament  the 
death  of  this  organization,  saying 
"that  outfit  kne-w  how  to  sell  fresh 
cranberries.'' 

Eino,  who  is  the  elder  brother, 
was  born  in  South  Carver  in  1914. 
He  attended  Carver  schools  and 
Wareham  High  School.  Wilho  was 
born  in  1918,  attended  Carver 
schools  and  went  to  high  school  in 
Middlebcro. 

Wilho  Harju  for  a  time  was  in 
the  cranberry  vine  setting  business, 
contracting  to  set  vines.  He  had  a 
crew  of  14  which  set  the  vines 
with  the  old  hand  dibble. 

Both  were  employed  in  con- 
struction as  carpenters,  and  Reino 
ctill  is  in  construction  work.  Wilho 
was  f: reman  on  big  construction 
jobs;  he  worked  on  bridge  con- 
struction and  building  construction. 
His  jobs  took  him  all  over  eastern 
Massachusetts,  en  the  Cape,  and 
elsewhere.  He  has  worked  in  Vir- 
ginia, Rhode  Island  and  in  Mary- 
land. Eino  was  also  on  construc- 
tion jobs  in  Massachusetts  and  in 
Virginia,  Maryland  and  Rhode 
Island. 

IJotli  in  War  Service 

Then  came  the  war  and  both 
were  in  service,  both  in  the  Air 
Forces.  Eino  was  in  three  years 
and  one  month;  Wilho  three  years 
and  a  half.  Wilho  had  the  rank  of 
staff  sergeant.  Wilho,  it  happened, 
was  in  the  South  Pacific  for  30 
months.  He  was  in  the  Solomons, 
Fijis,  Netherlands  East  Indies  and 
in  the  Philippines.  He  was  under 
bomb  fire  for  night  after  night 
while  he  was  in  the  East  Indies. 
He  was  trained  at  the  Goldsboro 
Air  Force  base  in  North  Carolina, 
Airplane  Mechanic  School,  and  was 
sent  to  a  factory  school  at  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee. 


Eino   did   not   get  overseas,   but 
he  served   widely   in  this  country. 
He  was  sent  to  the  New  England 
Aircraft  School  at  Boston.  He  was 
at    Republic    Aviation    School    at 
Fai'mingdale,     Long     Island;    Bell 
Aircraft   School   at  Niagara   Falls, 
New  York.  He  took  his  basic  train- 
ing at  Miami  Beach,  as  did  Wilho, 
a^so.    Eino    was   then  stationed    at 
Drew  Field,  Tampa,   Florida,    and 
at    Harding    Field,    Baton    Rouge, 
Louisiana.  He  was  also  at  Browns- 
ville Air  Force  Base,  Texas,  and  at 
La  junta  Air  Force  Base  in  Colo- 
rado.  The   last   six  months   of  his 
service  was   in  recruiting.  He  had 
a   choice    of    location    and    picked 
Rice    Lake    in    Wisconsin.    There, 
and    in    other    parts    of    northern 
Wisconsin,    he   saw  the   Wisconsin 
cranberry  marshes    at   Rice  Lake, 
Spocner  and  Hayward.  He  had  the 
rank     of    sergeant.    Reino    served 
three  years  and  two  months  in  the 
88th    Infantry    Division    in    North 
Africa     and     Italy.     Received    his 
training   at    Camp    Gruber,    Okla- 
homa. Attained   the    rank  of   cor- 
poral. 

This  training  made  them  excel- 
lent mechanics.  Beth  can  repair  or 
devise  any  sort  of  cranberry 
equipment.  So  they  do  not  have  to 
hire  any  mechanical  work  done. 
Third  Generation  Grower 
Wlho  is  married  to  the  former 
Lillian  Langevin  of  Fairhaven,  and 
has  four  children.  The  oldest  is 
Lawrence,  17,  who  already  is  on 
the  way  of  becoming  a  bog  man. 
He  works  at  many  bog  jobs;  he 
drives  trucks  on  the  property  and 


is  particularly  useful  in  jalopie 
work  in  ice  sanding.  There  is 
Elaine,  16;  Paul,  12,  and  Rich- 
ard, 5. 

Eino  is  unmarried  and  lives  with 
his  father  and  sister  at  the  "fam- 
ily place."  Beth  are  members  of 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Association. 
Both  attend  meetings,  especially 
the  clinics  on  insects,  "weeds,  frost 
and  other  matters  held  each  year 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station.  They 
both  like  to  hunt  and  fish,  but  both 
say  their  almost  constant  cran- 
berry work  doesn't  give  them 
much  time  for  these  sports.  Now 
and  then  Eino  still  goes  hunting 
and  deep-sea  fishing. 

Favored  Marketing  Order 

Eino  was  a  member  of  the  ori- 
ginal Massachusetts  marketing 
order  committee.  He  testified  in 
favor  of  the  order  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts cranberry  hearings.  Both 
were  in  favor  of  this  order,  very 
strongly.  "What  would  the  indus- 
try do  if  and  when  we  come  up 
with  a  million  and  a  half  barrels?" 
They  felt  marketing  agreements 
and  an  order  were  the  only  solu- 
'.icn  to  combat  such  big  crops,  at 
least  at  the  present.  Both  believe 
Ocean  Spray  is  beginning  to  do  a 
good  job  for  the  industry. 

Jn  conclusion,  both  Harju  broth- 
ers say  they  are  tremendously 
interested  in  the  cranberry  busi- 
ness. "We  like  it.  We  like  working 
for  ourselves,  as  we  can  do  in  the 
cranberry  business." 


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Indian  Trail  Companies  of  Wisconsin  Rapids 
Sold  to  Chicago  Dairy  Company 


Buyer  Has  Relatively  Large 
Assets  and  Operates  in  Eight 
States;  Ben  Pannkuk,  Indian 
Trail  President  and  Other 
Officials  to  Operate  as 
A  Division  of  the  Dairy  Firm 

Indian  Trail,  Inc.,  the  Wisconsin 
Rapids  cranberry  marketing  firm, 
and  three  related  companies,  have 
been  sold  for  cash  to  Dean  Foods 
Company,  Chicago.  The  sale  was 
announced  late  last  month.  Officials 
of  the  two  corporations  announced 
the  sale  April  22  in  a  joint 
announcement  by  Ben  Pannkuk, 
president  of  Indian  Trail,  and 
Samuel  Dean,  president  of  Dean 
Foods. 

The  Indian  Trail  companies  had 
combined  sales  of  $1,250,000  in 
1964,  while  the  Dean  Company 
sales  were  $72,999,748.  The  Chicago 
firm,  which  has  offered  its  stock  to 
the  public  since  1962,  reported  net 
earnings  of  $1,466,487,  or  $2.01  per 
share  of  common  stock. 


I*ui'chase  Price  Was  Not  Disclosed 

Indian  Trail  companies  are 
distributors  of  fresh  cranberries 
and  manufacturers  of  canned, 
frozen  and  juice  cranberry  pro- 
ducts. The  sales  offices  are  in  the 
Wisconsin  Rapids  headquarters  and 
the  processed  lines  are  manufac- 
tured in  Waupun  and  Ripon  plants. 

Distribution  of  the  Indian  Trail 
lines  is  throughout  the  Midwest 
and  in  the  South  and  West.  There 
are  24  associated  cranberry  growers 
located  mostly  in  the  Wisconsin 
Rapids  and  Warrens-Mather  areas. 
There  are  eight  full-time  em- 
ployees in  the  Wisconsin  Rapids 
office. 

"Indian  Trail  and  its  associated 
cranberry  growers  as  well  as  other 
Wisconsin  cranberry  growers  are 
fortunate  that  Dean  Foods  with  its 
resources  and  management  skills 
has  entered  our  field,"  Pannkuk 
said  in  announcing  the  sale. 


"Dean  Foods  is  an  expandi^^ 
firm  already  relatively  large,  and 
can  be  expected  to  sell  throughout 
many  regions  of  the  country, 
manufactured  and  fresh  cran- 
berries obtained  from  associated 
members. 

"The  new  owners  will  continue 
and  expand  upon  the  successful 
Indian  Trail  operations." 

Same  Management 

In  its  statement,  the  Dean  com- 
pany asserts  the  Indian  Trail  com- 
panies will  operate  under  the 
present  management  as  a  division 
of  the  Chicago  firm.  Included  in 
the  purchase  is  the  Indian  Trail 
brand  name. 

The  Indian  Trail  companies  are 
Indian  Trail,  Inc.,  established  in 
1948  to  market  fresh  cranberries; 
Indian  Trail  Foods,  Inc.,  formed  in 
1956  to  manufacture  and  sell 
frozen  cranberry  products;  Indian 
Trail  Finer  Products,  Inc.,  formed 
in  1959  to  manufacture  and  sell 
frozen  cranberry  products;  and 
Indian  Trail  Produce  Shippers, 
Inc.,  formed  in   1959  to  sell  prod- 


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ucts  ether  than  cranberries  in  "off 
season.'' 

Pannkuk  is  president  of  each  of 
the  companies;  vice-president  and 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  com- 
panies respectively  are:  William 
Huffman  and  Richard  Brazeau,  all 
of  Wisconsin  Rapids. 
In  8  States 
Founded  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  in 
1925  as  a  local  dairy  plant  under 
the  name  Dean  Milk  Company,  the 
Chicago  firm  began  offering  stock 
to  the  public  in  1961  and  changed 
its  name  to  Dean  Foods  Company 
in  1962. 

The  company  now  has  1,400 
employees  in  21  plants  and  col- 
lecting stations  in  Illinois,  Wis- 
consin, Michigan,  Kentucky,  In- 
diana, Arkansas,  Louisiana  and 
Tennessee. 

Dean  food  lines  are  fresh  dairy 
products,  ice  cream,  cheese,  evap- 
rated  and  powdered  milk,  pickles, 
relishes  and  prepared  foods,  such 
as  salads  and  meats. 

Joe  Hoelting  will  continue  as 
sales  manager  and  grower  contact 
man  on  fresh  cranberries,  and  his 
assistant,  Les  Mixdorf ;  Al  Vambor, 
sales  manager  in  charge  of  pro- 
cessed products,  and  Andy  Basso 
in  charge  of  the  office  and  ac- . 
counting. 


Indian  Trail  Growers 
Meet  Dean  Foods 
Representatives 

Cranberry  growers  associated 
with  the  Indian  Trail  cranberry 
marketing  company  met  with  offi- 
cers of  the  Dean  Foods  Company 
of  Chicago  at  the  Mead  Inn,  Wis- 
consin Rapids,  April  28.  Samuel 
Dean,  chairman  of  the  board  of 
the  Chicago  firm,  said  the  acqui- 
sition is  a  continuation  of  the  Dean 
Foods  program  of  diversifying  its 
operations  from  the  company's 
original  dairy  business  into  addi- 
tional food  products. 

A  recently-completed  $400,000 
food  research  and  development 
laboratory  at  its  Rockford,  Illinois, 
plant.  Dean  said,  will  assist  in  the 
company's  aim  to  produce  a  wide 
variety  of  quality  foods  for  year- 
round  use. 

"We  are  looking  forward  with  a 
great  deal  of  confidence  to  par- 
ticipating   in    the  cranberry   busi- 


ness," Dean  declared.  "Certainly 
the  cranberry  is  a  glamorous  prod- 
uct with  many  uses." 

Ben  Pannkuk,  Indian  Trail  presi- 
dent, introduced  Dean.  There  was 
a  total  of  105  growers,  foremen 
and  their  wives  attending. 


FORMER  EATMOR 
HEAD  SUBJECT 
OF  ARTICLE 

Harold  Bryant,  one-time  man- 
ager of  the  American  Cranberry 
Exchange  (Eatmor),  was  the  sub- 
ject for  the  lead  (April)  article 
in  "The  American  Vegetable 
Grower.  The  article  was  by  R.  T. 
Meister,  editor  of  the  magazine. 
The  magazine  article,  which  was 
sent  to  CRANBERRIES,  through 
the  courtesy  of  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy,  president  of  Cranberry 
Products,  Inc.,  of  Eagle  River, 
Wisconsin,  went  on  to  say: 

"Potatoes  are  to  Maine  what 
oranges  are  to  Florida  or  apples 
to  Washington.  While  Washington 
and  Florida  have  been  cresting  on 
a  wave  of  prosperity,  until  this 
year  Maine  has  been  foundering  in 
a  sea  of  low  prices.  When  Harold 
Bryant  was  called  back  to  Presque 
Isle    in    March,    1962,    it    was    to 


change  this  alarming  turn  of  events 
which  had  taken  place." 

The  article  went  on  to  say  that 
Mr.  Bryant  is  a  native  of  Aroostook 
County  (the  No.  1  potato-growing 
county)  and  that  after  three  years 
with  Eatmor  Mr.  Bryant  went  to 
California  to  join  Blue  Goose 
Growers,  Inc.,  where  after  one 
year  he  was  named  vice-president 
of  operations. 


ARTICLE   IN 

NEW   ENGLAND   HOMESTEAD 

David  G.  Hanson,  assistant 
advertising  manager  of  Niagara 
Chemical  Division,  FMC,  Middle- 
port,  N.  Y.,  has  an  article  in  the 
Api'il  "New  England  Homestead" 
headed,  "Keep  Bees  Healthy  By 
Spraying  Orchards  Carefully." 
"Dave"  is  a  personal  acquaintance 
of  the  editor  of  CRANBERRIES, 
and  the  supplier  of  Niagara  Chem- 
ical ads  for  this  magazine. 


FIREWORM  AT 
BANDON,  OREGON 

Fireworm  was  found  on  some 
of  the  Bandon,  Oregon,  bogs  in 
late  April,  according  to  Fred  Hag- 
elstein,  county  agent,  Coos  County. 
Crop  losses  due  to  this  insect  can 
be  severe,  he  said.  Recommenda- 
tions for  its  control  have  been  sent 


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Mass.  Cranberry  Station  Adds  New  Scientist 
To  Its  Stalf  --  To  Work  On  Nematodes 


Dr.  Ivarl   II.  Deubert  at  the  Cranberry  Station,   East  Wareham,  Mass., 
New   Neinatologist 


The  Massachusetts  Cranberry- 
Experiment  Station  at  East  Ware- 
ham  has  acquired  a  new  member 
In  its  staff.  He  is  Dr.  Karl  H. 
Deubert.  He  will  assist  Dr.  Bert 
M.  Zuckerman  in  his  work  in 
nemotclogy,  that  microscopic  or- 
ganism which  eats  the  roots  of 
cranberry  and  other  plants. 

Dr.  Deubert  is  a  native  of  East 
Germany,  having  been  born  at 
Wessenee  February  1,  1929.  He 
was  one  of  the  last  to  leave  that 
party  of  Germany  under  Commu- 


nistic control.  He  was  able  to  leave 
just  before  the  Berlin  wall  was 
built.  He  left  his  relatives  in  East 
Germany  and  came  to  the  Free 
World  with  two  trunks  as  his  sole 
possessions. 

His  early  schooling  was  at  the 
city  of  Halle.  Following  that  he 
entered  the  University  of  Halle, 
studying  there  from  1953  to  1955. 
He  was  interested  in  agriculture. 
English  is  compulsory  in  the  Ger- 
man schools  for  pupils  between 
the  ages  of    10   and  18.   He   chose 


Latin  as  another  language,  know- 
ing this  would  be  very  helpful  in 
his  future  in  agriculture. 

At  the  University  he  trained  as 
an  entcmologist.  He  studied  zoology 
also.  He  took  a  post  graduate 
course  and  received  his  Ph.D. 
degree. 

Following  his  studies  he  was, 
first,  assistant  professor  and  then 
associate  professor  at  the  Uni- 
versity. After  that  he  taught  for 
one  year  at  the  Central  Biological 
Institute  in  Berlin. 

He  then  entered  the  business 
world  and  worked  for  a  time  for 
a  private  chemical  company  at 
Nurenberg;  this  was  in  the  capa- 
city  of   entomologist. 

He  then  came  to  the  Western 
Hemisphere  and  lived  at  Teguci- 
galpa, the  capitol  city  of  Honduras, 
high  up  in  the  mountains.  He  was 
emplcyed  at  the  University  there 
as  full  professor  of  biology. 

He  had  been  married  in  Halle, 
his  wife  being  Eleanor  Stephan. 
She  accompanied  him  to  the  new 
world.  Dr.  Deubert  now  speaks 
fluent  Spanish. 

From  that  Central  American 
country  he  went  directly  to  the 
Cranberry  Station  in  April.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Deubert  are  making  their 
home  in  New  Bedford.  The  couple 
have  no  children. 

One  of  the  doctor's  regrets  is 
that  he  cannot  always  write  freely 
to  his  relatives  back  in  East  Ger- 
many. His  letters  to  them  are  all 
censored,  and  some  get  through 
and  some  do  not. 

Dr.  Deubert  says  he  plans  to 
remain  in  this  country  perman- 
ently. "I  have  no  plans  to  go  back 
to  Europe,"  he  says.  "I  think  I 
will  be  very  happy  in  my  work 
at  East  Wareham." 

He  added  that  he  is  engaged  in 
the  sort  of  work  he  likes  and  was 
trained  for.  He  said  he  found  the 
rest  of  the  Cranberry  Station  staff 
very  congenial. 

"I  like  living  in  a  free  country 
very  much,"  he  concluded. 


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THIRTEEN 


Current  Research 
And  Major  Problems 
In  Weed  Control 
For  Cranberries- Wis. 

By  Malcolm  N.  Dana^ 
Cranberries  are  grown  on  about 
25,000  acres  in  the  United  States 
of  which  about  5,000  acres  are 
found  in  the  North  Central  Region 
(Wisconsin).  This  crop  grows  on 
a  broadleaf  evergreen  plant  native 
to  highly  acid  marsh  soils.  The  ma- 
ture planting  is  a  complete  cover 
of  vines  that  allows  no  opportunity 
for  cultivation  or  other  mechanical 
manipulation  of  the  soil  and  thus, 
weed  destruction. 

Weed  control  is  obtained  by 
hand  weeding  and  by  applications 
of  herbicides.  Petroleum  deriva- 
tives (Stoddard  solvent  and  kero- 
sene) and  inorganic  salts  such  as 
iron  sulfate,  sodium  chloride,  and 
copper  sulfate  have,  in  recent 
years,  been  supplemented  with 
dalapon,  2,  2-dichloropropionic 
acid;  2,  4-D,  2,  4-dichlorophenoxy- 
acetic  acid;  CIPC,  isopropyl  N- 
(3-chlorophenyl) ,    carbamate;    si- 


^  Associate  Professor,  Department 
of  Horticulture,  University  of  Wis- 
consin, Madison,  Wis. 


mazine,  2-chlcro-4,  6-bis  (ethyl- 
amino)  -  s  -  triazine;  NPA,  N-1- 
naphthyl  phthalamic  acid;  and 
dichlobenil,  2,  6-dichlorobenzo- 
nitrile.  Dichlobenil  is  the  most 
recent  addition  to  the  list  and 
promises  to  find  extensive  use  for 
a  wide  range  of  weed  species,  in- 
cluding sedges,  perennial  broadleaf 
types  and  annual  grasses  (1). 
Nearly  one-third  of  the  Wisconsin 
acreage  will  be  treated  in  the  first 
year  of  label  clearance. 

Weed  control  in  cranberry 
marshes  cannot  be  considered  sepa- 
rately from  other  management 
practices.  Flooding  for  frost  pro- 
tection supplies  a  means  of  bring- 
ing in  a  quantity  of  new  seeds 
each  year  with  high  seed  counts 
in  early  spring  and  again  in  the 
fall.  Clean  ditches  and  a  weed-free 
reservoir  coupled  with  a  minimal 
use  of  water  reduces  the  potential 
seed  deposition.  The  rapid  accept- 
ance of  sprinkler  irrigation  in 
place  of  flooding  for  frost  protec- 
tion will  restrict  seed  movement 
onto  the  beds  for  it  is  practical  to 
screen  a  pump  inlet  for  water  vol- 
umes needed  for  sprinkling  and 
the  ditch  contamination  found  in 
flooding  will  not  be  a  problem 
where  irrigation  pipe  directs  the 
water  to  the  point  of  application. 

Weeds    thrive    under    conditions 


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of  little  competition  from  the 
cranberry  vines  and  conversely  are 
most  easily  subdued  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  vigorous  cranberry  stand. 
Therefore,  fertilization,  soil  drain- 
age, disease  and  insect  control, 
sanding,  and  rodent  control  must 
all  be  considered  in  relation  to  the 
influence  they  have  on  vine  vigor 
and  thus  weed  control.  For  in- 
stance, an  area  of  cranberry  vines 
weakened  by  root  grub  damage 
offers  little  competition  to  an  in- 
vasion of  barnyard  grass,  beggar- 
ticks,  and  rice  cutgrass.  A  new 
layer  of  sand  on  the  soil  surface 
in  a  thin  stand  of  vines  provides 
a  most  acceptable  seed  bed  for 
willows  and  poplars.  Cranberry 
fields  allowed  to  become  low  in 
fertility  or  to  suffer  from  drought 
soon  shO'W  open  spots  ripe  for 
weed  invasion.  Such  spots  may 
serve  as  nuclei  for  the  develop- 
ment of  larger  areas  cf  monotypic 
weed  colonies.  Any  practice  de- 
signed to  improve  the  vine  stand 
and  productivity  of  the  marsh  is 
important  to  weed  control. 

Plantings  maintained  free  of 
weeds  through  the  first  four  years 
are  relatively  easy  to  maintain 
weed  free  because  in  these  early 
years  vine  competition  is  estab- 
lished. A  recently  completed  study 
(2)  showed  that  new  beds  could 
be  maintained  nearly  weed  free  by 
proper  soil  preparation  before 
planting,  washing  of  the  planting 
stock,  and  removal  of  weed  seeds 
from  the  irrigation  (flooding) 
water.  This  program  was  demon- 
strated in  field  plots  but  little 
headway  has  been  made  in  de- 
velopment of  practical  means  to 
implement  these  findings  at  the 
grower  level.  Should  the  developers 
of  the  rapidly  expanding  acreage 
take  advantage  of  this  knowledge 
and  use  their  ingenuity  to  develop 
practical  barriers  to  weed  invasion, 
the  control  problem  for  later  years 
would  be  minimized. 

A  study  now  in  progress  seeks 
means  to  speed  the  rooting  and 
early  growth  of  cranberry  cuttings 
in  new  plantings.  The  philosophy 
behind  this  investigation  of  root- 
ing stimulants,  propagation  media, 
and  soil  moisture  tensions  is  that 
an  early  cover  of  cranberry  vines 
would  discourage  germination  and 
establishment  of  perennial  weeds. 


FOURTEEN 


Vigorous  vines  for  planting  and 
careful  water  management  after 
planting  contribute  to  vigorous 
growth.  Early  results  suggest  that 
phosphorous  nutrition  may  also  be 
heavily  involved  in  early  vine 
growth. 

The  herbicide  research  program 
screens  new  products  that  offer 
any  possibility  of  success  under 
the  conditions  peculiar  to  cran- 
berry bogs.  The  first  year  test  is 
a  preliminary  evaluation  to  deter- 
mine broad  limits  of  toxicity  to 
the  cranberry  plant.  If  the  cran- 
berry plant  shows  an  acceptable 
degree  of  tolerance,  the  herbicide 
is  then  tested  against  a  number 
of  weed  species.  Any  premising 
chemicals  are  placed  in  replicated 
yield  tests  and  careful  records  of 
vine  response  are  maintained  to 
provide  data  for  later  recommen- 
dations. 

The  weed  control  problems  of 
the  cranberry  grower  are  many. 
Only  a  few  of  the  most  difficult 
problems  will  be  discussed  here. 
Creeping  sedge,  Carex  chordorhiza, 
is  the  species  causing  growers  the 
most    concern    at    this    time.    The 


species  occurs  in  sand  as  well  as 
peat  soils  and  both  in  highly  and 
moderately  acid  conditions.  Its 
occurrences  as  a  major  competitor 
are  becoming  more  widespread 
for  reasons  which  are  not  well 
understood.  It  is  known  to  be 
carried  both  as  seed  and  as  vega- 
tative  propagules  in  vines  and 
thus,  is  moved  from  one  property 
to  another  as  a  contaminant  in 
nursery  stock.  Quite  possibly  its 
seeds  and  runners  are  mcved  by 
mechanical  harvesters  and  are  dis- 
persed over  any  given  property 
by  this  means.  There  is  some  evi- 
dence to  suggest  that  the  practice 
of  maintaining  cranberry  marshes 
in  a  drier  state  than  was  the  case 
20  years  ago  has  contributed  to 
the  gradual  spread  of  this  pest. 
Present  research  for  control  is 
directed  toward  testing  combina- 
tions of  contact  and  residual 
herbicides  (petroleum  derivatives 
and  diquat,  6,  7-dihydrodipyrido 
(1,  2-a:2',  li-c)pyrazidilnium  di- 
bromide,  with  dichlobenil  and 
dalapon)  in  conjunction  with 
flooding  regimes.  At  the  same  time 
observations  en  the  ecology  of  the 


species  continues  from  year  to 
year  with  the  hope  that  a  weak 
point  in  its  life  cycle  may  be 
found  where  management  prac- 
tices might  be  adjusted  to  suppress 
the  growth  of  the  weed.  Water 
levels  over  the  soil  surface  for 
several  months  have  not  success- 
fully controlled  the  species.  There 
is  no  known  practice  to  eradicate 
this  Carex  although  heavy  appli- 
cations of  petroleum  materials  in 
the  spring  will  suppress  its  de- 
velopment and  spread. 

A  second  major  problem  is  the 
eradication  of  woody  species.  Wil- 
lows, Salix  sp.;  brambles,  Riilms 
sp.;  leatherleaf,  Chamaedaphne 
calycvilata;  bog  rosemai'y,  Andro- 
meda polifoUa;  hardback.  Spiraea 
tomentosa;  and  meadowsweet,  S. 
alba  not  only  compete  with  cran- 
berries for  light,  space  and  nutri- 
ents; but  also  interfere  seriously 
with  the  orderly  operation  of 
mechanical  pickers.  Herbicides  ef- 
are  also  highly  toxic  to  the 
cranberry  vines.  Treatment  of 
individual  plants  with  carefully 
fective   against   the   above   species 


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controlled  sprays  of  systemic  ma- 
terials, is  the  only  reasonable 
approach  to  this  problem  in  sub- 
stantial stands  of  weedy  brush 
although  hand  pulling  is  econcmi- 
cal  and  effective  in  sparse  stands. 
A  selective  herbicide  toxic  to  the 
above  species  but  harmless  to 
cranberries  would,  of  course,  be  a 
welcomed  product. 

The  third  problem  on  which  the 
research  program  will  concentrate 
in  the  immediate  future  is  the 
c  ntrcl  of  annual  grasses.  Included 
in  this  group  are  barnyard  grass, 
Echinochloa  ciiisgalli;  pungent 
barnyard  grass,  E.  pimgeiis;  sev- 
eral species  in  the  genus  Panicum; 
and  tufted  lovegrass,  Eragrostis 
pectinacea.  These  species  germi- 
nate in  the  spring  and  become 
troublesome  from  mid-summer 
onward.  They  shade  the  blossoming 
vines  and  thus  interfere  with  pol- 
lination and  also  interfere  with 
harvest.  CIPC  and  dichlobenil  sup- 
press these  species  early  in  the 
summer  but  under  Wisconsin  con- 
diticns,  neither  herbicide  has  pro- 
vided full  season  control  at  rates 
of  use  safe  to  the  cranberries. 
Other  herbicides  have  not  received 
extensive  testing  for  this  specific 
purpose. 

Other  weed  species  that  offer 
major  problems  to  individual  pro- 
ducers but  do  not  occur  in  damag- 
ing populations  on  many  properties 
include  common  arrowhead,  Sag- 
gittiiria  latifolia;  Canada  anemone, 
Anemone  canadensis;  sweet  joepye- 
weed,  Eupatoriiim  purpureum; 
water  smartweed,  Polygonum  am- 
p>iit)ium  and  swamp  smartweed,  P. 
<<Krineum;  water  hemlock,  Cicuta 
Idilbifera;  marsh  five  finger,  I'oten- 
tilla  palustris,  and  swamp  dodder, 
Cusruta.  gronovii.  A  post  emer- 
gence herbicide  with  the  selec- 
tivity of  amitrole,  3-amino-l,  2, 
4-triazole,  would  be  useful  against 
these  weeds.  Any  material  that 
has  safety  on  vines  is  tested 
against  one  or  more  of  these 
species. 

The  weed  control  research  pro- 
gram for  cranberry  production 
evaluates  new  herbicides  for  spe- 
cific weed  problems  and  continues 
to  explore  management  practices 
as  they  influence  weed  populations. 
The  development  of  maximum 
vine     competition     through     good 

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management  is  essential  if  the 
herbicides  are  to  exert  their  full 
potential  of  effectiveness.  Research 
on  any  production  problem  will 
influence  the  weed  problem  and  is, 
therefore,  a  portion  of  the  weed 
control  program. 

LITERATURE   CITED 

1.  Dana,  M.  N.,  W.  A.  Skrcch  and 
D.  M.  Boone.  1965.  Granular 
herbicides  for  cranberry  bogs. 
Weeds  13:  In  press. 

2.  Skroch,  W.  A.  1964.  Sources  of 
weed  infestation  in  cranberry 
beds.  Ph.D.  Thesis,  University 
of  Wisconsin  (L.  C.  Card  No. 
Mic)  Univ.  Microfilms.  Ann 
Arbcr,  Mich.  (Dissertation 
Abstr.) 


Editor's  Note:  The  foregoing 
article  was  reprinted  from  the 
Proceedings  of  the  20th  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  North  Central  Weed 
Control  Conference.) 


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The  spring  meeting  of  cranberry 
growers  affiliated  with  Indian  Trail, 
Inc.,  was  held  recently  at  Wis- 
consin Rapids.  The  gathering  was 
held  at  the  Mead  Inn  with  about 
75  cranberry  growers  and  wives 
attending. 

Guest  speaker  was  William  Han- 
son of  Clintonville,  widely  known 
for  his  humorous  presentation  in 
the  role  of  the  "Norwegian  Philo- 
sopher." 

Also  speaking  at  the  meeting 
during  the  after-dinner  program 
were  Ben  G.  Pannkuk,  Indian 
Trail  president,  and  Joe  P.  Hoel- 
ting,  sales  manager.  Mr.  Pannkuk 
outlined  marketing  plans  for  fresh, 
frozen  and  processed  cranberries 
during  the  coming  year.  He  dis- 
cussed expansion  of  Indian  Trail's 
line  of  products  for  increasing 
cranberry  juice  production. 

Hoelting  spoke  about  ASCS  pro- 
jects for  soil  conservation  and 
irrigation. 

Final  payments  were  presented 
to  the  growers  for  the  1964  crop. 


off.  With  growers  and  processors 
working  together,  they  increased 
sales  last  year  by  $5  million  while 
returning  24%  more  in  payments 
to  cranberry  producers.  (From 
Fruit-O-Scope,  the  American  Fruit 
Grower.) 


Oregon  Prospects 
Good  "  Spring  Was 
Early 

The  Bandon,  Oregon,  cranberry 
area  had  an  early  spring.  The 
weather  was  favorable  for  a  good 
crop  year.  March  nights  were  cold, 
but  day-time  temperatures  started 
early  growth.  Many  days  were 
warm  and  balmy. 

A  few  growers  started  sprinkling 
for  frost  early  in  March.  April 
was  warmer  than  usual.  There 
were  fewer  frosts  than  average, 
resulting  in  early  growth.  By  May 
4th  some  bogs  were  in  the  rough- 
neck stage.  Young  vines — 5,  6  and  7 
years  old — were  in  the  dangle  stage 
by  the  same  date. 

Casoron-treated  bogs  for  weed 
control  look  very  good. 

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Wisconsin  River  reached  its  high- 
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A  Brief  History 
of  Cranberry 
Entomologists 

Also  a  Brief  History  of 

Entomology  as  Concerns 

Cranberries 


by 
William  E.  Tomlinson,  Jr. 

(Entomologist  at  the  Massachusetts 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station) 
Because  it  was  a  native  plant, 
the  cranberry  had  a  regular  insect 
launa  even  before  it  was  intro- 
duced to  cultivation  in  the  first 
half  of  the  eighteen  hundreds. 
Their  depredations  were  probably 
annoying  in  the  days  before  culti- 
vation in  years  of  abundance  when 
they  destroyed  whole  crops,  but 
little  if  anything  was  done  to  con- 
trol these  "acts  of  God." 

This  viewpoint  no  doubt  changed 
very  soon  after  bogs  were  first 
cared  for  when  the  grower  saw 
his  efforts  and  profits  being  con- 
sumed by  fireworms  or  fruitworms 
or  some  other  insect  pest.  By  the 
year  1856,  when  the  Reverend 
B.  Eastwood  wrote  his  book 
''Cranberry  Culture,"  the  fruit- 
wcrm  was  a  well  recognized  pest, 
and  this  and  another  insect  known 
only  as  "the  worm"  were  discussed 
in  it.  "The  worm"  was  more  than 
likely  the  black-headed  fireworm, 
though  possibly  yellow-headed 
fireworm  was  also  involved.  Cer- 
tainly the  insect  mentioned  in  the 
letter  cf  Augustus  Leland  on  page 
114  of  this  book  was  the  black- 
headed  fireworm,  and  its  ravages 
were  known  to  Leland  at  least  as 
early  as  1840  at  Sherborn,  Mass. 

In  1870,  a  book  also  entitled 
"Cranberry  Culture"  was  written 
by  Joseph  J.  White  of  New  Jer- 
sey. It  is  in  this  book  that  we  first 
encounter  the  name  of  William  C. 
Fish  of  Orleans,  Mass.  Included  as 
an  Appendix  in  White's  book  is  a 
report  that  Mr.  Fish  made  to  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers  As- 
sociation in  1869  on  "Insects  In- 
jurious to  the  Cranberry."  He  has 
the  distinction  of  being  the  first 
professional  cranberry  entomolo- 
gist, antidating  J.  B.  Smith  in  this 
respect  by  a  dozen  years  and  H.  J. 


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Franklin  by  almost  40  years,  for 
he  was  hired  to  study  cranberry 
insects  on  Cape  Cod  by  the  Cape 
Cod  Cranberry  Growers  Associ- 
ation and  was  paid  the  sum  of  $150 
for  this  study  made  in  the  summer 
of  1869. 

Fish  made  his  study  with  con- 
siderable care  and  understanding, 
as  his  repcrt  attests.  In  it  he  dis- 
cussed the  black-headed  fireworm 
and  its  control  with  10-hour  re- 
flows,  fruitworm  and  its  control 
by  late  holding,  as  well  as  descrip- 
tions of  tipworm  and  its  injury, 
and  a  spanworm  that  may  have 
been  the  brown  cranberry  span- 
wcrm  or  the  cranberry  spanworm 
of  J.  B.  Smith  (cotton  spanworm 
of  Franklin) . 

A.  S.  Packard,  the  foremost 
American  entomological  writer  in 
the  period  following  the  Civil  War, 
described  several  cranberry  insects 
in  his  writings,  most  of  which 
were  credited  to  this  same  W.  C. 
Fish  for  collection,  life  history- 
data,  and  control  recommendations. 
These  are  found  in  the  reports  of 
the  Massachusetts  State  Entomolo- 
gist   for    1871,    1872,  and    1873,    or 


in  "Guide  of  the  Study  of  Insects" 
by  A.  S.  Packard  which  was  first 
published  in  1869. 

In  1883  and  1884,  John  B.  Smith 
studied  cranberry  insects  in  Mas- 
sachusetts and  New  Jersey  for  the 
U.S.D.A.  The  results  are  published 
in  Bui.  "4  of  the  Division  of  En- 
tomology for  1883  and  in  the  report 
cf  the  Entomologist  for  1884. 

In  1890,  Smith  wrote  Special 
Bulletin  K  of  the  New  Jersey 
Agricultural  College  Experiment 
Station  entitled  "The  Insects  In- 
juriously Affecting  Cranberries." 
Though  it  applies  particularly  to 
New  Jersey  conditions,  most  of 
the  same  problems  were  known  in 
Massachusetts  also.  In  1930,  the 
U.S.D.A.  published  Farmers  Bui. 
178  ''Insects  Injurious  in  Cran- 
berry Culture"  also  by  J.  B.  Smith. 
This  too  was  aimed  at  New  Jersey 
conditions  more  than  those  of 
Massachusetts. 

In  the  early  1900's,  C.  B.  Hard- 
enberg  studied  the  insects  attacking 
cranberries  in  Wisconsin,  and  Wis- 
consin Bui.  *159  "The  Cranberry 
Insects  of  Wisconsin"  was  pub- 
lished in  1908  as  a  result  of  these 


studies. 

Through  the  efforts  of  the  Cape 
Cod  Cranberry  Growers  Associ- 
ation, H.  J.  Franklin  first  entered 
the  cranberry  scene  as  a  special 
investigator  of  Cape  Cod  cranberry 
insect  problems  in  the  summers  of 
1906  and  1907.  In  1909,  this  same 
organization  spearheaded  the 
establishment  of  the  Massachusetts 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station  at 
East  Wareham  of  which  Dr.  Frank- 
lin was  in  charge  from  1909  until 
his  retirement  in  the  fall  of  1952. 

Cranberry  insect  control  methods 
may  change  but  the  knowledge 
that  he  gathered  and  the  excellent 
descriptions  he  published  on  cran- 
berry insects,  their  life  histories 
and  habits  will  always  be  of  value 
as  long  as  cranberries  are  grown. 
His  cranberry  bulletins  have  aptly 
been  called  the  cranberry  growers 
"Bible." 

In  the  decade  from  1910  to  1920, 
H.  B.  Scammell  worked  on  cran- 
berry insects  in  New  Jersey  for 
the  U.S.D.A.,  publishing  on  the 
life  history,  habits  and  control  of 
the     cranberry     girdler     and     the 


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cranberry  rootworm.  Also  a  re- 
vision cf  Farmers  Bulletin  -178 
was  prepared  by  him  as  Farmers 
Bulletin  -860  entitled  "Cranberry 
Insect  Problems  and  Suggestions 
for  Solving  Them"  in  1917. 

In  1918,  the  New  Jersey  Agri- 
cultural Experiment  Station  estab- 
lished a  cranberry  substation  with 
an  entomologist,  Charles  S.  Beck- 
with,  in  charge  at  Whitesbog,  N.  J. 
He  actively  investigated  New  Jer- 
sey cranberry  insect  problems  until 
his  untimely  death  in  1944.  He  was 
first  to  publish  that  the  vector  of 
cranberry  false  blossom  was  the 
blunt-nosed  cranberry  leafhopper, 
and  he  did  much  pioneer  work 
with  the  developing  cultivated 
blueberry  industry  and  its  prob- 
lems, particularly  blueberry  mag- 
got and  the  cranberry  fruitworm. 

Donald  S.  Lacroix  worked  sev- 
eral summers  in  the  early  1920's  as 
an  assistant  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion. In  1926,  he  published  the  first 


detailed  report  on  the  biology  and 
control  of  the  cranberry  weevil 
from  work  done  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  in  1923,  1924  and  1925. 

In  1932,  '33  and  '34,  A.  E.  Rich- 
mond worked  at  East  Wareham  on 
cranberry  insect  control  with 
Pyrethrum  dusts  in  cooperation 
with  the  Crop  Protection  Institute. 

In  New  Jersey^  Dr.  Byrley  Drig- 
gers  worked  as  an  assistant  to  C. 
S.  Beckwith  in  the  1920's.  In  1930, 
Charles  E.  Dcehlert  became  Beck- 
with's  assistant  and  worked  on 
insect  and  cultural  problems  of 
both  cranberries  and  blueberries 
from  1930  until  his  retirement  in 
1959.  From  1945  through  1950,  W. 
E.  Tomlinson,  Jr.,  was  engaged  by 
the  New  Jersey  Experiment  Sta- 
tion to  work  on  cranberry  and 
blueberry  insect  problems.  From 
1947  to  1949,  and  from  1951  to 
date,  P.  E.  Marucci  has  investi- 
gated New  Jersey  cranberry  and 
blueberry   insect    problems,    espe- 


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cially  vectors  of  blueberry  stunt 
disease,  cranberry  tipworm,  and 
Sparganothls  sulfiirana.  Martin  T. 
Hutchinson  also  worked  on  cran- 
berry and  blueberry  insects  at  the 
New  Jersey  Station  from  1949 
through  1952. 

The  exact  role  of  many  persons 
associated  with  cranberry  ento- 
mology in  Wisconsin  has  been 
difficult  to  ascertain.  However, 
names  that  I  have  found  associ- 
ated more  or  less  in  their  crder 
of  appearance  are  W.  Postiff  and 
C.  W.  Hooker  who  worked  on  fire- 
worms  and  fruitworms  at  the 
Wisconsin  Experimental  Bog  in 
1910.  O.  G.  Malde  was  in  charge 
of  the  Wisconsin  Experimental 
Bog  until  it  was  discontinued  in 
1918  and  was  also  Deputy  State 
Entomologist  on  cranberry  insect 
control  until  some  time  after  1922. 
S.  B.  Fracker  in  the  1920's,  and 
later  E.  L.  Chambers,  as  State  En- 
tomologist were  in  charge  of  the 
cranberry  insect  survey  program. 

From  1926  to  1928,  H.  F.  Bain 
was  State  Cranberry  Specialist 
with  at  least  some  entomological 
duties.  L.  M.  Rogers  held  that 
position  for  several  years  after 
Bain  left  in  1928.  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy  worked  on  cranberry  false 
blossom  vectors  in  the  late  1920's 
and  beginning  in  the  early  1930's, 
as  manager  of  the  Wisconsin  Cran- 
berry Sales  Company,  included 
among  his  duties  was  insect  con- 
trol. From  1944  to  1958,  H.  F.  Bain 
was  employed  by  a  group  of  Wis- 
consin growers  to  work  on  cul- 
tural problems  including  insects 
and  G.  L.  Peltier  worked  as  a 
consultant  to  Indian  Trail  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  beginning  in  1951. 

On  the  West  Coast,  H.  K.  Plank 
was  a  scientific  investigator  for 
the  U.S.D.A.,  appointed  to  study 
the  black-headed  fireworms  in 
Washington  and  Oregon  in  1918 
and  1919.  D.  J.  Crowley  headed  up 
the  Washington  State  Cranberry 
Station  from  its  beginning  in  1923 
until  his  retirement  in  1953.  He 
worked  on  all  phases  of  cranberry 
and  blueberry  culture,  including 
insects  that  affected  West  Coast 
plantings. 

Since  1952,  W.  E.  Tomlinson,  Jr., 
has  worked  on  Massachusetts 
cranberry  insects  problems,  par- 
ticularly root  grub   control,   cran- 


berry fruitworm  control,  and 
methods  of  insecticide  applications 
on  cranberry  bogs. 

In  Canada,  C.  W.  Maxwell  and 
G.  T.  Morgan  worked  on  cran- 
berry fruitworm  life  history  and 
control  in  the  province  of  New 
Brunswick   in  the  early  1950's. 

That  there  have  been  others  en- 
gaged professionally  in  the  ento- 
mology of  cranberries  is  very 
probable.  The  omission  of  their 
names  is  due  to  lack  of  knowledge 
on  the  author's  part.  Records  are 
often  fragmentary  and  widely 
scattered. 


May  Opens  With 
A  Rash  of  Mass. 
Fires,  One  Bad 

May  began — in  fact.  May  1st — 
with  a  rash  of  forest  fires  in  the 
tinder-dry  woodlands.  The  worst 
fire  was  a  blaze  in  the  Sandwich- 
Bourne  area  on  the  Cape. 

In  this  fire  about  2,000  acres 
were  destroyed,  the  blaze  on  a  ten- 
mile  front,  roaring  over  the  wide 
Mid-Cape  highway,  a  major  ar- 
tery. The  fire  was  fought  by 
hundreds.  Hundreds  of  people  were 
evacuated  in  the  towns  of  Sand- 
wich and  Bourne  and  the  village 
of  Buzzards  Bay. 

A  part  of  the  Shawm  State  For- 
est at  Sandwich  was  burned  over. 
The  clouds  of  smoke  were  seen 
from  60  miles  away  at  Province- 
town,  tip  of  the  Cape.  This  was 
termed  by  officials  as  the  worst 
fire  in  a  number  of  years  on  the 
Cape. 

No  houses  were  burned,  how- 
ever, but  there  were  two  injuries. 

Other  fires  included  one  in  the 
Long  Pond  area  of  Plymouth  woods 
in  Plymouth  county.  There  was  a 
total  of  383  wood  fires  over  the 
May  1st  weekend,  according  to 
Commissioner  of  Natural  Re- 
sources Charles  W.  Foster. 

By  the  5th  there  were  101  new 
wood  fires  reported  in  drought- 
ridden  Massachusetts. 

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CHANGES  AT 
LONG  BEACH,  WN., 
ARE  ANNOUNCED 

Officials  of  the  Washington  State 
University  have  completed  ar- 
rangements involving  personnel  at 
the  Coastal  Washington  Experi- 
ment Station  at  Long  Beach.  Dr. 
Mark  T.  Buchanan,  director  of  the 
Washington  State  University, 
stated  that  Dr.  Charles  C.  Doughty 
will  leave  his  post  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  Long  Beach  Station 
July  1st  in  order  to  move  to  the 
Western  Experiment  Station  at 
Puyallup. 

Dr.  Doughty  has  been  superin- 
tendent of  the  Station  at  Long 
Beach  since  1957  and  was  acting 
superintendent  for  three  years 
prior  to  this.  His  duties  at  Puyallup 
will  include  working  half-time  on 
cranberry  research  and  half-time 
in  other  small  fruits. 

Also  involved  in  the  change  will 
be  Azmi  Shawa,  senior  horticul- 
turist at  Long  Beach  since  1960. 
He  will  remain  on  at  Long  Beach 
as  horticulturist  and  will  also 
handle  duties  for  WSU's  experi- 
ment station. 

Irma  Anderson,  secretary  at 
Long  Beach,  will  continue  in  her 
present  role. 

Dr.  Buchanan  stated  in  connec- 
tion with  the  changes  it  was 
WSU's  continuing  plan  to  provide 
strong  investigation  where  cran- 
berries are  concerned  and  to  give 
desired  service  to  cranberry 
growers. 


N.   J.    WEATHER  QUOTE 

Allison  Scammell,  veteran  cran- 
berry grower  of  Pemberton,  New 
Jersey,  and  the  subject  of  a  pre- 
vious article,  is  quoted  in  a  recent 
issue  of  the  Pemberton  Times- 
Advertiser  in  its  "Cackles  from 
the  Starling"  column.  The  item  is: 

Allison  ScammeU  quotes  the 
weatherman  as  saying  it  is  going 
to  be  milder  .  .  .  applied  to  weather 
the  word  mild  indicates  neither 
hot  nor  cold— a  sort  of  in  between 
state.  Allison  wants  to  know  how 
the  weather  can  be  more  in  be- 
tween. 


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hoppers,  including  the  leafhoppers  that  spread 
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The  long-lasting  residue  of  SEVIN  assures 
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Even  in  the  hottest  weather,  SEVIN  residues 
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Safer-to-use  than  many  insecticides,  SEVIN 
is  low  in  toxicity  to  humans,  livestock  and  fish. 
Spray  or  dust  operators,  using  SEVIN,  do  not 
require  special  protective  clothing.  They  only 
need  to  observe  simple  precautions.  Workers 
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"HELP" 

COMING  NEW  HELP  TO  FIND 
HELP.  The  Federal  Government 
offers  a  bewildering  array  of 
"help''  through  a  maze  of  officers; 
U.S.D.A.;  Department  of  Com- 
merce, Labor,  Defense,  Health, 
Education  and  Welfare.  Small  Busi- 
ness Administration;  Anti-Poverty 
office;  Area  Development  Admin- 
istration, etc.,  etc.  Now  the 
U.S.D.A.  is  creating  a  new  office, 
called  the  Rural  Community  De- 
velopment Service  (RCDS)  so  that 


farm  groups  and  rural  communities 
can  go  to  one  office  and  find  what 
"help"     is    available.     (From     the 
Farm  Journal.) 


Maurice  Makepeace  of  the  A.  D. 
Makepeace  Company  of  Wareham, 
Mass.,  and  Mrs.  Makepeace,  have 
returned  from  an  extended  vaca- 
tion to  the  West  Coast  and  Hawaii. 
In  going  cross  country  they  went 
by  train,  via  the  Burlington  Route 
to  San  Francisco,  and  then  on  to 
Hawaii,  and  returning  by  train  via 
the  Great  Northern. 


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MRS.  CARL  URANN 

Mrs.  Carl  Urann,  widow  of  Carl 
Urann,  who  was  president  of 
United  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Com- 
pany, Hanson,  Mass.,  and  a  direc- 
tor of  Ocean  Spray,  died  May 
12th  at  her  home  in  Duxbury, 
Mass.  She  was  73. 

Born  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  she 
spent  her  early  years  in  Nantucket, 
Mass.  A  resident  of  Middleboro  for 
20  years,  she  moved  to  Duxbury 
about  two  months  ago.  She  was  a 
member  of  Nantucket  Historical 
Society  and  the  Attleboro  and 
Nantucket  Archaeological  Socie- 
ties. Her  late  husband  was  a 
brother  of  Marcus  L.  Urann,  first 
president  of  the  present  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 

She  leaves  a  son,  Marcus  M., 
president  of  the  United  Cape  Cod, 
and  two  daughters  Mrs.  Maxine  M. 
Baldry  of  Sussex,  England,  and 
Mrs.  Mina  B.  Manner  of  Duxbury. 

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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued   from   Page    6 

including  tornadoes  in  southern 
Wisconsin  en  Palm  Sunday.  The 
extended  forecast  for  May  calls 
for  temperatures  to  be  about  nor- 
mal and  precipitation  above  nor- 
mal. 

Water  Drawn  Late 

The  extended  cold  weather  and 
accompanying  snow  delayed  the 
removal  of  the  winter  floods  from 
the  second  week  normal  in  the 
south  to  the  end  of  the  month  in 
the  far  north.  This  was  about  ten 
days  later  than  normal,  and  two 
weeks  later  than  last  year.  Reser- 
voirs still  had  ice  in  the  south  at 
month's  end  and  in  the  far  north 
they  were  still  ice  fishing  the  last 
week  of  the  month. 

High  Water  Supplies 

Frost  depths  were  still  three  feet 
deep  in  some  areas  by  the  end  of 
the  month  and  the  heavier  cran- 
berry soils  had  hard  frost  at  the 
depth  of  four  inches.  Reservoirs 
were  filling  up  and  water  was 
being  wasted  at  the  end  of  the 
month.  All  areas  reported  the 
highest  spring  water  levels  in 
years.  Flooding  was  not  a  serious 
problem  although  there  were  num- 
erous washouts  and  heaving  of 
bulkheads.  Ground  water  tables 
wei'e  building  up,  which  showed 
the  first  gains  in  many  months. 


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ISSUE   OF  MAY,    1965 
VOL.    30 -NO.     1 


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Future  of  the  Cranberry  Business  as  Seen  by 
an  Independent  Grower  and  Processor 

We  believe  that  the  cranberry  industry  can 
look  forward  to  a  very  bright  future  and  there 
will  not  be  enough  cranberries  grown  in  the 
United  States  to  take  care  of  the  demand  for 
the  fresh  fruit  outiets  —  cranberry  sauce,  and 
the  new  products  which  are  making  a  strong 
impact  on  the  consumer.  While  we  expect 
the  fresh  fruit  sales  to  decrease  slowly  each 
year,  the  new  products  such  as  Cranberry 
Cocktail,  Cranberry  Orange  Relish,  Spiced 
Cranberries,  Maraschino  Cranberries  and  a 
number  of  new  types  of  cranberry  preserves  in 
the  combination  with  other  fruits,  will  more 
than   pick   up    this    slack. 

As  far  as  acreage  increase  is  concerned,  most 
ji  it  will  come  in  Wisconsin,  and  I  do  not 
jelieve  there  will  be  very  much  acreage  in- 
crease in  Massachusetts,  New  Jersev,  or  Wash- 
ington and  Oregon.  Wisconsin  will  definitely 
36  increasing  its  acreage  from  300  to  500 
icres  a  year  if  potential  plans  go  through.  A 
good  part  of  this  acreage  will  be  planted  with 
new  varieties  such  as  Stevens,  Pilgrims,  Beck- 
with,  and  others,  as  planting  stock  becomes 
available.  These  new  varieties  wdll  outyield 
the  present  varieties  of  cranberries  being  grown 
nd  in  addition  most  of  them  \vill  be  better 
for  processing  than  any  of  the  other  varieties 
that  are  now  being  grown,  particularlv  the 
Searles  Jumbo,  which  is  a  heaw  vielder  but 
not  a  particularlv  good  processing  berry. 

We  predict  Canada  will  also  increase  its 
cranberry  production  and  the  main  limiting 
factor  would  be  capital  and  management,  but 
if  these  are  overcome  we  can  look  for  Canada 
to  soon  grow  all  the  berries  it  wiW  need  for 
its  own  use,  and  will  not  need  to  import  any 
from  the  United  States.  The  big  increase  mav 
be  in  British  Columbia  where  raw  land  costs 
$500  an  acre  comjoared  to  approximately  $5 
an  acre  in  Wisconsin. 

We  predict  that  the  use  of  .sprinkling 
svstems  ^\^ll  gro\\'  more  and  more  in  producing 
areas,   and   quite  rapidly. 


CLARENCE    J.    HALL 
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EDITH  S.  HALL  —  Associate  Editor 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -  ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry  Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

Wisconsin 


Washington 

Dr.  CHARLES  C.  DOUGHTY 
Cranberry  Specialist 
Long    Beach.    Wash. 


Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,    Ore. 


Massachusetts 

Dr.  CHESTER  E.  CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East  Wareham,  Mass. 


New  Jersey 

P.  E.  MARUCCI 
New  Jersey  Cranberry  and   Blueberry   Station 

New    Lisboffi,    New    Jersey 


Again,  we  sa)%  the  cranberr)^  grower  can 
look  forward  to  the  future  with  confidence 
and  optimism. 

Verxox  Goldsworthy 

President  of  Cranberry   Products,   Inc. 

Eagle    Ri\'er,    Wisconsin 

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John  Chandler  of  Sterling,  Mass., 
passed  away  recently.  He  had  been 
an  apple  grower  since  1913  and 
he  was  named  Massachusetts  Com- 


missioner of  Agriculture  in  1947. 
He  served  in  that  capacity  until 
1950. 

Mr.  Chandler  was  well  known 
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ers and  attended  meetings  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association. 

He  held  many  offices  in  fruit 
organizations;  in  1924  he  was 
president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Fruit  Growers  Association. 

He  was  an  officer  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pomological  Society.  He  was 
75  years  of  age. 


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Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


Weather 

The  month  of  May  was  wanner 
and  drier  than  usual.  Tempera- 
tures averaged  slightly  more  than 
¥2  degree  a  day  above  normal  and 
this  is  the  first  month  in  the  past 
twelve  that  had  above  average 
temperatures.  Rainfall  for  the 
month  totalled  2.35  inches,  or  about 
1  inch  below  average.  This  is  the 
5th  consecutive  month  with  below 
normal  precipitation  and  leaves  us 
about  IV2  inches  below  normal  for 
the  year  at  the  Station.  Even  so, 
we  are  much  better  oflf  than  some 
other  areas,  Plymouth  and  Middle- 
boro  for  example,  had  only  1.3 
inches  of  rain  in  May  and  Boston 
recorded  less  than  1  inch  for  the 
month.  While  on  the  subject  of 
weather,  there  was  a  statement 
made  in  last  month's  column  that 
"winter   injury  is  practically  nil," 


this  needs  modification.  There  is  a 
little  winterkill  around,  but  the 
total  acreage  involved  is  small; 
however,  there  is  a  fair  amount 
of  vine  injury  from  picking  and 
fall  sanding,  probably  due  to  the 
extremely  dry  conditions  that  pre- 
vailed  last    season. 

Keeping  Quality 

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

"Weather  conditions  to  date  give 
us  7  points  out  of  a  possible  16 
which  favor  good  keeping  quality 
fruit.  Based  on  the  point  system, 
the  prospects  are  for  good  to  very 
good  keeping  quality  in  the  1965 
Massachusetts  crop.  Bogs  that  tend 
to  produce  weak  fruit  or  that  have 
excessive  vine  growth  would  bene- 
fit from  fungicide  treatments. 
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mended  fungicides.  For  details, 
see  the  1965  Insect  and  Disease 
Control  Chart.  New  owners  of 
sprinkler  systems  are  cautioned 
against  excessive  use  of  the  sys- 
tem for  irrigation  during  the 
blooming  period." 

Frost 
The  spring  frost  season  has  been 
fairly  active  so  far,  with  15  warn- 
ings released  during  May.  The  first 
warning  was  on  May  6.  There  were 
11  warnings  for  the  same  period 
in  1964.  These  figures  include  both 
afternoon  and  evening  warnings. 
Frost  damage  this  spring  has  been 
light  and  mostly  in  the  Upper 
Cape  area.  The  damage  is  believed 
to  have  occurred  on  the  nights  of 
the  14th  and  21st  when  tempera- 
tures ranged  from  23°  to  27°  and 
23°  to  28°  respectively.  Total  frost 
damage  is  in  the  neighborhood 
of  1  percent. 

Insects 

Insect  activity  has  been  about 
average  to  date.  Reports  indicate 
that  blossomworms  and  cut  worms 
are  more  abundant  than  usual 
this  spring.  Weevil,  Sparganothis 
fruitworm  and  spanworms  are 
appearing  in  average  numbers  and 
fireworm  infestations  are  on  the 
light  side.  Gypsy  moth  caterpillars 
are    an    increasing    menace    espe- 


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cially  in  the  Cape  Cod  area,  but 
a  few  have  been  found  on  the 
State  Bog  and  scattered  ones  re- 
ported as  far  as  Middleboro.  A 
flash  card  was  sent  out  in  late  May- 
advising  the  growers  to  be  on  the 
loolvout  for  this  pest.  The  first 
fruitworm  miller  was  caught  in 
Prof.  Tcmlinson's  black  light  trap 


on  May  28;  this  is  the  earliest  date 
that  these  have  been  caught  by 
this  method. 


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Richard  Lagreze   has   been   ap- 
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according  to  an  announcement 
from  Edward  Gelsthorpe,  Executive 
Vice-President  and  General  Man- 
ager. 

Mr.  Lagreze  has  spent  the  last 
25  years  in  key  production  and 
cperation  positions  with  major  in- 
dustries. Before  coming  to  Ocean 
Spray,  he  was  Manager  of  Cor- 
poration Engineering  Economics 
for  General  Foods  Corporation.  He 
has  also  been  associated  with 
Proctor  and  Gamble  as  Group 
Producticn  Manager  and  with  the 
Commander  Company  as  General 
Manager. 

In  his  new  post  with  Ocean 
Spray,  he  will  direct  the  over-all 
operations  of  its  plants  in  Hanson 
and  Onset,  Mass.;  Bordentown, 
N.  J.;  North  Chicago,  111.,  and 
Markham,  Wash.,  and  Canada. 
The  Purchasing  and  Grower  Rela- 
tions Departments  will  also  report 
to   Mr.  Lagreze. 

Mr.  Lagreze  is  a  graduate  of 
Harvard  College  and  of  the  Har- 
vard Graduate  School  of  Business 
Administration.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Society  for  Advancement 
of  Management  and  the  American 
Institute  of  Industrial  Engineers. 


HAIL  DAMAGE 
IN   WISCONSIN 

There  was  quite  a  lot  of  hail, 
wide-spread  in  Wisconsin  just  be- 
fore the  middle  of  May,  according 
to  Vernon  Goldsworthy  of  Eagle 
River,  Wisconsin.  He  has  found 
also  there  was  quite  a  lot  of  fall 
injury  to  marshes  around  the  state 
before  the  winter  floods  were 
put  on. 


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FOUR 


Issue  of  June,    1965 -Vol.   30,   No.   2 

Second    Class    Postage     Paid     at     Warehatn,        Massachusetts     Post     Office 
Published     monthly     at     Wareham,      Vlassachuscts  Subscriptions     ?400,    Foreign,    }!5.00    per    year. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


May  Starts  Warm 

The  first  four  days  of  May 
brought  a  plus  of  15  degrees  for 
the  month  to  that  date.  On  the 
night  of  the  fourth  there  was  a 
heavy  thunderstorm,  with  a  house 
struck  by  lightning  at  South  Ware- 
ham. 

Night  of  4th  Cold 

Although  no  frost  warning  was 
issued,  the  State  Bog  report  was 
that  the  temperature  would  go  to 
21.  At  the  State  Bog  a  low  of 
25 1/2  was  reached  and  there  were 
lower  spots  than  that — one  20  and 
one  19  degrees.  No  warning  was 
issued  because  the  buds  had  not 
started  to  swell.  Early  Blacks  had 
a  tolerance  of  20. 

However,  early  May  failed  to  be 
very  springlike,  as  at  least  along 
the  coast  in  the  cranberry  areas 
there  were  brisk  on-shore  winds, 
which  really  felt  chilly.  On  the 
9th  the  plus  was  U  degrees. 
Temperatures  Go  Up 

The  weather  began  to  warm  up 
towards  the  middle  of  May  and  the 
temperature  by  the  13th  was  a  plus 
49.  There  was  a  very  helpful 
downpour   of    rain    on    the    11th. 


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Another  rain,  accompanied  by 
thunder,  came  on  the  afternoon 
of  the  13th,  but  precipitation  did 
not  amount  to  much. 

Frost  Warning 

The  weather  turned  colder  and 
a  frost  warning  was  sent  out  from 
the  State  Bog  for  a  low  of  24  and 
that  the  tolerance  of  Early  Blacks 
was  25.  Growers  flooded  or 
sprinkled  and  temperatures  rang- 
ing from   19  to  29  were  reported. 

On  the  following  night  another 
warning  went  out  for  a  probable 
frost,  24-25,  with  tolerance  of  Early 
Blacks,  early-water  at  the  State 
Bog  25. 

Growers  flooded  or  sprinkled 
both  nights  and  Dr.  Cross,  Director 
of  the  Mass.  Experiment  Station, 
said  if  there  was  damage  it  was 
very  slight  and  confined  to  edges 
of  bogs. 


Rain  on  the  17th 

There  was  substantial  rain, 
thunder  and  lightning  most  of  the 
day  of  the  17th.  This  made  a  wel- 
come addition  to  the  scarce  water 
supply  in  a  number  of  areas.  The 
storm  was  a  violent  one  both  as 
to  lightning  and  thunder  and  a 
downpour  of  rain.  Total  as  re- 
corded at  State  Bog  was  1.03 
inches. 

There  followed  several  days  of 
cloudy,  cool  weather,  so  that  by 
the  22nd  the  plus  temperature  for 
the  month  had  dropped  to  20 
degrees. 

Frost  Again 

On  the  morning  of  the  22nd 
there  was  frost  again,  and  growers 
sprinkled  or  flooded.  Tolerance  of 
Early  Black  early-water  was  given 
at  29,  and  temperatures  from  231/2 
to  29  were  reported. 


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Fi'ost  Water   Supplies  Low 

Dr.  "Chet"  Cross  said  on  May 
24th  that  water  supplies  in  many 
instances  were  getting  dangerously 
low,  and  in  fact  some  growers  had 
already  used  up  their  supply.  He 
said  the  situation  was  "rough." 

Frost  occurred  on  the  morning 
of  the  24th,  the  forecast  being  for 
24-25  degrees,  and  temperatures  of 
24,  25  and  26  were  reached. 

There  was  another  warning 
issued  for  the  night  of  the  25th 
with  the  tolerance  for  Early  Blacks 
given  as  29^/2,  the  minimums  fore- 
cast being  25  and  26  degrees. 
While  there  was  plenty  of  frost 
around,  the  wind  continued  to  blow 
in  a  number  of  locations  and  the 
lows  reported  were  around  27 
degrees. 

Light  rain  occurred  on  the  night 
of  the  27th,  and  the  28th  brought 
a  substantial  rain,  which  not  only 
helped  the  bogs,  but  also  eased 
the  wood  fire  danger.  Substantial 
rain  occurred  again  on  the  29th. 


More  Frost 

A  warning  was  issued  for  Me- 
iTLorial  Day  morning  of  possible 
frost,  minimum  28,  29;  tolerance  of 
Early  Blacks  29.  Memorial  Day 
brought  a  minus  of  7  degrees, 
making  the  plus  to  that  day  22. 
Still  another  warning  went  out  for 
a  possible  frcst  in  cold  spots  on 
the  morning  of  June  1st,  but  the 
temperature  only  dropped  to  30 
degrees. 

Spring  Frost  Loss 

Dr.  Chester  Cross  estimated  the 
May  frost  loss  as  not  more  than 
1%. 

May  as  a  Cranberry  Month 

Dr.  Cross  said  he  considered  May 
a  relatively  good  month  for  the 
coming  cranberry  crop.  The  month 
was  sunny  and,  although  May  had 
a  chilly  ending,  the  bogs  had 
almost,  but  not  quite,  caught  up 
from  their  late  start.  Precipitation 
as  recorded  at  the  State  Bog  was 
2.35;  average  for  May,  3.18.  The 
month  as  a  whole  was  a  plus   19 


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degrees,  while  the  year  since  Jan- 
uary     1st     has      been     definitely 
colder  than  normal  with  a  figure 
of  minus  34  on  May  1st. 
June  Starts  Cold 

There  were  warnings  for  pos- 
sible frosts  on  the  morning  of  the 
3rd  and  the  4th  of  June.  Tolerance 
of  Early  Blacks  at  the  State  Bog 
was  291/2.  On  the  4th,  29  was 
reached  at  several  points  and  some 
growers  protected  their  bogs.  There 
was  little  or  no  loss. 

Substantial  Rain 

There  was  a  very  substantial 
soaking    rain    on    the    2nd. 


NEW    JERSEY 

May  Warm-Dry 

The  month  of  May  was  hot  and 
dry.  The  average  temperature  was 
65.3°,  which  is  2.5°  higher  than 
normal.  This  was  the  warmest 
May  in  20  years  and  one  of  the 
driest  en  record,  with  a  total  of 
1.02  inches  of  precipitation.  We 
have  had  drier  Mays  only  twice — 
last  year,  when  only  .36  of  an  inch 
of  rainfall  occurred,  and  in  1957 
when  there  was  only  .74  of  an 
inch  of  precipitation. 

Desperate  Water  Situation 

We  are  now  actually  in  a  more 
desperate  situation  for  water  than 
we  were  last  year,  which  went  into 
the  reccrds  as  an  extremely  severe 
drought.  As  of  the  end  of  May  we 
have  had  only  12.89  inches  this 
year,  which  is  more  than  4  inches 
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ROCHESTER,  MASS. 


Clinton  Macauley,  New  Jersey,  President  of  American  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association,  Is  a  Man  Who  "Wears  Many  Hats" 


He  is  a  Cranberry  Grower  of  Ocean  County^ — 
a  Bishop's  Man  and  conducts  Church  Services — 
conducts  a  rural  Retreat  for  Guests — His  Wife, 
Betty,  an  unusual  Person,  like  her  Husband 

By  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 


man   of    "many   hats."    This 
J.,  OB   a   cranberry   grower, 


book  and  the  promotion  got  a 
splendid  write-up  in  the  New 
Yorker's  "Talk  of  the  Town" 
feature. 

However,  Mr.  Fadiman  ques- 
tioned the  young  author's  implied 
thesis    that   "felicity   through  ma- 


Clinton   Macauley,   as   they    say,   is   a 
resident  of  Deerfield  Park,   Tuckerton,   N, 

present  president  of  the  American  Cranberry  Growers'  Association,  that 
long-established  group  of  cranberry  men  of  the  Garden  State;  he  is 
also  a  director  of  the  Growers'  Cranberry  Company.  He  is  president  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Mental  Health  Clinic  of  Ocean  County, 
at  the  southern  tip  of  Jersey.  He  is  a  Bishop's  Man  in  charge  of  the 
(Episcopal)  Church  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  He  conducts  weekly  services  for 
a  small  local  congregation — he  operates  a  quiet,  peaceful  rest  resort  at 
Pilgrim  Lake  Farm,  which  is  in  the  township  of  New  Gretna,  and  more. 
His  wife,  Betty,  is  closely  associated  with  him  in  his  various 
activities.  As  he  puts  it,  he  is  on  "a  quest  to  discover  the  ultimate 
meaning  and  purpose  of  life." 

But,  here  let  him  tell  his  own 
story  in  his  own  words,  the  title 
of  this  being  ''You  Don't  Have  to 
be  Crazy  to  be  a  Cranberry 
Grower,"  and  later  to  tell  of  his 
wife,  who  has  had  a  most  inter- 
esting career  and  seems  to  be  a 
remarkable  person  like  her  hus- 
band. 

His  Own  Story 

As  we  labored  long  hours, 
sweating  blood,  swatting  green - 
heads  and  mosquitos,  choking  on 
gnats,  and  netting  few  cranberries 
for  our  pains,  one  of  our  boys 
commented  wryly:  "You  don't 
have  to  be  crazy  to  be  a  cranberry 
grower,  but  it  sure  helps!" 

If  that  be  true,  I  am  ideally 
suited  to  this  addiction.  After  a 
career  in  journalism  I  entered  the 
field  of  public  relations  and  adver- 
tising. I  founded  my  own  agency, 
Macauley-Adams  and  Associates, 
in  1944,  and  numbered  among  my 
clients  Standard  Oil,  Bendix  Radio, 
Aeronautical  Products,  Ercoupe, 
Macy's  and  other  leading  depart- 
ment stores  in  the  U.  S.  and 
Canada. 

In  one  of  my  promotions,  I  had 
a  helicopter  on  display  in  the  shoe 
department  of  Bonwit  Teller's 
Fifth  Avenue  store.  Clifton  Fadi- 
man brought  his  young  son  in  to 
see  this  new  kind  of  mechanical 
whirly-bird,  interviewed  me  and 
read  my  book.   Subsequently,    the 


chinery"  would  cure  the  ills  of 
mankind.  Thus,  at  the  height  of 
success,  lecturing  to  academic, 
business  and  professional  groups 
from  coast  to  coast,  appearing  as 
guest  on  radio  networks  and  TV, 
enjoying  a  delightful  popularity, 
I  began  to  question  the  validity 
of  values  and  goals  of  modern 
society. 

Shortly  thereafter  I  embarked 
on  a  deliberate  quest  to  discover 
the  ultimate  meaning  and  purpose 
of  life.  As  a  consequence,  I  wound 
up  my  professional  affairs  in  Man- 
hattan, vacated  my  penthouse  on 
Park  Avenue,  and  settled  in  rural 
South  Jersey  near  the  Great  Pine 
Barrens,  resolved  to  lead  the  simp- 
lest kind  of  life,  work  with  my 
hands,  use  my  muscles  as  well  as 
my  brains,  and  endeavor  to  find 
dignity  and  balance  and  to  estab- 
lish a  firmly  grounded  inner  con- 
fidence. 

I  began  by  learning  carpentry, 
and  after  building  my  own  house 


A  View  of  tlie  ]\Iacaiiley  Bog 


got  drawn  into  general  contracting 
in  a  local  building  boom.  My  land 
on  Little  Egg  Harbor  Bay  became 
desirable  as  a  shore  development, 
so  I  founded  Deerfield  Park  and 
soon  splashed  over  into  real  estate 
development. 

One  of  the  properties  I  showed 
frequently  to  prospects  was  an  old 
run-down  cranberry  bog  astride 
Bass  River  dating  back  to  the  last 
century.  Each  time  I  showed  it  I 
was  baffled  by  the  client's  indif- 
ference, but  I  was  drawn  more 
and  mere  to  return  now  and  then 
with  my  wife  for  a  couple  of  hours 
of  quiet  peace,  away  from  the 
hurly-burly  of  building  and  de- 
velopment and  sales.  It  was  here 
that  I  suddenly  realized  that  I  was 
■'trapped"  again  by  commerce. 
Betty  and  I  laughed  at  ourselves 
over  hot  dogs  and  potato  salad, 
and  tcok  stock. 

We  sold  Deerfield  Park  and 
decided  to  go  to  college  to  get 
'he  necessary  degrees  for  teaching 
and  preaching  the  eternal  verities 
which  we  were  discovering  and 
'earning  to  practice.  We  bought 
our  beloved  bogs,  having  no  yen 
lO  be  cranberry  farmers  at  the 
!.utset.  However,  we  had  settle- 
;nent  on  September  9,  1958.  There' 
/as  a  lush  crop  on  the  bogs.  I 
thought  what  a  fine  lark  it  would 
!:e  to  harvest  it.  I  got  a  truck, 
kicking  machines  and  scoops,  a 
r3w  helpers,  and  away  we  went! 

That  did  it.  I'll  pi'obably  work 
:iyself  to  death.  But  what  a  nice 
vay  to  die!  We  have  labored 
•  ound  the  clock  through  the  sea- 
on  over  the  years  and  have  lost 
:-!oney  with  fatiguing  regularity. 
.\nd  we  love  it.  Some  day  we  may 
;  ven  make  a  profit.  But  we'll  un- 
doubtedly pour  it  all  back  in 
lachinery,  fertilizer,  pesticides, 
;  ibor,  barns,  etc. 

But  we've  escaped  the  deadly 
^  ?topus     of     commerce     and     the 

■  -.odern    plagues    of    anxiety    and 

■  ^security.  Betty  will  graduate 
"  om  Douglas  College  this  June 
:  id  receive  her  B.S.  in  Home  Eco- 

:)mics.  She  will  continue  in  her 
"5cation  of  teaching,  with  special 
^nphasis  on  helping  young  women 
■"  1  value  their  femininity  and  to 
'"?come  wholesome  mothers  and 
h  ippy  wives.  My  job  as  Fire 
C'jserver  in  the  Bass  River  Tower 


Mrs.  Betty  Macauley 


is  a  blessed  retreat  away  from  the 
inane  pursuits  of  a  society  far 
gone  in  organized  economic  chaos 
and  the  planned  insanity  of  social 
welfare  programs.  I  have  a  won- 
derful crew  of  conservationists 
and  guardians  of  natural  beauty 
and  resources  to  work  with,  and 
daily  opportunities  to  witness  the 
glorious  displays  of  sunrise  and 
set,  weather  changes,  frosts  in  the 
moonglow  and  the  procession  of 
reasons. 

Also,  I  serve  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  beard  of  trustees 
of  the  Ocean  County  Mental 
Health  Clinic,  and  this  is  a  chal- 
lenging and  exciting  opportunity 
to  serve  in  the  front  line  of 
America's  answer  to  the  gravest 
threat  to  our  society:  mental  ill- 
ness. The  community  mental  health 
clinic  serves  as  the  spearhead  to 
educate  and  to  heal  the  rank  and 
file  of  men,  women,  and  children 
who    must    be    helped    towards    a 


dynamic  reaching  for  mental 
health  and  emotional  integration  if 
we  are  not  to  fall  into  mass  dis- 
orders which  are  even  now 
destroying  cur  cultural  heritage. 

Since,  ultimately,  most  mental 
and  emotional  disorders  stem  from 
moral  confusion,  spiritual  apathy, 
and  evasion  of  mature  responsi- 
bilities, I  plan  to  enter  the  ministry 
after  I  have  completed  further 
schooling.  If  modern  psychology  is 
to  serve  mankind  in  its  search  for 
wholeness  and  health,  psycholo- 
gists must  of  necessity  orient  their 
professional  disciplines  in  har- 
mony with  the  valid,  enduring 
truths  of  all  religions,  ancient  and 
modern.  Organized  religion  will 
endure,  willy-nilly,  but  if  it  is  to 
liberate  mankind  into  a  higher 
world  of  understanding  and  ability, 
and  not  enslave  men  in  supersti- 
tion and  fear,  more  and  more 
ministers  will  have  to  learn  that 
there  is  no  conflict  of  facts  or  goals 


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scriptures,  rightly  understood,  and 
the  contemporary  theories  and 
professional  techniques  of  the 
behavioral  sciences,  even  including 
the  work  of  Freud  and  the  prac- 
tice of  psychoanalysis. 

Undeniably,  certain  systems  of 
religious  symbols  frequently  be- 
come a  substitute  reality  ccm- 
pletely  shutting  out  the  facts. 
Unhappily,  the  same  thing  hap- 
pens in  medicine,  law,  politics, 
education  and  even  in  the  physical 
sciences. 

What  possible  conflict  can  there 
be  betwixt  the  religious  principle 
which  is  so  clearly  stated  in  John 
8:32: — "Ye  shall  know  the  truth, 
and  the  truth  shall  make  you 
free,''  and  the  "scientific  method" 
which  purports  to  be  the  founda- 
tion stone  on  which  all  science 
rests? 

So  we  need  religionists  to  put 
the  "psyche"  back  into  psychology, 
and  more  psychologists  to  remind 
the  religious  communities  that 
mental  health  is  inseparable  from 
moral  rectitude  and  a  disciplined 
life  cf  dynamic  self-expression  and 
creative  concern  for  the  well-being 
of  others! 

In  this  connection,  I  am  a  lay 
leader  serving  as  Bishop's  Man-in- 
Charge  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,  a  new  Episcopal  Mission 
which  I  organized  in  Deerfield 
Park.  We  have  a  small  year-'round 
congregation,  but  communicate  to 
a  lively  influx  of  shore  visitors 
in  the  summer. 

Finally,  I  still  accept  an  occa- 
sional interesting  client  who  wishes 
to  consult  with  me  in  the  science 
and  art  of  life  management.  And 
certainly  cranberry  growers  are 
among  the  most  interesting  and 
delightful  people  in  the  whole 
world! 
Outline  of  Mr.  Macaiiley's  life  and 

Career  as  furnished  by  himself 

Resume 

Born  Phila.,  Pa.,  Feb.  1,  1911. 
Rutgers  U.  Married  to  Elizabeth 
A.  Hanson,  formerly  of  Angola, 
N.  Y.,  and  Manhattan.  Two  adopted 
nephews  in  high  school. 

Bishop's  Man-in-Charge,  Church 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  Tuckerton, 
N.  J. 

V.P.  Board  of  Trustees,  Mental 
Health  Clinic  of  Ocean  Co.,  Toms 


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ADDRESS  (RFD). 
CITY 


between    the   teaching    of    ancient 
River,  N.  J. 

Fire  Tower  Observer,  Bass  River 
State  Forest,  New  Gretna,  N.  J. 

Management  Consultant  in  the 
area  of  personality   difficulties. 

Tuckerton  Lodge  No.  4,  F.  &  A. 
M. 

Author,  journalist  and  lecturer: 
boolv,  The  Helicopters  Are  Com- 
ing, published  by  McGraw-Hill, 
1944,  former  contributor  to  En- 
cyclopedia Britannica  and  national 
periodicals. 


About  46  acres  of  bogs  consist- 
ing of  Jersey,  Early  Richards  and 
Woolman  varieties,  located  in  a 
tract  of  147  acres  in  Bass  River 
State  Forest,  Burlington  County, 
near  Atlantic  Coast  line  a  few 
miles  north  of  Atlantic  City.  Mar- 
ket berries  through  Growers  Cran- 
berry Co.,  Pemberton,  N.  J. 
Equipment  includes  two  Darling- 
ton pickers,  mowers  and  small 
trucks.  I  need  a  tractor,  mill  and 
separator  and  earth-moving  equip- 
ment to  operate  efficiently.  I  write 


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to    Santa   Claus    about   this    every 
Christmas. 

Mrs.  Macauley 

Betty,  he  says,  is  really  a  re- 
markable member  cf  this  family. 
The  former  Elizabeth  Alice  Han- 
son, she  was  born  in  Angola,  N  .Y., 
and  received  her  high  school  edu- 
cation in  Boston. 

Her  family  returned  to  the  Buf- 
falo area,  and  she  joined  the  staff 
of  H.  N.  Adam  Department  Store 
and  worked  her  way  up  to  assistant 
to  tlie  director  of  advertising  and 
publicity.  That  is  where  Mr. 
Macauley  met  her  when  his  firm 
did  the  helicopter  show  in  1946. 

The  following  year  she  was 
invited  to  join  the  staff  of  Mutual 
Buying  Syndicate  in  New  York  as 
promotion  manager.  "By  long  arm 
of  coincidence,  they  had  their  office 
located  in  Salmon  Towers,  just 
two  floors  below  my  headquar- 
ters," Mr.  Macauley  says.  He 
added:  ''I  was  winding  up  my 
affairs  in  New  York  and  planning 
to  search  for  a  'Walden  Pond'  in 
South  Jersey.  We  announced  our 
engagement  early  the  following 
year  and  were  married  December 
7th,  1948,  in  historic  old  Barnegat, 
New  Jersey. 

Mrs.  Macauley  has  been  in  4-H 
work  and  taught  home  economics 
in  the  local  school.  She  assisted 
in  the  bringing  up  cf  four  foster 
sens  in  their  teens,  who  were 
nephews  of  Mr.  Macauley. 

Mr.  Macauley  says  that  one  of 
the  happiest  moments  of  his  life 
was  on  June,  1963,  when  his  wife, 
a  mature  woman,  donned  her  cap 
and  gown  and  marched  along  with 
her  young  classmates  to  receive 
from  the  Rutgers  president  her 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  in 
Home  Economics  upon  her  gradu- 
ation from  Douglas  College  for 
Women. 

Within  a  week,  she  was  invited 
to  join  the  faculty  at  Rutgers  as 
cooperative  extension  specialist  in 
4-H.  Since  then  she  has  served 
as  Ocean  County  4-H  agent  with 
her  office  in  Toms  River.  Mr. 
Macauley  is  a  4-H  leader  for  the 
Ocean  County  Public  Speaking 
project. 

Mr.  Macauley  told  CRANBER- 
RIES. "As  you  know,  we  found 
our  Walden,"  where  in  leisure 
time  the  couple  became  "watchers 


at  the  pond."  He  says  some  years 
ago  they  conceived  the  idea  of 
finding  some  means  of  sharing 
with  other  liice-minded  folks  their 
bogs  and  environs.  In  1964,  they 
embarked  on  a  recreational  pro- 
gram with  the  Farmers  Home 
Administration  and  ether  agencies 
of  the  Agricultural  Department. 
There  has  been  completed  miles 
of  beautiful  trails  through  the 
woods  and  streams,  with  rest  and 
picnic  areas  spotted  along  the 
way. 

Mr.  Macauley  says  that  in  June 
of  1965  they  will  open  the  area 
for  day  visitors  only,  with  no  over- 
night camping.  He  says  the  area 
is  surrounded  by  Bass  River  and 
state  forests.  There  is  good  over- 
night camping  places  not  far  away. 
"Under  this  program  we  have 
rebuilt  and  enlarged  a  1,000-foot 
reservoir,  provided  new  canals 
and  installed  new  trunks  for  water 
control,''  Mr.  Macauley  says.  Last 
year  Mr.  Macauley,  being  a  flying 
entl\usiast  and  helicopter  booster, 
embarked  en  a  program  for  pest 
control,  fungicide  applications,  and 
in  December  of  1964  he  treated  40 
acres  with  Casoron  applied  by 
helicopter.  This  was  done  by  N.  J. 
Helicopter  Airways,  Inc.,  out  of 
Trenton. 

The  Macauleys  began  the  im- 
provement of  an  old  cranberry 
shed  and  hope  eventually  to  make 
it  their  permanent  home. 

Storage  and  Equipment 
There  is  an  old  cranberry  stor- 
age barn,  22x30  feet,  with  generous 
attic.  The  walls  are  16  to  18 
inches  thick  of  local  stone  and 
mortar,  and  the  floor  is  sunk  a 
couple  of  feet  into  the  earth.  These 
features  keep  the  building  com- 
fortably cool  even  in  extremely 
hot  weather.  In  1964,  Macauley 
built  an  addition  on  the  far  end, 
24x50  feet,  which  is  used  for  a 
mill,  machinery  storage  and  work 
area. 

The  mill  consists  of  a  conveyor 
to  lift  the  harvested  berries,  then 
to  fall  in  front  of  a  blower  into 
a  Hayden  separator.  A  conveyor 
beneath  the  separator  carries  the 
rots  outside  and  returns  the  culls 
for  re-running  continuously.  A 
final  elevator  lifts  the  clean  berries 
to  a  hopper  with  a  release  gate 
over   platform   scales.  The   berries 


Showing  one  of  the  Canals  dug  in  the  Improvement  Progiaiii 


Old  Cranberry  Shed  with  Walls  16"  to  18"  wide  keeps 
cranberries  cool  even  in  hot  weather. 


are  released  manually  into  50- 
pound  paper  bags  and  shipped  by 
truck  to  the  processors. 

Fcur  Darlington  pickers  are  cur- 
rently in  use.  The  plan  is  to  go 
to  water  raking  as  soon  as  the  bogs 
can  be  broken  up  into  smaller 
beds. 

Machinery  includes  a  Case  310 
front-end  loader  on  crawler  tracks, 
Ford    9N    tractor    with     a    5-foot 


brush  hog  rotary  cutter,  Farmall 
cub  with  various  attachments,  6- 
foot  bog  mower,  rigged  up  by 
Macauley,  a  couple  of  shoulder 
slung  brush  cutters  with  saw 
blades,  rotary  cutter  and  sickle  bar 
cutting  attachments.  The  latter 
devices  are  the  handiest  of  all  for 
working  in  and  around  the  bogs, 
Macauley  says,  trimming  along 
ditches,  mulching  leather  leaf  and 


grass  hammccks,  cleaning  dams, 
etc.  There  are  also  a  couple  of 
dump  trucks,  Econoline  pickup 
and  a  Jeep  with  oversize  dual 
wheels  and  flat  bed;  a  low  trailer 
completes  the  line-up. 

To  Try  Water-Raking 

Macauley  hopes  to  get  started 
with  a  water  reel  picker  on  a 
couple  of  the  smaller  bogs  this 
coming  fall.  He  has  not  yet  decided 
what  method  will  be  used  for 
cleaning  and  drying  the  berries. 

Last  summer  Macauley  dug  a 
500-foot  canal  to  extend  and 
enlarge  the  reservoir  storage. 

His  middle  bog  is  about  10  acres 
and  the  lower  bog  20. 

Digging  Canals 

"I  hate  to  flood  unless  abso- 
utely  necessary  because  it  takes 
too  long  tc  get  the  water  off  large 
areas,  and  sometimes  I  think  (like 
many  other  growers)  we  lose  more 
fruit  from  water  damage  than  we 
might  have  from  frost.  The  pur- 
pose of  the  new  canals  and  dikes 
is  to  try  and  get  more  protection 
from  running  water  and  shallow 
flooding,  as  well  as  to  improve 
irrigation  and  drainage.  We  are 
fortunate  in  having  an  ample 
supply  of  flowing  streams  in  all 
seasons." 

He  says  that  for  frost  protection 
there  is  an  excellent  frost  warning 
committee  consis'.ing  of  Isaiah 
Haines,  Joe  Palmer  and  Ed  Budd. 

Aside  from  the  upper  bog,  the 
bogs  are  all  set  to  native  Jersey 
berries.  "We  don't  talk  about  pro- 
duction yet;  it  only  makes  us 
.'^hudder." 

There  is  also  an  old  foreman's 
cottage  which  has  already  been 
modernized  inside  and  a  nephew 
of  Mr.  Macauley,  R.  Scott  Hazard 
and  his  wife  Helen,  have  made 
this  their  permanent  home  for 
several  years.  Mr.  Hazard  is  an 
electronics  technician  with  A.  T. 
&  T.,  and  presently  works  at  the 
New  Jersey  terminal  station  for 
the  Trans-Atlantic  cables  at  near- 
by Manahawkin.  Both  of  these 
buildings  date  from  around  the 
turn  of  the  century. 

One  cf  Mr.  Macauley 's  hobbies 
is  an  H-gauge  model  railroad 
called  the  Celestial  and  South  Jer- 
sey R.  R.  with  irregular  schedules. 
This  serves  Saint  Hill,  Hog  Wal- 


Mr.  Macauley  is  shown  spotting  smoke  for  the  State  Fire  Service 


low,  Polecat  Junction,  Gum  Spung 
and  other  interesting  places.  This 
is  a  four-cab  action  and  eight  cars 
can  be  operated.  The  altitude  of 
this  railroad  is  only  five  or  eight 
feet. 

Mr.  Macauley  concludes  by  say- 
ing that  it  is  one  of  his  ambitions 
to  visit  the  Cape  Cod  bogs.  "One 
cf  these  days  I  will  make   it." 


Dr.  Klingbeil  On  Weeds 
In  Wisconsin  Marshes 

Dr.  George  C.  Klingbeil  of  the 
Horticultural  Department  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  in  a  letter 
to  Wisconsin  growers  last  inonth 
raid  that  "Spring  was  just  around 
the  corner,''  and  growers  would  be 
s'arting  another  season  of  activity 
to  bring  to  maturity  another  good 
crop  of  fruit.  Plans  for  the  weed 
control  in  the  spring  loom  large 
in  the  grower's  mind. 

Dichlobenil  (Casoron)  may  be 
used,  he  said,  on  marsh  areas  that 
were  not  treated  last  fall. 

He  urged  treatment  for  this  ma- 
terial en  bogs  before  May  1st, 
although     later     applications     are 


authorized  on  the  label.  Applica- 
tion after  May  1  may  result,  he 
said,  in  injury  in  excess  of  accept- 
able levels. 

Dr.  Klingbeil  suggests  the  use 
of  Chloro  IPC  for  those  Wisconsin 
growers  who  have  a  problem  with 
annual  grass,  such  as  barnyard 
grass,  ticklegrass  and  crab  grass. 
He  contends  that  Chloro  IPC  has 
a  wider  safety  range  than  Caso- 
ron. 

The  use  of  petroleum  products, 
such  as  Stoddard  Solvent,  kero- 
sene, mineral  spirits  should  be 
continued,  especially  as  a  spot 
spray.  It  would  seem,  he  said  in 
this  letter,  effective  control  may 
be  obtained  by  Cascron  followed 
Dy  spot  spraying  with  the  oils.  He 
said  this  would  make  an  excellent 
weed  control  program  in  many 
instances. 

The  work  of  Walter  Skroch 
showed  the  importance  of  keeping 
weeds  out  of  new  beds.  He  said 
that  many  seeds  come  in  with  the 
cranberry  vines — many  more  come 
in  with  the  flooding  water,  and 
still  others  are  in  the  soil  at  the 
time    of  planting. 


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''There  is  little  you  can  do  about 
seeds  already  in  the  soil  at  the 
time  of  planting,  except  the  scalp- 
ing of  all  the  top  layers  of  soils." 
The  reconstruction  cf  old  beds 
complicates  the  problem  due  to  the 
greater  growth  of  seeds  and  the 
greater  depths  of  seeds  and  the 
greater  kinds  of  weeds  as  com- 
pared to  the  situation  in  virgin 
areas. 

The  careful  handling  and  wash- 
ing of  vines  for  planting  would 
be  beneficial  in  reducing  the  weed 
seed  population  in  new  plantings. 
A  high-pressure  stream  of  water 
through  a  thin  layer  of  vines, 
travelling  over  a  wire  mesh  floor 
would  drive  much  of  the  loose 
weeds  and  propagules  from  the 
wire  mesh. 

Certainly,  such  a  procediu'e  is 
worthy  of   trial,   he   said. 


TESTIMONIAL   GIVEN 
LOUIS  A.  WEBSTER, 
RETIRED  MASS.  DIV. 
OF  MARKETS 

A  testimonial  for  "Mr.  Agri- 
culture," Louis  A.  Webster,  who 
retired  as  director  Mass.  Division 
of  Markets,  Mass.  Department  of 
Agriculture  in  March,  was  given 
June  14th  at  the  Beacon  Terrace, 
Mass.  Turnpike,  Framingham. 

Mr.  Webster  is  well  known  to 
most  agriculturists  in  the  State, 
including  cranberry  growers.  He 
has  attended  many  meetings  of  the 
Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers'  As- 
sociation at  East  Wareham.  He  was 
present  last  year. 

There  was  a  social  hour  preced- 
ing the  dinner  at  7:00  p.  m.  Master 
of  Ceremonies  was  Tom  Russell 
and  guest  speaker  George  Moore, 
editor  of  "Food  Marketing  in  New 
England,"  a  publication  of  First 
National  Stores. 

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in  Blackstone,  Mass.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Massachusetts  Agricul- 
tural College  in  1914.  He  was  a 
farmer,  chiefly  apple  growing  from 
1914  to  1952.  He  was  a  represen- 
tative of  the  Mass.  Legislature 
from  1929  to  1933.  He  was  director 
of  markets  in  1939  to  1942  and 
from   1943  to  1965. 

This  summer    he    plans    an   ex- 
tended trip  to  California. 


Final  Mass.  Keeping 
Quality  Forecast 
Good  for  '65  Crop 

Weather  conditions  to  June  2 
had  given  Massachusetts  7  points 
out  of  a  possible  16  which  favor 
good  keeping  quality  fruit.  Based 
on  the  point  system,  the  prospects 
are  for  good  to  very  good  keeping 
quality  of  the  1965  crop. 

Bogs  that  tend  to  produce  weak 
fruit,  or  that  have  extensive  vine 
growth,  would  benefit  from  fungi- 
cide treatment,  Irving  E.  De- 
mcranville.  Extension  Cranberry 
specialist,  announced.  Maneb  or 
Ferbam  are  recommended  fungi- 
cides. Bog  owners  of  sprinkler 
systems  were  cautioned  against 
excessive  use  of  the  system  for 
irrigation  during  the  blooming 
period. 


WARNING  TO 
CRANBERRY  AND 
BLUEBERRY  GROWERS 

Burlington  New  Jersey  County 
Agent  D.  L.  Kensler  warned 
growers  of  blueberries  in  mid-May 
that  pollination  activity  by  bees 
was  at  its  peak  and  not  to  use 
insecticides  on  the  blues.  He  said 
a  few  plum  curculio  were  active 
in  Cabots  and  Weymouth  varieties 
but  they  could  be  controlled  after 
pollination  was  over. 

As  for  cranberries,  he  said,  it 
was  still  too  early  for  the  spar- 
ganothis  tipworm  treatment,  but 
warned  to  be  on  the  lookout  for 
blackheaded  fireworm  and  blossom 
worm  on  early  drown  water. 


MRS.  CHARLES  DEMPZE 

Mrs.  Charles  Dempze,  68,  of 
Cranmoor,  Wisconsin,  died  re- 
cently at  the  Riverside  Hospital 
Death  followed  a  stroke. 

Mrs.  Dempze,   the  former  Mary 


FOURTEEN 


Prusynski,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Steven  Prusynski,  was  born 
at  Stevens  Point.  She  married 
Charles  Dempze  in  November  of 
1917  at  Wisconsin  Rapids. 

In  addition  to  her  husband,  she 
is  survived  by  a  son,  Gordon  C, 
of  Biron;  two  daughters,  Mrs. 
Edmund  Heller,  Sparta,  and  Mrs. 
Alfred  Arendt,  Nekosos;  two 
brothers,  Michael  Prusynski,  Arpin, 
and  Steven  Prusynski,  Biron;  and 
a  sister,  Mrs.  John  Kobza,  Wis- 
■  nsin  Rapids;  13  grandchildren 
ind  two  great  grandchildren. 


Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Co-Op  Elects 

The  members  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Cooperative,  Inc.,  re- 
elected the  same  officers  and  di- 
lectors  and  heard  a  review  of  the 
1964  crop  season  operations  at  the 
Cooperative's  annual  meeting  held 
May  11. 

Announcement  was  made  that 
the  1964  Crop  Season  Pool  earned 
SI 3. 31  per  barrel,  an  increase  of 
l87o   over  the  previous  season. 

"Strong  demand  is  indicated  for 
the  1965  crop,"  Orrin  Colley,  treas- 
urer, reported.  "We  have  reason 
for  confidence  since  carry  over 
supplies  will  be  minimal,  the  gen- 
oral  strength  of  the  economy  is 
expected  to  continue  and  a  third 
is  the  industry's  success  in  de- 
\eloping  additional  market  outlets 
loi-  its  products." 


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NEW  BOOK  ON  SOUTH 
JERSEY,  THE  JERSEY 
CRANBERRY  AREA 

Rutgers  University,  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  announces  that 
a  new  book  "Family  Empire  in 
Jersey  Iron;  The  Richards  Enter- 
prise in  the  Pine  Barrens."  This 
area  is  included  in  the  Jersey  cran- 
berry-growing area. 

The  book  is  written  by  Arthur" 
D.  Pierce,  and  the  bcok  is  the  third 
dealing  with  South  Jersey  history 
■South  Jersey  is  where  all  Jersey 
bogs  are.  The  book  is  published  by 
the  Rutgers  University  Press. 


Dr.  Chandler  of 
Mass.  Working  on 
Washington  Project 

Dr.  F.  B.  Chandler,  Marion, 
former  pathologist  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Experiment  Station,  East 
Wareham,  Massachusetts,  left  in 
the  early  part  of  June  for  Wash- 
ington State.  There  he  will  engage 
in  cross-breeding  experiments. 


He  went  as  a  Visiting  Professor 
and  a  part  of  the  expense  will  be 
paid  by  the  University  of  Wash- 
ington. He  will  work  at  the  Coastal 
Washington  Experiment  Station  at 
Long  Beach,  and  will  engage  in 
his  research  when  the  bogs  are  in 
blossom. 

Some  work  was  done  there  a 
number  of  years  ago  in  a  project 
by  the  University  of  Wisconsin, 
one  cress  which  seemed  especially 
promising  being  No.  108. 

Dr.  Chandler  expects  to  be  in 
Washington  about  a  month.  He  re- 
tired from  his  work  at  the  Mass. 
Station  last  August. 


CONSTRUCT  POWER  MN'ES 
TO  WISCONSIN 
CRANBERRY  MARSHES 

A  $20,000  project  to  bring  high 
line  electricity  to  the  Thunder 
Lake  and  Ralph  Sampson  Cran- 
berry Marsh  west  of  Three  Lakes, 
Wisconsin,  is  now  underway. 

The  new  pO'wer  line  will  make  it 
possible  for  the  marsh  owners  to 
electrify  the  pumping  stations  lo- 
cated at  Thunder  Lake. 


The  change-over  from  gasoline 
engines  to  electric  motors  has  been 
brought  about  by  the  installation 
of  sprinkler  systems. 


Wise.  Marketing 
Order  Being  Again 
Considered 

All  But  One  Representative 
of  18  Cranberry  Producing 
Companies  Favor 

Representatives  from  18  cran- 
berry producing  companies  ap- 
peared at  a  hearing  May  12th  at 
the  Courthouse,  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
to  determine  whether  there  is 
sufficient  interest  to  hold  a  refer- 
endum on  a  proposed  state  cran- 
berry marketing  order.  All  but  one 
of  those  present  indicated  they 
favored  such  a  marketing  order. 
It  would  result  in  an  annual 
assessment  of  two  cents  per  barrel 
en  all  cranberries  sold.  The  money 
would  be  used  for  research  and  the 
state  warning  service. 

Douglas  Milsap,  an  attorney  for 


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Roman  R.  Skibiski 
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C.  H.  Roberson,  Inc. 
Freehold,  New  Jersey 
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Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


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Highland,  New  York 

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Sturgeon  Bay,  Wisconsin 

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Randolph,  Wisconsin 

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Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

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the  Wisconsin  State  Department 
of  Agriculture,  conducted  the 
hearing. 

Ben  Pannkuk  urged  that  the 
necessary  funds  be  provided  "on 
a  local  basis  by  the  growers  first, 
and  then,  if  they  are  not  will- 
ing to  do  it,  their  respective  sales 
agencies  should  underwrite  the 
research  and  frost  warning  pro- 
gram." 

Tony  Jonjak,  Hayyard,  spoke  in 


favor  of  the  marketing  order.  He 
said  it  will  provide  means 
"whereby  you  can  be  assured  of 
a  fairly  definite  program  for  the 
industry  as  well  as  expanding  the 
research  program  now  in  oper- 
ation." He  said  that  all  growers 
benefit  from  the  frost  warning 
service  and  should  be  required  to 
assume  a  share  of  its  cost. 

There    were    general    objections 
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closure to  the  state  du'eclor  of 
agriculture  of  the  price  per  barrel 
of  all  cranberries  sold  and  the 
gross  dollar  value  of  cranberries. 

A  similar  marketing  order  failed 
to  win  the  necessary  support  in  a 
referendum  last  year. 


Large  Federal  Bog 
In  Mass.  Bought 
By  Maryland  Man 

Another  large  bog  deal  has 
taken  place  in  Massachusetts  in  the 
purchase  of  the  Federal  Cranberry 
Company  bog  on  "Shoe  String" 
road  in  Carver.  This  piece  of  about 
154  acres  was  purchased  by  John 
G.  Talcott,  Jr.,  of  5316  Bradley 
Boulevard,  Bethesda,  Maryland. 
This  is  one  of  the  older  and  better 
known  bog  properties  in  the  Bay 
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Mr.  Talcott  also  owns  the  Catau- 
met  bog  on  the  Cape,  one  of  about 
22  acres,  and  the  big  Ware  bog 
cf  53  acres  in  Plymouth. 

Mr.  Talcott  has  been  in  the 
woolen  business  and  has  developed 
his  own  real  estate  properties.  He 
was  born  in  a  small  community  in 
Connecticut  and  told  the  Cran- 
berry Magazine  he  was  used  to 
small  towns  and  farming  and  felt 
that  cranberry  growing  was  now 
a  "good  field  to  go  into." 

Eldon  Sherman  of  Plymouth 
will  be  bog  manager  for  Mr.  Tal- 
cott. Mr.  Sherman  formerly  was 
employed  by  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Company,  George  Crowell 
president,  until  1952.  He  then  went 
into  construction  work  on  a  large 
scale  but  now  he  is  going  back 
into  cranberries  and  will  devote 
his  time  to  this  industry. 

George  Paulding,  who  was  man- 
ager of  the  Federal,  will  now  give 
his  entire  time  to  his  own  bog 
property  on  Cranberry  Road  in 
Carver. 


THOMAS  DREVER 

Mr.  Thomas  Drever,  83,  former 
chairman  of  American  Steel 
Foundries,  Chicago,  Illinois  and 
a  former  trustee  of  the  Illinois 
Iriistitute  of  Technology  died  May 
8,  1965  at  the  Holy  Cross  Hos- 
ptal.  Fort  Lauderdale,  Florida. 
Funeral  services  were  held  at 
Pompano  Beach,  Florida  where 
Mr.  Drever  maintained  a  winter 
home. 

Mr.  Drever  owned  and  op- 
erated the  Drever  Cranberry 
Company  near  Three  Laikes,  Wis'- 
consin.  He  started  the  marsh 
with  Arthur  Nelson  in  1950.  One 
of  the  first  in  the  state  to  go 
ahead  with  sprirLkler  frost  pro- 
tection he  installed  sprinklers  on 
thirty  acres  in  1962  and  added 
an  additional  ten  acres  in  1963. 
The  marsh  was  incorporated  in 
1960.  Last  slimmer  the  Wisconsin 
State  Cranberry  Growers  Assn. 
held  its  summer  meeting  at  his 
marsh  near  Three  Lakes.  His 
marsh      produced      one      of      the 


largest  crops  in  history  last  year 
and  was  recognized  as  one  of 
the  better  marshes  in  tJhe  state, 
turning  out  high  quality  fruit. 
Mr.  Drever  had  visited  the  Three 
Lakes  area  in  the  early  30's  and 
in  1932  he  and  others  formed 
the  Three  Lakes  Rod  &  Gun 
Club.  Since  his  retirement  from 
ASF  in  1949  Mr.  Drever  had 
spent  his  entire  summers  at 
Three  Lakes. 

A  native  of  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, Mr.  Drever  arrived  in  this 
country  with  30  dollars'  in  his 
pocket  and  educated  as  a  C.P.A. 
He  started  his  career  with 
American  Steel  Foimdries  in  1910 
and  became  president  of  the 
firm  in  1939.  He  was  appointed 
chairman  in  1949.  As  one  of 
Chicago's  leading  industries  his 
company  during  peak  employ- 
ment during  World  War  II  had 
as  many  as  30,000  workers. 

Surviving  are  his  widow,  Edith; 
three  sons,  J.  Bruce,  Max  and 
Ross'  and  one  daughter  Mrs.  Don- 
ald Curless. 


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T.  H.  Budd,  76, 
of  Jersey,  "Too 
Busy  to  Retire" 

Theodore  (Ted)  H.  Budd,  Pem- 
berton,  New  Jersey,  recently  ob- 
served his  76th  birthday,  still 
going  strong  at  various  enterprises, 
and  was  quoted  in  the  Pemberton 
Times-Advertiser  as  saying,  "I  just 
don't  have  time  to  think  about 
retiring."  Mr.  Budd  is  senior  part- 
ner cf  T.  H.  Budd  and  Sons,  which 
organization  has  extensive  cran- 
berry holdings  in  New  Jersey.  He 
was  president  of  the  old  American 
Cranberry  Exchange,  with  offices 
in  New  York  for  12  years. 

He  is  currently  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Mer- 
chants National  Bank  of  Burlington 
County.  Mr.  Budd  has  also  been 
president  of  the  Pemberton  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association  for  more 
than  50  years.  He  served  two  terms 
as  a  councilman  of  Pemberton 
Borough. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  New^  Jer- 
sey Society  of  Pennsylvania;  also 


a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Agri- 
culture. He  was  one  of  the  original 
organizers  cf  Cranberry  Products, 
Inc.,  in  New  Jersey,  which  was 
merged  to  become  part  of  the 
present  Ocean  Spray  Cranberries, 
Inc. 

Mr.  Budd  is  married  to  the 
former  Helen  Brewar  of  Bar  Har- 
bor, Maine,  and  the  couple  has 
f3ur  children  and  11  grandchildren. 


CRANBERRY  PRODUCTS  TO 
OPEN  GIFT  SHOP  AT 
EAGLE  RIVER,  WISC. 

Cranberry  Products.,  Inc.,  of 
Eagle  River,  Wisconsin,  Vernon 
Goldsworthy,  president,  plans  this 
summer  to  open  a  gift  shop,  featur- 
ing cranberry  products.  This  will 
be  completed  in  time  for  the  sum- 
mer vacationists.  The  shop  will  be 
located  near  the  plant  on  the  west 
side  of  Eagle  River. 

If  the  shop  proves  successful, 
this  may  be  the  first  of  a  chain 
in  Wisconsin. 


BANDON  CRANBERRY 
FESTIVAL  PLANS 
PROGRESSING 

Plans  for  the  Bandon  (Ore.) 
Cranberry  Festival  in  September 
are  progressing.  There  is  a  contest 
ror  the  festival  theme.  "The  theme 
need  not  stress  cranberries,"  says 
Mrs.  Leola  Hultin,  association  sec- 
retary. 

The  festival  chaperone  is  to  be 
Mrs.  Dick  Wood,  and  the  five 
cranberry  princesses  are  to  be 
named  shortly.  The  festival  band 
has  been  hired. 


COOPERATIVES  TO  MEET 
IN  MISSOURI 

The  University  of  Missouri  and 
Missouri  cooperative  organization 
will  be  hosts  for  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Institute  of 
Cooperatives,  of  which  Ocean 
Spray  is  a  member.  The  gathering 
will  be  held  on  the  University 
campus  August  8  to  11. 


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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued    from    Page    6 
less   than  normal.   In  1964   at   this 
time,  we  had  had  15.70  inches,  or 
about  3  inches  more  than  in  1965. 
Some  Frost  Losses 
The     hot     weather     accelerates 
evaporation    and    accentuates    the 
conditions  of  drought.  During  May 
we    had    several    record-breaking 
hot   days.    These  were:    May   10th, 
when  the  high  for  the  day  was  89°, 
and    May    26th,    when    it    reached 
93°.  On  May  27th  the  high  was  94° 
which  tied  with  the  high  on  that 
date    in    1941.   There    was    also    a 
record-breaking    cold    night.    This 
was    the    37°    minimum    recorded 
on   May    31st    (for  Sunday   night, 
May  30th).  On  that  night  temper- 
atures  dropped  to   as   low   as   25° 
on  cranberry  bogs.  Most  cranberry 
growers    got   by    without    damage 
but  there  were   a  few  along   the 
shore  that  did  not  have  sufficient 
water  to   flood   and,   consequently, 
suffered  some  frost  damage.  There 
has  been  no  damage  observable  in 
blueberries. 


WASHINGTON 


Weather  Medium 

The  weather  during  May  was 
about  down  the  middle  of  the 
road  in  all  ways.  The  total  rain^ 
fall  for  the  month  was  3.50 
inches.  The  mean  high  tempera- 
ture was  55.19  degrees;  the  mean 
low  was  44.52  degrees.  The  low- 
est bog  temperature  was  26  de- 
grees, recorded  on  the  first  of 
May  and  als'o  on  the  5th.  On 
the  night  of  the  4th  there  was  a 
low  temperature  of  34  degrees 
and  the  rest  of  the  low  tempera- 
tures were  in  the  high  thirties 
and  the  high  forties.  Of  the 
hig^h  temperatures  the  highest 
was  63  degrees  on  the  18th.  The 
rest  of  the  high  temperatures 
were  in  the  50's  except  for  one 
or  two  days  when  the  high  was 
49. 

Bog:  Work 

May    was    a    good    month    for 

weeding    and    the    application    of 

fungicides,     also     spraying     with 

insecticides     for     control     of     the 

s  tip-worm. 


WISCONSIN 

Spring:  Weather 

May  finally  brought  spring  to 
the  state  with  numerous  spring 
showers  and  the  first  eighty  de- 
gree reading.  The  first  3  weeks 
of  the  month  brought  tempera- 
tures averaging  above  normal 
during  the  daylight  hours,  but 
below  normal  during  the  night 
time  hours.  Rain  fell  on  15  days 
of  the  month,  with  the  heaviest 
the  latter  part  of  the  month. 
Record  cold  temperatures  followed 
the  rains  and  a  very  cold  nine- 
teen degrees  was  recorded  the 
morning  of  the  30th.  Tempera- 
tures were  as  low  as  26  degrees 
in  the  cities.  Warmest  was  88 
degrees  on  the  8th.  There  was 
frost  in  the  heavier  soils  until 
tiie  middle  of  the  montlh,  with 
many  marshes'  reflo^ving  to  pull 
out  the  frost.  The  outlook  for 
June  calls  for  temperatures  to 
be  above  nomal  and  also  precipi- 
tation, which  is  expected  to  ex- 
ceed 4".  Incidentaly  snow  show- 
ers were  common  over  the  cran- 
berry areas  the  latter  part  of  the 
month,  with  three  inches  re- 
ported on  the  ground  north  of 
Manitowisih    Waters    on    the    28th. 


However  this  was  not  a  record 
as  they  have  recorded  snow  as 
late    as    June    7. 

200   New   Acres 

The  rain  and  cool  night  time 
temperatures  the  early  part 
of  the  month  hindered  marsh 
work,  such  as  in  late  April. 
Growers  were  busy  applying  fer- 
tilizer and  tr3ang  to  catch  up  on 
other  delayed  work.  New  plant- 
ings were  going  in,  with  about 
200  acres  expected  to  be  planted 
in  the  staite.  Many  marshes  were 
adding  additional  sprinklers  for 
frost  protection  with  an  estimated 
800  acres  expected  to  be  under 
including  last  year's  installations. 
Very  little  solvent  was  being  used 
as  growers  were  waiting  to  see 
the  results  of  the  past  fall's 
Casoron  applications,  which  ap- 
peared to  be  very  promising. 
Most  of  the  solvent  was  being 
spot  sprayed. 

Insects  and  Frost 

The  first  broods  of  blackheaded 
fii-eworm  and  sparganothsis  fruit 
worm  along  with  spotted  fire- 
worm  were  appearing  prior  to 
Memorial  day  following  above 
normal  day  time  temperatures 
the     latter     part     of    the    month. 


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TWENTY-ONE 


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TWENTY-TWO 


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ISSUE    OF    JUNE,    1965 
VOL.   30 -NO.   2 


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GUEST    EDITORIAL 
THE   WESTERN    EUROPE    CRANBERRIES    MARKET 

On  a  trip  to  Europe  tlii-ee  years  ago,  a 
European  ti-adesman  we  contacted  was  insist- 
ing that  cranberry  products  would  never  go 
over.  "People's  tastes  are  dififerent  over  here, 
consumers  don't  go  for  new  foods,"  he  said. 
Earlier  this  year,  I  had  occasion  to  again 
talk  with  him.  "If  a  product  is  good  to  begin 
with,  is  reasonable  priced  and  adequately  pro- 
moted, it  can  be  sold  anywhere,"  he  volun- 
teered. 

Such  generaHzations,  however,  cannot  be 
used  as  a  basis  for  prejudging  the  export  mar- 
ketability of  our  product.  A  program  cannot 
he  developed  without  knowledge  of  the  sig- 
nificant facts,  defining  the  problems  and 
opportunities  and  learning  by  use  of  pilot 
operations  and  test  campaigns. 

The  cranberry  export  program  is  now  in 
what  might  be  termed  the  third  stage  of  de- 
\elopment.  The  first  and  initial  stage  began 
ill  1961  with  laying  of  a  foundation  for  analysis 
of  overseas  opportunities.  Then  came  the  sec- 
ond stage  1963  and  1964,  the  period  of  de- 
\eloping  a  program  of  action  which  has 
included  the  type  of  product  to  be  sold, 
tlie  appeal  to  be  made  to  customers,  selling 
and  promotion  methods,  channels  of  distribu- 
tion and  an  overall  method  for  evaluating 
progress.  And  now  the  third  stage  —  a  deter- 
mined and  sustained  selling  effort  mainly 
concentrated  in  the  United  Kingdom. 

Though  the  current  dimensions  of  cranberry 
trade  overseas  are  only  a  token  of  what  the 
future  could  hold,  it  is  an  exciting  and  chal- 
lenging market  offering  new  and  rewarding 
opportunities  for  U.  S.  suppliers  prepared  to 
make  the  necessary  effort. 

Orrin  G.  Colley 
President,  The 
Cranberry  Institute 
South  Duxbury,  Mass. 
MORE  ON  EXPORT 

The  fact  (as  reported  in  April)  that  some 
one  million  British  consumers  inspected  the 
exhibit  promoting  cranberries  and  other  U.  S. 
agricultural  products  is  a  strong  indication 
that  a  sound  export  business  of  American 
cranberries    can    be    built    up    in    the    United 


CLARENCE   J.    HALL 
Editor  and  Publisher 

EDITH  S.  HALL  —  Associate  Editor 
Wareham,   Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -  ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry  Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

Wisconsin 


Washington 

Dr.  CHARLES  C.  DOUGHTY 
Cranberry  Specialist 
Long    Beach.    Wash. 


Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,    Ore. 


Massachusetts 

Dr.  CHESTER  E.  CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East  Wareham,  Mass. 


New  jersey 

P.  E.  MARUCCI 
iN'ew  Jersey  Cranberry  and   Blueberry   Station 
New    Lisbon,    New    Jersey 


Kingdom  and  other  Western  European  coun- 
tries. 

A  similar  exhibit  also  in  England  drew 
more  than  28,000  restauranteurs,  hotel  chefs, 
caterers  and  consumers  is   also  encouraging. 

This  promotion  of  American  cranberries 
in  Western  Europe  is  headed  by  the  Cran- 
berry Institute,  and  we  believe  this  promotion 
is  well  worth  the  cost  and  effort  by  the 
cranberry   industry. 

TWENTY-THREE 


FAMILY  FARM  WELL 

SURA  IA"E  AGRI.    REVOLUTION 

Despite  mounting  capital  re- 
quirements, price-cost  squeeze  and 
a  continuous  flood  of  improved 
technology,  don't  sell  the  family- 
farm  operator  short.  On  the  pre- 
diction of  R.  B.  Tootell,  Governor 
of  the  Farm  Credit  Administration, 
there'll  be  about  as  many  farms 
by  1980  as  there  are  tcday.  Today 
there  are  about  3.4  million  farms 
but  only  one  million  are  grossing 
more  than  $10,000.  (Cooperative 
Digest) 


The  second  prize  title  was  sub- 
mitted by  Bonnie  Berry  and  it  was 
"Alice  in  Cranberryland.''  Third 
was  by  Ruth  Michele  and  the  title 
was  ''There  Is  No  Land  Like 
Oregon." 

The  association  has  voted  to 
donate  $300  to  the  Bandon  Com- 
munity Scholarship  Fund,  and  to 
present  the  queen  of  last  year, 
Al'yson  Anthony,  with  a  $250 
scholarship.  In  the  future  the 
queen  will  get  a  $250  scholarship 
from  the  Festival  Association. 


"CRANBERRY  FANTASY" 
THEME  OF  BANDON 
FESTIVAL 

"Cranberry  Fantasy"  will  be  the 
theme  of  the  19th  annual  Bandon 
(Ore.)  Cranberry  Festival,  Sep- 
tember 17,  18  and  19,  it  has  been 
decided  by  the  Festival  Associa- 
tion. Mrs.  Kenneth  Whitney  sub- 
mitted   the    prize-winning    theme. 


BREATH-TAKING 
LONG  BEACH  SCENE 

The  Chinook  Observer,  weekly 
newspaper  of  Long  Beach  in  this 
cranberry  center  of  Washington 
State,  reports : 

"A  trip  to  the  outer  Jetty  area 
is  a  breath-taking  sight  2,000  feet 
out  in  the  ocean.  Whales,  seals, 
sea  lions  play  in  the  surf  50  feet 
from  the  jetty." 


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In  1965,  Ocean  Spray  will  handle  enough 
cranberries  to  fill  100,000  standard-size  sta- 
tion wagons.  Not  that  we  plan  to  fill  even  one 
station  v/agon,  but  it  does  give  you  an  idea 
of  Ocean  Spray's  size  and  leadership  in  the 
cranberry  industry. 


Size  and  leadership  mean  steady  growth, 
financial  security  and  business  stability.  If 
you  ore  not  a  part  of  Ocean  Spray,  and  in- 
terested in  knowing  more,  contact  any  Direc- 
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Prof.  "Stan  Norton"  attended 
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an  Society  of  Agricultural  En- 
[ineers  held  in  Athens,  Georgia, 
he  week  of  June  21.  He  is  a 
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I  eturned  from  the  West  Coast. 
I  [e  was  in  the  Washington  area 
1  "om  June  10  to  June  30  as  a 
I  isiting'  professor.  The  main 
I  urpose  of  the  trip  was  cranberry 
\  reeding. 

I  Frost 

I  There  were  a  total  of  22  frost 
I  'arnings  released  during  the 
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the  total  crop,  and  water  injury 
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been  negligible.  The  frost  season 
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the  period  of  June  14  to  17  being 
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after  night  of  nervous  watching 
and  waiting.  On  the  night  of 
June  17,  some  bogs  had  temp- 
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but  only  slight  damage  has  been 
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While  on  the  subjest  of  frost 
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number  of  reports  makes  a  more 
accurate  estimate  possible  and. 
adds  to  the  value  of  this  service. 
Insects  and  Weeds 
There  have  been  numerous 
reports  of  large  numbers  of 
girdler  moths  being  seen  on  bogs 
during  the  month  of  June.  This 
pest  was  fairly  well  under  con- 
trol duirng  much  of  the  1950's, 
but  with  the  dry  summers  of 
recent  years  and  the  lack  of  a 
regular  sanding  program  on  many 
bogs  it  is  now  a  major  menace. 
Prof.  Tomlinson  indicates  that 
the  granular  dieldrin  or  DDT 
treatments  that  are  listed  on  the' 
Insect  Control  Chart  are  very 
good  for  the  larvae  or  worm 
stage.  These  treatments  should 
not  be  applied  when  the  bog 
is  in  bloom.  "Bill"  also  warns 
that  the  growers  should  keep  a 
sharp  eye  out  for  late  infesta- 
tions of  fruitworm  and  Sparg- 
arothis  fruitworm.  These  little 
devils  can  decimate  a  crop  in 
short   order. 

There     is     still     a     little     time 
to  treat  ditches  using  either  fuel 
oil  or  dalapon.    Shores  and  dikes 
may  also  be  sprayed  with  2,4,5-T 
to     kill     broadleaved     or     woody 
weeds   such   as   poison   ivy,   small 
maples   etc.;   or   dalapon  used  for 
poverty   grass    or   switch   grass. 
Weather 
The    month    of    June    was    ap- 
proximately V2   degree  a  day  be- 
low   normal    in    temperature.     It 
was   a   month   of   alternating   cool 
and    warm    spells,     starting    cool 
for     the     first     few     days,     then 
turning    warm    for    a    week,    then 
a  week  of  very  cool  temperatures 
the  middle  of  the  month,  followed 
by    short    periods    of    warm    and 
cool   weather   for    the    remainder, 
Precipitation  totalled  2.50  at  East 
Wareham  which  is  about  %   inch 
below   the   mean.     Generally   this 
was  a  fairly  dry  month  with  hali 
of    the    rainfall    occuring    on    the 
first    3    days.     Bogs    are    getting 
very  dry  and  some  irrigating  has 
been  done  already. 


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issue  of  July,   1965 -Vol.  30,  No.  3 

Second     C1.-!S5     Postage     Paid     at     Wareham,    Massachusetts     Post     Office 
Published     mon:hly     at     Wareham,      Massachusetts.  Subscriptions    ?4.00,    Foreign,    ?5.00    per    year. 


TRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


'\AASSACHUSETTS 

June    Started   Cold 

The  first  week  in  June  con- 
ained  unseasonably  cold  and  a 
vvarning  of  possible  frost  in 
•older  locations  was  issued  for 
n(jrning  of  June  5th.  A  minimum 
)f  29-30  was  forcast  with  the 
olerance  of  Early  Blacks  still 
et  at  291/2-  No  frost  materialized 
It   the  wind  blew. 

The  first  week  of  June  as  a 
vhole  was  definitely  on  the 
•ool  side  and  at  its  end  the 
emperature  for  the  month  to 
late  was  about  minus  25. 
Hotter   Weather 

The  week  of  the  8th  there  was 
I  definite  change  in  the  weather 
)attern  and  the  cranberry  area 
lad  rather  extreme  humid  heat. 
Temperatures  were  in  the  70's, 
!0's  and  even  90  degrees.  The 
emperature  for  the  month 
■hanged  abruptly  to  the  plus 
;ide.  By  the  tenth  the  plus  was 
.4. 

Thundershower 

There  was  a  light  thunder- 
;hower  on  the  evening  of  June 
)th  which  helped  the  water 
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Drastic   Changn 

The  fine  weather  continued 
until  the  13th  when  there  was 
a  drastic  change  to  the  cold 
side  with  squalls  lashing  New- 
England,  upsetting  boats  and 
causing  four  drownings.  Light- 
ning struck  and  a  fire  destroyed 
a  church  in  Ipswich.  Some  rain 
fell  over  the  cranberry  area 
on  that  night. 

The  temperature  for  the  month 
had  risen  to  a  plus  24,  but  the 
13th  was  11  degrees  below  the 
average,  and  a  chill,  which  nec- 
essitated furnace  heat  in  homes 
and  business  establishments. 

There  was  a  fairly  substantial 
cold    rain    all    day    on    the    14th. 

On  the  night  of  the  14th  al- 
though there  was  no  frost  warn- 
ing, many  growers  were  up 
watching    the    weather    and    very 


much  worried.  Expected  cloud 
blew  away  about  midnight  and 
temperatures  of  30  were  reached. 
The  tolerance  of  Early  Black 
early- water    was    29  Vo . 

The  night  of  the  15th  saw 
another  frost  warning  issued, 
"possible  frost,  in  colder  places, 
minimum     29      degrees." 

By  the  16th  temperature  for 
the  month  of  June  which  had 
been  a  plus  changed  to  a  minus 
of  17,  the  departure  from  normal 
on  the  15th  being  minus  15.  The 
minus  on  the  17th  was  29.  On 
the   18th  41. 

Just  a  week  from  the  drastic 
change  in  the  weather  to  the 
cold  side,  on  June  20  brought 
a  plus  of  5  degrees.  It  was 
not  thought  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  that  the  June  cold  snap 
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and    growers    had    also    sprinkled 
during    the    heat. 

Bees 
Probably  more  honey  bees  had 
been  hired  and  placed  in  use 
this  year  on  the  bogs  than  ever 
before  and  while  there  were 
many  wild  bees  around  they  were 
slow  in  getting  onto  the  bogs. 
By  the  25th  most  bogs  had  good 
bloom. 

The  bloom  was  apparently 
heavy  nearly  everywhere,  and 
growers  were  expecting  a  very 
good  Massachusetts  crop  if  con- 
ditions continued  favorable  dur- 
ing the  summer.  With  the  heavy 
bloom  it  was  expected  harvesting 
this  fall  might  be  rather  later 
than  usual  as  there  may  be  many 
bottom  berries. 

A  very  substantial  and  help- 
ful rain  came  over  the  cranberry 
area  on  the  afternoon  and  eve- 
ning of  the  24th  when  the  heat 
wave  broke.  There  was  fair 
rain  on  the  last  day  of  June. 
Summary  for  June 
Rainfall  as  recorded  at  the 
State  Bog  was  2.50  with  the  av- 
erage 3.21  inches.  The  month 
ended  with  a  minus  of  15  de- 
grees, the  total  since  January  first 
being  minus  359.  Spring  frost 
damage  was  set  at  possibly  2 
per  cent.  June  was  a  nearly 
perfect  month  for  the  coming 
crop  as  it  was  characterized  by 
Dr.  Cross,  director  of  the  Cran- 
berry Station,  except  for  being 
a  little  dry,  perhaps  with  more 
rainfall  in  upper  Plymouth 
County.  Sunshine  was  72  per 
cent  of  possible,  way  above  nor- 
mal. A  number  of  growers  said 
that  honeybees  were  not  as  ac- 
tive as  they  should  be  but  were 
plenty  of  bumbles  and  they 
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NORMAN  I.  BRATENG,  DIRECTOR  OF  OCEAN  SPRAY  CRANBERRIES,  INC. 
IS  ONE  OF  THE  LARGEST  CRANBERRY  GROWERS  IN  WASHINGTON 


He  has  18  acres  and  averages  about  150  barrels  to  the  Acre. 
All  Acreage  under  Sprinklers  — Active  in  local  civic  affairs  — 
Bought   Bog   from   Wilson   Blair. 

By    CLARENCE    J.    HALL 

Norman  L  Brateng,  a  director  of  Ocean  Spray  since  August 
1959  is  a  good  example  of  how  West  Coast  cranberry  growers  are 
consolidating  their  bog  holding  and  gradually  making  bogs  self- 
sustaining,  thus  permitting  them  to  become  full-time  growers.  Until 
August  of  196?  he  had  8  producing  acres  on  Pioneer  road  at  Long 
Beach,  Washington.  This  bog  is  next  to  the  Coastal  Washington 
Experiment    Station. 

Then  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brateng  purchased  the  property  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wilson  Elair  on  both  sides  of  Pugh  Road,  a  property  with  21 
acres  in  all  and  10  in  production.  At  that  time  there  were  two 
more  in  planting.  Blair  has  produced  as  many  as  1,500  barrels  in 
a  year.  Brateng's  top  production  was  in  the  "big  year"  of  1961  when 
he  harvested  more  than  2200  barrels.  On  some  of  his  acreage  he 
grew    312    barrete    to    the    acre. 


Large   Producer 

Brateng  is  one  of  the  largest 
producers  in  the  Long  Beach 
area,  ■  with  the  exception  of  huge 
Cranguyma.  Elwell  Chabot  and 
Pobert  Osgard  have  larger  hold- 
ings, and  may  have  the  potential 
1(1  produce  larger  crops  than  Bra- 
tt  ng.  Barteng  says,  without  boast- 
ing that  he  has  been  fortunate 
enough  in  most  years  to  produce 
about  150  barrels  to  the  acre. 
Norman's  Background 

Norman  was  born  April  29, 
1910  on  a  farm  a  few  miles  from 
the  Thief  River  Falh  in  western 
Minnesota.  The  family  moved  to 
Longview,  Washington.  At  the 
time  his  father,  Carl,  was  a  saw- 
mill worker  for  the  huge  Wey- 
erhauser  Lumber  Company  which 
I '.IS  large  mills  at  Longview  and 
I  Isewhere  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Longview  is  in  western  Wash- 
ington about  40  miles  from  Long 
Beach.  Norman  attended  public 
schools  at  Longview.  He  had  three 
>  jars  of  vocational  training  while 
in  high  school,  and  feels  this 
course  "was  of  tremendous  bene- 
fit  to   me." 

Took  Part  in  Okinawa 

During  the  Second  World  War 
Brateng  was  a  gunner's  mate 
3rd  class.  He  served  mainly  on 
Ithe  Ticonderoga  in  the  Pacific 
theatre.  He  took  part  in  the  in- 
vasion of  Okinawa  and  also  saw 
action    off    the    coast    of   Japan. 


His  Father  Started  Bog 
Norman's  father  Carl  bought 
the  property  on  Pioner  Road  in 
1945.  Norman  assisted  him  in 
the  winter  and  spring  of  1947 
by  putting  in  three  additional 
acres.  By  this  time  Norman  says 
"the  original  plantings  made  on 
20  acres  in  about  1914  or  1915 
'were    in    terrible    shape.'  " 

"So  with  the  3  new  acres  and 
21/2  wrestled  from  the  natural 
jungle  of  the  Penninsula  he  then 
had    51/2    acres   producing." 

Brateng  was  in  the  gravel 
business  for  awhile,  and  in  about 
1950  he  came  to  think  that  car- 
pentry was  a  better  opportunity. 
He  then  worked  at  that  trade  in 
heavy  construction  and  housing 
then  "I  graduated  into  boat 
building  during  the  winter  of 
1952." 

"I  enjoyed  this  work  very 
much,"  he  recalls,  "then  my 
father's  health  went  bad  in  the 
summer  of  1954.  I  quit  the  com- 
pany (Tollycraft)  I  was  work- 
ing for  and  purchased  the  bog 
from   my   father." 

The  producing  and  newly 
planted  area  had  grown  by  then 
to  6  acres  with  2  more  acres 
scalped  and  ready  for  leveling 
and  planting.  Since  that  time 
a  sprinkler  system  has  been  ex- 
panded to  include  all  8  acres. 
A  new  and  larger  water  sump 
has     been     put      in.       This     was 


dredged  out  by  using  a  suitable 
pump  and  other  equipment.  An 
automatic  control  was  installed 
that  operates  the  system  turning 
it  on  at  some  pre-determined 
temperature  and  turning  it  off 
again  on  a  3  degrees  temperature 
rise. 

This  is  completely  automatic 
and  allows  for  sufficient  tempera- 
ture rise  to  control  frost  without 
saturating  the  ground  with  water. 
"I  believe  this  is  important  dur- 
ing the  late  spring  period,"  Bra- 
teng   adds. 

The  Pioneer  Road  bog  is  all 
set  to  McFarlins.  The  original 
bog  was  owned  by  the  Western 
Cranberry  Company  and  accord- 
ing to  D.  J.  Crowley,  formally 
experiment  station  director,  the 
vines  were  shipped  from  Massa- 
chusetts in  about  1915,  and 
Crowley  remembers  they  were 
"bailed   like   hay." 

Experimenting 
Brateng  has  been  experiment- 
ing for  the  past  several  years  to 
find  if  there  is  any  cold  dam- 
age done  in  winter.  These  ex- 
periments are  to  test  out  a  theory 
that  injury  occurs  in  the  post- 
harvest  period  when  temperatures 
drop  not  sufficiently  to  cause  a 
severe  frost,  but  the  temperature 
may  still  be  cold  enough  to 
cause  vine  injury.  Brateng  is 
inclined  to  think  this  damage 
may  occur  and  so  does  Crowley. 
It  has  been  only  during  frost 
periods  that  Brateng  has  been 
sprinkling  for  temperatures  be- 
low 25  degrees.  He  is  trying  also 
to  compare  with  other  Long 
Beach  growers  if  this  damage  is 
doi3  to  bogs  which  are  not 
sprinkled.  Brateng  does  sprinkle 
for  exceptionally  low  tempera- 
tures   at    any   time   after   harvest. 

"It  is  my  belief  that  we 
haven't  protected  the  vines  enough 
during  sudden  drops  after  pro- 
longed   temperatures. 

Twig  blight,  a  troublesome 
matter  often  in  the  Pacific  Coast 


cranberry  region  is  no  problem 
to  Brateng,  as  he  has  followed 
the  advice  of  the  Experiment 
Station  and  fungicides  to  con- 
trol this,  which  is  caused  by  a 
fungus  disease. 

Water  Reel  Harvest 

Brateng  harvests  by  the  water 
reel  method  and  engages  in  bulk 
handling  of  berries.  He  is  one 
of  the  few  growers  on  the  Coast 
who  do  not  use  paint  thinner  (a 
petroleum  product)  in  his  weed 
control.  He  is  hoping  that  some 
of  the  new  herbicides  may  help 
him  to  overcome  the  weed  prob- 
lem. His  worst  weeds  are  loostrife 
and    horstail. 

Brateng  is  married  to  the  for- 
mer Mary  Volcott  of  Longview, 
whom  he  met  while  in  high 
school.  The  couple  have  two 
children,  Norman  Carl,  who  is 
21  and  son  Eric,  who  is  six.  They 
have    one    grandchild. 

A  Full-time  Grower 

Brateng  has  been  a  full-time 
grower  and  working  cranberry 
man  since  he  obtained  his  Pio- 
neer road  property  of  8  acres. 
He  believevs  a  living  can  be 
made  on  this  much  acreage  — ' 
by  inducing  intensive  fruit-tip 
growth  and  thereby  getting  mo  "e 
berries    to    the    acre. 

The  Bratengs  in  1963  completed 
a  most  handsome  home  at  the 
bog.  Brateng  did  nearly  all  the 
work  assisted  by  his  wife.  There 
are  clareslory  windows  in  the 
living  room;  flourescent  lighting; 
wide  windows  and  handsome 
woods.  In  the  living  room  the^e 
is  a  very  large  fireplace,  modern 
in  design,  one  whole  side  of  the 
hi-?  livin'?  room  is  of  glass.  The 
kitchen  has  every  modern  elec- 
trical convenience  —  cabinets  are 
built   in. 

Brateng  is  not  a  "joiner"  of 
social  clubs.  He  does  belong  to 
the  Long  Beach  Peninsula  Cran- 
berry Club;  the  Long  Beach  Lions 
Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  the  A.R.A.,  or  Area 
Development  Association.  He  is 
vice  chairman  of  the  Board, 
Pacific  County  A.R.A.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Advisory  Board 
of  the  Long  Beach  Flood  Control 
District.  As  an  Ocean  Spray  di- 
rector he  is  secretary  of  the  fi- 
nance   committee    and    regularly 


Wilson  Blair  Sold  Bog  to  Norman  Brateng. 

(CRANBERRIES   Photo) 


attends  all  meetings  of  the  di- 
rectors at  Hanson,  Mass.  or  else- 
where. 

Brateng  is  of  Scandanivan  de- 
scent while  Mrs.  Brateng  is 
Scotch-Irish. 

Brateng  says  he  has  served 
on  the  Pacific  County  Planning 
Commission  since  its  foundation 
last  December.  This  is  an  ap- 
pointive position,  a  very  con- 
troversial and  none-reimbursive, 
but  very  gratifying.  He  has 
served  as  secretary  of  the  com- 
mission so  with  his  bog  work, 
and    being    a    director    of    Ocean 


Spray  Brateng  is  a  busy  man. 
Wilson  Blair 
Shortly  after  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Blair  sold  their  property  to  the 
Bratengs  they  moved  to  Las 
Vagas  where  they  entered  into 
the  car  washing  business.  Blair 
had  been  a  cranberry  grower  for 
16  years.  He  was  raised  on  a 
farm  in  Idaho  and  was  in  the 
oil  and  auto  business  for  15 
years.  He  resided  in  Grayland 
after  the  war  and  got  interested 
in  the  cranberry  business  and 
bought  his  Long  Beach  bog  in 
1947. 


Blair  had  revamped  some  of 
this  acreage  and  then  bought 
two  acres  on  the  north  side  of 
Pugh  Road.  He  harvested  by 
water  reel,  building  one  himself. 
The  acreage  of  this  bog  now 
owned  by  the  Bratengs  is  wooden- 
diked   for   the   harvest. 

The  sprinkler  system  which 
covers  the  entire  bog  has  both 
Buckner  and  rain  Bird  head. 
The  system  has  an  automatic 
warning  that  rings  a  bell  and 
got  Mr.  Blair  out  of  bed  frost 
nights.  There  are  three  sumps, 
one  an  acre  in  extent,  one  60x 
150  feet  and  a  small  one  and  in 
depth  these  water  holes  vary 
from  six  to  14. 

In  an  interview  before  he  sold 
his  bog  Blair  said  Long  Beach 
production  was  increasing.  "But 
I  think  we  will  have  to  learn 
a  lot  about  fertilizers  to  fit  our 
particular  conditions,"  he  said. 
"We  do  not  use  enough  phos- 
phate; too  much  nitrogen  affects 
the   quality   of  the   fruit. 

Blair  has  long  been  active  in 
Long  Beach  affairs  particularly 
in  cranberry  matters.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  West  Coast  Ad- 
visory   Board    for    Ocean    Spray. 

He  was  also  on  the  Advisory 
Board  of  Long  Beach  Experiment 
Station;  on  the  Advisory  Board 
of  the  Flood  Control  District  of 
Pacific  county,  and  a  director 
of  the  A.R.A. 

While  at  Long  Beach  his  hobby 
was  sports  salmon  fishing  both 
in  the  Columbia  River  and  the 
ocean.  He  had  a  license  to  op- 
erate charter  boats.  He  enjoys 
bowhng.  The  Blairs  have  two 
daughters,  Mrs.  Maureen  New- 
som,  and  Barbara  Knapp,  the 
latter  and  her  husband  having 
two   children. 

Blair  has  now  returned  to  Long 
Beach  and  has  purchased  a  part 
of  the  Bernhard  property.  He 
has  also  become  Long  Beach 
manager  of  the  Ocean  Spray 
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DIRECTOR  OF  STATE  AGRICULTURE  MAKES 
FINDING  IN  PROPOSED  WISCONSIN 
MARKETING  ORDER 


Referendum  to  be  held  — 
Advisory    Board    of    five    and 
five  Alternates  to  be  elected— 

Under  date  of  June  11,  D.  N. 
McDowell,  director  of  the  Wis- 
consin State  Department  of  Ag- 
riculture has  sent  Wisconsin 
growers  the  decision  upon  a  pro- 
posed state  Marketing  Order  for 
cranberries.  He  states  his  de- 
cision is  based  on  the  evidence 
taken  at  the  hearing  on  May  12. 
A  petition  signed  by  13  cranberry 
producers  was  received  by  the  di- 
rector on  January  20,  requesting 
a  marketing  order  be  established. 
This  means  that  a  referendum 
of  cranberry  growers  whether 
they  want  such  an  order  or  not 
is  to  be  conducted.  The  refer- 
endum is  to  be  by  mail  ballot 
within   45   days   of  June    11. 


There  is  to  be  an  advisory 
board  of  five  members,  these  be- 
ing producers  to  assist  the  direc- 
tor in  the  administration  of  the 
order  if  it  is  voted  in.  A  ballot 
has  been  sent  to  each  grower 
asking  for  nominations  to  the 
board  of  advisors,  and  the  ballot 
is  not  valid  if  received  by  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  after 
July  1.  Each  nomination  must  be 
signed  by  five  qualified  producers 
to  be  considered.  Each  grower 
shall  vote  for  all  five  members. 
The  five  individuals  receiving 
the  highest  number  of  votes  will 
assume  active  membership  on 
the  advisory  board.  The  five 
receiving  the  next  highest  num- 
ber of  votes  will  become  alter- 
nate  members. 

The  term   of  the  members   and 
alternate    members    is    to    be    for 


three  years.  The  duties  of  the 
advisory  committee  are  to  be  ad- 
visory only  to  the  Director  and 
it  may  make  recommendations 
relating  to  the  marketing  order. 
While  the  marketing  order  is  in 
effect  each  producer  is  to  be  li- 
able for  an  annual  assessment  of 
two  cents  per  barrel.  The  funds 
collected  are  to  be  budgeted  to 
carry  on  apphed  research,  finan- 
cing and  educational  program  in- 
cluding funds  for  a  frost  warn- 
ing system. 

From  the  funds  collected  the 
Director  would  work  with  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Commerce 
Division  of  Forecasts  and  Syn- 
optic reports.  The  service  would 
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casting temperature,  weather  and 
other  pertinent  conditions  during 
the  cranberry  growing  season 
and  disseminating  this  informa- 
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The  notice  to  growers  says  a 
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of  years  and  the  program  ha? 
been  supported  through  voluntary 
contributions  from  growers;  "the 
program  is  in  danger  of  bein? 
abandoned  because  of  rising  costs 
and  the  lack  of  financial  support 
from    a    minority    of    growers." 

Report  continues  the  pro- 
posed assessment  of  two  cents 
per  barrel  of  cranberrie3  pro- 
duced is  very  modest,   amounting 


to  only  approximately  two-tenths 
of  one  per  cent  on  the  gross  dol- 
lar  return. 

Furthermore  the  notice  says 
the  order,  if  voted  in,  would  pro- 
vide for  the  Director  to  carry  on 
research  and  long-time  research, 
surveys,  and  may  include  the 
developing  of  new  and  improved 
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insect,  weed  and  fungicide  con- 
trol, developing  objective  quality 
and  maturity  features  for  cran- 
berries; marketing  techniques  to 
promote  more  efficient  operations. 

The  notice  stresses  that  the 
success  or  failure  of  an  entire 
cranberry  crop  might  well  rest 
on  receiving  weather  forecasts 
and  frost  warnings.  It  asserts 
cranberries  are  grown  in  17  of 
Wisconsin's  72  counties;  the  pro- 
duction of  cranberries  is  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  agricultural 
economy  of  the  state,  represent- 
ing four  or  five  million  dollars 
gross  income  to  growers  of  Wis- 
consin. 

It  points  out  that  Wisconsin  is 
the  second  largest  producer  of 
cranberries  in  the  United  States, 
producing  approximately  400,000 
barrels  annually  which  represents 
about  33  per  cent  of  the  nation's 
supply.  "Production  has  been  in- 
creasing over  the  years,  primarily 
because  of  added  acreage." 

If  the  order  is  voted  in  it 
provides  that  in  the  event  of 
failure  of  any  person  to  pay  any 
assessments  due,  the  Director 
may  bring  an  action  against  him 
in  a  court  of  competent  juris- 
diction for  collection  thereof.  In 
the  event  of  failure  of  any  sales 
agency  or  processor  to  collect 
the  assessments  levied,  such 
processor  shall  be  personally 
liable    for    such    assessments. 


MRS.  RICHARD  REZIN 
OF  WISCONSIN 

Mrs.  Richard  F.  Rezin,  97,  Rt. 
2,  Warrens,  a  member  of  a  pio- 
neer Wisconsin  Cranberry  grow- 
ing family  in  Good  County,  Wis- 
consin, died  on  June  5  at  the 
Tomah  Memorial  Hospital.  Ill 
since  September,  she  had  been 
hospitalized  for  two  weeks.  Death 
was    attributed   to   a   stroke. 

Mrs.  Rezin,  the  former  Pearl 
Forbes,  was  born  in  Wisconsin 
Rapids  Nov.  12  1867.  Her  par- 
ents Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Forbes, 
were   cranberry   growers. 

Following  her  marriage  to 
Richard  F.  Rezin  on  June  17, 
1889.  at  Webster,  S.  D.,  they  es- 
tablished a  cranberry  marsh  in 
the  town  of  Cranmoor  in  1890. 
Ten    year    later    they    moved    to 


•'S''arrens  where  they  continued  in 
he    cranberry    industry. 

Since  the  death  of  her  husband 
Vlay  13.  1945,  Mrs.  Rezin  had 
jeen  associated  with  a  son  Rus- 
ell,  in  the  cranberry  business. 
She  traveled  extensively  and 
or  the  past  14  years  had  main- 
tained a  winter  home  at  Fort 
Aeyers,  Fla.,  with  a  daughter, 
sabel. 

As  a  child  she  saw  the  firs  I 
ailway  train  come  into  Cen- 
ralia  (now  Wisconsin  Rapids) 
nd  watched  covered  wagons 
oing  west  from  the  home  her 
arents  later  bought  near  Ne- 
oosa. 

Mrs.  Rezin  is  survived  by  three 
3ns,  Leslie  of  Eagle  River  and 
ussell  and  Daniel  of  Warrens; 
vo  daughters.  Isabel  and  Mrs. 
/■alter  Lenoch,  both  of  Warrens; 
1  grandchildren  and  42  great- 
•andchildren.  Her  husband  and 
^.■e  children  preceded  her  in 
aath.    v 

She    was    a    member    of    Ahda- 

?gam  Chapter,  Daughters  of 
le   American  Revolution,   and  of 

cunt  Olive  Chapter  6,  Order  of 
;e   White   Shrine   of   Jerusalem. 


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MASS.  CRANBERRY 
CLINIC  WELL 
ATTENDED  -  INSECTS 

A  well  -  attended  cranberry 
clinic  was  held  at  the  Massachu- 
setts Cranberry  Experiment  Sta- 
tion bog  on  the  afternoon  of 
July  1.  Speakers  were  Entomolo- 
gist "Bill"  Tomlinson,  Dr.  Cross 
director  of  the  Station  on  irriga- 
tion and  Irving  E.  Demoranville, 
Extension  Cranberry  Specialist 
on    weeds    and    disease    control. 

Tomlinson  said  there  might  be 
a  bad  girdler  building  up  from 
the  number  of  moths  on  the  bogs 
and  this  might  get  worse  in 
near-future  years.  He  also  said 
the  heavy  gypsy  moth  infestation 
which  appears  to  be  shaping  up 
earlier  in  the  spring  had  not  de- 
veloped for  this  summer,  but  he 
did  not  like  the  build-up  as 
there  were  some  on  the  bogs  and 
it  could  be  worse  also  in  the 
near-future.  Some  25,000  to  30,- 
000  acres  were  treated  on  the 
Cape  by  helicopter  and  straight 
wing  plane,  the  material  used 
being    SEVIN. 


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CUTTING    THE    CRANBERRIES    TO    OPEN    CRANBERRY    HOUSE    IN    ORLEANS 

MASS.,  is  shown  (left  to  right)  Edwin  T.  Moffitt,  Ocean  Spray's  Manager  of  Retail 
Sales;  Mrs.  John  W.  Higgins,  Supervisor  of  the  new  Cranberry  House;  Selectman 
Gaston  L.  Norgeot  of  Orleans;  Mrs.  Frances  Florinda,  Supervisor  of  Cranberry 
House  in  Onset,  Massachusetts;  Kim  Lade  of  Dover  and  Orleans,  student  at  Endi- 
cott  and  Nancy  Neelans  of  Hazardville,  Connecticut,  student  at  Northeastern;  rear 
right,  Willie  Fleming  of  Wareham,   Cranberry   House   cook. 


DCEAN  SPRAY 
DPENS  SECOND 


RANBERRY 
OUSE 


Ocean    Spray    Cranberries,    Inc. 

leading  the  way  to  a  diversified 
aste  for  cranberries  with  the 
pening  of  its  second  Cranberry 
louse  in  Massachusetts.  The 
rst.  located  in  Onset,  is  adja- 
ent  to  one  of  Ocean  Spray's 
anning  plants  and  has  been  in 
peration  over  a  year.  The  sec- 
hd,  opened  June  16,  is  located 
1  a  new  shopping  center  in  Or- 
gans, at  the  gateway  to  the  Cape 
'od  National  Seashore  Park. 


Both  houses  combine  a  restau- 
rant or  luncheonette,  a  gift  shop 
and  bakery,  all  featuring  cran- 
berry flavor  and  motif.  Guests 
also  have  an  opportunity  to 
semple  new  cranberry  products 
be.ng  introduced  by  Ocean  Spray. 
A  cranberry  museum  and  cran- 
berry theater,  with  daily  show- 
ings during  the  summer  of  Ocean 
Spray's  movie,  Heritage  of  Flavor, 
are  also  part  of  the  Cranberry 
House  in  Onset. 

Cranberry  House  menus  are 
enhanced  with  Cranberry  Jewel 
Salad,  Cranwiches,  Cranberry 
Fruit  Nut  Bread  and  even  the 
Sunday  Special  of  roast  turkey 
is  plumped  out  with  a  cranberry 
stuffing.  Cranberry  bread  and 
muffins    are   also   featured   at   the 


bakery  along  with  cranberry 
cookies,  cranberry  crunch,  cran- 
berry pies,  cakes,  and  doughnuts. 

In  charge  of  Ocean  Spray  re- 
tail facilities  is  Edwin  T.  Moffitt 
who  can  think  of  more  ways  to 
glorify  the  cranberry  than  any- 
one since  the  Indians  who  used 
them  for  a  food,  medicine  and  a 
color  for  their  bright  rugs  and 
blankets.  He  has  his  Cranberry 
House  personnel  appropriately 
uniformed  in  Cranberry  Red  with 
pert  white  aprons  and  Pilgrim- 
type    hats. 

"Cranberry  House,"  he  says, 
"is  an  effective  way  to  show  the 
public  how  god  tasting  and  ver- 
satile cranberries  are  and  we 
hope  will  stir  up  a  whole  new 
enjoyment  of  cranberries. 


Cape  Cod  cranberry  growers  and  families  enjoy  a  private  opening-  of  Ocean 
Spray's  second  Cranberry  House,  in  Orleans,  on  Cape  Cod,  Massachusetts.  They 
are  shown  seated  at  the  luncheonette  sampling  the  cranberry  specialties  on 
the  menu. 


MRS.    ISAAC    ISAACSON 

Mrs.  Alma  (Lahti)  Isaacson, 
72  of  Rocky  Meadow  Street,  Mid- 
dleboro,  Mass.  died  June  21  in 
Jordan  Hospital,  Plymouth.  She 
had  been  a  patient  there  for 
three   weeks. 

She  was  a  member  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.  and  was 
widely  known  to  operate  one  of 
the  best  bogs  in  Massachusetts. 
She  gave  the  bog  her  personal 
attention  and  it  was  one  of  the 
"cleanest"  and  best  producing 
bogs  in  the  state. 

Mrs.  Isaacson  was  born  in 
Parkano,  Finland  and  resided 
for  many  years  at  Briarsville  be- 
fore purchasing  the  former  Shaw 
bog.  She  and  her  husband  had 
operated  the  bog  for  35  years. 
She  was  an  active  worker  on 
the  Finnish  Relief  Committee 
during   the   Russian   Finnish   war. 

Survivors  include  her  hus- 
band, Isaac  Isaacson,  a  brother, 
Otto  Lahti  of  Canada;  a  sister 
Emma  Heinamake  of  Finland 
and  seven  nieces  and  nephews 
in   this  country  and  Finland. 


MISS  BUCHAN  TO 
VACATION    IN    IRELAND 
SCOTLAND,   ENGLAND 

Miss  Betty  Buchan,  director 
of  publicity  for  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.  flies  August  4th 
via  Irish  Airlines  to  Ireland, 
England  and  Scotland  for  a  va- 
cation of  three  weeks.  She  will 
visit  various  spots  in  the  three 
countries  and  will  visit  two 
uncles    and    an    aunt   in    England. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  6 
were   very   active. 

Nearly  all  bogs  were  heavy 
with  bloom  by  the  first  of  July, 
with  prospects  for  a  very  good 
crop  as  of  then,  but  as  a  grower 
said  "you  do  not  pick  cranberry 
blossoms." 


NEW    J  E  RSEY 

Frost    Calls 
The    month    of   June   was    very 
hot     some     days     and     very     cool 
some    nights.     The    mean    average 


was  69  degrees,  which  was  2.2 
lower  than  normal.  This  is  the 
eighth  year  in  a  row  when  June 
was  below  normal.  There  were 
10  days  of  90  degrees  and  over, 
with  a  record  high  for  the  date 
on  June  23rd  of  97  degrees.  On 
June  8th  it  was  93  degrees,  which 
tied  with  June  1939,  for  the  high 
for  that  date.  There  were  8  nights 
when  the  upland  temperature 
was  in  the  40's  and  3  nights 
broke  records  for  the  date  —  June 
14th,  26th  and  27th  when  it 
reached  41  degrees,  45  degrees 
and  42  degrees  respectively.  Cran- 
berry growers  were  kept  busy 
with  frost  calls.  Minimum  bog 
temperatures  were  29  on  June 
3rd,  311/;  on  the  4th,  30  on  the 
13th,  32  on  the  18th,  31 V2  on  the 
25th,  and  28  on  the  26th. 
Less  Rain 
The  precipitation  during  June 
at  this  Weather  Station  totaled 
3.12  inches,  which  was  .73  of  an 
inch  below  the  normal  for  the 
month.  On  June  24th  there  were 
local  showers  totaling  1.75  inches 
but    only    9    miles    away    not    a 


drop  fell.  The  total  for  the  first 
6  months  of  1965  was  16.01  inches 
about  21/4  inches  less  than  the 
drought  year  of  1964  and  almost 
5   inches   below  normal. 

Torrential  July  Rain 

The  drought  was  relieved  by 
torrential  rains  in  most  cranberry 
areas  on  July  5th.  At  Tony  De- 
Marco's  bogs  at  Chatsworth  4.43 
inches  of  rain  fell  in  about  an 
hour  and  a  half.  At  the  Lab- 
oratory at  New  Lisbon,  2.23 
inches  were  recorded. 
Heavy     Rain 

The  season  is  considerably  later 
than  norm.al  on  cranberries  in 
New  Jersey  as  of  July  6th.  Blos- 
soming is  only  slightly  beyond 
the  peak  stage.  Most  growers 
are  encouraged  by  the  heavy 
bloom  and  the  fact  that  there 
has  been  very  little  frost  damage. 


WISCONSIN 

Water    Ample 

Warm     days     and     cool     nig'.il'^ 

was     the     weather     patterri     for 

the     Wisconsin     groovers     during 

June.      Precipitation     was     m>^re 


than  ample  early  in  *;he  month 
and  then  finished  on  a  dry  )iote 
ihe  last  two  weeks.  The  coldest 
readings  were  25  on  the  12th 
and  the  warmest  wa*-  90  on  the 
27th.  The  overall  average  was 
about  normal  for  temperature. 
The  heaviest  ram^  fell  dLuing 
the  first  wek  w'r.  over  llii'ee 
inches  in  some  of  'he  west 
central  areas.  Rainfall  averaged 
normal  to  above  n'Tinal  jn  ail 
areas  of  the  state  except  the 
south\vest.  There  v/as  odcition-^l 
frost  on  the  21st  but  no  losses 
were  reporced.  Thi ;  frojt  was 
almost  a  year  to  the  day  oi  the 
serious  frost  of  1964.  The  outlook 
for  July  calls  for  temperatisres 
to  average  above  normal  and 
precipitation  below  normal. 

Crop  Prospects  Look  Good 
For  the  most  part  fireworni 
activity  on  the  first  brood  was 
quite  light  and  most  grov/ers  (.b- 
tained  good  control.  The  cool 
weather  held  worm  development 
down  which  allowed  the  grov/ers 
more  time  for  control.  Some 
growers  used  their  sprinklex's 
with      parathion      emulsions      for 


their  insect  control  with  good 
success.  Spot  spraying  with  sol- 
vent was  continuing  on  isolated 
species  of  weeds  and  grasses  until 
mid  month.  First  bloom  was 
appearing  by  mid  month  and  the 
time  table  appeared  about  nor- 
mal but  behind  last  year.  Crop 
prospects  appeared  good  as  the 
hooking     started     to     develop. 

Frost-Hail    Losses    Normal 

Losses  to  date  have  been  light 
except  for  some  spring  damage 
caused  by  dessication  on  early 
pulled  winter  water.  This  con- 
dition did  not  show  up  until  the 
actual  growing  season  started  in 
early  June.  Overall  the  loss  is 
not  great,  but  individually  it  is 
quite  severe.  These  areas  are 
being  re-fertilized.  Losses  from 
frost  and  hail  to  date  have  been 
minor  and  considered  normal. 
For  the  most  part  Casoron  appli- 
cations made  last  fall  look  very 
promising,  except  where  calibra- 
tion of  spreaders  was  off.  Spring 
applications  also  look  good  at  the 
reduced  rates. 


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SEVENTEEN 


'Why,  yes,    I  have  been  having:  quite  a  bit  of  rain  up  around  my   bog  lately 

how'd   you   guess  ?" 


EIGHTEEN 


fidJt'^iSJa-l'S 


ISSUE  OF  JULY,   1965 
VOL.    30 -NO.    3 


O^!^^'***^'^^^ 


GUEST    EDITORIAL 

THE   FUTURE   OF   CRANBERRY  CULTURE 
IN   MASSACHUSETTS 

In  1950,  about  15,000  acres  of  cranberries 
\\'ere  harvested  in  the  Bay  State.  Since  then, 
the  acreage  in  production  has  steadily  de- 
clined, and  for  the  last  two  years  has  leveled 
off  at  about  11,700  acres.  In  1956,  there  were 
962  growers  in  Massachusetts.  By  1959,  tlie 
number  had  decHned  to  about  775  and  is  now 
down  possibly  to  600. 

At  first  glance  these  figures  would  indi- 
cftte  a  declining  interest  in  cranberry  growing, 
and  a  declining  importance  of  the  crop  for 
Nhissachusetts  in  the  national  cranbeiTy  indus- 
tr\'.  Nothing  could  be  further  from  the  tnith. 
During  the  first  live  years  of  this  decade,  Mas- 
sachusetts has  produced  the  first,  second, 
fourth,  and  fifth  largest  crops  in  its  history. 
In  common  with  American  agriculture  gene- 
rallv,  fewer  growers  are  operating  larger 
acreages,  and  this  is  being  done  with  higher- 
level  technical  competence,  greater  capital  in- 
\estment,   and  lower  unit  costs. 

Almost  one-fourth  of  the  Massachusetts 
cranberrv  bogs  are  now  provided  with  soUd- 
set  sprinkler  systems,  most  of  them  designed 
land  installed  since  the  disastrous  frost  of 
iMemorial  Day,  1961.  These  provide  nearly- 
instant  frost  protection  without  the  hazard  of 
late-season  flood-water  damage,  can  be  used 
throughout  the  growing  season  to  prevent 
dioiight  damage  and  to  spread  or  activate 
|X\sticides  and  fertilizers.  All  this  is  achieved 
witli  considerable  consei-vation  of  water  com- 
pared to  flood  management.  Several  thousand 
licres  more  of  sprinkler  systems  wall  be  installed 
|in  the  next  five  years. 

By  reducing  losses  to  frost  and  drought, 
md  by  harvesting  at  later  dates  in  the  fall, 
Massachusetts  cranberrv  growers  plan  to  av- 
erage 100  barrels  per  acre  or  better.  At  these 
ates,  unit  costs  are  down,  current  prices  mean 
profits  and  some  of  the  extensive  marginal 
icreage  which  was  abandoned  in  the  last  fif- 
teen years  will  be  rebuilt,  some  of  it  currently 
mder  wav. 

New  and  more  productixe  varieties  are 
inder  test  and  nursery  stocks  of  the  more 
promising  ones  are  being  developed.  Tills 
md  a  readiness  to  invest  in  labor-saving  ma- 
:;hinerv,  contributes  to  the  general  attitude 
>f  enthusiasm  and  vigor  that  has  characterized 


CLARENCE    J.    HALL 
Editor  and  Publisher 

EDITH  S.  HALL  —  Associate  Editor 
Wareham,   Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry  Consultant 

Wisconsin    Rapids 

Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,    Ore. 


Massachusetts 

Dr.  CHESTER  E.  CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East  Wareham,  Mass. 


New   Jersey 

P.  E.  MARUCCI 
New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  BlHeberry  Station 

New    Lisbon,    New    Jersey 


the  cranberiy  industi^v  since  the  springtime  of 
1964.  Massachusetts  growers  are  at  present 
supplying  over  one-half  the  world  supply  of 
cranberries,  and  because  of  diis  provide  much 
of  the  leadership  of  the  industry.  From  all 
current  indications  there  is  a  solid  determina- 
tion among  growers  to  continue  in  this  role. 
There  is  general  confidence  that  the  state  will 
produce  its  first  million-barrel  crop  in  the 
next  five  years.  It  is  hard  to  believe  that  the 
first  national  million-barrel  croj:)  was  produced 
3nly  twehe  years  ago.  The  future  of  cranberry- 
growing  in  Massachusetts  is  promising  and 
exciting  indeed. 

Dr.  Chester  E.  Cross 
Director    Massachusetts 
Cranberry   Experiment 
Station 

NINETEJEN 


INDIAN  TRAIL  SENDS 
LETTER  REGARDING 
NEW  OWNERSHIP 

A  notice  has  gone  out  from 
Indian  Trail  Cranberries  of  Wis- 
consin Rapids,  Wisconsin,  to  mem- 
bers and  others  regarding  the 
recent  sale  of  that  unit  to  Dean 
Foods    Company    of    Chicago. 

It  begins  that  the  tonnage  of 
Indian  Trail  has  increased  from 
12.000  barrels  to  several  times 
that  volume  in  the  past  17  years. 
The  notice  signed  by  Ben  G. 
Pannkuk,  now  manager  of  Indian 
Trail  says  the  purchase  of  Indian 
Trail  by  Dean  Foods,  which  is 
one  of  the  finest  companies  in 
its  field,  is  most  desirable  for 
the  growers  making  up  the  In- 
dian Trail  group,  employees,  cus- 
tomers and  the  cranberry  indus- 
try  in   the   State   of   Wisconsin. 

The  Dean  Foods  Company  was 
founded  in  1925  by  Samuel  E. 
Dean.    Sr.,    and    T.    A.    O'Connor. 


The  company  known  then  as 
Dean  Milk  Company  had  its  first 
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evaporated  milk  was  processed 
and  bottled.  During  the  1930's 
other  plants  were  purchased  or 
constructed  in  Illinois  at  Che- 
mang,  Rockford,  Belvidere  and 
Huntley.  In  the  1950's  geographic 
expansion  occured  at  a  rapid 
rate.  Gains  were  made  in  Mid- 
West  markets  with  the  acquisition 
of  dairies  in  Michigan  and  In- 
diana. Dean  then  moved  South 
with  entry  into  Kentucky,  Ar- 
nessee. 


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New  Jersey  beekeepers  had  a 
total  of  35,000  colonies  on  hand, 
July  first,  according  to  the  New 
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This  is  a  decline  of  four  percent 
from  1964.  This  yeaf  marks  the 
first   decline   in   three   years. 

Colonies  lost  during  the  winter 
and  spring  totaled  24  percent  of 
those    entering    the    winter. 

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in  the  United  States  totaled  5,- 
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worthy  and  their  daughter,  Mary 
were  late  July  visitors  to  the 
Massachusetts  Cranberry  area. 
On  the  way  East  they  stopped  at 
the  bogs  of  Charles  LeRocque  at 
Drummonsville,  Province  of  Que- 
bec, who  is  making  further  ad- 
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ties. They  visited  the  Mass. 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station, 
Decas  Bros.  Cranberry  Company, 
Edward  Gelsthorpe,  general  man- 
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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEAAORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


Personals 

Prof.  "Stan"  Norton  has  been 
attending  summer  school  at  the 
University  of  Florida.  He  is  ex- 
pected to  return  about  the  mid- 
dle  of  August. 

Andrew  Charig  began  his  du- 
ties on  July  6  as  Research  As- 
sistant to  Dr.  "Wes"  Miller,  our 
Station  biochemist.  "Andy"  is  a 
recent  graduate  of  SMTI  and 
lives  in  Westport.  He  will  assist 
Dr.  Miller  in  his  work  with 
chemical  determinations  in  soil 
and  -water. 

Vernon  Goldsworthy,  Wiscon- 
sin grower  and  President  of 
Cranberry  Products,  Inc.,  stopped 
in  for  a  visit  recently  and  we 
had  a  very  pleasant  chat.  He  re- 
ports that  there  is  considerable 
interest  in  the  Stevens  variety  in 


Wisconsin  and  that  a  faiv  amount 
of  new  acreage  has  been,  and  is 
being  planted  to  this  variety.  He 
also  noted  that  som.e  of  the  cran- 
berry marshes  had  suffered  con- 
siderable damage  from  hail  dur- 
ing  late   July. 

Weather 

July  was  another  in  the  series 
of  cool  months  that  we  have 
been  experiencing,  ending  up 
nearly  3  degrees  a  day  below 
normal.  Rainfall  was  extremely 
li^ht  with  only  .67  of  an  inch 
for  the  month.  The  largest 
amount  in  any  storm  was  .12  or 
only  Vs  of  »"  ^^^^  ^^  ^^e  year 
to  date.  We  are  10.5  inches  be- 
low the  30  year  average  at  the 
Cranberry  station. 

The  drought  is  now  wide- 
spread   throughout    the   cranberry 


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area  and  water  supplies  are 
fading  fast.  In  many  cases,  the 
water  supply  was  used  up  some 
time  ago.  Growers  are  digging 
new  water  holes  and  irrigating 
in  every  conceivable  way,  even 
to  using  lawn  sprinklers  and  per- 
forated plastic  hoses  on  one  small 
bog  that  we  saw  recently.  Bogs 
are  really  starting  to  suffer,  with 
some  showing  patches  of  brown 
vines  and  others  withered  berries 
which  are  the  forerunner  of 
dying  vines.  Other  bogs  that 
appear  to  be  unaffected  by  the 
drought  have  small  beries  which 
may  not  grow  to  normal  size. 
This  can  really  hurt  when  it  is 
time  to  harvest.  Unofficially  we 
est'mate  that  150,000  barrels  may 
have  been  lost  to  the  drought 
as   Oi   the   end   of  July. 

Harvest 
As  the  work  on  production  of 
the  crop  tapers  off  and  the  ber- 
ries get  too  large  for  work  on 
the  bog,  growers  should  take 
some  time  to  plan  for  the  har- 
ve-^t.  Many  months  of  hard  wor': 
and  worry  have  been  put  in 
to  raise  the  berries  and  nov/ 
everything  depends  on  the  care 
and    planning    of    the    harvest    as 


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to  the  condition  of  the  berries 
when  they  are  dehvered  to  the 
shipper.  Growers  should  do 
everything  in  their  power  to  de- 
liver fruit  in  the  best  possible 
condition.  (1)  Now  is  the  time 
to  make  sure  that  the  picking 
machines  and  wheeling-off  rigs 
are  in  top  running  order  for  a 
smooth  harvest  operation.  (2) 
Wait  for  color,  ripe  berries  stand 
more  frost.  By  waiting,  berries 
will  be  larger  and  easier  to  pick 
and  boxes  will  also  fill  up  faster. 
Set  machines  to  pick  no  deeper 
in    the    vines    than    is    necessary 


to  get  the  berries,  this  avoids 
bruising.  (1)  Run  the  machines 
at  a  moderate  pace,  racing  scat- 
ters berries,  areas  may  be 
skipped  over  and  the  vines  are 
pulled  unnecessarily  which  hurts 
next  year's  prospective  crop.  (5) 
Pick  when  the  vines  and  berries 
are  dry  and  discontinue  picking 
when  the  dampness  of  the  late 
afternoon  sets  in.  Picking  when 
the  vines  are  damp  will  increase 
bruising,  put  an  unnecessary 
strain  on  the  machines  and 
damage  the  vines. 


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Picking  Machine  School 
The  picking  machine  school  is 
scheduled  for  the  afternoon  of 
August  31  at  the  State  Bog. 
Robert  St.  Jacques  and  Louis 
Sherman  will  be  the  instructors 
for  the  Darlington  and  Western 
machines  respectively.  They  will 
cover  operational  techniques,  gen- 
eral maintenance  and  simple  re- 
pairs. Growers  are  urged  to 
have  their  machine  operators 
present  to  participate  in  these 
informative     sessions. 


Notes  From 
Brifish  Columbia 

Norman  V.  Holmes  of  New 
We3tminst3r,  British  Columbia, 
estimates  this  fall  the  bog  on 
Lulu  Island  will  have  a  crop  of 
close  to  15  030  barrels.  There 
had  been  little  rain  since  the 
first  of  June,  which  was  unusual 
for  the  area,  but  moisture  was 
still  about  a  half  inch  below 
the    surface.  . 

Holmes,  who  is  building  a  bog 
of  100  acres,  as  the  Columbia 
Ci'anbciTy  Co.,  Lim'.ted,  has  four 
tractors  and  bulldozers  working 
full  time,  and  he  hope3  to  have 
the  whole  100  acres  ready  to 
plant  by  this  fall  and  next 
spring. 

He  personally  drove  a  truck 
to  Wisconsin  the  last  week  in 
May  and  brought  back  a  load  of 
vines.  These  were  all  planted 
by  hand  (the  old-fashioned 
method)  and  more  than  15  acres 
were  planted  with  from  just 
under  four  tons.  The  plantings 
were  two  acres  of  Stevens  and 
about  131/2  acres  of  Searles.  The 
balance  will  be  planted  to  Mc- 
Farlins,  .or  at  least  the  next  80 
acres. 

The  company  has  purchased 
another  30  acres,  but  this  will 
not  be  planted  for  at  least  four 
years  after  the  peat  is  taken  off. 
"By  this  time,"  Holmes  says,  "we 
will  know  just  what  the  Stevens 
look  like  out  here  and  we  may 
put  in  all  Stevens."  There  is 
also  a-  small  patch  of  #72  from 
Oregon,  which  he  is  watching 
closely. 


Issue  of  August    1965 -Vol.    30,    No.   4 

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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C  J.  H. 


Disastrous  Drought 

Drought,  terrible  drought  has 
been  the  main  concern  of  Massa- 
chusetts growers  since  almost  the 
first  of  July.  The  month  began 
with  beautiful  weather  and  sea^ 
sonable  temperatures,  but  con- 
tinuing   dry. 

At  Fourth  of  July  unofficial  es- 
timates of  the  coming  crop  were 
■aade  at  the  Massachusetts  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station  of  a 
big  production  of  about  800,000 
baTrels.  But  the  rain  did  not 
come.  At  the  end  of  July  the 
rainfall  for  the  month  had  been 
a  tiny  .67  of  an  inch  with  the 
normal  3.21  inches.  There  were 
a  few  brief  sprinkles  but  at  no 
one  time  was  there  more  than 
,012th  of  an  inch  recorded  at 
at    Station. 

At  the  end  of  July  an  esti- 
mated 150,000  barrels  had  been 
taken  by  the  dryness,  and  th? 
drought  was  being  called  the 
worst  ever  known  in  recent  years, 
exceeding  the  bad  years  of  1944, 
1947    and    1952. 

The    situation    was    at    the    dis- 


CRANBERRY    PICKING 
BOXES 

Shocks,   or   Nailed 

Stock   Always   on   Hand 

Let     me     repair     your     broken 

boxes-or  repair  them  yoursell. 

F.  H.  COLE 

North   Carver,   Mass. 
Tel.    Union    6-3330 


aster  stage  for  the  grower.  It 
was  figured  that  from  a  fifth 
to  one  quarter  of  the  potential 
income  of  Massachusetts  grow- 
ers had  been  cut,  while  at  the 
other  end  of  the  picture,  grow- 
ers' expenses  were  extremely 
high,  with  every  effort  being 
made  to  get  some  water  onto 
the  vines,  with  every  conceivable 
method  being  used.  Growers 
used  their  pumps,  sprinklers, 
open-end  hoses  and  pipes,  with 
crews  working  16  hours  a  day 
making  every  effort  to  get  more 
moisture  onto  the  bogs.  Some 
growers  with  sprinklers  had  no 
water. 

Cranberry  bogs  need  about  one 
inch  of  water  per  week,  28,000 
gallons    per    acre. 

Flash  flood  would  have  helped, 


but  would  probably  have  .dam- 
aged the  crop.  Ditch  irrigation 
under  the  severe  conditions 
helped  only  a  narrow  band  of 
vines    near    the    ditch. 

Growers  were  even  digging 
holes  in  in  the  bottoms  of  ponds 
to  get  a  few  more  gallons  as 
the    ponds    dried    up. 

Vines  Dying 

But,  one  of  the  worst  features 
about  the  drastic  situation  was 
that  vines  were  drying  on  many 
bogs.  These  were  at  first  bare 
spots,  but  they  grew  and  merged 
together.  These  bare  ^ots  will 
bring  in  a  multitude  of  weeds, 
next  year  of  course.  It  was  esti- 
mated it  might  be  four  or  five 
years  before  the  damage  to  vines 
in  this  July  of  1965  is  made  good. 
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station  July  28  said  "every  effort 
should  be  made  immediately  to 
get  water  to  the  dyin^  cranberry 
vines.  Until  this  is  done,  all 
other  on-the-bog  operations  should 
cease. 

As    July    ended    the    loss    was 
being    figured    at    one    percent    a 
day  or  about  8,000  barrels. 
Sprinklers   Enormous   Help 

Unless  there  had  been  sprink- 
lers placed  on  about  2500  acres 
or  more  of  Massachusetts  bogs 
it  was  declared  at  the  Station 
that  the  situation  would  have 
been  indescribably  worse.  "I 
shudder  to  think  of  what  would 
have  happened  without  sprinkler 
systems,"  declared  Dr.  C.  E. 
Cross,  director  of  the  Station. 

At  the  end  of  July  the  big  crop 
in  prospect  had  dropped  to  about 
600,000  barrels  or  less,  and  many 
of  the  berries  were  small  in  size. 

The  month  ended  with  a  big 
minus  in  temperature  of  83  de- 
grees. This  was  one  fortunata 
factor,  if  it  could  be  called  for- 
tunate, that  there  wero  no  90 
degree  temperatures.  Had  a  few 
of  these  occurred,  or  even  one 
the  cut  in  crop  wouli  have  been 
even  more,  and  more  vines  would 
have  shrivelled  and  died. 
Rain  AuTust  2 

The    first    day    of    August    was 


bright  and  sunny,  but  on  the 
afternoon  and  evening  of  August 
2  there  came  a  substantial  rain 
over  all,  or  most  all,  of  the  cran- 
berry area.  Dr.  Cross  felt  fol- 
lowing this  that  the  drought  was 
"temporarily   ended." 

The  Station  believed  that  grow- 
ers who  had  been  systematically 
and  continuously  getting  some 
water  onto  their  bogs  received 
the  full  benefit  of  the  rain. 
A  "Cranberry"  Rain 

It  was  the  extreme  southerly 
part  of  Massachusetts  where  most 
cranberry  properties  are  located 
which  received  the  best  of  the 
rain.  Boston  only  got  about  a 
quarter  of  inch.  The  State  Bog 
measured  1.30  inches;  there  was 
an  even  inch  at  East  Sandwich, 
there  were  two  inches  at  Mash- 
pee,  three  at  Orleans  further 
down  the  Cape;  two  at  Center- 
ville  and  1.27  of  an  inch  at  the 
New  Bedford  pumping  station 
in  Rochester;  about  an  inch  in 
Lakevillc,  Carver  and  Kingston. 
Longr  Dry 

Until  that  rain  the  precipitation 
had  been  about  19  inches  short 
of  normal  fcr  1985  and  1964  was 
also  about  ten  inches  short  of 
i^ormal.  In  fact  rainfall  has  been 
deficient  for  three  or  four  years. 

The     inch     of     rainfall     equals 


SHAWMUT    GLASS 
CONTAINERS,  INC. 

Representing 

KNOX  GLASS,  INC. 


25    EAST   STREET 
CAMBRIDGE  41,  MASS. 


50,000,000  gallons  of  water,  and 
the  Mass.  Dept.  of  Agriculture 
by  a  yardstick  it  had  previously 
set  up,  called  this  the  "million-  - 
dollar  rain,"  but  weathermen  at  I 
the  same  time  warned  that  much 
more  precipitation  was  necessary 
for  the  dry  conditions  to  become 
normal   again. 

About    50    cities    and    towns    in 
the  Bay  State  had  placed  restric- 
tions  on   the   use   of   water. 
Cool 

By  the  fifth  the  deficiency  in 
temperature  had  come  to  a  minus 
29  degrees. 

Heat  Wave 

As  of  August  6th  when  this 
issue  was  closed,  there  was  a 
tropical  heat  wave  with  high 
humidity  and  no  substantial 
rain  in  sight.  While  80  and  90 
degrees  were  bad  for  the  crop, 
the  humidity  might  help  a  bit. 
Growers    Working    Again 

Just  a  week  after  the  rain, 
growers  were  at  work  again  try- 
ing in  every  way  to  get  some 
water  onto  the  bogs.  This  was 
a  repeat  of  the  efforts  during 
most  of  Julv,  but  with  even 
ri-v^r  conditions.  It  was  felt  that 
rain  must  come  shortly  to  be 
of  any  benefit. 

Berries    Good    Quality 

As  to  the  berries.  Dr.  Cross 
said  he  expected  the  berries  to 
be  from  small  to  medium  but 
of  very  good  quality,  because 
of  the  dryness  and  the  coolness 
of  the  summer.  The  crop  was  es- 
timat-^d  to  be  about  on  time  in 
maturity,  v/.th  harvest  to  begin 
about   Labor  Day. 

It  was  also  felt  that  perhaps 
the  loss  in  dead  vines  was  not 
quite  as  severe  as  at  first  antici- 
pated, that  there  would  be  ample 
vin<^s   fo-^   a   good  crop   in   1966. 

However,  some  doubt  was  be- 
ing expressed  if  the  Mass.  crop 
would  even  come  up  to  600,000 
barrels. 

Fall   Frosts 

With  such  a  shortage  of  water, 
if  there  should  be  much  frost 
this  fall,  Dr.  Cross  said  the  situ- 
ation was  "too  frightful  to  con- 
template." 

Reports    from    other    areas,    in- 


dicate  that  the  Wisconsin  crop 
will  be  down  as  is  Massachusetts, 
while  the  smaller  areas  of  New 
Jersey,  Oregon  and  Washington 
will   have   a   good   production. 


WISCONSIN 

July    Pleasant 

July  was  a  pleasant,  comfor- 
table month  which  set  no  weather 
records  as  both  temperature  and 
precipitation  averaged  slightly 
above  normal.  There  were  only 
two  July  days  of  plus  ninety 
weather,  with  the  mercury  hit- 
ting 94  on  the  24th  and  95  on 
the  25th.  Low  readings  were  on 
the  first  and  21st  when  marsh 
readings  as  low  as  thirty-one 
were  recorded. 

Rain   Up 

Rainfall  was  slightly  over  4 
inches  and  occurred  on  12  differ- 
ent days  being  well  scattered 
throughout  the  month.  Total  rain- 
fall for  the  year  in  the  main 
cranberry  areas  totals  about  20 
inches  or  just  about  average. 
Nights  tended  to  be  cool  with  half 
the  nights  finding  temperatures  in 
the  middle  to  low  forties  on  the 
upland  with  borderline  freezing 
on  the  marshes.  The  extended 
forecast  for  August  call  for  be- 
low normal  precipitation  and 
much  below  normal  temperature. 
Hail   Damage 

The  big  weather  story  of  the 
month  was  the  severe  hail  storms 
occurring  the  third  week  of  July 
in  Jackson  and  Monroe  counties 
destroying  an  estimated  40,000 
barrels.  Hail  also  fell  in  the  Man- 
itowish  area  the  next  week 
taking  an  additional  5,000  barrels. 
Less  than  half  of  the  losses  were 
covered  with  hail  insurance. 
Much  scarring  of  small  berries 
was  noted  along  with  some  up- 
right damage.  About  8-900  acres 
were  involved  in  the  three  storm ; 
in   the   two   areas. 

Crop   Shortening 

B^oom  was  late  due  to  the 
cool  June  and  cool  and  rainy 
July.  Set  looked  good  on  the 
earlier  varieties.  Growing  con- 
ditions appeared  one  week  to  ten 


days  behind  normal  and  two 
weeks  behind  last  year.  Some 
water  damage  from  frequent 
floodings  was  noted  in  some 
areas  along  with  overgrowth 
from  too  heavy  nitrogen  fertili- 
zer applications  this  spring. 
Likewise  too  short  growth  was 
noted  in  some  areas  from  lack 
of  nitrogen.  Some  marshes  sus- 
tained severe  spring  vine  injury 
apparently  from  deep  frost  con- 
ditions. All  of  the  above  will 
definitely  reduce  Wisconsin's  crop 
by  at  least  50,000  barrels  and 
warm  weather  is  needed  for  berry 
sizing.  There  is  also  some  crop 
reduction  from  Casoron  weed 
killer  applied  last  fall  and  es- 
pecially  on   sanded   bogs. 


NEW    JERSEY 

July    Cool 

The  month  of  July  was  cooler 
than  normal.  The  maximum  av- 
erage was  85.5,  the  minimum 
average  61  and  the  mean  average 
for  the  month  73.3  degrees,  which 
was  2.3  below  normal.  Ever  since 
the  year  1958  July  temperature 
was  90  degrees  or  over,  while  the 
46  low  on  the  night  of  July  2nd 
tied  with  the  record  low  for  the 
whole  month  of  July  for  the  36 
years  the  Station  has  kept 
weather  records.  On  this  night 
Whitesbog  recorded  321/2  which 
is  believed  to  be  the  closest  to  a 
frost  on  a  New  Jersey  bog  in 
July.  The  other  two  nights  that 
the  temperatures  dropped  that 
low  during  July  were  on  July  2, 
1952,  and  July  4,  1938.  On  July 
20th  and  21st  new  lows  were 
established  for  those  dates,  being 
52  and  48  degrees  respectively. 
Much  Rain  in  July 

During  July  the  rain  at  th? 
New  Lisbon  Weather  Station  to- 
taled 5.17  inches,  higher  than  the 
normal  of  4.33  inches  and  much 
higher  than  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  State.  On  both  July  5th 
and  July  11th,  over  2  inches  fell. 
The  total  precipitation  for  the 
first  7  months  of  1965  has  been 
21.18  inches,  a  little  more  than 
1  inch  behind  the  first  7  months 
of    last    year    and    just    under    4 


inches    of    normal. 

Cranberry  growers  experienced 
some  anxiety  over  the  drought 
in  early  July  but  ample  fain  fell 
in  all  New  Jersey  cranberry 
areas  on  both  July  5th  and  July 
11th.  At  the  Tony  DeMarco  bogs 
4.43  inches  of  rain  fell  on  July 
5th  and  over  2  inches  on  July 
11th.  There  was  no  appreciable 
rain  from  July  11th  through  July 
31st  but  on  August  2nd  about 
one-half  inch  of  precipitation  oc- 
curred. 

Crop  Prospects  Up 

The  crop  prospects  for  New 
Jersey  as  of  now  appear  to  be 
good.  Most  growers  do  not  think 
they  will  equal  last  year's  "bum- 
per" crop  but  a  better  than  nor- 
mal crop  is  expected,  perhaps 
100,000  to  110,000  barrels.  Much 
will  depend  on  how  the  berries 
fize  up  through  August.  There 
appears  to  be  a  good  set.  Honey- 
bees were  used  more  intensively 
than  usual  and  bumblebees  ap- 
pear to  be  more  numerous  than 
they  have  been  for  several  years. 
A  curious  phenomenon  on  New 
Jersey  bogs  this  year  is  the  long 
blooming  period.  On  August  1st 
appreciable  bloom  could  still  be 
observed  on  many  late  held 
bogs.  Most  growers  think  that 
when  this  happens  it  portends  a 
good    crop. 


OREGON 


Good  Crop  Anticipated 

At  the  end  of  July  the  Bandon 
area  crop  prospect  was  up  from 
the  past  two  years.  According  to 
Ray  Bates,  veteran  grower  of 
Bandon,  the  crop  may  reach  40,- 
000  barrels.  It  now  appears  that 
spring  frost  and  cranberry  fire- 
worm  did  quite  a  lot  of  damage 
on  a  few  of  the  smaller  bogs, 
whose  owners  have  other  oc- 
cupations and  did  not  give  their 
bogs  the  proper  attention.  Berry 
size  he  reports  is  unusually  large 
this  season  and  at  the  end  of 
July  many  would  go  over  a  15/36 
screen. 

Bog    Changes 

W.    R.    "Bob"    Ward    has    pur- 
Continued   on   page   20 


A  Wisconsin  Marsh    (Du  Bay) 


(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


THE  WISCONSIN  CRANBERRY   INDUSTRY  IN  1965 


A   Revisit  to  the   Badger   State 

by   CLARENCj:  J.   HALL 

-On  Wisconsin"  is  the  motto  of  Wisconsin  whose  cranberry 
marshes  we  revisited  last  month,  and  that  apphes  to  the  cranberry 
industry    in   this    second-highest    producing    state. 

First,  a  personal  note  —  wherever  we  have  gone  in  any  cran- 
berry-producing area  we  have  always  found  the  growers  extremely 
hospitable  and  helpful  and  in  this  there  is  no  group  more  so  than 
the  growers  of  Wisconsin.  We  want  to  thank  Leo  A.  Sorenson,  cran- 
berry consultant  of  Wisconsin  Rapids,  who  was  our  chief  mentor  m 
telling  us  about  cranberry  growing  in  the  Badger  State  in  1965.  Also 
Lawrence  E.  Dana  and  Mrs.  Dana  of  the  Dana  Machine  &  Supply 
Company  of  Wisconsin,  a  chief  supplier  of  the  growers. 
John     Roberts     and     Frederick 


Gebhardt  of  Black  River  Falls, 
Roy  Potter  and  A.  E.  Bark  of 
the  famed  DuBay  marsh;  Bob 
Gottschalk  of  Cranmoor,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Guy  Potter  and  Lloyd  Wolf, 
Ocean  Spray  representative  of 
the  Rapids  and  others.  Doubtless 
others  would  have  been  as  help- 
ful,    but     these     were     the     ones 


we  were  in  contact  with.  We 
were  also  glad  to  again  see  Miss 
Jean  Nash  of  the  Biron  Cran- 
berry Company  and  also  her 
brother.  Dr.  Phileo  Nash,  the 
latter  being  up  on  vacation  from 
Washington,  where  he  is  in 
charge  of  United  States  Indian 
affairs     and     not     the     least    Dr. 


George  L.  Peltier,  now  retired 
and  working  on  the  history  of 
Cranberries  in  the  State  of  Wis- 
consin. 

Sorenson  now  provides  the 
only  consultant  service  in  Wis- 
consin except  for  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy  in  the  Eagle  River- 
Manitowish  Waters  section  in 
the    far    northeast. 

Cranberry  Area  Wide-Spread 
The  Wisconsin  cranberry  area 
is  widespread  mostly  in  the 
"Heartland  of  Wisconsin,"  that  is 
the  center  of  the  state  from 
Gordon  at  the  extreme  north  300 
miles  south  to  Tomah  and  from 
Black  River  falls  on  the  west  to 
BerUn  on  the  east,  a  distance 
of  more  than  100  miles,  with 
Wisconsin  Rapids,  a  city  of 
about  20,000  population,  the  gen- 
erally accepted  center  of  the  in- 
dustry. In  his  consulting  work 
Sorenson     estimates     he     travels 


EIGHT 


about  45,000  mi.  a  year.  Sorenson 
knows  the  Wisconsin  cranberry- 
industry,  culturally,  technically, 
and  "politically."  Cranberries  are 
grown  in  17  of  the  state's  72 
counties. 

The  average  holding  of  a  Wis- 
consin grower  is  larger  (al- 
though we  do  not  have  an  exact 
figure)  than  in  any  other  area, 
even  the  smaller  growers  have 
relatively  large  marshes.  The 
growers  100  percent  have  their 
own  warehouses  and  the  vast 
majority  live  on  their  marshes. 
Each   is   a   unit   unto   itself. 

There  is  a  growers  association, 
the  Wisconsin  State  Cranberry 
Growers  Association.  There  is 
no  state  cranberry  experiment 
station  (although  there  was  one 
a  number  of  years  ago.)  Cran- 
berry research  is  done  by  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  at  Madi- 
son, a  considerable  distance  to 
the  south  of  the  cranberry  area. 
Fro^t  warnings  come  over  radio 
or  TV  in  a  special  broadcast  to 
the  growers  in  the  afternoon 
and  evening. 

We  were  in  Wisconsin  in  the 
middle  of  last  month,  and  it 
was  generally  believed  by  the 
growers  that  a  State  Marketing 
Order  will  shortly  be  voted  in. 
This  will  provide  for  improved 
frost  warning  service  and  for 
more  short  and  long  term  re- 
search. 

The  largest  concentration  of 
growers  is  at  Cranmoor  about 
ten  miles  out  of  the  Rapids. 
This  is  a  township  with  not  more 
than  150  inhabitants,  men,  women 
and  children,  and  the  tax  income 
of  the  town  is  entirely  from 
cranberry  marshes  except  for  one 
general  farm. 

It  so  happened  that  on  the 
15th  of  July  there  were  three 
state-wide  weed  clinics  held  on 
three  marshes,  with  the  attend- 
ance being  perhaps  200  growers 
some  of  these  coming  from  as 
far  away  as  125  miles.  The  meet- 
ings were  under  the  direction 
of  Dr.  George  C.  Klingbeil  Ex- 
tension Horticulturalist,  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin,  with  Dr.  Mal- 
colm Dana,  who  seems  to  be 
universally      known      as      "Mac" 


among  the  growers,  with  Dr. 
Klingbeil,  Dr.  Donald  Boone  and 
all  giving  discussions  at  bog- 
side.  Much  interest  centered  in 
the  use  of  Casoron,  and  its  ef- 
fects on  the  cutting  down  of 
weeds,  particularly  wire  grass 
and  any  side  effects  on  the  vines. 
There  were  some  adverse  effects, 
but  generally  the  feeling  was  that 
the  chemical  was  extremely  ef- 
fective. 


These  meetings  were  at  the 
Indian  Creek  Cranberry  Com- 
pany (Fritz  Panters;)  near  City 
Point;  the  marsh  of  Dr.  J.  S. 
Mubarak  (formerly  the  marsh 
of  the  late  Marvin  Hewitt),  the 
H  &  H  marsh,  where  are  lo- 
cated two  of  the  frost  protection 
so-called  "wind  machines,"  about 
which  more  will  be  said  later, 
and  the  third  at  the  Cranmoor 
Cranberry  Company  (D.  B. 
Rezin) , 


A    part   of    a    tour    grroup    on    dikes    at    Indian    Creek    Cranberry 
Marsh.  (CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


One    of   the   so-called    "Wind    Machines' 
Mubarak.  Note  size  of  standing  figure. 


at,    marsh    of    Dr.    J.    S. 
(CRANBERRIES   Photo) 


These  meetings  gave  us  the 
opportunity  to  be  introduced  and 
to  meet  a  number  of  the  grow- 
ers  we   had   never   met   before. 

The  worst  insects  in  Wiscon- 
sin, according  to  Sorenson  are 
the  blackheaded  fireworm  and 
fruitworm,  but  these  were  not 
discussed    at    these    meetings. 

When  we  arrived  in  Wiscon'^in 
crop  prospects  for  1935  according 
to  reUable  information  were  from 
450,000  to  500,000  barrels,  a 
very  big  production  for  Wiscon- 
sin. That  week  two  severe  hail- 
storms took  an  estimated  total  of 
50,000  barrels,  from  the  bogs 
which  were  in  a  state  of  late 
blossom,  setting  and  small  ber- 
ries. In  the  storms  one  big 
grower  lost  an  estimated  25,000 
barrels  and  on  some  of  his  acre- 
age the  loss  was  90  to  100  per- 
cent. 

By  the  time  we  had  left  crop 
prospects  were  for  a  crop  of 
about  the  same  as  last  year, 
405,000  barrels.  This  figure,  of 
course  is  subject  to  late  revision 
in  Wisconsin  and  especially  when 
the  official  USDA  estimate  is  an- 
nounced this  month.  ,i 

At  the  same  time  of  the  hail 
storms  the  growers  o'  AVi-?onsin 
were  worried  about  low  tempera- 
tures and  were  watching  the 
frost  reports.  Wisconsin  can  and 
sometimes  does  have  frost  loss  in 
every  week  of  the  growing  sea- 
son. The  growing  season  is 
short,  compared  to  the  East  and 
to  the  bogs  on  the  West  Coast. 

In  the  winter,  particularly  the 
winter  of  1964-65  temperatures 
of  30  below  were  not  uncom- 
mon, and  of  course  the  total 
snowfall  of  the  winter  is  far 
greater  than  in  any  other  cran- 
berry area.  Yet,  Wisconsin  people 
say  they  do  not  mind  the  cold 
as  the  air  is  so  dry,  and  if 
they  venture  to  Chicago  with  the 
Great  Lake  or  to  the  East  with 
the  ocean  they  "freeze  to  death" 
in  the  heavier  moisture  air. 

Although    the   Wisconsin    grov/ 
crs    had    their    hail    troubles    this 
summer,   there   is   no   shortage   of 
water,  such   as   in   Massachusetts, 
with     its     terrific     drought.      The 


water  table  is  satisfactory, 
streams,  lakes  and  reservoirs  were 
high.  There  has  been  satisfactory 
moisture. 

The  Wisconsin  growers  have 
about  800  acres  under  sprinkler 
systems;  some  marshes  are  only 
partly  so  protected  and  a  few 
completely.  But  every  grower 
we  talked  with,  as  in  most  other 
areas,  intend  to  put  in  systems 
as  can  be  financially  dons,  or  to 
put  in  systems  if  they  have  none. 
It  seems  safe  to  say  that  even- 
tually most  Wisconsin  marshes 
will   be   under   sprinkler   systems. 

A  number  of  Wisconsin  grow- 
ers have  given  up  using  the 
mercury-type  thermometers  and 
are  using  an  electronic  thermo- 
meter. We  understand  about  50 
are  now  in  use  with  the  number 
increasing.  These  are  said  to  be 
more  accurate  than  the  mercury 
type  and  can  make  a  recording 
as  far  as  4,000  feet.  They  can  be 
so  rigged  as  to  cause  an  alarm 
to  souid  by  a  grower's  bedside 
when  a  dangerous  temperature 
is  reached.  Several  can  be  placed 
about    a    single    marsh    holding. 

Another  grower  used  a  thermo- 
coupler  which  also  does  away 
with    the    mercury   type. 

Many  Wisconsin  growers  use 
a  soil  tensionmeter  to  tell  the 
level  of  moisture  in  a  bed. 
"Slickiig  a  finger  down  is  no 
good"  in  the  opinion  of  Sorenson. 

Beds  Rectangular 
The  Wisconsin  growers  make 
their  beds  in  rectangular  shape, 
as  we  believe  is  generally  well 
understood  now.  Beds  do  not 
twist  and  curve  around  as  in 
other  areas  to  follow  the  peat. 
Beds  average  about  100  feet  wide 
by  800  feet  long,  although  there 
are  a  few  larger.  So  the  beds 
are  about  four  or  five  acres  in 
area.  Some  growers  plant  di- 
rectly on  raw  peat,  with  dis- 
tributing and  disking  in  the 
vines  by  mechanical  means. 

The  majority  do  sand  later,  if 
not  at  planting  time,  as  this 
sand,  as  is  widely  recognized  can 
raise  the  temperature  of  the  air 
at  vine  level  a  few  degrees  by 
radiating    the    heat    of    the    day 


on  a  frost  night. 

In  replanting  or  in  making 
new  marshes  Wisconsin  growers 
use  the  Searles  Jumbo  or  Mc- 
Farlin  as  they  have  for  many 
year.  "The  Searles  is  the  tops," 
according  to  Dr.  George  L. 
Peltier. 

The  improved  Bain-McFarlin 
is  also  planted  and  of  the  new 
hybrids  the  Stevens  seems  the 
most  popular.  Growers  are  also 
putting  in  Ben  Lear,  the  native 
Wisconsin  variety  that  ripen 
early,  about  the  same  time  as  the 
Earlv  Black.  They  wish  to  get 
some  of  their  fruit  off  earlier, 
one  reason  being  to  shorten  the 
harvest   season. 

All  harvest  is  wet,  with  the 
Dana-Getsinger  machine  being 
used  or  the  Case,  or  adaptations 
of    these    machines. 

Coming  probably  in  the  rela- 
tively near  future  will  be  a 
picker  cutting  a  6  foot  swath. 
Such  a  harv2sting  machine  is 
mechanically  feasible,  but  such  a 
vast  number  of  berries  coming  off 
so  fast,  especially  in  a  bed  with 
a  lot  of  berries,  will  create  bot- 
tlenecks in  the  entire  harvesting 
pro'^e'-.s  unless  this  "bug"  is 
remedied. 

There  are  now  four  of  the 
tov/ering  FMC  Tropic  Breeze 
Wind  Machines  in  operation,  two 
on  the  marsh  Dr.  J.  Mubarak 
(Six  M  Marsh)  formerly  owned 
by  the  late  Marvin  Hewitt. 
Sorenson  has  found  this  machine 
to  be  practical  in  frost  protec- 
tion, although  not  so  useful  in 
sudden  and  very  low  drops  in 
temperature  as  perhaps  are  the 
.'sprinklers. 

An  additional  use  for  these 
wind  machines  has  been  devel- 
oped. This  is  to  dry  out  the 
marshes  after  a  rain  or  a  heavy 
dew  early  in  the  morning.  The 
breeze  agitates  the  vines  and  is 
apparently  a  big  help  in  getting 
better  pollination,  by  increasing 
the    hours    of    pollination. 

"In  Wis'^onsin  we  are  going 
to  have  both  wind  machines  and 
sprinklers,"  he  predicts,  and  this 
combination  will  be  a  factor  in 
getting    bigger    crops,    and    may 


■2  one  of  the  factors  which  will 
f)ush  up  Wisconsin  production 
oer   acre. 

"The  Bridges" 
Another  piece  of  equipment 
«7hich  no  other  cranberry  area 
las  are  the  so-called  "bridges." 
The  first  is  at  Cam^  Douglas, 
ieveloped  by  the  late  Roland 
^otter,  son  of  Guy  Potter  of 
iVisconsin.  The  second  and  the 
)ne  we  saw  is  at  DuBay  and 
here  is  a  third  at  Manitowish 
AT'aters  to  the  north  (on  the  Kol- 
er  Leasure  marsh). 

The  orte  at  DuBay  is  186  feet 
vide,  looking  much  like  any 
mall  steel  span  for  the  crossing 
if  a  narrow  stream.  It  is  five 
eet  high  at  either  end  and  13 
eet  high  in  the  middle.  Some 
3,000  tons  of  steel  went  into 
ts   construction. 

The  ends  of  the  bridge  are 
'laced  on  two  trucks  on  the  dike 
If  the  bed.  Beneath  the  bridge 
a  -^'movable  platform  upon 
/^hich  the  men  work  and  this 
.latform  travels  across,  from 
me  side  to  other  of  the  bridge. 
Vhen  a  portion  of  the  work  is 
ompleted  the  trucks  move  down 
le  length  of  the  bed  carry- 
ig  the  bridge  down  the  bed. 
he  men  on  the  platform  weed. 
lip  vines,  spray  and  apply  fer- 
lizer. 

The  object  of  the  bridge  i^^ 
3  get  work  done  staying  off  the 
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Growers  in  general  have  their 
own  dusters  and  sprayers  for  in- 
sect control  but  there  is  an  air 
service  used  by  some  growers, 
which  flies  a  World  War  II  Stear- 
man  biplane  which  has  been 
rigged  to  cary  a  large  load  of 
fertilizer    or    insecticide. 

Growers,  almost  without  ex- 
ception, we  believe  pack  fresh 
frixit  in  cellophane  and  sort  their 
own  berries  for  processing.  It 
was  said  considerable  still  goes 
fresh,  but  processing  is  increas- 
ing all  the  time  as  in  other  areas. 

Seventy-five  to  85  percent  of 
the  Wisconsin  total  crop  goes  to 
Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 
with  the  processing  done  at  the 
North  Chicago  plant  of  the  co- 
operative. The  rest  of  the  proc- 
essing is  done  by  Indian  Trail, 
Inc.  now  owned  by  Dean  Foods 
of  Chicago  and  by  Cranberry 
Products  (Vernon  Goldsworthy) 
in   the   north    at    Eagle    River. 

Most,  if  not  all  of  the  grow- 
ers have  their  own  warehouses, 
generally  situated  at  the  marsh- 
side,  and  many  of  these  have 
complete,  or  nearly  complete 
machine  shops,  laths,  drills, 
presses,  welding  equipment  and 
all  the  tools  necessary.  Growers 
themselves  or  some  one  in  their 
employ,  remodel  standard  farm 
equipment  to  the  needs  of  cran- 
berry cultivation,  devise  their 
own  particular  equipment  and 
make  repairs. 

Wisconsin  seems  far  ahead  in 
the  use  of  heavy  equipment,  as 
well  as  light.  They  own  cranes, 
bulldozers,  tractors,  the  big 
picking  machines,  the  boats  into 
which  cranberries  are  harvested, 
front-end  loaders,  etc.  The  Wis- 
consin growers  are  ingenious  and 
do  not  hesitate  to  make  heavy 
investment  in  whatever  equip- 
ment they  deem  necessary  for 
their    individual   needs. 

Will  Wisconsin  Continue  to  Grow 

in    Acreage    and    Production? 

It  seems  it  will.  New  acreage, 
at  least  some  is  put  in  every 
year,  there  is  rebuilding  of  some 
of  the  older  marshes.  Produc- 
tion  per   acre   through   improving 


cranberry  growing  practices  at 
all  times  of  the  year  seem  des- 
tined to  push  up  production  per 
acre. 

There  is  plenty  of  raw  marsh 
land  to  be  put  into  new  marsh, 
especially  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  state.  One  handicap  to 
expansion,  especially  in  the  north 
might  be  the  controversial  and 
contradictory  aims  of  cranberry 
growers  and  other  users  of  water, 
such  as  vacationists  at  lakes.  But 
this  is  true  in  other  cranberry 
areas  of  the  country.  Vacation- 
ists and  others  claim  that  chemi- 
cals used  by  cranberry  growers 
are  destroying  fish  and  other 
wild    game    life. 

Vacationists  and  others  dwel- 
ling on  lakes  object  to  the  lower- 
ing of  the  water  level  when 
growers  draw  water.  As  to  the 
controversy  that  cranberry  chem- 
icals are  killing  fish  and  other 
wild  life  Sorenson  points  out 
that  the  State  is  spraying  forests 
widely  with  DDT  while  Wiscon- 
sin cranberry  growers  have  not 
used  this  material  for  several 
years. 

While  new  bogs  are  being  built 
and  others  renovated  there  are 
not  too  many  men  from  other 
occupations  coming  into  cran- 
berry growing  at  present,  and 
few  men  from  the  "outside." 
Sons  and  grandsons  of  present 
growers  are  however  coming  into 
charge  of  marshes  all  the  time. 

Will  Wisconsin  become  the 
leading  state  in  cranberry  pro- 
duction as  it  is  in  dairy  products? 
Some  in  Wisconsin  feel  that  it 
may,  others  doubt  they  will  ever 
equal  and  surpass  Massachu- 
setts. One  reliable  member  of 
the  industry  however,  said  he 
expected  the  state  to  gain  10 
percent  in  production  for  the 
next   ten   years. 

Wisconsin  last  year  harvested 
4300  acres,  and  produced  405,000 
barrels.  The  average  yield  per 
acre  was  94.2  barrels  with  Massa- 
chusetts 55.6  barrels.  There  has 
been  no  census  of  Wisconsin 
acreage  since  1957  and  a  new 
one  will  be  in  progress  shortly, 
according     to     Sorenson     and     he 


predicts  the  total  acreage  will 
be  found  to  be  a  little  over  5,- 
000  acres.  The  largest  growers 
are  the  Hableman  Brothers  with 
about   200   acres. 

The  growth  and  supremacy  of 
Wisconsin  in  cranberries  are  for 
the  future  to  tell,  but  the  im- 
pression from  a  relatively  brief 
visit  there  is  one  of  "bigness" 
and  dedication  to  increasing  pro- 
duction per   acre. 

(Editor's  note:  This  is  the  first 
of  a  series  on  Wisconsin  cran- 
berry growing,  the  rest  to  he 
articles  on  individual  marshes 
and  growers,  but  not  necessarily 
in  consecutive  months.) 


NEW  JERSEY  BLUES 
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New  Jersey  cultivated  blue- 
berries were  a  feature  at  the 
New  York  World's  Fair  June 
24th.  New  Jersey  governor 
Richard  J.  Hughes  was  at  the 
New  Jersey  Pavillion  and  re- 
ceived a  tray  of  blueberries 
grown  in  New  Jersey.  The  blue- 
berry queen  is  Miss  Betty  Ann 
Muschinski  of  Hainesport,  who 
made    the    presentation. 

Visitors  had  a  chance  to  sample 
the  New  Jersey  blue,  being  given 
a    cupful. 

Among  those  attending  were 
the  officers  of  the  newly-formed 
American  Blueberry  Council,  the 
president  being  Stanley  Johnson 
of  South  Haven,  Michigan  and 
vice  president  Michael  Scepansky 
of    New    Lisbon,    New    Jersey. 

Stanley  Coville  of  New  Jersey, 
"Mr.  Bluberry,"  appeared  on 
Channel  3  TV  with  Dan  Kessler. 
Burlington  Count.y  Agent.  They 
spoke   of   blueberry   production. 

These  events  coincided  with  the 
real  start  of  the  1965  blueberry 
season.  According  to  the  New 
Jersey  Department  of  Agriculture 
early  indications  are  that  the 
crop  may  be  the  largest  on  rec- 
ord. About  9,000  acres  are  ex- 
pected to  be  harvested  this  year 
compared  with  8,100  last  year 
and    5,200    ten    years    ago. 

Last  year's  crop  of  1,782,000 
trays  was  valued  at  $5,267,000. 


NEW  CRANBERRY 
VARIETIES  FOR 
PROCESSED  PRODUCTS 

hy 

F.  B.   Chandler, 

I.  E.  Demoranville  and  K.  Hayes 

A  cranberry  breeding  program 
was  initiated  by  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture  in 
1929  (1).  The  primary  objec- 
tive was  to  develop  cranberry 
plants  that  were  resistant  or  im- 
mune to  the  False  Blossom 
disease  which  was  threatening 
the  industry,  especially  in  New 
Jersey  and  Wisconsin.  In  1931 
it  was  discovered  by  Dobroscky 
(3)  that  this  disease  was  trans- 
mitted by  the  blunt  nosed  leaf- 
hopper.  Over  a  period  of  years 
a  spray  program  was  worked 
out  for  the  control  of  this  insect 
that  has  also  helped  considerably 
in  controlling  the  spread  of  False 
Blossom.  Since  these  discoveries, 
the  emphasis  in  the  breeding 
program  has  shifted  to  the  devel- 
opment of  cranberry  varieties 
with  greater  yield,  larger  size 
and    superior    quality. 

The  first  varieties  were  named 
in  1950,  Stevens  was  suitable  for 
Wisconsin,  Wilcox  was  chosen 
for  Massachusetts  and  Beckwith 
for  New  Jersey.  Except  for 
Stevens  these  have  not  been 
planted  extensively.  Wisconsin 
has  over  50  acres  of  Stevens,  and 
Beckwith  has  been  planted  on  a 
few  acres  in  New  Jersey.  Wilcox 
has  not  been  planted  except  in 
test   plots. 

In  1961,  three  more  of  the  new 
x-arieties  were  named:  Bergman, 
Franklin  and  Pilgrim.  Fruit  from 
these  three  new  varieties  was 
made  into  whole  and  strained 
sauce,  and  the  two  standard 
\'arieties,  Early  Black  and  Howes, 
were  used  as  checks.  The  sauce 
was  canned  and  stored  for  vari- 
ous periods  of  time,  then  opened 
and  tested  for  color,  texture  and 
flavor.  At  first  there  was  little 
pr  no  difference,  but  19  months 
ater  Pilgrims  and  Franklin  were 
n  poor  condition.  Early  Black 
and  Howes  were  poorer  than  at 
at  the  time  of  canning  but  were  of 
better  quality  than  Franklin  and 
Pilgrim.  Bergman  was  about  as 
good    as   Early   Black    and    better 


than  Howes.  Normally  cranber- 
ries are  canned  throughout  the 
year  from  frozen  berries  and 
have  a  shelf  life  of  about  six 
months.  However,  once  canned 
and  on  the  store  shelf  they  may 
be  there  for  some  time.  Pilgrim, 
the  variety  thought  best  for  can- 
ning because  of  its  high  yield, 
does  not  hold  up  well  over  a 
long   period    of   time. 

Studying  all  of  the  panel  re- 
ports, we  might  make  these 
statements.  Bergman  makes  the 
best  whole  sauce.  Franklin  makes 
the  best  strained  sauce.  Early 
Black  is  the  next  best  variety  for 
either  kind  of  sauce.  Pilgrim  is 
poor,  particularly  if  stored  too 
long. 

Cranberry  juice  has  been 
studied  at  the  Food  Technology 
Laboratory  since  1928(6).  There 
are  two  methods  of  extracting 
the  juice  and  a  third  mentioned 
for  blueberry  juice  (2).  The  pH 
of  the  juice  varies   from  pH   2.4- 


2.5,  but  as  Fellers  and  Esselen 
reported  (4)  there  seems  to  be 
more  variation  between  bogs 
where  the  fruit  was  grown  than 
between  varieties.  The  pH  also 
seems  to  be  associated  with  ma- 
turity. Juice  pressed  in  December 
1960  was  higher  in  sugar  than  the 
same  varieties  pressed  in  May 
1961.  This  was  shown  earlier  by 
Morse  (5)  in  the  loss  of  sugars 
by  respiration.  In  1960  ten  va- 
rieties were  studied  for  soluble 
solids  and  showed  very  little 
difference.  Pilgrim  and  Howes 
seem  to  be  low,  CN  may  be 
high.  These  varieties  were 
studied  from  our  locations,  one 
location  seem  to  be  low.  (Table 
1 ) .  It  appears  that  the  pres- 
ence of  peat  may  also  be  as- 
sociated with  soluble  solids. 
Fellers  and  Esselen  (4)  had 
shown  a  higher  content  of  pec- 
tin from  a  bog  on  deep  peat 
than   a   bog   on   Savanna. 


Table  I 

PERCENT    SOLUBLE    SOLIDS    OF    CRANBERRIES    BY 

VARIETIES    AND    BOGS 

1960    CROP    SOLUBLE    SOLIDS 


Variety 

Barrows  H 

Barrows  P 

United 

Eldridge 

Average 

Bergman 

8.85 

8.07 

6.98 

7.89 

7.95 

Franklin 

8.71 

8.97 

7.64 

7.92 

8.31 

Pilgrim 

8.85 

8.07 

6.98 

7.89 

7.92 

Early    Black 

8.77 

8.83 

7.70 

8.17 

8.34 

Howes 

9.31 

9.09 

7.88 

— 

8.76 

CN 

8.96 

8.53 

8.38 

8.22 

8.52 

AJ 

8.53 

8.92 

7.85 

8.28 

8.39 

35 

8.80 

8.50 

8.02 

8.37 

8.21 

Table  II 
SEASON    OF    HARVEST,    CUP    COUNT,    RELATIVE    YIELD    OF 
JUICE,   RELATIVE  BERRY   WEIGHT   OF   VARIETIES 

Relative  Yield       Relative 


Variety    Harvest  Season 

Berries  Per  Cup 

of  Juice 

Berry  Weight 

Beckwith 

Late 

58 

Bergman 

Midseason 

65 

Good 

Light  to 
Medium 

Franklin 

Early 

78 

Poor 
to  Fair 

Medium 

Stevens 

Midseason 

62 

Good 

Pilgrim 

Late 

62 

Good 

Light 

Early  Blk. 

Early 

102 

Fair 

Medium 

Howes 

Late 

97 

Good 

Heavy 

CN 

Midseason 

87 

Fair 

Very 
Heavy 

AV 

Midseason 

80 

Heavy 

35 

Late 

65 

THIRTEEN 

Table  III 

NUMERICAL    RATING    OF    TEXTURE,    COLOR    AND    FLAVOR    OF 

WHOLE     AND     STRAINED     SAUCE 

A   HIGH   NUMBER    INDICATES    HIGH    RATING 

TEXTURE 


Variety 

Whole 

Strai 

led 

6-12-62 

7-30- 

63              6-12- 

62 

7-30-6S 

Bergman 

59 

14 

29 

14 

Franklin 

33 

14 

30 

25 

Pilgrim 

29 

4 

25 

8 

Early  Black 

35 

14 

33 

27 

Howes 

35 

14 

-      24 
FLAVOR 

22 

Bergman 

60 

15 

22 

28 

Franklin 

32 

15 

35 

25 

Pilgrim 

30 

8 

26 

10 

Early    Black 

25 

11 

22 

32 

Howes 

34 

11 

26 
COLOR 

32 

Bergman 

45 

18 

17 

19 

Franklin 

72 

15 

•5  .,33 

22 

Pilgrim 

30 

12 

30 

15 

Early    Black 

41 

22 

24 

29 

Howes 

38 

17 

24 

29 

LITERATURE    CITED 

(1)  — Cranberry  Breeding  Investigations  of  the  U.S.D.A.  Cran- 
berry Mgr.   12. 

(2) — Chandler,  F.  B.  and  M.  E.  Highlands.  Blueberry  juice. 
Food  Technology.    4:    285-286.    1950. 

(3)  — Dobroscky.  Irene  D.  Studies  on  Cranberry  False  Blossom 
Disease  and  its  Insect  Vector  —  Contrib.  Boyce  Thompson  Inst.  3:  59- 
83.    1931. 

(4)  _  Fellers,  Carl  R..  W.  B.  Esselen,  Mass.  Agric.  Expt.  Stat. 
481.     (Table  4  and   8,   9). 

(5) — Morse,  F.  W.  A  chemical  study  of  cranberries  Bui.  265 
Mass.  Agric.  Expt.   Stat.     1930. 

(6) — Rice,  C.  C,  C.  R.  Fellers  and  J.  A.  Clague.  Cranberry 
juice-properties  and  Manufacture.  The  Fruit  Products  Journal.  Vol. 
18:     197-200.     1939. 


Table  2  gives  the  season  the 
fruit  matures,  the  size  of  ber- 
ries and  relative  yield  of  ju'C^ 
from  limited  tests.  This  shows 
that  some  of  the  varieties  are 
better  than  others  for  making 
juice.  The  great  range  in  size, 
(cup  count),  is  also  reflected  in 
the  berry  weight  which  for  these 
cup  counts  would  range  from  1 
gram  per  berry  to  1.9  g  per  berry 
or  from  454  berries  per  pound  to 
240    berries    per    pound. 

The  results  of  the  panel  are 
presented  in  Table  3,  which  in 
general  shows  that  the  newer 
varieties  do  not  make  as  good 
sauce  as  the   ©Id  ones.    Also  that 


the  new  varieties  are  not  as  good 
for  whole  sauce  as  strained  sauce, 
and  that  the  fresh  sauce  from 
the  new  varieties  is  relatively 
better  than  the  older  sauce.  Color, 
flavor  and  texture  all  deteriorate 
to  a  certain  extent  for  all  va- 
rieties  with   age. 


WANTED   BOG 

5  to  1 5  ACRES 

PLYMOUTH,    CARVER, 
MIDDLEBORO   AREA 

BOX    178,    KINGSTON,    MASS. 


Miss  Betty  Buchan 
Leaves  Ocean  Spray 

Miss  Betty  Buchan,  who  has 
been  public  relations  director  of 
Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 
for  the  past  15  years  has  re- 
signed from  that  position.  The 
public  relations  work  of  Ocean 
Spray  in  the  future  will  be  un- 
der the  direction  of  the  office 
of  Mrs.  Janet  Taylor,  home 
economist  and  who  operates  the 
Cranberry    Kitchen. 

This  month.  Miss  Buchan  went 
to  Scotland  and  England  for  a 
vacation  of  three  weeks.  Upon 
her  return  she  is  going  back  to 
college  to  obtain  a  master's  de- 
gree. It  is  understood  she  in- 
tends to  teach. 


NEW  S.  E.  VARIETY 
IJLUEBERRY  RIPENS  EARLIER 

A  blueberry  variety  that  should 
advance  the  start  of  the  marketing 
season  in  the  Southeast  by  as 
much  as  a  week  has  been  released 
by  the  USDA  and  North  Carolina 
.A.gricultural  Experiment  Station. 
The  new  hybrid,  named  "Morrow." 
was  developed  as  a  very  early 
variety  to  replace  Angola  in  that 
region. 

It  is  canker  resistant,  and  both 
size  and  color  improvement  over 
its  Angola  parent.  Morrow  ripens 
all  the  fruit  in  a  shorter  period 
than  any  of  the  commercial  vari- 
eties grown  in  the  Southeast. 


Marketing  Committee 
To  Meet  at  Boston 
August  26 

The  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Cranberry  Marketing  Committee 
is  to  be  held  at  the  Logan  In- 
ternational Motel  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Thursday,  August  26.  The  Ses- 
sion   will    begin    at    9:30    a.m. 

As  the  official  USDA  cranberry 
estimate  for  1965  will  be  known 
by  that  time  it  is  expected  that 
any  set-aside,  if  one  is  felt  jus- 
tified,   will    be   fixed    then. 


FOURTEEN 


ONE  CRANBERRY  HERBICIDE 
DOES  THE  WORK  OF  SEVERAL 

DE-PESTER 

CASORON   G-4 


.Broadleaf  Weeds 
Controlled: 

Arrowleaved  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) 


From 


CONTROLS    ALL 
THESE    WEEDS 


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 


CASORON    is   a    registered   trademark   of 
N.   V.   Philips-Duphar,   The   Netherlands 


IN    NEW  JERSEY 

PARKHURST 


Sedges  Controlled: 

Bunch  grass 

Muskrat  grass 

Nutsedge  (Nutgrass) 

Short  Wiregrass 

Wideleaf  grass 

Stargrass 

Woolgrass 

Cotton  grass 

Needlegrass 

Oniongrass 


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Merges  with 

Dean  Foods  Company 

The  Liberty  Dairy  Company, 
Big  Rapids,  Michigaan,  has  been 
merged  with  Dean  Foods  Com- 
pany, it  was  announced  by  Sam 
E.  Dean,  Chairman  of  Dean  Foods 
and  Mr.  O.  H.  "Tommy"  Thomp- 
son, President  of  Liberty  Dairy 
Company.  The  merger  was  ac- 
complished by  an  exchange  of 
stock  between  the  two  firms. 
Dean  is  the  recent  owner  of  In- 
dian  Trail,    Inc. 

Liberty  Dairy  had  annual  sales 
of  approximately  $3,000,000.00  in 
1964.  Liberty  processes  and  dis- 
tributes fresh  milk  products 
imder  the  "Liberty"  and  "Won- 
derland" labels  throughout  the 
western  third  of  Michigan's 
lower  peninsula.  Its  market  area 
includes  Cadillac,  Muskegon,  Hol- 
land, Battle  Creek,  and  Grand 
Rapids,    Michigan. 

Liberty's  present  management 
will  be  retained.  Mr.  O.  H. 
"Tommy"  Thompson  stated,  "We' 
at  the  Liberty  Dairy  Company 
are  pleased  to  be  associated  with 
Dean  Foods  Company.  The  new 
association  will  strengthen  our 
operation  by  bringing  to  Liberty 
added  resources  for  research  and 
production  of  fluid  dairy  prod- 
ucts. I  know  of  no  more  effective 
way  to  assure  our  many  loyal 
customers  and  employees  of  the 
continuation  of  Liberty  Dairy's 
tradition." 


Mass.    Water    Raking 

Considerable  interest  seems  to 
be  developing  in  water  harvest 
in     Massachusetts     this     season. 

Marlin  Rounsville,  who  owns 
the  35-acre  "Windswept"  cran- 
berry property  on  Nantucket 
Island,  this  fall  for  the  second 
time  will  water  rake  his  crop. 
Last  year  he  harvested  with  a 
Bana-Gersinger  machine  from 
Wisconsin,  but  this  year  is  con- 
sidering buying  another  or  of 
trying  the  West  Coast  "water 
reel"    method. 

The  largest  of  his  bogs  is  six 
acres  so  he  has  not  much  of  a 
problem  flooding  for  the  wet 
method  is  getting  him  larger 
placing  them  in  tray  out  in  the 
air  and  he  says  they  are  always 
dry  the  next  day  except  when 
Nantucket  is  having  a  spell  of 
"dog  days,"  or  wet  sticky 
weather.  He  finds  the  wet 
method  as  getting  him  larger 
crops  and  in  general  very  satis- 
factory over  the  eastern  method 
of    dry    picking. 

Dave  Eldridge,  manager  of  the 
Ellis  D.  At  wood  bogs  in  South 
Carver  has  purchased  a  Dana- 
Getzinger  harvester  from  the 
Dana  Machine  Company  of  Wis- 
consin Rapids  and  this  fall  will 
use  it  on  certain  acreage.  How- 
ever he  will  use  it  for  dry 
picking  and  not  wet,  although  he 
is  interested  in  the  possibilities 
of  wet  raking,  but  this  presents 
its  water  problems  with  the  Mas- 
sachusetts bogs.  He  believes  this 
machine  in  dry  raking  has  an 
advantage  quality-wise  over  the 
other    two    machines. 


Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Cooperative,  Inc. 

South    Duxbury,    Mass. 

Starting  our  Sixteenth  Season 

A/lembersh/p  Open 

for    Information    contact 

ROBERT  D.  WILLIAMS,  South  Carver         Tel.  866-4773 
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Dave  Mann  of  Head-of-the- 
Bay  road  in  Buzzards  Bay  who 
has  been  leading  the  Massachu- 
setts parade  in  harvest  will 
again  pick  his  big  bog  wet  this 
fall.  This  is  the  third  or  fourth 
year  he  has  so  harvested.  He  has 
two  Dan-Getsinger  picking  ma- 
chines and  may  acquire  two  more 
pickers  of  some  type  this  fall 
to    be'    used    in    wet    harvest. 

A  project  study  of  water  raking 
for  Massachusetts  growers  is  to 
be  made  by  "Stan"  Johnson,  en- 
gineer of  the  Massachusetts  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station.  It  is 
understood  funds  will  be  avail- 
able from  the  U.S.  Department 
of  the  Interior. 


DR.  ZUCKERMAN  TO 
POLISH  NEMATODES 
PROGRAM 

Dr.  Bert  M.  Zuckerman  of  the 
Massachusetts  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment Station  staff,  who  is  stead- 
ily gaining  in  world  recognition 
as  a  foremost  nemotologist,  is  to 
fly  August  26th  to  Poland.  There 
at  Warsaw,  he  will  be  one  of  a 
panel  giving  instruction  to  other 
nemotologists.  These  include  one 
each  from  England,  Germany, 
Denmark  and  one  or  two  other 
countries. 

They  will  first  engage  in  lec- 
tures to  Polish  nemotologists 
and  later  will  instruct  student 
beginners  in  the  field  of  nemo- 
tology.  Nemotodes  are  th^  micro- 
scopic "worms"  which  destroy 
the  roots  of  many  kinds  of  vege- 
table life  including  cranberry 
roots.  Dr.  Zuckerman  will  make 
the  trip  under  the  auspices  of 
the  cultural  educational  exchange 
under  the  auspices,  in  this  case, 
of  the  United  States  Department 
of  State.  He  will  be  gone  about 
five  weeks. 


-r.:^^ 


PERSONAL 

William  S.  Haines  of  Chatsworth, 
New  Jersey,  a  cranberry  grower 
and  director  of  Ocean  Spray,  was 
appointed  by  the  Burlington 
County  Board  of  Agriculture  to 
select  a  minister  to  attend  the 
Town  and  County  Ministers'  Con- 
ference at  Rutgers  University  in 
June. 


SIXTEEN 


Mr.  Haines  is  also  the  bene- 
ficiary by  the  will  of  his  late 
father,  Ralph  Haines,  who  was  a 
banker,  attorney,  and  former  U.  S. 
Commissioner.  "Bill''  Haines  and 
his  brothers  shared  in  property  in 
several  townships. 


Duration   of   Receptivity 
of  Blueberry  Flowers 
to  Pollination 

by 
Wm.   J.   Lord 
Department    of   Plant    and    Soil 
Sciences 
Studies     conducted     by     J.     N. 
Moore     at     Beltsville,     Maryland, 
and   reported   in   the   Proceedings 
of  the  American  Society  for  Hor- 
ticultural Science,  (Vol.  85)    indi- 
cate  that,   under   field   conditions, 
some  fruit  set  of  cultivated  high- 
bush    blueberries    occurred    even 
when;v  pollination    was    prevented 
)"^|  for  8  days  after  opening  of  blos- 
soms.   The  per  cent  fruit  set  was 
significantly      reduced,      however, 
when    pollination    was    delayed    6 
days   or  longer   on   Coville   and   8 
days    on    Blueray. 

Delaying  pollination  also  re- 
sulted in  a  decrease  in  average 
weight  per  berry.  A  decrease 
occurred  on  Blueray  when  the 
pollination  delay  was  only  2 
days,  whereas  a  6-day  delay  was 
necessary  for  a  significant  reduc- 
tion to  occur  on  Coville.  Never- 
theless, an  8-day  pollination  de- 
lay resulted  in  a  more  marked 
reduction  in  berry  weight  on 
Coville    than    on    Blueray. 

As  Moore  pointed  out,  varietal 
differences  in  length  of  pistil  re- 
ceptivity to  pollination  may  be 
important  when  unfavorable  con- 
ditions for  bee  activity  occur  or 
when  the  bee  population  is  limi- 
|ted. 

—FRUIT  NOTES,  College  of 
Agriculture,  University  of 
Massachusetts. 


NATHANIEL    WING,    JR. 
BUYS  ONSET  BOG 
jAT    ONSET,    MASS. 

Still       another       Massachusetts 
bog  has  changed  hands.    The  bog 


sold  was  the  so-called  "Onset 
bog,"  at  Onset,  at  one  time 
long  a  property  of  the  Fuller- 
Hammond  Company.  Its  latest 
owners  were  Wilham  M.  Atwood 


and  Robert  St.  Jacques,  both  of 
Wareham  who  own  other  prop- 
erty together.  The  bog  was 
bought  by  Nathaniel  Wing,  Jr. 
of  Pocasset,  who  has  begun  an 
extensive    improvement    program. 


Showing  Iiow  the  new  superhighway  construction  in  Massachusetts, 

especially  Carver,  is  taking  parts  of  some  bogs.  This  shows  a  fill 

covering  one  edge  of  a  Carver  Bog,  the  fonner  Beaton  property, 

now  ownetl  by  tlie  Cranberry  Corporation  of  America. 

(CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


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Clinton  Macauley,  president  of 
the  American  Cranberry  Growers 
Association  (New  Jersey)  and 
the  subject  of  our  June  feature 
article  was  a  visitor  in  the  Mas- 
sachusetts cranberry  area  the 
last  of  June.  He  with  Mrs. 
Macauley  visited  CRANBERRIES, 
the  Mass.  Cranberry  Experiment 
Station  and  was  taken  on  a  Car- 
ver tour  of  bogs  by  Dr.  C.  E. 
Cross. 

Mr.  Macauley  who  lives  at 
Tuckerton,  has  resigned  from  the 
Growers'  Cranberry  Company 
and  has  signed  up  with  Ocean 
Spray.  This  is  chiefly  because 
Ocean  Spray  will  receive  wet 
berries,  promptly  after  harves- 
fng.  He  is  changing  from  dry 
harvest  to  wet  as  have  a  number 
of  other  New  Jersey  growers, 
chiefly   using   the   water   reel. 


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WILLIAM  HUFFMAN 

William  Huffman,  of  Mather, 
Wisconsin  passed  away  July  I4th 
at  the  age  of  83.  He  had  op- 
erated a  marsh  in  the  Mather 
area   for   many   years. 


Dr.  Dana,  Wisconsin 

Chief  Speaker 

At  CCCGA  Meeting 

Dr.  Malcolm  N.  Dana,  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wis- 
consin who  aids  Wisconsin  grow- 
ers with  research  and  cranberry- 
growing  problems  will  be  the 
chief  speaker  at  the  Annual 
meeting  of  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Grower's  Association,  State 
Bog,  East  Wareham,  August  24. 
There  will  be  heard  a  report  of 
the  new  varieties  committee.  The 
annual  cranberry  crop  report  will 
be  given  and  a  lunch  will  be 
served    at    noon. 

Annual  election  of  officers  will 
be  held  and  the  usual  exhibition 
of  cranberry  equipment  and 
supplies    will    be    on    display. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued    from    Page    7 
chased    the    Frank    Ison    bog    of 
nine    acres,     and    Mr.     and    Mrs. 
Ward  are  being  welcomed  by  the 
older  growers   of  the  area. 

Jimmy  Olson  has  added  sev- 
eral acres  to  his  holdings.  He 
purchased  the  Jack  Hutching's 
property  just  south  of  his  "Town" 
property.  The  bog  is  about  five 
acres. 

Several  acres  of  new  bog,  about 
20,  are  now  under  construction 
in    the    Bandon    area. 


WASHINGTON 

July    Beautiful    Month 

July  was  a  beautiful  month  in 
the  Washington  State  cranberry 
area.     It    is    reported    that    even 


WANTED 

1955-1956 
Western    Picker 

ANY  CONDITION 
Carlson  Mfg.,  Kingston,  Mass. 


"old-timers"  cannot  remember  a 
July  that  was  so  dry  and  warm 
as  this  year.  The  actual  high  for 
the  month  was  78  degrees  on  the 
23rd  and  the  actual  low  on  the 
bog  was  36  on  the  night  of  the 
I8th.  The  mean  high  for  the 
month  was  64.09  and  mean  low 
49.6    degrees. 

Month  Amazingly  Dry 
Total  rainfall  for  July  was  .64 
of  an  inch  which  was  amazingly 
low  for  July  in  the  area.  How- 
ever, due  to  high  water  table 
there  was  not  any  serious  short- 
age of  water  for  the  bogs,  at  least 
in  the  Long  Beach  area.  The 
long  range  weather  forecast  for 
Western  Washington  is  for  hot- 
ter and  dryer  conditions  than 
normal. 

Growers  Optimistic 
The  weather  during  the  bloom 
period  was  ideal  and  as  long 
as  the  water  table  stays  up  grow- 
ers should  have  to  worry  only 
about  weeds,  fungus,  etc.  which 
are  always  problems.  Cranberry 
growers    are    optimistic. 


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TWENTY-TWO 


6<iit>sJa.l5 


ISSUE   OF  AUGUST,    1965 
VOL.    30 -NO.   4 


NATURE  CUTS  CROP  ONCE  MORE 

As  cranberry  growers  and  other  agricultu- 
rists have  learned  over  the  years,  Nature 
can  step  in  and  cut  prospects  for  what  ap- 
peared to  be  a  big  crop  of  cranberries;  cut 
the  prospects  badly.  In  Massachusetts  what 
is  now  being  called  the  worst  drought  ever, 
has  destroyed  150,000  or  more  barrels;  in 
Wisconsin  hail  took  an  estimated  50,000  or 
more  in  July  and  there  was  also  some  frost 
damage. 

(Of  course  the  exact  size  of  the  national 
cranberry  crop  will  not  be  known  until  the 
official  USDA  estimate  is  out  and  after  that 
there  can  be  further  adverse  factors  such 
as  frosts.) 

The  drought  is  actually  a  disaster  to  the 
growers  of  Massachusetts,  with  the  loss  of 
berries  for  this  fall  and  the  damage  to  the 
vines,  concerning  the  crop  of  1966  and 
probably  longer. 

In  a  way  it  has  been  almost  comparable, 
in  Massachusetts,  to  the  disaster  of.  1959, 
except  that  was  man  made. 

We  don't  know  yet  what  the  price  this 
fall  will  be.  But,  we  think,  that  despite  the 
shortness  of  the  crop  we  should  not  expect 
or  want  exhorbitant  prices.  We  are  sure, 
however  that  when  announced,  the  prices 
will  be  fair  to  both  the  hard-hit  cranberry 
growers,  particularly  of  Massachusetts  and 
fair  to  the  consuming  public. 


WISCONSIN  HAS  TROUBLES,  TOO 

Before  our  most  recent  trip  to  Wisconsin 
(see  article  elsewhere)  we  did  not  realize 
;omehow  that  hail  and  summer-long  frost, 
)r  prospects  of  frost,  were  as  severe  as 
hey  are.  In  the  East  there  has  been  an 
)pinion  that  the  Wisconsin  growers  "had  it 
?asy."  We  are  now  aware  that  Wisconsin 
growers  have  their  troubles  as  well  as  the 
Cast,  and  in  fact  every  area  has  its  share 
)f  hurdles  to  go  over  to  harvest  a  good 
Top  of  cranberries. 


CLARENCE   J,    HALL 
Editor  and  Publisher 

EDITH  S.  HALL  —  Associate  Editor 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 
Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

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Wisconsin   Rapids 

Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,    Ore. 


Massachusetts 

Dr.  CHESTER  E.  CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry   Experiment   Station 

East  Wareham,  Mass. 


New   Jersey 


P.  E.  MARUCCI 

New  Jersey   Cranberry  and  Blueberry   Station 
New    Lisbon,    New    Jersey 


It  seems  odd  (in  Massachusetts)  to  be 
talking  about  water  harvest  this  fall.  But 
the  rains  have  always  come,  and  more 
water  raking  may  come  in  the  Bay  State. 
But  with  the  West  Coast  all  wet  harvest, 
Wisconsin  also,  and  much  being  done  wet 
in  New  Jersey,  we  wonder  what  so  much 
wet  harvest  will  have  on  the  quality  of  the 
national  cranberry  crop?  Quality  cranberries 
are  still  needed  for  the  fresh  market. 

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WISCONSIN   SUMMER 
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period  in  1965  was  10.3  inches, 
1964,    15.62. 

The  number  of  sunny  days 
totaled  23,  1964  27;  overcast  31, 
both  years;  partly  overcast  38 
and  34.  Out  of  the  92  days  of 
summer  "Old  Sol"  was  not  seen 
as  much  this  past  summer  as 
the  previous  one. 

The  average  temperature  this 
summer  was  48.7,  1964,  55.9. 
Temperature-wise  this  was  a 
much    cooler    summer. 


Statement  of  ownership,  management  and 
circulation  (Act  of  October  23,  1962; 
Section  4369:  Title  39,  United  States 
Code)     of 

CRANBERRIES,  The  National  Cran- 
berry Magazine.  Published  monthly  in 
Wareham,  Masssachusetts  for  October, 
1965. 

The  names  and  adc'resses  of  the  pub- 
lisher, editor,  managing  editor,  and  busi- 
ness    managers     are: 

Publisher  — Clarence  J.  F.  Hall,  Ware- 
ham,  Mass.  Editor  —  Clarence  J.  F.  Hall, 
Wareham,  Mass.  Managing  editor  ■ — -  Clar- 
ence   J.    F.    Hall,    Wareham,    Mass. 

The  known  bondholders,  mortgagees, 
and  other  security  holders  owning  or  hold- 
ing 1  percent  or  more  of  total  amount 
of  bonds,  mortgages,  or  other  securities 
are:        None. 

Total  No.  Copies  Printed  (Net  Press 
Run),  850;  avenge  no.  copies  each  issue 
during  preceding  12  months,  850;  Single 
issue  nearest  to  filing  date.  8  50;  paid 
circulation,  average  by  mail,  carrier  de- 
livery or  by  other  means,  644;  nearest 
issue,  644;  Sales  through  agents,  news 
dealers  or  otherwise,  average,  none; 
nearest  issue,  none;  Free  distribution,  by 
carrier,      delivery      or      other      means,  25; 

nearest     issue,     25;     Office     use     181;     Total 
850. 
September  27,   1965  Clarence    J.    F.    Hall. 


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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.   DEAAORANVILLE 
Extension    Cranberry   Specialist 


Personals 

Dr.     Surindar     Paracer     is     the 
newest     member    of    our    Station 
group,     beginning    his    duties     on 
)  September  20.   He  will  work   un- 
j  der     the     direction     of     Dr.     Bert 
'  Zuckerman    on    various    nematode 
I  problems  for  the  next  two  years. 
Dr.  Paracer  is  a  native  of  India, 
1  but    comes    here    from    California 
I  where    he    has    been    working    to 
earn   his   Doctorate. 
Weather 
The    month    of    September    was 
cool,     averaging     about     2.5     de- 
grees a  day  below  normal.    Rain- 
fall   totaled    2.38    inches    at    East 
Wareham,     which     is     about     1.5 
inches  below  the  30  year  average. 
his  is  the  9th  consecutive  month 
~A'ith   below   average   precipitation 
and    we    are    now    slightly    more 
,han  13  inches  deficient  for   1965. 
The  last  two  weeks  showed  only 
).18   inch. 

Harvest 
General  harvesting  in  Massa- 
chusetts began  on  the  weekend 
)f  September  11  and  12  with 
some  growers  starting  a  few  days 
before.  Color  was  not  very  good 
;he  first  week  of  harvest  and 
size  about  average.  Both  im- 
proved after  a  IV2  inch  rain  on 
he  13th  and  14th.  About  55  to 
50  percent  of  the  crop  had  been 
larvested  by  October  1st.  Frost 
m  the  night  of  September  27th 
ith  bog  temperatures  ranging 
cm  17  to  24  degrees,  possibly 
,000  to  3,000  barrels  lost.  Eight 
eneral  frost  warnings  have  been 
eleased  from  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
ion  as  of  October  1.  These  in- 
lude  afternoon  and  evening 
arnings. 

Market    Report 
The  first  cranberry  market  re- 
ort  for  fresh  fruit  was  released 
September   20   from   the   Agricul- 


tural Marketing  News  Service 
under  the  direction  of  John 
O'Neil  in  Boston.  This  will  be 
the  12th  season  that  these  weekly 
reports  have  been  prepared  for 
growers  and  shippers.  These  re- 
ports include  current  information 
on  the  movement  of  fresh  cran- 
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writing  to  the  Agricultural  News 
Service,  408  Atlantic  Avenue, 
Room  705,  Boston,  Mass.,  reques- 
ting that  his  name  be  added  to 
the  cranberry  mailing  list. 
Late  Fall  Management 
The     following     suggestions     on 


late  fall  management  are  offered 
to  the  growers  for  their  consid- 
eration. 1)  Woody  plants  such 
as  hardback,  meadow  sweet  and 
bayberry  should  be  pulled  out 
after  harvest,  this  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 
morning  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,  neelle  grass,  summer 
grass,  cut  grass,  nut  grass,  cot- 
ton grass,  marsh  St.  Johns-wort, 
ragweed,  blue  joint,  sphagnum 
moss  and  wool  grass.  Casoron 
should  be  used  in  cold  weather 
(after  November  1)  preferably 
just  before  a  rain.  It  is  less 
likely  to  harm  vines  that  are 
healthy  and  vigorous.  4)  Casoron 
and  sand  should  not  be  applied 
in  the  fall  to  bogs  that  do  not 
have  winter  protection  because 
of  the  increased  susceptibility  to 
winter  injury.  5)  This  is  an  ex- 
cellent time  to  rake  and/or  prune 
the  bog,  also  do  not  forget  the 
trash  flood  where  water  supplies 
are    available. 


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These  are  very  valuable  prac- 
tices that  will  keep  the  bog  in 
shape  for  peak  production  next 
year.  6)  Any  bog  that  has  not 
received  sand  for  the  past  five 
years  or  more,  should  be  sanded 
as  soon  as  possible,  preferably 
this  fall  or  winter.  Sanding, 
pruning  and  raking  should  be 
postponed  until  next  spring  on 
those  bogs  that  do  not  have  water 
for  winter  protection  because  the 
vines  are  more  susceptible  to 
winter  injury  following  these 
operations.  7)  It  might  be  a 
good  idea  after  the  fall  work 
is  done,  to  put  in  the  flume 
planks  on  those  bogs  that  have 
dry  reservoirs.  Any  water  that 
can  be  saved  would  be  helpful 
later   on   for   winter   protection. 


Proposed  Nuclear 
Canal  Near  Bogs 
in   Washington 

A  proposal  to  dig  an  intra- 
coastal  waterway  in  Washington 
State  110  miles  from  a  point 
near  Olympia,  the  state  capitol, 
to  a  point  near  Ilwaco  at  Long 
Beach  and  Grayland  was  reported. 


This  was  a  half  million  dollar 
proposal  by  U.S.  Army  engineers 
with  the  digging  to  be  by  nuclear 
blast.  To  blast  would  have  re- 
quired special  permit  as  the 
country  is  now  under  a  nuclear 
ban. 

Ilwaco  area  and  Grayland  area 
are  both  cranberry  bog  districts 
and  if  the  proposal  went  through 
there  were  fears  for  the  effect 
upon  the  Washington  cranberry 
industry. 

A  later  report  in  the  Ilwaco 
Tribune,  weekly  newspaper  said 
the  plan  to  use  nuclear  blast  had 
been  ruled  out.  A  spokesman  for 
the  Seattle  Office  of  the  Army 
Engineer  Corps  was  reported  as 
saying  "in  view  of  the  question- 
able construction  cost  advantage 
and  the  socio-economic  impact 
of  the  side-effects  of  the  nu- 
clear detonations,  we  cannot  rec- 
ommend the  nuclear  excavation 
at   this   time." 

It  was  reported  that  even  if 
other  construction  methods  of 
the  waterway  seemed  feasible 
and  economically  advisable  it 
would  be  at  least  ten  years  be- 
fore plans  could  be  drawn  and 
funds  appropriated  for  the  canal 
to  start  construction. 


Wisconsin  Agricultural 
Water  Users 
Organize 

A  Water  Resources  Develop- 
ment association  has  been  re- 
activated in  central  Wisconsin  to 
present  a  united  front  for  the 
protection  of  water  users.  The 
association  has  hired  Menzel-Wil- 
liams  &  Associates,  Inc.  of  Stev- 
ens Point,  a  public  relations  firm, 
and  Howard  Hazen,  Sun  Prairie 
lobbyist  to  represent  it  in  the 
state   legislature   at   Madison. 

At  a  meeting  after  105  new 
members  were  enrolled,  James 
Burns,  Jr.,  Portage  County  as- 
sociation president,  explained  that 
the  association  was  formed  be- 
cause of  the  concern  of  the  "lack 
of  representation  and  interest  in" 
state  legislation  which  might  af- 
fect  agricultural  uses. 

Burns  said  that  potato  grow- 
ers, muck  farmers,  cranberry 
growers  and  fruit  growers  and 
other  water  users  should  all 
work  together  in  the  new  asso- 
ciation to  protect  their  water 
rights. 

Republican  Assemblyman  Louis 
Romell,  of  Adams  declared  that 
"strange  water  laws  can  come 
like  a  thief  in  the  night."  He 
cited  a  1963  law  which  requires 
landowners  to  get  state  public 
service  commissioners'  approval 
of  any  ditching  or  pond  building 
which  might  affect  navigable 
streams. 

Romell   reported   he   has   intro- 
duced    legislation     which     would , 
eliminate  the  law's  application  to 
agriculture. 


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Issue  of  October   1965  —Vol.  30,  No.  6 

T,   ,  .    .  Second     Class     Postage     Paid     at     Wareham,     Massachusetts     Post     Office 

Published     monthly     at     Wareham,      Massachusetts.  Subscriptions     g4.00,    Foreign,    25.00    per    year. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


A/lASSACHUSf  ITS 

Sept.   Starts  Chilly 

September  came  in  on  a  rather 
chilly  note,  but  with  beautiful 
days,  perfect  early  fall  weather, 
but  there  was  still  no  general 
wide-spread  rain.  Up  to  the  8th 
the  temperature  for  the  month 
was  a  minus  38.  Betsy,  that  fear- 
ful hurricane  which  struck  the 
Bahamas  and  Florida  and  New 
Orleans,  and  for  a  time  gave 
slight  concern  that  it  might  head 
for  New  England  as  so  many  do, 
no  longer  was  a  threat  here.  Only 
effect  on  Massachusetts  were  some 
very  heavy  seas  on  the  "back- 
side" of  the  Cape,  believed  to 
have  been  caused  by  the  tem- 
pest way  down  south. 

There  was  slight  and  scattered 
rain  over  the  cranberry  area  on 
the  night  of  September  9  —  .003 
of  an  inch  being  recorded  at  the 
Cranberry    Station. 

On  Sept.  13  there  came  the 
rrost  substantial  and  helpful  rain 
in  months,  as  1.34  inches  was 
recorded  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion. This  was  general  over  the 
entire  cranberry  area.  However, 
weathermen  said  much  more  rain 


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was  still  needed.  There  was  httle 
or  no  picking  that  day  or  the 
following.  The  temperature  vari- 
ance for  the  first  two  weeks  of 
September  was  minus  67  de- 
grees. 

Tropic  Weather 

From  the  18th  for  about  a  week 
there  was  completely  tropical 
weather  with  high  humidity  and 
several  light  night  showers.  This 
slowed  harvest  somewhat.  Days 
were  also  often  foggy.  This  ex- 
tremely humid  condition  was  the 
situation  as  autumn  officially 
came  in  on  September  23.  The 
third  hurricane  of  the  season  was 
swirling   far   out   in   the   Atlantic. 

This  ail-but  record  heat  and 
humidity  at  least  kept  frosts 
away. 

Second  Frost  Spell  of  Fall 

The  Cranberry  Station  sent  out 


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a  warning  for  dangerous  frost 
21,  on  the  night  of  September 
28;  tolerance  of  Early  Blacks, 
23.  Temperatures  as  low  as  17 
on  a  cold  bog  in  Carver  and  18 
on  a  cold  bog  in  Mashpee  were 
reached,  with  many  18  and  20's. 
Some  damage  was  done.  All 
Early  Blacks  not  harvested  but 
were  generally  pretty  well  along. 
There  was  some  frost  around 
for  the  next  couple  of  nights,  but 
the  total  loss  was  not  considered 
serious,  two  percent  being  put 
down  at  the  Cranberry  Station. 
September  Very  Cold 
September  ended  with  a  minus 
80  degrees.  The  Boston  Weather 
Bureau  declared  this  to  be  the 
17th  colder-than-normal  month 
out  of  the  last  19.  It  was  noted 
that  the  year  1960  averaged  ex- 
actly normal  in   temperature   and 


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each  year  since  then  has  been 
colder  than  normal.  This  seems 
to  lend  some  credence  to  a  theory 
that  New  England  is  changing 
towards  a  cycle  of  colder  weather. 
Rainfall  Off 
Rainfall  v/as  also  off  for  the 
cranberry  area.  There  was  a 
total  of  1.88  as  recorded  at  the 
State  Bog  with  the  average  be- 
ing 3.56  inches.  So  precipitation 
remains  still  critical  and  is  be- 
coming more  so  with  each  pas- 
sing month.  Some  portions  of 
New  England  have  had  adequate 
rain,  but  the  dryest  portion  has 
been  near  the  coast,  which  in- 
cludes   the    cranberry    bogs. 


September  was  also  less  sunny 
than    normal. 

Dryest  in   147   Years 

Weathermen  in  Boston,  digging 
back,  came  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  first  nine  month  of  1965 
were   the    dryest    in    147    years. 

At  the  end  of  September  and 
beginning  of  October  a  labor 
shortage  was  hampering  getting 
the    crop    off. 


NEW    J  ERSEY 

Sept.  Temperature  About  Normal 

During  the  month  of  Septem- 
ber the  maximum  average  tem- 
perature   was     80.9     degrees,     1.5 


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above  normal;  the  minimum  av- 
erage was  55.6  degrees,  about  1 
below  normal.  The  mean  average 
temperature  was  68.3  degrees,  .8 
above  normal.  There  were  5 
days  during  the  month  when  the 
temperature  was  over  90,  and 
many  more  days  than  that  with 
extremely  high  humidity.  On 
September  25th  a  cold  front  came 
through  this  region,  when  the 
temperature  in  the  uplands 
dropped  to  38  degrees  and  down 
to  27  on  the  coldest  cranberry 
bog.  It  warmed  up  a  bit  the 
next  night  but  on  the  27th  it 
dropped  again  and  ranged  from 
25  to  28  degrees  on  cranberry 
bogs.  An  unpredicted  wind  saved 
growers  from  probably  what 
would  have  been  excessive  dam- 
age. Temperatures  had  dropped 
to  26  degrees  by  10  p.m.  and 
with  good  radiational  conditions 
which  had  been  predicted  the 
temperatures  could  easily  have 
gone  below  20  degrees  before 
sunrise.  There  was  a  general  lack 
of  water  for  flooding  at  the  time, 
so  it  was  definitely  not  an  ill 
wind  blowing  on  that  night. 
Rainfall   Less 

The  rainfall  during  the  month 
totaled  2.32  inches,  1.30  inches 
below  normal.  For  the  nine 
months  of  the  year  total  precipi- 
tation was  8  inches  below  normal 
and  almost  an  inch  and  a  half 
below  the  drought  year  of  1964. 
Crop  Holding  Up 

Cranberry  harvest  as  of  Octo- 
ber 1  was  still  in  its  very  early 
stages.  Most  bogs  are  running 
fairly  close  to  the  estimate.  Ber- 
ries are  a  bit  smaller  than  nor- 
mal and,  in  general  not  well 
colored.  The  few  cold  nights 
late  in  September  did  much  to 
enhance  coloration  and  color  is 
expected  to  be  more  than  ade- 
quate in  the  next  few  days. 
There  are  some  excellent  crops 
in  the  Chatsworth  area,  with 
some  bogs  exceeding  125  barrels 
per  acre. 


WISCONSIN 

September  Weather  Poor 

September  brought  a  continua- 
tion   of    cold    and    wet    weather, 
even    worse    than    the    preceding 
Continued   on   Page   17 


J.  C.  WINDHURST.  BAN  DON.  OREGON 
GROWER  HAS  PERHAPS  SMALLEST 
SPRINKLED  BOG  IN  EXISTENCE 

His  Bogs  are  Beautifully  Kept  Up  with   an 
Average  Crop  of   1400  Barrels  on    10  —  11    Acres 

By   CLARENCE   J.    HALL 

Perhaps  the  smallest  bog  area  sprinkled  anywhere  is  a  one-eighth 
acre  piece  owned  by  John  (Jack)  Cleveland  Windhurst  whose  cran- 
berry property  is  near  Bandon,  Oregon.  This  piece  of  McFarlins  is 
completely  fenced  in  with  barbed  wire  for  protection  against  deer. 
This  round  piece  of  bog  is  somewhat  strangely  picturesque,  with  a 
gate,  sitting  as  it  does  along  the  lush  heavily  wooded  bog  near  the 
entrance  to  the  Windhurst  property. 

The  single  sprinkler  in  the  center  of  the  one-eighth  acre  is  a 
Buckner  with   a  sprinkling   radius   of   60   feet. 

In  all  Jack  Windhurst   has   10-11   acres,   all  under  sprinkler   sys- 
tem,  but   not   all   are   automatic. 
Produclion 
The     Windhurst     bog  3     are     set 
to   all   McFarlins    and   his   largest 
crop   to  date  has   been   1600   bar- 
rels   and    the    average    production 
is    1400. 

Th?-  first  six  acres  of  this  bog 
were  built  by  "Hank"  Dufort, 
father  of  'Bill"  Dufort,  who  is 
Ocean  Spray  manager  for  the 
Bandon  area.  One  and  one-six- 
teenth acres  were  built  by  E. 
R.  Ivey  and  the  rest  by  Wind- 
hurst. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Windhurst  first 
came  to  the  Bandon  area  in  1942 
and  Windhurst  worked  with 
Mrs.  Windhurst's  father,  Gunnar 
Ericksen.  They  bought  the  prop- 
erty in  1947  from  Mr.  Ivey.  Mrs. 
Windhurst,  the  former  Gunhilde 
Ericksen  and  her  father  bought 
the  old  Langlois  bog,  the  Lang- 
lois  family  being  pioneer  grow- 
ers  in   the    Bandon    area. 

It  was  on  a  visit  to  Bandon 
1942  that  Jack  was  first  "bit- 
en  by  the  cranberry  bug,"  a 
ondition  that  has  become  more 
cute  with  him  through  the  years. 
'I  was  impressed  with  cranberry 
ulture,"    he    says. 

L Windhurst  was  born  in  Edina, 
issouri  in  1905  on  a  farm.  His 
father  later  moved  back  to  Iowa, 
and  later  still  to  a  farm  in 
Southern  Minnesota.  This  was  in 
1914.  "I  left  home  in  1926  going 
to  California  where  I  met  anc' 
married  Gunhilde  in  1930,"  he 
says. 


Mr.  Windhurst  is  a  jovial  man 
who  enjoys  talking.  But  he  is  a 
hard-working  man  as  can  be  at- 
tested to  by  his  bogs  which  are 
beautifully  kept,  with  scarcely 
a   weed. 

Live  at  Bogside 

The  Windhursts  live  in  a  v-ery 
pleasant  home  by  the  bogside. 
Mrs.    Windhurst    is    interested    in 


ing  and  strong  examples  of  her 
art  hang  on  the  walls  of  their 
home. 

The  couple  has  one  son,  "Bill,' 
19,  who  is  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. 
He  is  married  and  this  year  the 
Windhursts  became  grandparents. 

Windhurst  formerly  had  a 
newspaper  agency  at  Walnut 
Creek,  California,  which  was  in 
a  "fabulous"  location  he  says,  in 
the  foothills  near  Oakland.  Mt. 
Diablo  overlooked  the  rolling 
countryside,  where  grew  walnuts, 
pear  and  peach  orchards.  "It  is 
hard  to  believe  that  this  charming 
land  has  now  become  a  metrop- 
olis in  recent  years.  Freeways, 
shopping  centers,  and  apartments 
have  obliterated  many  of  the  old 
familiar   scenes,"    he   adds. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Masons, 
and  at  present  is  not  on  any 
cranberry  committees.  Wind- 
hurst water-picks  all  his  crop. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  growers 
to  use  this  means  of  harvest.  He 
also  rigged  up  the  first  mechan- 
ical pruner,  a  Gravely  tractor 
with  long  teeth  on  the  sickle 
bar.  Some  growers  are  still 
using  these.  He  built  and  used 
the  first  elevator  to  lift  wet  ber- 


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ries  from  the  bog  to  truck,  thus 
eliminating  the  need  of  boxes. 

Like  many  other  West  Coast 
growers  Mr.  Windhurst  has  an- 
other occupation.  He  is  a  long- 
shoreman and  a  member  o- 
ILWU. 

He  is  a  member  of  and  sells 
his    fruit   through    Ocean    Spray. 


OBSERVATIONS  ON  WEED  CONTROL  AND 
OTHER  PRACTICES  FOR  CRANBERRY  CULTURE 


75  Percent  of 
Wisconsin  Growers 
Voted  In  Order 

In  the  recent  vote  on  the  Wis- 
consin State  Marketing  Order, 
the  only  cranberry  state  market- 
ing order,  at  least  so  far,  the 
"Yes"  vote  represented  75  per- 
cent of  the  registered  growers. 
According  to  Market  Order  leg- 
islation 66  and  2/3  percent  must 
approve  before  such  an  order 
can   be   made. 

Those  who  favored  the  Order 
produced  249,901  barrels  of  the 
1964  crop.  This  represented  65 
percent  of  the  total  state  pro- 
duction. The  law  requires  at  least 
51  percent  of  production. 

The  2  cents  a  barrel  which  is 
collected  by  means  of  the  Order 
will  be  used  for  a  program  of 
research,  production,  processing 
and  distributing  as  well  as  for 
the  frost  report  so  vital  to  cran- 
berry  growing. 

The  growers  elected  five  of 
their  members  to  serve  at  the 
Cranberry  Market  Order  Ad- 
visory Board.  These  are:  Bruce 
Potter,  Camp  Douglas;  Tony 
Jonjak,  Hay  ward;  Charles  L. 
Lewis,  Shell  Lake;  Keith  Bennet, 
Warrens  and  Donald  Duckhart, 
Wisconsin    Rapids. 

The  alternates:  F.  W.  Barber, 
Warrens;  William  Harkness,  Mill- 
ston;  Craig  Scott,  Warrens;  Rob- 
ert Gottschalk,  Wisconsin  Rapids; 
and  Richard  Indermuehle,  Mani- 
towish   Waters. 

The  committees  will  serve  to 
advise  and  counsel  with  D.  H. 
McDowell,  Director,  Wisconsin 
Department  of  Agriculture,  and 
his   staff. 


(Editor's  Note:  )  The  following  is 
the  complete  text  of  a  most 
interesting  talk  given  by  Dr. 
Malcolm  N.  Dana  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Association,  at 
East   Wareham,  Massachusetts.) 


It  is  a  pleasure  for  me  to 
bring  you  greetings  from  the 
cranberry  industry  in  Wisconsin. 
Although  our  Wisconsin  industry 
competes  with  you  for  the  sales 
dollar,  we  are  all  interested  in 
healthy  growth  for  the  whole  in- 
dustry and  enjoy  good  natured  ri- 
valry that  exists  between  the  two 
producing  areas.  The  numerous 
problems  of  production  and  mar- 
keting will  always  tie  cranberry 
growers  together  in  a  common 
bond    of    respect    and    friendship. 

On  behalf  of  Wisconsin  grow- 
ers, I  extend  a  word  of  appreci- 
ation to  the  research  efforts  of 
the  staff  at  Massachusetts  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station.  Our 
growers  have,  for  many  years. 
relied  upon  your  information  to 
guide  them  in  the  use  of  new 
pest  control  methods  and  materi- 
als and  cultural  practices.  Al- 
though our  growing  condition:: 
differ  from  yours  in  some  ele- 
ments, the  information  emanating 
from  your  station  may  often  be 
readily  modified  to  satisfy  the 
need  in  Wisconsin. 

Sprinklers 
I  have  been  interested  to  see 
the  extent  of  your  conversion 
from  depending  upon  flood  irri- 
gation for  frost  protection  to  the 
use  of  sprinkler  irrigation.  In 
Wisconsin  we  also  are  rapidly 
installing  overhead  sprinklers. 
Perhaps  30%  of  our  acres  are 
now  covered  with  sprinklers  or 
will  be  in  the  next  few  months. 
Wisconsin  installations  are  all 
aluminum  pipes,  but  I  notice  that 
most,  if  not  all,  of  yours  are  a 
combination  of  aluminum  mains 
w  it  h  plastic  laterals,  either 
buried  or  on  the  surface.  The 
use    of    plastic    offers    economies 


of  installation  and  resistance  to 
freezing  damage  both  of  which 
are  significant  benefits  in  this 
use.  I  will  call  these  things  to 
the  attention  of  the  Wisconsin 
grov/ers. 

We  anticipate  certain  advan- 
tages to  accrue  from  the  use  of 
sprinklers  in  comparison  with 
flooding.  Fruit  keeping  quality 
should  improve  due  to  the  re- 
duced opportunity  for  spreading 
fungal  spores  through  use  of 
less  total  water  and  the  use  of 
water  less  often.  Precision  frost 
control  will  now  be  a  reality, 
for  a  grower  can  wait  longer 
before  starting  protection  than  he 
could  with  flooding  and  both 
high  and  low  spots  should  get 
equal  protection.  It  will  no 
longer  be  necessary  to  flood  dur- 
ing the  critical  blossoming  period 
and  thus  improved  fruit  set  and 
early  fruit  development  should 
result.  It  goes  without  saying 
that  great  economies  in  water 
consumption  will  result  for  now 
it  will  no  longer  be  necessary  to 
fill  all  ditches  and  put  inches  of 
water  over  the  surface,  but  rather 
the  grower  may  apply  .10  inch 
per  hour  or  less  during  the  frost 
period  and  obtain  adequate  con- 
trol. Many  borderline  Trost  situa- 
tions will  now  consume  no  water 
whereas  under  the  flooding  pro- 
gram water  was  used  to  fill 
ditches  and  get  ready  for  flood- 
ing as  a  precautionary  measure. 
We  are  all  interested  in  the  in- 
fluences that  sprinkling  may  have 
on  the  weed  population.  Cer- 
tainly less  seeds  will  be  moved 
in  from  reservoirs  and  ditches 
which  may  be  a  very  important 
factor.  However,  the  reduced  use 
of  water  and  the  resultant  im- 
proved aeration  conditions  at  the 
bog  surface  may  encourage  germ- 
ination and  development  of  many 
seeds  that  would  not  have  grown 
under  former  conditions.  We 
may  find  that  annual  weeds  will 
become  a  more  serious  problem 
than  they  were  before  this  shift. 

Wind   Machines 
I    will    just    mention    the    wind 


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machines  that  have  been  installed 
on  two  marshes  in  Wisconsin. 
These  machines  are  designed  to 
bring  warm  air  from  air  strata 
a  few  feet  above  the  bog  and 
mix  it  with  the  cold  air  collected 
near  the  bo^  surface.  Their  ef- 
fectiveness depends  upon  a 
stratification     of     air,     in     other 

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• 

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Cranberry  Properties 

• 

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• 

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Boxes  for  Sale 


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words,  there  must  be  a  source  of 
warm  air  for  mixing  or  no 
value  can  accrue  from  their 
operation.  There  is  no  value  in 
their  operation  during  a  con- 
vection frost,  when  the  cold  air 
is  moving  in  on  wind  currents. 
Although  these  machines  have 
been  used  successfully  for  sum- 
mer frost  control,  their  limitation 
to  usefulness  only  under  rather 
restricted  conditions  has  dis- 
couraged grower  interest  in  them. 
State   Marketing   Order 

The  growers  of  Wisconsin  have 
recently  approved  a  state  market- 
ing order  that  provides  for  a 
check  off  system  to  contribute 
funds  for  the  encouragement  of 
applied  research  for  cranberry 
production  and  for  payment  of 
the  frost  warning  service.  This 
marketing  order  is  administered 
by  the  Wisconsin  State  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture.  A  grower 
advisory  committee  counsels  with 
the  Department  Director  on  the 
allocation  of  funds  to  research 
organizations. 

I  am  happy  to  see  this  action 
by  Wisconsin   growers   because  it 


represents  a  recognition  by  them 
that  in  today's  research  climate, 
agricultural  industries  desiring 
research  assistance  must  be  will- 
ing to  participate  financially  in 
the  support  of  research  effort. 
Those  industries  unwilling  to 
participate  will  soon  find  re- 
search efforts  channeled  away 
from  their  specific  interests  and 
into  those  areas  from  which 
money  is  forthcoming. 
Weeds 

Weed  control  still  remains  a 
primary  problem  for  cranberry 
growers  everywhere.  Although 
the  species  of  weeds  differ  some- 
what among  areas  of  production 
and  the  intensity  of  weed  popula- 
tions vary  all  areas  are  cursed 
with  a  plentiful  supply  of  prob- 
lems. I  am  sure  that  each 
group  thinks  it  has  more  severe 
problems  than  the  other  group, 
but  my  observations  lead  me  to 
conclude  that  there  are  enough 
problems   for   everyone. 

Our  program  in  Wisconsin  has 
tested  the  full  range  of  herbicides 
made  available  from  various 
sources  in  the  last  twelve  years. 


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We  have  been  designing  and  manufacturing  irrigation 

equipment  for  over  one  quarter  century. 

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sprinklers.    Aluminum  or  steel  fittings  made  to  order. 

Write  or  call  for  literature  and  details. 

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The  work  has  produced  informa- 
tion for  recommendation  of  sev- 
eral  materials. 

Dalapon  is  used  to  a  very  limi- 
ted extent  as  a  swab  treatment. 
This  treatment  suppresses  grass 
growth  and  eliminates  the  need 
for  clipping  of  weeds.  Much  care 
in  application  is  necessary  if 
vine  injury  is  to  be  avoided. 

Simazine  was  found  helpful 
for  annual  broadleaf  weed  con- 
trol when  used  at  2  lbs. /A.  and 
applied  as  a  granule.  The  safety 
range  for  this  herbicide  was 
to  be  very  narrow.  The  prob- 
lems of  application  to  stay  within 
the  limits  of  safety  have  pre- 
vented the  acceptance  of  this 
herbicide  and  little  or  none  was 
used   this    year. 

The  use  of  2,4-D  granules  was 
extensive  several  years  ago  but, 
las  with  Simazine,  the  injury  ex- 
perienced outweighed  the  advan- 
tages of  weed  control  obtained 
and  little  material  of  this  type  is 
Qow  used.  The  development  of 
better  applicators  and  more  un- 
derstanding of  herbicide  limita- 
tions may  encourage  use  of  this 
naterial  for  situations  where  an- 
nual broadleaf  weeds  are  the 
primary  problem.  Growers  may 
ind  2,4-D  granules  a  useful  com- 
plement for  dichlobenil(Casoron). 

There  is  still  a  limited  use 
nade  of  2,4-D  amine  for  swab- 
Ding  of  brush  and  coarse  broad- 
eaf  weeds.  Such  use  will  con- 
;inue  until  a  more  effective  her- 
bicide   is    found. 

We  have  found  a  limited  use 
or  CIPC  granules  primarily  for 
mnual  grass  control.  Unfortu- 
lately,  the  herbicide  does  not 
provide  full  season  control  from 
•ates  of  application  that  we  feel 
ire  safe  to  cranberries.  Some 
growers  are  using  it  on  two- 
md  three-year-old  sections  for 
jrass  control  and  in  some  in- 
;tances  the  results  have  been 
;ood. 

The  latest  and  most  outstanding 
jierbicide  to  receive  registration 
s  dichlobenil  (Casoron).  The  re- 
sults from  its  use  have  been  so 
outstanding  that  one  grower  now 
.:alculates  cranberry  history  as 
B.C.  and  A.D.;  Before  Casoron 
jind  After  Dichlobenil  (Casoron). 
Certainly,     since    the    passing    in 


1959  of  the  one  truly  great  cran- 
berry herbicide,  no  other  ma- 
terial has  approached  the  effec- 
tiveness of  Casoron  for  a  wide 
spectrum  of  weeds.  Although  it 
is  not  a  panacea,  it  surely  offers 
hope  for  turning  the  tide  against 
many  weed  invaders. 
Spreaders 
The  widespread  use  of  Casoron 
has  re-emphasized  the  importance 


of  application  equipment  and 
careful  operators.  Many  of  our 
growers  are  using  the  Noble 
Chemi-Caster  as  modified  by  the 
Dana  Machine  Company  and 
often  further  modified  by  the 
grower  himself.  The  Chemi- 
Caster  is  an  adequate  machine 
when  the  shutolT  mechanism  is 
working  and  when  the  operator 
uses     care     in     turning     at     the 


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Set  Once  and  Go  With 

G  /%  N  D    M  —freat  one  Jbog  or  a  dozen! 

You'll  apply  granular  herbicide  uniformly  with  a  GANDY 
Cranberry  Special  Broadcast  Granular  Applicator !  And 
you'll  do  it  easily  —  easier  than  you  can  possibly  do  it  any 
other  way.  In  fact,  many  growers  say  this  is  the  only  way 
you  can  treat  your  bogs  uniformly  ! 

There  are  plenty  of  reasons  why.  There  is  only  one 
precision  cam  gauge.  You  get  the  same  given  hopper 
opening  size  for  a  given  gauge  setting  —  once,  twice,  a 
thousand  times  or  more!  In  addition,  all  openings  are 
always  exactly  alike  at  any  setting.  (Because  hopper 
bottom  and  slide  are  punched  as  a  mated  pair  and 
never  separated  during  manufacture.) 

You  see  QUALITY  everytime  you  look  at  this  rig.  Patented 
Flo-Control  five-bladed  rotor  shuts  off  flow  when  you  stop. 
Patented  Rooster  Wheel <">  Drive  powers  it.  Weather  tight 
lid  on  hopper  has  double  locks.  Marker  attachment  available. 


Write  Gandy  Co.,  13  Gand- 
rud  Road,  Owatonna,  Minn., 
for  information  on  tlie  Cran- 
berry Special  Applicator, 
and  name  of  nearest  dealer. 


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WORLD'S  MOST  ACCURATE  APPLICATORS 


ends  of  the  sections.  Of  course, 
careful  calibration  is  essential 
to  proper  use,  but  this  is  true  of 
any  machine.  It  would  seem  to 
be  essential  to  take  the  machine 
out  of  the  field  after  a  pass  the 
length  of  a  section  and  then  to 
re-enter  the  section  and  make 
a  straight  trip  again.  Turning 
on  the  beds  while  the  machine  is 
operating  distributes  excess  her- 
bicide near  the  pivot  wheel  and 
inadequate  material  at  the  out- 
side wheel.  The  vine  injury  pat- 
terns observed  this  summer 
fully  confirm  these  obvious  con- 
ditions. 

Several  Wisconsin  growers 
have  built  a  machine  modeled 
after  the  spreader  I  use  for  plot 
work.  The  basic  delivery  unit  is 
taken  from  a  Brillion  grass 
seeder  manufactured  by  the  Bril- 
lion Iron  Works,  Brillion,  Wis- 
consin. The  spreader  provides 
precise  delivery  of  material  and 
positive  shutofE  of  granule  flow 
when  the  mechanism  is  stopped. 
I  believe  it  has  advantages  of 
maneuverability  and  control 
worthy  of  investigation  by  more 
growers.  Dana  Machine  at  Wis- 
consin Rapids  has  a  pilot  model 
ready    for    testing    this    year. 

The  specificity  of  Casoron  con- 


trol for  certain  weeds  suggests 
that  growers  must  start  to  think 
in  terms  of  "patchwork"  appU- 
cation.  It  is  false  economy  to 
apply  expensive  herbicides  on 
areas  either  lacking  in  weeds,  or 
infested  with  weeds  known  to 
be  resistant  to  the  material  used. 
You  must  start  to  map  your  beds 
in  detail  during  the  growing  sea- 
son and  then  apply  the  herbicide 
only  to  those  areas  where  control 
may  be  reasonably  expected.  The 
risks  of  vine  injury  and  the 
material  cost  are  too  great  for 
indiscriminate  application  over 
wide  areas.  Precision  application 
equipment  and  intelligent  hand- 
ling must  become  a  part  of  suc- 
cessful   weed   control. 

Casoron  has  also  taught  us 
one  other  great  lesson.  This  her- 
bicide will  not  provide  good  weed 
control  in  areas  of  thin,  weak 
vines.  Its  best  control  is  ex- 
hibited where  the  vines  are 
thick,  vigorous  and  productive. 
The  control  apparently  results 
from  the  suppression  effect  of  the 
herbicide  in  the  presence  of 
highly  competitive  conditions  pro- 
vided by  vigorous  vines.  Neither 
condition  alone  can  eliminate 
weed  populations,  but  the  two 
working     jointly     overcome     the 


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weeds.  The  lesson  we  are  learn- 
ing is  that  you  first  must  grow 
a  good  vine  stand  and  then  you 
may  use  herbicides  to  selectively 
eliminate  the  weeds.  You  can't 
grow  cranberries  without  vines. 
Therefore,  integral  parts  of  any 
weed  control  program  are  the 
other  management  practices  in- 
cluding soil  fertility,  insect  and 
disease  control  and  water  man- 
agement. 

Our    experience    with    Casoron 
has    shown    that    Howes    are    the 
most  tolerant  variety  with  Searles 
showing  the  most  sensitivity.  This 
places    Massachusetts    growers    in 
a    favorable    position    relative    to 
the    situation    in    Wisconsin.     We 
have   found    that   fall    application 
is    particularly    effective    on    cer-    ji 
tain    early    spring    emerging    per-    | 
ennials,   but   that   spring   applica- 
tions afford  better  control  of  rice 
cutgrass,       sensitive       fern       and 
other    late    emerging    perennials.   , 
In     general,    those     bogs     estab- 
lished  on  sand  bottom  have  suf- 
fered    more     injury     than     those 
bogs  on  peat  bottom.  Apparently 
the  high   organic   content   of  peat 
inactivates    some     of    the    herbi- 
cide through  absorption  or  other 
phenomena. 

A  fall  application  of  the  recom- 
mended rate  of  Casoron,  followed 
by  a  winter  sand  application 
definitely  enhances  the  activity  of 
the  herbicide.  It  may  step  up 
the  effect  by  as  much  as  50%. 
This  means  that  in  those  areas 
where  you  have  hard-to-kill 
weed  species,  you  may  wish  to 
plan  your  herbicide  treatment  in 
conjunction  with  your  sanding 
program  and  thus  take  advan- 
tage of  the  extra  effect.  In  con- 
trast, where  you  have  weeds  that 
are  relatively  easy  to  kill,  you 
could  reduce  the  herbicide  to  21/2 
or  3  Ibs./A.  followed  by  sanding 
and  obtain  control  equivalent  to 
4    Ibs./A.    without   sanding. 

We  believe  that  Casoron  effect 
on  vines  is  closely  associated  with 
soil  conditions.  In  some  instances, 
at  least,  we  see  more  injury  on 
very  low  pH  soils  than  we  do 
on  soils  with  a  relatively  higher 
pH.  Whether  this  reaction  is  a 
pure  response  to  pH  level  or 
whether  it  is  the  result  of  other 


factors  associated  with  soil  pH, 
we  are  not  sure.  In  any  event, 
it  is  a  research  area  needing  fur- 
ther exploration  in  order  that 
we  may  be  able  to  reduce  the 
injury  by  simply  adjusting  the 
soil    status. 

Manganese 
Recently,  we  have  been  work- 
ing with  nutrient  absorption  by 
the  cranberry  plant.  A  sidelight 
to  this  work  is  the  interesting  ob- 
servation that  cranberries  can 
accumulate  large  quantities  of 
manganese  w  it  h  o  u  t  apparent 
growth  retardation  and  that  these 
plants  can  grow  in  high  con- 
centrations of  aluminum  without 
showing  toxic  symptoms.  These 
observations  are  of  interest  be- 
cause it  is  known  that  many 
plants  are  adversely  affected  by 
high  levels  of  these  two  elements. 
We  now  wonder  if  soil  applica- 
tions of  these  elements  could  be 
used  as  selective  herbicides  in 
much  the  same  manner  that  iron 
has  been  used  in  the  past.  Our 
workv  thus  far  has  been  under 
laboratory  conditions  and  needs 
much  further  expansion  before 
any  practical  application  may  be 
realized. 

The  weed  control  problem  con- 
tinues to  be  a  challenging  one 
to  research  workers  and  grow- 
ers. With  a  continuing  source 
of  materials  for  testing  and  the 
application  of  new  knowledge 
within  the  framework  of  estab- 
lished practice,  the  battle  will  be 
won. 

It  has  been  a  pleasure  to  spend 
this  day  with  the  Cape  Cod 
Cranberry  Growers  Association 
and  to  share  these  few  ideas  with 
you.  I  hope  you  can  all  take 
time   to   come   to   Wisconsin   soon 

I  and    see   the   methods   we    use   to 

j  grow    cranberries. 


LONG  BEACH  CROP 
REPORTED  UP 

Wilson  Blair,  Area  Manager 
for  Ocean  Spray  of  Long  Beach, 
Washington  is  quoted  as  report- 
ing that  the  area  will  harvest 
25,000  barrels  of  the  state  crop. 
Last  year's  harvest  was  17,000 
so   a   gain   is    expected. 

Harvest  in  the  area  began 
about     October     4th. 


OUR  CHANGING 
VALUES 

by 
RUSSELL    A.    TRUFANT 
(Editor's  Note:    Mr.  Trufant  is  an 
engineer    and    a    long-time    suc- 
cessful   Massachusetts    cranberry 
grower,   recently  retired.) 
A  year  ago  I  revisited  places  in 
the    Southwest    where    I    worked 
forty-odd   years   ago.    I   inspected 
many    reinforced-concrete    struc- 
tures   I    had    designed    and    built 
there.    I  was  pleased  to  find  each 
one   in   good   condition   and   serv- 
ing    its     purpose,     but     chagrined 
to    find    that    each    had    been    al- 
tered   to    serve    new    purposes  — 
to  meet  needs  that  did  not  exist 
when    the    structures    were    built. 
Coming  back   to   Massachusetts, 
I  had  an  eye  out  for  the  chang- 
ing   needs    and    values    over    the 
years.      Do    we    realize    how    our 
sense  of  values  in  cranberry  bogs 
has    changed    (or    been    changed) 
within       our       own       memories? 
Changes   due   to   Experiment   Sta- 
tion work,  to  use  of  new  or  dif- 
ferent   machines,    to    adoption    of 
sprinklers,    etc?      Take    our    idea 
of   a    really   good    bog.     How    has 
that   changed? 

In  my  youth,  a  really  good 
bog  was  long  and  narrow  with 
good  sand  pits  all  along  both 
sides,  on  a  big  enough  stream  so 
all  you  had  to  do  was  put  the 
planks  in,  and  the  bog  went 
right  under.  Few  would  build 
such  a  bog  today.  The  frequent 
cross-valley  dikes  and  big  flumes 
would  be  too  expensive,  and  the 
risk  of  storm-flood  water  damage 
too  great.  The  advantage  of  the 
narrow  bog  has  been  lessened 
by  the  replacement  of  the  wheel- 
barrow and  plank  by  the  machine 
Sanders  and  power  wheelers.  The 
sand  is  less  important  with  to- 
day's thinner  initial  sand  coat; 
by  grading  with  peat  instead  of 
sand;  by  extending  the  interval 
between  sandings;  by  the  con- 
venience of  the  front-end  loader 
and  dump  trucks  for  stockpiling 
sand  around  the  bog  in  off  sea- 
sons. 

Changes  since  my  youth  have 
been  gradual  but  widespread.  Un- 
til   the    advent    of   sprinklers,    we 


jf.  aimed  for  a  bog  with  water 
stored  on  three  sides  but  not 
running  through,  and  good  drain- 
age on  the  fourth  side.  If  we 
could  put  on  a  frost  flow  in  an 
hour  and  drain  it  off  before  noon 
the  next  day,  and  do  that  five 
days  running,  we  had  a  real  good 
bog.  We  had  to  be  up  almost 
all  the  frosty  nights,  but  we 
avoided  many  flows.  We  still  re- 
membered the  old-timers  rule  of 
the  three  "F"s:  Three  flows  equal 
one  frost;  three  frosts  equal  one 
freeze;  three  freezes  equal  one 
failure. 

Then  came  along  sprinklers. 
We  saw  more  and  longer  sleep- 
less nights.  We  found  we  were 
using  lots  of  good  bog  swamp 
for  needless  reservoirs.  We  found 
good  protection  from  heat-drouth 
damage.  It  would  take  courage 
to  depend  on  today's  sprinklers 
against  winter-killing,  but  that 
may  come  yet.  It  also  seems  that 
a  bog  kept  too  wet  by  over- 
sprinkling  will  raise  just  as  rot- 
ten berries  as  any  bog  kept  too 
wet  by  other  causes.  And  it  is 
hard  to  imagine  any  trouble  with 
a  grood  frost-flow  system  that 
would  be  as  crucial  as  a  break- 
down —  even  a  short  one  —  in  a 
sprinkhng  system. 

Assume  that  today's  standards 
include  the  sprinkler.  Just  what 
are  the  other  requisites  for  a 
good  bog?  Leave  out  the  things 
which  can  be  added  anytime, 
such  as  shore  roads,  fertilizer, 
pesticides  and  Tender  Loving 
Care.  What  has  to  be  there  to 
begin  with?  Peat,  sand,  water  and 
its  controls  and  drainage;  not 
necessarily  important  in  that 
order,   but   there. 

Peat  is  the  vines'  own  water 
reservoir.  Its  capillarity  feed  its 
moisture  up  to  its  surface  for 
the  vine  roots.  Not  that  it  has 
to  have  capillarity,  like  a  wick. 
It  should  be  heavy  peat,  the  kind 
that  sticks  to  your  shovel,  not 
loose  forest  duff.  The  ideal  peat 
layer  is  about  the  same  thick- 
ness all  over  the  section;  deep 
peat  out  in  the  middle  means 
future  settlement  there.  Six 
inches  to  a  foot  of  peat  will 
provide  root  moisture  thru  most 
drouths.      You     can     make     good 


THIRTEEN 


bog  on  peatless  hard  bottom  by 
adding  a  layer  of  peat. 

The  sand  has  virtues  too  nu- 
merous to  list  here,  not  the 
least  of  which  is  its  action  in 
delaying  rain  runoff  while  the 
slow  -  drinking  peat  replenishes 
its  supply.  We  have  reduced  the 
thickness  of  the  initial  sand 
layer  from  the  old-time  six 
in'hos  down  to  two  or  so.  By 
proper  trash  removal  and  prun- 
ing, we  have  lengthened  the  in- 
terval between  sanding.  The  ease 
of  stockpiling  around  the  bog  in 
off-times  means  we  are  not  de- 
pendent on  the  sand  that  happens 
to  be  handy.  The  sand  should 
be  reasonably  clean  and  free 
from  clay,  since  the  roots  need 
air  as  well  as  water.  And  a 
thick  layer  of  sand  hastens  the 
day  when  the  buildup  of  re- 
sanding  lets  an  accidental  over- 
wet  condition  kill  those  lower 
vine  roots  that  bring  moisture 
up  from  the  peat. 

You  may  well  ask  why  we 
need  this  moisture  system  when 
we  can  sprinkle  at  will.  It  is 
because      no      bog      is      uniform. 


Drouth  damage  first  shows  up  in 
spots,  we  know,  where  the  mois- 
ture system  is  not  working  prop- 
erly. If  we  sprinkle  before  those 
spots  show  damage,  we  are  keep- 
ing  the   rest   of   the   bog  too  wet. 

Mechanical  picking  has  made 
it  more  imperative  that  the  sur- 
face sand  be  free  of  stones.  The 
potential  of  stone  damage  to  the 
machines    is    too    great   to   ignore. 

The  requirements  for  water 
have  been  changed  most  radi- 
cally by  sprinkling.  We  need 
water  for  three  general  purposes: 
sprinkling,  trash  removal,  and 
winterkill  protection.  Water  har- 
vesting is  so  akin  to  trash  re- 
moval that  it  need  not  be  con- 
sidered separately.  For  sprink- 
ling a  minimum  storage  might 
be  enough  for  five  nights  in  a 
row.  That  could  mean  five  inches 
over  the  whole  bog.  Then  a 
twenty-acre  bog  would  need  a 
one-acre  reservoir  with  an  av- 
erage depth  of  100  inches,  etc. 
A  sump  might  do.  There  are 
places  around  here  where  a  sump 
will  not  hold  water.  In  other 
places     a    sump    rebuilds     almost 


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CRANBERRY  GROWER 


CASORON 


G-4  (4^^  GRANULES) 

CASORON  is  highly  effective  against  a  broad  spectrum  of  per- 
ennial and  annual  broad  leaf  and  grass  weeds  (including  rushes 
and  sedges)  commonly  occuring  in  cranberry  bogs.  May  be  ap- 
plied  by  Cyc'one  Seeders  or  Dana  Chemi-casters,  3V2',  7', 
10  ¥2'  or   14'  size. 


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as  fast  as  you  can  pump  it  out. 
Each  spot  has  its  own  peculiari- 
ties. 

In  considering  reservoirs,  re- 
member that  a  full  reservoir  is 
an  asset  right  up  to  bloom  time. 
Then  it  becomes  a  liability.  A 
low  reservoir  is  an  asset  then 
because  it  may  intercept  enough 
storm  water  to  prevent  storm 
flooding  on  the  bog  and  conse- 
quent loss  of  the  crop.  Then 
at  Fall  frost  time  this  situation 
reverses  again,  and  you  need  a 
full    reservoir.     Can    you    get    it? 

Trash  removal  (and  water  har- 
vesting) bring  up  the  matter  of 
dikes.  Each  large  bog  should  be 
subdivided  by  dikes  into  blocks 
which  are  of  convenient  size  for 
quick  flooding  and  quick  trash- 
ing or  picking.  Perhaps  three 
acres  is  a  good  size.  That  calls 
for  a  reservoir,  and  one  big 
enough  to  flow  a  bit  over  the 
vine  tops.  For  a  bog  with  many 
such  block,  you  may  be  able  to 
rehandle  the  water  from  the 
first  block  again  and  again  for 
the  rest  of  the  bog.  That  will 
probably  involve  the  familiar 
bog  pump.  Otherwise,  you  need 
about  as  much  reservoir  with 
sprinkling    as    without. 

Most  bogs,  other  than  the  pres- 
ent "dry"  bogs,  can  accumulate 
enough  water  for  winter  flooding. 
A  sprinkler  system  can,  in  time, 
winter-flood  a  bog.  In  any  case, 
there  is  likely  to  be  a  critical 
time  after  the  usual  oxygen- 
deficiency  warning  when  you 
want    to    reflow    because    of    ice 


CASORON 

IS   AVAILABLE    IN 
MASSACHUSETTS 


from 

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West  Wareham 

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a  bag  of  this  .  .  .      eliminates  all  this 


Only  yesterday  you  were  spending 
a  lot  of  valuable  time  and  a  small 
fortune  to  hand-weed  your  cran- 
berries. You  and  your  family,  or  the 
half-dozen  college  kids  you  hired, 
had  to  suffer  through  the  agony  of 
cuts,  blisters  and  sore  backs ...  or 
maybe  you  rolled  out  the  oil  drums 
and  flooded  your  bogs ...  yet  the 
weeds  kept  growing. 


Well,  then  now's  the  time  to  use 
CASORON®. 

CASORON  is  the  one  safe  herbi- 
cide that  effectively  eliminates  per- 
ennial and  certain  annual  weeds  and 
grasses  in  your  cranberries. 

There's  no  other  chemical  quite 
like  CASORON.  It's  a  total  program 
...with  CASORON  no  combination 
of  expensive  herbicides  is  necessary. 

CASORON 

DICHLOBENIL  WEED  &  GRASS  KILLER 

is  a  product  of  Thompson-Hayward  Chemical 
Company  and  a  research  discovery  of  N.  V. 
Philips  Duphar.    U.  S.  Patent  No.  3,027,248. 


CASORON  kills  weeds  before  they 
come  up  to  rob  your  cranberries  of 
available  soil  moisture  and  valuable 
nutrients  ...  and  it  doesn't  hang 
around  after  the  job's  done.  It's  safe 
enough  to  use  on  growing  plants  and 
it's  not  irritating  to  you. 

And  CASORON  is  easy  to  apply. 
One  application  (Fall  or  Spring)  and 
weeds  are  gone. 


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Wisconsin. 


cover.  But  this  usually  involves 
a  thaw  which  gives  you  time 
and  water  if  you  are  on  the  job. 
Drainage  you  need,  too.  Not 
&s  fast  drainage  as  you  needed 
to  get  a  frost  flow  off  in  six 
nours  or  so  to  avoid  water  dam- 
..^e.  But  the  water  table  should 
^e  under  some  control.  If  a 
natural  stream  flows  through  the 
bog,  it  is  well  to  detour  it  around 
the  bog  to  avoid  storm-flooding 
in  bloom,  for  example.  The  pos- 
sible need  for  rehandling  water 
has    been    montiono:!    above. 

High  parts  of  a  bog  mean 
nothing  to  sprinklers,  but  for 
thrashing  and  winter  flooding 
they  are  an  abomination.  It  is 
better  to  cut  down  the  high 
edges  (putting  on  a  layer  of 
peat  if  necessary)  than  to  build 
up  the  center  to  match  the  edges. 
The  center  will  settle  anyhow; 
build  it  up  and  it  will  settle 
more.  This  is  assuming  that 
there  is  deep  peat  in  the  center, 
as    usual. 

What  other  needs  are  there, 
perhaps  unrealized  needs?  One 
is  to  get  rid  of  the  section  ditch. 
We  need  shore  ditches,  and  prob- 
ably ditches  between  varieties. 
Ditch  banks  are  often  unpicked.. 
The  labor  cost  is  high,  and  the 
berries  from  the  ditch  banks  are 
often  rotten  enough  to  raise  the 
cost  of  the  sound  berries  and 
perhaps  degrade  a  whole  ship- 
ment. We  thus  lose  about  10% 
of  our  possible  acreage  and  crop 
to  the  ditches.  Yet  we  give  the 
ditches  frost  protection,  pesticides 
and  all  the  rest.  They  even  have 
their  own  weed  problems.  And 
they  need  periodic  cleaning  out. 
They  add  a  touch  of  risk  and 
adventure  to  trashing  or  water 
picking.  They  complicate  crop 
hauloff.  They  give  burrowing 
animals  access  to  many  points 
on  the  bog.  They  are  a  nuisance 
in  most  mechanized   operations. 

With  sprinklers,  you  need  to 
drain  off  but  about  an  inch  a  day 
of  frost  water.  At  least  a  part 
of  that  would  go  down  to  the 
peat.  Heavy  rain  makes  the  real 
need  for  good  drainage.  You 
would  reasonably  prepare  to 
drain  off  an  inch  a  day  for  five 
days  of  storm.    It  is  not  economic 


to  protect  against  much  more, 
because  "all  outdoors"  would  be 
flooded  anyway.  It  would  be 
rash  to  depend  on  surface  drain- 
age alone  to  get  all  the  water 
off.  Some  degree  of  underdrain- 
age  is  indicated.  The  present 
ditches  on  an  old  bog,  and  per- 
haps some  grid  system  on  new 
bogs,  would  furnish  a  ready- 
made  location  for  such  under- 
drainage.  Especially  since  on  old 
bogs  the  present  ditches  presum- 
ably tap  the  known  wet  or 
springy    spots. 

Just  how  would  we  do  it?  My 
crystal  ball  suggests  that  we 
should  flrst  clean  out  the  old 
ditch,  put  in  a  bedding  layer  of 
sand,  then  lay  the  pipe  (rigid  or 
semi-rigid,  perforated),  then  fill 
with  sand  to  a  high  peak  in  the 
middle,  fill  the  edges  with  peat 
(perhaps  the  ditch  cleanings)  to 
the  top  of  the  bog  peat,  then 
end  up  with  a  level  grade  with 
knock  off  the  center  peak  of  sand 
and  add  more  sand  if  needed  to 
perhaps  a  foot  width  of  sand 
between  peat  fillings  to  let  the 
surface  water  down  to  the  pipe. 
Maybe  we  need  an  occasional 
riser  pipe  to  let  us  wash  out 
sediment  from  the  pipe  with  a 
hose  stream.  Does  this  whole 
thing  sound  like  a  railroad  job? 
It   is    a   railroad   job. 

Forgive  me,  please,  for  having 
overlooked  the  many  points 
which  occur  to  you  on  reading 
this.  I  have  just  tried  to  out- 
line what  I  think  it  takes  to 
make  a  real  good  bog  today,  and 
take  a  brief  grance  into  the 
future. 


Remarks  at  the 

Blueberry-Cranberry  Research 

Center    Dedication    on 

August    26,    1965 

(Editor's  Note:  The  following 
is  the  address  hy  Dr.  Paul  Eck, 
who  has  supervision  over  the 
New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blue- 
berry Station  at  the  summer 
vieeting  of  the  American  Cran- 
berry Grower's  Association.  The 
meeting  was  held  at  the  new 
Cranberry  -  Blueberry  Research 
Center  at   Lake   Oswego.) 


As  a  researcher  who  will  be 
putting  this  facihty  to  use,  I 
would  like  to  express  my  appre- 
ciation to  the  people  of  New 
Jersey    for    making    it    possible. 

I  have  been  trained  in  the 
field  of  plant  nutrition  and  physi- 
ology. It  is  my  assignment  to 
apply  the  basic  principles  in 
these  areas  of  specialization  to 
the  solution  of  applied  problems 
in  blueberry  and  cranberry  cul- 
ture, as  well  as  to  conduct  re- 
search which  will  add  to  our 
basic  understanding  of  these 
crops. 

A  study  of  the  influence  of 
the  major  plant  nutrients  upon 
blueberry  growth,  production  and 
quality  has  been  initiated  at  this 
center.  An  additional  important 
objective  of  this  study  is  the 
development  of  a  diagnostic  tech- 
nique based  upon  plant  and  soil 
analyses  which  may  be  of  use- 
fulness in  correcting  plant  nu- 
trition problems.  From  this  study 
we  hope  to  produce  the  most  ac- 
curate nutritional  recommenda- 
tions possible  for  blueberry  pro- 
duction. 

Poor  fruit  set  on  many  of  our 
commercially  important  varieties 
has  been  a  problem  for  almost 
a  decade,  both  in  New  Jersey 
and  in  other  major  blueberry 
producing  regions.  We  know  that 
trace  elements  play  primary  roles 
in  the  enzyme  systems  which  are 
pressed  into  service  during  this 
critical  physiological  period. 
Therefore,  the  role  of  trace  ele- 
ment nutrition  in  influencing  pol- 
lination, fertilization  and  fruit 
development  will  be  one  of  the 
areas  of  research  at  this  center. 
In  the  greenhouse  and  labora- 
tory this  problem  of  fruit  set  is 
being  approached  from  still  an- 
other direction  —  that  of  produc- 
ing fruit  parthenocarpically,  i.e., 
fruit  development  in  the  absence 
of  pollination  and  fertilization. 
Through  the  use  of  plant  growth 
regulators  we  have  been  able  to 
achieve  100%  fruit  set  without 
benefit  of  fertilization.  These  ex- 
citing results  are  being  studied 
further  for  potential  application 
to  the  commercial  industry. 

Additional  cultural  studies  have 
been     initiated     at     the     research 


center  in  which  different  plant 
pacings  will  be  evaluated,  sod 
tLulture  will  be  compared  to  clean 
cultivation  and  new  pruning 
techniques  will  be  tried  in  con- 
junction with  mechanical  har- 
vesting   methods. 

In  cranberry  plant  nutrition  we 
are  also  interested  in  studying 
the  influences  of  various  fertili- 
zer regimes  upon  plant  growth, 
production  and  fruit  quality.  In 
addition,  the  interaction  between 
fertilizer  practices,  degree  of 
pruning  and  water  table  will  be 
studied  in  an  attempt  to  ascer- 
tain which  set  of  ecological  con- 
litions  are  conducive  to  maximum 
production  of  high  quality  cran- 
oerries. 

We  are  also  experimenting  with 
3lant  growth  regulators  in  cran- 
berries in  hopes  of  producing 
'  r  u  i  t  s.e  t  parthenocarpically. 
Promising  results  have  been  in- 
iicated  in  this  area  also. 

We  are  grateful  for  the  op- 
)ortunity  to  work  on  problems 
—  the  '  solutions  of  which  may 
lave  immediate  application  to  the 
ndustry  we  serve.  We  are  also 
[rateful,  however,  for  the  oppor- 
unity  to  train  graduate  students 
ind  in  so  doing  direct  a  portion 
)f  our  energies  to  basic  areas  of 
esearch.  Such  problems  as  the 
dentification  and  quantitative  de- 
ermination  of  endogenous  growth 
egulators  in  the  blueberry  plant; 
he  determination  of  the  role  of 
lutrition  upon  predisposition  of 
he  cranberry  plant  to  disease, 
md  the  basic  cation  nutrition  of 
he  blueberry  are  examples  of 
;ome  of  the  research  being  con- 
lucted  as  thesis  research  in  par- 
ial  fulfillment  for  advanced  de- 
crees. 


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WISCONSIN     COLD, 
RAINY,  SNOWY, 
HELP    SHORT 

The  northern  cranberry  area, 
of  Wisconsin  had  almost  two 
solid  weeks  of  rainfall  in  the 
latter  part  of  September,  with 
occasional  snow  mixed  in  and 
temperatures  down  to  18  degrees. 
This  was  delaying  harvest  and 
help  was  also  short.  The  lat- 
ter part  of  the  month  was  there- 
fore pretty  rugged  for  the  grow- 
ers. The  crop  seemed  to  be  fall- 
ing off  in  the  opinion  of  Vernon 
Goldsworthy. 

The  first  snowfall  of  the  year 
at  Wisconsin  Rapids  occurred  on 
the  night  of  September  25.  By 
early  morning  however,  it  had 
melted. 


OCTOBER  CROP 
UP  SLIGHTLY 

There  is  a  change  in  the  US- 
DA  cranberry  crop  report  for 
October.  Massachusetts  is  up  to 
680,000;  New  Jersey  up  from 
140,000  to  150,000;  Wisconsin  still 
400,000  (locally  expected  to  be 
down  from  that);  Washington, 
the  same  85,000;  Oregon  38,000 
down  from  previous  40,000.  This 
brings  the  total  crop  up  to 
1,353,000. 


FRESH   FROM   THE   FIELDS 

(Continued  from  Page  6) 
August.  Temperatures  averaged 
about  four  degrees  below  normal 
and  precipitation  was  fiom  two 
to  five  times  the  normal  of  three 
inches.  Most  of  the  cranberry 
areas  received  from  three  to  four 
times  the  normal  amount.  Cold- 
est reading  was  24  on  the  26th, 
which  also  brought  the  season's 
earliest  snow  with  one  third  inch 
on  the  ground  in  most  cranberry 
areas.  The  highest  temperature 
was  85  on  the  9th  and  this  was 
followed  by  violent  storms  in- 
cluding hail  in  the  Mather  area. 
There  were  a  total  of  20  days 
in  the  month  in  which  some  form 
of  precipitation  fell.  The  outlook 
for  October  calls  for  below  nor- 
mal temperatures  and  below 
normal    precipitation. 

Harvest  Delayed 
Needless    to    say    the    weather 


experienced  during  the  month 
curtailed  berry  growth,  but  has- 
tened coloration.  Little  if  any 
harvesting  was  done  as  conditions 
were  so  adverse.  Reservoirs  were 
spilHng  over  and  some  beds  were 
flooded  with  the  heavy  rains. 
Here  again  was  a  complete  re- 
versal of  the  past  several  years. 
The  surplus  rain  has  recharged 
many  springs  and  ponds  along 
with  a  rapidly  increasing  soil 
water  index. 

Estimates  Down 
The  early  raking  clearly 
showed  the  smaller  than  normal 
berry  size  and  as  expected  fol- 
lowing the  cold  August,  this  would 
have  a  material  effect  on  the 
Wisconsin  crop.  Berry  color  ap- 
peared the  best  in  years,  but 
keeping  quality  was  expected  to 
be  poor  due  to  the  heavy  pre- 
cipitation in  August  and  Sep- 
tember along  with  more  than 
normal  frost  flooding.  It  is  now 
quite  apparent  that  Wisconsin 
will  have  difficulty  reaching  the 
400,000    barrel    figure    for    1965. 


WASHINGTON 

September   Dry 

Cranberry  harvest  got  under- 
way in  Washington  State  about 
the  first  of  October,  after  an 
unusually  dry  September.  Pre- 
cipitation at  Cranguyma  Farms 
recorded  only  .94  of  an  inch 
for  the  entire  month.  This 
was  the  fourth  month  in  a  row 
which  has  been  drier  than  nor- 
mal. 

September  had  its  greatest  pre- 
cipitation for  a  24-hour  period 
on  the  14th  when  .57  of  an  inch 
was  recorded.  There  was  meas- 
urable precipitation  on  six  days. 
October  started  out  in  an  at- 
tempt, apparently,  to  reverse  the 
process  by  spilling  2.06  inches  on 
the  4th   and   5th. 

High  temperature  for  Septem- 
ber was  83  on  the  24th  and  a 
low   of  30  on  the   17th. 


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VOL.   30  -NO.   6 


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WATER  — A  MAGIC  SUBSTANCE 

Rainfall,  water;  that  magic  substance  was 
perhaps  the  chief  source  of  concern  in  the 
cranberry  business  this  past  season.  Mas- 
sachusetts had  not  nearly  as  much  of  it  as 
was  actuaUy  necessary;  New  Jersey  had 
none  too  much.  While  Wisconsin  and  many 
parts  of  the  West  had  much  more  than 
needed  or  wanted,  in  fact  in  many  areas  the 
floods   were   disastrous. 

The  big  answer  to  the  cranberry  areas 
which  have  been  too  dry  has  been  sprinkler 
systems.  Frost  control  has  usually  been  the 
main  use  of  sprinkler  systems,  but  if  it 
had  not  been  for  sprinkler  irrigation  in 
Massachusetts  this  year  there  would  not 
have  been  much  of  a  production. 

There  were  difficult  times  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  due  to  storms  and  too  much  water 
and  then  there  were  the  damaging  floods 
ilong  the  Mississippi  and  elsewhere  in  the 
nid-west.  We  usually  have  abundant  grapes 
and  beach  plums  at  our  home  near  the 
Ilaoe,  but  this  year  there  were  none,  due  we 
De^ieve,  to  the  lack  of  rain. 

Water  is  necessary  to  the  human  being.  A 
nan  in  the  temperate  zone  can  get  along  on 
3^2  pints  of  water  a  day,  we  are  informed, 
yet  we  use  an  average  of  60  gallons  a  day 
Por  one  use  or  another.  For  every  pound  of 
dry  matter  in  a  plant,  there  are  five  to  10 
Darts  of  water.  For  every  pound  of  dry 
natter  manufactured  by  a  plant,  the  plant 
nust  use  about  700  pounds  of  water  in 
;ranspiration. 

Obviously  as  our  population  increases 
;he  demand  for  water  increases  and  our 
>upply  diminishes.  The  silting  and  pollu- 
;ion  of  our  streams  is  becoming  a  major 
"actor.  Out  in  Wisconsin  there  is  now  strong 
•ontroversy  as  to  the  uses  of  water.  Partic- 
ilarly  in  the  northern  resort  regions  the 
nterests  of  the  cranberry  grower  and  the 
'esorters  seem  to  be  coming  more  and  more 
n  conflict.  This  is  more  or  less  true  in  all 
ranberry  areas. 

We  should  realize  that  water  is  a  mirac- 
_ilous  and  indispensible  substance,  and  it 
s  well  for  us  to  stop  and  think  about  it  for 
I  while.  We  should  become  better  in- 
brmed  of  our  use  of  water.  Water  must  be 
conserved  and  we  should  make  the  best  use 
)f  it  for  all  of  us  concerned. 


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1964.  And  we  do  know  there  is  heavy  de- 
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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry  Specialist 


Harvest    and    Frost 

The  Massachusetts  cranberry 
harvest  was  virtually  completed 
by  the  end  of  October,  which  was 
about  the  same  date  as  last  year. 
For  the  past  two  years,  we  seem 
to  have  shortened  the  harvest 
period  by  about  two  weeks.  We 
have  started  picking  about  one 
week  later  and  finished  about 
one  week  earlier.  This  is  due, 
partially  at  least,  to  the  increased 
number  of  picking  machines  in 
use. 

The  frost  warning  service  was 
terminated  for  the  season  on 
OctojDer  31.  We  sent  out  26 
general  warnings  during  the  fall, 
with  the  bulk  occurring  in  Oc- 
tober- This  includes  both  after- 
noon and  evening  warnings  and 
compares  with  25  sent  out  last 
fall.  We  estimate  that  approxi- 
mately 40  to  45,000  barrels  of 
berries,  or  6  to  7  percent  of  the 
crop,  was  lost  due  to  the  frost. 
The  bulk  of  this  loss,  5  to  6 
percent,  occurred  on  the  night  of 
August  30-31  when  bog  tempera- 
tures were  as  low  as  22  degrees. 
Slight  losses  were  noted  on  the 
night  of  September  27-28  when 
temperatures  ranged  from  17  to 
24  degrees,  and  on  the  night  of 
October  5-6  with  temperatures  as 
low    as    10    degrees    on    one    bog. 


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but     generally     fom      13     to     23 
degrees. 

The  present  author,  as  well  as 
all  preceding  authors  of  this 
column,  have  expressed  their 
thanks  to  the  frost  warning  ser- 
vice and  to  the  people  "who  make 
it  go."  Although  it  may  become 
boring  to  some  of  our  readers, 
it  is  a  gesture  of  our  apprecia- 
tion and  small  compensation  to 
these  dedicated  people.  So  once 
again  we  would  like  to  express 
our  thanks  to  George  Rounsville 
and  Kenneth  Rochefort  who  cal- 
culate and  formulate  the  warn- 
ings for  the  very  fine  work  on 
this  most  important  phase  of  the 
operation.  We  are  also  indebted 
to  the  U.S.  Weather  Bureau,  our 
cooperative  weather  observers, 
the  telephone  distributors,  the 
five   radio   stations   and   the   Cape 


Cod     Cranberry     Growers     Asso- 
ciation. 

Weather 

The  month  of  October  was  an- 
other in  the  series  of  cold,  dry 
months  that  have  been  plaguing 
us  for  so  long.  Temperature  was 
about  2y2  degrees  a  day  below 
normal  and  this  was  the  16th  of 
the  past  17  months  colder  than 
normal.  The  rainfall  for  the 
month  totalled  1.68  inches  which 
is  about  one-half  the  average 
for  October,  with  only  .03  in^h 
occurring  since  the  16th.  This 
is  the  10th  consecutive  month 
with  below  average  precpiita- 
tion  and  makes  us  nearly  15 
inches  deficient  for  1965.  The 
Weather  Bureau  in  Boston  re- 
ports that  this  is  the  dryest  10 
months  since  records  have  been 
recorded  over  the  last  148  years. 
Drought   Warning 

A  warning  on  drought  con- 
ditions was  released  by  the  Cran- 
berry Station  on  November  3  and 
reads  as  follows: 

Cranberry  growers  should  be 
alert  to  the  hazards  of  the  con- 
tinuing drought.  Many  ponds  and 
reservoirs  have  such  low  water 
levels  that  the  possibility  of 
getting  winter  protection  for  the 
bogs   is   remote.    The   bogs   them- 


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selves  are  dry,  a  situation  which 
is  likely  to  increase  the  mechan- 
ical injury  of  the  harvest  and 
reduce  the  potential  crop  of  next 
year. 
Recommendations: 

1.  Put    planks    in    drainage 
flumes    to    catch    and    hold     any 
water    that    would    otherwise    be 
lost. 


2.  Postpone    raking,    pruning, 
sanding    andd    fall    weed    control 
work    where    a    winter    flood    is 
not    assured. 

3.  If  sprinklers  are  used  for 
irrigation  this  month,  block  flumes 
to  prevent  any  run-off  and 
sprinkle  at  night  and  when  winds 
are  calm  to  reduce  evaporation 
loss. 


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The  weather  trend  to  cold  and 
dry  is  now  more  severe  and 
entrenched  than  conditions  in 
1943.  The  loss  of  cranberry 
vines  in  the  winter  of  '43-'44 
took  half  the  '44  crop  and  re- 
duced that  of  '45.  All  practical 
methods  to  conserve  water  for 
the  coming  winter  should  be 
used     immediately. 


Wisconsin  Acreage 
Survey  by  Varieties 
And  Sprinklers 

A  special  survey  of  the  Wis- 
consin cranberry  marshes  was 
underway  in  late  September. 
This  was  to  make  a  more  com- 
plete enumeration  of  acreage  and 
varieties. 

The  survey  was  being  made  at 
the  request  of  the  "Wisconsin  State 
Cranberry  Growers'  Association 
and  was  being  financed  by  funds 
supplied  by  both  the  Wisconsin 
and  the  United  States  Department 
of   Agriculture. 

The  survey,  directed  by  Elex 
Sturges,  will  include  questions  to 
cranberry  growers  on  harvested 
acreages  by  variety  this  year  and 
the  expected  acreages  five  years 
from  now.  Questions  will  also  be' 
asked  on  the  use  of  sprinkler 
systems  and  the  types  of  power 
units  used. 


GEORGE   DANA 
WISCONSIN,    INJURED 

George  Dana,  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mr3.  Lawrence  Dana  of  the  Dana 
Manufacturing  Company,  Wis- 
consin Rapids,  Wisconsin,  who  was 
injured  at  a  ski  jump  is  now  re- 
covering. He  suffered  a  torn  liga- 
ment and  for  a  time  was  on 
crutches. 


I;      Farm  Credit  Service 


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

• 

Production  Credit  Loans 
Land  Bank  Mortgages 


Office  — 362.   Route   44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

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Issue  of  November  1965 -Vol.  30,  No.  7 

Second    Class     PosUge    Paid     at    Wareham,    Massachusetts     Post     Office 
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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


MASSACHUSETTS 

October  First  Rain 

October  opened  with  a  very 
substantial  and,  of  course,  much 
needed  rain,  in  this  prolonged 
period    of    drought. 

October  third  blew  in  one  of 
the  earliest  cold  spells  in  recol- 
lection. The  fourth  was  17  de- 
grees colder  than  normal,  with 
high  winds  which  made  it  seem 
even  more  w^inter-like  than  it 
was.^ 

Frost  Spell 
That  night  a  frost  warning 
went  out  from  14  to  15  degrees 
if  the  wind  died  down  and  clouds 
came  in.  Both  of  these  things 
did  occur  to  some  extent  but 
temperatures  from  15  up  were 
reported.  Ice  was  formed  in 
buckets  of  water.  Not  too  much 
damage  was  done  as  more  than 
half  the  crop  had  been  picked  and 
most  berries  still  on  were  in 
places  which  could  be  protected. 
The  fifth  was  even  colder,  be- 
ing about  20  degrees  colder  than 
!  normal  and  that  night  a  warn- 
ing was  sent  out  for  "very  dan- 
gerous frost,  13-14  degrees." 

A  temperature  as  low  as  10 
was  reached  on  the  Oak  Swamp 
Bog  in  the  Tihonet  area  of  Ware- 
ham, and  mid-teens  were  com- 
mon. The  following  night  there 
was  still  a  third  warning  for 
a  very  dangerous  frost,  minimum 
18  degrees.  This  temperature  was 
reached  at  the  same  Oak  Swamp 
Bog. 

Not  Much  Loss 
Although  these  were  hard 
nights  for  the  growers  it  was 
estimated  at  the  State  Bog  from 
reports  coming  in  that  the  dam- 
age was  not  great.    Most  damage 


Recommendations : 

1.  Put  planks  in  drainage  flumes 
to  catch  and  hold  any  water 
that  otherwise   would  be  lost. 

2.  Postpone  raking,  pruning, 
sanding  and  fall  weed  control 
where  a  winter  flood  is  not  as- 
sured. 

3.  If  sprinklers  are  used  for 
irrigation  this  month,  block 
flumes  to  prevent  any  run-off 
and  sprinkle  at  night  and  when 
winds  are  calm  to  reduce  evap- 
oration   loss. 

The  weather  trend  to  cold  and 
dry  is  now  more  severe  and  en- 
trenched than  conditions  in  1943. 
The  loss  of  cranberry  vines  in 
the  winter  of  1943-44  took  half 
the  '44  crop  and  reduced  that 
of  1945.  All  practical  methods 
to  conserve  water  for  the  com- 
ing winter  should  be  used  im- 
mediately. 


Drastic  Mass. 
Drought  Warning 
Issued 

So  critical  is  the  prolonged 
drought  situation  in  Massachu- 
setts as  winter  comes  in,  that  a 
flash  card  drought  warning  was 
issued  by  Dr.  C.  E.  Cross,  di- 
rector of  Mass.  Experiment  Sta- 
tion November  3.  He  issued  some 
drastic   recommendations 

"Cranberry  growers  should  be 
alert  to  the  hazards  of  the  con- 
tinuing drought.  Many  ponds  and 
reservoirs  have  such  low  water 
levels  that  the  possibility  of  get- 
ting winter  protection  for  the 
bogs  is  remote.  The  bogs  themi- 
selves  are  dry,  a  situation  which 
is  Ukely  to  inrease  the  mechan- 
ical injury  of  the  harvest  and 
reduce  the  potential  crop  of  next 


AGENT    FOR 
WIGGINS  AIRWAYS 


BOG 
SERVICE 


I 


AGRICULTURAL 
CHEMICALS 

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

R.  F.  MORSE  &  SON,  rnc. 

Cranberry  Highway         West  Wareham,  Mass.         CY  5-1553 

FIVE 


being     to     high     spots.      No     per 
cent   of   loss   was   put   down. 

Although  during  this  spell  in 
which  much  ice  was  formed,  up 
to  five  inches  by  sprinklers, 
there  was  a  good  side  to  it. 
This  included  the  fact  that  with 
not  much  harvest  going  on  it 
gave  berries  a  chance  to  ripen 
more  and  size;  Ocean  Spray  had 
a  chance  to  catch  up  on  handling 
berries  and  the  box  shortage  was 
lessened. 

Rains 

There  were  a  couple  of  fairly 
good  rains  during  the  week  of 
October  3,  but  the  temperatures 
remained    below    normal.     Up    to 


Columbus    Day,    October    12    the 
minus  was   75. 

Hail 

On  the  afternoon  of  the  10th 
there  was  a  violent  thunder  and 
lightning  storm  in  northern 
Plymouth  County  which  brought 
huge  and  heavy  hail  stones. 
Much  of  the  crop  had  been 
picked  and  no  damage  to  bogs 
was   reported. 

Again  Frost  Warning 

A  frost  warning  was  issued 
for  the  night  of  Oct.  13,  but  some 
clouds  and  wind  developed  and 
low  temperatures  were  only  about 
24-25.  There  was  also  a  warn- 
ing   for    the    night    of    the    17th, 


Sales  McCulloch  Service 

CHAIN  SAWS  and  BRUSH  CUTTERS 

QUEEN  B  PORTABLE   HEATERS 

IVHTE-LITE  PORTABLE  ALTERNATORS 

SANDVICK  SCYTHES  and  ALUMINUM  SNATHES 

LANCASTER  PUMPS 

Pipe  Cut  and  Threaded  up  to  4" 

CARVER  SUPPLY  CO. 

CENTER  CARVER,  MASS.    ,  Tel.   866-4480 

Quality  and  Service  Siiice  1956 


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 


and  there  was  one  low  of  15 
and  a  number  of  19  and  20. 
However,  the  crop  was  all  in 
but  an  estimated  10  percent  and 
there  was  believed  to  be  no  loss. 
Indian    Summer 

Although  the  month  was  still 
considerably  colder  than  nor- 
mal, beautiful  Indian  Summer 
weather  followed  this  frost  for 
several  days.  People  were  even 
going  about  coatless. 
October  Cold 

Following  this  spell  of  warm 
weather  the  temperatures  turned 
decidedly  colder.  The  month 
ended  with  a  minus  of  68  de- 
grees. This  made  October  the 
18th  colder-than-normal  month 
of  the  last  20. 
No    Rain    Exceeds    All    Records 

But  it  was  the  continued  lack 
of  rain  that  was  hurting.  Pre- 
cipitation at  the  State  Bog  was 
only  1.68  inches,  normal,  3.74 
inches.  Weather  experts  declared 
that  the  rainfall  of  the  past  10 
months  was  the  lowest  since 
1817,  or  much  more  than  a  cen- 
tury. A  weather  observer  at 
Boston  said  the  19.90  inches  of 
rainfall  (Boston)  was  1.3  inches 
under  a  record  low  of  21.26  set 
in  1845  and  this  year's  lack  was 
a  new  low  for  the  143  years  of 
observation. 

This  dire  lack  of  precipitation, 
which  was  causing  a  rash  of 
forest  fires  as  October  went  out, 
did  not  apply  to  the  whole  of 
New  England  or  of  Massachu- 
setts. The  most  critical  was  the 
Boston  and  coastal  Southeastern 
Massachusetts  section,  which  in- 
cludes the  Mass.  cranberry  area. 

A  total  of  nearly  300  forest 
and  brush  fires  were  reported  in 
Massachusetts  on  the  last  day  of 
the  month.  Fallen  leaves  and 
tinder-dry  woods  in  general  made 
the  situation  worse. 

Normal  rainfall  for  the  cran- 
berry area  in  a  year  is  44.10 
inches. 

Rain    Situation    Very    Bad 

Water  was  so  short  for  most 
Massachusetts  growers  that  few 
were  able  to  have  the  usual 
after-harvest  flood  to  remove 
trash  and  clean  up  the  bog.  A 
few  could,  but  not  many.  Im- 
mediately after  harvest  not  a 
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HEAD  OF  CARVER  MASS.  CONTRACTING  FIRM 
SPECIALIZING   IN  CRANBERRY  WORK 
"JUST  A  FARMER  AT  HEART" 


Louis  Leconte,  of  P  &  L  Company  is  a  Very  Busy  Man  with 
Cranberry  and  Other  Work  —  Also  is  Cranberry  Grower  — 
Ably  Assisted  by  Wife,  Phyllis 

By  CLARENCE   J.   HALL 


The  P.  &  L.  Co. 

The  P.  &  L.  Co.  seems  to  be 
really  "big"  business,  t'lat  is  for 
its  type  of  work,  chiefly  in  cran- 
berries, although  Louis  doss  not 
say  so.  Neither  diii  he  give  any 
intimation  of  the  investment  he 
has  in  equipment,  insurance,  li- 
cense plates  for  opo -ating  on  the 
roads,  etc.,  but  this  is  obviously 
heavy. 

He  has  equipment  for  bog  build- 
ing and  repairing,  ditch  clsaning, 
dike     repairing,     bulldozers     and 


"I'm  just  a  farmer  at  heart,"  say  Louis  M.  Leconte,  "with  I 
guess  a  bent  for  working  with  heavy  farm  and  excavating  equip- 
ment." Mr.  Leconte  heads  up  the  P.  &  L.  Company  of  Beaver  Dam 
Road,  West  Carver,  Mass.  The  town  of  Carver  has  more  acreage 
and   more   cranberry   production   than   any   other. 

Mr.  Leconte  specializes  in  cranberry  work;  he  is  a  grower  him- 
self,  a   member   of  Ocean   Spray   Cranberries,   Inc.    and   of   Cape   Cod      trucks,     track     and     rubber     tire 
Cranberry   Growers'   Association.  loader    and    backhoe,    and    other 

Mrs.   Leconte   is   bookkeeper   of   the   company,   assisting   her   hus-      items, 
band  in  many  ways.    The  attractive  Phyllis   Leconte   was   present   at 
the   interview   and    it    was    to   her   that   Louis    turned    frequently    for 
dates   and   other   bits    of   information.     She   had    the    answers    on    the 
tip   of  her  tongue. 


Louis    M.    Leconte 

Louis  Leconte  was  born  in 
Acushnet,  Massachusetts,  March 
31,     1930.      His     father,     the     late 


The  P.  &  L.  Co.  hires  three  men 
most  of  the  year,  and  they  must 
be  highly  skilled  at  the  type  of 
work    done    as    is    Louis    himself. 

He    does    not    hire    his    equip- 


been  bringing  this  bog  back  into 
good    production. 

About    1964   he   bought   another 


George  Leconte  ran  a  dairy  farm,      ^^g    ^^    ^^^^    ^^^^^    ^^-^^^    -^    ^^^ 


so  he  has  a  farming  background. 

He       attended       the       Watertown 

school    in    neighboring    Rochester. 

Army    Stint 

Then  came  a  stint  in  the  U.  S. 
Army  from  1951  to  1953.  He 
trained  at  Camp  Rucker  in  Ala- 
bama. He  was  five  months  over- 
seas in  Germany.  He  was  in 
the  infantry  in  the  motor  pool 
division  as  a  driver.  Leconte 
began  as  a  private  and  was 
honorably  discharged  as  a  cor- 
poral. 

Louis  was  then  in  the  con- 
struction business  for  a  con- 
tracting firm  in  the  New  Bedford 
area. 

He  was  married  in  1954  to  the 
former  Phyllis  Clemishaw  of 
Rochester.  They  then  bought 
their  present  home  on  Beaver 
Dam  Road.  Before  marriage 
Phyllis  worked  for  a  time  as 
bookkeeper  in  the  ofiice  of  Corn- 
well's  Department  store  in 
Wareham,   Mass. 

Buys    Bogs 

He  first  bought  an  old  bog  of 
about  six  acres  in  South  Middle- 
boro  in  1957,  which  was  in  need 
of  renovation.    Since  then  he  has 


France  Street  in  West  Carver. 
In  1964  they  picked  their  first 
crop  from  both  bogs  and  it  was 
about  700  barrels.  The  bogs  are 
set  to  Early  Blacks  and  Late 
Howes.  Leconte  uses  both  Wes- 
terns and  Darlingtons  in  the 
harvesting.  Mrs.  Leconte  has 
helped  on  the  bogs  operating  the 
blower  for   the  Western. 

Both  bogs  have  sprinkler  sys- 
tems,   using    Rain    Bird    heads. 

Leconte  sells  his  berries 
through  Ocean  Spray  trucking 
the  crop  himself  to  the  Ocean 
Spray  plant  at  Onset.  He  likes 
the  Ocean  Spray  service  and 
set-up  as  the  berries  are  off  his 
hands    after    delivery    at    Onset. 

He  has  used  Casoron  for  weed 
control  on  his  bogs  with  good 
success. 

For  insect  control  Leconte 
hires  Plymouth  Copters,  Inc. 
(Whitey),  using  both  'copters 
and   straight   wing   service. 

Leconte  does  his  own  frost 
work.  His  sprinklers  are  not  auto- 
matic and  he  has  to  handle  the 
operations  himself,  for  "heats." 
irrigation   and   frosting. 


ment  out,  but  takes  jobs  as  they 
come  along.  Some  jobs  may  last 
only  two  or  three  hours,  others 
for  considerable  periods.  His 
work  is  not  confined  to  Carver, 
but  he  works  in  the  Plymouth- 
Kingston  and  the  Wareham- 
Rochester  areas  and  on  the  Cape 
in  Barnstable  county,  wherever 
they    come    along. 

Neither  is  his  work  confined 
to  cranberries  although  that  is 
the  chief  objective.  He  does  take 
other  excavating  and  construction 
work   as   he   finds   the   contracts. 

He  is  even  busy  in  the  winter, 
there  is  sanding  on  the  ice.  Louis 
can  do  any  kind  of  construction, 
grading   or   excavation   work. 

He  also  sells  sand,  gravsl  and 
loam. 

Job  Keeps  Him  on  the  Go 

This  work  keeps  Mr.  Leconte 
on  the  go  most  of  the  time.  A 
job  has  to  be  done  when  the 
contracting  person  wishes  it  done. 
"I  am  so  busy  I  do  not  find 
time  to  do  much  of  anything 
except  work,"  he  says.  Even- 
ings there  is  book  work  to  be 
done  with  Phyllis  doing  most 
of   this. 


Cover  photo  shows  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Leconte  in  front  of  a 
hulldozer  with  son,  Michael 
in  the  driver's  seat  at  upper 
left.  The  hack  yard  of  the 
Leconte  dwelling  is  a  maze 
of  equipvient,  even  though 
sovie  of  it  was  on  a  job  when 
the    photo    was    taken. 

When  asked  if  he  had  any 
hobbies,  he  replied,  "No,  there  is 
no  time.  I  guess  I  would  say 
my  work  is  my  hobby,  and  I 
am  not  afraid  of  work,  and  I 
like    the    outdoor    part    of    it." 

There  is  a  small  repair  shop 
in  the  back  of  the  home  on 
Beaver  Dam  Road,  and  this  is 
utilized  especially  in  the  winter, 
when  the  snow  and  ice  is  on 
the  bogs. 

(Your  editor  and  associate  edi- 
tor, Mrs.  Hall  can  appreciate  this 
situation.  With  much  to  do  there 
is  little  leisure  during  the  day, 
which  is  too  short  as  are  the 
evenings.) 

The  Leconte's  have  two  chil- 
dren, Michael   10  and  Vickie  7. 

After    the    interview    Mr.     Le- 


conte hurried  away  to  get  on  the 
job  again.  But  he  did  taken  time 
to    light    up    a    cigar. 


OCEAN  SPRAY 
1964  PAYMENT 
HIGHEST  SINCE 
1952 

Ocean  Spray  made  its  final 
payment  on  the  1964  crop  at 
$1.29  a  barrel.  This  brought  the 
total  net  for  that  crop  to  the 
growers  of  about  $14.00 —  actually 
$14.91  from  which  some  received 
a  quality  bonus,  retains  and  stock. 
Last  year  it  was  $12.95,  or  about 
a  dollar  more  to  most  growers 
for   1964. 

There  were  intimations  the 
1965  crop  might  bring  more  and 
final    payment    made    earlier. 

Gross  cranberry  sales  for  the 
entire  United  States  in  the  1964 
crop  totalled  $44,084,000  as  against 
$37,055,397  for  the  crop  of  1963. 
Canada  produced  about  one  mil- 
lion   more. 

The  1964  payment  by  Ocean 
Spray  for  the  crop  of  last  year 
was    the    highest    since    1952. 


Two  of  the  Trucks  Owned  and  Operated  by  P.  &  L.  Co. 

EIGHT 


Cranberries    Photo 


Dr,  Paracer  Joins 
Staff  at  Mass. 
Station 

A    Native    of    Pakistan 
He    Will    Assist    in 
Nematode    Studies 

Dr.  Surinder  Paracer,  a  native 
of  Pakistan  is  a  new  assistant 
to  Dr.  Burt  M.  Zuckerman,  in  his 
research  in  nematology  at  the 
Massachusetts  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment Station.  Dr.  Paracer  is  the 
second  assistant  at  the  East 
Wareham  Station  to  come  from 
the  Indian  sub-continent,  the 
first  being  Dr.  Satendra  Kawra, 
who  has  now  returned  to  his 
native  land. 

Dr.  Paracer  is  committed  to 
stay  at  least  one  year  and  may 
stay  two. 

He  was  born  in  Punjab,  Janu- 
ary 6,  1941,  the  eldest  son  of 
three  children,  his  father  being 
professor  of  botany  at  Ludhiana 
University  of  Agriculture.  His 
family  has  Uved  there  for  the 
last   ten   years. 

He  had  ten  years  of  English  in 
school  at  Punjab  and  at  a  private 
school,  English  being  compulsory 
in  Pakistan.  He  prepared  for 
his  bachelor  of  science  degree 
at  the  University  of  Punjab.  His 
studies  included  botany  and 
zoology.  He  then  came  to  this 
country,  received  his  master's 
degree  from  the  State  University 
of   South   Dakota   at   Brookings. 

While  in  South  Dakota  study- 
ing plant  pathology  he  became 
interested  in  diseases  caused  by 
nematodes.  He  found  University  of 
California  offered  the  greatest  op- 
portunity to  study  further  into 
this  subject.  After  three  and  a 
half  years  he  received  his  Ph.D. 
While  there  he  studied  nema- 
todes as  they  affected  grapes, 
peaches,  walnuts,  almonds  and 
the  nematode  problems  of  roses. 
Dr.  Paracer  is  making  his  hom-^ 
at  New  Bedford.  For  sports  he 
likes  tennis,  likes  to  bowl  and 
plaved    cricket    in    Punjab. 

When  he  leaves  the  cranberry 
station  he  expects  to  return  to 
Pakistan    to    teach. 

Dr.  Paracer  is  a  member  of 
Sigma  Xi  and  also  a  member  of 
the   Society   of  Nematology. 


FOR    SALE 

IN  NOVA  SCOTIA 

ONE  PROPERTY  OF  10  ACRES  WITH 
6  ACRES  OF  CRANBERRY  BOG 

Skinner  Sprinkler  System  operated  by  40  H.P. 
electric  motor.  Plenty  of  water  available.  One  2-ton 
truck  with  sprayer  attached,  250  feet  of  hose  and  1 
cranberry  machine,  like  new.  1100  field  crates  and  25 
scoops.  Second  property  consisting  of  40  acres  land,  4 
acres  of  Cranberry  Bog,  situated  on  the  Annapolis 
River.  For  flooding  purposes  a  pump  and  new  V8 
motor.  Pump  will  discharge  5000  gallons  a  minute. 
Will  sacrifice  both  properties  for  the  price  of  the 
Sprinkler   System.    Reason   for   selling,   ill   health. 

If  interested,  contact: 

F.  C.  WALKER 

AYLESFORD,  KINGS  CO.,  NOVA  SCOTIA 


OBSERVATIONS  ON  THE  SYMPTOMS  AND 
CONTROL  OF  CRANBERRY  RED-GALL  DISEASE 


by 

B.  M.  ZUCKERMAN  and 

KENNETH  ROCHEFORT 

University  of  Massachusetts 

Cranberry  Experiment  Station, 

East    Wareham 

The  red-gall  disease  of  cran- 
berry, caused  by  the  fungus  Syn- 
chytrium  vaccinii  Thomas,  attacks 
the  young  stems,  leaves,  flow- 
ers and  fruit,  and  causes  forma- 
tion of  small,  reddish  gall-like 
swellings  on  their  surfaces  (1,3). 
Motile  spores  are  formed  within 
the  galls,  and  these  are  set  free 
when  the  galls  are  covered  by 
water.  These  swimming  spores 
attack  new  plants  and  serve  to 
continue  the  cycle  of  the  fungus. 

The  disease  usually  appears 
just  before  the  blossoms  open. 
Stessel  (2)  found  that  symptoms 
first  appeared  July  1  on  Howes 
cranberries.  Heavily  infested  flow- 
ers die.  The  fruits  are  affected 
throughout  the  season  by  second- 
ary infection  and  may  become 
severely   galled. 

Fortunately,    this    disease    is    of      these  are  the  practices  for  which 
erratic   occurrence,   and   has   been      a  substitute  was  needed.    Sprink- 


have  been  recorded.  After  the 
fruit  is  harvested,  the  galls  dry 
and  fall  off,  leaving  small, 
circular  scars  and  a  slight  in- 
dentation in  the  surface  of  the 
berry.  Where  several  galls  oc- 
cur in  close  proximity,  growth 
of  the  berry  in  the  area  imme- 
diately beneath  the  galls  is  in- 
hibited, resulting  in  a  large  in- 
dentation in  the  mature  fruit. 
Severely  infected  berries  have 
several  of  these  indentations, 
which  make  the  berry  unusable 
for  fresh  fruit,  and  it  is  doubt- 
ful if  these  berries  would  pass 
through  the  commercial  screen- 
ing   machines. 

Control  of  the  Disease 
The  obvious  approach  towards 
control  of  this  disease  is  the  al- 
teration of  water  management 
practices  to  reduce  opportunities 
for    infection    by    the    swimming 


which  is  considerably  out  of 
grade  yielded  the  following  re- 
sults: Higher  areas:  10  samples, 
no  infection  observed.  Lower 
areas;  6  samples,  berries  infec- 
ted 12 A%.  New  shoots  infected, 
55.0%.  Selected  counts  which 
were  made  in  another  low  area 
which  encompassed  several  acres 
gave  the  following  results:  10 
samples,  berries  infected  43.4%. 
New  shoots  infected  75%.  Each 
sample  comprised  16  sq.  inches 
of  vines.  These  observations, 
though  not  giving  conclusive 
proof,  offer  strong  evidence  that 
where  exposure  to  free  water  is 
kept  at  a  minimum,  the  disease 
can    be    controlled. 

In  1965,  an  experiment  to  de- 
termine the  efficiency  of  fungi- 
cides in  controlling  red-gall  di- 
sease was  carried  out  on  the' 
latter  bog.  Four  spray  schedules 
were  undertaken;  maneb,  1  and 
2  applications,  and  Bordeaux  mix- 
ture", 1  and  2  applications.  Rates 
of     application     were     maneb     12 


reported  recently  from  only  3 
bogs  in  New  England.  However, 
where  it  does  occur,  it  may  cause 
severe  economic  losses.  Observa- 
tions by  Stessel  indicated  that  a 
crop  reduction  of  more  than  50% 
may  result  from  a  heavy  infes- 
tation. However,  these  figures 
may  be  deceiving,  for  infesta- 
tion is  usually  spotty,  with  small 
pockets  which  are  highly  diseased 
being  interspersed  within  larger 
areas  in  which  the  disease  is  less 
prevalent. 

As  implied  previously,  the  di- 
sease is  spread  by  spores  which 
must  have  free  water  for  dis- 
persion and  to  enable  them  to 
infect  the  plant.  As  a  conse- 
quence, the  distribution  and  de- 
velopment of  the  parasite  are 
dependent  on  water  management 
practices  and  the  amount  of  rain- 
fall. 
New    Observations    on    Symptoms 

In  the  course  of  several  years 
study  of  this  disease,  two  new 
observations    of    berry    symptoms 


spores.  Since  spring  frost  flood-  Ibs./acre/treatment,  and  Bordeaux 
ing  and  irrigation  by  flowing  are  "li^ture  20  lbs.  copper  sulfate  — 
the  two  principal  uses  for  water  ^  lbs.  lime/treatment.  The  ma- 
between   bud   break   and   harvest,      ^^^^^^^     ^ere     applied     to     all     4 

plots  in  late  April,  and  a  sec- 
ond application  made  to  2  plots 
one  month  later.  Areas  adjacent 
to  the  plots  served  as  untreated 
controls. 

The  results  of  this  experiment 
are  given  in  part  in  Table  1. 
Infection  occurred  only  in  a  zone 
20  feet  wide  which  ran  parallel 
to  an  irrigation  ditch.  This  zone 
encompassed  a  portion  of  two 
control  areas  and  the  plots  on 
which  two  applications  of  maneb 
or  Bordeaux  mixture  had  been 
applied.      The     areas     to     which 


ler  systems  have  provided  an 
answer.  On  one  bog  establishment 
of  sprinklers  for  frost  protection 
and  irrigation  has  resulted  in 
elimination  of  the  disease  prob- 
lem. 

Additional  observations  have 
been  made  on  another  bog  which 
indicate  the  importance  of  water 
management.  In  1965,  this  bog 
was  subjected  to  nine  frost  floods 
during  May  and  June.  Random 
samples     of     a     five-acre     piece 


Table    1.     Observations   on   the   efTects     of     fungicide     applications 
on   the   control   of   red-gall    disease. 


Treatment 

Samples^ 

Berries-% 

Flowers-% 

Shoot 

Bordeaux    mixture 

Two   applications 

10 

1.6 

1.0 

15.1 

Maneb 

Two  applications 

10 

6.3 

5.0 

23.0 

Untreated 

10 

22.5 

15.0 

21.3 

'  Each  sample  was  made  up  of  vines  within  a  16  square  inch  area. 


one  application  of  either  maneb 
or  Beaudeaux  mixture  had  been 
applied,  and  the  adjacent  con- 
trol areas,  were  free  of  red-gall; 
consequently,  evaluation  of  the 
effect  of  the  single  treatment 
could    not    be    made. 

Two  applications  of  Bordeaux 
mixture  were  elfective  in  redu- 
cing the  amount  of  berry  infection. 
Treatment  with  maneb  reduced 
incidence  of  berry  infection  also, 
and  would,  in  my  opinion,  be 
preferred  since  the  possibility  of 
copper  toxicity  is  avoided.  Fun- 
gicide treatment  had  little  effect 
on  primary  infection,  as  indi- 
cated by  the  large  number  of 
new  shoots  infected. 

Conclusions 

On  the  basis  of  one  year's 
tests,  fungicide  spraying  offers 
a  feasible  method  for  control  of 
red-gall,  under  conditions  where 
optimum  water  management  con- 
ditions cannot  be  attained.  The 
establishment  of  sprinklers,  to 
substitute  for  water  management 
procedures  which  require  flow- 
ing of  the  bog,  offers  the  most 
effective  solution  to  the  red-gall 
problem. 


Citations 

Shear,  C.  L.,  Stevens,  N.  E.  and 
H.  F.  Bain.  1931.  Fungous  di- 
seases of  the  cultivated  cran- 
berry. U.S.D.A.  Tech.  Bui.  No. 
258. 

Stessel,  G.C.  1962.  Observations 
on  cranberry  red  gall  disease, 
incited  by  Synchytrium  vac- 
cina Thomas.    Phyto  52:    29. 

Thomas,  F.  1889.  Cranberry  leaf- 
galls.     Insect  Life   1:    279-280. 


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CRANBERRIES   GROWING 
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Manchester,  England,  Food,  Cook- 
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as  reported  by  USDA  publication 
Foreign  Agriculture.  This  publi- 
cation stated  that  the  Cranberry 
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ten  visitors  were  "already 
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RUTGERS   COLLEGE 
OF   AGRICULTURE 
HAS    NEW    NAME 

The  College  of  Agriculture, 
Rutgers  University,  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey  has  taken  a 
new  name.  It  is  now  the  Col- 
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This  is  to  relate  agriculture  to 
environment,  a  particularly  im- 
portant matter  in  this  year  of 
extreme    drought    in    the    East. 


Wisconsin  Acreage 
May  Be  Up  25% 
By  1970 

A  partial  report  based  on 
about  two  thirds  of  growers'  re- 
sponses, in  a  Wisconsin  survey 
to  show  acreage,  varieties  and 
other  aspects  shows  for  one 
thing,  that  an  increase  in  acre- 
age of  25  percent  by  1970  may 
be  expected.  Searles  so  far  ac- 
count for  about  68  percent  of 
the  acreage  with  a  slightly 
lower  share,  67  percent  expected 
by    1970. 

Searles  leads  in  all  the  Wis- 
consin cranberry  sections  with 
McFarlin    second. 

Sprinkler  systems  cover  1100 
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Only  yesterday  you  were  spending 
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half-dozen  college  kids  you  hired, 
had  to  suffer  through  the  agony  of 
cuts,  blisters  and  sore  backs ...  or 
maybe  you  rolled  out  the  oil  drums 
and  flooded  your  bogs ...  yet  the 
weeds  kept  growing. 


Well,  then  now's  the  time  to  use 
CASORON®. 

CASORON  is  the  one  safe  herbi- 
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thirds  coverage  report.  This  is 
38  percent  of  the  acreage  re- 
ported so  far.  Not  many  grow- 
ers yet  have  their  total  acreage 
covered. 

The  most  common  type  of 
power  supply  for  the  sprinklers 
is  the  gasoline  engine;  electric 
was    second    and    diesel   third. 

The  preliminary  report  comes 
from  the  Wisconsin  Statistical 
Reporting  Service,  and  the  com- 
plete tabulation  is  expected  be- 
fore   long. 


TWO    BLACK    DATES 

Did  you  happen  to  note  the 
date  of  the  great  northeastern 
U.  S.  power  black-out?  It  was 
November  9th,  the  sixth  anni- 
versary of  the  "Black  Monday" 
of   the    amino    triazole   disaster. 


FRESH  FROM  THE  FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  6 

few  growers  put  in  planks  and 
attempted  before  November  first 
to  start  to  flood  for  winter,  or 
at  least  make  a  start  in  that 
direction.  However,  not  much 
progress  was  being  made  as 
November  came  in.  The  weather 
continued  absolutely  dry  and 
with  no  rain  in  sight  and  un- 
usually cold.  Snow  had  fallen 
in  the  mountains  of  New  Hamp- 
shire and  on  November  first  there 
were  a  few  flurries  in  the  Bos- 
ton area,  and  a  dusting  on  the 
bogs. 


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1966  Bud  Set 

The  fall  bud  set  for  the  1966 
crop  was  reported  to  be  good. 
Fall   Frost  Loss 

The  State  Bog  estimated  the 
fall  frost  loss  as  close  to  40,- 
000  barrels,  including  that  freak 
August    freeze. 


NEW    JERSEY 

N.    J.    Also    Drought- Stricken 

The  drought  continued  through 
the  month  of  October.  Only  1.26 
inches  of  rain  fell  during  the 
month,  bringing  the  deficiency  of 
rainfall  for  the  year  to  10 
inches.  So  far  in  1965  it  has  to- 
taled only  26.67  inches  —  even 
less  than  the  29.07  inches  which 
occurred  in  the  first  10  months 
of  1964  which  was  considered  a 
very  severe  drought  year.  Only 
March  and  July  in  1965  have 
had  near  normal  rainfall.  In  the 
past  36  months  only  8  have  had 
normal  rainfall.  The  accumu- 
lated deficiency  during  the  past 
three  years  is  about  19  inches. 
In  the  memory  of  older  growers, 
cranberry  bog  reservoirs  in  New 
Jersey  are  drier  than  ever  before 
for  this  time  of  year.  In  several 
cases  there  was  not  enough 
water  for  frost  reflows  during 
October. 

More,   Severe  Frosts 

Frosts  were  of  greater  than 
normal  frequency  and  of  greater 
than  normal  severity.  There  were 
21  frost  calls  during  the  month, 
with  several  bog  temperatures 
below  20  degrees.  The  most 
severe  occurred  on  October  30 
and  31  when  the  mercury 
plunged  to  12  and  11°.  The  most 
damaging,  however,  occurred  on 
October  5  when  there  was  still 
a  large  proportion  of  the  crop 
unharvested.  A  few  unflooded 
bogs  lost  from  16%  to  20%  of 
the  berries.  On  one  small  prop- 
erty, where  the  temperature 
dropped  to  14  degrees,  the  dam- 
age was  estimated  at  over  50% 
of  the  unharvested  berries. 
October  Cold  Month 

The  average  temperature  for 
October  was  53.2  degrees,  the 
fourth  coldest  for  this  month 
in  the  36-year  history  of  weather 
records  at  Pemberton. 


Drought  Cut  Crop 

As  of  the  end  of  October  the 
cianberry  harvest  was  more  than 
95%  complete.  Most  of  the  smal- 
lei  growers  are  running  slightly 
below  their  estimates  but  the 
larger  growers  appear  to  be  ex- 
ceeding their  estimates  slightly. 
This  prompted  the  New  Jersey 
Crop  Reporting  Service  to  re- 
vise its  estimate  of  141,000  bar- 
rels, published  on  August  25th, 
to  150,000  barrels,  published  on 
October  14th.  If  this  estimate 
holds.  New  Jersey  would  be  only 
3,000  barrels  shy  of  the  ex- 
tremely good  production  of  153,- 
000  barrels  in  1964.  Most  grow- 
ers feel  that  had  it  not  been  for 
the  drought  the  1965  crop  would 
easily  have  exceeded  that  of 
1964. 


WISCONSIN 

October  Dry 

October  was  as  dry  as  Sep- 
tember and  August  were  wet. 
The  month's  rainfall  in  most  of 
the  cranberry  areas  was  slightly 
under  an  inch  or  less  than  half 
of  the  2.30  inch  average.  This 
was  the  second  driest  on  record, 
being  eclipsed  by  the  1944  total 
of  .14  inch.  Total  rainfall  for 
the  year  now  measures  close 
to  36  inches  or  6  inches  above 
the  total  annual  average.  The 
warmest  day  was  79  on  the  18th 
and  the  coldest  was  10  degrees 
on  the  13th.  [The  month  started 
cold  and  wet  and  ended  up  dry 
and  warm.  Over  half  of  the 
days  averaged  above  60  degrees 
with  skys  mostly  sunny.  There 
were  only  eight  overcast  days 
and  only  four  days  with  less 
than  an  hour  of  sunshine.  The 
combined  temperature  averaged 
about  normal  to  one  degree  above 
normal  for  the  month.  The  out- 
look for  November  call  for  below 
normal  precipitation  and  normal 
temperatures. 

Fast   Harvest 

The  advent  of  better  weather 
brought  harvest  to  a  close  quite 
rapidly  by  the  third  week  of 
October.     A    number    of    marshes 

Continued  on  Page  20 


SIXTEEN 


Dean's^  Indian  Trail 
is  putting  on  a 
really  big  spread  for 
cranberries 


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SEVENTEEN 


'Wow!   .   .   .   Just  what  I've   been   hopin'   for   .    .    .    cranberries!" 

Cartoon   by   Bill    Shelly 


EIGHTEEN 


fidif^^sjala 


ISSUE   OF   NOVEMBER    1965 
VOL.  30 -NO.  7 


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GROWERS    DESERVE    CREDIT 

That  the  cranberry  industry  this  fall  has 
achieved  a  national  production  now  esti- 
mated at  about  1,380,000  barrels  is  a  fact 
upon  which  the  growers  should  be  congratu- 
lated. This  was  accomplished  with  very 
little  cooperation  from  Nature.  Especially 
was  this  true  in  Massachusetts  and  Wis- 
consin,   the    two    greatest    producing    areas. 

The  weather  has  definitely  been  "agin" 
these  two  regions  for  most  of  1965. 

The  Wisconsin  growers  had  altogether 
too  much  rain,  too  much  water  and  there 
were  frosts   and   considerable   hail   loss. 

In  Massachusetts,  and  to  a  lesser  extent 
in  Jersey  there  was  nowhere  near  enough 
rain,  and  there  were  losses  from  frost,  in 
fact  an  unusually  early  August  one  in  the 
Bay  State.  The  Massachusetts  growers 
spent  "like  a  drunken  sailor"  to  get  water 
to  their  acres  in  any  way  during  the  long 
drought,  starting  early  in  the  summer  and 
still  continuing.  They  worked  at  this  day 
and  night. 

It  was  the  perseverance  and  the  increas- 
ing know-how  of  growers  that  did  pull  this 
season  through  to  the  crop  it  produced. 

And  now  in  Massachusetts,  the  drought, 
the  worst  since  1817,  when  weather  records 
were  first  kept,  the  situation  is  critical  in 
the  extreme.  The  growers  struggled  des- 
perately in  the  summer  to  keep  their  vines 
from  drying  up.  Now  they  are  battling  to 
save  these  same  vines  from  perhaps  a  fear- 
ful  winterkill   from   lack   of   flowage   water. 


THANKSGIVING    1965 

This  is  the  Thanksgiving  time,  that  one 
day  of  the  year  traditionally  most  associa- 
ted with  cranberry  and  the  turkey.  We 
believe  most  growers  have  something  to  be 
thankful  about.  The  real  active  year  of 
cranberry  labor  is   over. 

The  price  for  fresh  cranberries  is  the 
highest  since  1952,  and  independent  com- 
mercial processors  paid  a  very  good  price 
for  fruit,  perhaps  a  little  too  much,  but  a 
very   short  crop   was   at   first   feared. 

Many  growers,  even  many  in  drought- 
stricken    Massachusetts    got    excellent    pro- 


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Wareham,   Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry    Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

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 


duction,  100  barrels  to  the  acre  —  and  as 
just  stated,  prices  are  up.  Yes,  the  indus- 
trj'^  at  this  period  of  Thanksgiving  has  come 
a  long,  long  way  since  the  "Black  Monday" 
of  November  9,  six  years  ago  when  that 
fateful  amino  triazole  disaster  occurred. 

NINETEEN 


did  not  start  harvesting  until 
the  4th  of  the  month.  At  month's 
end  only  two  marshes  in  north- 
eastern Wisconsin  were  still  re- 
porting harvesting.  Needless  to 
say  berry  color  was  exceedingly 
good  and  berry  size  was  larger 
on  the  late  raked  berries.  Some 
over-ripeness  was  noted  on  the 
late  raking,  but  these  berries 
were  being  shipped  right  out  for 
processing.  The  warm,  humid 
weather  the  middle  of  the  month 
triggered  the  development  of 
much  storage  rots,  which  neces- 
sitated some  fresh  berries  being 
run  into  freezers.  There  were 
also  some  light  hail  storms  the 
third  week  of  the  month  but 
berry   loss    was    light. 

Only  One-Quarter  Fresh 
The  Wisconsin  crop  continues 
to  hang  near  the  400,000  barrel 
figure  with  late  sizing  due  to 
delayed  harvesting  making  up 
some  increase.  Of  the  total  crop 
only  twenty-five  per  cent  or 
about  100,000  is  expected  to  be 
sold  fresh.  This  is  the  smallest 
amount    shipped    fresh    from    the 


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Badger  State  in  most  growers' 
memory  and  can  be  attributed  to 
the  hail  storms,  poor  keeping 
quality  due  to  excessive  rains 
in  July,  August  and  September 
and  severe  bruising  from  me- 
chanical handling. 


WASHINGTON 

Harvest    Completed 

Harvest  in  Washington  was 
completed  by  about  the  first  of 
November.  Some  growers  in  the 
North  Beach  area  by  early  No- 
vember   were    pruning. 

Ample  Water  For  Harvest 

October  brought  mostly  excel- 
lent weather.  The  total  of  rain 
for  the  month  of  October  was 
7.69  inches,  a  bit  soggy,  but  prior 
to  that  the  weather  had  been 
dry.  Fifteen  days  in  October 
registered  rain,  but  in  between 
two  inches  of  rainfall  on  October 
4th  and  1.29  on  the  18th  the 
sun   was   warm   and   clear. 

There  was  enough  water  to 
assure  water  harvest  in  the  Long 
Beach  area,  even  though  in  the 
first  week  of  harvest  water  sup- 
plies seemed  dangerously  low. 
Temperatures   Fairly   Even 

Temperatures  for  October  re- 
mained   fairly    even.    Mean    high 


ATTENTION 
CRANBERRY  GROWERS 

in   Northern  Wisconsin 

WE  HAVE  TAILORED  OUR  LOANS  TO  FIT 
THE  NEEDS  OF  YOUR  SPECIALIZED  ENTERPRISE. 

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for  the  month  was  61.29  F.; 
mean  low  was  44.12  degrees. 
Actual  highest  was  75,  and  the 
low  on  the  bogs  was  28,  which 
was  on  the  morning  of  the  9th. 
There  were  four  days  with  70 
and  above  and  five  with  65 
and  above.  Twelve  days  re- 
corded below  39,  all  but  one 
coming  after  the  14th. 
Personal 
Mrs.  Irma  Anderson  who  has 
been  secretary  at  the  Coastal 
Washington  Experiment  Station 
has  been  transferred  to  the  sta- 
tion at  Pullman  and  is  making  her 
home  there  as  of  October  15.  She 
is  succeeded  by  Mrs.  Edith 
Bratto    (Mrs.   Ben  Bratto). 


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Dean  Foods  Company  which 
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the  third  quarter  of  1965,  with 
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also  included.  Both  companies 
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in  this  magazine  has  been 
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Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry   Specialist 


Weather 

November  continued  the  cold, 
dry  cycle  that  we  seem  to  be 
caught  in.  The  temperature  av- 
eraged nearly  3  degrees  a  day 
below  normal  for  the  month.  It  is 
difficult  to  remember  the  last 
month  with  above  normal  temp- 
eratures; actually  May  is  the 
only  month  this  year  and  it  was 
about  1/2  degree  a  day  on  the 
plus  side.  Precipitation  measured 
2.86  inches  for  November,  about 
1^4  below  the  30  year  average 
for  Ea^st  Wareham.  Largest  single 
storm  occurred  on  the  11th  and 
12th  with  .76  inch  recorded.  We 
are  now  more  than  I6V2  inches 
deficient  for  the  year. 
Guest    Columnist 

We  are  extremely  happy  to 
present  Dr.  Chester  Cross  writ- 
ing on  a  subject  that  is  very 
near  and  dear  to  his  heart  (in 
fact,  to  all  of  our  hearts  here  at 
the  Station) — the  Massachusetts 
:ranberry  crop.  He  presents  some 
of  his  thoughts  in  relation  to 
one  weather  factor  and  the  size 
of    crop. 


I 


COLD    IN    SPRING    AND    THE 
MASSACHUSETTS    CROP 

hij 
C.  E.   Cross 
It    was    in    May,    1952    that    Dr. 


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Henry  J.  Franklin  said  to  me 
"If  the  mean  April  temperature 
is  below  43  degrees  F.  or  that 
of  May  is  below  53  degrees  F., 
the  crop  is  sure  not  to  be  large 
in  Massachusetts."  All  Cape  Cod 
growers  are  aware  of  the  pene- 
trating studies  made  by  Dr. 
Franklin  of  the  relation  of 
weather  to  the  cranberry  crop. 
When  I  heard  the  above  state- 
ment, I  copied  it  verbatim  into 
my  copy  of  Doc's  bulletin  "Cran- 
berry Weather  and  Water,"  and 
so  can  quote  his  statement  in 
what  is  obviously  his  own 
phrasing. 

Irving  Demoranville  and  I  de- 
cided to  check  this  statement, 
and  we  did,  using  Middleboro 
temperature  records  all  the  way 
back  to  1888.  In  every  year  in 
which    the    mean    temperature    of 


April  was  below  43  degrees  or 
the  mean  temperature  of  May 
was  below  53  degrees,  the  fol- 
lowing crop  in  Massachusetts 
was  average  or  less  than  aver- 
age. 

During  the  frost  season  last 
spring  there  were  many  discus- 
sions about  the  prospects  of  the 
1965  crop  chiefly  because  the 
mean  April  temperatures  at  Mid- 
dleboro was  42.67  degrees  F. 
The  crop  is  now  gathered  and 
gives  rather  clear  evidence  of  be- 
ing the  third  largest  crop  of  rec- 
ord in  Massachusetts.  In  other 
words,  the  crop  is  large  despite 
the  fact  that  April  temperatures 
averaged  lower  than  43  degrees. 
This  is  the  first  time  such  a  re- 
lation has  developed  in  almost 
80  years  of  record.  Can  we  learn 
something  from  such  an  obser- 
vation? Can  this  experience  shed 
more  light  on  lohy  the  relation- 
ship existed  unbroken  for  so 
long  a  period  of  time?  If  so, 
perhaps  we  can  alter  our  bog 
management  in  the  future  to 
avoid  small  crops  following  cold 
springs. 

There  is  probably  little  or  no 
question  that  cold  springs  re- 
duce the  crop  prospect  by  caus- 
ing   frost    injury    to    the    flower 


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buds.  The  staff  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  has  become  increasingly 
concerned  that  some  spring  frost 
damage  does  undetected  until 
bloom  or  later,  and  it  appears 
that  this  type  of  damage  is 
probably      more       common      in 


Barnstable  County  than  in  Plym- 
outh County.  Many  instances 
have  been  noted  in  the  last  few 
years  indicating  that  the  largest 
crops  are  raised  on  bogs  morst 
carefully  protected  from  spring 
frosts. 


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It  now  appears  likely  that 
with  large  acreages  protected  by 
sprinkler  sytems,  Massachusetts 
growers  are  in  a  better  position 
than  formerly  to  protect  their 
bogs  from  frost  damage  in  the 
spring.  We  think  the  large  crop 
in  Massachusetts  in  1965  would 
have  been  much  smaller  if  grow- 
ers had  been  unable  to  protect 
the  bogs  from  the  frost  of  May 
14,  21  and  later.  The  crop  year 
of  1955  seems  to  prove  again 
that  funds  spent  on  improved 
water  -  handling  facilities  are 
funds  well  invested,  and  that  the 
grower  who  is  extraordinarily 
careful  and  diligent  in  protecting 
his  cranberry  vines  from  spring 
damage  is  the  grower  most  likely 
to  produce  large  crops. 

Finally  it  is  probably  best  to 
be  especially  alert  to  the  spring 
frost  hazard  when  the  mean 
April  temperature  is  lower  than 
43  degrees  or  when  as  the  month 
progresses  the  mean  temperature 
of  May  falls  below  normal.  Es- 
pecial care  is  needed  in  early 
June    when    the    spring    is    cold. 


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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C  J.  H 


MASSACHUSETTS 

I  Final  '65  Month  Starts  Dry 
With  December  about  one- 
third  gone  (as  this  is  written), 
the  big-  drought  continues.  Rain- 
fall, as  recorded  at  the  Cran- 
berry Station  was  only  one- 
tenth  of  an  inch  for  the  month  so 
far.  The  month  was  also  run- 
ning about  a  degree  a  day  colder 
I  than  normal. 

Dr.;'  C.  E.  Cross,  director  of 
the  Station  was  of  the  opinion 
that  perhaps  about  half  of  the 
Mass.  bogs  would  eventually  get 
winter  flowage  to  prevent  ex- 
cessive winterkill.  The  State  Bog 
was  one  of  the  minority  that 
were    flooded. 

Light    Rains    Early    November 

The  first  rain  in  a  long  while 
fell  over  the  cranberry  area  on 
the  night  of  November  6th. 
However,  this  measured  only  .10 
of  an  inch,  and  while  it  dam- 
pened the  vines,  did  little,  of 
ccturse,  toward  helping  winter 
supplies.  There  was  a  little  scat- 
tered rain  the  following  day  and 
night,  but  again  no  major  gain 
.in    supplies. 

There  was  fairly  good,  gentle 
rain  on  November  11  and  12, 
this  being  heaviest  in  New  Eng- 
land in  the  Southeastern  Massa- 
chusetts area,  the  cranberry  re- 
gion, where  it  was  needed.  On 
the  lower  Cape  more  than  two 
inches  was  recorded,  but  at  the 
Cranberry  Station,  East  Ware- 
ham, only  .76th  inch. 
Continues  Colder  Than  Normal 

The  trend  of  being  colder  than 
normal    continued    and    at    mid- 
month     there    was     a     minus     of 
about   50   degrees.    The    16th   and 
Jl7th    were    rainy,    but    not    very 


much   so. 

The  18th  brought  much  snow 
to  northern  New  England  and 
ski  resorts  were  opened  earlier 
than  usual.  There  were  a  few 
spits  of  the  white  stuff  in  the 
cranberry    area. 

However,  there  was  no  break 
in  the  drought  in  Southeastern 
Massachusetts,  and  some  cities 
and  towns  were  taking  drastic 
steps  to  conserve  what  little 
water  they  had  on  tap.  Wey- 
mouth, on  the  edge  of  the  cran- 
berry area  took  the  measure  of 
permitting  no  more  building  per- 
mits. 

There  was  a  fairly  steady 
rain  on  the  day  of  November 
22,  and  mostly  in  the  cranberry 
area,  where  it  was  most  needed, 
but  again  it  was  not  even  a 
dent     in     the     long     drought.      A 


total     of     .56     was     recorded     at 
State    Bog. 

Cross   on    TV 

Dr.  Chester  E.  Cross,  director 
of  Cranberry  Experiment  Sta.- 
tion  was  interviewed  at  consid- 
erable length  at  the  State  Bog 
on  November  23,  about  the  long 
drought  and  its  effect  on  the 
cranberry.  He  said  it  was  feared 
about  half  the  crop  might  be 
lost  because  of  winterkill,  and 
that  the  rainfall  deficiency  this 
year  to  that  date  was  16  inches. 

A     fairly    good     rain     occurred 
again   on   the   27th. 
Nov.    Another    Month    Lacking 

Still  another  month  in  the 
long,  long  drought,  ended  No- 
vember 30  with  rainfall  at  the 
State  Bog  totalling  only  2.86 
inches.  Average  is  3.89  inches 
for     November. 


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November  ended  and  Decem- 
ber came  in  on  a  cold  note. 
The  month  had  a  minus  of  83 
degrees  in  temperature.  Small 
bodies  of  water  were  skimming 
over  with  ice  and  the  ground 
was  beginning  to  harden  up  a 
little.  At  the  start  of  the  last 
month  in  1965  the  departure 
frcm  normal  in  temperature  was 
a  huge  713  degrees,  since  Janu- 
ary   1. 


NEW    J  ERSBY 

Drought    Getting    Acute 

The      long      extended      drought 
continued    through    the    month    of 


November.  Only  1.35  inches  of 
rainfall  occurred  during  the 
month.  The  deficiency  for  1965 
is  now  12.11  inches.  This  year's 
drought  is  surpassing  in  severity 
that  of  1964.  Precipitation  thru 
November  total  28.02  inches  for 
1965;  in  1964  over  the  same 
period  the  total  was  30.73.  Nor- 
mal rainfall  for  the  11  months 
is  40.13.  There  must  be  some 
generous  rainfall  soon  or  some 
cranberry  growers  in  New  Jersey 
will  not  have  enough  water  for 
the  winter  flooding.  Fortunately 
a  relatively  mild  spell  of  weather 
in  late  November  has  kept  the 
soil    unfrozen. 


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November   Cold 

The  temperature  during  No- 
vember averaged  44.9  —  about  1.3 
degrees  colder  than  normal. 
Growers  still  harvesting  in  early 
November  had  a  little  difficulty 
with  the  cold  weather.  During  the 
first  10  days  of  the  month,  7 
nights  were  severely  cold,  with 
temperatures  going  down  to  10 
and  the  low  teens.  There  was 
negligible  damage  to  berries, 
the  main  trouble  being  the  hard- 
ship   to    the    workers. 

Record    Yields 

A  late  release  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey Crop  Reporting  Service  on 
November  15th  again  raised  the 
estimate  of  New  Jersey's  Crop 
for  1965.  It  is  now  put  at  159,- 
000  barrels,  about  6,000  barrels 
more  than  last  year.  Unofficially 
this  is  considered  a  record  year 
from  the  standpoint  of  yield 
per  acre.  Quite  a  few  bogs  pro- 
duced more  than  100  barrels 
per  acre  and  the  average  will 
probably    be    over    50.  , 


OREGON 

Had  Dry   Summer 

Oregon  cranberry  growers  had 
a  good  but  unusual  year.  There 
was  an  unusually  dry  spring 
and  summer.  There  are  only 
2.80  inches  of  precipitation  from 
the  end  of  April  until  October 
first. 

Frosts  in   September 

Some  frosty  nights  in  Sep- 
tember did  some  crop  damage, 
but  there  were  no  frosts  in  Oc- 
tober,   or    November. 

Rainy    November 

November  made  up  for  the  dry 
summer    with    nearly     12    inches 
of    rain,    there    being    very    few 
days    without    some    rain. 
Sprinklers  Aided 

The  crop  exceeded  earlier  es- 
timates and  there  were  especially 
good  yields  on  bogs  protected  by 
sprinklers  —  most  bogs  so  unpro- 
tected had  low  yields. 
Top    Crop 

Probably  the  top  producer  this 
year  was  Fred  Hulton,  with  140 
barrels  on  one  quarters  acre,  or 
at  the  rate  of  560  barrels  to  the 
acre.  The  berries  were  Mc- 
Farlins. 

Continued  on  Page  16 


DuBAY  CRANBERRY  COMPANY  MARSH  IN 
WISCONSIN  HAS  THE  REPUTATION  OF  ONE 
OF  THE  FINEST  CRANBERRY   PROPERTIES 

No  Expense  was  spared  in  development  of  this  129  acre  marsh, 
Nor  now  in  its  upkeep  —  Principal  owners  are  Roy  M.  Potter 
and  Albert  E.  Bark  of  Wisconsin  Rapids 


Bij  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 

There  is  the  old  saying,  "What's  in  a  name?"  There  is  plenty 
if  you  are  refering  to  the  DuBay  cranberry  marsh  in  Wisconsin, 
which  has  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  finest,  if  not  the 
finest  cranberry  properties  in  existence.  A  visit  to  this  marsh  of 
120  acres,  28  miles  north  of  Wisconsin  Rapids  in  the  township  of 
Eau  Plaine  in  the  county  of  Portage,  reveals  why  it  has  this 
reputation. 

The  marsh  was  carefully  engineered,  using  all  the  best  con- 
cepts of  cranberry  marsh,  when  it  wa«  first  conceived.  This  ap- 
plies to  water  management  and  every  phase  of  cranberry  growing. 
The  marsh,  with  the  completion  of  10  acres  last  year  is  a  perfect 
square   as   it   was   originally   planned     and  is    beautifully    maintained. 

Du  Bay  is  not  the  largest  marsh  in  Wisconsin,  and  this  is 
one  reason  why  it  is  not  the  top  producer,  but  its  production  is 
enviable. 


,^,  930  Acres  In  All 
DuBay  is  built  on  a  tamarack 
and  black  spruce  swamp.  The 
spot  was  selected  because  it  was 
easy  to  build  as  there  were  no 
trees  to  speak  of  to  be  taken 
out.  The  bottom  consists  of  from 
three   to   fifteen    feet    of   peat. 

There  are  930  acres  of  land 
in  all  in  the  property.  Entrance 
is  near  the  DuBay  Park  along 
the  shores  of  the  DuBay  Lake, 
this  lake  being  formed  by  the 
darning  up  of  a  portion  of  the 
Wisconsin  River  for  a  paper 
company  to  get  the  water  power. 
DuBay  owns  a  long  shore  line 
on  this  lake.  DuBay  Park  is 
a  beautiful  recreation  area  for 
the    town    of    Eau    Pleine. 

The  name  DuBay  has  a  rather 
interesting  history.  DuBay  was 
part  Indian  and  part  French, 
and  was  a  descendent  of  Chief 
Oshkosh  of  the  Winnebago  In- 
dian tribe.  There  is  a  story 
concerning  him  going  back  to 
around  1840,  that  he  owned  a 
lot  of  the  former  timber  land  in 
the  area,  when  lumber  was  king 
in  Wisconsin.  The  story  is  he 
was  accused  of  killing  a  man 
who  tried  to  get  this  timber 
land  away  from  him  and  was 
taken  to  court  and  tried.  The 
results    of    the    trial    seem    to    be 


lost    in    the    mists    of    time.     His 
burial   place   was   so   close   to   the 


marsh    property    that    the    name 
of   DuBay   was   taken. 

The  building  of  DuBay  was 
conceived  by  a  group  of  men 
of  Wisconsin  Rapids,  notably 
Roy  M.  Potter,  a  well-known 
Wisconsin  cranberry  grower,  Al- 
bert E.  Bark,  the  late  Theodore 
Alson  (whose  family  now  own 
stock),  and  the  late  Ralph  Cole. 
Today  Potter  and  Bark  are  the 
active  ones  in  its  management. 
Started   in    1945 

The  marsh  was  started  in  1945, 
and  incidentally,  German  pris- 
oners were  used  in  part  of  the 
construction.   The   marsh   was   set 


"Al"   E.   Bark    and   Roy    Potter,    chief    owners    of    DuBay 
Cranberry  Marsh.  (CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


Vast  DuBay,  with  some   of  the  buildings   in   the   far   distance. 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


up  for  100  acres,  but  this  plan 
was  increased  to  the  present 
acreage. 

DuBay  is  planted  mostly  to 
Searles,  plus  18  acres  of  McFarlin 
and  last  year  there  has  been 
planted  10  acres  of  the  new  hy- 
brid  of   Stevens. 

Also  have  been  planted  8000 
trees  of  Black  Hill  Spruce  and 
several  thousand  of  Norway  Pine 
on   the   property. 

In  the  building  of  DuBay  no 
necessary  cost  to  achieve  the 
finest  possible  cranberry  marsh 
was  omitted  and  there  were  con- 
sultations with  experts,  such  as 
Dr.  Malcolm  N.  Dana  of  the 
University  of  Wi.sconsin  and 
others..  Ten  acres  of  the  marsh 
were  built  on  sand  and  the  others 
on  raw  peat.  At  DuBay  all  the 
beds  are  larger  than  the  Wis- 
consin   average    of    100    wide    by 


800  feet  long.  3^  beds  are  150 
feet  wide  by  900  and  four  are 
the  same  width  but  a  majestic 
1500   feet   long. 

Water    Supply     Excellent 

DuBay's  watsr  supply  is  very, 
very  good.  The  supply  from  the 
lake  is  handled  by  two  25,000 
gpm  Peerless  pumps  and  one 
Murray.  There  is  also  a  supple- 
mentary reservoir  with  a  pump- 
house  to  pump  the  water  in  and 
off  again,  giving  one  flood  for 
the  back  18  beds  to  assure  quick 
coverage  for  frost  protection. 
All  of  this  was  planned  at  the 
start. 

At  present  there  are  Rain  Bird 
Sprinkler  heads  on  25  acres,  and 
more  are  planned  to  replace  the 
former  method  of  covering  by 
flood. 

At  what  might  be  called  the 
head    of    the    huge    marsh    is    a 


little  village  of  attractive  white 
structures  with  the  surround- 
ing grass  clipped.  One  is  a  large 
warehouse,  60  by  160  feet  of 
two  stories.  There  are  two  homes 
for  the  foreman  and  another 
worker. 

DuBay,  like  many  other  Wis- 
consin marshes  has  a  complete 
machine  shop,  this  one  40  feet 
by  120  feet.  There  any  kind  of 
repair  work  and  building  of 
new  equipment  can  be  done. 
The  maintenance  work  is  super- 
vised by  Harry  Kees,  who  has 
been  at  the  marsh  since  its  in- 
ception. 

Manager  at  DuBay  is  Harold 
Mezera,  who  has  been  on  the 
property  since  1949.  He  is  con- 
sidered thoroughly  competent  to 
make  decisions  and  to  operate 
the  big  enterprise  under  direc- 
tion  of   the   owners.    He   is   from 


DuBay  Marsh,   showing   the   wide   dikes   separating    the   heds. 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


Eastman,  in  the  dairy  country 
of  Wisconsin.  He  is  a  graduate 
of  the  agricultural  school  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  and  after 
graduation  he  came  to  DuBay  to 
assume  charge. 

Another  all-year  round  worker 
on  the  marsh  is  Arthur  Neimi, 
who  also  assists  in  the  actual 
flooding  work. 

A  partial  Ust  of  equipment  in- 
cludes a  Koehring  shovel,  a  Cargo 
bulldozer-tractor,  cleaning  equip- 
ment, two  driers,  a  Hopto  front 
end  loader,  steel  float  boats  for 
harvest,  two  being  used  behind 
each  picker  and  built  in  the 
shop  from  an  original  of  the 
Case  model;  four  trucks,  a  pick- 
up, a  ground  spraying  machine 
and  one  duster,  a  Koebling 
K'fshovel  and  a  large  tractor.  The 
separators     are     Baileys,     six     in 


number.  Three  or  four  of  the 
harvesting  machines  are  riding 
models.  There  are  two  Spee-Dee 
packers    for    fresh    fruit. 

The    Spectacular    "Bridge" 

The  most  spectacular  piece  of 
equipment  is  the  huge  so-called 
"bridge,"  one  of  three  in  Wis- 
consin. No  other  cranberry  area 
except  Wisconsin  has  this  in- 
genious piece  of  equipment.  The 
bridge  is  186  feet  long,  both 
ends  being  mounted  on  trucks 
on  the  opposite  dikes.  At  its 
highest  point  in  the  center  it  is 
13  feet  high,  the  ends  slope  to 
five  feet.  About  13,000  pounds 
of  steel  went  into  its  construc- 
tion,  which   was  done   at   DuBay. 

Below  the  bridge  itself  there 
is  a  working  platform,  which 
traverses  the  width  of  the  bridge. 
From   the   bridge,   clipping   weeds 


and  grass,  application  of  spray 
materials  and  fertilizer  are  ac- 
complished. The  bridge  trucks, 
as  the  operations  progress,  move 
down  the  width  of  the  bed.  The 
object  of  the  huge  contraption  is 
to  prevent  any  stepping  on  the 
vines  of  the  beds.  The  day  the 
writer  saw  it,  the  bridge  was 
being  used  in  clipping,  but  at  the 
moment  the  photograph  was 
taken  the  men  were  not  at  work. 

In  addition  to  the  two  year- 
arovmd  workers  at  DuBay  there 
are  nine  during  the  summer  and 
twenty-one    during    harvest. 

Like  many  growers  everywhere 
hives  of  bees  are  kept  for  pol- 
lination. 

Production 

The  average  production  at  Du- 
Bay,   according    to    Mr.    Bark    is 


NINE 


Manager    Harold    Mezera    of 
DuBay.       (CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


125  to  150  barrels  per  acre, 
which  considerably  exceeds  the 
state  average.  One  year  there 
were  200  barrels  per  acre  on 
92  acres.  Severe  frosti  for  the 
last  two  years  have  cut  pro- 
duction. 

Quality    Objective 

Quality  fruit  is  one  of  the 
aims  of  Mr.  Potter  and  Mr. 
Bark.  Harvest  is  late  at  DuBay 
to  enable  berries  to  attain  full 
size  and  especially  color.  Neither 
man  has  much  consideration  for 
growers  who  pile  on  exceis 
quantities  of  fertilizer  to  achieve 
the  utmost  in  production  at  the 
expense  of  good  quality. 
Mr.    Bark 

The  DuBay  marsh  is  the  first 
venture  into  cranberries  for  Mr. 
Bark.  He  was  born  in  Wauwau- 
tosa,  a  suburb  of  Milwaukee. 
During  World  War  I  he  was  in 
service.  He  saw  service  in  the 
latter  part  of   the   war. 

For  ten  years  he  practiced  as  a 
certified  public  accountant.  Later 
he  became  secretary-treasurer  of 
Preway,  Inc.  of  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
manufacturers  of  cooking,  heat- 
ing applicances,  and  other  items. 
He  retired  from  Preway  in   1960. 

Since  his  retirement  from  Pre- 


The  gigantic  "Brooklyn   Bridge"   at   Dubay    over   a   bed. 
(far  end  merges  into  the  wooded  background.) 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


way,  Mr.  Bark  has  devoted  his 
time  to  the  DuBay  marsh.  How- 
ever, he  still  remains  a  director 
of  Preway,  Inc.  He  is  at  pres- 
ent a  director  of  Ocean  Spray. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Hospital 
Association  of  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
a  member  of  the  Rapids  Board 
of  Appeals;  a  member  of  the 
water  and  light  commission  of 
Wisconsin  Rapids.  He  has  been 
a  Rotarian  for  34  years  and  a 
past   president. 

Mr.  Bark  is  an  example  of  a 
successfvil  business  man  who  has 
added  the  strength  of  his  busi- 
ness experience  to  the  cranberry 
industry  in  Wisconsin. 
Mr.  Potter 
(Cranberries,  Nov.  1943) 
Roy  M.  Potter  is  a  veteran  of 
the  Wisconsin  cranberry  indus- 
try, being  the  son  of  the  late 
M.  O.  Potter  who  began  his 
cranberry  career  in  1870  —  one 
of  the  pioneers.  Since  that  time 
the  distinguished  Potter  name  has 
been  among  the  leaders  in  Wis- 
consin   cranberries. 

Roy  operates,  besides  DuBay, 
a  marsh  of  120  acres  at  Cran- 
moor.  This  is  under  the  name  of 
Potter  and  Son.  The  son  is  Mel- 
vin,  who  has  a  rather  fabulous 
reputation  as  a  calf  roper,  being 
considered  one  of  the  ten  best 
in  the  country.  He  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  University  of  Arizona, 
where  he  majored  in  animal  hus- 
bandry. He  is  married  to  a  girl 
from  Arizona  and  has  one 
daughter.  Mrs.  Melvin  Potter 
shares  her  husband's  enthusiasm 
for  horses  and  rodeo  exhibitions. 
At  the  time  of  this  interview 
Melvin  had  just  purchased  170 
head  of  horses,  steers,  bulls  and 
calves  in  Minnesota  for  use  in 
travelling  rodeos  in  which  he 
takes  part. 

Roy,  three  or  four  miles  from 
his  marsh  at  the  old  Potter 
liomcstead  at  Cranmoor,  has 
large  tree  forests  of  spruce  and 
pines  at  Port  Edwards.  For 
years  Vie  has  also  grown  mink 
for  fur  at  the  Cranmoor  home- 
stead, now  having  as  many  as 
8,500. 

Roy's  other  son  is  John  M., 
was  formerly  District  Attorney  of 
Wood  County  and  a  former  Wis- 


consin  State  senator.  He  is  now 
very  active  in  the  legal  profes- 
sion and  is  a  member  of  a 
Wisconsin  Rapids  firm  of  attor- 
neys. He  was  also  a  director 
of  Ocean  Spray  a  few  years 
ago,  and  is  currently  hearing 
master  of  a  committee  which  is 
studying  Wisconsin  water  re- 
sources, a  subject  vital,  of  course 
to    Wisconsin    cranberry    growers. 

Roy's  brother  is  Guy,  now  re- 
tired from  active  cranberry  work 
but  for  many  years  one  of  the 
leading  Wisconsin  cranberry 
growers  with  large  holdings  at 
Camp  Douglas,  now  managed  by 
his  grandson,  Bruce. 

Finally  it  can  be  said  that  a 
visit  to  large  DuBay  with  its 
enormous  beds,  mostly  free  from 
weeds,  its  well-balanced  water 
system  and  general  sound  enter- 
prise is  a  "treat"  to  anyone 
interested  in  the  cultivation  of 
cranberries. 


NEW  WASHINGTON 
WATERWAY    SHOULD    NOT 
INJURE    OYSTER    AND 
CRANBERRY  GROWING 

A  second  hearing  was  held  re- 
cently concerning  the  proposed 
110  mile  intra-coastal  waterway 
from  near  Olympia,  Washington 
to  a  point  near  Ilwaco  and  Gray- 
land  cranberry  areas  at  Olym- 
pia. At  this  hearing  at  the  state 
capital,  State  Representative  Julia 
Butler  Hansen,  endorsed  the 
project.  However,  she  made  a 
reservation  on  her  endorsement 
that  the  waterway  would  in  no 
way  hinder  the  cranberry  and 
oyster    industries. 


"BILL"  DUFORT 
RESIGNS  AS   OCEAN 
1  SPRAY   BANDON   MANAGER 

Wilham  T.  Dufort,  Southwes- 
tern Oregon  cranberry  area  man- 
ager for  Ocean  Spray  Cranber- 
ries, Inc.  has  resigned  his  post. 
His  resignation  became  effective 
November     30. 

Mr.  Dufort,  who  is  a  grower 
in  his  own  right,  and  one  of 
the  ablest  men  on  the  West 
Coast  had  been  associated  with 
Ocean  Spray  for  the  past  12 
I  years. 


Mass.  Crop  Up  To 
715,000;  U.S. 
Total  Up  8^ 

The  big  surprise  of  the  1965 
yield  was  the  size  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts crop,  which  is  esti- 
mated by  the  USDA  crop  Re- 
porting Service  as  715,000  bar- 
rels. This  was  in  spite  of  the 
prolonged  Southeastern  Mass. 
drought  now  called  the  worst 
since  1817,  or  when  records  were 
first    kept. 

"Yields  were  highly  variable 
due  to  water  shortages  for  some 
bogs  and  also  because  of  scat- 
tered frost  and  freeze  losses. 
Bogs  with  sprinkler  systems  or 
adequate  conventional  water 
flowage,  however,  generally  re- 
alized very  heavy  crops.  Size 
of  berries  was  particularly  good 
for   the   Howe   variety." 

It  now  seems  clear  if  it  had 
not  been  for  the  drought  and  to 
a  lesser  extent  frost,  the  800,000 
barrels  or  the  largest  production 
ever,  which  seemed  in  prospect 
early  last  summer  before  the 
drought  struck,  would  have  been 
realized. 

This  production  is  8  percent 
more  than  1964  and  the  third 
largest    of   record. 

The  U.S.  total  is  1,380,000  bar- 
rels, as  compared  to  that  of 
last  year  of  1,314,500  and  the 
five-year  average  of  1,281,560; 
and  8  percent  larger  than  av- 
erage. 

New  Jersey,  also  hit  by  the 
general  Eastern  drought  is  up  to 
159,000,  last  year  153,000  and 
average,    93,360. 

Report  said  Jersey  turned  out 
heavier  than  expected  crop  al- 
though there  was  considerable 
loss  in  some  bogs  because  of 
frost  damage.  A  lack  of  water 
for  protective  uses  was  noted  as 
a  contributing  factor  to  the  frost 
damage.  An  ever  increasing 
number  of  growers  are  conver- 
ting to  the  "wet-pick"  method 
of  harvest;  this  coupled  with 
frost-free  springs  the  past  (wo 
years  has  contributed  to  better 
yields.    The  crop  was  the  largest 


since    1937    when    175,000    barrels 
were  harvested. 

Also  up  is  Oregon  with  40,000 
barrels,  down  from  that  of  last 
average   30,060. 

Wisconsin  produced,  400,000 
barrels,  drown  from  that  of  last 
year  of  430,000,  and  down  from 
the  average  of  412,400.  Wisconsin 
had  too  much  water,  hail,  frost 
and  a  generally  bad  growing 
season. 

Washington  also  is  down  to 
66,000  slightly  lower  than  1964 
with  67,000  and  down  from  the 
average    of    90,340. 


Cranberry  Labels 

Wanted  as  a  gift  or  trade, 
"labels"  from  Eatmor,  Ocean 
Spray  and  independents  from  all 
cranberry-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. 

Address 
Dr,   George   L.   Peltier 
130    8th    Street    North 
Wisconsin    Rapids 
Wisconsin 


CRANBERRY 

PROPERTY 
FOR    SALE 

450    acres   —    150    acres    of   old 

bog   can    be   rebuilt. 
Plenty   of   water— 100    acres   of 

reservoirs. 
10  acres   in   bearing. 
20  acres  in  cultivated 

blueberries. 
2    houses   and   other   buildings. 
Main   highway   runs  through  the 

property. 
Sale   reason:   Age. 

F.    EARL    HAINES 
Medford,    N.   J.   08055 


READ  CRANBERRIES 

ELEVEN 


SOMETHING  '^CRANBERRY  NEW;"  IT  IS  "CRANBERRY  COLOGNE" 


Kenneth  Rochefort    (left)    and  Warren   Fournier, 
in   their    "home"    factory. 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 

Two  Young  Men,  Start  in  Small  Way  a   Different  Cranberry 
Product  -  One  a  Worker  at  Mass.  Cranberry  Experiment  Station 


There  is  a  brand  new  cran- 
berry product  out  —  even  though 
it  will  take  none  of  the  cran- 
berry crop.  This  is  a  delightful 
"Cranberry  Cologne,"  put  out  by 
the  Cranberry  Cologne  and  Per- 
fume Corporation  of  America. 
This  is  a  new  firm,  located  at 
39  View  Street,  Agawam  Shores, 
East  Wareham,  Mass.  P.O.  Box 
257,    telephone    295-9147. 

It  is  now  in  its  second  year 
of  operation,  and  is  doing  a 
thriving  business,  small  so  far, 
but  it  is  expected  to  grow.  The 
reason  the  new  business  will  take 
none  of  the  cranberry  crop  is 
because  no  fruit  is  involved.  The 
basic  oil  used  in  the  cranberry 
cologne  is  made  from  the  cran- 
berry vine  stems,  leaves  and 
flowers.  This  is  done  by  a  firm 
in  New  Jersey,  so  it  very  likely 
the  vines  used  are  Jersey  vines. 
However,  the  product  will  spread 
the   word   "cranberry." 

The  founder  of  the  new  en- 
terprise is  Warren  Fournier,  a 
young  bachelor.  His  co-worker 
in  spare  time  is  his  cousin,  Ken- 
neth  J.   Rochefort,   also   a   bache- 


lor. Rochefort  has  been  engaged 
in  the  cranberry  business  for 
some  years.  He  is  laboratory 
assistant  to  Dr.  Bert  M.  Zucker- 
man  at  the  Massachusetts  Cran- 
berry Experiment  Station.  Roche- 
fort also  assists  "weather  man" 
George  Rounsville  in  the  vital 
work  of  preparing  frost  warnings 
and  sometimes  issues  these  re- 
ports himself. 

Both  the  Station  and  the  work- 
ing place  of  the  Cologne  company 
are  on  Glenn  Charlie  Road,  and 
are  within  walking  distance  of 
each  other.  The  two  young  men 
make  their  home  at  the  39  View 
Street   address. 

Fournier  is  a  native  of  South 
Windham,  Maine,  and  got  his 
idea  of  the  Cranberry  Cologne 
when  he  arrived  in  Wareham 
about  two  years  ago.  He  says 
he  found  everything  to  be  "cran- 
berry this  and  cranberry  that." 
In  addition  to  cranberry  co- 
logne he  put  out  various  per- 
fumes and  began  doing  this  in 
Boston  about  four  years  ago  after 
working  at  various  jobs  in  the 
Massachusetts    capital.    When    he 


was   at  Windham  High,   taking   a 
business  course  he  found  that  he 
was     very     much     interested     in 
chemistry.     While    in    Boston    he 
met   a   graduate  chemist   of  Yale, 
who    was   familiar   with   colognes 
and  perfumes.  "From  that  I  guess 
I  just  stumbled  into  the  cologne-    , 
perfume    business."     Anyway    he 
started    making    perfumes,    with 
the    chemist    friend    working    for 
him.     He    started    with    a    capital 
investment    of    $25.00. 

The  perfume  goes  out  under 
the  name  "Marquis  de  Fournier," 
and  using  his  French  background 
the  bottle  has  a  signet,  a  large 
scrolled  letter  "M,"  across  the 
background  of  a  picture  of  Eiffel 
Tower   in   Paris. 

While  the  "Cranberry  cologne" 
is  put  out  by  the  corporation,  the 
perfume  business,  which  is  not 
incorporated  uses  some  rather 
unusual  ingredients  such  as  oils 
of  mint,  essence  of  foin  (cucum- 
ber, lime,  tulip,  tangerine  and 
celery).  He  has  even  added  es- 
sence of  tobacco  to  bring  out 
a   flavor  for  men. 


What  he  does  in  practice  is  to 
think   up   a   scent   he   wants,   like 
his  "Cranberry  Cologne,"  or  May- 
flower   and   instructs   the   firm   in 
New    Jersey    to    make    him    the 
basic    oils.     Then   he   and   Roche- 
fort   bottle    it,    adding    the    alco- 
hol   used    in    perfumes.    This    is 
done    at    the    house    at    Agawam 
Shores   at  present.  The  firm  pro- 
duces scents  in  perfume  to  order. 
With      a      product      developed, 
Fournier  "goes  on  the  road,"  and 
distributes    the    product    to    retail 
outlets.   There   are   some   in   Bos- 
ton, and  more  on  Cape  Cod  such 
as    gift    shops     (a    prolific    source 
in    the    vacation    summer),    drug 
stores   and   department   stores. 

As  to  the  corporation,  Roche- 
fort is  president,  Fournier,  treas- 
urer, Rochefort's  stepfather,  Leo 
Carney,  who  is  a  former  mayor 
of  New  Bedford  is  a  director, 
and  a  New  Bedford  attorney,  An- 
thony   Fiore     is    clerk. 

Fournier  when  he  found  his 
way  to  Wareham,  liked  the  town 


TWELVE 


and  found  it  has  few  industries 
and  so  hopes  to  add  another  in 
the  "Cranberry  Cologne"  Cor- 
poration. Fournier  hopes  as  his 
business  expands  nationally,  with 
the  "magic"  name  cranberry,  to 
build  or  rent  a  larger  building 
than  the  house  at  39  View  Street, 
perhaps  to  hire  a  registered 
chemist  and  become  a  manu- 
facturer of  colognes  and  per- 
fumes, rather  than  merely  "idea 
man"    and    distributor. 


Possible  Cranberry 
Development  in  State 
of  Minnesota 

Meeting   Last  Month  by   State 
Department    of    Agriculture; 
Three  from  Wisconsin  Attend 

Official  Minnesota  seems  to 
be  interested  in  getting  into  the 
cranberry  business.  November  23 
saw  a  meeting  at  Minnesota  De- 
partment of  Agriculture,  St. 
Paul  with  a  large  attendance. 

The  meeting  was  conducted  by 
State  Commissioner  of  Agricul- 
ture  Russell    G.    Schwandt,    other 


representatives  of  State  Dept. 
of  Agriculture,  Federal  agencies 
and   growers   from   Wisconsin. 

Commissioner  Schwandt  is  re- 
ported as  being  enthusiastic  about 
cranberry  growing  in  that  state, 
which  at  present  has  about  5 
acres  in  cranberries  as  compared 
to  Wisconsin's  5,000  plus,  yet 
has  many  of  the  necessary  na- 
tural resources,  and  perhaps  even 
more  acreage  suitable  to  cran- 
berry growing  than  has  Wis- 
consin. Purpose  of  the  meeting 
as  expressed  by  Donald  M.  Coe, 
State  director  of  plant  industry 
was  to  "encourage  the  cranberry 
industry  of  Wisconsin  to  make 
known  the  background  of  the 
industry,  its  trends  and  its  needs 
for  possible  expansion  into  Min- 
nesota." 

Attending  from  Wisconsin  were 
Tony  Jonjak,  large  Wisconsin 
grower  and  a  director  of  Ocean 
Spray;  Vernon  Goldsworthy,  pres- 
ident of  Cranberry  Products  of 
Eagle  River  and  also  a  large 
grower  and  Richard  Indermuhle, 
president  of  Wisconsin  Cranberry 


Growers'    Association    and    large 
grower    of    Manitowish   Waters. 

Others  attending  included: 
Commissioner  William  T.  Fer- 
rell,  Minnesota  Department  of 
Business  Development,  Commis- 
sioner A.  M.  Deyoannes,  Iron 
Range  Resources  and  Rehabili- 
tation, James  Clark,  OEO;  Ur- 
ban Ewing,  ASCS;  Sydney  Frel- 
lesen,  Minnesota  Dept.  of  Con- 
servation; Art  Hansen,  FHA; 
Waldo  Johnson,  Minnesota  De- 
partment of  Agriculture;  Frank 
Murray,  Attorney  General's  Of- 
fice; Harvey  Ostrander,  FVC; 
Vladimir    Shipa,    ARAL. 


U.  of  MASS.  AGRICULTURE 
ENROLLMENT   UP 

Is  interest  in  agriculture  losing 
ground  in  the  universities  this 
year?  Not  if  the  College  Agri- 
culture of  the  University  of  Mas- 
sachusetts is  any  indication. 
There,  enrollment  shows  a  gain 
of  20  percent,  or  the  highest 
number  in  the  more  than  100- 
year    history   of   the   university. 


FROST   CONTROL   AND    IRRIGATION 

COMPLETE  SYSTEMS  TAILORED 
TO  MEET  YOUR  REQUIREMENTS 

Famous  Moulton  Quick  Coupler       Solid  Set  Systems 

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. 

Write  or  call  for  literature  and  details. 

Wisconsin  representative: 

STUART  PEDERSEN 

Box  38 

Warrens,  Wisconsin 

MOULTON    IRRIGATION    COMPANY 

SOMERSET,  WISCONSIN   54025 
(formerly   Withrow,   Minnesota) 


THIRTEEN 


(Photo   by    Vernon   Blackstone,    Mass.    Farm   Bureau    Federation) 

Morris  Makepeace  of  the  A.  D.  Makepeace  Co.  of  Wareham  was 
presented  a  certificate  commemorating:  25  years  of  membership  in 
the  Massachusetts  Farm   Bureau   Federation. 

Making  the  presentation  was  David  Mann  (left)  of  Buzzards 
Bay,   President   of   the   Plymouth   County   Farm   Bureau. 

The  A.  D.  Makepeace  Co.  who  ship  to  Ocean  Spray,  is  the  world's 
largest  producer  of  cranberries  with  a  total  annual  production  of 
7K'    million   pounds. 

The  Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau  Federation  is  affiliated  with 
the  American  Farm  Bureau  Federation,  the  largest  general  farmer's 
organization  in  the  world. 

Another  cranberry  grower  with  a  25  year  record  is  Malcolm 
Ryder    of    Cotuit. 


Dave  Mann  Elected 
President  Plymouth 
County  Farm  Bureau 

David  Mann,  a  thirty-six  year 
old  cranberry  grower  from  Buz- 
zards Bay,  Mass.  is  the  new 
President  of  the  Plymouth  County 
Farm  Bureau.  Mr.  Mann  also 
was  elected  to  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors of  the  Massachusetts 
Farm  Bureau  Federation  at  its 
Annual  Meeting  at  Lenox,  Mas- 
sachusetts,  November    16   and    17. 

FOURTEEN 


A  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  and  a  member 
of  the  Alpha  Gamma  Rho  Fra- 
ternity, Dave  .received  his  Bache- 
lor of  Science  degree  in  1951. 
Following  a  tour  of  duty  in  the 
U.  S.  Navy,  he  turned  his  at- 
tention to  the  business  of  farm- 
in, p;.  Confronted  with  economic 
problems  in  the  industry,  Dave 
has  innovated  to  reduce  his  per 
unit  production  costs  through 
mechanization  and  increased  pro- 
duction.     This    includes    being    a 


member  of  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berry Cooperative  through  which 
he    ships    his    entire    crop. 

Dave  is  married  to  the  former 
Marjorie  Tatlow  of  Point  Inde- 
pendence. They  have  two  chil- 
dren, Susan,  age  six,  and  Gor- 
don,   age    three. 

In  addition  to  his  many  Farm 
Bureau  affiliations,  he  is  Super- 
visor of  the  Plymouth  County 
Soil  Conservation  District,  a 
member  of  the  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Association,  Chairman  of 
its  New  Variety  Committee  and 
serves  on  the  Advisory  Commit- 
tee of  the  Ocean  Spray  Coop- 
erative. 

Dave  is  a  member  of  the 
Bourne  Methodist  Church,  the 
Wampatuck  Lodge  of  Masons 
and  the  Pilgrim  Royal  Arch 
Chapter  in  Abington.  To  fill  in 
his  spare  time,  David  holds  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant  Commander 
in   the   Naval  Reserve. 


FARM  BUREAU 
IN  ACTION 

by  Vernon  Blackstone 

(Editor's  Note:  Through  the 
courtesy  of  Vernon  Blacktone, 
staff  assistant  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Farm  Bureau  Federation  it 
is  expected  notes  of  this  asso- 
ciation of  farmers,  will  he  car- 
ried each  month,  or  frequently 
under  the  heading  ''Farm  Bureau 
in    Action.") 


The  1965  Legislative  Program 
of  The  Massachusetts  Farm  Bur- 
eau Federation  was  most  suc- 
cessful. We  filed  in  our  name 
or  had  filed  in  our  behalf  twelve 
bills.  Nine  of  these  bills  were 
signed  into  law  by  the  Gover- 
nor. 

However,  this  is  not  the  total 
Legislative  Program  of  Farm 
Bureau.  The  Legislative  Pro- 
gram is  not  only  what  you  ac- 
complish for  your  people.  Quite 
often  the  most  important  Legis- 
lative Acts  are  to  prevent  some- 
thing happening  to  Farm  Bur- 
eau members  and  other  farm- 
ers. One  has  to  be  constantly 
alert  to  having  farmers  brought 
in  under  bad  pieces  of  legislation 


such  as  the  in-land  Wetlands 
bill.  Farm  Bureau  was  success- 
ful in  having  the  bill  amended 
to  give  those  exclusively  en- 
gaged in  agriculture  an  exemp- 
tion from  this  legislation.  It  was 
Farm  Bureau's  feeling  that  this 
would  affect  farmers  who  use 
water  from  streams,  rivers, 
marshes  and  other  wetlands. 
This  is  especially  true  of  cran- 
berry   growers. 


Ocean  Spray  Fresh 
Fruit  Cleaning  Up 

Ocean  Spray  announced  to  the 
trade  November  19  that  it  was 
1  completely  sold  out  of  fresh 
fruit  except  for  Massachusetts 
Late  Howes.  These  were  being 
quoted    at    $5.00    a    quarter. 

At  that  time  it  announced  that 
all  plants  were  packing  night 
and  day  for  completing  Thanks- 
giving orders.  It  was  said  also 
that  the  supply  of  Massachusetts 
Howes,  while  good,  would  be 
shipping  to  all  areas,  United 
States    and   Canada. 


CHARLEY  GOLDSWORTHY,  WIS. 
BRIEFLY   VISITS    MASS. 

Charley  Goldsworthy,  sales 
manager  of  Cranberry  Products, 
Inc.  of  Eagle  River,  Wisconsin 
was     a     recent     brief     visitor     to 


BROKER 

REAL  ESTATE 

OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS 

• 

37  Years  SeUIng 

Cranberry  Properties 

• 

LISTINGS  WANTED 


."lOO    .Sec-onil-IIand    Picking 
IJoxcs  for  Sale 


THEO  THOMAS 

MAIN  STREET 

NORTH  CARVER,  MASS. 

Tel.  UNion  6-3351 


the  Massachusetts  cranberry  area. 

As  the  result  of  new  research 
by  Prof.  Kenneth  Weckel  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  a  new 
process  has  been  invented  by 
which  cranberries  can  now  be 
candies.  They  are  in  candy  bars 
and  Cranberry  Products  is  pack- 
ing then  in  glass,  the  only  firm 
in  the  country  to  do  so. 

The  Eagle  River  firm  now  puts 
out  33  products,  all  but  nine  of 
them  cranberry  based.  It  is  re- 
ported a  cranberry  chili  sauce  is 
in   the   works. 


Hoelting  Named 
Indian  Trail 
General  Manager 

Ben  G.  Pannkuk,  former  presi- 
dent of  Indian  Trail,  Inc.,  of 
Wisconsin  Rapids,  Wisconsin  has 
announced  that  Joseph  P.  Hoel- 
ting  has  been  named  general 
manager  of  Indian  Trail  Division 
of  Green  Bay  Foods  Company,  a 
wholly-owned  subsidiary  of  Dean 
Foods  of  Chicago,  which  now 
owns   Indian   Trail. 

Mr.  Hoelting  will  continue  as 
manager  of  fresh  cranberry  sales 
for  the  new  division.  His  new 
post  will  include  supervision  of 
canned,  juice  and  frozen  product 
marketing. 

Mr.  Pannkuk  will  maintain  his 
office  in  the  Mead-Witter  Build- 
ing at  Wisconsin  Rapids,  and 
will  engage  in  long-range  plan- 
ning and  grower  relations  for 
the  cranberry  division  of  Dean 
Foods. 

At  present  Indian  Trail  mar- 
kets cranberries  from  about  25 
associate  growers.  Hoelting  joined 
Indian  Trail  in  1954  as  sales 
manager.  Mr.  Pannkuk  joined  in 
1953  and  later  became  president 
and  one  of  the  owners  before 
its    sale   to   Dean   Foods. 


Cape  Cranberry 
Bread  Sent  To 
Vietnam 

Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Bread 
for  Christmas  went  to  Vietnam 
this  month  from  a  campaign  put 
on  by  the  Dennis-Yarmouth 
(Mass.)    Jaycees.     The   move   be- 


gan with  a  resolution  approved 
and  signed  by  selectment  and 
police  chiefs  of  the  two  towns 
of  Yarmouth  and  Dennis  and 
Jaycee    officials. 

A  drive  was  launched  to  col- 
lect a  ton  of  home-baked  Cape 
Cod  delicacies,  including  the 
cranberry.  (It  resembles  fruit 
cake,   if   you   do   not  know   this.) 

Housewives  brought  these 
products  (which  had  to  be  long 
lasting)  to  the  Community 
Building  at  Yarmouth  on  Sun- 
day, December  7th.  From  there 
the  goodies  were  taken  to  Otis 
Air  Force  base,  for  forwarding 
to  Vietnam. 


Dean  Foods,  With 
Indian   Trail   Berries, 
Heavy  Fall  Ad  Plan 

Dean  Foods  Company  has 
scheduled  the  most  extensive  ad- 
vertising effort  in  its  forty  year 
history  this  fall  in  support  of 
the  company's  expanded  line  of 
dairy  and  convenience  food 
products  including  Indian  Trail 
Cranberries. 

National  magazines,  newspaper 
supplements,  spot  television  and 
radio  will  be  used  through 
Dean's  nine-state  marketing  area 
in  the  Midwest  and  Upper  South, 
it  was  announced  by  John  Rock- 
wood,  executive  vice  president. 
The  overall  program  runs  from 
late    September    thru    December. 

Double-page  spreads  in  full 
color  will  be  used  to  feature 
five  new  comers  to  the  Dean 
convenience  food  line,  along  with 
three  long  established  dairy 
products,  in  the  December  is- 
sues of  Better  Homes  &  Gardens, 
Ladies  Home  Journal,  Look,  Mc- 
Call's,  Parents  and  Redbook.  The 
"newcomer"  products  are  Dean's 
Indian  Trail  frozen  Cranberry 
with  Orange  and  bottled  cran- 
berry juice;  Flavor  Charm  Pow- 
dered Non-dairy  Coffee  Creamer; 
Peter  Piper,  Heifetz  and  Bud- 
long  pickles;  and  Dean  Prepared 
Foods.  The  newcomers  are  prod- 
ucts of  recently  acquired  com- 
panies which  now  operate  as 
Dean  divisions  or  were  developed 
in  the  Dean  research  laboratory. 
The   "old   friends"   are   Vim    (2% 


milk);   Dean   cottage   cheese;    and 
Dean  sour  cream. 

Single  pages  and  two-page 
spreads  in  color  have  been  set 
for  nine  Sunday  Supplements  in 
Chicago,  Indianapolis,  Louisville, 
Detroit,  Milwaukee,  Cleveland, 
and  Memphis,  during  the  nine 
weeks  between  October  24  and 
December  19.  Some  insertions 
will  be  omnibus  ads  featuring  all 
products,  but  the  majority  will 
focus  on  single  brands  and  sep- 
arate   products. 

News  and  weather  shows  on 
seven  television  stations  in  three 
cities  will  be  used  during  the 
same  period,  with  each  station 
carrying  multiple  spots  on  vari- 
ous dairy  products,  September 
through   December. 

During  the  same  period  radio 
stations  in  four  markets  will 
carry  Dean  Country  Charm  dairy 
products  commercials,  Rockwood 
said. 

"Our  vigorous  expansion  into 
other  food  lines  is  enabling  us 
to  present  many  fine  new  prod- 
ucts to  our  establijShed  cus- 
tomers," Rockwood  said.  "The 
Dean  Country  Charm  label  has 
come  to  represent  a  certain  kind 
of  dependable  quality  to  thous- 
ands of  customers.  We  think 
housewives  will  be  glad  to  put 
the  same  confidence  in  these  top 
quality  convenience  foods  as 
they  have  had  in  our  primary 
dairy   products." 


WASHINGTON 

Nov.  Rain  12.76 

The  November  weather  was 
typical  with  12.76  inches  of  rain, 
which  was  less  than  that  of 
1964  November,  but  ample.  There 
were  only  three  days  without 
precipitation. 

Nov.    Mild 
The      temperature      was      mild 
with    a    mean    high    of    54.06    and 
a  mean  low  of  45.63.   Some  days 
were     almost     springlike,      while 
others   blew   a   gale.   On  the   19th 
the    wind    was    clocked    at    85-90 
at   North  Head   hght.    There  was 
one     cold     period     on     the     bogs 
from   the   22nd   to   the   26th   with 
a  low  of  23  degrees  on  the  24th. 
Bogs   Look   Good   for    1966 
The    bogs    in    the    Long    Beach 
and    North    Beach    area    look    es- 
pecially     good      with      good      tip 
growth.    It  is  better  than   a  year 
ago.      This     is     believed     due     to 
the    better-than-average    weather 
last    summer. 


FRESH  FROM  THE  FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  6 
Meetings 

A  meeting  of  the  West  Coast 
Advisory  Board  of  Ocean  Spray 
was  scheduled  to  be  held  at 
Bandon,    December     18. 

The     Southwestern     Cranberry 

Club     was     to     host     Washington 

growers     at    a     pot     luck     dinner 

and    social    hour    December    17. 

After    Season   Work 

Growers  are  looking  forward 
to  a  busy  winter  of  resanding, 
weed  control,  hand  pruning  and 
setting  vines  on  some  new 
acreage. 


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November   Normal 
November     turned     out     to     be 
quite     normal     with     no     records 
broken    and    conditions,    allowing 
much    needed    fall    work    to    be 
completed.      Both    temperatures 
and  precipitation  averaged  slightly 
above     normal     with     2     degrees 
above    and    one   half    inch    above. 
Temperature  extreme  was  70  de- 
grees   in    the    south    on    the    3rd, 
to  near  0  degrees  on  th  14th  and 
17th    in    the    far    north.     On    the 
26th    a    very    low    pressure    sys- 
tem   passed    over    the    state    re- 
sulting  in   winds   up    to    55   miles 
per   hour,   general  heavy   precipi- 
tation   and    the    low    readings    in 
25     years.      This     storm     brought 
an  additional  foot  of  snow  in  the 
far    north    and    in    excess    of    one 
inch    of    rain    in    the    central    and 
south.      As     of     the     end     of     the 
month     the     far     north     counties 
had    from    six    to    22    inches    of 
snow,    south    counties    had    none. 
Snow    on    the    24th    had    brought 
four   inches   of   snow   to   the   cen- 
tral    cranberry     areas,     but     this 


melted  with  the  rains  on  the 
26th.  The  total  rainfall  in  the 
central  area  now  totals  a  whop- 
ping 39.34  inches  to  December, 
which  is  almost  10  inches  above 
the  long  time  normal  of  30 
inches.  The  outlook  for  Decem- 
ber calls  for  near  normal  precipi- 
tation and  below  normal  temp- 
eratures. 

Three-Quarters  Processed 
At  month's  end  only  slightly 
in  excess  of  1000  barrels  of 
cranberries  remained  in  the  state 
to  be  packed  fresh.  Final  figures 
will  probably  show  less  than 
100,000  barrels  shipped  fresh  or 
by  far  the  smallest  total  in  mod- 
ern times.  Total  crop  figures 
still  are  listing  the  state  at  400,- 
000  barrels,  with  %ths  of  the 
total  going  processed.  Shrink- 
age was  heavy  on  late  held  ber- 
ries, mainly  Searles,  and  marked 
the  3rd  consecutive  year  of  ex- 
cess   shrinkage. 

Winter  Flooding 
The  mild  weather  during  No- 
vember had  developed  little 
frost  in  the  old  cranberry  beds. 
New  plantings  were  flooded  pri- 
marily to  prevent  heaving  of 
vines  from  the  alternate  freez- 
ing and  thawing.  Some  grow- 
ers winter  flooded  the  last  week 
of  November  with  deep  floods 
and  were  starting  to  pull  out 
the  water  from  under  the  ice 
due  to  the  slow  freezedown  and 
to  remove  any  chance  of  oxygen 
deficiencies. 


WINTER   ADVICE 
WASHINGTON    GROWERS 

Avoid  leaving  any  trash  in 
your  bogs  and  get  rid  of  dead 
leaves  and  rotten  fruit  as  soon 
as  you  can.  This  trash  could 
be  a  very  good  medium  for  fun- 
gus infestation.  Keep  in  mind  to 
treat  your  bog  this  winter  with  a 
dormant  spray  such  as  liquid 
sulfur  at  the  rate  of  6  gallons 
per  100  gallons  of  water  (18 
gallons  per  acre)  plus  1  to  2 
ounces  of  a  wetting  agent.  This 
treatment  will  control  fungus 
diseases  and  it  will  reduce  di- 
sease spreading  early  in  the 
spring.  (The  Cranberry  Vine, 
South   Bend,   Washington). 


SIXTEEN 


Dean's^  Indian  Trail 
is  putting  on  a 
really  big  spread  for 
cranberries 


Four-color    advertising 
in  6  of  America's  most  important 
magazines  and  major  market 
Sunday  Supplements,  too. 
Forecast:  year  'round  demand 
for  Dean's  Indian  Trail 
Cranberry  products. 


Dean's 


IrviUmXnoili 

the  path  to  cranberry  profits 


SEVENTEEN 


"Your  boy  friend  will  be  crazy  about  this  new  lipstick 
it's  cranberry   flavored'." 


by    Eill    Shelly 


EIGHTEEN 


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ISSUE  OF  DECEMBER,  1965 
VOL.  30 -No.  8 


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A  MERRY  CHRISTMAS 

This  is  the  Christmas  Time  —  the  time 
to  be  jolly. 

This  was  not  an  easy  year  for  the 
cranberry  industry,  but  it  was  a  good  year 
for  the  industry  as  a  whole.  The  crop  was 
large,  the  marketing  was  good,  a  good  clean- 
up and  prices  received  by  the  growers  for 
both  canned  and  processed  fruit  higher  than 
''they  have  been.  It  was  a  good  year  for 
the  growers  as   a  whole. 

Of  course,  individually  this  was  not 
true  by  any  means.  Some  growers  lost  out 
through  drought  in  the  East,  and  also  be- 
:ause  of  bad  frosts.  Wisconsin  had  more 
than  its  share  of  frosts  and  hail.  Some 
growers  individually  did  not  fare  well  at 
all.    This  was  not  a  good  year  for  these. 

And,  in  general,  this  is  a  world-wide 
Toubfed  Christmas.  If  not  in  name,  but  in 
actuality  we  are  at  war  in  far  off  southeast 
^sia.  There  are  many  very  troubled  spots 
;he  world  over.  Mankind  today  is  in  a 
^reat  state  of  change  and  unrest. 

But,  Christmas  is  the  time  to  be  Jolly 
—  and  reverent. 

So,  CRANBERRIES  extends  its  sincere 
greeting  and  its  wishes  for  a  merry,  merry 
I!hristmas  to  all  within  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry. 


MINNESOTA,  APPLES  and  CRANBERRIES 

That  is  a  bit  of  interesting  news  in  this 
.ssue  that  the  State  of  Minnesota  may  go  in 
'or  large-scale  cranberry  growing.  A  new 
cranberry  growing  state? 

This  would  mean  more  cranberries.  But 
A^hether  Minnesota  goes  in  for  cranberry 
cultivation  or  not,  the  cranberry  industry 
s  growing   all   the   time. 

The  last  two  years  have  brought  bum- 
Der  crops,  in  spite  of  many  adverse  condi- 
;ions,  such  as  the  great  Eastern  drought. 
We  are  going  to  have  more  cranberries 
?ach  year  to  dispose  of.  It  seems  not  at  all 
mpossible  that  the  Massachusestts  crop  may 
;otal  a  million  barrels  by  itself. 

That  means  we  have  got  to  sell  more 
ranberries.  This  can  be  done.  We  have 
^ood  leadership  and  good  advertising,  chiefly 
3y  Ocean  Spray  in  the  latter. 

This  can  be  done  because  another  old 
'standby"    than    cranberries    is    doing    it    in 


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Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry   Consultant 

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Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED    HAGELSTEIN 
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Washington 

AZMI    Y.    SHAWA 

Junior    Horticulturalist    and    Extension    Agent 

in    Horticulture 

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Massachusetts 

DR.    CHESTER    E.    CROSS 

Director   Mass.   Cranberry  Experiment   Station 

East   Wareham,   Massachusetts 


New    Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Statiom 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


its  field.  That  is  the  sale  of  apple  sauce  and 
apple  juice.  Apple  sauce  consumption  has 
increased  six  times  faster  than  the  popu- 
lation. Apple  juice  nine  times  faster.  If 
apples  can  do  it  so  can  we. 


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Total  Crop  Now 
1,422,000  Bbls. 

Massachusetts'    Final    Figure 
Is  745,000 

United  States  production  of 
cranberries  in  1965  totaled  1,- 
422,000  barrels,  up  6  percent  from 
last  year  and  11  percent  above 
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counted for  the  large  crop.  Wis- 
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general  harvest  began  a  few  days 
later  than  in  1964,  losses  from 
fall  frosts  were  small.  Most  bogs 
produced  better  than  expected 
crops.  Acreage  harvested  was 
down  100  from  last  year  to  11,- 
600  acres.  The  yield  per  acre  at 
64.2  barrels  is  up  7.8  barrels  from 
1964. 

The  New  Jersey  crop  of  159,- 
COO  barrels  was  up  4  percent 
from  last  year  and  70  percent 
above  average.  The  final  out- 
put was  above  earlier  expecta- 
tions. ^  Spring  frost  damage  was 
minimal  and  another  good  crop 
was  raised  from  the  marginal, 
poorly  protected  bogs.  There  was 
little  damage  from  fall  frosts 
and  berries  w^ere  generally  of 
good  quality  and  medium  size. 
Acreage  harvested  was  down  to 
3,000  acres  this  year,  from  3,100 
in    1964    but    the    yield    per    acre 


increased  to  53  barrels  per  acre 
in  1965  from  49.4  barrels  in  1964. 
Wisconsin  produced  410,000  bar- 
rels of  cranberries  in  1965,  down 
5  percent  from  last  year  and 
slightly  below  average.  Winter 
damage  was  about  usual,  but 
frost  in  the  north  plus  hail  in 
the  west  damaged  the  crop.  Har- 
vest began  about  a  week  later. 
The  acreage  harvested  in  Wiscon- 
sin was  4,600  acres,  up  300  from 
last  year,  but  the  yield  per  acre 
dropped  to  89.1  barrels  per  acre, 
off  10.9  from   1964. 

Production  of  cranberries  in 
Washington  was  66,000  barrels, 
down  1,000  barrels  from  last  year 
and  27  percent  below  average.  A 
severe  winter,  and  spring  frosts 
caused  damage  in  the  bogs  and 
the  wet  spring  caused  a  poor 
berry  set.  Continued  cool  wea- 
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was  late.  Cranberry  production 
in  Oregon  totaled  42,000  barrels, 
22  percent  more  than  last  year 
and  8  percent  above  average. 
Quality  and  size  were  good.  Har- 
vested acreage  in  Washington  was 
unchanged  from  1964  at  1,000 
acres,  but  was  down  to  560  acres 
in    1965,    10    acres    below    1964. 


Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 


Bij  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm  Bureau  Staff  Assistant 
One  major  area  of  Farm  Bur- 
eau concern  and  activity  is  that 
of  Economic  Services  for  farm- 
ers. A  very  important  Economic 
Service  is  the  Farm  Family  In- 
surance Companies  which  are 
owned  and  operated  by  the  Farm 
Bureau  members  for  their  bene- 
fit. 

This  past  year  the  Farm  Family 
Mutual  Insurance  Company  paid 
a  10%  dividend  on  auto  insurance 
for  the  second  year  in  succession. 
Recently,  it  declared  a  10%  divi- 
dend for  the  third  year.  This  is 
a  CASH  dividend  :on  all  liability 
coverages  including  compulsory 
coverages.  Farm  Family  Mutual 
Insurance  Company  is  the  only 
Insurance  Company  in  the  state 
of  Massachusetts  to  pay  a  divi- 
dend on  these  coverages.  In  1966, 
it  will  pay  its  first  fire  insurance 
dividend  which  will  amount  to 
a  7%  dividend  on  all  Fire,  Ex- 
tended Coverage  and  Inland 
Marine  insurance.  This  is  a  clear 
indication  of  financial  savings 
through  the  Farm  Bureau's 
Economic    Service   Program. 

The  Massachusetts  Farm  Bur- 
eau Federation  has  provided  the 
Accounting  and  Income  Tax  Ser- 
vice to  its  members  for  many 
years.  This  provided  competent, 
specialized  low  cost  Accounting 
Service.  Currently,  Farm  Bureau 
is  studying  changes  in  methods 
of  accounting  as  they  relate  to 
Farm  Management  programs  in 
order  to  maintain  the  best  pos- 
sible Accounting  and  Income  Tax 
Service   to    its    membership. 

As  farmers  request  additional 
economic  services,  Farm  Bureau 
will  explore  the  possibilities  of 
developing  additional  programs. 


Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEAAORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry   Specialist 


Personals 

Drs.  Bert  Zuckerman,  "Wes" 
Miller,  Karl  Deubert,  Surindar 
Paracer  and  "Bob"  Norgren  at- 
tended a  meeting  of  NE-34,  the 
northeastern  regional  group  of 
nematologists,  from  November  30 
through  December  2.  The  meet- 
ing was  held  at  Rutgers  Univer- 
sity in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Each  presented  a  progress  re- 
port on  their  various  projects. 

The  author  spent  three  weeks, 
from  December  6  through  De- 
cember 23,  as  a  juror  during  the 
Civil;v  Session  of  the  Superior 
Court  in  Brockton.  It  was  a 
most  interesting  and  informative 
experience  and  I  was  most  happy 
to  be  there  as  a  member  of 
the  jury  rather  than  a  partici- 
pant in  a  legal  wrangle.  The 
jury  duty  gave  an  excellent  ex- 
excuse  to  stop  in  and  visit  "Dom" 
Marini,  an  old  friend,  who  has 
his  office  in  the  courthouse. 
"Dom,"  who  is  no  stranger  to 
cranberry  growers  in  Plymouth 
County,  is  now  a  regional  agent 
for  fruits  and  vegetables  in  the 
new  four-  county  Southeastern 
Massachusetts  area.  Matter  of 
fact,  one  of  the  court  officers  is 
also  a  cranberry  grower  and  we 
had  time  for  some  "shop-talk" 
on    occasion. 

Advisory  Committee 
The  Cranberry  Advisory  Com- 
mittee held  its  annual  meeting 
at  the  Cranberry  Station  on  the 
afternoon  of  December  14.  This 
meeting  assists  the  Extension 
Service  in  appraising  its  educa- 
tional program  for  the  past  year 
and  in  the  development  of  what 
we  hope  will  be  an  effective  pro- 
gram for  the  coming  year.  We 
had  excellent  representation  from 
the  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Growers 
Association,  shippers,    service    or- 


ganizations, regional  agents.  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts  and 
Station  staff. 

Dr.  Cross  filled  in  for  the 
Cranberry  Specialist,  and  from 
reports,  did  an  excellent  job.  The 
committee  discussed  a  number  of 
items,  with  quality  receiving  the 
most  attention. 

The  suggestions  and  advice  of 
this  committee  are  most  help- 
ful and  are  sincerely  appreciated. 
The  following  members  wer  pres- 
ent. Dr.  Chester  Cross,  Oscar 
Johnson,  Arnold  Lane,  John  De- 
cas,  Robert  Hammond,  C.  E. 
Morse,  Maynard  Holmes,  Paul 
Morse,  Robert  St.  Jacques,  Wil- 
liam Atwood,  William  Crowell, 
Arthur  Handy,  Lawrence  Cole, 
Robert    Devlin. 


Weather 

December  went  into  the  rec- 
ords nearly  three  degrees  a  day 
above  normal,  only  the  second 
month  in  all  of  1965  to  do  this. 
Total  precipitation  for  the  month 
was  1.76  inches,  less  than  50  per- 
cent of  normal.  Snowfall  for  De- 
cember was  only  0.3  inch  ac- 
curing  in  the  early  morning  of 
the  26th.  This  is  far  below  the 
average  for  the  month,  but  there 
have  been  nine  years  in  the  past 
thirty-five  when  no  snow  was 
recorded  at  the  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion in  December. 

For  the  year  1965  the  tempera- 
ture was  a  total  of  -623  de- 
grees, or  more  than  a  degree  and 
one-half  a  day  below  normal, 
this  is  really  cool.  Total  precipi- 
tation was  27.82  inches  which  is 
slightly  more  than  19  inches  un- 
der the  thirty  year  average  at 
the  Cranberry  Station.  This  is 
the  least  amount  recorded  since 
records  have  been  kept  at  the 
Station.  Snowfall  was  37.6  inches 
about  forty  percent  above  the 
mean.  Highest  temperature  was 
89  degrees  on  July  15  and  again 
August  13  and  the  lowest  -8  de- 
grees on  January  19  as  recorded 
in     the    weather    shelter    at     the 


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station.  Largest  single  snowfall 
was  9.1  inches  on  January  16-17 
and  largest  24-hour  precipitation 
1.36  inches  on  April  15-16. 

Club     Meetings 

The  tentative  dates  for  the  1966 
cranberry    club    meetings    are   as 
follows: 
Barnstable  County: 

Barnstable — Feb.   17,  7:30  p.m. 

Barnstable — March  17,  7:30  p.m. 

Plymouth   County: 
Kingston — Feb.  15,  7:30  p.m. 
Rochester — Feb.  16,  2:00  p.m. 
Kingston — March    15,    7:30  p.m. 
Rochester — March  16,  2:00  p.m. 


YEAR'S     RAIN    486     INCHES 
IN    PAKISTAN 

Cranberry  growers  in  the 
drought-stricken  east  envy  the 
high  rainfall  the  Pacific  West 
Coast  has  been  receiving — 14 
inches  plus  in  Washington  in  De- 
cember. But  even  this  is  nothing 
to  the  rainfall  which  occurred 
in  Pakistan  last  year.  There  was 
a  total  of  486  inches,  most  of  this 
falling  in  a  period  of  three 
months.  It  was  in  the  Jafflong 
area. 

Yet  one-third  of  the  days  of 
the  year  were  reported  as  being 
clear.     At    the    same    time    as    all 


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this  precipitation,  the  first  sprink- 
ler systems  were  being  installed 
by  a  British  firm.  Even  there 
rain  did  not  always  fall  just 
when    needed. 


Cranberry  Labels 

Wanted  as  a  gijt  or  trade, 
"labels"  from  Eatmor,  Ocean 
Spray  and  independents  -from  all 
cranberry-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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Issue   of  January    1966  — Vol.   30,   No.   9 

Second     Class     Postage     Paid     at     Wareham,     Massachusetts     Post     Oftice. 
Published     monthly     at     Wareham,     Massachusetts.  Subscriptions    ?4.00,    Foreign,    ?5.00    per    year. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C  J.  H. 


MASSACHUSETTS 

Week    of    Bad    Weather    Adds    One    Inch 

Light  rain,  followed  by  snow 
began  on  December  13th,  making 
this  the  first  real  snow  of  the 
winter  in  the  cranberry  area, 
although  it  did  not  last  long. 
The  weather  continued  rainy  on 
the  14th  and  15th.  In  fact,  until 
the  19th  there  was  scarcely  a 
break  in  the  clouds  or  a  glimpse 
of  the  sun.  The  result  of  this 
long  spell  was  that  there  was 
about  one  inch  of  rain  accumu- 
lated, not  enough  to  do  water 
supplies    much   good. 

Mid-December     Warmer 

The  middle  of  December  in 
fact,  reversed  the  trend  of  colder 
than  normal  temperatures.  These 
turned  to  the  plus  side  and  on 
the  19th  there  was  a  plus  of  19 
degrees. 

"Winter"    Starts    Cold 

This  was  of  short  duration, 
however  and  on  the  21st,  the  first 
official  day  of  winter,  tempera- 
tures were  averaging  10  above, 
or  not  quite  that  much.  The  of- 
ficial winter  came  in  with  cold, 
but  there  was  no  snow  on  the 
ground  in  Southeastern  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Green    Christmas 

It  was  a  green  Christmas  in 
the  cranberry  area,  with  all  but 
record  high  temperatures  on 
Christmas  Day  and  the  day  be- 
fore. But  Christmas  Day  also 
brought  a  gift  in  the  form  of 
a  very  substantial  rain  during 
the  afternoon  and  night.  A  total 
of  .62  inches  was  recorded  at  the 
State  Bog. 

Weather  turned  very  cold 
Christmas  night  and  the  26th  and 
27th      were      bitterly     cold      with 


rather  high  winds.  Temperatures 
at  the  State  Bog  were  as  low  as 
12.  It  was  not  believed  there  was 
any  winterkill  as  the  winds  were 
not  too  high  and  the  drop  was 
of   short  duration. 

December    a     Warm     Month 

December  reversed  the  long 
trend  of  colder  -  than  -  normal 
months  by  ending  with  a  plus  of 
90  degrees  or  about  three  a  day. 
The  final  day  of  1965  was  all  but 
a  record  breaker,  with  tempera- 
tures up  into  the  low  60's  in  the 
cranberry  area  and  New  Year's 
day  itself  was  equally  balmy. 
December  really  went  out  almost 
as  spring.  However,  the  story  for 
the  year  was  a  minus  625  degrees. 
December    Continued     Dry 

Rainfall  for  the  month,  as  re- 
corded at  the  Cranberry  Station 
was   only  1.76   inches.     Normal   is 


3.80  inches.  The  deficiency  for 
the  year  at  year's  end  was  about 
19  inches  in  precipitation,  in  this 
fourth  year  of  below  normal  rain- 
fall. And  the  drought  continued 
on. 

January  second  brought  a  sud- 
den change  in  temperatures  and 
there  was  snow,  sleet  and  rain. 
The  total  for  this  storm,  accord- 
ing to  Cranberry  Station  reading 
was  .99  inch.  This  was  the  first 
really  bad  storm  of  the  winter, 
making  roads  treacherous  with 
the  snow,  sleet  and  freezing  rain 
and  for  the  first  time  snow  plows 
were  put  into  use. 

No    Winterkill    in    December 

At  the  end  of  the  year  it  was 
generally  thought  there  had  been 
no  winterkill.  For  one  thing  there 
was  practically  no  frost  in  the 
ground,    so    vines    were    not    fro- 


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zen  in.  While  there  had  been 
a  few  occasions  when  for  brief 
spells  there  had  been  cold  and 
high  winds  these  spells  had  been 
of  short  duration  and  not  long 
enough  to  do  much,  if  any  harm. 
Much  Sunshine  in  '65 
With  so  little  rain  it  naturally 
followed  that  sunshine  had  to  be 
high.  The  sunshine  factor  was 
well  over  200   hours. 

Vines   Wanted 
It    was    reported    at    the    Cran- 
berry Station  that  there  had  been 
many    calls    to     find     out    where 
cranberry  vines   could  be  bought. 
The  call  was  not  particularly  for 
the  new  hybrid  varieties,  but  the 
old     standbys,      especially     Early 
Blacks.    This  indicates  that  there 
is  considerable  expansion  intended 
for     Massachusetts     acreage     this 
coming    spring.      The    demand    is 
from     those      who      are      already 
growers,  and  not  newcomers. 
January    Starts    Balmy 
January  fortunately  started  warm 
and  balmy,  almost  springlike.  The 
plus   for   the   first   four   days   was 

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46  degrees.  This  was  well  for 
the  drought  situation,  as  Janu- 
ary and  February  are  the  months 
most  likely  to  bring  winterkill, 
and  every  warm  day  was  an- 
other  day  without  the   damage. 


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Pacific    Coast    Storms 

Late  December  brought  a  series 
of  great  storms  to  the  West  Coast, 
including  the  coastal  cranberry 
area.  It  was  almost  exactly  a 
year  ago  that  the  Coast  suffered 
a  similar  bad  storm.  The  storms 
brought  sleet,  snow,  rain,  and 
high  winds. 

Wind  on  the  27th  was  clocked 
at  120  miles  an  hour  when  the 
Coast  Guard  recording  machine 
at  Cape  Disappoinment  was 
broken.  Guests  of  70  and  80 
miles  an  hour  continued,  but 
resulted  in  only  considerable  dam- 
age  in    minor    incidents. 

Dec.  Precipitation  14.52  Inches 
While  the  East  Coast  continued 
in  the  great  drought  the  precipi- 
tation for  the  month  was  re- 
corded at  the  Coastal  Washing- 
ton Experiment  Station  at  Long 
Beach  as  14.52  inches.  There 
was  1.97  of  rain  on  the  26th  and 
1.80     on     the    third.      There    was 


some  snow  and  Christmas  was  a 
white  one  for  most  of  the  area, 
where  snow  is  a  rariety.  The 
Long  Beach  Peninsula  was  almost 
cut  off  from  the  mainland  due 
to  snow  for  the  New  Year  week- 
end. 

Temperatures 
The  mean  high  of  the  month 
was  47.03  and  the  mean  low 
was  35.32.  The  Station  bog  low 
was  16  degrees  on  the  14th  and 
17  on  the  15th.  Below  freezing 
temperatures  were  registered  on 
the  9th  to  the  16th,  the  20th  to 
the  29th  and  31st.  It  was  an  un- 
usually severe  month  for  the 
Peninsula. 

Bog  Activities 
Bog  activities  were  just  about 
at  a  standstill  due  to  the  weather, 
but  what  pruning  could  be  done 
was  accomplished,  and  there  was 
"inside"  work  going  on. 


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Pipe    and   Fitfings 

LARCHMONT     ENGINEERING 

LEXINGTON,  MASS.  VO  2-2550 


NEW    JERSEY 

Drought   Worse  ^ 

December  brought  no  allevia- 
tion but  an  intensification  of  the 
drought.  Only  1.75  inches  of 
rain  fell  during  the  month,  ad- 
ding another  1.28  inches  to  the 
year's  deficiency  which  totaled 
13.39    inches. 

The  year  1965  was  the  driest 
in  the  37-year  weather  recording 
history  of  the  Cranberry  and 
Blueberry  Lab  at  Pemberton  and 
New  Lisbon.  The  total  precipi- 
tation was  only  29.77  inches, 
easily  breaking  the  previous  low 
rainfall  record  of  33.21  inches  in 
1930. 

Drought  of  serious  proportions 
have  now  occurred  in  each  of 
the  3  past  years.  The  total  de- 
ficiency from  January  1,  1963, 
through  1965  is  28.58  inches,  or 
roughly  the  equivalent  of  8 
months  of  normal  rainfall.  The 
water  shortage  is  causing  appre- 
hension amongst  cranberry  and 
blueberry  growers.  Some  cran- 
berry properties  have  a  serious 
water  shortage  and  the  ground 
water  resources  in  some  blue- 
berry areas  are  reaching  mar- 
ginal   levels. 

'65    Rain    Well    Distributed 
Fortunately  the   distribution   of 

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SIX 


''Valiant  Vivian"  Mighf  Be  The   Designation  of  Oregon 
Cranberry  Widow,  Mrs.  Martin  Kranick  of  Bandon 

She  Operates  22  V2   Acres  in  Two  Locations 


By   ETHEL    REICHENBACHi 

Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc. 
is  made  up  of  many  fine  hard- 
working growers,  among  which 
are  quite  a  few  widows  who  have 
fallen  heir  to  their  bogs  due  to 
the  death   of   their  husbands. 

Among  the  several  widows  in 
Coos  County,  Oregon  is  Vivian 
Kranick.     This    is    her    story: 

Vivian  was  born  in  Wapaca 
County,  Wisconsin  on  a  farm.  In 
1936  her  parents  moved  to  the 
city  of  Milwaukee  where  she 
attended  school  and  business  col- 
lege. Her  urge  to  travel  led  her 
first  to  Colorado  and  later  to  the 
west  coast  where  she  had  rela- 
tives to  visit.  While  on  this 
trip  she  was  offered  a  position  as 
secretary  in  the  Coquille  cran- 
berry^ cannery.  Here  she  became 
acquainted  with  the  cranberry 
business  first  hand.  She  visited 
several  cranberry  bogs  and 
through  these  visits  met  Martin 
Kranick,  son  of  Leslie  and  Ethel 
Kranick,  pioneer  cranberry  grow- 
ers. 


Martin    Kranick 

Martin  was  a  graduate  engin- 
eer from  the  Oregon  State  Uni- 
versity and  a  Veteran  of  World 
War  II,  having  served  in  the  8th 
Air  Force  based  in  England.  As 
a  navigator,  he  flew  some  thirty 
missions  over  enemy  territory  and 
thereby  won  the  Distinguished 
Flying  Cross.  Their  first  date  was 
in  a  chartered  plane  in  which 
they  flew  over  the  entire  cran- 
berry area  of  Coos  County  and 
got  a  good  view  of  the  geography 
of    the    cranberry    business. 

In  1951  Vivian  and  Martin 
were  married  in  a  garden  set- 
ting at  the  Kranick  bog.  To  this 
union  were  born  four  sons,  Doug- 
las,   Gordon,    David    and    Ronald. 

When  the  war  was  over,  Mar- 
tin worked  for  a  time  with  the 
Bureau  of  Reclamation,  but  be- 
ing an  only  son,  he  decided  to 
accept  his  parents'  request  to  re- 
turn home  and  take  over  the 
cranberry  business  so  the  senior 
Kranicks    could    retire. 

In    1959  Leslie   Kranick  died   of 


a  heart  attack  and  the  day  fol- 
lowing Arthur  Flemming's  edict 
hit  the  headlines  and  the  busi- 
ness took  a  terrific  beating.  Along 
with  this  disaster  Martin  became 
ill  and  spent  some  time  in  the 
hospital. 

On  October  12th,  1962,  one  of 
the  worst  storms  to  ever  hit  the 
Pacific  coast  made  shambles  of  the 
beautiful  property  that  Martin 
and  Vivian  had  developed.  Shortly 
after,  the  worst  tragedy  of  all, 
Martin's  untimely  death. 
Faced     Tough     Future 

Vivian  faced  a  future  with 
four  small  boys  to  rear,  and  a 
cranberry  property  that  was  al- 
most ruined  with  storm,  insects 
and  the  Flemming  disaster.  She 
had  two  choices,  the  farm  or 
back  to  the  office.  She  chose  the 
farm  with  all  its  frustrations,  hard 
work  and  worry  so  that  her  boys 
would  learn  work  and  respon- 
sibility. 

With  determination,  she  began 
treating  the  bogs  with  insecti- 
cides,    she    has     used    Parathion, 


A  walk   along   a    dike   at    the    the    Kranick   Bogs.  (Photo,     Western     World,     Bandon) 


The  whole    family   helps   at    harvest    time,    including    Mrs.    Kranick's 
father   from   Wisconsin* 


A    new    sump    hole   at  the    Kranick    Bog. 


Malathion,  and  Diazinon  according 
to  directions  specified  by  the 
County  Agent  and  the  more  suc- 
cessful   growers. 

The  irrigation  pipes  were  old 
and  the  rust  in  the  sprinklers 
had  long  been  a  problem,  so  she 
began  to  gradually  replace  with 
aluminum  and  plastic.  She  ap- 
plied to  the  Agricultural  Stabli- 
zation  Committee  for  funds  to 
develop  a  new  source  of  water. 
Now  she  has  two  new  ponds  plus 
a  long  irrigation  canal  with 
enough  water  for  full  frost  con- 
trol. On  some  occasions  the  two 
oldest  boys  help  with  the  sprink- 
ling by  keeping  the  sprinklers 
free  from  rust.    For  this  she  pays 


them  the  same   as   for   any   other 
worker. 

Labor  has  been  a  big  headache 
as  she  has  to  compete  with  high 
wages  paid  the  lumber  industry. 
Good  workers  were  already  at 
work  and  workers  who  would 
accept  minimum  wages  are 
scarce. 

Vivian  has  two  properties,  the 
old  Kranick  home  bog  of  some 
13  acres  to  which,  with  the 
help  of  the  boys  and  neighbors 
she  has  added  another  two  acres 
since  her  husband's  death.  She 
also  has  IV2  acres  on  highway 
U.S.  101  which  was  originally 
planted   by  the  late  M.   L.  Urann 


and  sold  to  L.  M.  Kranick.  This 
second  property  is  under  com- 
plete underground  irrigation  with 
an  automatic  shut-off.  However 
the  old  Kranick  bog  is  largely 
handled  by  personal  supervision. 
Vivian  plans  to  eventually  re- 
place all  the  overhead  irrigation 
with  either  aluminum  or  pastic 
pipe  placed  underground. 
Cuts    Harvest    Costs 

This  past  fall  Vivian  changed 
her  harvest  method  to  use  ele- 
vators in  both  wet  and  dry  har- 
vest. She  has  two  Westerns  and 
one  Darlington.  After  dry  pick- 
ing, the  berries  are  taken  to  the 
warehouse,  put  through  a  shaker, 
then  elevated  to  an  elevated  bin 
from  which  the  berries  can  be 
poured  directly  into  tote  boxes 
onto  an  International  truck  she 
bought  last  summer.  She  also 
uses  elevators  in  the  field  for  wet 
harvest  to  load  them  into  tote 
boxes. 

By  these  changes  she  cut  her 
harvest  from  six  weeks  to  four 
and  so  of  course  cut  harvest  costs 
as    well. 

Other     Activities 

With  this  formidable  load  Viv- 
ian still  takes  time  to  be  a  pianist 
for  the  Rebekah  Lodge  (of  which 
she  is  a  Past  Noble  Grand)  and 
secretary  for  the  Business  and 
Professional  Woman's  Club  of 
Coquille.  Every  Sunday  she  at- 
tends the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Bandon   with   her   sons. 

She  is  among  the  very  few 
growers  who  contributed  to  the 
Bandon  Cranberry  Festival  Pa- 
rade with  a  float  entitled  "Kran- 
berry  Kidz  Shangri  La"  which 
won  3rd  place  in  the  commercial 
division  of  the   1964  parade. 

Douglas,  her  oldest  boy  is 
eleven  and  in  the  6th  grade. 
Gordon  is  in  the  4th  grade  and 
David  is  in  the  second  grade. 
They  attend  school  in  Bandon, 
traveling  the  six  miles  by  bus. 
Douglas  plays  in  the  school  band. 
Ronald,  the  youngest  will  start 
to   school   next   fall. 

Vivian  is  trying  to  give  her 
sons  every  opportunity  that  city 
boys  have.  She  surrounds  them 
with  library  books.  They  get 
swimming  lessons  and  plenty  of 
fun  swimming  in  the  home  ponds 


EIGHT 


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Mrs.   Kranick   and   her  four   sons,   taking  third    prize   in    a    Bandon    Cranberry 

Harvest    parade. 

(Photo,    Western    World,     Bandon) 


after  they  do  their  weeding  allot- 
ment. The  boys  collect  stamps, 
coins,  rocks  and  belong  to  the 
4-H   Forestry   Club. 

Large     Rhododendron     Collection 

One  of  the  greatest  attractions 
at  Kranberry  Acres  is  the  large 
rhododendron  collection  of  which 
the  whole  family  is  very  proud. 
These  plants  usually  bloom  from 
February  to  July,  depending  on 
the  variety. 

So  much  has  been  accomplished 
under  the  most  trying  circum- 
stances that  considerable  credit 
goes  to  a  valiant  and  determined 
widow  and  her  four  healthy  little 
live  wires. 


I  Mrs.  W.  H.  Reichenbach  is  the 
former  Mrs.  Leslie  Kranick  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  the 
Bandon  area  correspondent  for 
CRANBERRIES. 


OCEAN     SPRAY    DIRECTOR 
RESIGNS  AS  SELECTMAN 
AFTER    33    YEARS    SERVICE 

Victor  F.  Adams  of  Osterville, 
Mass.,  who  is  a  director  of  Ocean 
Spray  has  announced  he  will  no 
longer  be  a  candidate  for  select- 
man of  the  town  of  Barnstable, 
of  which  Osterville  is  a  part. 
He  has  served  as  selectman, 
much  of  the  time  as  chairman, 
for  the  past  35  years.  He  plans 
to  devote  more  time  to  his  cran- 
berry   growing. 


JERSEY  CROPS  UP, 
INCLUDING  BLUES 
AND    CRANBERRIES 

Production  of  all  crops  in  New 
Jersey  in  1965,  according  to  the 
New  Jersey  Crop  Reporting  Ser- 
vice were  up  12  percent  and  was 


the  highest  since  1960.  Even 
though  harvested  acreage  of  all 
crops  decreased  1  percent,  while 
the  overall  yield  level  increased 
13    percent. 

The  Garden  State's  production 
of  cultivated  blueberries  was 
1,976,000  12-pint  trays,  11  per- 
cent above  last  year  and  18  per- 
cent more  than  the  1959-63  av- 
erage, with  a  preliminary  v-alue 
estimate  of  $5,829,000,  the  high- 
est since  I960. 

The  production  mcluded  159,- 
OCO  barrels  of  cranberries,  4  per- 
cent above  last  year  and  70  per- 
cent above  the  1959-63  average. 
This  was  the  largest  cranberry 
crop  since  1937  when  175,000  bar- 
rels were  produced.  Crop  value 
is  estimated  at  $2,306,000:  4  per- 
cent above   1964. 

NINE 


Dean's    Indian    Trail    Distinctive    Packaging. 


Major  Cranberry 
Push  by  Dean's 
Indian  Trail  '66 

The  rapidly  expanding  cran- 
berry product  line  of  Dean  Foods 
Company's  Indian  Trail  Division 
will  be  supported  in  1966  by  year- 
round  advertising,  new  packaging 
and  label  design,  and  continued 
research.  Details  of  the  program 
were  told  by  John  Rockwood,  Ex- 
ecutive Vice  President,  Dean 
Foods  Company. 

The  Indian  Trail  Cranberry 
Company,  which  was  purchased 
by  Dean  in  March,  previously 
produced  and  sold  fresh  cranber- 
ries, frozen  cranberry  with  or- 
ange, and  canned  cranberry  sauce. 
The  line  now  includes  cranberry 
juice  cocktail,  apple  cranberry 
drink,  and  frozen  cranberry  apple 
with   walnuts. 

The  marketing  program  includes 
four  color  advertising  in  regional 
editions  of  top  consumer  maga- 
zines and  week  end  newspaper 
supplements  in  major  Midwest 
markets.  The  magazines  currently 
scheduled  are  Better  Homes  and 
Gardens,    Ladies    Home    Journal, 


Look,  McCalls,  Redbook,  Woman's 
Day  and  Family  Circle.  Other 
media     are     under     consideration. 

New  labels  have  been  designed 
for  the  entire  cranberry  product 
line  which  include  the  "Bird-on- 
the-Mailbox"  as  a  symbol  of  Dean 
quality  in  the  company's  grow- 
ing line  of  grocery  store  products. 

Cranberry  packages  and  labels 
provide  serving  suggestions,  de- 
veloped by  the  Dean  Research 
Kitchen  in  Rockford,  Illinois  and 
private  laboratories.  The  Rock- 
ford  Laboratory  is  also  working 
on  the  expansion  of  cranberry  in- 
to other  food  lines. 


U.    S.    OVERSEAS 
PRODUCTS    UP 

Food    has    been   the 
active  U.  S.   industry 
now   foreign  business 
the     past     five     years, 
shows.    And  the  trend 
It   is    reported    U.    S. 
exports   may   hit  $6.2 
year   as   compared  to 
last   year.    Among  the 
going  up  are  fruits. 


fifth    most 

in  terms  of 

activity  for 

a     survey 

is  still  up. 
agricultural 

billion  this 
$6.1   billion 

food  items 


West  Coast 
Advisory  Board 
At  Bandon 

Directors  and  advisory  board 
members  of  Ocean  Spray  held 
the  semi-annual  meeting  at  Ban- 
don, Oregon  last  month.  Main 
purpose  was  to  unify  the  four  or 
so  cranberry-growing  areas  of 
the  West  Coast  into  an  effective 
unit. 

"These  meetings  help  to  make 
better  growers'  relations  between 
the  two  states  (Washington  and 
Oregon) ,"  Ocean  Spray  Director 
Jim  Olson  explained  in  an  inter- 
view with  the  Western  World, 
weekly  Bandon  newspaper. 

"Growers  get  a  better  under- 
standing of  what  is  gomg  on  in 
the  various  West  Coast  areas, 
at  Bandon,  here  in  Oregon  and 
Grayland,  Long  Beach  and  North 
Beach  in  Washington,  a  total  of 
about  450  growers,  producing 
some  150,000  barrels  of  cranber- 
ries,"   he    continued. 

He  added:  "Recommendations 
are  also  made  at  these  meetings 
of  West  Coast  Advisory  Boards, 
to  be  taken  by  the  Ocean  Spray 
director  to  be  presented  at  the 
meetings  at  Hanson. 
There  was  a  discussion  concern- 
ing a  new  Ocean  Spray  plant  at 
Bandon,  and  the  West  Coast 
plant  at  Markham,  Washington 
where  most  of  the  Coast  fruit  is 
processed  under  the  supervision 
of  West  Coast  Production  Man- 
ager Robert  Lucas. 

Olsen  said  that  West  Coast 
production  this  year  amounted 
to  about  197,000  barrels,  87,000 
more  than  last  year.  The  Ban- 
don area  produced  approximately 
41,000  barrels  on  478  acres  of 
bog.  The  remainder  of  the  crop 
was  grown  on  665  acres  in  Wash- 
ington. 

For  the  first  time  in  cranberry 
history,  Olsen  said  Bandon  grow- 
ers produced  no  fruit  (for  the 
fresh  market,  all  being  used  for 
processing.  Also  about  30  per 
cent  of  the  West  Coast  production 
went  for  cocktail  juice. 

Those  present  for  the  meet- 
ing included:  Pete  Hull,  L.  A. 
Williams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ray  Bates, 
Director    Olson    and    William    T. 


Dufort  from  the  Bandon  area; 
from  Washington,  Director  Nor- 
man Brateng  and  Mrs.  Brateng 
of  Long  Beach,  and  Director  Ce- 
cil Richards  of  Grayland.  Those 
present  from  Long  Beach,  besides 
Director  Brateng  were:  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  E.  O.  Chabot,  Frank  O. 
Glenn,  Jack  Karjala,  Robert 
Quinby,  Matt  Warra,  Arnold  Per- 
tula  and  Harold  Johnson  of 
Grayland;  from  North  Beach,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hugh  Well,  Mrs.  Maude 
O'Brien  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed 
Frazier  of  Grayland;  from  Long 
Beach,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Wilson 
Blair  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed  Lucas. 


CRANBERRY 

POLLINATION 

by  PHILIP  E.  MARUCCI 
This  article  presents  results  of 
iome  of  the  work  on  cranberry 
oollination  conducted  in  New 
Fersey  by  Professor  Robert  S. 
i'ilmer/ independently  and  in  col- 
aboration  with  the  writer  and 
larry    J.    Moulter. 

In  1949,  Filmen  presented  data 
0  show  that  wind  and  mechani- 
al  jarring  of  blossoms  were  in- 
ffective  in  promoting  pollination 
f  cranberries.  He  also  showed 
hat  the  then  new  organic  fungi- 
ides,  Fermate  and  Zerlate,  did 
lot  interfere  with  poUination  but 
hat  D.D.T.  induced  considerable 
lortality  of  bees  and  greatly  re- 
uced  bee  activity  for  at  least 
wo  days.  He  obtained  excellent 
et  of  cranberries  by  concentra- 
ing  honeybees  at  the  rate  of  a 
ive  per  2.5  acres  —  which  was  at 
he  time  more  than  was  generally 
sed  commercially.  He  also  noted 


that  wild  bee  populations  were 
inadequate  and  that  the  set  of 
berries  decreased  as  the  distance 
from  the  hives  increased. 

In  1953,  Filmera  showed  that 
yield  of  cranberries  could  be  in- 
creased from  12  to  34  barrels 
per  acre  by  increasing  the  popu- 
lation of  honeybees  from  1  hive 
per  2  acre  to  1  hive  per  acre. 
His  study  of  a  large  mass  of  data 
indicated  that  high  yields  were 
associated  with  high  numbers  of 
blossoming  uprights  per  unit  area. 
The  wide  range  of  blossoming 
uprights  and  blossoms  per  square 
foot  which  he  found  on  individual 
bogs  and  from  bog  to  bog  on 
the  same  property  led  him  to  be- 
lieve that  factors  other  than  pol- 
lination which  reduced  blossom- 
ing were  of  great  importance  in 
cranberry    production. 

In  1953  and  1954,  Filmera  made 
a  detailed  study  of  the  blossoming 
and  fruiting  habit  of  the  Early 
Black  variety  in  New  Jersey. 
The  characteristics  of  the  Early 
Black,  summarized  below,  have 
not  varied  appreciably  since  1954. 

a.  30%  of  the  crop  was  ob- 
tained with  only  3  blossoms; 
33%  on  uprights  bearing  4 
blossoms  and  only  17%  on  up- 
rights with  5  blossoms. 

b.  Approximately  30%  of  the 
crop  is  borne  on  uprights  with 
only  one  .berry,  40%  on  those 
with  two  berries,  and  only 
20%  were  borne  on  uprights 
having   three    berries. 

c.  80  to  85%  of  the  bloom  is 
borne  on  uprights  with  3,  4 
and    5   blossoms. 

d.  The  percentage  of  blossoms 
set  tended  to  be  lower   as  the 


number  of  blossoms  per  up- 
right increased;  the  efficiency 
of  the  blossom  to  convert  to 
fruit  was  greatest  on  the 
single  blossomed  uprights. 

e.  The  uprights  with  the  larger 
number  of  blossoms  were  more 
efficient  producers  of  berries 
than  uprights  with  lower  num- 
bers. 

f.  Blossoming  uprights  in  Early 
Black  in  New  Jersey  produce 
an  average  of  from  1.35  to 
1.51  berries  per  blossoming  up- 
right. 

Filmer,  Marucci  and  Moulter4 
obtained  data  in  1956  and  1957 
which  demonstrated  that  the  size 
of  Champions,  Early  Blacks, 
Howes,  and  Jerseys  were  directly 
related  to  the  seed  count.  In  a 
cage  test  in  which  bees  were 
excluded,  only  1  per  cent  of  the 
blossoms  set  and  these  were  all 
small  in  size  and  had  an  average 
seed  count  of  only  2.71  seeds. 
Pollination  of  vines  in  the  open, 
subject  to  visitation  by  bees,  was 
much  greater  and  the  berries 
much  larger.  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  on 
Champions  to  20  per  berry  in 
Howes  and  Jerseys,  and  averaged 
about  12  for  Early  Blacks,  Howes 
and  Jerseys,  and  17  for  Cham- 
pions. Only  one  berry  in  8,000 
examined  contained   no   seeds. 

In  1956  and  1957,  Marucci  and 
Filmers  studied  cranberry  blos- 
som blast.  Cranberry  blossoms 
which  fail  to  set  fruit,  imlike 
those  of  deciduous  fruits  such  as 
apple     or     peach,     do     not     drop 


Table   1. 
Effect   of   Proximity    of   Cross    Pollen    on  Set.    Size    and    Weight    of    Berries 


Berries 
Blossoming 
Per  Upright 

CHAMPIONS 

Caged   vines  with   cross   pollen  1.48 

Open  pollination  outside  cage  1.00 

Open  pollination  at  junction  of 

Shaws  Success  and  McFarlin     1.74 

HOWES 

Caged  vines  with   cross  pollen  1.40 

Open   pollination  outside  cage  1.03 

EARLY  BLACKS 

Caged  vines  with  cross  pollen  0.94 

Open  pollination  outside  cage  0.52 


%  Blossom- 
ing Uprights  %  Bios-  Average  Average 
with  soms  Berry  Wt.  Seed 
Berries  Set  in  Grams  Count 


92 
76 


98 

77 
48 

98 
79 


50 
30 

1.29 
0.97 

10.6 
7.2 

60 

1.47 

11.1 

40 
27 

1.00 
0.85 

9.5 
8.8 

32 

17 

0.67 
0.60 

13.5 

14.1 

ELEVEN 


but  dry  up  and  remain  conspicu- 
ously affixed  to  the  stem.  These 
are  called  "blasts"  and  the  fact 
that  they  almost  al\va\-s  greatly 
outnumber  berries  is  a  condition 
which  can  understandably  be  of 
concern  to  a  grower.  It  was  con- 
cluded that  "blasted,"  or  dead 
blossoms  which  fail  to  set  fruit, 
are  result  of  natural  attrition  or 
overproduction  of  blossoms.  This 
was  evidenced  in  the  fact  that 
uprights  with  smaller  numbers  of 
blossoms  had  a  smaller  percent- 
age of  them  blasting  (or  a  larger 
percentage  setting)  than  those 
with  larger  number  of  blossoms. 
Artificial  pruning  of  blossoms 
which  reduced  the  blossoms  on 
uprights  resulted  in  a  higher  per- 
centage set  of  fruit  or  a  lower 
rate  of  blast.  Blossoming  and 
fruiting  data  showed  that  the  well 
managed  properties  had  signifi- 
cantly more  blossoms  per  square 
foot  and  more  berries  per  square 
foot,  but  they  did  not  have  sig- 
nificantly more  berries  per  blos- 
soming upright  and  they  did  not 
have  less  blossom  blast.  Oddly, 
the  highest  producing  bog  studied 
had  the  most  blossom  blast  as 
well  as  the  most  blossoms. 

Filmer  and  Maruccie  studied 
blueberry  pollination  in  New 
Jersey.  The  clear  advantages  of 
cross  pollination  in  promoting 
larger  and  more  quickly  maturing 
blueberries  spurred  a  considera- 
tion of  this  factor  in  the  cran- 
berry which  is  closely  related  to 
the  blueberry.  Milton  Strickerv 
had  speculated  in  1943  on  the  ad- 
vantages of  cross  pollination  in 
cranberries  when  he  observed  an 
unusually  high  set  of  fruit  (72%) 
in  vines  containing  several  "Jer- 
se.y"  varieties.  In  regard  to  the 
percentage  of  blossoms  that  form 
berries  in  Massachusetts,  Berg- 
mans states  that  "records  of  many 
years  show  that  seldom  do  more 
than  40%  of  the  blossoms  set 
fruit."  He  gave  the  range  as 
from   30  to  39%. 

Filmer  and  Maruccis  observed 
similar  sets  in  New  Jersey  ex- 
cepting in  areas  where  the  vines 
of  several  different  varieties  grew 
intermingled,  in  which  an  ex- 
tremely high  percentage  of  the 
blossoms  set  fruit.    In  preliminary 


cage  tests,  the  results  of  which 
are  tabulated  in  Table  1,  better 
sets  of  berries  were  obtained 
where  cross  pollination  occurred. 
These  studies  are  continuing. 

New  Jersey  cranberry  growers 
are  now  using  honeybees  more 
intensely  than  ever  before.  Close 
to  one  hive  per  acre  is  being  used 
on  many  properties.  Yields  in 
excess  of  100  barrels  per  acre, 
unusually  high  for  this  state, 
were  obtained  in  1964  on  sev- 
eral bogs  which  used  high  con- 
centration of  bees.  Growers  are 
convinced  that  better  pollination 
is  one  of  the  factors  helping  to 
bring  about  better  production.  As 
evidence  of  this  and  in  apprecia- 
tion of  Professor  Filmer's  work 
they  passed  the  following  reso- 
lution at  the  Annual  Summer 
Meeting  of  the  American  Cran- 
berry Growers'  Association  on 
August  27,   1964: 

"Professor  Fihner  has  made  ex- 
cellent contributions  to  the 
cranberry  industry  of  New  Jer- 
sey. His  studies  of  cranberry 
pollijiation  have  given  growers 
a  better  understanding  of  the 
relationship  of  bees  to  fruit 
set.  This  has  brought  about  a 
more  intensive  use  of  bees  on 
cranberry  bogs,  which  is  un- 
doubtedly one  of  the  factors 
accounting  for  our  steadily  in- 
creasing yields  in  New  Jersey. 
"Professor  Filmer  will  be  retir- 
ing soon.  I  am  sure  that  we 
all  appreciate  his  fine  work 
and  want  to  compliment  him  as 
a  group  for  his  efforts  on  our 
behalf.  I  want  a  motion  that 
upon  his  retirement  we  trans- 
7nit  to  the  Experiment  Station 
an  expression  of  our  respect 
and  adiniration  for  Professor 
Filmer  and  his  work.  I  fur- 
ther move  that  the  Experiment 
Station  be  urged  to  appoint  an 
apic^dturist  to  succeed  Profes- 
sor Filmer  so  that  this  im- 
portant work  on  pollination  can 
be    continued." 

(Professor  Filmer  died  on  Oc- 
tober   25,    1964.) 

Dr.  Alan  W.  Benton,  an  api- 
culturist  recently  awarded  the 
Ph.D.  degree  from  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, is  now  on  the  staff  of  the 
Rutgers      Department      of      Ento- 


mology and  Economic  Zoology 
and  will  conduct  studies  on  cran- 
berry  pollination. 

REFERENCES: 

1  Filmer,  Robert  S.  —  Cranberry 
Pollination  Studies  —  Proc.  of 
Am.  Cran.  Growers'  Assn.,  Aug. 
25,  1949. 

2  Filmer,  Robert  S.  —  Cranberry 
Pollination  Studies  —  Proc.  of 
Am.  Cran.  Growers'  Assn.,  Aug. 
20,  1953. 

3  Filmer,  Robert  S.  —  The  Bloom- 
ing and  Fruiting  Habits  of 
Early  Black  Cranberries  in  New 
Jersey  —  Proc.  of  Am.  Cran. 
Growers'  Assn.,  Feb.  3,   1955. 

4  Filmer,  Robert  S.,  Philip  Mar- 
ucci  and  Harry  Moulter  —  Seed 
Counts  and  Size  of  Cranberries 
—  Proc.  of  Am.  Cran.  Growers 
Assn.,  Feb.  6,   1958. 

s  Marucci,  Philip  E.  and  Robert 
S.  Filmer  —  Cranberry  Blossom 
Blast  Is  Not  Caused  by  Disease 
— Reprint  from  Nov. -Dec,  1957 
issue  of  N.J.  Agric,  Rutgers 
Univ.,  New  Brunswick,  N.J. 

6  Filmer,  Robert  S.  and  Philip  E. 
Marucci  —  The  Importance  of 
Honeybees  in  Blueberry  Pol- 
lination —  Proc.  of  31st  Annual 


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7  Strieker,  Milton  H.  —  Bees  and 
Pollinating  Cranberries  —  Proc. 
of  Am.  Cran.  Growers'  Assn., 
Jan.   26,   1946. 

8  Bergman,  H.  F. — Flowering  and 
Fruiting  Characteristics  of  the 
Cranberry  in  New  Jersey — Proc. 
of  Am.  Cran.  Growers'  Assn., 
Feb.    4,    1954. 

9  Marucci,  P.  E.  and  R.  S.  Filmer 
—  Preliminary  Cross  Pollination 
Tests  on  Cranberries  —  Proc.  of 
Am.  Cran.  Growers'  Assn., 
1961-1964. 


Recap  of  Oregon 
For  1965 

Editor's  Note:  The  jollowing 
article  recaps  the  1965  production 
year  of  cranberries  in  Oregon. 
The  article  was  written  hy  Fred 
Hagelstein  who  is  Coos  County 
Extension  Agent,  Coquille,  Oregon. 

The  1965  Oregon  cranberry 
crop  reached  nearly  41,000  bar- 
rels surpassing  1964  production 
by  at>out  seventeen  percent.  Crop 
quality  was  generally  good.  In 
light  of  present  cranberry  prices. 


1965  will  be  remembered  as  a 
good  cranberry  year  for  most 
Oregon  growers. 

There  are  probably  two  pri- 
mary reasons  for  the  larger  Ore- 
gon crop  this  past  year.  First  is 
the  increased  attention  growers 
are  giving  to  frost  control.  Con- 
trary to  the  "banana-belt"  repu- 
tation of  southwestern  Oregon, 
where  most  of  the  Oregon  crop 
is  grown,  frost  can  occur  on  bogs 
into  late  June.  Establishment  of 
frost  forecast  warnings  by  the 
U.  S.  Weather  Bureau  and  pro- 
vision for  frost  protection  by 
means  of  sprinkler  systems  has 
done  much  for  Oregon  growers 
in  the  last  few  years. 

A  late  frost  had  much  to  do 
with  the  lower  yields  in  1964. 
More  attention  to  frost  control 
could  undoubtedly  raise  the  to- 
tal Oregon  crop  even  more. 
Fireworm 
Losses  due  to  fireworm  damage 
were  also  less  in  1965  than  in 
1964.  Here,  again,  is  where  at- 
tention by  the  grower  must  be 
timely.  For  the  past  several  years 
the  local  Extension  office  has  kept 


cranberry  weed  problems  that 
should  not  be  overlooked,  how- 
ever. Dichlobenil  has  great  po- 
tential in  Oregon  for  cleaning  up 
some  very  low  producing  weedy 
bogs. 

New  Bog 
Several  acres  of  new  bogs  are 
being  established  in  Oregon  and 
the  trend  continues  toward  more 
water  harvesting.  Lower  harvest 
costs  is  the  primary  reason.  Cost 
of  hired  labor  in  the  cranberry 
producing  areas  of  Oregon  usu- 
ally run  a  minimum  of  $2  an 
hour. 

A  cost  of  production  study  on 
cranberry  production  in  Oregon 
was  made  this  past  year  by  the 
Coos  County  Extension  Office 
and  extension  farm  management 
specialists  from  Oregon  State  Uni- 
versity. A  nine  member  cran- 
berry advisory  committee,  which 
assists  OSU  extension  and  re- 
search worker  regarding  pro- 
track  of  fireworm  activity  during 
the  early  spring  and  notified 
growers  when  the  first  hatch  was 
observed.  Even  so,  the  individual 
grower,    if   he    suspects    fireworm 


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activity  in  his  bogs,  must  watch 
for  activity  in  his  own  bog  and 
time  his  own  spray  program  for 
maximum  effectiveness.  Although 
there  was  considerable  fireworm 
activity  this  past  year,  losses  due 
to  this  insect  were  less  than  in 
1964. 

There  was  extensive  use  of 
dichlobenil  (Casoron)  for  weed 
control  on  Oregon  bogs  this  past 
year  as  in  other  cranberry  pro- 
ducing areas.  The  results  have 
generally  been  good.  There  are 
several  other  good  herbicides  that 
do  an  excellent  job  on  certain 
grams  with  the  cranberry  indus- 
try, provided  cost  data  on  their 
cranberry  operations  which  was 
used   in    the   cost    study. 

Cost     Production     Study 

The  study  itself  was  divided 
into  three  parts:  1)  cost  per  acre 
of  establishment  of  a  cranberry 
bog  under  Oregon  conditions,  2) 
annual  cost  during  the  pre-pro- 
duction period,  and  3)  average 
cost  of  production  once  the  bog 
is  in  production.  Of  particular 
interest  was  an  average  cost  fig- 
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of  bog  and  nearly  a  like  Invest- 
ment cost  to  care  for  an  acre  of 
bog  during  the  pre-production 
years  until  it  comes  into  pro- 
duction. Once  in  production,  the 
annual  total  cost  of  producing  a 
barrel  of  cranberries  ranged  from 
$5.93  to  $11.02  depending  on  yield. 


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SALES  AND  RETURNS  TO  GROWERS 


CHINESE  CRANBERRY 
WORKER  HANGED - 
65   YEARS  AGO 

An  interesting  article  appeared 
in  a  recent  issue  of  the  Long- 
view  Daily  News,  Washington 
State  telling  of  the  trial  and 
execution  of  a  Chinese  cranberry 
worker.  According  to  the  article, 
Lum  You  was  well  known  and 
well   liked. 

His  capital  punishment  was 
carried  out  at  the  Washington 
county  seat  of  South  Bend,  and 
500  invitations  were  issued  for 
the  hanging,  including  children 
to  show  that  crime  does  not  pay. 

(This  however,  all  took  place 
about  65  years  ago  at  a  time 
when  Chinese  were  employed  in 
the  building  of  bog  on  the  West 
Coast. 


So    Stockholders    are   told    at 
Annual  Meeting— New  Proucts 
Assure    Bright    Future  — 
Increased    Facilities   Urgently 
Needed    —    Officers    and 
Directors   re-elected 

"Cranberrying  should  continue 
to  be  wonderful  business,"  grower 
members  of  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries, Inc.,  were  assured  by  offi- 
cers of  the  national  cooperative 
at  the  35th  Annual  Meeting  held 
Wednesday,  January  12,  in  the 
Wareham,  Massachusetts,  Town 
Hall. 

"New  records  in  sales  and  dol- 
lar volume  were  reached  in  the 
fiscal  year  closing  on  August  31, 
1965,  and  the  calendar  year, 
1965,"  President  George  C.  P. 
Olsson    reported. 

"The  return  per  barrel  to  the 
grower,  which  is  the  main  reason 
for  the  company's  existance,  has 
increased  each  year  for  the  past 
four  years.  This  year  the  return 
is   one   of  the   highest  on   record. 

"Factors  responsible  for  this 
present  healthy  condition  in  the 
cranberry  industry  are,"  Presi- 
dent Olsson  said,  "first,  the  elim- 
ination of  a  surplus  in  1962,  by 
means  of  the  Marketing  Order 
and  placing  each  pool  on  a  12- 
month  basis. 

"The  next  and  most  important 
step  was  bringing  new  and  ag- 
gressive leadership  to  Ocean. 
Spray  including  an  entire  new 
concept  in  the  marketing  and 
sales  field.  The  introduction  of 
Cranberry  Juice  Cocktail  to  the 
national  market,  backed  by 
national  advertising,  has  been  the 
biggest  single  factor  in  our  for- 
ward progress.  The  introduction 
of  other  new  products  such  as 
Cranberry  Orange  Relish,  plus 
constant  and  diligent  search  by 
our  Research  and  Development 
Department  for  other  new  prod- 
ucts should  help  us  to  expand 
the  market  and  keep  abreast  of 
the     ever    increasing     production 


of  cranberries  by  our  growers 
across  the  country. 

"Adequate  plant  facilities  and 
production  conditions  continue 
to  be  our  major  problem  and 
challenge. 

"Preliminary  steps  have  been 
taken  to  acquire  new  sites  in  the' 
other  areas  and  to  research  and 
plan  for  plants  that  can  both 
handle  the  volume  of  production 
and  manufacture  efficiently  the 
variety  of  products,  which  must 
be  our  first  concern  to  enable  us 
to  maintain  an  adequate  return 
to    our   growers." 

Ocean  Spray,  grower  members 
were  told,  receives  and  handles 
about  80  per  cent  of  the  national 
crop,  some  1,400,000  barrels  in 
1965,  or  more  than  double  the 
annual  average  production  of 
cranberries  for  the  ten  year 
period,  1935-44.  But  plant  facil- 
ities, built  to  handle  some  400,000 
barrels,  remain  at  the  1949  capa- 
city. 

Emphasizing  the  need  for 
expanded  facilities,  Edward 
Gelsthorpe,  Executive  Vice 
President  and  General  Manager 
of  Ocean  Spray,  urged  that  the 
"time  to  make  changes  is  when 
things  are  going  well." 

Ocean  Spray's  plants  "are 
bursting  at  the  seams,"  he  said. 
"Plant  expansion  is  most  impor- 
tant." 

Sales  of  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berry Sauces  in  the  period  of 
September  through  December 
1965,  he  reported,  are  far  and 
away  the  largest  in  the  company's 
history.  Cranberry  Juice  Cock- 
tail "is  going  like  a  house  afire," 
and  the  Low  Calorie  Cocktail, 
recently  introduced  hationally, 
is  rapidly  becoming  a  very  major 
product.  Low  Calorie  Sauce 
sales  have  about  doubled  and 
part  of  the  increase  is  due  to  the 
Low  Calorie  Jellied  Cranberry 
Sauce  now  in  national  distribu- 
tion. Fresh  Cranberries  were 
sold   out  before   Christmas. 

But,  Mr.  Gelsthorpe  said, 
"Not  to  bring  out  new  products, 
is    to    stand    still.'" 


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Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

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Having  launched  Cranberry 
Orange  Relish  and  with  a  new 
fruit  drink,  Cranapple,  in  test 
markets,  Ocean  Spray  is  moving 
into  the  frozen  food  market  with 
a  new  Frozen  Orange  Cranberry 
Concentrate  and  Frozen  Cran- 
berry Juice  Cocktail  Concentrate. 

The  company  is  extending  dis- 
tribution in  England  under  an 
aggressively    planned    program. 

"Our  first  foreign  market  is 
England  and  business  there  js 
on  the  increase.  We  know  there 
is  a  good  foreign  market  for 
cranberry    products. 

"Ocean  Spray  has  expanded 
its  operations  in  Canada  and 
sales  there  are  up  some  six  per 
cent." 

The  new  Cranberry  House  in 
Orleans,  Massachusetts,  second 
retail  outlet  for  Ocean  Spray, 
and  first  Cranberry  House  in 
Onset,  Massachusetts,  are  carry- 
ing out  a  very  successful  promo- 
tion of  cranberries  for  the 
industry. 

"Ocean  Spray  anticipates  a 
56  million  dollar  goal,  Mr.  Gels- 
thorpe  told  the  grower  members, 
"and  each  of  you  is  a  large  part 
of  this  closely  held  big  business." 

Treasurer  Chester  W.  Robbins 
reported  the  company  to  be  in  a 
strong  financial  position.  Counsel 
John  R.  Quarles  and  Secretary 
Russell  Makepeace  also  reported. 
The  invocation  was  offered  by 
Rev.  Roland  V.  E.  Johnson,  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  Wareham,  Massachusetts. 

Officers  and   Directors   Elected 

The  encumbent  Board  of 
Directors  and  Officers  were 
reelected  by  Ocean  Spray  mem- 
bers during  the  meeting  which 
was  open  only  to  holders  of 
common  stock,  officers,  and  some 
employees.  The  Press  was  ex- 
cluded for   the   first   time. 

George  C.  P.  Olsson  of  Plym- 
outh, Massachusetts,  a  member 
of  the  Board  since  1957,  was 
reelected  to  his  eighth  term  as 
President.  Lester  M.  Gordon  of 
Tomah,  Wisconsin,  elected  Vice 
President  in  1962,  was  again 
returned  to  office  as  First  Vice 
President.  Edwin  F.  Lewis,  of 
Centerville,  Massachusetts,  who 
joined  the   coperative   in    1963    as 


Director  of  Marketing,  was  re- 
elected Vice  President.  Russell 
Makepeacce  of  Wareham,  Massa- ' 
chusetts.  Board  member  since 
1941,  was  returned  to  the  Secre- 
tary's office  and  Chester  W. 
Robbins  of  Onset,  Massachusetts, 
on  the  Board  since  1957,  was 
reelected    Treasurer. 

Ocean  Spray's  General  Man- 
ager, Edward  Gelsthorpe  of  Cum- 
maquid,  Massachusetts,  was 
reappointed  Executive  Vice 
President  and  Chief  Executive 
Officer,  and  Edward  J.  Gaughan 
of  Marshfleld,  Massachusetts,  was 
reelected  Assistant  Secretary- 
Treasurer. 

The  24-member  Board  of 
Directors  follows.  From  Massa- 
chusetts: Victor  F.  Adams  of 
Osterville,  Frank  P.  Crandon  of 
Acushnet,  WilUam  E.  Crowell  of 
Dennis,  David  W.  Eldredge  of 
South  Carver,  Carroll  D.  Griffith 
of     South     Carver,     Richard     A. 


Heleen  of  Middleboro,  Russell 
Makepeace  of  Wareham,  George 
C.  P.  Olsson  of  Plymouth,  Elmer 
E.  Raymond,  Jr.  of  Braintree, 
Chester  W.  Robbins  of  Onset, 
Alvin  R.  Reid  of  Hanson,  Miss 
Ellen  Stillman  of  Hanson  and 
Marcus  M.  Urann  of  South  Dux- 
bury. 

From  New  Jersey:  John  E. 
Cutts  of  Vincentown,  Thomas  B. 
Darlington  of  New  Lisbon  and 
William  S.  Haines  of  Chatsworth. 

From  Washington:  Norman  I. 
Brateng  of  Long  Beach,  Cecil  G. 
Richards   of   Grayland. 

From  Oregon:  James  Olson 
of    Bandon. 

From  Wisconsin:  Alfred  E. 
Bark  of  Wisconsin  Rapids,  Donald 
S.  Duckart  of  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Lester  M.  Gordon  of  Tomah, 
Harold  D.  Gross  of  Manitov/ish 
Waters,  and  Tony  Jonjak  of 
Hayward. 


Leo  A.  Sorensen 
Wins  Suit  in 
Wisconsin 

Verdict  May   Be  Appealed 

Editor's  Note:  The  following 
is  reprinted  from  the  Wisconsin 
Rapids  Tribune,  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Wisconsin. 


Sale  of  6,000  shares  of  stock 
in  the  Thiele  Cranberry  Co.  has 
been  decided  in  favor  of  Leo 
Sorensen,  449  Greenwood  Dr.,  a 
private  consultant  to  cranberry 
growers. 

Circuit  Judge  Merrill  Farr  of 
Eau  Claire,  who  presided  at  the 
trial  of  a  lawsuit  brought  by 
Sorensen  against  Indian  Trail, 
Inc.,  ordered  Indian  Trail  to  turn 
the  stock  certificates  over  to  the 
Wood  County  National  Bank  by 
Jan.    17. 

Jan.    27    Deadline 

Sorensen  was  given  until  Jan. 
27  to  raise  the  $90,000  which  was 
the  agreed  upon  sale  price  for 
the  stock  ($15  per  share).  He  told 
The  Tribune  today  that  he  in- 
tends to  buy  the  stock.  If  he  does 
not  do  so  by  the  deadline  date, 
it  will  be  returned  to  Indian 
Trail. 


The  Thiele  cranberry  marsh  is 
located  near  the  Wisconsin  River, 
northeast  of  Wisconsin  Rapids. 
The  property  consists  of  1,100 
acres,  with  approximately  50 
acres  of  cranberry  vines.  It  was 
reported  at  the  trial  that  the  6,- 
000  shares  represent  two-thirds 
interest  in  the  marsh,  with  Clar- 
ence Searles,  town  of  Cranmoor, 
owning  the  other  3,000  shares. 
Option     Held    pinding 

Judge  Farr  ruled  that  an  op- 
tion agreement  signed  by  Soren- 
sen and  Mrs.  Villa  Thiele  on  April 
22,  1964,  was  binding.  A  prior 
oral  agreement  between  Mrs. 
Thiele  and  Ben  Pannkuk,  presi- 
dent of  Indian  Trail,  was  unen- 
forcable  because  there  was  no 
written  contract  and  no  payment, 
the  judge  ruled. 

At  the  time  of  the  stock  trans- 
actions in  1964,  Indian  Trail  was 
a  cranberry  marketing  agency 
with  headquarters  here.  It  has 
since  been  sold  to  Dean  Foods 
Co.  of  Chicago. 

Pannkuk  said  today  that  he  had 
not  been  officially  notified  of  the 
decision   and    did    not   know   if   it 
would    be    appealed    to    the    Su- 
preme     Court.        Atty.      Richard  | 
Brazeau,    a    witness    at    the    trial  li 
and  formerly  a  one-quarter  owner  p 
of  Indian  Trail,  said  the  decision  l| 


SIXTEEN 


on  an  appeal  rested  with  the 
company's  legal  counsel,  but  ad- 
ded that  "I  assume  it  will  be 
appealed." 

Criticizes   Actions 

Judge  Farr  was  critical  of  Bra- 
zeau,  Pannkuk  and  Atty  John 
Cole  for  their  actions  at  a  con- 
ference with  Mrs.  Thiele  on  April 
23,  1964,  the  day  after  she  had 
signed  the  option  agreement  and 
accepted  a  $500  check  from 
Sorensen. 

At  this  conference,  Mrs.  Thiele 
was  advised  by  Brazeau  that  her 
oral  agreement  with  Indian  Trail 
was  binding,  and  she  subse- 
quently turned  over  the  shares 
of  stock  which  she  controlled  to 
the  marketing  agency. 

Judge  Farr  termed  this  "a  pro- 
cedure which  was  most  unusual, 
if  not  shocking."  He  concluded 
that  "the  actions  of  the  defend- 
ants is  designated  a  species  of 
fraud." 

Judge  Farr  decided  that  Mrs. 
Thiele,  a  75-year-old  widow,  "was 
completely  free  at  all  times  from 
any  desire  or  intent  to  avoid  her 
lawful  obligations;  that  she 
breeched  her  contract  with  Leo 
Sorensen  because  she  honestly 
believed  it  was  her  legal  duty  to 
sell  to  Indian   Trail." 

The  Thiele  stock  obtained  by 
Indian  Trail  was  subsequently 
sold  to  Charles  Laramie,  Jr.  and 
Joseph  Hoelting,  who  were  also 
named  as  defendants  in  Soren- 
sen's  legal   action. 

Judge  Farr  explained  that  he 
was  ordering  the  stock  returned 
to  Indian  Trail  in  the  event 
Sorensen  did  not  decide  to  buy, 
however,  "because  there  is  noth- 
ing in  the  record  to  indicate  the 
proportion  of  ownership  by  Lara- 
mie and  Hoelting."  The  two  in- 
dividuals had  signed  an  indem- 
nity agreement  with  Indian  Trail 
to  protect  them  in  the  event  of  a 
lawsuit,  it  was  brought  out  at 
the   trial. 

Orders    Statmetit    Filed 

In  addition  to  awarding  the 
stock  to  Sorensen,  Judge  Farr  or- 
dered the  officers  of  Indian  Trail 
to  file  with  him  a  detailed  state- 
ment of  all  business  transactions 
by  the  Thiele  Corporation  from 
April   24,   1964,  to  the  date  judg- 


ment was  rendered  in  the  case. 

"The  court  reserves  jurisdic- 
tion to  determine  irregularities  in 
the  management  of  said  corpora- 
tion which  may  affect  the  value 
of  the  stock,"  the  judge  added. 

Sorensen,  Judge  Farr  ruled, 
may  recover  his  legal  costs  from 
all  of  the  defendants  except  Mrs. 
Thiele,  and  Mrs.  Thiele  may  re- 
cover her  costs  from  the  other 
defendants.  The  trial  was  con- 
ducted here  in  early  December 
and  Judge  Farr's  decision  was 
filed  Wednesday.  Circuit  Judge 
Herbert  A.  Bunde  had  disquali- 
fied   himself    from    the    case. 


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John  D.   Roberts,  Of 
Wisconsin,  Wins 
Insecticide  Suit 

The  Wisconsin  Supreme  Court 
at  Madison  has  upheld  a  jury 
report  that  the  Perry  Creek  Cran- 
berry Corporation,  Black  River 
Falls,  Wisconsin,  John  D.  Rob- 
erts, president,  is  entitled  to 
damages  from  a  chemical  sup- 
plier. 

The  plaintiff  maintained  charges 
that  its  crop  was  damaged  in 
1964  after  treatment  with  3  per- 
cent malathion,  even  though  in 
its  application,  instructions  on 
insecticide   label  were  followed. 

The  corporation  maintained 
that  the  insecticide  manufacturer 
should  have  warned  that  the  dust 
would  be  harmful  to  i^^ranberry 
vines  if  applied  when  the  vines 
were  wet. 

Justice  E.  Harold  Hallows  in 
upholding  the  unanimous  opinion 


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found  that  Wisconsin  laws  require 
labels  to  "contain  instructions  for 
use  which  are  necessary  for  ef- 
fective results  and  adequate  for 
the  protection  of  the  user,  be- 
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of  the  public." 

The  award  was  in  the   amount 
of  $24,000. 


had  to   send  in    two    labels    from 
cranberry    sauce    cans. 

The  Cranberry  Institute  and 
the  Foreign  Service  in  overseas 
promotion    cooperated. 


CRANBERRIES    IN 
UK    FOR    CHRISTMAS 

Cranberries  promoted  for  Christ- 
mas in  the  United  Kingdom  was 
an  illustrated  article  in  the  De- 
cember 22  issue  of  Foreign  Ag- 
riculture, publication  of  the  US- 
DA.  Cranberries  were  on  display 
in  the  U.  S.  Trade  Center  at  Lon- 
don. There  was  a  contest  spon- 
sored by  Ocean  Spray  Cranber- 
ries, Inc.  offering  free  turkeys 
each  week  to  consumers  who 
correctly  indentified  something 
unusual  in  a  turkey  carving  pic- 
ture, appearing  in  British  maga- 
zines.   To   be  eligible,   contestants 


Peanut  and  Cranberry  Relish 

1   cup   cranberries 

Mf  cup  sugar 

¥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. 


damage  to  cranberries  and  blue- 
berries. During  the  normally  hot 
growing  months  of  June,  July 
and  August,  the  deficiency  of  the 
rainfall  was  only  about  3  inches 
as  compared  to  the  51/2  inch  deficit 
in  the  last  3  months  of  the  year. 
Almost  normal  rainfall  from  Jan- 
uary through  April  provided 
enough  soil  moisture  to  keep 
blueberries  gr  o  w  i  n  g  normally 
through  the  important  pollinating 
period.  Size  of  both  cranberries 
and  blueberries  was  affected  ad- 
versely by  the  cool  dry  summer 
but  these  condition  promoted  a 
good  keeping  quality  of  the  ber- 
ries. 

Year  Ended  Warm 

In  regard  to  temperature,  De- 
cember was  relatively  mild,  av- 
eraging 37.4  degrees  F.,  about  2 
degrees  warmer  than  normal. 
Christmas  Day  and  the  last  day 
of  the  year  were  almost  balmy, 
with  the  temperatures  reaching  63 
and  67  respectively.  There  were 
several  other  days  in  the  60s 
and  high  50s  and  Severe  cold 
snaps  were  infrequent  and  of 
short  duration.  Water  on  cran- 
berry  bogs  remained  open 
throughout  most  of  the  month 
with  the  ice  never  getting  thick 
enough  to   support   skating. 

The  annual  temperature  for 
1965  was  52.8  degrees  F.,  which 
is  1.6  degrees  F.  colder  than  nor- 
mal. It  was  the  sixth  consecu- 
tive year  and  the  tenth  in  the 
last  11  years  of  below  normal 
temperatures.  June,  July  and 
August  were  cooler  than  normal 
and  it  was  the  fifth  straight  year 
during  which  these  warm  sum- 
mer months  averaged  below  nor- 
mal in,  temperature.  Only  May, 
September  and  December  were 
warmer    than  normal. 

The  hottest  day  of  the  year  was 
June  23rd  when  the  thermometer 
reached  97  degrees  F.  The  cold- 
est day  was  January  18th  when 
the  mercury  dropped  to  7  de- 
grees  below   zero. 


OREGON 


FRESH   FROM  THE   FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  6 
the  rainfall  in   1965   was  such   as 
to      prevent     maximum     drought 


Storms 

The  Oregon  cranberry  area  did    'j 
not   escape   the   storms   and   gales    'i 
which    have    bothered    the    West 
Continued  on  Page  20  |it 


EIGHTEEN 


(jodif^al^ 


ISSUE  OL  JANUARY,  1966 
VOL.    30  -  NO.    9 


O^J^'**^'*^^ 


A  PROSPERING  INDUSTRY  IN  1966 

Like  the  United  States  economy  is  rocket- 
ing, as  emphasized  by  the  President  in  his 
State  of  the  Union  address,  so  is  the  cran- 
berry industry  at  this  start  of  1966.  But 
unlike  the  U.  S.  economy,  which  may  have 
some  "soft"  spots,  the  cranberry  industry 
appears  to  have  few.  The  continued  and 
prolonged  drought  in  Massachusetts  and 
New  Jersey,  with  its  damaging  effects  may 
be  one  but  there  seems  to  be  few  others. 

The  1965  crop  has  turned  out  to  be  a 
record,  and  it  sold  at  the  best  returns  to  the 
growers  in  years.  This  would  attest  to  the 
demand  for  cranberries  in  the  market  and 
to  sound  m.arketing  on  the  part  of  the  in- 
dustry, and  especially  Ocean  Spray,  which 
handles  such  a  large  proportion  of  the  entire 
yield.  The  1964  crop  was  also  a  big  one 
selling  at  only  slightly  less  returns. 

Indications  seem  to  be  that  marketwise, 
1966  will  also  be  a  satisfactory  year.  The 
industry,  with  ever  increasing  efficiency  in 
all  phases  of  cultivation  is  in  good  condition. 
We  are  learning  a  little  more  each  year 
how  to  produce  a  big  crop  of  cranberries. 

"Think  Retail,"  should  be  the  motto  of 
the  cranberry  growers  as  time  spins  along. 
Each  grower,  in  looking  at  his  product 
should  ask  himself:  "Will  it  sell  at  retail?" 
For  the  satisfaction  of  the  consumer  is  the 
final  answer.  Pleasing  the  customer  creates 
continued  demand. 

A  sale  is  really  never  completed  until 
the  customer  comes  back  for  a  second  time. 

Cranberries,  like  every  other  product  are 
in  a  constant  competition  for  sale  in  the 
market  place.  There  are  more  and  more 
items  in  the  supermarkets  every  year.  The 
cranberry  products  must  be  well  packaged 
and  sound  in  itself. 

Color  and  ripeness  are  important  as  well 
as  flavor  in  such  a  product  as  cranberries. 
They  must  all  be  there  if  Mrs.  Housewife 
is  to  return  again  and  buy  more  cranberries. 

The  industry  has  advanced  much  in  the 
tools  for  a  good  cranberry  harvest.  These 
tools  include  more  effective  chemicals,  for 
weed  and  insect  control.  The  increasing 
use  of  sprinkler  systems  in  the  past  two 
or  three  years  has  been  one  of  the  most 
important  of  these. 

There  seems  to  be  a  generally  good  feel- 
ing  among   cranberry    growers   that    this  is 


CLARENCE    J.    HALL 
Editor   and   Publisher 

EDITH    S.   HALL  —  Associate   Editor 
Wareham,   Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

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  Statio* 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


a  good  time  to  be  a  cranberry  grower.  We 
believe  we  may  look  for  continued  expan- 
sion in  the  years  to  come.  There  is  a  great 
demand  for  vines  for  planting  by  Massachu- 
setts growers  right  now,  that  is  for  spring 
planting.  A  survey  indicates  that  Wisconsin 
will  increase  its  acreage  by  25  percent  by 
1970.  New  bog  is  going  in  in  other  areas. 
The  goose  seems  to  hang  high  at  this  start 
of  1966  and  to  all  our  readers  we  wish  a 
most  prosperous  1966. 


NINETEEN 


FRESH  FROM  THE  FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page   18 

Coast  for  some  time  now.  Winds 
up  to  95  miles  an  hour  were 
clocked  at  the  Bandon  Coast 
Guard  Station.  There  were 
heavy  rains  and  rather  exten- 
sive flooding.  The  Coquille  River 
overflowed  the  highway,  Bandon 
to  Coquille  bridges  were  washed 
out. 

There  was  considerable  dam- 
age, but  on  the  whole  losses  were 
minor. 


WISCONSIN 

December  Warmer,   Wetter 

The  above  normal  tempera- 
tures and  precipitation  continued 
into  December  making  the  month 
one  of  the  highest  in  both  phases 
on  record.  Monthly  mean  tem- 
peratures were  6  to  10  degrees 
above  normal  throughout  the 
state.  Precipitation  was  heavier 
than  the  average  IVa  inches  with 
some  areas  receiving  up  to  4 
inches.  Coldest  readings  were  on 
the  7th  and  the  31st  when  zero 
or    below     was     reached     in     the 


north.  Warmest  reading  was  on 
the  30th  when  record  breaking 
readings  in  the  50's  was  reached 
over  the  entire  state.  The  first 
general  snowfall  over  the  entire 
state  occurred  on  ihe  19th  and 
20th  when  2  to  4  inches  fell. 
This  general  snowfall  over  the 
south  arrived  about  3  weeks 
later  than  normal.  The  warm 
weather  on  the  30th  melted  the 
snow  cover  in  the  south,  leav- 
ing the  north  with  an  average 
of  nine  inches  at  the  end  of  the 
year.  The  outlook  for  January 
calls  for  temperatures  to  be  be- 
low normal  and  average  precipi- 
tation. 

1965  Rain  Up 
The  yearly  total  precipitation 
in  the  cranberry  areas  totaled 
40.42  inches  making  it  the  3rd 
wettest  on  record  and  10  inches 
above  average.  Temperatures  for 
the  year  averaged  about  three 
degrees  below  normal,  with  frost 
in  every  month  of  the  growing 
season.  There  were  only  7  days 
with  temperatures  over  90  de- 
grees. The  excess  precipitation 
resulted  in  the  rise  of  the  ground 
water  table  and  brought  on  record 
flow  of  water.  Growers  were  ex- 
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Middleboro,  Massachusetts  is 
being  considered  by  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.,  as  the  site  for 
the  cranberry  cooperative's  new 
Massachusetts  receiving  and 
processing  plant,  according  to  an 
announcement  from  Edward 
Gelsthorpe,  Executive  Vice  Presi- 
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The  town,  long  an  important 
center  for  the  cranberry  industry, 


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and  meets  more  of  the  require- 
ments essential  to  the  operation 
of  the  new  plant  tlian  do  the 
other  nine  sites  Ocean  Spray  has 
carefully  reviewed,  Mr.  Gels- 
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"Chief  among  the  reasons  for 
making  Middleboro  our  Number 
One  choice  are  rail  and  road 
facilities  available  there,  power 
and  the  water  supply  and  general 
topography. 

"In  addition,  Middleboro  fulfills 
some  15  other  criteria  that  must 
influence  our  decision  on  the  new 
plant  location." 

The  major  factor,  now,  in  de- 
termining Ocean  Spray's  selection 
of  this  plant  site  as  compared  to 
two  other  almost  equally  desir- 
able sites  is  whether  the  town  of 
Middleboro  is  willing  to  provide 
certain  improvements  at  the  lo- 
cation  being   considered. 

Ocean  Spray's  present  plans 
for  the  new  plant  call  for  a  re- 
ceiving, screening  and  fresh  fruit 
packing  facility  to  be  in  operation 
by  the  fall  of  1967  and  the  proc- 
essing facility  for  all  Ocean  Spray 
products  to  be  in  operation  by 
the  fall  of  1968. 

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at  Hanson  does  not  seem  to  be 
certain  at  this  time.  Nor  has  the 
cost  been  officially  mentioned  as 
yet,  but  there  are  reports  the  ex- 
penditure will  be  about  $6,000,- 
000. 

It  is  said  the  business  and  ex- 
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Hanson. 

The  above  announcement,  is- 
sued January  27,  is  all  that  has 
been    officially   released. 


Dean  Foods  Company 
Acquires  New 
Dairy  Firm 

Sam  E.  Dean,  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Dean  Foods  Company 
announced  that  the  purchase  of 
the  operating  assets  of  Bowman 
Dairy  Company  by  Dean  was  con- 
cluded this  afternoon  at  the  time 
for  closing  previously  agreed  to 
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To  better  serve  our  customers  in  the  cranberry 
area,  we  have  moved  our  complete  Redwood 
Flume  Lumber  to  our  Middleboro  yard. 

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the  transaction  followed  the  entry 
of  an  order  by  the  Court  of  Ap- 
peals today  dismissing  the  pro- 
ceedings instituted  before  it  by 
the  Federal  Trade  Commission 
and  dissolving  the  temporary  re- 
straining order  which  that  Court 
had    previously    entered. 

The  time  for  closing  originally 
designated  to  be  2:00  P.M.  Mon- 
day, January  10,  1966  had  been 
postponed  by  agreement  of  the 
parties  on  a  day  to  day  basis 
pending  the  Court's  ruling  and 
while  the  stay  order  was  in 
effect. 


THERE   ARE   TWO 
CRANBERRIES 

The  postal  guide  lists  Cherry 
in  Illinois,  Plum  in  both  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Texas;  Strawberry  in 
Arkansas  and  California;  Orange 
in  California,  Massachusetts,  New 
Jersey  and  Virginia;  Lemon  in 
Missouri  and  Cranberry  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  West  Virginia.  But 
there  is  no  Apple,  Grape,  Avo- 
cado, Pear,  Raspberry,  Current 
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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  Exec- 
utive Committee  of  NE-44  in  New- 
York  City  from  January  3  to  5. 
This  is  a  regional  project  on 
mechanical  harvesting  of  fruits 
and   vegetables. 

Dr.  Chester  Cross  was  also  in 
New  York  City  on  January  3. 
"Chet"  attended  the  organiza- 
tional meeting  of  a  proposed 
Northeastern  regional  aquatic 
weed  research  project.  Dr.  Robert 
Devlin  was  appointed  Executive 
Secretary  of  the  committee  and 
will  also  be  project  leader  for 
the  Massachusetts  section,  as- 
sisted by  Dr.  "Wes"  Miller  and 
the  Extension  Specialist.  The  ob- 
jectives of  the  project  are  to 
study  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  selected  submersed 
aquatic    weed  species. 

Dr.  Robert  Devlin  attended  the 
Northeastern  Weed  Control  Con- 
ference in  New  York  City  from 
January  4  to  8.  iDr.  Devlin  pre- 
sented a  paper  on  "Effects  of 
Indole-3-Acetic  Acid  and  Para- 
chlorophenoxyisobutyric  Acid  on 
Abscission  in  Phaseolus  vulgaris." 
How's  that  for  a  mouthful!  Ac- 
tually this  was  an  important  piece 
of  basic  research  having  to  do 
with  using  the  two  chemicals  to 
control  the  normal  separation 
process  of  plant  parts,  which  oc- 
curs as  falling  leaves  or  fruit 
drop,  using  beans  as  the  experi- 
mental plants. 

Weather 

January  was  1  degree  a  day 
below  normal  in  temperature. 
The  month  gave  us  a  very  pleas- 
ant surprise  by  ending  up  with 
a  total  of  4.48  inches  of  precipi- 
tation, slightly  above  the  30  year 
average   at   East  Wareham.    This 


was  the  first  month  with  average 
or  above  average  precipitation 
since  December  1964.  Snowfall 
totalled  15.8  inches  or  a  little 
more  than  double  the  average. 
We  are  all  hoping  that  the  Janu- 
ary precipitation  was  not  a  freak 
and  that  it  will  keep  falling  in 
good  amounts  for  quite  a  few 
months.  We  sure  need  it. 
Charts 
The  cranberry  pesticide  charts 
have  been  revised  and  are  be- 
ing printed.  The  Cranberry  Sta- 
tion will  mail  the  new  charts  to 
growers  in  March.  The  assist- 
ance and  observations  of  the 
growers  who  helped  with  the 
chart  revisions  are  always  greatly 
appreciated.  Plans  do  not  call 
for  a  revision  of  the  fertiUzer 
chart,  so  growers  should  not  dis- 
card their  copy.    There  is  a  sup- 


ply of  these  charts  still  available 
at  the  Station.  Anyone  who  needs 
one  should  send  us  a  request. 
Dr.  Chandler's  fertilizer  bulletin 
is  also  available. 
Scum 

Growers  are  reminded  that 
February  or  early  March  is  a 
good  time  to  check  bogs  for  the 
presence  of  green  scum  around 
shore  ditches.  If  present,  it 
should  be  treated  with  copper 
sulfate  using  the  recommenda- 
tions on  the  1965  weed  control 
chart. 

Odds    &    Ends 

A  few  interesting  bits  of  in- 
formation not  necessarily  about 
cranberries. 

Insects  chew  up  three  billion 
dollars  worth  of  food  and  fiber 
in   the   United   States   each   year. 

Losses  to  weeds  in  the  United 
States  exceeds  four  and  one- 
half  billion  dollars  annually. 

It  is  estimated  that  by  1975 
the  American  farmer  will  have 
to  supply  47  percent  more  beef. 
28  percent  more  poultry,  27  per- 
cent more  lamb,  27  percent  more 
fruits  and  vegetables,  24  per- 
cent more  pork,  13  percent  more 
eggs  and  12  percent  more  milk 
to  feed  our  expanding  popula- 
tion. 


C.  fir  L.  EQUrPMENT  CO. 


1209    MAIN    STREET 


ACUSHNET,    MASS. 


Cranberry  Bog  Service 


PRUNING 
RAKING 

Macliinery  Sales 

PRUNERS 
RAKES 


FERTILIZING 
WEED  TRIMMING 

POWER  WHEELBARROWS 
WEED  TRIMMERS 


FERTILIZER   SPREADERS  -  Large  and  Small 


For  Further  Information  Gall . . . 


F.  P.  CRANDON 
ROckwell  3-5526 


C.  J.  TRIPP 
WYman  5-2013 


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From  the  time  a  new  pesti- 
cide is  born  in  the  laboratory  to 
the  time  it  can  be  marketed,  a 
minimum  of  four  to  five  years 
has    elapsed. 

The  above  information  was 
taken  from  the  N.A.C.  News  and 
Pesticide  Review. 


FRESH    CRANBERRIES 
TO  EUROPE  BY  AIR 

Fresh  cranberries  were  included 
in  a  recent  Fresh  Fruit  and  Veg- 
etable exhibition  at  the  Hotel 
Olympic,  London,  England.  The 
Department  of  Agriculture  and 
two  of  America's  international  air 


carriers  (Pan  American  Airways 
and  Trans  World  Airways),  con- 
tributed to  the  success  of  the 
exhibit  which  was  attended  by 
large  numbers  of  British  and 
European  food  buyers. 

It  is  reported  in  Foreign  Ag- 
riculUire,  publication  of  the  US- 
DA  that  orders  for  the  airborne 
products  were  placed,  especially 
for    lettuce    and    strawberries. 


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ISAIAH   HAINES   OF 
NEW  JERSEY,   GROWER, 
CANDIDATE  FOR  24th  TERM 
ON    SCHOOL   BOARD 

Isaiah  Haines  of  Whitesbog,  New 
Jersey,  veteran  grower  and  vice 
president  and  general  manager 
of  the  J.  J.  White  Company  bogs 
is  a  candidate  for  the  Pemberton 
Township  school  committee.  He 
has  already  held  this  position  for 
the  past  33  years.  He  has  seen 
the  Pemberton  school  system  de- 
velop from  two  schools  with 
about  300  pujMls  and  a  $25,000 
budget  to  its  present  budget  of 
$3.4  milhon.  That  was  in  1932 
and  Mr.  Haines  is  still  going 
strong  in  his  interest  in  the 
schools. 

A  new  21 -classroom  building 
is  presently  nearing  completion 
and  plans  are  underway  for  an- 
other 26  classroom  building.  To- 
day 2,200  school  lunches  are 
served    daily. 


Cranberry  Labels 

Wanted  as  a  gift  or  trade, 
"labels"  from  Eatmor,  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. 

Address 
Dr.    George    L.    Peltier 
130    8th    Street    North 
Wisconsin   Rapids 
Wisconsin 


Farm  Credit  Service 

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


Production  Credit  Loans     ;• 
Land  Bank  Mortgages 

• 

Office  — 362.   Route  44 
RAYNHAM,   MASS. 

Warren  R.  Arnold,  Manager 


FOUR 


Issue  of  February,    1966- Vol.   30,   No.    10 

Second     Class     Postage     Paid     at     Wareham,     Massachusetts     Post     Qftice. 
Published     monthly     at     Wareham,     Massachusetts.  Subscriptions    ?4.00,    Foreign,    ?5.00    per    year. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C  J.  H 


January  Starts  Balmy 

January  6th  brought  a  fairly 
substantial  rain  to  the  cranberry 
area,  not  enough  to  do  the 
drought  much  good,  but  it  helped 
a  little.  Also  the  first  week  of 
January  was  mostly  continuing 
warmer  than  normal;  ponds  were 
not  frozen  over  anywhere,  nor 
were  such   bogs   as   were  flowed. 

Biit  on  the  8th  came  a  driving 
and  cold  rain,  followed  by  snow. 
Total  precipitation  as  recorded 
at  the  Cranberry  Station  was 
.41  inches;  however,  at  some 
points  in  the  cranberry  area 
there  was  considerably  more, 
particularly  to  the  north,  Boston 
getting  its  worst  snow  of  the 
winter  so  far.  This  was  followed 
by  winds  up  to  40  and  50  miles 
an  hour  with  temperatures  as 
low  as  9  and  10  being  registered 
at  the  State  Bog.  It  was  a  touch 
of   real  winter. 

Coldest  of  Winter,   So  Far 

January  11  and  12  were  the 
coldest  of  the  winter,  so  far,  with 
temperatures  only  a  few  degrees 
above  zero.  There  was  also  a 
cold  wind.  For  the  first  time, 
the  ground  really  began  to 
freeze  and  there  was  substantial 
ice  on  ponds,  and  salt  water  was 
freezing  along  the  coastline. 
The  cold  continued  to  the  19th, 
with  bright  sunny,  but  breezy 
weather.  The  month  which  had 
begun  warmer  than  normal, 
turned    to    minus    degrees. 

The  Cranberry  Station  was  of 
the  opinion  that  there  had  been 
no  or  only  slight  winterkill,  as 
it  was  figured  the  weather,  al- 
though cold,  had  not  been  quite 
sevei'e    enough    to    cause   injury. 


Also,  bogs  which  had  planks  in 
since  last  fall  were  flooding,  or 
mostly  so  in  a  great  many  in- 
stances. Not  nearly  as  much 
acreage  was  out,  and  there  has 
been  a  tendency  on  the  part  of 
growers  to  leave  vines  out  more 
in  the  cold  months,  and  hence 
the  vines  were  tougher. 
Snow    and    Warmer 

The  night  of  the  19th  and  20th 
brought  snow  into  much  of  the 
cranberry  area,  and  warmer 
weather.  The  snow  turned  to 
rain  on  the  20th,  but  added  little 
to  the  drought  relief  so  badly 
needed.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the 
rain  deficiency  in  1965  was  con- 
tinuing into   1966   at   that  time. 

The  21st  was  exactly  normal 
in  temperature  and  this  was  fol- 
lowed by  warm  weather,  bringing 
the  figure  to  a  plus  for  the 
month. 


Worst    Snow    of    the    Winter 

On  Sunday,  the  23rd,  came  the 
first  real  storm  of  the  current 
winter.  A  howling  Northeaster 
swept  into  New  England,  bring- 
ing up  to  a  foot  of  snow  at  places, 
but  not  so  much  to  the  cranberry 
area,  as  the  snow  was  mixed  with 
rain  and  sleet.  The  snowfall  at 
the  Cranberry  Station  at  East 
Wareham  was  recorded  at  only 
31/2  inches.  This,  melted  down, 
brought  a  total  precipitation  of 
1.41  inches,  enough  to  help  the 
drought  situation  considerably. 
The  snow  continued  lightly  into 
the  next  day. 

This  was  a  roaring,  howling 
storm  that  raised  tides  along  the 
coast  a  height  to  five  feet  above 
normal,  did  some  coastal  damage, 
plunged  a  number  of  communi- 
ties into  darkness  because  of 
power  failure;   but  it  did  help  to 


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bring  the  precipitation  to  above 
normal  for  January  for  any 
month  in  a  long,  long  while  in 
the  drought  area. 

The    great    storm    handicapped 
air      and     highway     travel,      but 
picked     up     rail     traffic       to     the 
greatest    extent   in    months. 
Coastal    Storm 

A  second  coastal  storm  roared 
in  on  the  27th,  on  the  heels  of 
the  first  northeaster.  This  bliz- 
zard started  in  the  south,  dump- 
ing 16-18  inches  on  the  mid- 
Atlantic  states  such  as  Virginia 
and  North  Carolina,  which  wea- 
thermen called  the  worst  snow 
storm  in  that  area  in  34  years. 
This  missed  most  of  New  Eng- 
land, but  did  clobber  the  Massa- 
chusetts south  shore,  or  the 
cranberry  area.  The  brunt  of  the 
storm  clipped  the  Cape,  but  in 
Boston  there  was  only  a  dust- 
ing  of   snow. 

There  was  a  reported  2  to  4 
inches  on  the  Cape,  there  being 
recorded  2-8/10  at  the  Cranberry 
Station  at  East  Wareham.  This 
was  accompanied  by  gale  winds 
and  there  was  much  drifting. 
This  snow  with  the  previous 
heavy  fall  afforded  some  protec  - 
tion  to  the  bogs. 

It    was    followed    by    high    and 


arctic  winds,  the  temperature  at 
the  Cranberry  Station,  being  only 
8  above.  The  high  winds,  how- 
ever, made  it  appear  much  colder 
and  it  was  a  bitter  day. 
Still  Another  Blizzard 

Still  another  blizzard  blew  in 
from  the  south  on  January  30th. 
This  storm,  like  the  others  was 
partly  rain  in  the  cranberry  area, 
and  it  was  accompanied  by  winds 
up  to  50  miles  an  hour.  There 
were  high  tides  along  the  ^oast. 
Several  Boston  weathermen  lik- 
ened it  almost  to  a  hurricane  in 
pattern,  with  an  extremely  low 
barometer    reading. 

January    Wetter    Than    Normal 

Although  January  had  started 
warm  and  dry,  the  month  ended 
slightly  colder  than  normal,  by 
less  than  two  degrees,  and  also 
wetter  than  normal,  this  being 
the  first  such  month  with  above 
average  precipitation  since  De- 
cember, 1964.  Total  precipitation, 
as  recorded  at  the  State  Bog  was 
4.48,   normal   being  4.12   inches. 

This  was  not  much,  but  it  was 
a  change  in  the  right  direction 
and  weathermen  felt  that  some- 
thing of  a  beneficial  dent  had 
been  made  in  the  extended 
drought.  January  was  the  snow- 
iest month  since  1948  in  the  state 


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as  a  whole  and  when  this  snow 
melts  it  can  have  no  other  ef- 
fect than  to  help  the  drought 
situation. 

Month  Cloudy  and  Much  Ice 

However,  January  brought  a 
lot  of  cloud  cover  andd  there 
was  much  ice  on  the  bogs  and 
these  conditions  are  not  condu- 
cive to  large  crops  in  Massachu- 
setts. Dr.  Cross,  director  of  the 
Cranberry  Station  felt  there  had 
been  no  winterkill  in  Massachu- 
setts despite  the  cold  weather  and 
high  winds,  as  many  bogs  had 
some  flowage  and  were  snow  cov- 
ered. 

Some  Ice  Standing 

In  fact,  ever  since  the  mid- 
dle of  January  there  had  been 
sufficient  ice  to  enable  growers 
to  sand  on  the  ice  and  consid- 
erable    was     accomplished. 

February  began  in  the  cran- 
berry area  with  the  ground  snow- 
covered  and  temperatures  about 
normal,  but  the  weather  cloudy 
and  with  frequent  snow  squalls. 
Oxygen   Deficiency 

The  Cranberry  Station  sent 
out  a  flash  card  signed  by  Irving 
E.  Demoranville,  Extension  Cran- 
berry   specialist    which    read: 

"Cranberry  Station  personnel 
have  been  making  representative 
samplings  of  winter  floods  and 
analyzing  them  for  oxygen  con- 
tent. On  January  31,  a  few  bogs 
show  oxygen  levels  too  low  and 
many   are  near   the  critical  level. 

Shallow-flooded  bogs  probably 
have  most  of  the  vines  embedded 
in  the  ice.  These  should  not  be 
touched.  Deep-flooded,  unlevel 
bogs  should  be  fully  drained  if 
the  grower  can  replace  the  flood 
later    to    prevent    winterkilling. 

Growers  without  reflooding  ca- 
pacity 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  winterkill  but  taking  the 
chance  of  leaf-drop.  Chances 
seem  better  than  50-50  that  the 
snow  and   ice   cover   will  last." 


FRESH  FROM  THE  FIELDS 

Continued   on   Page   21 


bog  was  purchased  in  the  fall  of 

1964  together  with  two  dwellings. 

But     it     is     production     which 

really  tells  the  story  of  how  good 


Young  Massachusetts  Man  Gets  Into 
Cranberries  with  Good  Start  by  Buying 
One  of  Bay  State's  Top-Producing  Bogs 

Harry  T.  Fisher  Bought  the  Isaacson  Bog  in  Carver  — 
Is   Distributor  for  AGWAY,    Inc.  —  Had    Done   Trucking  of 
Cranberries  Previously  —  He  is  a   Pilot,  Ov\^ns  Plane  and   Has 
Done  Work  in  Air  Treatment  of  Bogs 

by  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 
A  young  Massachusetts  man  is  getting  into  the  cranberry  business 
with  the  good  start  of  buying  one  of  the  best  small  bogs  in  the  Bay 
State.     He    sort    of    got    into    cranberry    growing    through    the    "back 
door."    He  is  Harry  T.  Fisher,  Jr.  of  Purchase  Street,  Middleboro. 

Fisher  is  an  independent  distributor  of  AGWAY,  Inc.,  this  huge 
new  firm  being  made  up  of  Eastern  States  and  GLF.  AGWAY,  as  did 
Eastern  States  before  it,  supplies  cranberry  growers,  among  others 
with  pesticides,  weedicides,  fungicides  and  fertilizers.  Agway's  field 
includes  all  of  New  England,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania 
and  Ohio. 

Fisher  is  a  licensed  pilot  and 
sometimes  uses  his  plane  to  check 
up  on  bogs  which  have  been 
treated  by  Plymouth  'Copters,  Inc. 
(Thomas  S.  "Whitey"  Weitbrecht) 
which  works  in  a  form  of  coop- 
erative effort  with  AGWAY,  al- 
though Plymouth  'Copters  does 
independent  spraying.  Fisher 
owns  a  metered  truck  which  he 
drives  to  the  bog  to  be  treated, 
and  loads  the  'copter  or  straight- 
wing  plane  with  the  desired 
mterials. 

As  a  truck  owner  he  has  also 
hauled  cranberries  to  Ocean 
Spray  plants  in  the  fall  for  a 
number  of  bog  owners  including 
the  Rocky  Meadow  bog  owned 
by  George  C.  P.  Olsson,  president 
of    Ocean    Spray. 

It  was  through  these  two  con- 
tacts with  cranberry  growers  that 
he  got  to  know  the  business  and 
decided    to    go    into    it   himself. 

The  bog  he  purchased  was  that 
of  the  late  Mrs.  Isaac  Isaacson  at 
Rocky  Meadow  and  Purchase 
Street.  Fisher  lives  only  a  short 
distance  from  this  bog. 

The  Isaacson  bog,  as  stated  be- 
fore, is  considered  one  of  the 
very  top  small  bogs  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Mrs.  Isaacson  gave  it 
the  most  intent  personal  care, 
seeing  to  it  there  was  scarcely  a 
weed  and  keeping  insects  under 
control  and  keeping  ditches  al- 
ways cleaned  out.  The  bog  is 
set  entirely  to  Early  Blacks.    The 


a  bog  is.  "Mrs.  Isaacson  averaged 
between  125  and  150  barrels  to 
the  acre.  She  usually  picked  be- 
tween 1600  and  1800  barrels  and 
has  gone  as  high  as  2200  barrels, 
which,  of  course,  is  doing  all  right 
for  a  bog  of   121/2    acres." 

Fisher  harvested  his  first  crop 
last  fall.  In  spite  of  the  great 
Massahusetts  drought  he  picked 
about  1500-1600  barrels,  or  about 
the  same  average  Mrs.  Isaacson 
maintained. 

Fisher  was  born  October  4, 
1930  in  Braintree,  but  went  to 
school  in  Weymouth,  where  he 
was  graduated  from  Weymouth 
High  in  1948.  Shortly  after  that 
he  did  a  stint  of  two  years  in 
the  United  States  Marines,  from 
1952  to  February  of  1954.  He 
trained  at  Parris  Island,  South 
Carolina  and  was  then  assigned 
to  the  U.  S.  carrier  Franklin 
Delano  Roosevelt.  The  carrier  was 
attached  to  the  6th  fleet  and  saw 
duty   in   the   Mediterranean. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher  at  Bogside. 

(CRANBERRIES   Photo) 


After  this  service  he  and  his 
wife  went  in  for  dairy  farming  on 
Purchase  Street,  this  farm  being 
an  old  family  homestead.  He  had 
farm  trucks,  which  he  began  to 
use  in  hauling  cranberries  in  the 
fall.  One  of  those  he  hauled  for 
was  Mrs.  Isaacson,  taking  her 
fruit  to  the  Ocean  Spray  plant 
at  Onset. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher  operated 
the  dairy  farm  for  about  12 
years,  and  although  they  still 
live    at    the    old    farm   homestead 


they  rent  out  the  dairy  end  of 
the  farm. 

Harry  has  known  something 
about  cranberries  since  his  high 
school  days,  when  he  worked 
some  summers  and  at  vacation 
time  for  United  Cape  Cod  Cran- 
berry Company  of  Hanson.  He 
picked  berries  by  hand  in  the 
fall. 

He  has  been  a  representative 
of  AGWAY  for  about  eight  years. 

The  Isaacson  bog,  as  it  was 
so  long  known  is  not  a  new  bog, 


Two  Views  of  the  Present   Fisher  Bog,   lower  showing  the  Isaacson 
Buildings  on  Rocky  Meadow  Road. 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


but  formerly  belonged  to  the 
Shaw  family  of  Carver.  Mr. 
Isaacson  bought  the  bog  in  the 
early  thirties  and  completely  re- 
built it.  Harry  resanded  it  in 
the  winter  of  1964-65.  There  is 
plenty  of  good  sand  on  the  bog 
property. 

The  bog  is  flowed  from  its  own 
reservoir,  which  is  fed  by  springs, 
and  Harry  says  there  is  a  suffici- 
ent water  supply.  The  bog,  all 
in  one  beautiful  piece,  is  flowed 
by  gravity.  It  takes  about  four 
hours  to  put  the  bog  under  for 
a  good  frost  flow.  After  use  the 
water  is  pumped  back  into  the 
reservoir  and  this  can  be  done 
in  five  or  six  hours.  The  water 
is  handled  by  a  gasoline  pump 
made  by  Henry  Guiron  of  Ware- 
ham  and  the  power  is  a  V-8 
Ford. 

Fisher  is  keeping  the  bog  up 
in  the  tradition  of  Mrs.  Isaacson. 
He  had  a  little  trouble  with 
girdler  in  1965,  but  treated  it 
with  dieldrin.  He  sweeps  every 
week  for  possible  insects. 

Fisher  does  all  the  bog  work 
himself,  including  frost  flowing, 
but  in  the  summer  he  has  part- 
time  help  of  a  local  high  school 
youth.  Harvest  is  by  two  Darl- 
ingtons,  which  Fisher  finds  very 
satisfactory.  Vines  on  the  bog 
are  short  and  there  are  no  run- 
ners,   so  no   need   to   prune. 

Mrs.  Fisher,  who  keeps  books 
for  her  husband  helps  out  in 
general  on  the  bog;  she  was  Miss 
Joan  Giddings  of  Quincy.  She  at- 
tended North  Quincy  High 
School  and  she  and  Harry  were 
married   i^    1950. 

They  have  three  sons,  Gid  Al- 
len,   14;   Jeffry,    10   and   David,   4. 

Fisher  learned  to  fly  a  plane 
under  Everett  King  at  the  Taun- 
ton air  field.  He  has  a  170  Cessna, 
a  four-place  machine.  The  Fish- 
ers keep  this  on  Purchase  Street 
and  have  developed  their  own 
air   strip   in   a   meadow. 

As  to  hobbies,  Fisher  asys  he 
has  none  exept  flying.  "My  work 
and  flying  take  all  the  time  I 
have."  Mrs.  Fisher  does  not 
pilot,  but  goes  along  she  says 
as    "merely    a    passenger." 

She  has  relatives  in  Vermont 
and    they   have   flown    there    and 


to   New   Hampshire,    Maine,    New 
York  and  to  Florida. 

Does  Harry  intend  to  stay  in 
cranberries?  "I  sure  do,  with 
this  bog  I've  got  to,  and  any- 
way I  like  being  a  cranberry 
grower. 


David  Mann  Featured  in 
'New  England  Farmer' 

Dave  Mann,  cranberry  grower 
of  Head-of-the-Bay  Road,  Buz- 
zards Bay,  Massachusetts  was 
the  subject  of  a  two-page  spread 
with  photographs  in  the  Janu- 
ary issue  of  the  "New  England 
Farmer,"  publication  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Farm  Bureau  Federa- 
tion. Mann  was  recently  jelected 
president  of  the  Plymouth  County 
Farm  Bureau  and  is  also  a  di- 
rector. 

The  article  is  chiefly  con- 
cern'ed  with  mechanization  of  his 
bog  operations  and  especially  his 
water  raking  methods,  and  his 
sprinkler    irrigation    system. 

"Dave"  has  previously  been  fea- 
tured in  CRANBERRIES,  once  as 
a  leading  young  grower  and  once 
in  regard  to  his  water  raking. 
He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Gor- 
don Mann,  for  many  years  sales 
manager  of  Ocean  Spray. 


"A-Team   Farm   Labor" 

Secretary  of  Labor  Willard 
Wirtz  has  launched  another  pro- 
gram to  ease  the  farm  labor 
shortage.  Called  A-Team  (Ath- 
letes in  Temporary  Employment 
as  Agricultural  Manpower),  the 
program's  aim  is  to  recruit  be- 
tween 15,000  and  25,000  boys  to 
work  on  farms  where  labor 
shortage  exists.  To  promote  A- 
Team,  Wirtz  has  set  up  an  ad- 
visory committee  composed  pri- 
marily of  well-known  athletes. 
The  youths  will  be  paid  a  mini- 
mum of  $1.15  to  $1.40  an  hour- 
wage  levels  fixed  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Labor  that  growers  must 
first  offer  domestic  workers  be- 
fore they  are  eligible  for  foreign 
workers. 

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Casoron  Retention  in  Cranberry  Soil 

By  C.  W.  Miller,  I.  E.  Demoranville  and  A.  J.  Charig 

University   of   Massachusetts    (Cranberry    Experiment   Station), 
East  Wareham,  Mass. 


The  widespread  use  of  Casoron 
for  weed  control  during  the  past 
year  has  prompted  investigations 
as  to  the  fate  of  the  chemical 
after  application.  Tests  with  this 
chemical  have  been  in  progress 
here  at  the  Experiment  Station 
for  three  years  and  thus  affords 
us  an  excellent  opportunity  to 
study  the  situation  in  advance 
of  grower   usage. 

Soil  samples  were  collected 
from  various  treated  sections 
of  the  State  Bog  to  a  depth  of 
12  inches.  The  samples  were 
divided  into  three  increments 
representing  the  0-4,  4-8  and  8-12 
inch  soil  levels.  Analysis  for 
Casoron,  and  its  breakdown  pro- 
duct 2,6-dichlorobenzoic  acid 
(2,6  DCBA),  was  made  by  gas 
chvomatography  using  an  analy- 
tical method  developed  by  the 
Thompson-Hayward  Company. 
The  results  of  the  analysis  are 
hsted  in  Table   1. 

The  persistence  and  stability 
of  Casoron  is  evident  by  the  fact 
that    detectable    quantities    could 


be  found  on  section  20,  almost 
two  years  after  initial  application, 
and  it  is  only  in  sections  treated 
that  year  (1963)  that  the  break- 
down product  could  be  found, 
and  then  only  in  limited  quanti- 
ties. Of  prime  significance  was 
the  fact  that  the  major  portion 
of  the  residue  was  localized  in 
the  upper  four  inches  of  the  soil 
profile,  in  the  area  where  it 
would  be  most  effective  against 
germinating  weed  seeds.  It  is  not 
possible,  however,  on  the  bases 
of  this  evidence  to  ascertain  if 
the  chemical  is  active  or  held 
ineffective  by  the  organic  matter 
present.  Organic  matter  com- 
prised between  2  to  10%  of  the 
soil  matter  and  results  of  other 
residue  investigations  has  demon- 
strated that  the  organic  composi- 
tion of  a  soil  is  directly  related 
to  the  amount  of  chemical  which 
the  particular  soil  will  retain; 
,  the  higher  the  organic  content, 
the  greater  the  amount  of  chemi- 
cal. In  addition,  absorption  sites 
in    the   organic   matter   may   bind 


Table    1.     Casoron   residues   in    cranberry    soils    at   depths    of 


Section  '        Date  of 

Applicatiom 


0-4  and  4-8  inches.^ 

Casorons         2 ,6-dichlorobenzoric  acid 
0-4"  4-8"  0-4"  4-8" 


1 

October,  1963 
October,  1964 

0.20 

0.01 

T4 

0.0 

4 

April,  1963 
October,  1964 

0.39 

0.01 

T 

0.0 

15 

April,   1964 
April,   1965 

.36 

0.02 

0.0 

0.0 

5 

April,  1964 

0.31 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

13 

October,  1964 

0.17 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

20 

October,  1963 

0.12 

0.00 

T 

0.0 

8 

April,   1965 

0.21 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

9 

June,   1965 

0.12 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

Ditch 

Soil 

0 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

Pond 

Soil 

0 

0.00 

0.0 

0.0 

' — Soil  samples  collected  August  18,  1965. 

2 — Rate  of  application  =  4  lbs.  actual/acre. 

3 — Figures  represent  lbs./4   inch   acre. 

4 — T=Trace  amounts.  Presence  of  compound  detectable  but  quantita- 
tion not  feasible.  The  8-12  inch  layer  was  negative  for  both 
casoron  and   2,6-DCBA. 


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cranberry-choking  weeds  this  Spring. 
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pensive, time-consuming  hand  or 
mechanical  weeding  in  your  bogs. 
CASORON  kills  weeds  before  they  spring 
up  to  rob  your  cranberries  of  available 
soil  moisture  and  valuable  nutrients. 
Controls  perennial  and  certain  annual 
weeds  and  grasses. 

Yet  CASORON  is  the  one  safe  herbicide. 
CASORON  controls  heavy,  crop-choking 
stands  of  weeds  but  is  also  economical 
for  use  when  only  a  few  weeds  are 
present. 


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write  Thompson-Hayward  direct. 


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a  research  discovery  of  N.V.  Philips-Duphar  and  a 
product  development  of  Thompson-Hayward  Chemical 
Company.  US.  Patent  No.  3,027,248 


Remember  there's  no  other  chemical 
quite  like  CASORON.  It's  a  total  program 
against  weeds . . .  but  safe  enough  to  use 
on  growing  plants  and  non-irritating 
to  you. 


Supplies  of  Casoron  and  additional 
information  are  available  from: 

Wisconsin  Cranberry  Consultant  Serv- 
ice, P.O.  Box  429,  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Wisconsin;  Miller  Products  Co.,  7737 
N.  E.  Killingsworth,  Portland,  Oregon; 
R.  F.  Morse  &  Son,  Inc.,  Cranberry 
Highway,  West  Wareham,  Massachu- 
setts; Parkhurst  Farm  and  Garden 
Supply,  301  Whitehorse  Pike,  Ham- 
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ELEVEN 


and  hold  the  chemical  ineffective. 
Future  experiments,  using  a  bio- 
assay  technique,  are  planned 
which  should  answer  this  impor- 
tant question. 

Finding  little  chemical  at  the 
4-8  inch  level  and  none  at  the 
8-12  inch  levels  indicates  leach- 
ing downward  is  not  occurring 
to  any  great  extent.  Transloca- 
tion oflf  the  bog  in  drainage  of 
flood  waters  does  not  appear  to 
occur  either,  from  the  fact  that 
no  Casoron  or  2,6-DCBA  could 
be  detected  in  soils  from  the 
drainage   ditch   or   pond. 

The  possibility  of  Casoron  ac- 
cumulation cannot  be  overlooked. 
On  sections  which  received  a 
second  yearly  application  the 
quantity  of  chemical  is,  in  most 
cases,  higher  than  on  sections 
receiving  only  one  treatment 
after  the  same  elapsed  period  of 
time.  To  what  extent  this  might 
have  on  the  cranberry  vine  can- 
not as  yet  be  stated,  however, 
investigations  are  planned  which 
should  give  some  answers  as  to 
the  accumulation  problem  and 
what  the   effect  may  be. 

Results  on  Casoron  for  section 
9  are  worthy  of  extra  attention  at 
this  point.  Although  this  area  was 
the  most  recently  treated  of  the 
sections,  it  had  the  least  amount 
of  chemical  residue.  Applied  late 
in  the  year  when  warmer  temper- 
atures prevailed,  it  is  suspected 
that  a  high  degree  of  volatilization 
occurred.  The  section  is  a  newly 
rebuilt  area  with  sparce  vines 
and  a  IV2-2  inch  layer  of  sand, 
which  would  favor  a  high  soil 
temperature.  Coupled  with  this 
is  the  fact  that  almost  no  organic 
matter  is  present  in  the  top 
layer  of  the  section.  All  these 
factors  are  believed  to  be  opera- 
tive, resulting  in  a  high  degree  of 
loss.  Again,  investigations  are 
planned  which  should  afford 
some  insight  as  to  the  how,  when 
and  whys  of  Casoron  loss, 
activity  and  availability. 


Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 
Soon    the    Great    and    General 
Court    of    Massachusetts    will    be 


starting  deliberations  and  hear- 
ings on  the  approximately  4000 
bills  before  it  for  1966.  The 
Massachusetts  Farm  Bureau  Fed- 
eration is  interested  in  approxi- 
mately 300   of  these  bills. 

One  bill  that  Farm  Bureau  has 
submitted    is    bill    number    S-57. 

This  a  petition  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Farm  Buraau  Federation 
which  would  permit  the  assess- 
ment of  open  lands  used  for  ag- 
riculture at  a  value  related  to 
its  use.  As  an  example,  a  Cran- 
berry grower  who  lis  using  land 
in  the  production  of  cranberries 
would  have  his  property  assessed 
as  farm  land  and  not  as  potential 
house  lots  or  industrial  sites. 
Bill  S-82  provides  for  counties 
to  acquire  land  for  conservation 
purposes  by  use  of  "eminent  do- 
main." Farm  Bureau  is  opposed 
to  this  bill.  We  are  for  conserva- 
tion but  we  are  against  use  of 
eminent  domain  as  a  method  of 
acquiring  land  except  where  it  is 
absolutely    necessary. 

Bill  number  S-177  would  ex- 
tend the  distance  a  vehicle  bear- 
ing Farm  plates  could  travel  from 
20  miles  to  50  miles.  Farm  Bur- 
eau submitted  this  bill  to  the 
General  Court  and  also  submit- 
ted bill  number  H782  which  would 
permit  vehicles  bearing  Farm 
plates  to  cross  state  lines.  Farm 
Bureau  favors  an  unlimited  mile- 
age on  Farm  plates.  However, 
it  makes  good  sense  to  go  after 
what  is  obtainable  and  50  miles 
will  solve  most  farmer's  prob- 
lems. It  is  Farm  Bureau's  con- 
tention that  even  though  farmers 
have  the  right  to  travel  more 
miles  on  their  plates  or  even 
to  cross  the  State  line,  they  will 
make  use  of  this  extension  only 
as  it  is  necessary  to  their  farm 
business  use.  With  Ocean  Spray 
moving  their  processing  plant 
many  cranberry  growers  will  be 
outside  a  20  mile  radius.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  mileage  restriction 
there  has  been  some  indica- 
tion that  the  Registry  of  Motor 
Vehiles  is  making  a  drive  against 
the  misuse  of  the  "Farm  Plate." 
One  question  asked  by  Cranberry 
growers  about  Farm  Plates  is  the 
legality  of  using  them  to  deliver 
cranberries  from  the  field  to 
processing  station?    This  question 


has  come  up  because  of  the  daily 
delivery  aspect  of  the  Farm  Plate 
law.  This  question  has  not  been 
fully  resolved  at  present  but 
Philip  N.  Good,  Executive  Secre- 
tary of  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau,  is  working  on  this  and 
I  will  report  through  this  column 
a  fi,nal  determination  on  this 
question. 

An  issue  which  is  being  widely 
discussed  at  present  is  Section 
14B  of  the  Taft-Hartley  Law. 
Bill  H-2595  is  a  bill  which  would 
memorialize  Congress  to  enact 
legislation  to  repeal  Section  14B 
of  the  Taft-Hartley  Law.  Farm 
Bureau  is  opposed  to  this  me- 
morial. There  are  many  argu- 
ments in  support  of  retention  of 
Section  14B.  Three  very  sig- 
nificant reasons  are:  (1)  The 
people  of  a  state  should  not  be 
denied  the  right  to  decide  this 
issue  for  themselves;  (2)  To 
compel  any  individual  to  be  a 
member  of  and  to  support  fi- 
nancially an  organization  with 
political  objectives  is  an  infringe- 
ment or  personal  liberty  in  vio- 
lation of  the  spirit  of  the  Con- 
stitution; and  (3)  Voluntary  mem- 
bership is  the  best  guarantee  that 
unions  will  not  be  controlled  by 
undesirables  and  that  its  policies 
and  programs  will  be  those  sup- 
ported by  the  membership.  The 
most  effective  way  to  prevent 
abuse  of  power  by  leaders  of 
any  organization  is  to  permit 
members  to  resign  when  they 
can  no  longer  support  its  policies 
or   conduct   of  its  leaders. 

A  major  bill  of  interest  to  all 
citizens  is  bill  number  H-1,  the 
Sales  Tax  bill  of  Governor  Volpe. 
At  present  the  Farm  Bureau  has 
not  studied  the  bill  but  it  ap- 
pears to  be  worthy  of  support  of 
Farm  \Bureau  members  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

As  action  on  various  bills  takes 
place  throughout  Ithe  year  I 
will  report  to  Cranberry  growers 
all  items  that  will  affect  your 
farming  operations  through  this 
column. 


READ  CRANBERRIES 


Frank  P.  Crandon  of  Acushnet,  left,  was  reelected  a  Director  of   Ocean    Spray    Cranberries,    Inc., 
at    the    35th    annual   stockholders   meeting  on  January  12  in  Wareham.     Talking  cranberries 
with  Mr.    Crandon  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alden  Brett,  Cape  Cod  grower  members. 
Mr.  Brett  is  a  former  Treasurer  of  Ocean  Spray.     Mr.  Crandon  is  also    Treasurer  and  Clerk  of 
Cranberry  Credit  Corporation.  Mr.  Brett  too,    is   a    trustee   of   the    University    of    Massachusetts 
and    for    a    time   was  executive  secretary  of  the  Cranberry   Institute. 


Water  Rights 
Chief  Topic  at 
Wisconsin  Meeting 

Water,  the  lifeblood  of  the  cran- 
berry industry,  held  the  attention 
of  members  of  the  Wisconsin  State 
Cranberry  Growers  Association  at 
their  annual  meeting  at  the  YMCA 
Community  Center,  Wisconsin 
Rapids,  January  19. 

There  were  conflicting  opinions 
on  whether  the  industry  should 
join  other  irrigators  in  a  massive 
state  program  to  protect  the  rights 
of  agricultural  water  users. 

Roy  A.  Menzel  of  Stevens  Point, 


partner  in  the  public  relations 
firm  of  Menzel-Williams  &  Asso- 
ciates, told  of  the  $35,000  annual 
program  his  firm  has  planned  to 
educate  the  public  to  irrigators' 
needs  and  to  provide  year-round 
lobbying  service  for  the  industry. 
Caution  Advised 

But  John  M.  Potter  of  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids,  attorney  for  the  as- 
sociation advised  the  growers  to 
''proceed  with  caution  in  aligning 
yourselves  with  others." 

Potter  noted  a  "basic  conflict" 
between  the  potato  growers  and 
the  paper  companies.  He  said 
cranberry  growers  have  long  had 
a  good  working  relationship  with 
paper  firms  in  spite  of  conflicting 


demands  on  the  same  water 
sources,  suggesting  that  an  alliance 
with  other  irrigators  might  invite 
trouble. 

At  the  same  time.  Potter  spoke 
of  the  "political  sex  appeal  that 
water  problems  have  right  now." 
Although  he  is  chairman  of  the 
governor's  committee  on  water 
resources  which  is  planning  new 
legislation  in  the  field.  Potter 
warned  the  cranberry  men  that 
they  should  be  wary  of  other 
regulatoi-y  bills  which  might  be 
proposed. 

Solicits  Support 

Menzel,  speaking  for  the  Water 
Resources  Development  Associ- 
ation,  asked  for   support  of  indi- 


THIRTEEN 


viduals  rather  than  cranberry- 
association  backing. 

He  said  irrigators  who  join  the 
association  his  firm  represents 
are  assessed  $50  per  year  per  well, 
up  to  a  maximum  of  $500.  There 
is  a  minimum  of  a  $100  annual 
contribution  for  banks,  agricul- 
tural suppliers  and  others  who 
may  have  an  interest  in  the 
program. 

Menzel  said  approximately  $5,000 
has  been  raised,  with  a  similar 
amount  already  pledged  for  1966. 

Anticipating  that  some  water 
legislation  will  be  adopted,  Menzel 
said  "our  people  do  not  think  con- 
trols are  necessarily  bad,  but  they 
want  a  voice  in  establishing  these 
controls." 

Elect  Officers 

Elected  president  of  the  Cran- 
berry Growers  Association  was 
Craig  Scott  of  the  Scott  Cranberry- 
Co.,  Warrens.  Stewart  Peterson, 
also  of  Warrens,  was  named  vice- 
president,  and  Lloyd  Wolfe,  Wis- 
consin Rapids  secretary-treasurer. 

Directors  of  the  association,  in 
addition  to  the  officers,  are 
Charles  Goldsworthy,  Eagle  River, 
and  James  Schnabel  and  Wayne 
Duckart,  Wisconsin  Rapids. 

Bruce  Potter  of  Camp  Douglas 
reported  on  the  state  marketing 
order  for  cranberries  which  is  in 
effect  this  year.  The  first  assess- 
ment of  two  cents  per  barrel  is 
due  March  1  to  finance  the  frost 
warning  service  and  University  of 
Wisconsin  research  on  cranberry 
problems.  Potter  said  the  UW  is 
already  spending  $30,000  annually 
in  behalf  of  the  industry  and  will 
match  the  estimated  $8,000  to  be 
raised  by  the  growers  for  addi- 
tional studies. 

Seek  Tax  Ruling 

Al  Bark  of  Wisconsin  Rapids 
proposed  that  the  association  seek 
a  determination  from  the  State 
Department  of  Taxation  on  whether 
sprinkler  systems  should  be  taxed 
as  real  estate  improvements  or 
are  considered  farm  personal  prop- 
erty. Although  Potter  made  an 
immediate  telephone  inquiry,  he 
was  informed  that  the  department 
did  not  have  enough  facts  to  make 
a  ruling. 


Speakers  included  Dr.  Donald 
Boone,  Madison,  who  reported  on 
fungus  studies  and  the  shrinkage 
of  cranberries  under  various  stor- 
age temperatures.  He  advised  stor- 
age at  between  39  and  46  degrees 
to  reduce  spoilage,  and  at  the 
lower  temperature  to  control 
shrinkage.  Tests  showed  the  Howe 
variety  produces  the  least  shrink- 
age. Dr.  Boone  noted. 

District  Forester  Martin  Kodrich 
urged  the  growers  to  consider  tree 
management  as  an  off-season  occu- 
pation and  income  source.  Ben 
Hubbard,  district  game  manager, 
advised  the  growers  on  the  tech- 
niques of  pothole  blasting  for 
waterfowl  feeding  and  nesting. 

Installation  of  sprinkler  sys- 
tems and  their  use  was  discussed 
by  Art  Kowitz,  a  state  engineer. 
He  said  these  systems  are  the 
only  ones  for  which  cost-sharing 
practices  have  been  approved  by 
the  ag  department. 


The  6,000  shares  give  Sorensen 
two-thirds  ownership  of  the  marsh. 
Another  3,000  shares  of  stock  are 
held  by  Clarence  Searles,  town  of 
Cranmoor  cranberry  grower. 


Sorensen  Buys 
Thiele  Stock  in 
Wisconsin 

Leo  Sorensen,  449  Green-wood 
Dr.,  has  gained  control  of  the 
Thiele  Cranberry  Co.  marsh  north- 
east of  Wisconsin  Rapids  through 
purchase  of  6,000  shares  of  stock 
for  $90,000. 

Circuit  Judge  Merrill  Farr  of 
Eau  Claire  ruled  in  January  that 
Sorensen's  option  claim  to  the 
stock  was  valid,  and  that  an  agree- 
ment which  Indian  Trail,  Inc.,  had 
with  Mrs.  Villa  Thiele  was  un- 
enforceable. 

Indian  Trail  had  gained  control 
of  the  stock  prior  to  Sorensen's 
lawsuit,  but  Judge  Farr  ordered 
the  shares  turned  over  to  the 
Wood  County  National  Bank,  giv- 
ing Sorensen  until  Jan.  27  to  com- 
plete purchase  arrangements. 

Sorensen  said  that  he  had  been 
informed  the  defendants  were  not 
appealing  the  decision  to  the  Su- 
preme Court. 

He  said  he  will  continue  as  a 
private  cranberry  consultant,  leav- 
ing active  management  of  the 
marsh  operations  to  Art  Cote,  who 
has  been  marsh  manager. 


NOTES   ON    FROST      | 
FORECAST    AND 
FROST  PROTECTION 

Editor's  Note:  The  1966  spring 
frost  season  is  now  not  far  ahead; 
hence  we  are  publishing  a  paper 
on  "Notes  on  Frost  Forecasts  and 
Frost  Protection"  as  given  by 
George  B.  Rounsville,  at  the  Cran- 
berry Seminars  last  year,  ifrom. 
the  publication  "Research  into 
Action,"  No.  435,  Cooperative  Ex- 
tension, University  of  Massachu- 
setts. Rounsville  is  the  forecaster 
at  the  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
Station,   East  Wareham.  . 


A  frost  night  with  perfect  radi- 
ation continuing  throughout  the 
night  and  next  morning  occurs  but 
rarely,  especially  during  the  spring 
frost  season.  More  often  than  not 
at  the  time  of  our  forecasting, 
noon  and  evening,  the.  weather 
factors  are  such  that  it  is  necessary 
to  issue  a  "conditional"  warning. 
Also,  many  nights  that  appear  to 
be  ideal  for  a  frost  often  end  up 
with  clouds  or  winds  keeping  the 
minimum  temperature  above  the 
danger  point. 

A  frost  warning  with  winds, 
clouds,  or  both,  possibly  becoming 
the  determining  issue  makes  for  a 
tricky  night,  especially  so  if  the 
viinivium  predicted  is  two  or  more 
degrees  below  the  tolerance. 

No  matter  what  the  evening 
forecast  might  read  with  reference 
to  winds,  start  water  moving,  have 
the  sprinkler  system  ready,  at 
least  be  around  your  bogs.  A  time 
element  enters  here,  for  if  winds 
become  calm  during  the  evening  or 
early  the  following  morning  there 
is  no  slow  temperature  drop  of 
about  a  degree  an  hour.  Within  an 
hour  of  calm  you  can  be  hurt  by 
frost,  and  the  resulting  damage  is 
very  likely  to  be  more  severe  from 
such  an  occurrence  than  it  would 
be  after  a  night  that  has  been 
calm   throughout,   everything   else 


FOURTEEN 


Here's  to  a  juicy  year 

for  cranberries. 

Chloro  IPC  Herbicide  can  help 

you  malie  it  two  in  a  row. 


1965  was  the  best  year  ever  for 
cranberry  sales,  with  juice  adding 
to  the  usual  demands.  For  another 
banner  production  year,  protect 
your  new  crop  from  spring  weed 
competition  with  dependable 
Chloro  IPC  Herbicide.  This  selec- 
tive weed  killer  from  PPG  Chem- 
icals controls  a  long  list  of  annual 
grasses  and  some  broadleaved 
weeds  (see  below),  with  a  broad 
margin  of  tolerance  to  dormant 
cranberry  plants.  The  20%  gran- 
ules can  be  applied  to  dormant 
established  cranberries  before  bud 
break,  using  air  or  ground  equip- 
ment. Chloro  IPC  breaks  down 
completely  as  temperatures  rise, 
to   eliminate  build-up   or   carry- 


over. For  details,  check  your  local 
extension  service  or  write  Depart- 
ment 6625,  Pittsburgh  Plate  Glass 
Company,  Chemical  Division,  One 
Gateway  Center,  Pittsburgh,  Penn- 
sylvania 15222. 

Chloro  IPC  Controls 

Annual  Bluegrass  •  Bentgrass 
Bluejoint  Grass  •  Dodder 
Horsetail  •  Loosestrife 
Rushes  (Juncus)  •  Sickle  Grass 
Turkcyfoot  Grass  •  Velvctgrass 
(Massachusetts  recommendations 
also  include  haircap  moss, 
sorrel,  hairy  panic  grass, 
corn  grass,  barnyard  grass, 
crabgrass,  tearthumb,  fireweed 
and  mud  rush.) 


chloro  Tpc 


FIFTEEN 


being  equal.  There  have  been 
nights  when  all  factors  are  such 
that  winds  should  have  continued 
all  night  and  failed  to  do  so. 

As  for  cloudiness,  if  it  persists 
until  after  midnight  the  danger  is 
much  reduced  and  many  bogs  will 
get  by  without  protection.  The 
exception  to  this  might  be  when 
an  extremely  l:w  minimum  is 
forecast.  Even  then,  time  is  in  the 
growers'  favor  for  temperatures 
drop  at  a  much  slower  rate  when 
clouds  disappear. 

In  Dr.  Franklin's  bulletin  where 
the  formulas  are  given,  there  fol- 
lows some  few  notes  which  must 
be  considered  in  issuing  a  fore- 
cast minimum  for  the  coming 
night.  As  much  as  two  degrees  can 
be  added  or  subtracted  at  times. 

I  have  inserted  the  following 
note  for  future  forecasting: 

"A  conditional  warning  should 
be  issued  to  growers  when  pro- 
longed drought  conditions  exist, 
either  in  the  spring  or  fall,  and 
the  average  of  the  formulas  is  at 
or  near  the  tolerance  of  the  plants 
or  berries." 


The  past  has  shown  that  under 
drought  conditions,  in  the  frost 
seasons,  ensuing  minimum  tem- 
perature can  be  below  the  com- 
puted minimum,  principally  on  the 
Cape  bogs  but  sometimes  in  other 
areas. 

I  can  visualize  this  leading  to 
problems  for  some  growers,  espe- 
cially in  the  spring.  As  it  has 
happened  in  the  past,  the  time  of 
issuing  such  a  forecast  could  well 
coincide  with  that  when  the  cran- 
berry plant  cannot  tolerate  flood- 
ing for  more  than  a  few  hours. 
Growers  with  sprinkler  systems 
have  the  advantage  here,  whereas 
those  who  protect  by  flooding  must 
decide  whether  it  is  best  to  take 
some  frost  loss  or  chance  water 
injury.  The  following  are  obser- 
vations, explanations  and  sugges- 
tions that  may  be  helpful  to  you 
in  the  frost  seasons. 

These  terms  are  a  very  impor- 
tant part  of  the  forecast  and  should 
be  given  due  consideration  by  the 
grower. 

Following  both  the  great  spring 
frosts    of   1944    and    1961,    it    was 


written  and  said  that  growers 
observed  frost  damage  on  vines 
over  a  frost  flood. 

A  few  days  following  the  frost 
of  May  30,  1961,  I  was  shown  a 
bog  where  the  grower  let  water 
through  a  flume  into  ditches  that 
had  stop  waters  in  them.  Where 
this  procedure  forced  the  water 
over  the  bog  and  through  the  vines, 
it  saved  the  crop.  The  continuous 
movement  of  water  throughout  the 
night  is  thought  to  have  been  the 
saving  element  in  this  case.  Dr. 
Franklin  stated  that  two  or  three 
inches  of  water  everywhere  under 
the  vines  is  enough  to  keep  vines 
from  freezing.  The  exception  might 
come  on  rare  occasions  in  April  or 
October,  when  ice  forms  on  the 
protecting  flood. 

At  a  previous  meeting  the  ques- 
tion was  asked,  "What  happens 
to  vines  if  the  sprinklers  are 
started  with  the  temperature  at 
the  danger  point  or  below?" 

I  relate  this  only  as  an  observa- 
tion made  last  spring  on  three 
frost  nights.  It  was  not  an  experi- 
ment, I  was  simply  late  in  starting 


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SIXTEEN 


the  sprinklers.  One  night  the  tem- 
perature was  below  that  which  I 
considered  was  the  tolerance  on 
this  particular  bog.  The  other  two 
nights  the  temperature  was  at  the 
danger  point.  The  vines  suffered 
no  damage  and  the  crop  was  good. 
However,  the  length  of  time  that 
the  vines  endured  the  low  temper- 
atures was  of  short  duration. 

From  heresay  and  observations, 
there  seems  to  have  been  a  marked 
tendency  among  many  growers  to 
start  the  sprinklers  a  little  late  in 
the  past.  Experiments  to  date  have 
not  shewn  any  benefit  from  pro- 
tecting for  32°,  either  by  sprinkler 
or  flooding,  in  the  spring  frost 
season  under  normal  conditions. 

I  believe  this  to  be  a  practice 
that  some  growers  indulge  in; 
namely,  that  they  use  the  temper- 
ature readings  of  a  thermometer 
on  the  side  of  their  house  as  a 
measure  of  the  temperature  on 
their  bogs.  This  should  not  be 
relie^d  on  to  the  extent  that  it 
determines  whether  or  not  you 
get  to  your  bogs  on  nights  in  the 
frost  season.  Whatever  the  tem- 
perature difference  between  such 
a  location  and  that  on  a  bog  might 
be,  over  a  long  period  of  time, 
there  is  a  certainty  that  under  the 
right  conditions  a  variation  will 
occur  and  chances  are  you  will  be 
late  with  frost  protection. 

Upon  removing  the  "late  water" 
flood,  the  buds  will  be  at  the  same 
tolerance  as  those  of  early  water. 

Fresh  sand  on  a  bog  should  be 
good  for   +2°,  especially  if  moist. 

There  have  been  many  cases 
where  bogs  have  been  frosted  in 
the  spring  up-towards  to  20%  and 
still  borne  a  respectable  crop. 

If  a  grower  feels  he  must  gamble 
with  frosts  for  one  reason  or 
another,  it  seems  best  to  do  so  in 
the  first  part  of  the  spring  frost 
season.  The  buds  are  then  in 
various  stages  of  tolerance  and 
many  will  come  through  a  rather 
severe  frost. 

The  terms  ''Balance  against," 
"Balance  for,"  "Balance  even," 
are  always  incorporated  in  a  frost 
warning. 

If  the  balance  is  against,  it 
means  that  the  dew  point  is  low, 
allowing    a    greater    chance    that 


temperature  will  fall  to  the  mini- 
mum forecast. 

Conversely,  if  the  balance  is  for, 
the  fall  of  the  temperature  is  often 
slowed  to  the  extent  that  growers 
with  average  to  warm  bogs  can  get 
by  without  protection.  Dew  points 
here  are  usually  high. 

Occasionally  the  balance  is  even. 


This  does  not  seem  to  point  one 
way  or  other  to  the  type  of  night 
coming.  In  this  case,  the  minimum 
forecast  should  be  the  deciding 
factor  as  to  whether  protection  is 
necessary  or  not. 

Kerosene  still  has  a  place  on  the 
weed  chart  and,  if  applied  espe- 
cially   as    a    broadcast   treatment, 


Set  Once  and  Go  With 

G  A.  N  D    i   —freot  one  bog  or  a  dozen/ 

You'll  apply  granular  herbicide  uniformly  with  a  GANDY 
Cranberry  Special  Broadcast  Granular  Applicator !  And 
you'll  do  it  easily  —  easier  than  you  can  possibly  do  it  any 
other  way.  In  fact,  many  growers  say  this  is  the  only  way 
you  can  treat  your  bogs  uniformly  ! 

There  are  plenty  of  reasons  why.  There  is  only  one 
precision  cam  gauge.  You  get  the  same  given  hopper 
opening  size  for  a  given  gauge  setting  —  once,  twice,  a 
thousand  times  or  more!  In  addition,  all  openings  are 
always  exactly  alike  at  any  setting.  (Because  hopper 
bottom  and  slide  are  punched  as  a  mated  pair  and 
never  separated  during  manufacture.) 

You  see  QUALITY  everytime  you  look  at  this  rig.  Patented 
Flo-Control  five-bladed  rotor  shuts  off  flow  when  you  stop. 
Patented  Rooster  Wheel <«'  Drive  powers  it.  Weather  tight 
lid  on  hopper  has  double  locks.  Marker  attachment  available. 


Write  Gandy  Co.,  13  Gand- 
rud  Road,  Owatonna,  Minn., 
for  information  on  the  Cran- 
berry Special  Applicator, 
and  name  of  nearest  dealer. 


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every  caution  should  be  used  to 
keep  frost  away  from  a  bog  so 
treated.  Severe  damage  results  if 
not  fully  protected,  and  at  tem- 
peratures above  the  general  tol- 
erance. 

Prior  to  our  afternoon  forecast 
of  minimum  temperature,  growers 
can  get  an  early  indication  of  the 
minimum  to  be  expected  by  sub- 
tracting 20°  from  the  Weather 
Bureau's  forecast  minimum  for 
Boston.  Their  morning  forecast  is 
given  at  7:40  a.  m. 

Generally  the  more  positive 
frosts  follow  when  a  high  is 
directly  over  or  slightly  south  and 
west  of  this  area.  Before  their 
arrival  at  such  a  position  we 
usually  experience  a  night  of 
cold  temperatures  accompanied  by 
winds,  inland  bogs  being  the  ex- 
ception. The  day  following  often 
finds  winds  becoming  light  and 
shifting  into  the  southwest  in  the 
afternoon.  Such  a  sequence  is  not 
an  indication  of  a  change  to 
warmer.  This  "sea  breeze"  will 
calm  toward   sunset  and   the   fol- 


lowing morning  will  likely  find 
temperatures  at  frost  levels  on  the 
bogs. 

It  was  estimated  that  water 
damage  caused  a  loss  of  50,000 
bbls.  in  the  spring  frost  season  of 
1964.  Periods  of  threatening  frosts 
continuing  from  one  day  to  another 
have  not  been  common  in  the  past 
decade,  and  it  may  be  possible  that 
many  growers  are  unaware  of  the 
damage  that  water  can  do  when 
held  over  from  day  to  day  in  the 
last  part  of  the  spring  frost  sea- 
son. In  a  normal  year,  the  risks 
of  damage  become  increasingly 
great  with  the  holding  over  of  a 
frost  flood  after  May  10th.  Even 
though  experiences  will  vary  from 
bog  to  bog  and  year  to  year 
as  to  the  amount  of  damage  one 
receives  when  doing  so,  it  can 
result  in  a  complete  loss  of  the 
crop. 

In  that  it  is  necessary  to  keep  the 
forecasts  concise  as  sent  to  the 
telephone  distributor  and  radio 
stations,  I  try  to  include  a  few 
more  details  in  using  the  answering 


service.  This  also  is  limited  to  the 
length  , -of  message  that  can  be 
taped  on  our  machine. 

Joking,  of  course,  but  I  would 
like  to  see  the  term  "possible  but 
not  probably  frost"  added.  Believe 
me,  there  are  times  when  the 
weather  conditions  are  such  that  a 
warning  using  that  term  would  be 
desirable,  at  least  it  would  keep  me 
off  the  hook  if  it  were  used. 


PERSONALS 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vernon  Golds- 
worthy  and  Ralph  Sampson  of 
Cranberry  Products,  Inc.  of  Eagle 
River,  Wisconsin  were  recent 
visitors  at  Jamaica,  B.W.I.  While 
on  the  trip  to  the  Carribean  they 
attended  a  canners'  convention. 


Also  vacationing  on  the  island 
at  the  same  time  were  William 
Decas  of  the  Decas  Bros,  dis- 
tributing agency  and  large  grow- 
ers, and  Mrs.  Decas  and  Herbert 
E.  Dustin,  Massachusetts  grower 
and  Mrs.  Dustin. 


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HOW  A  PCA  BUDGET  LOAN  CAN  HELP  YOU 
MAKE  MONEY  IN    1966 

You  need  a  lot  of  money  for  vines,  sanding,  chemicals  and  labor. 


yes,  and  for  a  host  of  other 


Money  for  gas  and  oil,  repairs,  living  expenses 
requirements. 

PCA  Budget  Loans  can  provide  you  with  the  money  you  need.  At  the  same 
time  these  loans  make  money  for  you,  they  save  money  for  you.    Big  money  ! 

You  make  a  budget  plan,  and  get  quick  approval  from  PCA.  The  advantage  is 
this.  You  don't  pay  a  cent  of  interest  until  you  make  a  purchase  and  pay  for  what 
you  need.  No  interest  in  advance  at  PCA.  Just  simple  interest  for  the  actual  number 
of  days  you  use  the  money.  And  only  on  the  unpaid  balance. 

You'll  do  better  with  cash.  Get  the  cash  from  PCA.  Arrange  for  it  now  on  a 
PCA  Budget  Loan.  Repayment  terms  are  tailored  to  the  dates  you'll  have 
farm  income. 


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EIGHTEEN 


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We  Irrigate  Fruits  &  Vegetaliles 
Any  wliere  In  Tlie  Free  World 


Williamstown  president,  David  DeGraff, 
shows  pumps  fo  customer.  Above, 
DeGrafF  with  part  of  the  half  million 
feet  of  aluminum  pipe  available  at 
Williamstown. 


Most  of  our  systems  are  engineered,  financed  and  in- 
stalled within  36  hours  of  the  time  you  phone. 

Distributors  26  national  lines  irrigation  Equipment,  Sup- 
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Mathieson,  Pierce,  Valley,  Perfection,  Flexo-Seal,  Wade' 
Rain,  Gould,  Myers  and  Geehn. 

Easy  financing  through  Alcoa.  Reconditioned  equipment 
and  rental  plans  also  available. 


This  equipment  can  double  as  a  frost  control  unit  effec- 
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NINETEEN 


OF  INTEREST  TO 
CRANBERRY  GROWERS 

U.  S.  turkey  growers  intend 
to  produce  more  turkeys  in  1966 
than  last  year,  according  to  the 
Crop  Reporting  Board  of  the 
USDA.  The  1966  turkey  crop  ac- 
cording to  present  plans  of  the 
men  should  be  about  112.1  billion 
birds,  compared  with  the  revised 
estimate  of  turkeys  grown  in 
1965  of   104.7   billion. 

However,  the  USDA  release 
points  out  that  turkeys  actually 
raised  in  1966,  may  vary  some- 
what from  this  January  1966 
estimate,  depending  upon  a  num- 
ber of  factors. 

Of  course,  a  good  crop  of  tur- 
keys should  be  good  news  to  the 
cranberry  growers  as  the  two 
food  items  are  so  closely  al- 
lied in  popular  impression,  and 
a  good  crop  might  indicate  reas- 
onable prices  to  the  birds  that 
go    with    cranberry    products. 


AGRICULTURE   IN 
MASSACHUSETTS 

"Agricultcure  is  a  five  billion 
dollar  asset  to  the  economy  of 
Massachusetts,"  says  a  recent 
pamphlet  from  the  University  of 
Massachusetts. 

The  realized  gross  farm  income 
totals  170  million  dollars.  The 
agricultural  industry  provides 
185,000  jobs,  or  9  percent  of  all 
employment  in  the  Bay  State; 
goods  and  services  worth  140 
million  dollars  are  purchased  and 
used  annually  for  the  production 
of  agricultural  products  and  the 
processing  of  agricultural  prod- 
ucts accounts  for  350  million  dol- 
lars or  8  percent  of  all  value 
added  by  manufacturers  in 
Massachusetts. 


Cranberry  Instifufe 
Elects  Officers 

President   Colley  Says 
Forign   Sales    Prospects 
"Encouraging" 


The  Cranberry  Institute  held 
its  Annual  Meeting  January  11, 
in  Duxbury,  Mass.  Directors  and 
officers  re-elected  are  Gilbert  T. 
Beaton,  Secretary-treasurer;  Or- 
rin  G.  Colley,  President;  George 
C.  P.  Olsson,  all  of  Massachusetts; 
Leon  April,  Vice-president  of 
New  Jersey;  and  Behrend  G. 
Pannkuk  and  Clarence  A.  Searles 
of    Wisconsin. 

The  1965  activities  of  the  In- 
stitute were  reviewed  by  Mr. 
Colley.  These  fell  primarily  into 
two    categories. 

The  first:  liaison  with  mem- 
bers of  the  cranberry  industry, 
government  agencies,  and  other 
trade  groups  concerning  the  fac- 
tors affecting  and  influencing  the 
cranberry  business.  He  said, 
"This  industry  does  and  must 
expect  to  face  new  challenges, 
but  there  is  no  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  problems  will  not  be 
resolved  successfully  as  fthey 
have  been  in  the  past." 


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We  have  been  designing  and  manufacturing  irrigation 

equipment  for  over  one  quarter  century. 

COMPLETE  SYSTEMS  —  pumping  units,  pumps,  pow^er  units, 

sprinklers.    Aluminum  or  steel  fittings  made  to  order. 

Write  or  call  for  literature  and  details. 

Wisconsin  representative: 

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Box  38 

Warrens,  Wisconsin 

MOULTON    IRRIGATION    COMPANY 

SOMERSET,  WISCONSIN  54025 
(formerly   Withrow,   Minnesota) 


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The  second:  supervision  of  the 
foreign  market  development  pro- 
ject for  U.  S.  cranberries.  He 
stated,  "This  project  is  progres- 
sing at  an  encouraging  rate,  sales 
opportunities  continue  bright  and 
our  industry  can  have  its  share 
of  the  overseas  market  by  build- 
ing an  image,  based  upon  a 
fine  product,  from  the  grass  roots 
upwards." 


FRESH  FROM  THE   FIELDS 

ContiniLed  from  Page  6 

WISCONSIN 


January  Sleet-Freeze 

January  lived  up  to  its  repu- 
tation as  the  coldest  month  of  the 
year  w^ith  temperatures  averaging 
almost  ten  degrees  below  normal. 
The  first  week  of  the  month 
brought  a  continuation  of  the  mild 
December  weather  with  some  light 
wet  snows  in  the  south  half.  Highs 
of  40's  were  reached  in  the  south 


on  the  4th  and  5th.  On  the  8th 
Arctic  air  entered  the  state  from 
Canada  and  temperatures  dipped 
to  minus  thirty  or  more  in  the 
northwest.  This  weather  pattern 
continued  for  the  rest  of  the  month 
with  some  readings  forty  below 
or  more  the  latter  part  of  the 
month.  There  were  some  stretches 
during  the  period  when  the  maxi- 
mum temperature  was  minus  ten 
below  and  for  a  week  the  tem- 
peratures never  rose  above  zero. 
This  was  indeed  a  deepfreeze. 
Snow  fell  over  the  entire  state  on 
the  2,  6  and  12th  giving  the  entire 
state  a  blanket  lasting  throughout 
the  month.  On  the  12th  as  much 
as  a  foot  fell  in  the  south.  At 
month's  end  the  north  had  over 
two  feet,  the  central  about  one 
foot  and  the  south  about  8  inches. 
The  outlook  for  February  calls  for 
temperatures  about  normal  and 
precipitation  below  normal. 


Dean's  Indian  Trail 

, . .  the  big  new  name  in  the  cranberry  business! 

Where  the  big  idea  is  to  sell 

more  at  a  better  profit  through 

modern  merchandising  and 

selling.  Watch  and  see! 


Dean's 


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Three  Feet  of  Ice 

Most  of  the  larger  lakes  and 
streams  finally  froze  over  during 
the  cold  and  calm  night  early  on 
the  8th.  At  month's  end  as  much 
as  three  feet  of  ice  was  reported 
on  the  cranberry  reservoirs.  The 
sncw  cover  in  advance  of  the  real 
cold  weather  prevented  deep  frost 
penetrations.  This  was  especially 
true  in  the  north.  Deepest  frost 
penetrations  in  the  state  were 
about  30  inches  in  the  central  part 
of  the  state. 

Sanding 

Needless  to  say  the  cranberry 
beds  were  completely  frozen  in 
with  the  sub-zero  weather  and 
sanding  started  in  earnest  around 
the  10th.  However,  temperatures 
were  so  severe  the  latter  part  of 
the  month  that  operations  had  to 
cease.  Most  marshes  are  planning 
some  sanding  of  beds  and  custom 
applicators  are  also  doing  a  part 
of  the  work. 


WASHINGTON 

Weather 

High  and  cold  winds  of  Decem- 
ber continued  into  January  in  the 
coastal  cranberry  area.  Precipita- 
tion for  January  was  12.07  inches, 
with  the  most  rain  on  the  5th, 
with  2.02  inches.  This  was  less 
than  January  of  a  year  ago. 

The  mean  high  for  the  month 
was  47.16  and  the  low  was  36.55. 
The  bog  low  at  Long  Beach  Sta- 
tion was  19  degrees  on  the  18th. 
There  was  no  snow  for  the  month. 
Basic  Work  Piiining 

Activity  on  the  bogs  was  basi- 
cally pruning. 

Also  many  growers  have  been 
taking  bog  soil  samples  and  having 
Ihem  analyzed  at  the  University 
of  Washington  at  the  soil  testing 
laboratory.  These  tests  should  show 
what  each  bog  needs  in  its  fer- 
tilizer program. 

Two  Meetings 

January  12  and  14  were  meeting 
dates  for  the  Grayland  and  Long 
Beach  areas,  respectively.  The 
growers  heard  reports  on  fungus 
survey  and  research  work  being 
done  by  Dr.  Maksis  Eglitis  of  the 
Puyallup  Station.  He  has  been 
working  for  the  past  two  years 
Continued  on   Page   24 


TWENTY-ONE 


If  this  won't  cure  him  .  .  .  nothing  will! 


by  Bill  Shelly 


TWENTY-TWO 


^dJt^jial^ 


ISSUE  OF  FEBRUARY,  1966 
VOL  30 -NO.   10 


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OUR  LARGER  CROPS 

It  was  not  so  many  years  ago  that  the 
thought  of  a  million  barrels  of  cranberries 
in  the  United  States  was  scarcely  believable 
and  was  a  terrifying  spectre.  The  late  Mar- 
cus L.  iUrann,  president  of  Ocean  Spray, 
!  was  one  of  the  first  to  talk  of  a  "million- 
barrel"    crop. 

That  figure  was  first  achieved  a  little  more 
than  a  decade  ago,  in  1953,  according  to  a 
chart  in  a  bulletin  of  the  Massachusetts  De- 
partment of  Agriculture  we  have  in  our 
files.   The  crop  then  was  1,023,000. 

Production  last  fall  was  the  top,  L244,000 
barrels,  almost  a  million  and  a  half.  And 
we  breezed  through  that  like  "nobody's 
business."  Will  we  achieve  a  figure  of  2 
million  eventually?  This  seems  more  than 
possible.  What  with  today's  advances  in 
techhology  it  would  seem  this  might  be 
achieved.  Today  we  have  more  effective 
chemicals  of  all  sorts,  better  and  faster 
harvesting  equipment,  such  as  the  picker 
with  a  6-foot  swath,  now  developed  in  Wis- 
consin, efficient  pest  control  from  the  air 
and  the  advent  of  more  use  of  sprinkler 
systems  and  the  increase  of  water  harvest, 
which  saves  the  estimated  20  per  cent  or 
so  lost  in  dry  picking. 

Plans  are  being  made  to  handle  larger 
crops  and  to  handle  them  more  efficiently, 
as  in  the  proposed  new  processing  plant 
in  Massachusetts  by  Ocean  Spray  at  a  re- 
puted cost  of  6  million  dollars.  The  industry 
is  looking  ahead  and  forward. 

Never,  it  appears,  especially  from  the 
talks  at  the  annual  meeting  of  Ocean  Spray 
have  the  prospects  been  better  for  the  cran- 
berry industry.  We  mention  Ocean  Spray, 
in  particular,  because  that  big  cooperative 
represents  somewhere  around  85  percent  of 
growers    and    production. 

We  do  not  expect  to  see  a  harvest  of  2 
million  barrels  next  year,  or  in  a  couple  of 
years.  But  it  does  seem  to  be  definitely  on 
the  horizon.  When  this  tremendous  pro- 
duction does  take  place,  we  believe  we  will 
be   ready   to  market  it   successfully. 


From  New  Jersey  comes  the  exciting  pros- 
pect of  another  new  development.  That  is 
the  possible  use  of  a  "hover-craft"  for  the 
application  of  fungicides.  This  craft,  as  you 
may  know  is  a  new  device,  developed  in 
England,  which  rides  neither  on  the  ground, 


CLARENCE    J.    HALL 
Editor  and  Publisher 

EDITH   S.   HALL  —  Associate   Editor 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

Wisconsin 


Oregon 

FRED   HAGELSTEIN 
Coquille,  Oregon 


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 


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New   Jersey 

P.    E.    MARUCCI 

New  Jersey  Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Statioa 

New  Lisbon,  New  Jersey 


or  yet  is  not  an  aircraft  in  the  true  sense 
of  the  word.  Jets  of  forced  air,  make  it 
float  just  above  the  surface  of  the  ground 
or  the  water. 

This  was  discussed  at  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Growers'  Association 
at  Mount  Holly  this  month.  There  is  such 
a  craft  at  Princeton  University  and  ap- 
parently available. 

This  breakthrough  in  cranberry  use  was 
mentioned  in  the  January  issue  of  "Farm 
Journal." 

TWENTY-THREE 


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on  cranberry  projects,  the  work 
being  supported  by  a  special  fund 
provided  by  growers  from  both  the 
Long  Beach  and  Grayland  areas. 
Recently,  Ocean  Spray  agreed  to 
take  over  this  project  through  its 
research  department  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  Washington  State 
University  research  program  sup- 
ervised by  Dr.  Folke  Johnson.  The 
works  so  far  have  been  very 
rewarding  to  the  Washington 
growers  and  when  reports  are 
made  should  be  cf  benefit  to  all 
cranberry  men. 


temperature  did  not  go  above 
freezing  during  the  last  8  days 
of  the  month.  The  extremes  var- 
ied from  4  degrees  on  the  29th 
to  62   on   the   1st. 

Drought    Broken 

The  long  spell  of  drought  was 
finally  broken.  Precipitation  to- 
taled 3.73  inches,  which  is  .42 
above  normal  for  January.  This 
was  the  first  month  in  the  past 
6  months  during  which  a  large 
deficit  was  not  recorded.  It  was 
only  the  3rd  month  in  the  past 
19  months  of  above  normal  rain- 
.fall. 

Snowfall  totaled  14  inches  dur- 
ing the  month.  Converted  to 
rainfall,  this  accounted  for  1.14 
inches.  The  snow  on  the  29th 
and  30th  measured  71/2  inches. 
This  was  a  big  snow  but  far 
below  the  record  snowfalls  which 
have  occurred  in  this  area.  On 
March  19th,  20th  and  21st  of  1958, 
16  inches  of  snowfall  occurred. 
There  have  been  several  other 
snowfalls  of  more  than  10  inches 
ever    the    past   40  years. 

Phenomenon 

A     peculiar     phenomenon     oc- 
curred   in    the    Chatsworth    area 


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January    Very    Cold 

The  weather  records  at  the 
Cranberry  and  Blueberry  Wea- 
ther Station  at  New  Lisbon  show 
that  January  was  extremely  cold 
and  wetter  than  normal.  The 
average  temperature  was  29.6 
degrees,  which  is  4.3  below  nor- 
mal. This  marked  the  13th  out 
of  the  past  14  Januaries  during 
which  the  temperature  has  been 
below  normal.  It  was  the  ninth 
coldest  January  on  record  at  New 
Lisbon.  The  latter  half  of  the 
month  was  particularly  cold.  The 


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during  Saturday's  and  Sunday's 
storm,  Jan.  30  and  31.  The 
temperature  rose  to  well  above 
freezing  at  the  height  of  the 
storm  Sunday  morning.  This  was 
noticed  by  several  ^cranberry 
growers  and  residents  in  that 
area.  Earl  Kerschner,  Coopera- 
tive Weather  Observer  at  Chats- 
worth,  reorded  38  degrees.  The 
maximum  was  only  82  degrees 
at  the  New  Lisbon  Station,  which 
is  just  six  miles  due  west  and 
about  eleven  miles  northwest 
of  Chatsworth.  Apparently  some 
warm  air  came  in  from  the  ocean 
temporarily,  only  to  be  pushed 
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(Editor's  Note:  The  following 
notice  was  sent  to  Washington 
cranberry  growers  on  February 
28th  by  Azmi  Y.  Shawa,  Exten- 
sion Agent  in  Horticulture,  South 
Bend,    Washington.) 

If  you  have  a  problem  with 
purple  aster,  treat  them  very 
soon  with  a  mixture  of  100  lbs. 
bulk  casoron  plus  20  lbs.  bulk 
2,4-D  granular  per  acre.  Asters 
arc  sprouting  now  and  it  is  easy 
to  kill  them  in  this  stage. 

The  area  you  will  treat  now 
cannot  be  treated  again  later. 

The  information  given  herein 
is  for  educational  purposes  only. 
Reference  to  commercial  prod- 
ucts or  trade  names  is  made  with 
the  understanding  that  no  dis- 
crimination is  intended  and  no 
endorsement  by  the  Cooperative 
Extension    Service    is    implied. 


Mass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension   Cranberry   Specialist 


Club  Meetings 
The  February  series  of  cran- 
berry club  meetings  were  held  at 
Kingston  on  February  15,  Roches- 
ter, February  16  and  Barnstable, 
February  17.  Mr.  John  MacDonald 
of  the  American  Plywood  Associ- 
ation presented  a  film  on  "Bulk 
Handling  Equipment"  showing 
varioui  fruits  and  vegetables 
being  harvested  and  stored  in 
bulk  bins  made  of  plywood  and 
how  these  bins  have  been  modi- 
fied and  adapted  for  use  in  spe- 
cific/ crops.  Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman 
presented  "Fungicide  and  Variety 
Studies"  which  consisted  of  prog- 
ress reports  of  fungicide  tests  and 
also  tests  of  certain  processing 
characteristics  of  the  new  vari- 
eties. The  variety  work  is  being 
sponsored  by  Ocean  Spray  Cran- 
berries    Inc.      Dr.     Karl     Deubert 


talked  on  "Development  of  Agri- 
culture in  East  Germany  After 
World  War  II"  in  which  he  gave 
details  on  the  changes  in  the 
agricultural  climate  and  commu- 
nity of  East  Germany  under  Rus- 
sian infiuence.  After  listening  to 
this,  it  sure  made  one  thankful 
for  our  system  of  agriculture  and 
the  large  amount  of  freedom  of 
action  that  we  do  enjoy.  Dr.  Sur- 
indar  Paracer  had  as  his  subject 
"Is  Famine  Inevitable  in  India," 
this  is  another  frightening  and 
ugly  aspect  of  agriculture  in  the 
world  today  that  we  have  not 
had  to  experience  in  this  country, 
which  is  certainly  a  tribute  to  our 
farmers  and  agricultural  scien- 
tists. Dr.  Cross  presented  "Cran- 
berry Production  Prospects  For 
1966"  in  which  he  discussed 
weather    factors    infiuencing    the 


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Frost  Warnings 
The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry 
Growers  Association  is  again 
sponsoring  the  telephone  frost 
warning  service.  Applications  were 
mailed  to  all  growers  in  early 
March.  If  a  grower  has  not  re- 
ceived an  application,  he  should 
notify  Mrs.  Ruth  Beaton,  treas- 
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Shores  Road,  Buzzards  Bay,  Mass. 
There  is  a  spot  on  this  year's  ap- 
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telephone  answering  service 
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valuable  part  of  the  frost  warn- 
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helpful  when  a  grower  may  have 
missed  the  warning  for  various 
reasons.  There  is  a  message  on 
the  recorder  every  day  during  the 
frost  season,  whether  a  frost 
warning  is  sent  or  not.  George 
Rounsville  wishes  to  remind 
growers  using  the  answering  ser- 
vice that  the  recorded  message 
will  not  be  available  before  1:30 
in  the  afternoon  or  8:30  in  the 
evening.  The  frost  pad  for  writ- 
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Charts 

The  1966  cranberry  insect  and 
disease  and  weed  control  charts 
have  been  printed  and  mailed  to 
the  growers.  These  charts  should 
have     been      received     by     mid- 


March.  Growers  are  reminded  to 
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amount  of  valuable  information 
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Changes  in  the  insect  chart  in- 
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worms,  sparganothis  fruitworm 
and  gypsy  moth,  10%  DDT  plus 
2%  malathion  dust  at  50  pounds 
per  acre  for  green  spanworm  and 
tipworm  and  a  special  note  on  the 
girdler  flood  in  the  fall. 

Changes  in  the  weed  chart  are 
minor  having  to  do  mainly  with 
changes  in  timing  for  casoron  and 
chloro-IPC  applications  in  the 
spring  and  casoron  applications  in 
the  fall.  The  simazine  recommen- 
dation for  morning  glory  and  cin- 
quefoil  has  been  deleted. 


Weather 

February  was  slightly  more 
than  one  degre  a  day  above  nor- 
mal in  temperature  with  cold 
spells  from  the  6th  to  9th  and 
20th  to  22nd  and  the  last  week 
of  the  month  on  the  warm  side. 
Precipitation  totalled  2.68  inches 
or  almost  an  inch  below  average 
with  two  storms  on  the  13th  and 
and  25th  accounting  for  90%  of 
the  total.  Snowfall  was  8.2  inches 
which  is  close  to  average  for  the 
month. 

Odds    &    Ends 

Five  states  produced  63%  of 
the  U.  S.  apple  crop  in  1965  — 
Washington,  New  York,  Michigan, 
Pennsylvania   and    Virginia. 

Five  apple  varieties  accounted 
for  62%  of  the  U.  S.  crop.  Red 
Delicious  was  first  with  24%  of 
the  total,  followed  by  Mcintosh, 
Golden  Delicious,  Rome  Beauty 
and  Jonathan  in  order  of 
importance. 

Sweet  corn  and  peas  lose  nearly 
one-half  their  sugar  content 
within  24  hours  after  picking. 


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Issue  of  March,  1966  -  Vol.  30,  No.  1  1 

Second     Class     Postage     Paid     at    Wareham,     Massachusetts     Post     Ofricc. 

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FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C.  J.  H 


MASSACHUSETTS 

February    Starts    Snowy 

The  end  of  the  first  week  in 
February  saw  "freak"  weather 
with  snow  showers  almost  every 
day.  These  storms  varied  greatly 
from  area  to  area  and  town  to 
town  in  Southern  Massachusetts, 
some  towns  getting  considerable 
accumulation,  while  the  next 
town  to  it  a  few  miles  away  re- 
ceivJfed  none.  The  weather  was 
cloudy,  therefore  with  very  little 
sun,  and  temperatures  were  al- 
most exactly  normal.  Little,  if 
any  bog  work  was  possible  as 
most  bogs  were  snowed  in  with 
egress  roads  thick  with  drifts. 

Temperatures  to  the  9th  were 
a  little  below  normal  in  av- 
erage, the  departure  for  the 
month  to  the  9th  being  a  minus 
5    degrees. 

Warm  Change 
On  the  tenth  came  a  drastic 
change  in  the  temperatures  for 
the  warmer.  Winds  began  to 
blow  from  the  southwest,  bring- 
ing up  tropical  air  into  New 
England.  Weather  casters  were 
calling  this  a  "February  Thaw," 
and  even  a  "February  Heat 
Wave."  There  were  temperatures 
into  the  low  50's.  The  snow  cover 
which  had  existed  so  long  began 
to  disappear  rapidly.  Fog  came  in 
nights  along  the  coastal  cran- 
berry area  and  was  "eating"  the 
snow. 

The  13th  brought  a  day-long 
soaking  rain,  of  from  one  to  2V2 
inches  in  the  cranberry  area, 
total  at  the  Cranberry  Station, 
1.29  inches.  This  helped  the 
crushing  drought  situation  to 
some    extent,    but    did    not    make 


up    for    the    five-year    New    Eng- 
land dry  spell. 

The  weather  continued  mild 
and  on  the  15th  the  temperature 
plus  of  the  month  was  48.  A 
considerable  rain  developed  on 
the  16th  and  the  "spring  in  Feb- 
bruary,"  ended  as  the  weather 
turned  much  colder. 
Arctic  Cold 

This  spell  brought  a  dusting 
of  snow  to  the  cranberry  area 
on  the  19th  and  the  coldest 
weather  of  the  winter,  according 
to  the  weatherman  on  February 
20  and  21.  Lows  of  around  zero 
were  common  all  over  Southeas- 
tern Massachusetts.  Recording  in 
the  shelter  at  State  Bog  on  the 
20th  was  one  above  and  on 
the  21st  exactly  zero. 

Another  storm  of  snow,  rain 
and     sleet     blew     in     from     the 


South  on  the  night  of  Febru- 
ary 24th,  continuing  over  the 
25th  into  the  26th.  This  storm, 
while  bad  in  many  parts  of  New 
England,  depositing  more  than  a 
foot  of  snow  in  some  parts  was 
more  kind  to  the  cranberry  area, 
leaving  only  a  few  inches  of  the 
white  stuff.  Precipitation  for  the 
entire  storm  as  recorded  at  the 
Cranberry  Station  was  only  1.10 
inches. 

Month   Short  in   Precipitation 

Thus  February  ended  as  an- 
other month  with  precipitation 
less  than  normal  the  total  as  re- 
corded at  the  Station,  being  2.78, 
normal  for  February  is  3.67. 
There  has  been  only  a  single 
month  above  normal,  January, 
since  December  1964. 

February  Warm,   Too 

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was  a  bit  warmer  than  normal, 
also  with  a  plus  for  the  month 
of  27,  or  nearly  one  degree  a 
day   above   the  norm. 

Although  the  cranberry  area 
in  general  probably  got  a  little 
less  rain  than  normal,  Boston 
and  some  other  points  reported 
precipitation  above  normal,  due 
mostly  to  snow  fall.  And  for 
these  areas  the  precipitation  for 
1966  was  above  average. 
March   1,    Rain 

March  first  started  with  beau- 
tiful warm  weather,  and  for  the 
night  before  and  continuing  into 
the  morning  there  had  been  sub- 
stantial rain.  A  total  of  .69  inches 
was  recorded  at  the  Cranberry 
Station,  thus  getting  March  off 
to  a  good  start  in  the  field 
of  precipitation. 

Dr.  C.  E.  Cross,  director  of 
the  Massachusetts  Cranberry  Ex- 
periment Station  has  declared  in 
his  opinion,  February  was  a  fav- 
orable month  for  the  prospective 
1966.  There  was  no  winterkill 
reported  as  had  been  feared 
last  fall  and  neither  was  there 
any   oxygen   deficiency   loss. 

The  first  week  of  March  was 
unusually  warm,  with  a  plus 
of  35  by  the  5th.  It  was  a  typical 
March  start  with  high  winds, 
at  time  gale  force.  There  was  a 
steady  and  beneficial  rain  on 
the  4th  and  5th. 


NEW    J  ERSEY 

Water  Situation  Better 
Cranberry  reservoirs  arej 
quickly  filling  up  and  most  prop- 
erties now  are  near  normal  as  a 
result  of  plentiful  precipitation 
during  January  and  February. 
For  the  second  straight  month  — 
and  only  the  fourth  in  the  past  20 
months  —  there  has  been  greater 
than  normal  precipitation.  The 
total  for  February  was  4.33 
inches,  which  is  1.56  above  the 
norm.  Our  total  for  January  and 
February  was  8.06  inches,  almost 
two  inches  more  than  normal. 
Most  of  the  precipitation  during 
February  fell  as  either  gentle  rain 
or  a  snow  which  melted  down 
gradually,  thus  very  little  of  the 
Continued  on  page  23 


Frederick  E.  Gebhardt  is  Steeped 
In  Knowledge  of  Wisconsin 
Cranberry  Growing 

Is  a   Member  of   Philanthropic  and   Pioneer  Cranberry   Growing 
Family  —  Operating  30  Acres  at  Black  River  Falls 

By  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 


Steeped  in  knowledge  of  early 
cranberry  history  in  Jackson 
County  ,  Wisconsin,  is  Frederick 
E.  Gebhardt,  215  North  5th 
street,  Black  River  Falls,  Wis- 
consin. Gebhardt  operates  a 
marsh  of  about  30  acres  in  a 
nearby  town  of  Brockway.  His 
grandfather,  Frederick  Johann 
Gebhardt,  born  in  Newstadt,  Ger- 
many, in  1834,  was  one  of  the 
Wisconsin  pioneers.  He  built 
a  bog  about  5y,  miles  northeast 
of  Warrens  about  1878,  which  had 
gro^vn  to  around  40  acres  by 
1910. 

Following  his  death  in  1882, 
his  widow,  Susan  H.  and  his 
eldest  son,  Frederick  W.  Geb- 
hardt, carried  on  the  bog  activity. 
Frederick  W.  was  the  father  of 
the  present  Frederick  E.  Geb- 
hardt. The  marsh  Frederick  E. 
now  operates  was  built  by  his 
uncle,  Herman  J.,  in  1900,  not 
far  from  the  marsh  owned  by 
Henry  H.  Gebhardt  and  family. 
This  marsh  is  now  operated  by 
the  Perry  Creek  Cranberry  Com- 
pany, John  D.  Roberts,  president. 

Frederick  Johann  Gebhardt 
was  destined  to  spread  his  cran- 
berry growing  influence  htorugh 
three  generations.  He  had  nine 
children  and  in  one  way  or 
another  six  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters were  involved  in  cranberry 
growing. 

The  Gebhardts  were  of  a  phil- 
anthropic turn  of  mind  and  today 
there  is  a  Herman  and  Alma 
Gebhardt  school  in  Brockway, 
which  family  funds  made  possible 
and  also  a  swimming  pool  in 
Black  River  Falls.  A  part  of 
Highway  27  is  named  Gebhardt 
Road  and  joins  with  "Cranberry 
Drive,"  This  road  leads  to  the 
marsh  Frederick  E.  Gebhardt  now 
operates  4Vi.  miles  southeast  of 
Black  River  Falls. 


In  1890  Frederick  W.  Gebhardt's 
widow  sold  her  interests  to  Fred- 
erick W.,  her  eldest  son.  He  was 
considered  an  excellent  grower 
and  for  a  time  he  was  known  as 
the  "Champion  cranberry  raker" 
in  Wisconsin. 

Frederick  W.  in  1912  built  a 
new  marsh  east  of  Millston,  which 
he  later  sold.  He  sold  frozen 
cranberries  in  the  winter  to  far- 
mers and  others,  south  and  west 
to  see  the  value  of  the  frozen 
of  Tomah,  being  the  first  grower 
fruit. 

In  the  summer  of  1894  the 
Gebhardt  brothers  dug  a  ditch 
by  hand  shovel  one  and  one- 
half  miles  long,  eight  feet  wide 
and  four  feet  deep,  and  later 
added  another  half  mile.  The 
ditch  was  dug  as  a  means  of 
getting  water  from  a  creek,  south- 
west   of    the    marsh.     The    extra 


half  mile  connected  two  reser- 
voirs for  a  water  supply.  This 
was  a  small  marsh  of  about  10 
acres,  now  the  property  of  Hark- 
ness  and  Sons,  near  Millston. 
Present  Gebhardt  Marsh 

The  present  Gebhardt  marsh 
has  11/2  acres  of  Centennials,  3% 
acres  of  Searles  and  221/2  acres 
of  McFarlins.  Twenty-four  acres 
has  all  sand  bottom,  some  of  it 
built  on  peat  and  sand.  M  ost  of 
this  bog  was  built  by  manual 
labor   with  wheelbarrows. 

Production  has  averaged  about 
95  barrels  per  acre. 

Frederick  E.  has  operated  this 
bog  since  1954.  Since  that  time 
he  has  made  a  number  of  inno- 
vations and  improvements.  He 
has  7i/>  acres  of  his  bog  under 
sprinkler  irrigation,  the  system 
being  installed  by  Moulton  Irri- 
gation Company  of  Somerset, 
Wisconsin.  There  are  also  14 
acres  under  John  Bean  "Shur- 
Rane,"  irrigation,  installed  by 
Badger  State,  Black  River  Falls. 
Water  comes  from  Perry  Creek, 
and  Gebhardt  uses  an  Interna- 
tional-Harvester engine  UV*  549 
engine    and    a    Berkeley    pump. 

He  is  planning  to  put  the  re- 
mainder of  his  acreage  under 
sprinklers  this  spring  and  to  buy 
a  second  International  engine. 


A   portion   of  the   Gebhardt 


Marsh   near  B  ack   River   Falls. 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


On  the  present  property  there 
is  the  comfortable  Gebhardt  home, 
and  also  a  spacious  two-story 
cement  block  warehouse,  30  by 
120.  Sorting  is  done  by  one' 
Bailey  and  one  Hayden  separator. 

He  harvests  with  three  Dana- 
Getsinger  harvesters;  there  is 
also  a  berry  drier  and  equipment 
for  fresh  fruit  packing.  Mr.  Geb- 
hardt ships  through  Ocean  Spray. 

He  has  some  part-time  help 
and  uses  12  to  15  at  harvest  time. 
He  has  been  and  is  employing 
Winnebago  Indians  with  very 
pleasant  relations.  He  understands 
that  the  last  hand  wet-raking  in 
Wisconsin  was  done  on  his  bogs 
by  the  Winnebagos  in  October 
1954. 

Along  Highway  5  and  4  there 
are  a  number  of  Winnebago 
Indians  living  in  modern,  if 
mostly  small  dwellings.  N  ot  too 
far  from  the  Gebhardt  Marsh  is 
the  site  of  the  annual  Indian  Pow 
Wow,  of  Council.  At  this  site  is 
buried  Mitchell  Red  Cloud  of 
Black  River  Falls,  who  was 
awaT-HpH  no^thnmou-lv,  the  "Pur- 


ple   Heart,"    for    his    injury    and 
heroic    action  in   Korea. 

His    Own    History 

It  is  a  rather  intriguing  area 
of  abrupt  buttes  arising  from  the 
generally   flat  countryside. 

Gebhardt  has  used  the  weedi- 
cide,  Casoron,  and  one  section 
where  he  treated  the  weeds  and 
grass   appeare  to  be  gone. 

Gebhardt  has  treated  four  sec- 


Framework  of  an  Indian  hogan 
a^  the  Pow  Wow  Grounds 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


tions  for  grass,  including  wire 
grass  and  weeds  with  good  re- 
sults. 

Mr.  Gebhardt  was  born  Sep- 
tember 1,  1903,  at  Black  River 
Falls,  but  lived  on  his  father's 
cranberry  marsh  at  Warrens  until 
1912.  Then  the  family  moved  to 
Millstcn  then  to  Tomah.  He 
attended  grade  and  high  school 
in    Tomah. 

In  1926  he  moved  to  Mil- 
waukee and  began  employment 
for  the  Milwaukee  Railroad.  He 
continued  this  employment  for 
twenty-eight  and  one-half  years, 
doing  clerical  work.  In  1954  his 
uncle  died  and  he  came  to  Black 
River  Falls  to  take  over  the 
operation   of   the   marsh. 

On  June  29,  1935,  he  was 
married  to  Charlotte  S.  Hass  of 
West  Salem.  Mrs.  Gebhardt  is  a 
registered  nurse  and  had  worked 
at  LaCrosse,  Madison,  and  Mil- 
waukee. 

They  have  one  child,  Miss 
Suzanne,  recently  graduated  from 


Believed  the  last  Indian  Manual  Water  Rake 

(CRANBERRIES    Photo) 


the  University  at  Madison,  re- 
ceiving a  B.  A.  degree  in  liberal 
arts.  She  is  now  studying  in 
Ireland  at  the  University  of  Dub- 
lin. She  is  furthering  her  knowl- 
edge of  Irish  arts  and  literature, 
planing  to  be  a  librarian  in  the 
future. 

Gebhardt  belongs  to  the  Wis- 
consin State  Cranberry  Grawers' 
Association  and  helped  to  organ- 
ize the  recently-formed  Jackson 
County  Cranberry  Growers' 
Association,  an  organization  to 
further  the  aims  of  the  growers 
in    that   area. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gebhardt  attend 
St.    John's    Lutheran     Church     at 

The  hobby  of  the  couple  is 
Black  River  Falls, 
reading.  Mr.  Gebhardt  is  also  an 
Green  Bay  Packers  football  teams; 
ardent  follower  of  the  famed 
he  listens  on  radio  and  television 
and  frequently  has  attended 
ganjes  at  Milwaukee  and  Green 
Bay  with   his   daughter,   Suzanne. 

The  Gebhardts  have  always 
had  a  strong  sense  of  public  spir- 
itedness  and  it  was  Herman  J. 
who  years  ago  planted  more  than 
30,000  pine  trees,  which  today 
have  grown  into  a  beautiful  for- 
est, near  the  Gebhardt  South 
Marsh  on  the  Gebhardt  property 
which  totals  640  acres.  Gebhardt 
brothers  were  among  the  first 
in  Wisconsin  to  recognize  the 
need  to  reforest  cut-over  land 
and  pushed  plans  for  young-tree 
growing,  and  conservation  of 
wild  life  in  Wisconsin. 

Black  River  Falls  itself  is  an 
old   lumber  town. 


Frederick  E.  Gebhardt  is  a 
member  of  the  Jackson  County 
and  Wisconsin  historical  society 
and  has  given  articles  before  botxi 
on   Wisconsin  cranberry   growing. 


MASS.  1966  CROP 
IN  EXCESS  OF  800,000 
IN  "REALM  OF 
PROBABILITY" 

So  Dr.  Cross  Tells  February 
Meetings  of  Massachusetts 

"I  think  it  is  within  the  range 
of  probability  that  the  Massachu- 
setts 1966  cranbery  crop  will  be 
in  excess  of  800,000  barrels,"  Dr. 
Chester  E.  Cross,  director  of  the 
Massachusetts  Cranberry  Experi- 
ment Station  told  growers  attend- 
ing the  February  meetings  of 
the  three  cranberry  clubs.  South 
Shore  at  Kingston,  February  15th, 
Southeastern  at  Rochester  Grange 
Hall,  the  16th,  and  Cape  Cod  at 
Barnstable    February    17th. 

He  said  his  main  reason  for 
this  was  the  excessive  sunshine 
hours  in  1965,  due  to  the 
drought  cond/itions.  The  total 
of  excess  hours  was  a  huge  240, 
with  good  excesses  in  the  vital 
months  of  August,  September  and 
November.  He  said  it  was  unfor- 
tunate there  was  not  more  pre- 
cipitation last  October,  wihch  is 
important.  "Now,  what  of  the 
past   winter?"    he  asked. 

He  said  he  believes  there  had 
been  no  winterkill  as  there  was 
in  the  winter  of  1964-65;  that 
oxygen    deficiency    troubles    were 


less  than  other  years  and  also  of 
a  year  ago.  Considerable  sanding 
on  the  ice  has  been  accomplished, 
which  is  good.  February  sunshine 
was  also  favorable  to  the  crop. 
Watch   Spring   Frosts 

He  told  the  growers  that  he 
thought  it  was  important  that 
they  stick  close  to  their  bogs  in 
May  and  the  first  ten  days  in 
June.  "We  issue  from  6  to  10 
general  warnings  each  year  and 
this  is  where  you  can  insure 
your  crop  for  1966,  by  making 
sure  you  do  not  get  frosted.  He 
said  he  did  not  consider  April 
losses  so  important. 

He  said  he  felt  growers  were 
losing  too  much  of  their  crop  in 
harvest.  Studies  show  that  dry 
picking  leaves  about  25  per  cent 
of  the  crop.  Massachusetts  is  the 
only  state  still  substantially  dry 
harvested.  He  said  four  plots  had 
been  picked  wet  at  the  State  Bog 
for  the  past  five  years  and  these 
plots  had  consistently  shown  an 
increase  of  40  per  cent  over 
those  still   dry   picked. 

"I  do  not  suggest  that  you  try 
to  go  to  all  wet  harvest  at  once," 
he  continued.  There  are  many 
diflRculties  in  this.  But  do  try  to 
pick  a  few  sections  or  a  bog  or 
two  and  go  into  wet  raking.  We 
are  leaving  too  much  of  our  crop 
on  the  bog  after  raising  it." 

1965  A  "Growers"  Crop 
The  1965  crop,  675,000  barrels, 
was  the  third  largest  on  record 
and  this,  he  said,  was  a  "growers' 
crop,"  not  a  crop  due  to  weather. 
You  growers  had  to  work  for  it. 
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acre.  Wisconsin  produced  89.1, 
but  we  are  gradually  closing  the 
gap.  We  used  to  think  50  barrels 
per  acre  was  satisfactory,  but  not 
any  longer." 

He  told  of  the  difficulty  of  the 
1965  crop,  the  long  drought,  the 
frost  losses,  especially  with  an 
unprecedented  August  frost, 
which  took  many  berries,  especi- 
ally in  the  Cape  and  Manomet 
sections. 

He  said  the  1985  crop  was  a 
"tribute"  to  the  ability  of  the 
growers  and  also  to  the  installa- 
tion and  use  of  sprinkler  sysems 
at  the  right  times,  without  which 
such  a  large  crop  could  not  have 
been  produced. 

He  spoke  of  the  present  "happy 
circumstances"  of  the  cranberry 
industry,  big  crops  selling  rap- 
idly and  at  good  prices.  "The 
cranberry  picture  was  never 
brighter  than  it  is  now,  atotal 
crop  in  1965  of  1,422,000  barrels 
and  our  sellers  begging  for  more 
fruit  to  keep  up  with  the  de- 
mand." 

Cross  also  went  back  to  the 
fact  that  growers  visiting  the 
State  Bog  in  the  last  few  years 
had  commented  on  fewer  chem- 
ical experiment  plots  and  also 
fewer  on  individual  private  bogs. 
This  was  due  to  the  drastic  and 
confusing  Federal  and  State  reg- 
ulations and  rulings  regarding  the 
use  of  agricultural  chemicals.  He 
said  that  ever  since  the  1959 
Amino  Triazole  scare  these  re- 
strictions have  been  increasing, 
spurred  on  by  nature  groups, 
sportsmen  and  others  who  are 
"not  truly  informed  of  the  neces- 
sity of  pest  control  in  agriculture." 
"But  don't  think  we  at  the 
Station  are  soldiering  at  the  job. 
We  are  at  work  in  our  laboratory 
and  our  greenhouses,  of  which 
we  now  have  two."  Also,  I 
would  point  out  that  40  per  cent 
of  the  crop  on  the  State  Bog  last 
year  was  not  placed  on  the  mar- 
ket because  of  chemical  experi- 
mentation." 

Cross  said  that  experimenting 
would  continue  to  be  done  of 
private  bogs  by  the  Station  Staff, 
but  that  any  fruit  raised  on  these 
plots  would  not  become  the  pro- 
perty of  the  growers  but  would 
be  harvested  and  handled  by  the 


Station,  to  make  sure  no  contami- 
nated fruit  went  on  the  market. 
Demoranville 
Irving  E.  Demoranville,  al- 
though not  on  the  program, 
spoke  very  briefly,  told  of  the 
greatly  increased  desire  for  vine 
cuttings   by  growers  for  new  bog 


and  of  a  survey  he  is  undertaking 
as  to  where  vines  can  be  obtained 
and  how  much  acreage  is  going 
in.  He  said  he  had  found  only 
four  growers  who  had  vines  for 
sale  and  these  were  only  Early 
Blacks.  He  suggested  growers 
who    wished    to    expand    acreage 


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you'll  do  it  easily  —  easier  than  you  can  possibly  do  it  any 
other  way.  In  fact,  many  growers  say  this  is  the  only  way 
you  can  treat  your  bogs  uniformly  ! 

There  are  plenty  of  reasons  why.  There  is  only  one 
precision  cam  gauge.  You  get  the  same  given  hopper 
opening  size  for  a  given  gauge  setting  —  once,  twice,  a 
thousand  times  or  more!  In  addition,  all  openings  are 
always  exactly  alike  at  any  setting.  (Because  hopper 
bottom  and  slide  are  punched  as  a  mated  pair  and 
never  separated  during  manufacture.) 

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Flo-Control  five-bladed  rotor  shuts  off  flow  when  you  stop. 
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might  have  to  go  into  the  busi- 
ness of  growing  vines  just  for 
planting  for  themselves. 
Zuckerman 
Dr.  Bert  Zuckerman  was  sched- 
uled to  speak  on  "Fungicides  and 
Cranberry  Varieties,"  confined 
himself  at  the  time  to  only  vari- 
eties. In  this  he  confined  himself 
to  a  study  of  the  New  Varieties 
and  their  use  in  processing,  this 
study  being  carried  by  the  Sta- 
tion in  conjunction  with  Ocean 
Spray.  A  report  will  be  carried 
later    in    Cranberries. 

The  first  consideration  was  na- 
turally color,  important  in  whole 
fruit  sauce  and  especially  cock- 
tail, now  so  vital.  He  said  the 
best  color  seemed  to  be  found 
in  the  variety  "Franklin"  and  in 
the  yet  unnamed  No.  6.  Second 
was  pectin  content.  In  this  Frank- 
lin also  appeared  to  be  highest 
with  No.  6,  a  good  prospect. 
Pilgrim  is  the  lowest  in  pectin 
content. 

He  said  qualities  in  these  var- 
ieties seem  to  vary  considerable 
from  bog  to  bog.  He  added  these 
studies  are  continuing  and  the 
results  are  not  yet  confirmed. 
He  added  that  the  old  standi  by 
Early  Black  is  still  one  of  the 
bet  as  concerns  color  and  pectin. 
Drs.  Deubart  and  Paracer 
Dr.  Zuckerman  introduced  two 
new  men  who  are  working  un- 
der his  direction  at  the  Station. 
These  are  Dr.  Karl  Deubert,  who 
escaped  from  behind  the  "Iron 
Curtain"  in  East  Germany,  go- 
ing to  Honduras  and  then  to  the 
U.S.  where  he  is  planning  to  be- 
come a  citizen;  and  Dr.  Surindar 
Paracer  of  India.  These  spoke 
on  "Development  of  Agriculture 
in  East  Germany  after  World 
War  II,"  and  "Is  Famine  In- 
evitable in  India,"  respectively. 
While  these  addresses  did  not 
concern  cranberries  in  any  way, 
it  was  thought  these  talks  might 
broaden  the  scope  of  the  grow- 
ers and  they  did  prove  very  in- 
teresting. 

Dr.  Deubert  told  of  the  part 
of  Germany  now  behind  the  "Iron 
Curtain,"  was  the  part  given 
over  to  agriculture,  while  the 
East  or  "Free"  part  was  more 
industrialized.  He  said  it  became 
very   difficult   for  farmers  to   get 


sufficient  supplies  of  fertilizers 
and  other  items  needed  to  pro- 
duce food,  and  the  solutions 
which    were    tried. 

Dr.  Paracer  discussed  at  some 
length  the  world  population  ex- 
plosion and  of  how  that  re- 
lated to  India.  He  said  that  in 
his  native  country  the  mistake 
was  made  of  putting  too  much 
emphasis  on  industry  opposed  to 
agriculture  when  it  should  have 
been  just  the  other  way  around. 
He  said  that  in  India,  added  to 
the  many  millions  of  humans  to 
be  fed,  there  were  countless 
cattle,  "sacred"  cows,  monkeys 
and  even  rats  all  fighting  each 
other  to  consume  what  available 
food  there  was.  He  said  that  in 
this  respect,  India  was  even  worse 
off  than  over-crowded  China. 

There  was  a  movie-illustrated 
talk  on  "Bulk  Handling  Equip- 
ment" by  John  MacDonald,  an 
agricultural  engineer  representing 
the  American  Plywood  Associa- 
tion, with  headquarters  at  119  A 
Street,  Tacoma,  Washington.  He 
stressed  the  advantages,  as  he 
said,  of  using  plywood  pallet  bins 
in  harvest  and  transportation 
right  through  to  the  packing  or 
processing  factory.  These  ply- 
wood containers  are  used  very 
extensively  on  the  West  Coast, 
chiefly  California  for  even  such 
a  fragile  fruit  as  pears. 


Timely  Tips  on 

Spring  Frosts 

in  Massachusetts 

April   Frosts     Not  Damaging 

By     GEORGE    B.     ROUNSVILLE 

(Frost    Forecaster    at 

Cranberry  Station) 

With  the  exception  of  the  year 
1954  when  "a  little  damage"  on 
the  inland  bogs  (temperature 
range  5  F.  to  12  degrees  F.  April 
3-4)  was  recorded  on  the  Frost 
Chart;  there  had  been  no  other 
estimate  of  frost  damage  in  April 
given   from  1950   through    1965. 

In  this  sixteen  year  period,  the 
practice  of  flood  withdrawal  in 
the  winter  months,  has  been  used 
by  an  increasing  number  of 
growers   in   Massachusetts. 

Growers  for  various  reasons, 
are    removing     the    winter    flood 


earlier  in    the    spring    or    in    late 
Vv^inter,  than  heretofore. 

These  practices  so  condition  the 
vines  and  buds  as  to  make  them 
similar  to  those  of  a  "dry  bog" 
which  have  long  been  known  to 
be  very  frost  resistant  in  the' 
spring. 

From  1953  to  1965  observations 
have  been  made  relative  to  low 
temperature  both  in  the  spring 
and  fall  and  the  resulting  frost 
damage,  if  any. 

To  cite  some  of  the  tempera- 
tures to  which  cranberry  buds 
have  been  exposed  in  April  and 
early  May: 

On  May  2,  1958,  a  minimum 
temperature  of  19V2  degrees  was 
recorded  on  a  bog  in  Barnstable 
County.  No  visual  damage 
observed. 

On  April  29th,  1960  a  minimum 
temperature  of  11  Vz  degrees  F. 
reported  on  a  bog  in  East  Ware- 
ham.  The  buds  were  examined  on 
April  30th  with  no  apparent 
damage.  This  same  bog  had  a 
temperature  of  18  degrees  F.  on 
May  2  of  the  same  year.  The 
crop  averaged  ninety  barrels  to 
the  acre. 

April  19,  1961,  minimum  tem- 
perature of  9  degrees  F.  reported 
on  a  bog  in  North  Falmouth.  The 
buds  were  examined  April  21st 
and  again  on  April  28.  No  damage 
could  be  detected.  The  owner 
reported  the  crop  as  good. 

April  17,  1962,  temperature  on 
bogs,  examined  for  frost  injury, 
ranged  from  10  to  13  degrees  F. 
No  damage  observed.  A  bog  in 
the  Wareham  area,  with  a  tem- 
perature of  12  degrees  F.  on  this 
date,  had  a  crop  of  nearly  80  bar- 
rels  per   acre. 

April  24,  1962,  temperature  on 
bogs  ranged  from  9  to  20  degrees 
F.  No  damage  observed.  A  crop 
of  70  barrels  per  acre  was  re- 
ported from  a  bog  that  had  a 
temperature  of  15  degrees  F. 

The  above  temperatures  as  re- 
ported to  the  Cranberry  Station 
from  some  few  bogs  in  the  cran- 
berry growing  area.  It  seems 
safe  to  assume  that  a  great  per- 
centage of  the  Massachusetts 
acreage  endured  similar  tempera- 
tures on  these  dates. 


The  final  crop  figures  for  Mas- 
sachusetts following  these  years 
with  low  temperatures  in  April 
are  impressive,  the  exception  be- 
ing 1961  when  the  May  30th-31st 
frost  took  an  estimated  174,000 
barrels. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  the  writer 
that  litle  if  any  frost  protection  is 
needed  on  cranberry  bogs  in  Mas- 
sachusetts until  the  first  week  in 
May;  providing  a  grower  removes 
the  winter  flood  from  his  bogs  in 
late  February  or  by  the  middle 
of  March,  perhaps  earlier,  and  the 
daily  mean  temperature  for  April 
is  normal  or  below  normal. 

To  project  then;  if  reservoirs, 
ponds,  streams  and  farm  ponds 
are  not  restored  to  normalcy  be- 
fore the  coming  frost  season,  it 
would  greatly  enhance  the 
chances  of  a  grower  getting  by 
with  a  minimum  of  frost  damage 
until  the  middle  of  May  by  fol- 
lowing such  a  practice. 

Presumably  the  water  thus 
saved  could  be  used  in  the  more 
critical  frost  period  that  of  May 
15th  to  the  middle  of  June. 


Peter  A.    LeSage 

Peter  A.  LeSage,  founder  and 
head  of  Peter  A.  LeSage,  distrib- 
uting agency,  which  sold  under 
the  name  of  "Pals,"  made  up  of 
his  initials  died  suddenly  in  St. 
Petersburg,  Florida  March  8, 
where  he  and  Mrs.  LeSage  were 
spending  the  winter.  Death  fol- 
lowed  an   operation. 

Mr.  LeSage,  who  was  born  in 
Boston,  had  been  a  resident  of 
the  Cape  for  many  years,  living 
at  South  Yarmouth.  He  formerly 
owned  considerable  bog  acreage, 
which  he  had  sold  a  few  years 
ago. 

His  cranberry  distributing 
business,  which  is  located  in 
Plymouth  was  one  of  the  major 
cranberry  distributing  businesses 
in  Massachusetts.  Mr.  LeSage  was 
one  of  many  who  fought  bitterly 
at  hearings  leading  to  the  forma- 
tion of  the  Cranberry  Marketing 
Order  in  1962. 

The  business  will  be  carried  on 
by  Robert  Hiller  of  Mary's  Pond 
Road  Rochester,   Massachussets. 


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NEW  JERSEY  GROWERS  HOLD  A  PROGRESSIVE 
96th   ANNUAL  WINTER  MEETING 

Use    of    "Hover-Craft"       Among    Discussions  —  Walter    Z.    Fort 
Elected    President    of    American    Cranberry    Growers  Association 


The  96th  Annual  Winter  Meet- 
ing of  the  American  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association  was  held 
on  February  10th  at  the  Fire- 
side Restaurant  in  Mount  Holly, 
New  Jersey,  with  President  Clin- 
ton Macauley  presiding.  The 
meeting  was  well  attended  by 
growers  as  well  as  by  representa- 
tives of  various  agricultural  in- 
terests  of  the   state. 

Jack  S.  St.  Pierre,  of  the  New 
Jersey  Crop  Reporting  Service, 
reported  on  a  new  method  of 
obtaining  crop  estimates.  Statis- 
tical science  has  been  applied 
to  enable  more  reliable  sam- 
pling, with  the  probability  that 
estimates  in  the  future  will  more 
closely  approximate  actual  har- 
vest. 

New   Chemical 
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Department  of  Horticulture  and 
Forestry  of  Rutgers  University, 
reported  on  the  experimental  use 
of  gibberellin  to  promote  set  of 
cranberries.  Sprays  of  this  growth 
regulator  induced  the  set  of  al- 
most 100%  of  the  blossoms,  al- 
though the  berries  were  con- 
siderably smaller  than  normal. 
The  total  weight  of  the  berries  in 
the  gibberellin  spray  plots  ex- 
ceeded that  in  the  check  plots 
not  treated  with  the  chemical. 
Mainland  cautioned  growers  that 
this  material  was  still  only  in 
the  experimental  stage,  that  it 
had  no  label  clearance  for  use 
on  cranberries,  and  that  there 
was  still  much  to  be  learned  be- 
fore it  could  be  used  commer- 
cially. 

Smaller     Bog     Sections 

Fred  Mahn,  of  the  Soil  Conser- 
vation Service  reported  on  work 
that  he  and  his  colleague,  Wil- 
liam O'Donnell,  have  been  doing 
on  cranberry  bogs.  There  has 
been  much  activity  amongst  New 
Jersey  cranberry  growers  in  the 
construction  of  dikes  to  divide 
their  bogs  up  into  smaller  units 
to  facilitate  water  harvesting. 
Mahn  offered  several  tips  on  bog 
construction  which  he  illustrated 
with  excellent  slides.  Illustra- 
tions were  also  given  on  methods 
of  leveling  bogs  and  practical 
methods  of  installing  water  con- 
trol structures  or  trunks.  An 
interesting  method  of  stabilizing 
dikes  by  the  use  of  jute  mesh 
and  weeping  lovegrass  was  dem- 
onstrated. Kentucky  31  fescue 
pnd  sericea  lespedeza  have  also 
been  used  as  a  plant  cover  on 
dams  and  dikes  to  prevent  erosion 
Two    Pests     (ncreasing 

Phil  Marucci,  of  the  Cranberry 
and  Blueberry  Research  Lab, 
spoke  on  cranberry  insects  and 
cranberry  pollination.  He  noted 
Ih'^t  two  old-time  pests,  cran- 
berry girdler  and  blackhead  fire- 
worm,  are  making  a  comeback  in 
New    Jersey.     The    late    Anthony 


DeMarco  was  stated  as  having 
estimated  a  loss  of  at  least 
1,000  barrels  as  a  result  of  black- 
headed  fireworm  attack  in  1964. 
The  resurgence  of  these  insects 
is  probably  connected  with  the 
development  of  resistance  to 
D.D.T.  as  well  as  the  increasing 
tanden-y  of  growers  to  draw 
(he  winter  flood  earlier.  The 
conventional  Sparganothis-t  i  p  - 
worm  treatment  was  shown  to 
be  a  little  bit  too  late  for  ef- 
fective control  of  blackheaded 
fireworm.  Cranberry  girdler  was 
considered  to  be  building  up 
much  more  rapidly  on  bogs 
which  were  not  water  harvested. 
It  was  also  found  to  be  less 
abundant  on  bogs  which  re- 
ceived regular  ground  sprays  of 
sevin  to  control  Sparganothis 
fruitworm.  The  more  intensive 
use  of  honey  bees  on  cranberry 
bogs  in  New  Jersey  was  con- 
sidered to  be  well  justified.  Data 
were  presented  to  show  that 
percent  set  was  directly  related 
to  bee  activity.  Interesting  data 
were  also  presented  to  show  that 
higher  sets  are  obtained  where 
several  varieties  grow  together 
and  thus  provide  cross  pollination. 
Bees 

J.  C.  Matthenius,  Supervisor  of 
Bee  Culture,  New  Jersey  De- 
partment of  Agriculture,  gave  a 
talk  on  how  to  judge  a  good 
beehive  used  for  the  pollination 
of  cranberries.  Matthenius  urged 
closer  cooperation  with  beekeep- 
ers to  obtain  maximum  benefit 
from  hives  and  also  to  prevent 
excessive  kill  of  bees  through 
careless  use  of  insecticides. 
Water    Resources 

John  M.  Hunter,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor in  Agricultural  Policy  at 
Rutgers  University,  gave  a  re- 
view of  the  recent  Symposium 
on  Water  Resources  in  New  Jer- 
sey. Professor  Hunter  reported 
that  the  water  supply  problem  in 
this  State  was  a  very  keen  one 
which  required  long-range  plan- 
ning and  cooperation  from  in- 
dustrialists and  the  citizenry.  He 
discussed  in  detail  some  of  the 
plans  being  considered  to  in- 
sure an  adequate  supply  of  pure 
potable  water  for  this  and  fu- 
ture    generations.      One     of    the 


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plans  entailed  piping  the  ground 
water  of  South  Jersey  to  the 
more  populated  northern  region 
of  the  State.  This  method  would 
probably  adversely  affect  the 
water  supply  of  New  Jersey 
cranberry  growers.  He  felt  that 
this  plan  was  not  at  present  eco- 
nomically feasible  and  that  it 
would  be  resorted  to  only  if  the 
several  reservoir  plans  for  the 
North  Jersey  area  did  not  work 
out.  A  detailed  report  of  the 
Rutgers  Water  Symposium  was 
being  published  and  would  be 
sent  to  each  cranberry  grower 
in    the    State. 

That  Hover  Craft 
Dr.  Allan  W.  Stretch,  Plant 
Pathologist,  U.  S.  D.  A.  and  Rut- 
gers University,  showed  a  movie 
on  the  application  of  fungicides 
with  a  Hover-craft.  This  inter- 
esting equipment,  which  looks 
as  though  it  belongs  to  the  next 
generation,  was  developed  by  the 
Princeton  University  Department 
of  Aeronautical  Engineering 
which  is  cooperating  with  Dr. 
Stretch  in  tests  to  determine  the 
practicability     of     applying    fun- 


gicides on  cranberries.  The  re- 
sults obtained,  as  evidenced  by 
data  presented  by  Dr.  Stretch,  in- 
dicates that  this  machine  may 
have   a   use  in  agriculture. 

Frost  Warning  Fee  to  be  Raised 
In  a  business  session  the  re- 
port of  the  Frost  Committee  was 
given  by  Co-Chairmen  Isaiah 
Haines  and  Joseph  Palmer.  There 
were  29  frost  calls  in  the  spring 
of  1965  and  33  in  the  fall.  An 
analysis  of  the  accuracy  of  the 
predicitions  of  the  spring  frost 
calls  indicated  that  the  evening 
forecasts  were  correct  to  within 
6°  in  65%  of  the  warnings.  The 
24-hour  outlook,  however,  was 
accurate  to  the  same  degree  in 
only  46%  of  the  forecasts.  A 
unanimous  vote  of  thanks  was 
given  by  the  membership  to  the 
Frost  Committee  and  the  Weather 
Bureau  for  their  service  to  grow- 
ers in  providing  frost  control  in- 
formation. It  was  unanimously 
agreed  to  give  the  Committee 
authority  to  raise  the  frost  fee 
as  high  as  is  necessary  to  meet 
the  expenses  of  the  teletype  and 
answering     services.       Committee 


members   serve   voluntarily  with- 
out   compensation. 

Ed    Lipman 

Ed  Lipman,  Delegate  of  the 
American  Cranberry  Growers' 
Association  to  the  Agricultural 
Convention,  gave  a  report  on 
these  meetings.  Mr.  Lipman 
showed  concern  over  the  trend 
toward  socialization  in  the  Fed- 
eral Government  and  in  the  com- 
pulsory nature  of  the  recently 
proposed  legislation  on  agricultu- 
ral labor.  The  New  Jersey  Farm 
Bureau  was  ably  representing 
farmers  on  these  issues.  T  he  ap- 
propriation of  agricultural  lands 
by  the  State  and  public  utilities 
through  arbitrary  use  of  Eminent 
Domain  was  also  of  great  con- 
cern to  the  agricultural  interests 
of  the  State.  A  thorough  revision 
of  these  Eminent  Domain  laws  in 
New  Jersey  is  being  actively  pro- 
posed by  the  New  Jersey  Farm 
Bureau.  The  agricultural  inter- 
ests are  also  behind  the  Gov- 
ernor in  his  proposal  of  a  broad 
based  tax  in  New  Jersey  to 
eliminate  the  undue  pressure  on 
land    owners    and    farmers.    The 


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Platform  Area:  48  x  78  inches. 


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Engine  — /i  h.p.  Briggs  &  Stratton  with  Reduction  Unit.  Tires  — 800:6  -  10  inches  wide  -  18  inches 
diameter  -  1000  lbs.  capacity  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. 
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Hayden  Separator  Company 
Wareham,  Massachusetts 

Roman  R.  Skibiski 
Sunderland,  Massachusetts 

NEW  JERSEY 

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

Parkhurst  Farm  i  Garden  Supply 
Hammonton,  New  Jersey 


NEW  YORK 

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

Tryac  Truck  &  Equipment 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  New  York 

NOVA  SCOTIA 

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Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia 

RHODE  ISLAND  (CAPE  COD) 

Darbco,  Inc. 
Providence,  Rhode  Island 


WISCONSIN 

David  Slinger 
Randolph,  Wisconsin 

Kinnamon  Saw  i  Mower  Supply  Co. 
Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

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SEVENTEEN 


Agricultural  Convention  favored 
a  sales  tax  but  would  not  actively 
oppose  the  governor  on  an  in- 
come   tax. 

1 966    Officers 

The  election  of  officers  resulted 
in    the    following   slate: 

Walter  Z.  Fort,  President 

Earl  Kerschner,   1st  Vice  Presi- 
dent 

Ernest  M.   Cutt,   Jr.,   2nd  Vice 
President 

Paul  Eck,   Treasurer 

Philip  E.  Marucci,  Secretary 
Mr.  Fort,  Manager  of  Growers 
Cranberry  Company,  and  well 
known  for  his  excellent  photo- 
graphy of  cranberries  and  Pine 
Barren  plants,  as  well  as  for  his 
ability  as  an  amateur  naturalist, 
is  the  first  non-cranberry  grower 
to  be  president  of  this  97  year  old 
organization.  Earl  Kerschner  is 
the  very  able  supervisor  of  the 
late  Anthony  R.  Demarco  cran- 
berry and  blueberry  property  at 
Chatsworth.  Ernest  M.  Cutts,  Jr., 
is  the  son  of  Ernest  M.  Cutts, 
Sr.,  youngest  of  the  Cutts  Bro- 
thers, prominent  blueberry  and 
cranberry  growers.  Ernest  Cutts, 
Jr.,  is  also  the  nephew  of  John 
E.  Cutts,  a  director  of  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  Inc.,  as  well 
as  Tru-Blu  Cooperative  Associa- 
tion. 

Citation    to    Enoch    F.    Bills 

The     cranberry     growers     were 
all    delighted    to    hear    from    Ed 


Lipman  that  the  Agricultural 
Convention  had  published  a  ci- 
tation to  Enoch  F.  Bills  for  dis- 
tinguished service  to  New  Jersey 
Agriculture.  (This  citation  is 
printed  in  another  article.) 

Editor's  Note:  The  use  of  Gih- 
berellin,  a  growth  regulator  is 
also  under  experimental  research 
at  The  Massachusetts  Cranberry 
Experiment  Station  at  East  Ware- 
ham  by  Dr.  Robert  Devlin,  path- 
ologist. 


Ocean  Spray 
Build  N 
At  Middl 


eboro 

New  Project  to  Cost  19 
Million  and   Will    Replace 
Plants  at  Onset  and  Hanson 

Middleboro,  Massachusetts  has 
now  been  definitely  determined 
upon  as  the  site  of  the  new  Ocean 
Spray  plant.  The  entire  cost  of 
the  pro.iect  is  estimated  at  about 
19  million  dollars.  The  entire 
amount  is  to  be  borrowed,  as 
studies  have  shown  this  to  be  the 
most  economical  method.  Edward 
Gelsthorpe,  Executive  Vice  Pres- 
ident and  General  Manager  said; 
economic  studies  have  shown  that 
a  new  plant  to  replace  the  old 
ones  at  Hanson  and  Onset  will 
enable  Ocean  Spray  to  return 
more   to   the   growers    than   oper- 


ating the  present  structures,  so 
grower-members  should  be  re- 
ceiving more  for  their  crops  than 
at  present. 

It  is  expected  construction  will 
be  started  in  about  four  months. 
The  plant  should  be  ready  for 
receiving  and  screening  by  the 
fall  of  1967  and  for  processing  by 
the  fall  of  1968.  Location  is  to  be 
at  the  Middleboro  Industrial  Park 
off  Route  28,  just  to  the  east  of 
the  town.  President  George  C.  P. 
Olsson  appeared  at  a  town  meet- 
ing of  Middleboro  voters  and  they 
voted  to  meet  every  requirement 
that  Ocean  Spray  desired.  The 
town  voted  to  borrow  a  total  of 
$300,000  for  improvements  at  the 
park,  including  water  and  sewage 
requirements.  It  is  expected  the 
town  will  be  reimbursed  in  part 
at  least,  by  funds  from  Federal 
and  State  sources,  in  grants.  An 
estimate  of  the  water  needed  has 
been  placed  at  between  four  and 
five   million  gallons   per   day. 

The  Onset  and  Hanson  plants 
will  eventually  be  sold.  The 
Cranberry  House  lunch  will  con- 
tinue this  and  next  year  until 
the  new  plant  is  finished  and 
ready  for  processing. 

Much  of  the  equipment  now  in 
use  at  Onset  and  Hanson  can  be 
moved  and  utilized. 

Mr.  Gelsthorpe  called  a  series 
of  regional  growers  meetings  at 
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SPRINKLER  SYSTEMS  ARE  OUR  BUSINESS 

Metal  or  plastic  systems  are  available. 

The  many  features  of  the  Ames  systems  save  you  dollars  and  patience.  The 
sprinkler  systems  that  we  design  we  guarantee.  In  1966  we  will  feature 
the  Rainbird  Model  14070  in  frost  control  systems.  The  faster  revolving 
feature  of  this  sprinkler  will  give  the  best  ice  on  the  bog. 
We  have  for  you  to  use  in  a  sprinkler  system  for  frost  control  or  irrigation 
on  your  bog  .  .  .  Ames  aluminum  pipe  for  main  line  or  laterals;  Johns- 
Man  ville  80  pound  test  plastic  pipe  for  laterals;  Rainbird  Model  14080 
sprinklers;  special  for  frost  protection  —  Hale  and  Marlow  engine  driven 
pumps,  either  gasoline  or  LP  gas;  Gould's  electric  driven  pump. 
We  will  design  and  quote  on  a  complete  system  or  any  part.  As  a  distribu- 
tor we  have  available  the  quantities  you  need  when  you  need  them. 
Give  us  a  try. 

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451    OLD    SOMERSET    AVENUE 

NORTH  DIGHTON,  MASS.  02764 

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Here's  to  a  juicy  year 

for  cranberries. 

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you  make  it  two  in  a  row. 


1965  was  the  best  year  ever  for 
cranberry  sales,  with  juice  adding 
to  the  usual  demands.  For  another 
banner  production  year,  protect 
your  new  crop  from  spring  weed 
competition  with  dependable 
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grasses  and  some  broadleaved 
weeds  (see  below),  with  a  broad 
margin  of  tolerance  to  dormant 
cranberry  plants.  The  20%  gran- 
ules can  be  applied  to  dormant 
established  cranberries  before  bud 
break,  using  air  or  ground  equip- 
ment. Chloro  IPC  breaks  down 
completely  as  temperatures  rise, 
to   eliminate  build-up   or  carry- 


over. For  details,  check  your  local 
extension  service  or  write  Depart- 
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Company,  Chemical  Division,  One 
Gateway  Center,  Pittsburgh,  Penn- 
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Chloro  IPC  Controls 

Annual  Bluegrass  •  Bentgrass 
Bluejoint  Grass  •  Dodder 
Horsetail  •  Loosestrife 
Rushes  (Juncus)  •  Sickle  Grass 
Turkeyfoot  Grass  •  Velvetgrass 
(Massachusetts  recommendations 
also  include  haircap  moss, 
sorrel,  hairy  panic  grass, 
corn  grass,  barnyard  grass, 
crabgrass,  tearthurab,  fireweed 
and  mud  rush.) 


chloro  Tpc 


NINETEEN 


Enoch  F.  Bills 

The  cranberry  growers  of 
New  Jersey  lost  a  stalwart  friend 
and  benefactor  in  Enoch  F.  Bills 
on  February  21.  Mr.  Bills,  aged 
83,  was  a  lifelong  resident  of 
Bordentown.  He  was  married  to 
the  former  Elizabeth  Cowperth- 
waite  who  died  many  years   ago. 

He  was  a  civil  engineer  special- 
izing m  structural  engineering 
when,  in  1915,  he  was  called  to 
New  Egypt  to  develop  the  first 
cranberry  procesing  company 
pioneered  by  his  family.  He  built 
a  factory  for  this  purpose  and 
soon  became  the  principal  devel- 
oper of  processed  cranberry  prod- 
ucts in  this  area,  using  the  trade 
name  of  Bog  Sweets.  In  1930 
through  his  efforts  a  merger  with 
the  two  canning  companies  in 
Massachusetts  (A.  D.  Makepeace 
and  Cranberry  Canners)  led  to 
the  foundation  of  Ocean  Spray 
Cranberries,  Inc.  He  was  a  di- 
rector and  manager  of  the  New 
Jersey  division  until  his  retire- 
ment in  1963.  His  services,  how- 
ever, were  retained  by  the 
company  as  a  consultant  and 
advisor  until  his  death. 

He  was  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  Order  for  over  50  years, 
belonging  to  the  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge 
No.  28,  A.F.  and  A.M.  of  Borden- 
town, and  the  Scottish  Rite  and 
Crescent  Temple  of  Trenton.  He 
was  a  Charter  Member  and  an 
Honorary  Life  Member  of  the 
Kiwanis  Club  of  Bordentown,  the 


Aquatic  Club  of  Bordentown,  the 
Ocean  County  and  Burlington 
County  Boards  of  Agriculture, 
and  the  New  Jersey  Farm  Bu- 
reau. He  was  a  Charter  and  Life 
Member  of  the  Engineers  Club 
of  Trenton  and  a  member  of  the 
American  Society  of  Engineers  — 
Trenton    Section. 

He  was  a  recipient  of  many 
honors.  In  1964  Ocean  Spray 
erected  a  bronze  placque  as  testi- 
mony of  his  many  contributions 
to  the  success  of  the  New  Jersey 
operation.  In  1962  he  received 
a  citation  from  the  Burlington 
County  Board  of  Agriculture  for 
his  contribution  to  that  organiza- 
tion. Fortunately,  Mr.  Bills  was 
still  alive  and  well  enough  to  be 
able  to  appreciate  the  formal 
citation  given  to  him  by  the  1966 
New  Jersey  Agricultural  Conven- 
tion. This  citation,  quoted  below, 
is  an  indication  of  the  worth  to 
New  Jersey  cranberry  growers 
of  Enoch  Bills,  but  it  cannot  be- 
gin to  tell  of  the  delightful, 
charming  and  gentle  person  cran- 
berry growers  knew  as  Enoch 
Bills. 

"To  recognize  outstanding  con- 
tributions of  public,  service 
toward  the  betterment  of  Agri- 
culture and  rural  life  in  New 
Jersey,  the  State  Board  of  Agri- 
culture since  1932  has  designated 
men  and  women  who  have  been 
recommended  by  their  colleagues 
for  distinguished  Service  Cita- 
tions. 

"To  be  awarded  at  the  1966 
State  Agricultural.  Convention, 
the  following  citation  serves  as 
public  commendation  of  the 
recipient,  and  expresses  the  grat- 
itude of  the  State  Board  in  the 
name   of  all  farmers. 

Charles   Pratschler,   President 

New     Jersey     State     Board     of 
Agriculture 
ENOCH  F.  BILLS 

"Your  long  career  of  service 
to  New  Jersey  agriculture,  par- 
ticularly to  your  fellow  cranberry 
growers,  has  won  wide  acclaim. 
Your  lifetime  dedication  to  the 
betterment  of  one  of  the  oldest 
and  most  important  crops  is  well 
known.  As  a  grower,  distributor, 
processor,  engineer  and  plant 
manager    you     have     contributed 


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generously  of  your  skill  and 
ingenuity. 

"This  is  a  signiRcant  occasion 
today.  You  are  recognized  as  a 
worthy  successor  to  your  illustri- 
ous aunt,  Elizabeth  F.  Lee,  who 
pioneered  so  effectively  in  the 
processing  of  cranberries.  She 
also  was  honored  with  a  citation 
at  the  Agricultural  Convention  in 
1941  here  in  this  Chamber.  With 
the  same  vision  and  initiative, 
you  too  have  extended  the  mar- 
ket and  created  new  ones,  thus 
insuring  better  returns  to  our 
growers  and  greater  renown  to 
our    State. 

"Your  counsel  and  guidance 
have  been  sought  by  countless 
growers  in  their  efforts  to  master 
the  culture  of  this  native  fruit. 
You  have  inspired  many  to  the 
to  build  for  them  a  strong  coop- 
erative enterprise,  itself  a  mon- 
ument to  your  unsel&sh  interest 
and  able   leadership. 

"Before  this  assembled  group 
of  delegates,  the  members  of  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture  desire 
to  express  their  gratitude  to  you 


for  your  m,any  noteworthy  con- 
tributions, and  so  award  to  you 
this  CITATION  FOR  DISTIN- 
GUISHED SERVICE  TO  NEW 
JERSEY    AGRICULTURE." 

He  is  survived  by  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Henry  Crawford,  who  re- 
sided with  him,  and  a  nephew, 
Henry  E.  Crawford  of  Douglas- 
ton,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. 

"Enoch  Bills  was  one  of  the 
elder  statesmen  of  New  Jersey 
Agriculture,"  commented  State 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  Phil 
Alampi.  "We  have  lost  one  of 
our  outstanding  leaders  who  since 
1910  had  dedicated  his  career  to 
the  advancement  of  the  cranberry 
industry.  Besides  becoming  a 
successful  grower,  he  pioneered 
in  the  processing  of  cranberries, 
thereby  extending  the  marketing 
season  to  provide  for  year-round 
consumption." 


NEW  PLANT 

Continued  from  page  18 
Bourne,  Hyannis  and  Monponsett, 
explaining   the   new   plans   to  en- 
thusiastic  members.     He   had   re- 


cently spoken  at  meetings  in  Wis- 
consin and  the  West  Coast. 

Mr.  Gelsthorpe  was  in  a  very 
cheerful  mood  as  to  the  present 
and  future  operations  of  Ocean 
Spray,  as  to  product  sales  and  re- 
turns to  growers.  He  said  Ocean 
Spray  could  have  sold  20,000 
barrels  more  fresh  fruit  last  fall 
if  this  had  been  available.  H  e 
spoke  highly  of  the  increasing 
sales  of  the  new  apple-cranberry 
product  and  of  the  ever-increa- 
sing demand  for  Ocean  Spray 
cranberry  juice   cocktail. 


Mrs.  Robert  Rezin 

Mrs.  Robert  Rezin,  Sr.,  73,  of 
Tomah,  Wisconsin,  widow  of  a 
prominent  cranberry  grower, 
died  Feb.  23  at  Lutheran  Hos- 
pital, LaCrosse,  where  she  had 
undergone  surgery  the  day  be- 
fore. Mrs.  Rezin  resided  in 
Nekoosa  and  Rudolph  before 
going   to   Tomah. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
Feb.  26  at  11  a.m.  in  St.  Mary's 
Episcopal  Church,  Tomah,  the 
Rev.    John    Bigg    officiating.     In- 


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Fred  Herms.  After  coming  to 
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Tomah  where  he  established  the 
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Mr.  Rezin  preceded  his  wife  in 
death  in  December  1958. 

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Mrs.  Milton  Hamm  and  Mrs. 
Emery  Jagodzinski,  both  of  Wis- 
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precipitation  was  lost  to  runoff. 
Nine  inches  of  snow  fell  in  Feb- 
uary,  which  is  almost  4  inches 
more  than  generally  occurs  in 
this  month. 

Oxygen  Deficiency  Problems 
The  snow  occurred  after  some 
rather  severe  winter  weather 
which  had  caused  ice  thickness 
of  the  flood  waters  on  cranberry 
bogs  of  about  7  to  9  inches.  By 
the  8th  of  February  an  analysis 
of  oxygen  samples  from  several 
representative  bogs  showed  oxy- 
gen contents  below  5  c.c.  per  liter 
on  most  of  them  and  below  3  c.c. 
on  a  few.  Growers  were  in  a  di- 
lemma as  to  what  to  do  about  this 
problem  as  most  did  not  have 
enough  water  to  reflow.  Fortu- 
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an  unusually  heavy  rainfall  of 
2.26  inches  occurred  which 
opened  up  the  water  on  most  of 
the  bogs.  After  this  there  was  a 
spell  of  mild  weather  and  the 
bogs  have  been  largely  open  since 
then.  It  is  felt  that  oxygen  defi- 
ciency damage  will  not  have  been 
severe. 

February  Cooler 
For  the  entire  month  the  tem- 
perature averaged  out  slightly 
below  normal.  The  mean  temper- 
ature was  32.4,  about  0.3  degrees 
below  the  norm. 


WISCONSIN 

February    a     See    Saw 

February  was  a  seesaw  month 
weatherwise  with  cold  and  warm 
and  cold  and  warm  each  of  the 
four  weeks.  The  cold  tempera- 
tures prevailed  with  a  net  tem- 
perature of  three  degrees  below 
normal,  but  warm  compared  to 
the  bone  chilling  January.  Pre- 
cipitation was  below  normal  with 


very  little  snow,  but  over  an  inch 
of  rain  fell  on  the  7th  thru  9th 
which  got  rid  of  most  of  the  Jan- 
uary snow  in  the  southern  2/3rds 
of  the  state.  At  months  end  only 
from  five  to  ten  inches  of  snow 
remained  in  the  far  north.  Pre- 
cipitation was  about  1.24  com- 
pared to  the  average  of  1.45  in. 
Warmest  was  in  the  low  fifties  in 
the  south  on  the  8th  and  9th  and 
coldest  was  minus  34  i  n  t  h  e 
northwest  on  the  19th  and  20th. 
The  extended  outlook  for  March 
calls  for  temperatures  and  precipi- 
tation to  be  normal.  Incidentally 
March  came  in  like  a  friendly 
lion  with  temperatures  in  the 
forties. 

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an  early  breakup  of  many  creeks 
and  rivers  in  the  south  half  caus- 
ing ice  jams  and  extensive  flood- 
ing in  the  lowlands.  Widespread 
fog  was  also  present  the  entire 
week.  Lack  of  moisture  and  very 
cold  weather  the  third  week  of 
the  month  halted  the  flooding  and 
allowed  the  frost  to  penetrate. 
Frost  depths  averaged  22  inches 
at  the  end  of  the  month  compared 
to  a  whopping  40  inches  a  year 
ago.  Likewise  snow  cover  was 
almost  non-existent  in  the  south- 
ern two  thirds  of  the  state  com- 
pared to  12  to  36  inches  in  the 
nothern  two  thirds  one  year  ago. 
Ice  on  the  reservoirs  was  also 
only  about  two  feet  thick  com- 
pared to  last  year's  three  foot 
depths. 

Some  Vine  Exposure 

The  mild  weather  the  second 
week  of  the  month  caused  some 
vine  exposure  on  shallow  flooded 

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ISSUE    OF    AAARCH,     1966 
VOL.    30,  No.    11 


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THE   GOOD    FEELING   OF    SPRING    AND 

THE    CRANBERRY    INDUSTRY 

Spring  has  officially  come  and  after  a 
winter,  which  always  seems  long  and  kind 
of  dispiriting,  everybody  feels  better  about 
everything.  The  water  is  off  or  is  going  off 
the  bogs  and  marshes,  and  growers  are 
eager  to  get  going  into  the  active  season  of 
cranberry  growing. 

In  the  30  years  we  have  been  publishing, 
we  have  never  seen  growers  as  a  whole 
more  cheerful  about  the  future  of  the  cran- 
berry industry  and  more  eager  to  improve 
their  properties. 

This  is  very  natural,  as  the  1965  crop  was 
the  all-time  record  and  returns  this  past 
year  were  the  best  in  a  dozen  years  or  so. 

The  optimism  is  concretely  proven  by  the 
fact  that  Ocean  Spray  plans  to  spend  about 
19  million  in  a  new  plant  in  Massachusetts. 
This  may  be  a  puny  sum  as  the  Government 
and  Big  Business  spends,  but  it  is  a  lot  for 
the  cranberry  industry,  and  if  the  future 
did  not  justify  it  the  hard-headed  leaders  in 
Ocean  Spray  would  scarcely  authorize  such 
an  expenditure. 

New  bog  is  being  put  in  to  some  extent 
in  all  areas.  The  growers,  especially  in 
Massachusetts,  are  putting  in  more  sprinkler 
systems,  and,  we  suspect,  making  other  in- 
vestments in  their  properties  which  reflect 
the  good  feeling  throughout  the  industry. 

About  the  only  flaw  we  can  see  is  that  it 
is  now  forecast  that  the  great  Eastern 
drought,  especially  in  Massachusetts,  may 
continue  another  year  into  its  fifth  consecu- 
tive year,  but  the  new  sprinkler  systems 
will  do  much  to  offset  this. 

An  agricultural  industry  cannot  help 
being  healthy  when  it  can  produce  its 
record  crop  and  sell  this  at  satisfactorv  re- 
turns to  the  producers,  and  when  there  was 
really  a  scarcity  of  fruit  available  instead 
of  the  surplus  which  has  been  dogging  the 
industry  for  a  number  of  years.  Yes,  we 
believe  "the  goose  hangs  high"  for  the  cran- 
berry grower  at  the  present  moment. 


CLARENCE    J.    HALL 
Editor   and   Publisher 

EDITH    S.   HALL  —  Associate   Editor 
Wareham,   Massachusetts 


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CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.   SORENSON 

Cranberry    Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

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  learned  to  its  sorrow  this 
month  of  the  passing  of  two  prominent  and 
respected  members.  The  first  was  that  of 
Enoch  F.  Bills  of  Bordentown,  New  Jersey, 
and  the  second  Peter  A.  LeSage  of  South 
Yarmouth,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Bills  was  a 
tower  of  strength  to  the  industry  in  New 
Jersey  and  active  in  the  cooperative  field. 
Mr.  LeSage  was  an  independent  cranberry 
grower  and  distributor. 


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beds  or  recently  sanded  beds 
coupled  with  the  rain.  Exposed 
vines  were  reflowed  prior  to  the 
following  severe  cold  and  sanded 
beds  were  recapped.  Sanding 
operations  were  coming  to  an  end 
by  the  middle  of  the  month  al- 
though dyke  and  road  work  con- 
tinued. Most  marshes  in  the  south 
were  wasting  excess  water  the 
last  3  weeks  of  the  month. 


WASHINGTON 

March    Comes    in    Like    Lion 

March  entered  the  Pacific 
Northwest  like  a  lion,  in  con- 
trast to  the  East.  Winds  have 
blown  and  rain  descended  in 
torrents. 

February   Tough    Month 

February  proved  to  a  "teaser" 
of  spring,  but  the  winter  re- 
turned with  a  total  precipitation 
of  7.89  inches  and  low  tempera- 
tures for  the  time  of  year. 
But  there  was  not  as  much  rain 
as  a  year  ago  February  when 
the  month  totalled  13.04.  The 
most  rain  come  on  the  fifth  with 
1.30  inches. 

Sprinklers  Used 


Spring  pruning  is  about  com- 
pleted on  the  bogs.  Some  of  the 
growers  were  still  applying  dor- 
mant fungicides  during  March. 
There  were  bog  lows  on  the  first, 
second  and  fifth  of  March  and 
growers  were  forced  to  sprinkle 
for  frost  protection.  Since  de- 
velopment of  vines  had  started 
the  danger  could  have  been 
harmful. 

February    Temperalues 
The    actual    high  for    February 
was  62   degrees   on  the  21st  with 
a   low  of   25   on   the   14th  with   a 
bog  low  of  22.    The  mean  actual 
high    for   the   month   was   62   de- 
grees.    The    mean   high    was    50.2 
and  mean  low  was  36.9. 
Hail     Storm 
March    came    in    with    a    fiurry 
of    snow    with   up    to    two    inches 
in     some     areas.     But    this     soon 
melted.     There   was    also    a   hard 
hail  storm   for   about   15   minutes 
on  March  7. 

Soil  Tests  Show  Fertilizer  Needs 
The  soil  test  project  is  con- 
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ting surprising  results  and  they 
are  becoming  convinced  that  they 
need  to  supply  fertilizers  in  vari- 
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bog  soil. 

The  program  is  to  apply  one 
half  of  the  recommended  amount 
needed,  in  April  at  the  "popcorn" 
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July. 

Dr.  Carl  Johanson  of  the  Wash- 
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speak  to  meetings  of  Grayland 
and  Long  Beach  areas  on  March 
15th  and  16th.  His  topic  will  be 
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Indian  Trail  Co. 
in  New  Quarters 

Headquarters  of  Indian  Trail 
Cranberry  Co.  has  been  moved 
from  the  Mead-Witter  Building 
to  the  Badger  Shopping  Center, 
1353  8th  St.  S.,  Wisconsin  Rapids. 

Joseph  Hoelting,  general  man- 
ager, said  the  change  was  made 
to  obtain  larger  quarters  and 
more  convenient  parking  facil- 
ities, especially  for  truck  drivers 
who  must  report  to  the  office 
for  orders  during  the  shipping 
season. 

Indian  Trail,  which  has  seven 
full  time  employees,  had  been  in 
the  downtown  location  since  1948 
when  the  company  was  formed. 
It  now  is  a  division  of  Green 
Bay  Foods,  a  subsidiary  of  Dean 
Foods   Co.   of   Chicago. 

Half  of  the  Badger  Shopping 
Center  space  formerly  occupied 
by  the  Whitting  Discount  Store 
has  'X)een  leased  by  Indian  Trail 
and  remodeled  into  office  quar- 
ters. 


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Request  No  More 
DDT  on  Wisconsin 
Cranberry  Bogs 

The  following  notice  went  out 
this  month  to  Wisconsin  cran- 
berry growers  from  the  president, 
Craig  Scott  and  other  officers  of 
the  Wisconsin  Cranberry  Growers 
Association: 

Everyone  is  aware  of  the  con- 
tinuous investigations  by  various 
state  and  federal  agencies  to  de- 
termine the  harmful  effects  of 
DDT  on  our  wild  life,  fish,  and 
natural  resources.  From  current 
findings  it  is  a  known  fact  that 
DDT  has  done  considerable 
damage  and  the  residue  continues 
to  build  up  in  the  wild  animal 
and   fish  tissue. 

To  prevent  any  problems,  we 
feel  it  becomes  imperative  that 
the  State  Cranberry  Growers'  As- 
sociation take  a  stand  and  recom- 
mend that  absolutely  no  DDT  be 
used  by  any  cranberry  grower  on 
his  marsh  or  premises  in  1966  or 
in   the   future. 

With  products  such  as  Sevin, 
Parathion,  and  Guthion  equally 
as  effective,  and  probably  more  so, 
these  products  should  be  used 
and  DDT  eliminated  from  all 
further  use. 


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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. 


LULU  ISLAND,  B.  C. 
MAY  HAVE  18,000 
BARRELS  THIS  YEAR 

Norman  V.  Holmes  of  New 
Westminster,  British  Columbia, 
formerly  of  Carver,  Mass.,  was  a 
visitor  here  in  the  East  this 
month.  He  is  now  completing 
about  120  acres  of  new  bog  on 
Lulu  Island,  New  Westminster, 
having  formed  a  new  company, 
known  as  the  Columbia  Cran- 
berry Company,  Ltd. 

Last  fall  the  total  barrelage  of 
Lulu  Island  was  approximately 
15,000,  its  largest  production  to 
date  and  this  fall  Mr.  Holmes  es- 
timates it  will  be  two  or  three 
thousand  more.  He  also  estimates, 
as  he  has  all  along,  that  by  1970 
Lulu  will  be  growing  about  50,- 
000  barrels  on  an  annual  basis. 


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Copfer  Applicafion 
Casoron   Granules 
In  Washington 

Frank  Glenn,  owner  of  Cran- 
guyma  Farms  at  Long  Beach, 
Washington  has  covered  40  acres 
of  his  bog  with  Casoron  granules 
apphed  by  helicopter.  The  en- 
tire job  was  done  in  about  an 
hour,  as  against  an  estimated  four- 
day  walking  application  on  the 
surface. 

There  was  a  reported  high  uni- 
formity of  application  by  the 
copter,  with  a  maximum  120 
foot  swath,  and  no  lapover  or 
skipping  of  the  chemical. 

Work  was  done  by  the  Ever- 
green Copter,  Inc.  which  is  re- 
puted to  have  spent  more  than 
a  million  dollars  in  experiments 
of  copter  application  of  granular 
chemicals. 


CRANBERRY  GROWERS 

Now  Unloading  - 1  Carload  Redwood  Flume  Lumber 

2x4  2x6  2x8  2x10 

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4x4  4x6  6x6  6x8  and  3x3  Timbers 

Our  Middleboro  yard  has  been  closed  as  a  retail  yard. 

Our   complete   stock   of  Redwood   will   be   at   our  East 
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Only  Four  of  Ten 
In  Mass.  Keeping 
J     Quality  Forecast 


Weather  records  to  date  show 
four  of  a  possible  ten  factors  in 
favor  of  keeping  quality  of  the 
1966  cranberry  crop  in  Massa- 
chusetts. If  April  or  May  are 
cooler  or  drier  than  normal,  the 
quality  prospects  this  year  should 
be  good.  Bogs  that  often  produce 
weak  fruit  should  be  treated  with 
fungicides  (see  the  Insect  and 
Disease  Control  Chart).  "Late 
water"  may  be  used  to  conserve 
dwindling  water  supplies  and 
usually  results  in  superior 
quality  fruit. 


READ  CRANBERRIES 


iass.  Cranberry 
Station  and  Field  Notes 

by  IRVING  E.  DEMORANVILLE 
Extension  Cranberry  Specialist 


Club    Meetings 

The  March  series  of  cranberry 
club  meetings  were  held  at  King- 
ston on  March  15,  Rochester, 
March  16  and  Barnstable,  March 
17.  Dr.  Robert  Devlin  discussed 
"Possible  Solutions  to  Some  Cran- 
berry Problems."  "Bob"  gave 
some  of  his  thoughts  about  re- 
search that  he  plans  on  weed 
control  and  increasing  cranberry 
production.  Prof.  William  Tom- 
linson's  topic  was  "Cranberry  In- 
sects" in  which  he  discussed 
changes  in  the  Insect  Control 
Chalet  and  discussed  girdler.  Dr. 
"Wes"  Miller  presented  some  of 
his  data  on  "Pesticide  Persistence 
and  Translocation,"  pesticides  dis- 
cussed were  casoron,  dieldrin  and 
parathion.  Much  of  this  work 
is  still  in   the   preliminary  stages 


showing  up.  Prof.  "Stan"  Norton 
presented  information  on  "Bulk 
Storage  of  Cranberries."  "Stan" 
discussed  the  results  of  his  work 
storing  cranberries  in  various 
types  of  bulk  containers  under 
differing  storage  conditions  and 
also  his  ideas  for  a  truck-mounted 
loader  for  bulk  containers  or 
pallet  loads  of  field  boxes.  The 
writer  spoke  on  a  variety  of 
topics  including   weed   control. 

The  club  elected  officers  for  the 
new  season.  The  South  Shore 
Club  in  Kingston  elected  "Larry" 
Cole,      president,     Alden     Alber- 


ghini,  vice-president  and  "Bob" 
Alberghini,  secretary  -  treasurer. 
The  Southeastern  Massachusetts 
Club  in  Rochester  re-elected 
"Bob"  St.  Jacques,  president, 
"Dave"  Mann,  vice-president  and 
Russell  Hiller,  secretary-treasurer. 
The  Cape  Cod  Club  re-elected 
Carleton  Collins,  president,  Ray- 
mond Thatcher,  vice  president, 
Mrs.  Hollidge,  secretary  and  Vic- 
tor Adams,  treasurer. 

Frost    Service 

The  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Grow- 
ers Association  is  again  sponsor- 
ing the  telephone  frost  warning 
service.  The  telephone  answering 
service  at  the  Cranberry  Station 
will  also  be  in  operation  again 
this  season.  The  answering  ser- 
vice number  is  Wareham  295- 
2696  and  is  not  listed  in  the 
telephone  directory,  being  inten- 
ded only  for  the  use  of  the  cran- 
berry growers.  The  radio  stations 
will  supplement  the  above  ser- 
vices  and   are   listed   below. 


Station 

Place 

A.M. 

F.M. 

Afternoon 

Evening 

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 

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Telephone    295-3530 

Preliminary     Keeping    Quality    Forecast 

Weather  records  to  date  show 
four  of  a  possible  ten  factors  in 
favor  of  keeping  quahty  of  the 
1966    cranberry    crop    in    Massa- 


BULLDOZERS 
CRANES 


chusetts.  If  April  or  May  are 
cooler  or  drier  than  normal,  the 
quality  prospects  this  year  should 
be  good.  Bogs  that  often  produce 
weak  fruit  should  be  treated  with 
fungicides  (see  the  Insect  and 
Disease  Control  Chart).  "Late 
water"  may  be  used  to  conserve 
dwindling  water  supplies  and 
usually  results  in  superior 
quality  fruit. 

Weather 

March  went  into  the  record 
books  at  about  2  degrees  a  day 
above  normal.  The  month  had 
only  three  brief  cold  periods 
and  the  rest  of  the  month  was 
quite  good.  It  was  an  excellent 
month  for  getting  work  done 
around  the  bogs.  Precipitation 
totalled  2.31  inches  which  was 
only  about  50  percent  of  the 
average.  One-half  of  the  precipi- 
tation for  the  month  occurred  in 
the  first  five  days.  Snowfall  was 
4.1  inches,  all  in  one  storm  on 
the  12th  and  13th,  and  only 
stayed  on  the  ground  for  about 
3   days. 

Odds    &    Ends 

The  "average  farm  operator" 
in   1066   will  manage  a  farm  unit 


LOADERS 
TRUCKS 


of    350    acres,    which    is    20    per- 
cent larger   than   7   years   ago. 

World  food  production  rose 
1V2%  percent  in  1965  over  1964, 
hut  world  population  increased 
faster. 

Fresh  cranberries  in  window 
boxes  are  more  in  demand  in 
markets  in  the  East  and  South, 
but  the  film  bags  are  more  pop- 
ular in  the  Midwest.  No  pref- 
erence  shown   in   the  West. 

A  quotation  from  Confucius 
overheard  the  other  day  that 
seems  very  appropriate  at  this 
time  of  year.  "There  is  no  fer- 
tilizer more  beneficial  than  the' 
footsteps    of   the   owner."' 


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SYSTEM 

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220  Main   Street 
Marshfield,    Mass. 

(May   be  seen  on   the   premises) 
Telephone   834-8331 


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Issue  of  May   1966 -Vol.  30,   No.    12 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 


Compiled  by  C  J.  H 


Snow    March    12 

Most  of  the  first  part  of  March 
was  "Marchlike"  with  some  high 
winds  and  temperatures  a  num- 
ber of  times  high  in  the  fifties. 
Then  on  the  12th  winter  took 
another  swipe  at  the  cranberry 
area,  the  temperature  declining 
sharply  and  heavy  snow  was 
dum{jed  over  the  area,  with 
depths  varying  from  3  to  6  inches. 

Total  of  snow  at  the  Cran- 
berry Station  was  measured  at 
4.1  inches,  equal  to  less  than 
a  half  inch  of  rain,  but  still 
helpful. 

The  middle  of  March  brought 
in  the  usual  March  varieties  of 
weather,  but  mostly  rainless,  un- 
fortunately. There  was  a  low  of 
5  above  on  a  Carver  bog  on 
March  5th  and  for  the  next  two 
days  temperature  highs  were  in 
the  50's  and  60's.  It  was  a  bit 
breezy  but  a  preview  of  beau- 
tiful spring   to   come. 

First    Day   of   Spring 

The  official  first  day  of  spring 
March  20  was  preceeded  by  a 
light  rain  and  was  less  like 
spring  than  the  preceeding 
weather  had  been.  The  day  was 
mild,  but  cloudy  and  foggy.  How- 
ever, the  ice  had  all  gone  from 
ponds  and  reservoirs  and  the 
frost  from   the   ground. 

The  first  days  of  official  spring 
were  warm  and  very  spring- 
like. There  was  gentle  spring 
rain   on   the   22nd. 

March    Warmer 

March  was  turning  out  to  be 
a    warmer    than    normal    month. 


the  excess  degrees  on  the  2Srd 
being  90.  Early  spring  flowers 
were  in  bloom  and  the  green 
was  just  beginning  to  show  up. 
However,  bogs,  which  were  ex- 
posed in  greater  acreage  earlier 
than    usual,    were   still    dormant. 

The  24th  and  the  25th  again 
brought  light  spring  showers, 
helpful  but  not  enough  to  raise 
the   low  water    tables. 

March,  which  came  in  like  a 
lamb  went  out  with  some  growls, 
with  raw,  cloudy  weather  and  a 
cold  rain    on    the    last    day. 

Month    Slightly    Warmer 

However,  as  a  month  the  31 
days  were  about  two  degrees 
warmer  than  normal,  putting  the 
month   on  the  warm  side. 

But,  as  for  rainfall,  this  fell 
into   the   deficient   side,   the   total, 


as  measured  at  the  State  Bog, 
being  only  2.36  inches,  average 
is  4.39.  Thus  March  did  httle  to 
sweeten  up  the  water  supplies, 
although  the  first  two  months 
had   showed   a   slight   plus. 


OREGON 

Frosts    in    March 

Spring  frost  control  began  in 
March.  More  and  more  growers 
are  installing  automatic  and 
thermostatic  starters  on  their 
systems. 

More    Bog    Work 

Much  work  has  been  going  on 
in  the  bogs  than  usual,  the  in- 
centive being  the  good  returns 
growers  have  been  receiving  for 
their  crops.  The  work  has  in- 
cluded pruning,  sanding  and 
ditch    cleaning. 


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March  was  a  wet  month,  with 
rain  nearly  every  day.  When 
the  sky  cleared  temperature 
dropped  to  below  freezing  and 
sprinklers   were   started   up. 

Conditions  have  been  favor- 
able, according  to  Ray  Bates  of 
Bandon  and  a  good  crop  should 
be    produced    this    fall. 


NEW    JERSEY 

After  two  successive  months  of 
greater  than  normal  rainfall,  the 
weather  resumed  the  recent  pat- 
tern of  drought.  Only  1.37  inches, 
or  about  2  inches  less  than  nor- 
mal rainfall,  occurred  in  March. 
The  total  for  1966  through  March 
is  9.43  inches.  This  differs  very 
little  from  the  totals  during  the 
first  three  months  of  the  two 
last  bad  drought  years;  in  1964 
it  was  9.13  inches  and  in  1965 
it  was  9.37  inches.  Normal  for 
this  period  is  9.76  inches. 

Flood  water  on  cranberry  bogs 
stayed  unfrozen  for  almost  the 
entire  month  as  temperatures  re- 
mained relatively  mild.  The 
thermometer  was  in  the  50s  on 
15  days,  in  the  60  on  5  days,  and 
in  the  70s  on  2  days.  The  lowest 
maximum  daily  reading  was  40 
degrees.  The  lowest  minimum 
reading  was  17  degrees. 


WISCONSIN 

March  Wettest  Yet 
March  came  in  like  a  lamb  and 
left  like  a  lion,  along  with  being 
one  of  the  wettest  on  record  and 
also  considerably  warmer  than 
average.  Precipitation  for  the 
month,  mostly  in  the  form  of 
rain,  was  about  41/2  inches  com- 
pared to  the  average  IV2  inches. 
Temperatures  averaged  from  five 
to  seven  degrees  above  the  nor- 
mals. Rain  or  snow  was  recorded 
on  19  days  throughout  the  month. 
Total  rainfall  to  date  is  now  al- 
most seven  inches  compared  to 
the  average  to  this  date  of 
about  31/2  inches.  Warmest  day 
of  the  month  was  74  on  St.  Pat- 
rick's day  and  the  low  was  2 
above  on  the  25th.  It  was  above 
freezing  on  all  but  two  days  of 
the  month.  It  also  was  the  first 
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The  Robert  Gottschalks  Have  Cranberry 
Antecedents  in  Both  Families 

Gottschalk  Operates    Large    Marshes   at    Cranmoor  — 
Was  One  of  the  First  to  Use  Bulk  Harvesting  Method 

By  CLARENCE  J.  HALL 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  A.  Gottschalk  of  Cranmoor,  Wisconsin 
have  a  family  cranberry  background.  "Bob"  Gottschalk  operates  the 
75  acre  marsh  of  Gottschalk  Cranberry,  Inc.  He  also  owns  the  "North 
Marsh"  of  17  acres,  also  in  Cranmoor,  a  mostly  run-out  marsh  which 
he  hopes   to   rebuild. 

His  father  is  August  F.  Gottschalk,  a  former  Wisconsin  Rapids 
merchant  and  grocer,  who  also  operated  a  general  store  at  nearby 
Port  Edwards.  August  bought  and  sold  cranberries  for  his  customers 
in  the  Rapids  and  at  Port  Edwards.  In  his  early  days  deliveries  were 
made  to  the  cranberry  marshes  and  that  was  probably  where  "Bob" 
got  his  first  interest  in  cranberries. 

His  grandfather  was  Rufus  McFarland,  who  was  part  Scotch,  a 
river  pilot  and  early  "Wisconsin   cranberry  grower. 

Mrs.  Gottschalk's  grandfather  was  Richard  Rezin,  pioneer  of  the 
prominent  Rezin  cranberry  growing  family  in  Wisconsin,  and  her 
father  was  Lloyd  Rezin,  also  a  cranberry  grower. 


Live    on    Marsh 

The  Gottschalks  live  in  a  pleas- 
ant home  on  their  marsh,  with  a 
large  picture  window  giving  a 
view   of   their   main    marsh. 

This  marsh  is  known  as  the 
old  Foley  marsh,  called  the  East 
marsh  containing  25  acres.  This 
marsh  is  entirely  set  to  Searles. 
The  West  marsh  is  of  50  acres 
and  Bob  is  engaged  in  rebuilding 
this.  This  marsh  has  some 
Natives,  some  Searles  and  Bob 
has  planted  Ben  Lears  for  early 
harvesting.  These  vines  origin- 
ally came  from  one  of  the  earli- 
est marshes  in  Wisconsin,  the  so- 
called  Berlin  Marsh  near  Berlin, 
Wisconsin  and  were  planted  in 
a  small  plot  on  the  Lester  Cran- 
berr.v  Company  marsh.  These 
vines  were  carefully  selected 
from  the  Lester  Cranberry  Com- 
pany marsh  and  transplanted  to 
the  Biron  marsh  (Nash).  Then 
the  late  Dr.  Neil  Stevens,  Dr.  F. 
B.  Chandler  and  others  decided 
at  that  time,  that  they  would 
not  be  suitable  for  fresh  fruit, 
and  as  little  processing  was  done 
then  in  Wisconsin;  only  the  pies 
and  seconds  were  being  sold  for 
processing. 


Because  of  their  dark  color  at 
harvest,  the  Ben  Lears  can  im- 
mediately be  shipped  to  the 
Ocean      Spray     plant     at     North 


Chicago  to  be  made  into  juice. 
It  was  Tony  Jonjak  who  had 
taken  these  vines  from  a  ten- 
foot  square  plot  at  Biron  and 
tr-ansplanted  them  to  his  own 
marsh  at  Hayward  in  northern 
Wisconsin  to  propagate  and  to 
be  sold  commercially.  After  about 
ten  years  he  had  enough  to  sell 
ro  that  in  1959  Gottschalk  and 
Roy  Potter  bought  vines  and  each 
planted  four  acres  of  the  Ben 
Lears    at    Cranmoor 

Marsh   Sprinkled 

The  marsh  is  flowed  from  the 
Wisconsin  River  River.  In  1964 
Gottschalk  put  in  19  acres  of 
sprinklers,  these  having  Rain 
Bird  heads.  Last  year  the  bal- 
ance of  the  marsh  was  put  under 
sprinkler. 

Gottschalk  contributes  plots  on 
his  marsh  for  experimental  use 
by  the  University  of  Wisconsin 
and  both  Dr.  Malcolm  N.  Dana 
and  Dr.  Donald  Boone  have  made 
satisfying  use  of  these  plots,  Dr. 
Dana  on  weed  control  and  Dr. 
Eoone   on   fungicides. 

Gottschalk's  dusting  is  done  by 
airplane.  He  is  using  the  James 
Miles     Air    Service    of     Hartford, 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gottschalk  in  their  Yard. 


(CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


the  Gottschalk  Marsh,  showing  Sprinkler  Head. 

(CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


m^i-' 


*  , 


Another  view  of  the  (iottschalk  Marsh. 


(CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


Wisconsin.  A  Stearman  bi-plane 
has  been  remodelled  so  that  it 
can  carry  a  maximum  amount  of 
fertilizer  or  insecticides.  Gotts- 
chalk  fertilizes  twice  a  year  put- 
ting on  about  200  pounds  to  the 
acre  per  application,  the  mixture 
used  being  7-28-14S.  This  is  done 
in  April  and  just  as  the  berries 
are    setting. 

For  production  his  East  marsh 
averages  about  4000  barrels  a 
year.  He  harvests  with  three 
Dana-Getsinger  pickers.  He  har- 
vests in  a  little  different  manner 
than  do  most  Wisconsin  growers 
by  going  around  and  around  a 
bed  rather  than  always  in  the 
same   direction. 


pleted  her  requirements  for  a 
Bachelor's  degree  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin.  Afterwards 
she  taught  American  History  and 
related    subjects. 

The  Gottschalks  have  two  sons, 
Jon  20  years,  who  is  attending 
Wisconsin  State  University  and 
Guy  16  years,  who  is  a  junior 
at  Wayland  Academy  at  Beaver 
Dam,  Wisconsin. 

Hobby     is     Curling 

The  hobby  of  the  Gottschalks 
is  a  rather  unusual  one,  at  least 
for  most  of  the  country.  It  is 
curling,  that  ancient  game  played 


on  ice  with  a  heavy  stone  and 
broom.  There  is  a  curling  club 
at  Port  Edwards  to  which  the 
Gottschalks  belong,  along  with 
the  Wayne  Duckarts,  Irving  Ben- 
netts, Newell  Jaspersons  and  Dan 
Rezins,  all  cranberry  growers  in 
the  town  of  Cranmoor.  This  is 
a  sport  that  can  be  played  in 
the  long  cold  Wisconsin  winters, 
when  there  is  not  much  to  be 
done  on  the  marshes.  Bob  is  a 
former  secretary  and  treasurer 
of   this   club. 

A  poem  by  Mr.  Rufus  E.  Mac- 
Farland,  maternal  grandfather  of 
Mr.    Gottschalk    follows: 


Used    Bulk    Boxes 

Bob  was  the  first  to  use  bulk 
wooden  boxes,  4  feet  by  4  feet 
by  4  feet,  handled  with  fork 
lifts  in  shipping  his  crop  to  Ocean 
Spray.  He  has  a  warehouse  of 
considerable  size  but  plans  to 
build  a  new  one.  His  North  marsh 
across  the  highway  from  his  other 
properties  is  an  old  "wild  native 
marsh"  started  in  1888  before  the 
present  Milwaukee  Railroad  was 
put    through. 

Mrs.    Gottschalk    a    Teacher 

Gottschalk  was  born  in  Wis- 
consin Rapids  in  1913.  His  early 
schooling  was  there,  grade  and 
high  school.  Then  he  attended 
Ripon  College  at  Ripon,  Wiscon- 
sin and  finished  at  Northwestern 
University  at  Evanston,  Illinois, 
taking  a  business  course  and  re- 
ceiving a  Bachelor's  degree.  For 
the  past  14  years  he  has  been 
and  is  assessor  of  the  Town  oi 
Cranmoor.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Wisconsin  State  Cranberry 
Growers'  Association,  and  a  past 
president  of  this  association,  and 
was  a  director  of  the  former  Mid- 
West  Cranberry  Cooperative.  He 
is  an  alternate  member  on  the 
Advisory  Board  of  Wisconsin 
Cranberry  Marketing  Order.  Mrs. 
Helen  E.  Gottschalk  attended 
school  at  Cranmoor  and  Nekoosa. 
She  attended  Wisconsin  State 
University  at  Stevens  Point,  tak- 
ing  a   teachers'   course   and   com- 


CRANBERRY    PICKING    TIME 

Don't  you  think   that  city  folks  would  think  it  very  cute. 
To  go  upon  the  cranberry  marsh  to  see  them  pick  the  fruit. 
If  the  men  would  take  along  their  daughters  and  their  wives, 
They  would  hid  good-by  to  all  resorts  the  balance  of  their  lives. 

When  you  go  upon  the  meadow   before   the  work   is   begun 
Where  every  dewdrop  sparkles   like  diamonds  in  the  sun; 
The   grass  appears  as  beautifrd  as   waves   on  inland   seas, 
Golden  rod  and  buttercups  are  nodding  in  the  breeze. 

It  surely  is  a  sight  to  see  on  the  bogs  we  pass, 

Each  berry  tries  to  hide  itself  beneath  the  moss  and  grass. 

They  act  like  timid  peoj^le  as  if  they  were  afraid. 

When   you    bring   them    to   the    light   they    blush    like  a    bashful    maid. 

Continued  on  Page  32 


'^^fi^^^    ,  .'"' 


mm 


Big  Hale  pump  for  sprinkler  system. 


(CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


NINE 


f^ 


I.  Stanley  Cobb,  new  publisher  of  CRANBERRIES  (left),  and  Clarence 
J.  Hall,  former  editor  and  publisher,  pass  papers  of  agreement,  while 
Donald  Chartier,  new  editor,  looks  on.  (CRANBERRIES  Photo) 


'Cranberries'   Magazine 
Under  New  Management 

Clarence  J.  Hall,  Founder,  Retires 

CRANBERRIES,  with  this  issue  is  sold  to  a  new  publisher.  It 
was  established  May,  1936  and  since  that  time  has  been  published 
and  edited  by  Clarence  J.  Hall,  ably  assisted  as  associate  editor  by 
his  wife,   Mrs.   Edith   S.   Hall    at   Wareham,   Massachusetts. 

The   new   owner   and   publisher   is'. 
Comor   Publishers,   I.    Stanley   Cobb,    president,    236    Main    Street, 
Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360.    Telephone  area  code  617   585-2310. 

Mr.  Cobb  will  be  handling  advertising  and  subscriptions  and 
other  matters  relating  to  CRANBERRIES.  New  mailing  address  for 
all  correspondence  and   remittances   will   be  as   follows: 

Cranberries  Magazine 

P.O.  Box    70 

Kingston,  Massachusetts  02360 


Associated  with  Mr.  Cobb  is 
Donald  Chartier,  who  will  be  act- 
ing the  capacity  of  editor.  Mr. 
Chartier's  address  is  30  Sewell 
Street,  Brockton,  Mass.  Telephone 
617—588-4595. 

For  the  past  two  years  Cobb 
has  been  the  printer  of  the  mag- 
azine since  the  sale  of  the  Ware- 
ham,  Mass.  Courier  printing 
plant.  This  has  given  Mr.  Cobb 
considerable  insight  into  the  pub- 
lishing of  CRANBERRIES,  and 
into  the    cranberry    industry. 

Mr.  Cobb  has  been  in  the  print- 
ing business  all  his  life.  He  was 
born  in  Boston  in  1928  and  after 
graduation  from  high  school  he 
went  into  printing.  For  several 
years  he  worked  on  newspapers 
in  West  Brookfield  and  Rockland, 
Mass.  He  then  worked  in  com- 
mercial printing  plants  acquiring 
a  well  rounded  knowledge  of  the 
business. 

In  1955,  Mr.  Cobb  established  a 
commercial  printing  business  in 
his  home  in  Kingston.  He  later 
acquired  an  associate,  Mr.  Walter 
Morlock,  moved  into  a  new  build- 
ing and  in  1962  the  business  was 
incorporated  as  Cobb  Printing, 
Inc. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Cobb  is  a  native 
of  Kingston  and  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  Harry  G.  Briggs.  She  was 
at  one  time  employed  for  a 
period  of  11  years  by  Ocean 
Spray  Cranberries,  being  secre- 
tary to  Mr.  John  F.  Harriott,  who 
at  that  time  was  assistant  treas- 
urer of  the  cooperative.  This  gives 
her  a  valuable  familiarity  with 
names  of  growers  end  a  general 
knowledge  of  the  industry. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cobb  have  two 
children,  Deborah  and  Donald. 
The  couple  attend  the  Mayflower 
Congregational  Church  of  King- 
ston of  which  Mr.  Cobb  is  a 
deacon.  They  devote  much  of 
their  spare  time  to  work  of  the 
church  in   various   activities. 

In  1965  Mr.  Cobb,  deciding  to 
get  away  from  the  job  printing 
business,  retired  from  the  firm  and 
organized  Comor  Publishers  for 
the    purpose    of    publishing    and 


Here's  to  a  juicy  year 

for  cranberries. 

Chloro  IPC  Herbicide  can  help 

you  malte  it  two  in  a  row. 


1965  was  the  best  year  ever  for 
cranberry  sales,  with  juice  adding 
to  the  usual  demands.  For  another 
banner  production  year,  protect 
your  new  crop  from  spring  weed 
competition  with  dependable 
Chloro  IPC  Herbicide.  This  selec- 
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icals controls  a  long  list  of  annual 
grasses  and  some  broadleaved 
weeds  (see  below),  with  a  broad 
margin  of  tolerance  to  dormant 
cranberry  plants.  The  20%  gran- 
ules can  be  applied  to  dormant 
established  cranberries  before  bud 
break,  using  air  or  ground  equip- 
ment. Chloro  IPC  breaks  down 
completely  as  temperatures  rise, 
to   eliminate  build-up   or  carry- 


over. For  details,  check  your  local 
extension  service  or  write  Depart- 
ment 6625,  Pittsburgh  Plate  Glass 
Company,  Chemical  Division,  One 
Gateway  Center,  Pittsburgh,  Penn- 
sylvania 15222. 

Chloro  IPC  Controls 

Annual  Bluegrass  •  Bentgrass 
Blucjoint  Grass  •  Dodder 
Horsetail  •  Loosestrife 
Rushes  (Juncus)  •  Sickle  Grass 
Turkcyfoot  Grass  •  Velvetgrass 
(Massachusetts  recommendations 
also  include  haircap  moss, 
sorrel,  hairy  panic  grass, 
corn  grass,  barnyard  grass, 
crabgrass,  tearthumb,  fireweed 
and  mud  rush.) 


chloro  Tpc 


ELEVEN 


printing  magazines  and  books. 
This  year  the  company  handled 
three  large  annual  tov^Ti  reports. 
Cranberries  is  the  first  major 
periodical. 

Mr.  Chartier  was  born  in  Marl- 
boro, Mass.  in  1923.  Attending 
parochial  school  he  was  taught 
French  as  well  as  English.  His 
school  athletics  were  basketball 
and  track.  He  worked  for  some 
years  as  make-up  editor  and 
printer  on  the  Marlboro  daily.  He 
attended  Boston  University,  taking 
courses  in  public  relations  and 
communications. 

Mrs.  Chartier  is  the  former 
Josephine  Paulino  of  Hudson, 
Mass.  The  Chartiers  are  the  par- 
ents  of  six  children. 

Mr.  Chartier  is  currently  em- 
ployed at  the  Veterans  Adminis- 
tration Hospital,  Brockton,  where 
he  is  a  recreation  therapist. 
Among  his  duties  there  include 
editor  of  the  patient  newspaper. 
Don  also  does  art  work  for  the 
publication. 

During  the  Second  World  War 
he  was  in  service  in  the  101st 
Airborne     Division,     training     at 


Fort  Benning,  Georgia,  and  then 
serving  in  active  duty  in  Europe. 
Don  is  interested  in  pho- 
tography and  has  done  devel- 
oping of  negatives  and  prints. 
He  is  interested  in  art  as  a 
hobby. 

His  wife  has  been  a  teacher  in 
the  public  schools  and  conducts 
her   own   kindergarten. 

So,  both  men,  like  your  for- 
mer editor  and  publisher  have 
long  been  familiar  with  the 
smell   of   printers'    ink. 

While  the  transition  of  owner- 
ship is  in  progress,  Mr.  Hall 
will  continue  with  CRANBER- 
RIES in  the  capacity  of  con- 
sultant and  may  be  reached  by 
mail  at  Box  32,  Wareham,  Mass. 
02571  or  telephone  617—295-9533. 
He  will  also  contribute  some  ar- 
ticles as  certain  material  has  al- 
ready   been    gathered. 

There  is  to  be  no  drastic  change 
in  policy  or  editorial  content. 
But  the  future  will  be  approached 
with  possibly  an  improved  maga- 
zine with  fresher  eyes  and 
younger    blood    in    charge. 


GELSTHORPE    ELECTED 

TRUSTEE   OF  ALMA  MATER 

Edward  Gelsthorpe,  executive 
vice  president  and  chief  executive 
officer  of  Ocean  Spray  Cranber- 
ries, Inc.,  has  been  named  a 
trustee  of  Hamilton  College, 
Clinton,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  1942 
graduate  of  the  institution. 


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Frank  D.  Costello 

Frank  D.  Costello,  a  long  time 
cranberry  grower  of  South  Car- 
ver, Mass.  died  at  St.  Luke's 
Hospital,  Middleboro  March  26. 
He    was    77. 

Mr.  Costello  was  treasurer  and 
general  manager  of  the  big  Crane 
Brook  Cranberry  Company  with 
headquarters  in  South  Carver.  He 
was  born  in  Boston,  the  son  of 
James  J.  Costello  and  Catherine 
M.  O'Brien.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Elizabeth  Atwood  Cos- 
tello, a  son  James  Costello  of 
Monterrey,  California  and  a 
brother,  Charles  L.  Costello  of 
Cincinnatti,  Ohio,  six  grandchil- 
dren and  three  great  grandchil- 
dren. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Mid- 
dleboro Lodge  of  Elks,  a  charter 
member  of  the  South  Carver 
Grange,  a  director  of  the  Mid- 
dleboro Cooperative  Bank  since 
1936^  and  was  president  of  the 
Carver  Old  Home  Day  Association. 

He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Atwood-Costello  Chevrolet  of 
Middleboro.  He  was  a  long  time 
winter  resident  of  Vero  Beach, 
Florida,  where  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Vero  Beach  Country 
Club. 

A  requiem  of  High  Mass  was 
held  March  30  at  Our  Lady  of 
Lourdes  Church  of  Carver  and 
interment  was  at  Central  Ceme- 
tery,   Carver. 


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THIRTEEN 


BABCOCK  TO  BE  SITE  OF  NEW 
$300,000  CRANBERRY  STATION 


Ocean  Spray  Cranberries,  Inc., 
has  announced  plans  for  con- 
struction of  a  receiving  and 
screening  station  in  the  village 
Ox  Babcock,  Wise,  estimated  to 
cost  around  $200,000  and  sched- 
uled for  completion  in  time  for 
the    1966   harvest   season. 

Lloyd  Wolfe,  Wisconsin  field 
manager  for  Ocean  Spray,  said 
the  new  facility  is  expected  to 
provide  seasonal  employment  for 
approximately  75  people  this 
fall. 

He  said  specifications  for  the 
building  are  to  be  completed 
soon  and  the  construction  con- 
tract award  will  follow  shortly. 
The  site  is  adjacent  to  the  Bab- 
cock railroad  station. 

The  plans  provide  for  a  150 
by    200    foot,    one-story    building. 


Barring  last-minute  changes  in 
specifications,  it  will  be  of  metal 
construction,   according   to   Wolfe. 

The  plant  will  contain  equip- 
ment for  sorting  and  shipping 
cranberries  grown  by  Wisconsin 
members  of  Ocean  Spray,  and  will 
also  have  office  quarters. 

Wolfe,  who  will  oversee  opera- 
tion of  the  new  facility,  said  the 
corporation's  Wisconsin  office, 
now  located  at  321  12th  Ave.  S. 
in  Wisconsin  Rapids,  will  be 
moved  to  Babcock  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  1966  harvest  sea- 
son. 

In  making  the  first  public  an- 
nouncement of  the  project  at 
Ocean  Spray's  headquarters  in 
Hanson,  Mass.,  Edward  Gels- 
thorpe,  executive  vice  president 
and   chief   executive   officer,  said: 


"Erection  of  the  new  Wisconsin 
receiving  and  screening  plant  is 
part  of  the  cooperative's  pro- 
gram of  expanded  services  to 
grower  members  through  a  plant 
modernization  and  building  pro- 
gram. This  program  is  in  keep- 
ing with  Ocean  Spray's  growth 
over  the  past  three  years  in  both 
sales  dollars  and  increase  in  cash 
per  barrel  return  to  its  grower 
members." 

Berries  will  be  shipped  directly 
from  the  Babcock  station  to 
Ocean  Spray  processing  plants 
in  North  Chicago,  111.,  and  on  the 
Pacific    coast. 

Wisconsin  members  of  the  cor- 
poration's board  of  directors 
are  Lester  M.  Gordon,  Tomah, 
vice  president;  Alfred  E.  Bark 
and  Donald  S.  Duckart,  Wiscon- 
sin Rapids;  Harold  D.  Gross, 
Manitowish  Waters,  and  Tony 
Jonjak,    Hayward. 


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FOURTEEN 


MASSACHUSETTS  CRANBERRY  CLUBS  HEAR 
SUGGESTIONS  ON  HOW  TO  GROW 
LARGER  CROPS 

Also  Elects    1966   OfFicers  —  Bulk   Handling    Discussed 


Suggestions  as  to  how  to  pro- 
duce larger  crops  and  more  ef- 
ficiently were  made  to  growers 
attending  the  Massachusetts  Cran- 
berry Club  meeting  in  March, 
and  also  suggestions  as  to  har- 
vesting and  storage  were  made 
by  members  of  the  Massachusetts 
Cranberry  Experiment  Station. 
The  meetings  were  those  of  the 
South  Shore  at  Kingston,  March 
15th,  Southeastern,  Rochester  on 
the  16th  and  the  Cape  Cod,  Barn- 
stable on  the    17th. 

The  discussions  were  under  the 
leadership  of  Irving  E.  Demo- 
ranyille,  Extension  Cranberry 
Specialist. 

An  interesting  feature  in  the 
production  of  larger  crops  was  in 
the  production  of  larger  as  well 
as  more  cranberries,  as  this  would 
swell   the   total   crop. 

First  speaker  was  Dr.  Robert 
Devlin,  pathologist  at  the  Sta- 
tion, a  relative  newcomer,  who 
was  making  his  fi.rst  appearance 
before  the  growers  on  a  speaking 
program.  His  subject  was  "Pos- 
sible Solutions  to  Some  Cran- 
berry Problems."  He  first  discussed 
"Gibberallin,"  a  chemical  which 
is  a  growth  regulator.  He  said 
cost  production  was  the  problem 
of  every  grower  and  that  Gib- 
berallin acid  is  a  natural  growth 
regulator.  It  is  not  toxic,  but 
at  the  moment  it  is  not  inexpen- 
sive as  it  is  not  commonly  used 
on  many   agricultural   products. 

He  said  that  normally  flowers 
need  pollination,  usually  bees  to 
set  fruit.  "If  we  spray  flowers 
with  Gibberallin  Acid  we  may 
be  able  to  achieve  90  to  95  per- 
cent fruit  set,  if  the  cranberry 
plant   will  respond    to    this   acid." 

He  noted  there  is  a  very  large 
loss  in  the  potential  of  the  crop 
if    flowers    do    not   all    set,    as    is 


now  the  case.  He  said  this  alone 
could  help  increase  total  produc- 
tion. 

The  acid  will  also  enlarge  the 
berry,  another  advantage  in  total 
production. 

On  more  advantage  possible  is 
that  a  seedless  fruit  may  be  pro- 
duced (he  cites  the  Thompson 
grape)  and  this  is  something 
Ocean  Spray  is  very  anxious  to 
have   in    sauce    making. 

Gibberallin  acid,  he  said  may 
also  be  useful  as  a  supplement 
to  herbicides.  Some  plants  grow 
to  six  times  their  normal  size 
under  this  treatment  and  the 
plant  will  take  up  more  herbi- 
cides. 

The  material  is  not  yet  regis- 
tered for  use  on  cranberries  and 
his  research  is  so  far  only  in  the 
experimental  stage.  (Editor's  note: 
Gibberallin  is  also  under  experi- 
ment for  cranberry  use  in  New 
Jersey  by  Charles  N.  Mainland, 
Dept.  of  Horticulture,  Rutger's 
University. 

New    Compounds 

Dr.  Devlin  said  he  had  about 
30  new  compounds  to  test  at  the 
station,  several  seemingly  prom- 
ising. Two  might  increase  yield, 
one  gave  an  excellent  short  time 
control  of  weeds  which  might  be 
used  successfully  on  poison  ivy. 
and  there  was  one  for  cleaning 
ditches  of  weeds,  provided  the 
ditch  is  dry  when  applied.  The 
weeds  would  not  come  back  for 
six  months. 

"Pesticide  Persistance  and 
Translocation,"  was  the  topic  of 
Dr.  G.  W.  Miller,  biochemist.  He 
explained  tests  which  had  been 
made  at  the  State  Bog.  Casoron 
is  persistent,  he  said,  mostly  on 
the  upper  part  of  the  soil.  He 
said    that    two    applications    in    a 


single  year  remained  longer  than 
if    only    one    application    is    used. 

He  said  he  had  found  samples 
of  Casoron  and  Dieldrin  in  a 
drainage  ditch  back  to  the  res- 
ervoir, but  that  these  moved  at 
a  very  slow  rate.  He  said  Para- 
thion  had  been  found  in  mussels 
in  the  pond  reservoir.  He  dis- 
cussed how  long  Parathion  stayed 
on  the  vines  when  big  sprink- 
lers were  used  and  also  won- 
dered if  the  material  was 
washed   off   with   sprinkler  use. 

He  mentioned  briefly  the  rela- 
tion of  the  use  of  Casoron  to 
bog   sanding. 

Demoranville,  who  was  listed 
as  speaking  on  "Weeds,"  said 
his  talk  could  better  be  put  down 
as  "Cranberry  Hash,"  as  he  was 
speaking  on  a  number  of  subjects. 

He  said  that  harvest  should  be' 
delayed,  if  possible  until  the 
berries  were  fully  mature,  and 
of  the  right  color.  He  said  it  was 
amazing  the  difference  in  the 
size  of  the  fruit  picked  too  early 
and  that  picked  at  full  maturity. 
This  perfect  timing  in  harvest 
can  make  a  good  deal  of  differ- 
ence in  the  amount  of  production 
a  grower  will  obtain.  He  said 
harvest  before  the  coming  of 
mechanical  pickers  was  usually 
earlier  as  it  took  longer  to  get 
the  crop  off.  He  said  it  was  Sep- 
tember 16th  before  the  Blacks 
were  really  fully  matured  and 
October    first    for    the    Howes,    if 


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the  individual  growers  were  able 
to   wait    that  long. 

"I  am  a  believer  in  fertilizing," 
he  said,  "as  a  means  of  increasing 
production. '"  He  said  he  preferred 
a  "balanced"  fertilizer,  and  this 
was  much  better  than  just 
nitrogen    alone. 

He  went  into  the  matter  of 
water    harvesting    slightly. 

In  discussing  the  matter  of  not 
picking  until  the  berries  were 
fully  ripe,  he  said  he  was  fol- 
lowing the  advice  of  Dr.  Cross 
as    given    at    a    previous   meeting. 

There  are  no  new  chemicals  at 
all  in  the  weed  chart  for  1966, 
he  said.  Reverting  to  fertilizers 
again  he  asserted  that  all  bogs 
are  diflferent  and  each  grower 
must  experiment  and  find  out 
what  program  is  best  for  his  own 
property. 

Prof.  WiUiam  (Bill)  Tomlinson, 
entomologist,  took  up  the  recoin- 
mendations  for  this  year,  noting 
the  changes  of  recommendation  in 
a  number  of  items.  He  said  that 
there  might  be  more  trouble  with 
gypsy  moth  this  year,  following 
last  year's  outbreak  of  this  pest 
on  the  Cape.  It  had  not  been  a 
problem  for  about  15  years  and 
might  be  a  new  problem  for 
some  of  the  younger  growers.  He 
suggested  a  number  of  sweeps 
be  liminted  to  25  rather  than 
50  before   a   check   is  made. 

He  cautioned  growers  that  they 
were  responsible  for  any  pesti- 
cides on  their  property.  He  sug- 
gested that  containers  be  buried 
and  said  it  was  bad  practice  to 
remove  part  of  the  contents  of 
a  container  and  put  it  in  an- 
other. Material  should  be  kept  in 
the  original  container,  he  said, 
and  the  container  has  antidote 
directions  on  it  to  use  in  the 
event  of  accidental  poisoning. 
He  said  it  was  often  best  to  des- 
troy some  chemicals  if  they  had 
been  left  over  from  the  year  of 
their  use  as  they  might  have 
deteriorated  and  have  lost  strength 
and  when  applied  would  not  do 
the   job   desired. 

Final  speaker  was  Prof.  J. 
"Stan"  Norton,  engineering  re- 
search. 

He  talked  to  some  extent  on 
wet     raking,    and     told     how    ex- 


periments are  being  made  with 
12  inch  plastic  pipe  filled  with 
water  as  a  barrier  to  flood  a 
bog  area  for  wet  picking.  This 
gives  an  area  about  150  feet  in 
diameter,  he  said,  which  bar- 
rier would  be  portable  for  use 
at  diflferent  places  on  the  bog 
as    the   fruit   ripened. 

He  also  spoke  of  "Bulk  Storage" 
of  cranberries.  He  told  how  fruit 
had  been  stored  in  cooperation 
with  Ocean  Spray  and  records 
kept  of  the  rate  of  rot  in  various 
containers  and  in  various  con- 
ditions of  temperature  storage. 
He  summarized  by  saying  that  he 
couldn't  see  but  that  the  fruit 
kept  as  well  in  bulk  bins  con- 
taining seven  barrels  as  well  as 
that  stored  in  the  usual  field  box. 
Officers    Elected 

All  three  groups  elected  of- 
ficers for  the  coming  year.  The 
Southeastern  Club  reelected  Rob- 
ert St.  Jacques  president;  vice 
president  David  Mann,  Buzzards 
Bay;  secretary-treasurer,  Lewis 
Hiller  and  advisory  committee, 
Kenneth  Beaton,  Robert  C.  Ham- 
mond  and    Oscar   Norton. 

South  Shore  Cluh  at  Kingston: 
Lawrence  Cole  of  North  Carver, 
succeeding  Stanwood  Briggs  of 
Duxbury,  who  term  had  expired; 
Alden  Alberghini,  Plymouth,  vice 
president;  and  Robert  Alberghini 
of  Wareham,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. 

The  Cape  Club  reelected  the 
same  slate  as  last  year:  president, 
Carlton  Collins ,  Waquoit;  vice 
president;  Raymond  L.  Thacher, 
Harwich,  secretary;  Mrs.  Craw- 
ford H.  Hollidge,  Marston  Mills; 
and  treasurer,  Victor  F.  Adams  of 
Barnstable. 


3-Phase  Electric 
Extension  Will 
Aid  Wise.  Growers 

Staking  crews  were  at  work 
shortly  after  December  1,  on  two 
main  three-phase  feeding  lines 
north  from  the  Mather  substation 
that  will  serve  the  townships  of 
Bear  Bluff,  Knapp,  Kingston, 
Remington  and  City  Point  and 
bring  three-phase  service  to  a 
number    of    Wisconsin     cranberry 


growers  throughout  that  area. 

It  is  estimated  that  construction 
in  this  area  will  be  nearly  com- 
pleted by  May  1,  1966.  The  vast- 
ness  of  this  construction  program 
can  be  measured  in  nearly  one- 
half  million  pounds  of  aluminum 
conductor,  nine  to  ten  car  loads 
of  poles,  some  150  large  size  trans- 
formers and  an  estimated  labor 
cost  for  construction  of  over 
$125,000. 

Staking  crews  are  coordinating 
their  work  with  irrigation  pump 
manufacturers  who  are  assisting 
all  growers  and  our  crews  in  locat- 
ing the  point  where  cranberry 
sprinklng  pumps  will  be  installed. 
These  pumps  will  range  from  50 
to  150  horsepower. 

Consideration  will  be  given  to 
the  location  of  all  overhead  lines 
to  render  the  least  amount  of 
interference  to  aerial  spraying, 
dusting,  etc.  It  is  planned  that 
most  of  our  secondary  lines  will 
be  located  underground  from  the 
transformer  pole  to  the  pump 
location. 

Plans  are  to  serve  all  cranberry 
growers  who  have  signed  up  for 
three-phase  service,  however,  it  is 
only  natural  that  service  will  be 
available  first  to  those  who  are 
located  nearest  to  our  substation 
load  centers.  Those  located  further 
away  must,  of  course,  expect  ser- 
vice at  a  date  possibly  later  than 
May   1,   1966. 

It  is  expected  that  many  new 
uses  for  electricity  will  be  found 
by  growers  in  the  area  now  that 
three-phase  service  will  be  made 
available.  There  is  no  question  but 
what  a  greater  amount  of  electric 
power  will  be  consumed  in  the 
processing  of  cranberries  in  drying, 
warehouse  heating,  refrigeration 
storage,  and  other  applications  that 
will  come  about  as  a  result  of 
research  now  underway. 

Construction  will  be  done  out  of 
Oakdale  Electric  headquarters, 
using  the  cooperative  regular  con- 
struction crews,  however,  in  order 
to  meet  service  deadlines  it  may 
be  necessary  to  employ  additional 
people.  Every  effort  will  be  made 
to  employ  those  from  local  areas 
served  by  the  cooperative. 


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SEVENTEEN 


Farm  Bureau 
In  Action 

By  VERNON  A.  BLACKSTONE 
Farm   Bureau  Staff  Assistant 

(Editor's  Note:  Farm  Bureau 
is  fortunate  in  having  James  E. 
Shaw,  Esq.  of  Dunstable  as  Gen- 
eral Counsel  for  the  Massachu- 
setts Farm  Bureau  Federation. 
Following  is  a  resume  of  a  de- 
cision handed  down  by  the  Land 
Court  relative  to  Cranherry  grow- 
ers. This  case  was  taken  into 
Court  by  the  Massachusetts  Farm 
Bureau  to  determine  the  validity 
of  an  amendment  to  the  zoning 
by-laws.  Mr.  Shaw  is  the  Author.) 

Merry   v.    Duxbury    Article 

Cranberry  growers  generally 
can  take  comfort  from  a  decision 
handed  down  by  the  Land  Court 
involving  the  validity  of  an 
amendment  to  the  zoning  by-laws 
of  the  Town  of  Duxbury. 

The  by-law  provided  that  "no 
obstruction  of  streams  or  tidal 
waters  and  no  excavation  or  fill- 
ing of  any  marsh,  wetland,  or 
bog  shall  be  done  without  proper 
authorization  by  a  special  per- 
mit issued  by  the  Board  of  Ap- 
peals." (See  Merry  v.  Duxbury, 
Land  Court,  Misc.  Case  5  32878). 

In  attacking  the  by-law,  Stan- 
ley M.  Merry  of  Duxbury  in  his 
petition  alleged  it  was  invalid  as 
an  "attempted  exercise  of  police 
power  that  has  no  reasonable  re- 
lationship to  the  public  health, 
safety,  or  welfare  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  Town;  that  the  Board 
of  Health  by  Chapter  111,  Sec- 
tion 125  (of  the  General  Laws), 
has  jurisdiction  over  land  which 
is  wet,  rotten,  spongy,  or  covered 
with  stagnant  water  and  offen- 
sive or  injurious  to  health;  that 
the  by-law  fails  to  provide  ade- 
quate standards  for  the  Board 
of  Appeals  in  the  issuance  of 
'special  permits,'  that  failing  to 
define  essential  terms  the  by- 
law has  patent  ambiguities;  that 
it  contravenes  the  Constitution, 
voids  the  Massachusetts  law  as 
to  the  reasonable  use  of  riparian 
rights,  subjects  the  rights  of 
cranberry    growers   statutory    and 


otherwise,  to  the  whim  of  a 
board,  and  substantially  inter- 
feres with  cranberry  business  of 
growing  and  expanding." 

The  Land  Court,  unequivocably, 
decided  in  favor  of  Mr.  Merry 
and  specifically  found  that  the 
amendment  to  the  by-law  in 
question  had  "no  force  or  effect" 
as  to  his  "cultivation  of  cran- 
berries" and  that  it  was  "an  in- 
valid exercise  of  authority  by 
the  Town  under  the  Zoning  En- 
abling Act." 

In  his  opinion,  Judge  Joseph  R. 
Cotton  relied  heavily  upon  the 
points  raised  in  the  brief  pre- 
pared and  filed  by  James  E. 
Shaw,  General  Counsel  for  Mas- 
sachusetts Farm  Bureau,  who 
represented  Mr.  Merry  in  the 
action.  Among  others,  the  fol- 
lowing observations  were  made 
by  Judge    Cotton: 

(1)  "Natural  water  courses  from 
time  immemorial,  and  as  set  forth 
in  many  decisions  on  riparian 
rights,  give  the  owner  of  the 
land  over  which  it  runs  the 
right  to  use  it  without  substantial 
injury  to  the  upper  or  lower 
riparian  owners.  The  by-law 
states  an  owner  cannot  obstruct 
it  without  prior  permission  of 
the  Board  of  Appeals,  regardless 
of  degree  or  reason  for  doing 
so." 

(2)  "Permission  or  'proper 
authorization'  as  to  marsh,  wet- 
land, and  bog  must  be  first  ob- 
tained before  the  owner  may  'ex- 
cavate or  fill'  any  of  them.  It 
does  not  say  that  it  applies  to 
a  substantial  excavation  or  fill 
not  does  it  exempt  a  minor  act." 

(3)  "The  amendment  places 
upon  a  landowner  the  interpre- 
tation of  whether  he  is  on 
swampland,  wetland,  or  bog  and 
without  permission  acts  at  his 
peril,  regardless  of  necessity  or 
the  general  improvement  which 
would   result." 

(4)  "It  is  well  established  that 
all  town  by-laws  must  be  suf- 
ficiently definite  so  that  a  citizen 
of  average  intelligence  in  reading 
may  reasonably  know  whether 
any   act  of  his   is  in  violation." 


(5)  Hinkley  v.  Nickerson,  117 
Mass.  213,  215,  recited  that  as 
early  as  1866,  an  'owner  had  a 
legal  right  to  maintain  a  dam 
for  the  purpose  of  flowing  and 
irrigating  his  land  for  the  cul- 
tivation of  cranberries.'  " 

(6)  "Howe  V.  Grush,  131  Mass. 
207,211,  states,  'The  Legislature 
has  seen  fit  to  give  to  the  owners 
of  cranberry  meadows  the  same 
rights  to  erect  dams  and  flow 
their  meadows  that  had  long  been 
enjoyed  by  owners  of  mill  sites.' 
It  must  be  done  with  'reasonable 
care,  skill  and  prudence,'  which 
is  the  rule  that  requires  every- 
one so  to  use  his  own  as  not  to 
injure   another." 

(7)  "I  am  unable  to  percieve 
any  rational  tendency  in  the 
amendment  to  promote  safety, 
health,  morals,  or  general  welfare 
of  the  public.  It  chief  purpose 
seems  to  be  founded  on  aesthetic 
considerations.  It  phraseology  is 
unreasonable    and    arbitrary." 

Judge  Cotton  then  went  on  to 
discuss  the  rights  of  Mr.  Merry 
relative  to  the  "non-conforming" 
use  of  his  land  in  light  of  the 
amendment  to  Section  5  of  Chap- 
ter 340,  Acts  of  1962.  The  Mas- 
sachusetts Farm  Bureau  Federa- 
tion was  instrumental  in  having 
this  particular  amendment  adop- 
ted as  part  of  the  State  Zoning 
Enabling  Act.    The  opinion  reads: 

"It  is  uncontroverted  that  pe- 
titioners have  been  operating  and 
improving  three  cranberry  bogs 
and  performing  all  acts  needful 
for  producing  cranberry  crops. 
It  is  uncontroverted  that  in  this 
respect  they  possess  a  non-con- 
forming use  which  is  ordinarily 
exempt  from  zoning  by-laws 
adopted  subsequent  to  such  use 
becoming    established. 

"The  Zoning  Enabling  Act  by 
Section  5,  as  amended  by  Chapter 
340,  acts  of  1962,  gives  protec- 
tion to  nonconforming  use  of  land. 
In  substance  it  states  a  zoning 
by-law  shall  not  apply  to  the 
'existirig  use'  of  land  to  the  ex- 
tent to  which  it  is  used  at  the' 
time   of   the    adoption    of   the   or- 


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NINETEEN 


apply  to  any  change  of  use 
thereof,  or  for  its  use  for  the 
same  purpose  to  a  suhstantially 
greater  extent;  and  provided,  fur- 
ther, that  no  such  ordinance  or 
by-law  shall  prohibit  the  alter- 
ation, rebuilding  or  expansion 
within  applicable  set  back  re- 
quirements of  non-conforming 
buildings,  except  greenhouses  lo- 
cated in  residential  areas,  or  the 
expansion  of  land,  used  primarily 
for  agricidture.  horticulture  or 
floriculture. 

"The  rights  of  petitioners  in 
the  exercise  of  their  nonconfor- 
ming  use   appear  clear." 


HELICOPTER  PEST  CONTROL 


Cold  Injury  to 
Cranberries  in 
1965  in  Washington 

hy   CHARLES   C.   DOUGHTY 
and  AZMI   Y.   SHAWA 


(Assistant  Horticulturist,  Western 
Washington  Research  and  Ex- 
tension Center,  Puyallup,  Wash- 
ington and  Junior  Horticulturist, 
Coastal  Washington  Research 
and  Extension  Unit,  Long  Beach, 
Washington,     respectively.) 

Cranberry  producing  areas  in 
Washington  have  a  rather  mild 
climate  compared  to  the  other 
regions  where  this  crop  is  grown. 
The  cranberries  grown  are  prin- 
cipally the  McFarlin  variety  with 
a  small  amount  of  older  varieties 
included. 

Minimum  temperatures  during 
the  fall  months  are  such  that 
the  cranberry  plants  remain 
green  or  in  a  semi-dormant  con- 
dition well  into  November  or 
early  December  in  some  years. 
Winter  temperatures  are  fre- 
quently relatively  warm  and  no 
winter  injury  occurs  until  physi- 
ological activity  resumes  in  late 
February  or  early  March.  Oc- 
casionally minimum  temperatures 
of  0  degrees  F  to  10  degrees  F 
occur.  When  this  happens,  low 
temperature  injury  is  produced. 
For  this  reason  an  investigation 
was  started  in  1964  to  determine 
the  degree  of  injury  that  could 
occur  at  various  temperatures 
and  stages  of  bud  development. 


iqqins  ^irwaus 

I     I         NORWOOD,  MASS.  I 

DUSTING   and   SPRAYING 


RAY    MORSE    8c    SON.    AGENTS 


TEL.    295-1553 


Field  Observations.  A  study  of 
dormant  plants  growing  under 
commercial  conditions  was  started 
just  prior  to  a  low  temperature 
of  9  degrees  F  which  occurred 
in  mid-December,  1964.  Periodic 
checks  were  made  on  bog3  in 
both  the  Grayland  and  Long 
Beach  areas  to  measure  injury 
throughout  the  dormant  period. 
Injury  was  determined  by  dis- 
secting and  visually  examining 
three    to    five   samples    of   50    up- 


rights (fruiting  shoots)  each  that 
were  collected  from  several  loca- 
tions in  the  cranberry  areas. 
Each  upright  collected  had  one 
dormant  terminal  bud  which 
contained  an  inflorescence  of  one 
to  seven  developing  blossom  buds 
and  a  vegetative  growing  point. 
The  data  shown  below  in  Table 
1,  represents  the  mean  percent- 
age of  injury  to  dormant  buds 
and  the  abscission   layers. 


Table  1.  Mean  percent  of  low  temperature  injury  in  dormant  McFarlin 
cranberry  buds,  in  commercial  bogs,  in  the   1964-65  period. 


Sa^nple  Min.  Temp's,  below 

date  32 °F  at  vine  level 


Accumulative 

total  degrees 

below  32^ 


Accujnulative 
per  cent  dormant 
bud  injury 


Dec.  16 

27  30  26  15  9  * 

51   ** 

8 

Jan.  31 

23  28  30  28  25  27 

98 

9 

Feb.  11 

27  26  31  24  22  28  29  29 

138 

19 

Feb.  26 

27  25  26  23  25  19  24 

193 

44 

Mar.  12 

29  30 

198 

10 

Mar.  24 

28  31  28  24 

215 

4 

May  4 

26  24  26  23  24  25  26 

270 

30 

*   Minimum  temperatures  are  listed   from  one  date  to  the  next. 
-* Accumulative  totals  of  degrees  below  32°F  were  calculated  from 
December    1,    1964. 


TWENTY 


We'd  like 

to  put  you 

on  the  map! 


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

Suppose  you  make  die  map  at  Dean's  Indian  Trail,  then  \\'hat?  For  one,  you 
get  an  advance  at  the  beginning  of  harvest  on  your  estimated  crop.  Another  pay- 
ment is  made  as  you  ship  and  final  pavment  at  a  later  date.  For  another,  \'our 
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The  amount  of  injury  varied 
greatly  on  all  sampling  dates. 
Cold  injury  does  not  occur  to  all 
dormant  buds.  The  differences  in 
the  stage  of  development,  nu- 
trition, and  vigor  of  the  plant 
cause  the  degree  of  hardiness  to 
vary.  Resistance  to  cold  injury 
among  the  developing  blossom 
buds  of  the  inflorescence  also 
varied  considerably.  Those  blos- 
som buds  that  developed  first,  or 
lowest  on  the  inflorescence  were 
generally  more  susceptible  to  in- 
jury that  those  which  developed 
later. 

The  data  shown  in  Table  1 
indicates  that  the  buds  are 
relatively  resistant  to  cold  injury 
in  earlier  parts  of  the  dorman 
period.  However,  after  physio- 
logical activity  resumes  in  the 
cells,  they  are  increasingly  sus- 
ceptible to  injury  as  the  dor- 
mant period  progresses  toward 
its  termination.  For  example,  the 
February  11th  group  of  tempera- 
tures show  two  on  this  date. 
These  are  24  and  22  degrees. 
These  temperatures  at  the  earlier 
dates  did  not  seem  to  cause  in- 
creased injury.  The  February  26th 
temperatures  have  six  minimums 
(25,  26,  23,  25,  19,  and  24  de- 
grees) which  probably  caused  the 
increased  injury  shown. 

Most,  but  not  all,  injury  in  the 
mid-dormant  period,  was  to  the 
abscission  layer.  This  is  a  layer 
only  a  few  cells  thick  between 
the  dorman  bud  and  the  stem 
and  is  surrounded  by  the  bases 
of  the  outer  bud  scales.  Injury 
varied  from  complete  kill  to  only 
slight.  Those  stems  which  were 
only  slightly  injured  seemed  to 
recover  when  growth  resumed. 
However,  those  stems  where  the 
abscission  layer  was  killed,  even 
though  the  bud  itself  remained 
undamaged  showed  no  further 
development.  This  accounts  in 
part  for  an  increase  in  injury 
from  8%  on  December  15  to  44% 
on    February    26. 

Those  buds  where  the  abscission 
layer  was  killed  dropped  off  and 
only  healthier   buds   remained   on 


March  12th  and  24th.  Part  of 
those  buds  where  the  abscission 
layer  was  less  severely  injured 
started  growth  the  following 
spring  but  died  in  a  short  time. 
Three  points  of  injury  were 
found  in  the  dormant  buds.  These 
v.-ere  the  abscission  layer,  the 
flower  buds  and  the  vegetative 
growing  point.  Any  one  or  all 
three  may  be  injured.  If  the 
abscission  layer  is  killed,  then 
a  new  shoot  starts  from  a  lateral 
bud  but  no  fruit  buds  develop 
till  the  following  year. 

Artificial  Freezing  Tests.  Tests 
were  conducted  in  controlled 
freezers  to  determine  the  tem- 
peratures at  which  injury  oc- 
curred. Uprights  were  collected 
on  February  26,  March  12,  March 
30  and  May  4  and  divided  into 
bunches  of  twenty.  One  bunch 
was  used  per  treatment  per  re- 
plication. Each  test  was  replicated 
five  times.    The  freezer  was  set  to 


decrease  the  temperature  one  to 
four  degrees  per  hour  and  hold 
for  two  hours  at  each  selected 
temperature.  At  the  end  of  each 
two  hour  period  samples  were 
removed  and  the  buds  dissected 
and  visually  examined  for  injury. 

Results  of  these  tests  also 
showed  that  there  was  an  increase 
in  temperature  at  which  serious 
injury  occurred  as  the  dormant 
season  progressed  and  physio- 
logical activity  of  the  buds  in- 
creased. Table  2  shows  the  per 
cent  of  injury  to  the  blossom 
buds  caused  by  different  temp- 
eratures at  four  sampling  dates 
during  the  latter  part  of  the  dor- 
mant period  and  at  the  white 
bud  to  popcorn  (cluster  bud) 
stage  of  growth  (May  4th).  These 
percentages  include  all  buds 
which  showed  injury  in  any  de- 
gree. Injury  during  these  periods 
was  principally  to  the  blossom 
buds. 


Table  2.  Mean  percentage  of  cold  injury  to  McFarlin  cranberry  buds 
subjected  to  artificial  freezing  tests,  each  temperature  con- 
stant for  two  hours. 


Freezer 

Temperatures 

°F. 


DORMANT  PERIOD 
February  26     March  12     March  30 


White  hud  to 

popcorn  stage 

May  4 


31 

30 

28 

26 

24 

22 

20 

18 

16 

14 

12 

10 

8 

6 

4 

2 


10% 

14 

18 

22 

25 

29 

33 

37 

41 

45 

48 

52 

56 


10% 

17% 

14 

24 

18 

33 

22 

38 

27 

44 

31 

35 

40 

44 

48 

53 

24% 

27 

33 

39 

44 


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DisciLSsion.  During  the  first  part  in  the  latter  part  of  the  dormant 

of    the    dormant    period    the    ab-  period,   this    was   no   longer   true, 

scission   layer   was   the   part    that  Subsequent    to    this    time    injury 

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2,  even  31°  temperatures  will 
produce  serious  injury  after 
growth  has  started. 

From  the  latter  part  of  the 
dormant  season  through  the  hook 
(pink)  stage  the  parts  of  flower 
buds  most  easily  injured  were  the 
anthers,  style  and  nectaries.  The 
anther  tubes,  through  which  the 
pollen  is  discharged,  and  the  base' 
3f  the  style  surrounded  by  the 
nectaries  received  the  most  dam- 
age. Anther  tubes  injured  by 
freezing  temperatures  during  de- 
velopment twist  and  curl  so  that 
pollen  dehiscence  is  extremely 
difficult. 

Damage  to  the  ovaries  and 
ovules  also  occurred  in  these 
tests  but  not  as  readily  as  to 
styles  and  anthers.  However,  if 
damage  to  the  latter  was  very 
extensive,  the  ovaries  were  also 
injured  enough  to  cause  serious 
crop  reduction.  Injury  to  the 
style  base  can  cause  serious  crop 
loss  as  this  prevents  the  pollen 
tabes  from  reaching  the  ovules. 
Injury  to  the  anthers,  especially 
the  anther  tubes,  can  prevent 
pollen  dehiscence.  When  this  oc- 
curs the  chance  of  pollination 
occuring  is  reduced.  Another  fac- 
tor observed  was  that  when  the 
anther  tubes  were  injured  the 
style  was  generally  damaged  also. 

After  bud  break  has  occurred 
any  temperature  31°F  or  lower 
will  cause  serious  crop  reduction 
(see  table  2).  Even  temperatures 
of  32  °F  appear  to  cause  some  in- 
jury if  they  persist  long  enough. 
Irrigation  system  should  therefore, 
be  started  any  time  the  tempera- 
ture drops  to   33   or  34°. 

Starting  at  this  temperature 
will  counter-act  the  danger  of 
spot  injury  during  frosty  periods. 
During  periods  of  radiation 
frosts,  a  decrease  of  only  four 
to  six  inches  in  the  height  of  the 
vine  surface  may  result  in  in- 
jury in  low  spots.  Experiences 
during  the  past  few  years  show 
that  damaging  frosts  can  occur 
any  time  during  the  growing  sea- 
son in  localized  areas  if  conditions 
are  right.  When  this  happens 
the  upright  tips  will  turn  brown 
and  die. 


TWENTY-FOUR 


New  Buckner    1966 
Catalog  Published 
Features  New  Lines 

Buckner  Sprinklers  1966  Agri- 
cultural Catalog  has  just  been 
published  by  Buckner  Industries, 
Fresno,    California. 

Listing  the  complete  line  of 
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sprinklers  are  enumerated  in  the 
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The  800G  Rainer  is  designed 
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Buckner  agricultural  engineers, 
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also  described  as  outstanding  for 
heavy  soils  where  runoff  is  a 
problem.  Finally,  the  engineers 
sa3'^  its  performance  excels  in 
orchards  where  light  applications 
and  special  spacings  are  needed 
for    frost    protection. 

Complete  information  is  avail- 
able from  Buckner  sprinkler  deal- 
ers or  from  Buckner  Industries. 
P.O.  Box  232,  Fresno,  California 
93708. 


Wisconsin  Gift  House 
Being  Enlarged 

Vernon  "Goldy"  Goldsworthy, 
president  of  Cranberry  Products, 
Inc.,  Eagle  River,  Wisconsin,  an- 
nounces that  his  firm  is  now  in 
the  process  of  adding  a  substan- 
tial addition  to  their  gift  house, 
which  features  numerous  specialty 
items   made   from   cranberries. 


follow 

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leader 


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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 
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TWENTY-FIVE 


Crop  Summary  of 
1965  Massachusetts 
Cranberries 

A  crop  summary  of  the  mar- 
keting of  Massachusetts,  1965 
crop  has  been  issued  by  the  Bos- 
ton office  of  the  Consumer  and 
Marketing  Service  of  the  USD  A. 
It  is  written  by  John  E.  O'Neil 
and  William  E.    Struck. 

The  report  says  in  part:  — 
Acreage  harvested  in  1965  was 
down  one  hundred  acres  from 
1964  to  11,600  acres.  This  with 
a  total  Mass.  crop  of  745,000  bar- 
rels, the  third  largest  Mass.  crop 
brings  the  average  yield  per  acre 
to  64.2  barrels,  up  to  7.8  barrels 
from    1964. 

Early  Blacks  continued  to  be 
the  predominating  variety  grown 
in  the  Cape  Cod  and  Plymouth 
areas,  followed  by  Howes  and 
a  few  miscellaneous  varieties. 
The  approximate  percentages  were 
Early  Blacks  60  percent,  Howes 
36  percent   and  others  4  percent. 

Practically  all  shipments  con- 
tinued to  be  packaged  in  card- 
board cartons  containing  24  one- 
pound  film  bags  and  window 
boxes.  In  southern  and  eastern 
markets  the  window  boxes  are 
more  in  demand,  in  mid-Western 
markets  the  film  bags  are  more 
popular.  In  western  markets 
there  doesn't  appear  to  be  any 
marked  tendency  toward  either 
package.  A  few  25  pound  bulk 
cartons  were  used  this  season, 
mostly  to  institutional  outlets  in 
Canada  and  the  northwest  U.  S. 

Rail  movement  again  this  sea- 
son was  a  minor  factor.  A  total 
of  19  rail  shipments  were  re- 
ported which  represents  the  light- 
est rail  shipments  since  this  re- 
port  originated    in    1954. 

Truck  movement  as  usual  con- 
tinued as  the  major  source  of 
transportation.  A  total  of  765 
carlot  equivalents  were  shipped 
in  1965  compared  to  777  in  1964. 
Combined  rail  and  truck  ship- 
ments in  1965  wore  approximately 
the  same  as  in  1964,  ten  per- 
cent less  than  in  1963  and  26  per- 
cent less  than  in  1962. 


The  national  distribution  of 
Massachusetts  cranberries  in  1965 
represented  possibly  the  finest 
year  in  history.  As  in  1964, 
Wisconsin  berries  ceased  to  be  a 
major  competitive  factor  by  the 
end  of  November.  With  few 
exceptions,  markets  throughout 
the  country  reported  heavier  un- 
loads of  Massachusetts  cranber- 
ries than  in  any  previous  season. 
Terminals  showing  an  increase 
in  unloads  included  Atlanta,  Cin- 
cinnati, Cleveland,  Dallas,  Den- 
ver, Detroit,  Los  Angeles,  Min- 
neapolis, New  York,  Philadelphia. 
Portland  and  San  Francisco. 

As  in  past  years  the  F.  O.  B. 
prices  in  1965  were  again  ex- 
tremely uniform.  This  uniformity 
applied  equally  to  Blacks  and 
Howes.  Both  varieties  averaged 
25  cents  a  quarter  higher  than  in 
1964.  F.  O.  B.  prices  in  1965  were 
the  highest  listed  since  the  in- 
ception   of  the    report    in    1954. 


USDA   PESTICIDE 

INFO  CENTER 

Secretary  of  Agriculture  Orville 
L.  Freeman  has  announced  estab- 
lishment of  a  pesticide  information 
center  in  the  Department's  Na- 
tional Agriculture  Library  as  a 
facility  in  the  USDA's  stepped-up 
program  of  research  and  education 
in  the  fields  of  pest  control. 

The  center  is  a  pioneering  de- 
velopment which  marks  a  signi- 
ficant advance  in  making  widely 
available  masses  of  scientific  and 
technical  information  on  pests  and 
their  control.  (Cooperative  Digest) 


ONE  WAY  TO  FIGHT  RE- 
APPOINTMENT?—There's  talk  in 
New  Jersey  and  California  about 
.splitting  into  two  states  each.  The 
New  Jersey  Farm  Bureau  asks:  "If 
five  tiny  counties  of  northeastern 
New  Jersey  can  control  the  entire 
state,  why  not  two  separate  states — 
East  New  Jersey  and  West  New 
Jersey?  A  legal  basis  already  exists 
for  such  a  change.  ("Today,"  in 
the  Farm  Journal) 


(Wisconsin  Cranberry 
I       Consultant  Service 


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Wisconsin  Rapids,  Wis. 
Phone  423-4871 


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cranberry-choking  weeds  this  Spring. 
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pensive, time-consuming  hand  or 
mechanical  weeding  in  your  bogs. 
CASORON  kills  weeds  before  they  spring 
up  to  rob  your  cranberries  of  available 
soil  moisture  and  valuable  nutrients. 
Controls  perennial  and  certain  annual 
weeds  and  grasses. 

Yet  CASORON  is  the  one  safe  herbicide. 
CASORON  controls  heavy,  crop-choking 
stands  of  weeds  but  is  also  economical 
for  use  when  only  a  few  weeds  are 
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Start  using  CASORON  right  now.  Get 
in  touch  with  your  nearest  supplier  listed 
below.  Ask  him  about  CASORON,  or 
write  Thompson-Hayward  direct. 

Supplies  of  Casoron  and  additional 
information  are  available  from: 

Wisconsin  Cranberry  Consultant  Serv- 
ice, P.O.  Box  429,  Wisconsin  Rapids, 
Wisconsin;  Miller  Products  Co.,  7737 
N.  E.  Killingsworth,  Portland,  Oregon; 
R.  F.  Morse  &  Son,  Inc.,  Cranberry 
Highway,  West  Wareham,  Massachu- 
setts; Parkhurst  Farm  and  Garden 
Supply,  301  Whitehorse  Pike,  Ham- 
monton.   New   Jersey. 


THOMPSON-HAYWARD  CHEMICAL  COMPANY 

P.O.  Box  2383,  Kansas  City,  Kansas  66110 


TWENTY-SEVEN 


F.  F.  Mengel, 
Wise.  Grower,  Dies 
in  Florida 

Forest  F.  Mengel,  77,  921  2nd 
Ave.  S.,  founder  and  president 
of  one  of  Wisconsin's  largest 
highway  construction  companies, 
died  at  8  p.m.  Feb.  19th  at  Fort 
Lauderdale,    Fla. 

Mr.  Mengel,  who  had  been 
suffering  from  a  lingering  illness, 
was  confined  at  Holy  Cross  Hos- 
pital there  for  the  past  two 
weeks. 

Funeral     February    23 

Funeral  services  were  held  at 
10:30  a.m.  Feb.  23  at  Our  Lady 
Queen  of  Heaven  Catholic  Church, 
the  Rev.  Stanley  Andrzejewski 
officiating.  Burial  was  at  Calvary 
Cemetery. 

The  son  of  the  late  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ernest  Mengel  was  bom 
Nov.  26,  1888,  at  Oconomowoc 
and  came  to  Wisconsin  Rapids 
in  1915  as  district  engineer  for 
Division  4  of  the  Wisconsin  High- 
way Commission. 

Held  Public  OfFice 
He  held  the  state  post  until 
1927  when  he  resigned  to  form 
the  F.  F.  Mengel  Co.,  a  firm 
which  pioneered  in  paving  tech- 
niques and  has  been  responsible 
for  construction  of  considerable 
Interstate  system  mileage  in 
Wisconsin.  Mr.  Mengel,  a  regis- 
tered professional  engineer  re- 
mained active  in  the  firm,  al- 
though management  responsibil- 
ities had  been  largely  taken  over 
by    his    son,    William. 

In  1937  Mr.  Mengel  formed  the 
Mengel  Cranberry  Co.  which 
operates  a  marsh  on  County 
Trunk  Z  south  of  Wisconsin  Rap- 
ids. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Wis- 
consin Rapids  Board  of  Educa- 
tion, serving  from  1933  to  1936, 
and  an  alderman  from  1923  to 
1927. 

Mr.  Mengel  held  membership 
in  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Elks 
and  Kiwanis  Clubs,  and  the  Holy 
Name  Society  at  Our  Lady  Queen 
of  Heaven  Catholic  Church. 


On  Nov.  25,  1913,  he  married 
Kathryn  Finnerty  at  Oconomo- 
woc. She  died  July  17,  1958. 
His  marriage  to  Margaret  Po- 
mainville-Lathrope  took  place 
April  30,   1963,  at  Richmond,  Va. 

Surviving  are  his  wife;  the 
son,  William,  and  two  daughters, 
Mrs.  Gary  Getzin  and  Mrs.  Don 
Neitzel,  all  of  Wisconsin  Rapids; 
11  grandchildren  and  three  great- 
grandchildren. 


U.  S.  BEE  COLONIES 
DECREASED    IN    1965 

Bee  colonies  generally  declined 
in  1965  in  the  United  States,  ac- 
cording to  a  release  from  the 
USDA.  But  the  decline  was  only 
slight;  in  colonies  the  total  num- 
ber lowered  from  5,601,000  in 
1964  to  5,502,000  in  1965.  In 
New  Jersey,  the  decline  was  from 
36,000  to  35,000.  In  Massachu- 
setts, 11,000  to  10,000.  In  Wis- 
consin from  200,000   to   184,000. 

Honey  production,  as  might  be 
expected,    also    decreased. 


Rutgers  University 
Observing  200th 
Anniversary 

Rutgers,  New  Jersey  State  Uni- 
versity at  New  Brunswick,  of 
which  the  cranberry-blueberry 
station  at  Pemberton  is  a  unit, 
this  year  is  observing  its  Bicen- 
tennial. It  was  in  1766  that  in  the 
name  of  the  British  Crown,  New 
Jersey  Governor  William  Frank- 
lin granted  the  eighth  colonial 
charter  in  the  New  World,  the 
endeavor  then  being  known  as 
Queen's  College. 

The  tiny  college,  as  Washing- 
ton's army  and  the  Redcoats 
fought  up  and  down  New  Jersey 
moved  frequently  to  stay  clear 
of  the  armies.  With  U.  S.  inde- 
pendence it  obtained  land  in  New 
Brunswick  on  land  which  is  now 
called  "Queen's  Campus." 


Cranberries  in   English 
In-Store    Promotion 

A  recent  issue  of  the  USDA 
publication  Foreign  Agriculture 
told  of  a  series  of  in-store  pro- 
motions launched  in  the  United 
Kingdom  to  promote  the  sale  of 
American  foods  to  British  house- 
wives. The  stores  included  in 
the  promotion  were  Selfridges, 
Britain's  largest  department  store, 
the  large  Fine  Fare  chain  in  three 
locations,  Tolworth  store,  the 
largest  supermarket  in  England 
and  Lewis'  department  store  at 
Bermingham. 

CRANBERRY    SALES 
DOUBLE  IN  UK 

Ocean  Spray  Cranberries  with 
headquarters  at  Hanson,  Massa- 
chusetts is  moving  into  the  ex- 
port market  with  both  fresh  and 
processed  fruit.  Wisely,  Ocean 
Spray  is  proceeding  cautiously, 
because  American  cranberries  are 
relatively  unknown  in  Europe. 
Although  sales  are  still  small, 
they  have  doubled  in  the  United 
Kingdom  in  the  past  year. 
(Forcigyi  Agriculture,  publication 
of    the    USDA) 


START  ANNUAL 

BANDON    BERRY   FESTIVAL 

First  steps  in  the  annual  1966 
Bandon  Cranberry  Harvest  Fes- 
tival have  been  taken.  Dave 
Lawson  of  the  Western  Banks 
system  has  been  named  to  head 
the  Festival  Association.  Dates 
of  the  big  festival  are  Sept.  23- 
25  inclusive. 


ONE  OF  FIRST  WOODS 
FIRES  IN  NEW  JERSEY 

One  of  the  first  woods  fires  in 
cranberry  areas  of  the  1966  sea- 
son took  place  in  New  Jersey 
March  19.  A  fixe  raged  for  more 
than  8  hours  on  Willard  Mill 
Road  in  back  of  Whitesbog.  About 
58  acres  were  destroyed. 

The  blaze  was  fought  by  fire- 
men from  the  State  Forest  Fire 
Control,  Browns  Mills  Volunteer 
Fire  Company  and  Pemberton 
Good   Will   Fire   Department. 

Cause  of  the  fire  was  not  de- 
termined. 


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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 
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TWENTY-NINE 


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ISSUE  OF  APRIL,       1966 
VOL  30 -No.    12 


(^^J^iSHaCM.^ 


THE  END  OF  OUR  ERA 
IN  CRANBERRIES 

It  is  with  mingled  emotions  that  we 
announce  the  sale  of  CRANBEKRIES.  Re- 
gret, because  we  have  for  so  long  been  so 
closely  associated  with  the  cranberry  in- 
dustry for  so  long  —  and  a  feeling  of  relief  at 
no  longer  having  the  responsibility  of  pub- 
lishing a  magazine  every  month. 

Thirty  years  is  but  a  flick  of  the  eye  in 
eternity,  but  it  is  a  large  chunk  of  a  person's 
life.  It  can  only  be  with  sorrow  that  we  give 
up  this  enterprise  which  we  began  in  May, 
1936. 

During  that  time  it  has  been  our  good  for- 
tune to  have  visited  every  cranberry-growing 
area;  from  Nova  Scotia,  all  Cranberry 
counties  in  Massachusetts,  Nantucket, 
Martha's  Vineyard  off  the  Massachusetts 
coast  and  Long  Island  in  New  York;  in  New 
Jersey  from  Pemberton  to  the  coast  at  Toms 
River  and  south  to  Cape  May;  in  Wisconsin 
from  Berlin,  where  cranberry  growing  began 
in  that  state  to  the  main  area  around  Wis- 
consin Rapids  and  far  north  to  the  Eagle 
River-Manitowish  Waters  area;  on  the  Pacific 
from  the  new  developments  at  LuLu  Island, 
New  Westminister,  British  Columbia,  through 
Washington  at  Grayland  and  Long  Beach, 
across  the  Columbia  into  Clatsop  county  and 
south  to  Bandon  in  the  Coos  and  Curry 
County  section  in  southwest  Oregon. 

Everywhere  we  found  growers  friendly 
and  hospitable.  You  have  taken  us  into  your 
homes,  you  have  dined  us,  taken  us  around 
your  cranberry  properties  and  even  sight- 
seeing to  points  of  interest  in  your  area.  We 
feel  we  have  many  real  friends  in  the  cran- 
berry industry,  whom  we  will  miss. 

But  this  does  not  mean  we  will  entirely  be 
through  with  cranberry  matters.  We  have 
agreed  to  stay  on  with  the  new  publisher  and 
editor  through  the  transition  period  in  an 
advisory,  consulting  and  now-and-then  con- 
tributing capacity.  So  we  will  be  around  if 
you  care  to  communicate  with  us  for  any- 
thing. 

During  the  past  30  years  the  cranberry 
industry  has  made  tremendous  advances,  we 
no  longer  harvest  by  hand;  the  industry  is 
much  more  mechanized.  We  have  better 
agricultural  chemicals,  applied  mostly  from 
the  air.  We  feel  we  have  contributed  some- 
thing to  that  advance;  by  articles  concerning 
the  various  practices  in   different  areas,   by 


Established    193  6    by   Clarence    J.    Hall    at    Ware-ham,    Mass. 


Publisher 

COMOR  PUBLISHERS 

Box  70,  Kingston,  Mass.  02360 

Editor 

DONALD   CHARTIER 

30  Sewell  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 


CORRESPONDENTS  -ADVISORS 

Wisconsin 

LEO  A.  SORENSON 

Cranberry   Consultant 

Wisconsin   Rapids 

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 


familiarizing  growers  one  with  another  be- 
cause of  write-ups  of  individuals  and  indi- 
vidual properties.  CRANBERRIES  has  been 
a  means  of  getting  scientific  articles  by  the 
researchers  to  your  attention. 

It  has  given  the  industry  its  own  publica- 
tion, and  that  this  was,  and  is  needed  is 
proven  by  your  support  over  the  years. 
We  have  gone  from  the  dark  days  of  the 
"Cranberry  Scare"  of  1959  into  the  present 
period  of  bright  times. 


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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  &  Mower  Supply  Cot 

Baraboo,  Wisconsin 

Reinders  Brothers,  Inc. 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin 

John  D.  Roberts 

Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin 


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RUFUS  E.  GOTTSCHALK  POEM  —  Continued  from  Page  9 

All   day    long   the   pickers   go. 
Until  the  sun  is  getting   low. 
For  when  the  sun   sinks  in   the  west 
Then  iiature  hails  the  time  of  rest. 

The  wild  wood  songster  clears  its  throat, 
And   gives   one   long    lingering   note, 
That  echoes  sweet  o'er  dale  and  hill 
Then  settles  down  and  all  is  still. 

Their  daily   labors  being  done, 
The  boys  and  girls  must  have  their  fun. 
To  the  bower  house  they  then  will  go 
And  trip  the  light  fantastic  toe. 

Till  the  foreman  comes  at  ten  each  night, 
In  a  stern  voice,  "Put  out  the  light," 
Each  tired  picker  seeks  their  cot. 
And  soon  their  troubles  are  all  forgot. 


FRESH    FROM    THE    FIELDS 

Continued  from  Page  6 

time  since  1961  that  no  sub-zero 
temperatures  were  recorded.  In- 
cidentally 1961  was  the  last  year 
that  Wisconsin  went  through  the 
entire  growing  season  without  a 
killing  frost  in  the  cranberry 
bogs.  Mixed  rain  and  snow  ac- 
companied by  snappy  winds 
closed  the  month  out.  The  out- 
look for  April  calls  for  tempera- 
tures   to    be    below    normal    and 


precipitation    to   be   near   normal. 

Expect   Vines   Wintered   Well 

Needless  to  say  the  March 
weather  wattern  was  a  com- 
plete reversal  of  last  year  when 
heavy  snow  cover  and  very  cold 
temperatures  prevailed  through- 
out the  month.  This  year  the  ice 
cover  disappeared  very  early 
along  with  the  snow  except  for 
the  very  far  north.  Some  marshes 
removed  the  winter  floods  in  the 
third    week    of    the    month    with 


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several  inches  of  frost  out  of 
the  beds.  Most  marshes  were 
still  holding  winter  water  at 
month's  end  and  planned  to 
remove  it  the  first  week  of  April. 
It  is  felt  that  with  a  late  winter 
and  early  breakup  the  vines 
should  have  come  through  the 
winter  in   good   shape. 

Growers    Optimistic 

Growers  were  anxious  to  start 
marsh  work  although  roads  and 
dykes  were  in  very  poor  driving 
condition.  Although  there  was 
not  deep  frost  the  saturated  soil 
last  fall  was  causing  slow  drying 
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