Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine, 1940-02

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CAPE COD 
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Annual Report of 
Dr. Henry J. Franklin 

(Continued from last month) 

An infestation of over three hop-
pers to 50 sweeps of an insect net 
calls for treatment at any time. 
Because of the rising cost of pyre-
thrum products and the falling cost 
of rotenone dusts and the blanket 
effectiveness of the latter on the 
fruit worm, the black-headed fire-
worm, and this leafhopper, the time 
for treatment may shift in many 
cases from the last week in June 
to around July 10. 

Pyrethrum Dusts. There have 
been many puzzling failures of 
these materials to control cran-
berry pests. Checkings of stated 
pyrethrin content lead to the con-
elusion that these have probably 
nearly always been due to inferior 
quality of the material used. The 
purchase of pyrethrum from large 
local distributors who can have the 
pyrethrum content of the dust they 
are handling determined is a pro-
tection here. 

Prevalence of Cranberry Pests. 
The relative general abundance of 
cranberry pests in Massachusetts 
in the 1939 season was as follows: 

1. Gypsy moth more abundant 
in Plymouth county than in 1938, 
being quite troublesome in some 
localities; extremely destructive on 
the middle and outer Cape, even 
more so than in 1938. 
2. Blunt-nosed 1e af h o p p e r 
(Ophiola) even scarcer than last 
year, due to general treatment. 
3. Cranberry fruit worm (Min-
eola) generally less prevalent than 
Tel. 46-5 

normal, less so than in 1938. 

4. Black-headed fireworm more
prevalent than last year but widely 
controlled by disease. 

5. Firebeetle somewhat reduced 
from 1938. 
6. Green and brown spanworms 
slightly increased from 1938. 
7. Cutworms definitely less than 
last year and less than usual. 
8. Cranberry girdler (Crambus) 
and Spittle insect (Clastoptera) 
about the same as in 1938 and 
rather less than normal. 
9. Cranberry root grub (Amphi-
coma). There seems to be a slow 
general increase of this pest from 
year to year in spite of effective 
treatments. 
10. Weevil (Anthonomus) about 
as last year, more prevalent than 
normal. 
11. Tipworm (Dasyneura) wide-
ly prevalent. 
CONTROL OF CRAN. BOG WEED 
by CHESTER E. CROSS 

A total of 730 weed control plots 
were treated during the months of 
June to September, inclusive. Of 
these 410 were treated variously 
witth water-white kerosene and 
the rest with the following, alone 
and in some combination: Sodium 
chloride, calcium chloride, sodium 
chlorate, sodium arsenate, copper 
sulphate, ferrous sulphate, ferric 
sulphate, cyanamid, and ocean 
water. Results of 1938 work were 
also examined. The following find-
ings from all this are of particular 
interest: 

1. Water-white kerosene, ap-
REMEMBER! 

This Magazine 

at the service 
of 

advertisers 
to th 

cranberry industry 

plied 800 gallons an acre in early 

November with a watering can,

eradicated a thick lot of rice cut-
grass (Leersia) nicely. 

2. A large number of plots were 
used to compare the weed control 
values of the kerosenes of the following 
producers: Atlantic Refining 
Co., Cities Service Refining Co., 
Colonial Beacon Oil Co., Gulf Oil 
Corp., Shell Oil Co., Socony-
Vacuum Oil Co., and Texas Co. 
These concerns very kindly loaned 
the Cranberry Station drums to 
hold the kerosenes. No definite relation 
was found between the performance 
of these oils and the 
analyses provided by the producers. 
All the plots treated with them in 
June, July, and August showed 
some cranberry vine injury, but the 
Cities Service and Colonial products 
did definitely more harm than 
the others. The Gulf, Shell, and Atlantic 
kerosenes burned the vines 
least. All the kerosenes seemed to 
have about the same power to kill 
weeds. 
3. An attempt was made to find 
more precisely the best ways to 
apply kerosene. The watering-can 
distributes the oil much faster than 
hand sprayers and therefore tends 
to make heavier and more effective 
applications, but it is harder to secure 
an even and complete coverage 
with it. The same kerosene applied 
to equal areas in equal 
amounts with a watering can and a 
sprayer burns the cranberry vines 
to the same extent. 
4. Bushes of the hoary or 
speckled alder (Alnus incana) up 
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"A Sense of Humor" 

While awaiting the return of Spring's activities and for those 
inclined to become weary and bored during the long Winter 
days, we quote the following, said to have been offered in 
the eighteenth century. 

"Give us a good digestion, Lord, 
And also something to digest. 
Give us a healthy body, Lord, 
With sense to keep it at its best. 
To keep the good and pure in sight, 
Which, seeing sin, is not appalled, 
But finds a way to set it right. 
Give us a mind that is not bored, 
That does not whimper, whine or sigh; 
Don't let us worry overmuch 
About the fussy thing called I. 
Give us a sense of humor, Lord; 
Give us the grace to see a joke, 
To get some happiness from life, 
And pass it on to other folk. Amen." 

MINOT FOOD PACKERS, INC.


HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY 

"My! daddy, that MIN-OT 
kwamberry thauth ith good !" 


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Attractivne

Well Designed for Attractiveness and 

1i.it A.D*\{t•ac C . or.

A1

Utility, the A. D.Makepeace Co. Office 

Is Completed 

Semi-Modernistic in Design,

New StoT' *a

ructure Is" Un 

New Structure Is Un-
doubtedly World's Finest 
Building Devoted Entirely

^ °, * , rr 

to Cranberries -Is Two 
Stories High with Front-
age of 49 Feet and Depth

age of r^ Feet and 1DepaB

of 66 Feet. 

What is the finest building de-
voted exclusively to the cranberry 
industry is the new A. D. Make-
peace Company office building at 
266 Main street, Wareham, Mas- 

266 Main street, 
sachusetts. It was completed last 
month and was opened to the gen-
eral public for inspection, January 
26, when a great many availed 
themselves of the opportunity to

s the seleso the o rtunty to 
see the new structure. 
It is semi-modernistic in design 
and has every possible modern con-
venience. It is a two story brick 
block, designed by J. William Beal 
Sons of 185 Devonshire street, Bos-
ton, and built by the C. A. Babson 
Company, general contractors of 
Brockton, Massachusetts and the 
complicated wiring job was done 
by Alfred L. Pappi of Wareham. 
This building replaces an old 
wooden house, formerly occupied 
by the Makepeace interests, which 
was demolished last spring to give 
additional space to the new Ware-
ham post office building now located 
next door. 
The frontage of the building is 
49 feet and the depth is 66. Simple 
in design, it is an extremely at-
tractive building, as seen both from 
the exterior and interior. There is 
a half-circular front entrance, 
which leads into a round foyer, 
with a 12-foot radius. Three round 
windows on the second floor relieve 
the austerity of the facade. On the 
south side there is a gently-curving 
bay window. The roof is flat with a 
limestone parapet across the front. 
At either side of the foyer are 
offices, where callers are met. 
The office of John C. Makepeace, 
president, comes next and is called 
the "oak room", as its walls are of 

Two 

ComleedA At vvre

MBoth 

At Wareham, Mass. 

beautiful, light waxedThere

brown Lockeweave rug of deep

Loc e rg of dp

texture, and modern office equip-

texture, nd modern office equip-
men . hin thi ofice

somewhat in the nature of a recep


i e are a ce

tion room is Mr. Makepeace's 
private office. Next is the office of

private offbuilding

Russell Makepeace, assistant to the 

. ' a t

president and manager of the

Barnstable Cunty bogs of the

Barnstable County bogs of the 
company, and at the rear the ooffice 
of Francis J. Butler, bog manager. 

ilding and on the north side is a

building and on the north side is a 

,

large general office room. A men's 
rm a closet complete 

room and janitor's closet 

the rooms on the ground floor. The 

buildin has a Wellington bluet 

door e

door at both front and rear, which 

color scheme is carried out in the 

floor coverings of the corridor. The 

walls and finishings of the corridor 
and the wide stairway which leads 
to the second story are of fawn, 
tan and delicate peach. Glass bricks 
are at the sides of both the front 
and rear entrances, giving in much 
light and at night making an at-
tractive feature from the inside il-
lumination. 

The whole building is air con-
ditioned and heated by an auto-
matic, thermostatically-controlled

oil burner. The general office, that

oil burner he office, that 
of Mr. Makepeace and his private 
ffice have special ceilings to pre

vent echoes of typwriter "click


vent echoes of typwriter click-
ings or other nose from being 
troublesome. 

At the rear, opening on a porch 
under a generous canopy are two 
windows for the paying off of 
pickers and other bog workers. 

The second floor has a large stor-
age room across the front and part 
way along the north side to hold 
the records of the Makepeace com-
pany which date back many years, 
and other supplies. The front room 
is large enough for general meet-
ings and can be used as such. At 
the rear is a kitchen, completely 
equipped with gas range, sink, cab-
inet and cooking utensils where 
the eight girl clerks of the company 

may prepare mid-day lunches or 
food for other gatherings. There is 
a most spacious women's room and 
a dining or rest room. 

floors are of concrete and 
the whole building is practically 
fireproof and contains about every 
arrangement for beauty and utility. 
is enormous window space

There is enormous window space

and a great many indirect lights. 

Although the cover photograph 
of the building shows snow and no 
lawn or shrubery, these are planned 
for spring. 

is in fact a strong

The building, in fact is a strong

attestment to the cranberry industry 
in its conception and cost, and 
t the faith of the A. D. Makepeace 
C mpany in the future of cranberry 

Frost in Oregon 

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^ + +ArtificialWind Cal 
acine 
n Ore 

B ETHELM. KRANICK 

A means of fighting frost by ar


tificial wind from airplane propellers 
has been successfully used 
for several years now on cranberry 
bogs in Washington and is finding 
continued success in Southern Oregon. 


L. M. Kranick used one of these 
machines on his bog near Bandon, 
Oregon last year with such satisfying 
results that he will use three 
1940 in order to give more com


o verge i of og The 
machine used by Mr. Kranick consists 
of an airplane propeller of 
5'-2" diameter turned by a Star or 
urant motor. The machine sets on 
piling 11 feet above the ground. The 
motor is operated at 1650 r.p.m. and 

circulates air in a 250 feet radius. 
In order to give circulation in all 
directions, a set of gears is arranged 
to turn the machine completely 
around even seven minutes. 

These machines should be installed 
and be in running order immediately 
after the winter flood is 
let off, as the early spring frost 
does damage to some varieties. The 
critical point occurs when the berries 
are in bud, and special vigilance 
should be taken at that time. 
The date of the last killing frost 
is variable for different parts of 

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al_/ -T\oNAL CRANBERRY 

FRESH FROM THE FIELDS 

Jan. Unusually There has been 

Cold in M8ass. continued cold 

Ms. ct cind 
Some Bogs Par-in M assachu-
tially Flowed setts during 
January. A 
good many bogs are only par-
tially flooded, due to poor water 
supplies. However as there has 

been snow almost continually in 
Massachusetts which has protected 
the vines, there has probably not 
been much damage, even though 
temperatures have been sub-freez-
ing and frequently around zero in 
the early morning hours. 

Cape Cod Cran-The first meet-
berry Clubs ings of the 
Hold First Win-winter season 

ter for the Cape

Meetings

tereetis 

Cod Cranberry 
clubs were held in January. The 
first was that of the Upper Chpe 
club at Liberty hall in Marstons 
Mills, January 8. There was a bus-

iness session, following the supper 
and a discussion of frost reports. 
Marcus L. Urann, president of 
Cranberry Canners, Inc., of South 
Hanson, spoke upon the subject,
"Cooperative Effort Wins Again". 
Bertram Tomlinson, Barnstable 
County, gave a report on cranberry 
activities, and there was an address 
by Harrison F. Goddard of Ply-
mouth, the new president of the 
Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' As-
sociation. Motion pictures were 
shown through the courtesy of the 
extension service. The second 
meeting was that of the Lower 
Cape Cod Cranberry Club, January 
10, at the Grange hall. Dennis. 
"Facts Vs. Fancies in MarketingCranberries", was the subject of a 
talk by Mr. Urann. President 
Elnathan E. Eldredge of Orleans 
introduced Mr. Goddard, he stress-
ing the necessity of cooperative 
methods. Mr. Tomlinson told of the 
Cape Cod cranberry activities of 
the past few years. Other speakers 
were James Dayton, county agent 
at large of the Massachusetts State 
College of Agriculture at Amherst 
and Bertram Ryder of Cotuit, pres-
ident of the Upper Cape Club. An 
interesting point of this meeting 

was that speakers told of the rapid

gains of cranberry production in 

Wisconsin. 

Annual Meet-The annual 
ings of Both meeting of the 
Clubs in Feb. Upper C a p e 

Club is sched-
uled for February 12 at Fort Pitt, 
Osterville, when the election of 
officers will be held. There will 
be a new cranberry film shown 
lasting one-half hour, a talk, 

"What's New in Weed Control", 
by Dr. Henry J. Franklin, director 
State Cranberry Experiment Sta-
tion at East Wareham, and an-
other, "The Latest on Beach 

Plums", by Wilfred Wheeler of 

Falmouth, one of the pioneers in 
this new, coming industry. The an-
nual meeting of the Lower Cape

Club will be held at the Brewster 

town hall on February 14, with 
election of officers also. The cran-
berry film will be shown. Dr. 
Franklin will repeat his talk on 
weeds and' there will be other 
speakers. 

Cape Cod C a p e C o d 
Farmers Night farming was 
At Chamber the discussion 

Meeting at the first an-

nual Farmers' 
Night of the Cape Cod Chamber of 
Commerce, the meeting being held 
under the leadership of Bertram 
Tomlinson, Barnstable County 
Agricultural Agent. Speaking for 
the cranberry growers of the Cape, 

I. Grafton Howes, veteran grower 
of Dennis, where cranberries were 
first cultivated, reviewed the his-
tory of cranberry growing. He told 
of the changing and improving 
methods of growing, harvesting,
packing and marketing.s 

New J As in Massa 

Bogs in Many chusetts, New 

Cases Drier Jersey t h i s 

Than Normal winter had a 

Wether ver dry sell 

r 

Cold with the result 

that many of 
tle Jersey bogs have little water 
upon them. During January the 
weather was extremely cold, as 

aGm. 

ByC.J.H. 

was also the case in Massachusetts, 
it being below freezing most -of 
the time. This has allowed a good 
bit of ice sanding there for those 
bogs which were adequately flooded 
and most growers who could have 

taken full advantage of this opportunity. 


Late Holdings New Jersey 
Of Flood to Be growers a r e 
Extensive in pleased to see 

Jersey This late holding of 
Spring water in the 
spring as a 
recognized practice by the A. A. A. 
and more bogs will be held late 
this coming spring than ever 

before, although it is too early yet 
to say just how many bogs will be 
so handled. The practice is es


pecially adapted to large unsanded 

bogs that normally do not produce 
large crops. It seems that eliminating 
the crop for one year allows 
the vines to get into good condition 
so that they will bear well for 
a number of years. One instance 
of which there are records is that 
of a 40 acre bog that produced 800 
bushels previous to late holding. 
The year of treatment there was 
no crop but th fllowing year it 
produced'rod' 4,500 bushels, the it

bhl, next 
year 3,000, the next 1,800, and the 
next 1,000 bushels. The results in 
this case were perhaps better than 
usually obtained by late holding, 
but it does give a general idea of 
what may be expected by this 
practice. 

Washington Growers in the 
Bogs Being cranberry sec-
Sanded and tion of Ilwa-
Sprnkler Sys-co, Washing


tn are dn 

tems Installed ton, are doing 
considerable 
sanding this winter. The resanding 
will be done by the pumping 
method as it appears that this has 
proved satisfactory as well as 
economical. Many growers in 
Washington state are installing 
srinkling systems also for the 
1940 year. It seems to have been 
definitely shown there that yields 
from areas so irrigated have b^e'c 

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Threec 


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^Cp_JCod^ /^ \_ _Cr t coming through to other

Cape Cod Cranberry Growers 

than cranberry men. 

A • . 11 18 ^ "1 
Association bpecia

HoldS 

Meeting; Large Attendance 

New President lHarrison F. Goddard to report at some future 
~GoddarC IUp Slub-~ Ilmeeting.

d ~Br~ings 

The questions, if radio warnings 

be awouldas efficient as the present 
warnings by telephone directly to 
the homes of growers subscribing 
to the telephone warning service, 
whether the radio would be as 

eliable as the telephone, and that 
the grower might not be listeningin at the time of the warning, or 

be able to tune in the desired station, 
were brought out. 

. 

Ject of Greater Coordina-
tion Among Various Mass. 
Groups -Frost Warnings 
by Radio and Growers See 
Prevue of Splendid Movie, 
"Cranberry Craft on Old 

*CapeCod"

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Cape Cod". 

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specL .f Cape 

3. .eeting 'he
A special meeting of the 
Cod Cranberry Growers' associa-
tion was held at the Wareham 

tion wn~as Wareham, 1V~aa~a Wed-

town hall, he-ldllatm Mass., 
nesday, Jan. 31, which was very 
largely attended, and three matters 
of importance were taken up.

These were a pre 

of a color fil, "ranberry Craf 
on Old Cape Cod," to be available 
for showing to various organiza- 

: showavsing various

for to 

tions over the country the desira- 

country; 
bility of radio frost warnings, per-
haps to succeed the present system 
of warnings to growers by tele-
phone, and plans to build a strong-
er cooperation between Massachu-

,, , et.

setts cranberry grower groups. 

This latter plan, proposed by 
President Harrison F. Goddard of 
Plymouth, after an informal meet-
ing with some of the cranberry 
growers recently, is for a greater 
consolidation. There is now the 
big Cape growers' association 
which has been in existence for 
more than 50 years, two Cape Cod 
Cranberry clubs, and two more are 
being formed in Plvmouth county. 
It was hoped for greater coordina-
tion between these groups with 
the big association the parent 
group, and to have a combined pay-
ment to automatically include 
membership in the association, one 
of the cranberry clubs, and also 
a subscription to "Cranberries," 
the national cranberry magazine 
published at Wareham, the maga-
zine to become the official organ 
for monthly bulletins. 

Motions on both the radio frost 
warnings and the coordination of 
the growers were made that a 
committee be named by President 

Four 

"Cranberry Craft on Old Cape 
Cod" was made by the Massachu-
setts Extension Service from Am-

herst, with the photography beau-of Mion, 
tifully done by Rollin T. Bartlettcommittee, 

of Amherst, with the 

1 i 1

film voted last year by the associa-
tion. It opened, showing a house-
wife buying cranberries in a gro-

then showed 
methods of serving cranberries 
both canned and fresh, at multiple

noo^Qtr Tanklin

occasions and at various times of 
the year 

It showed the arduous and costly 

work of making a cranberry bol 
There were most attractive views 
of historic spots in "The Cape Cod

rner 

Cranberry Country"; harvesting by

scoops, and the gathering of

foars complete showing of

floaters. A complete showing of

the canning of sauce and cranbry 
cocktail was included, 
screening and shipping of fresh

screening and shipping of fresh

erries t ret

Derries to mark 

A feature of great interest to the 
growers was the depicting of Dr. 
Henry J. Franklin at the State 
Experiment Station at East Ware-
ham going about his work of 
gathering his data preparatory to 
sending out a frost warning by 
telephone, and the reception of the 
warning by a grower (enacted by 
Melville C. Beaton) at his home, 
who disgustedly puts on his hat 
and hastens out into the night to 
start flooding. It also showed bog 
flooding for frost and winter pro-
tection. 

Mr. Goddard next brought up 
radio frost warnings and said that 
some of the smaller growers did 
not have telephones, but did have 
car radios, and that money might 
be saved n this method. Speaking 
on this subject was Andrew Kerr 
of Barnstable, who told how so 
many people listen to the radio, 
and it was brought out that there 
might be an advertising value to 
the radio cranberry frost warning, 

could see objections to the 

change over, and really was in 
favor of a continuance of telephone 
warnings, although there might be

atog tee igt e 
a money saving, and pointed out 
there are already frost warnings

from Station WBZ in Boston. Dr. 

frm Sin WZ B .

said radio warningss

raln a o warnings 
would probably not coincide with 
the period of his sending out, and 

as they were based upon definite 
formulas, gathered over a period of 
years and correct only for certain 
hours, there was an objection

n 
there.•M Russell Makepeace of 
Wareham inquired if the Extension 
Service had any concrete program 
planned out. 
Willard A. Munson, director of 
the Extension Service at Amherst,

.-,. i,

said their facilities at present 
were unsuited to the cranberry industry 
in regard to time, that 
broadcasts would have to be repeated 
several times for the safeguard 
of all the growers, and that 
a great deal of study should be put 
into the matter before there was 
any change over. 

The matter of improved coordination 
between the various Massachusetts 
groups was then explained 
by President Goddard, who 
said the groups should in some 
way be more centralized, with the 
association at the head, and that 
an official monthly bulletin for 
general information was desirable. 
He suggested the monthly 
Cranberry magazine might be 
worked into this matter. Mr. Kerr 
moved the appointing of a committee, 
and Russell Makepeace 
stressed the point that the cranberry 
clubs seemed to be growing 
stronger than the older and main 
organization. 

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0 Jg•^^ ISSUE OF FEBRUARY, 1940

I 

^ Cll ^Vol. 4 

THAT NEW MAKEPEACE OFFICE 

CONGRATULATIONS to the A. D. Make-

peace Co., of Wareham on the plan-
ning and conception of its new, handsome 
brick office building are most decid-
edly in order. It is a high tribute to the 
cranberry industry, to the foresight of the 
Makepeace Company and its faith in the 
cranberry business. Such a magnificent 
building devoted entirely to the cranberry 
interests of a single company could scarcely 
have been dreamed of not many years 
ago. 

WOULD RADIO BE BETTER? 

E ARE pretty much in sympathy with 

those growers who expressed possible 
doubts that radio frost warnings should 
succeed the present frost warning tele-
phone system in Massachusetts. As organized 
at present and with Dr. H. J. 
Franklin's efficiency as forecaster the pres-
ent system has been of great value and 
reliability. Warnings by radio may be 
better and less costly but that should be 
proven thoroughly before there is any 
change made. 

CENTRALIZING MASS. GROUPS 

THE SPIRIT of cooperation and of unity 

among the various cranberry growers 
continues to expand. The special meeting 
of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' asso-
ciation on January 31st, called by the new 
president, Harrison F. Goddard of Ply-
mouth, an unusual time for a meeting of 
this group, was very gratifyingly attended. 
This association, now more than half a cen-
tury old, believes,there should be coopera-
tion between it and the Cape cranberry 
clubs, and the two new clubs which now 
seem to be assured of organization in Ply-
mouth County. President Goddard desires 
more centralization for the good of the in-
dustry as a whole, as there seems to be a 
feeling that now cranberry growing is 
reaching maturity. 

It was a splendid movie that those at- 
tending the meeting saw presented for the 
first time. It was made by the Massachu-
setts Extension Service, with money put up 
by the association for the cost of the film. 
No hungry man should see this film for it 
shows cranberries served in myriad ways 

No. 10 ALCR 

PUBLISHED MONTHLY 

at the
WAREHAM COURIER OFFICE,
WAREHAM MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A


Editor and Publisher 

CLARENCE J. HALL 

LEMUEL C. HALL
Associate Editor


Subscription $2.00 per year
Advertising rates upon application


CORRESPONDENTS-ADVISORS
New Jersey


CHARLES S. BECKWITH
State Cranberry Specialist
Pemberton, N. J.


Wisconsin 

VERNON GOLDSWORTHY
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin


Washington-Oregon 

J. D. CROWLEY
Cranberry Specialist
Pullman, Wash.
ETHEL M. KRANICK
Bandon, Oregon
Massachusetts 

DR. HENRY J. FRANKLIN
Director Mass. State Cranberry Experiment Station
East Wareham, Mass.


BERTRAM TOMLINSON 
Barnstable County Agricultural Agent 
Barnstable, Mass. 

New York City Representative 

KENT LIGHTY 

280 Madison Ave. Tel. Lexington 2-3595 

with other tempting foods. It is also exceedingly 
educational as to how cranberries 
are grown and reach the consumer. Designed 
for showings before clubs and various 
organizations anywhere it should 
broadcast a good deal of cranberry information 
to those who know little about the 
cranberry. 

The cranberry growers in Massachusetts 
and other states are "doing things", 
and "going places". 

Five 


Jersey, and is better flavored than 
Jersey or Rubel but not so aromatic 
as Stanley. Its scar is not so good 
as that of Stanley, Jersey or Rubel. 
D BLBER In season, about with Jersey; prop-

STHE BLUEKBEKY WERagates very easily.

VGRO 


Burlington is a cross of Rubel 
and Pioneer. Where tested in New 
Jersey the bush is very vigorous 
and productive, more so than that 
of Jersey and Rubel; clusters med-UnitedStates -Deartment of ium in size; the berry alight blue, 
Uniiate t s U flavored, second to Stanley in

tpariiaiga fine 

A .•g~l F^ this respect; large and has exree 
cellent scar; in season later than

Agriculture [leases ^Rl~ 
any other sort now grown in New 
(New CultivateI Jersey, about week

lBleBeIrries being a later

ewvi ultivatelDue erres than the Jersey. It propagates 
easily. 
These Are the Atlantic, Peams-Jersey are set forth as follows: The U. S. Department of Agricul-

These Are the Atlantic, Pemr-^ ^ ^^. ture has no plants of these varieties 
berton and Burlington and Atlantic, tested as GN 45, is, a for distribution. 
Show Promise As Late cross of Jersey and Pioneer. Where 
Maturing Varieties. it has been tested in New Jersey 

_____ the bush is vigorous and the clus-Blueberry Culture 

The Bureau of Plant Industry ters are large. Compared to Rubel In Massachusetts 
has just released for propagation it is much less costly to prune and (Continued from last month) 
and introduction three new blue-somewhat more productive. The 
berry varieties produced as a re-berry has a better blue color, is The Improvement of Wild Highbush 
suit of experiments by its breeding much larger, has a slightly better Blueberries 
investigations over a period of sev-scar, is somewhat better flavored, There are many acres of wild 
eral years. These three new blue-and is about with Rubel in season. highbush blueberries in this State 
berries, originated by the late Dr. It is probably more difficult to prop-where the bushes are yielding 

F. V. Coville, are named "Atlantic", agate than Rubel. much below their capacity because 
"Pemberton", and "Burlington", Pemberton, tested as Fl 66, is a of lack of care. They can be made 
and are introduced for trial by cross of Katharine and Rubel, and to double or triple their yield with-
those interested in late maturing has the same parentage as Stanley. out great expense or labor. 
commercial varieties. Where it has been tested in New In 1926 experiments were laid 
All three are notably resistant Jersey the bush is exceptionally out on blueberry land in Hubbardsto 
cracking in rainy seasons. The vigorous and productive, more so ton, Royalston, Westminster, Ash"
Atlantic" and "Pemberton" bear than that of Stanley, Jersey, and burnham, and Barre, Massachuvery 
large fruit. The "Pemberton" Rubel; the clusters are very large; setts, to try to increase the yield 
has the most vigorous bush of any the berry is dark blue, larger, holds of wild bushes. The treatments 
variety now in a planting near up in size better than Stanley or (Continued on Page 8) 
Pemberton, N. J., where it has been 
tested. The Burlington also has an 
exceptionally vigorous fine bush. 
The fruit of the "Burlington" does 
not tear in picking, and has the ' it l 
characteristics of an excellent BLULJDEBEARR 1 A T 
keeping and shipping sort. It is 

somewhat later than both Jersey The "ATLANTIC" -The "PEMBERTON"
and Rubel, being, in fact, the latest Jst released by the U.S. D. A.
variety now grown at Whitesbog,


N. J. "Atlantic" and "Pemberton" LATE BEARING --EXCELLENT QUALITY 
ripen about with "Jersey" and "Ruersey" 
Berries,

bel"ripens a thand "Ru-Large Vigorous, H-eavy Producers 

bel". The berries of all three hold 
up well in size at the later pickings.. 
All three have been hardy PRICES ON REQUEST 
in New Jersey, and in a limited 
test at Amherst, Mass., the "Pemberton" 
has been hardy. THEODOPE H EERTON, 

The characteristics of these va-NEW JERSEY 
r'ctics as grown in central New 

Six 


o Hanson, Mass., and other packersOne of Nations of cranberry sauce marks the fact 
s Canners canning of cranberries
that the

Largest Canners 

O ens 1 E.Plant 

'e *i ° 

Stockley Bros. & Co., n1C., 

of Indiana Canning Cran-

berries at New Bedford, 

Mass., on Large Scale. 

Further evidence of the import-
ance of canning in the cranberryindustry is attested to by the entry 
of Stokely Brothers and Company, 
Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana into 
this field upon a large scale. Stokely 
Brothers is the largest canner of 
vegetables in the country and the 

third largest canners of vegetables 
and fruits combined. Last year the 
Stokely Bros. and Co. did $9,500,-

busine.

000.00 gross
000.00 gross business. 
Last June Stokely opened a can-
ning plant in New England at New 
Bedford, Massachusetts, which is on 
the fringe of the world's largest 

cranberry growing area. Although 
cranberries were not the only fac-
tor concerned in opening in New 
England it was a prime one, others 
being to establish a New England 
center of production, distribution 
and sales of "Stokely's Finest 
Foods", and Van Camp's. While 
well know in all other parts of the 
country, particularly in the Mid-
West and West, and South, Stokely 
products have hithertofore not 
been distributed greatly in New 
England. 

M. A. Dunham, manager of New 
England operations, who has 
pioneered branches for Stokely in 
many parts of the United States 
calls it the "last Stokely frontier". 
Coming East to process the fa-
mous Cape Cod cranberry, Stokely 
is located in the former huge Whit-
man mill buildings at 90 Riverside 
avenue in New Bedford's North 
End. Stokely owns the entire prop-
erty, which was a few years ago 
filled with the hum of cotton 

spindles when New Bedford was a 
much more important textile center 
than today. 

The entry of Stokely Brothers in-
to the cranberry canning field with 
Minot Food Packers, Inc., of Ham-
monton, New Jersey, the Hills 
Brothers Company of New York, 
Cranberry Canners, Inc., of South 

will play a part of increasing im-

w 

portance in the nation's cranberry 
diet. The can and the can opener as, 
is not disputed, have come to stay. 
The vastness of the canning indus-
try was shown last month when 
some 15,000 attended the convention 
of canners and allied industries in 
Chicago, the canners' conventions 
being the largest held in the coun-
try with the exception of those of 

the two leading political parties. 

The Stokely Brothers started in 
the canning business about 40 
years ago in the small town of 

Newport in the mountains of Eastis 
Tennessee, where choice vegetables 
are grown. The business has now 
passed into the hands of the second 

and third generations of the Stokely 

family, and the Stokely canning 
facilities have spread from coast to 
coast and the Lakes to the Gulf. 

More than 150,000 acres of farm 

land feed 41 Stokely plants in 12 

states with the general offices at 

Indianapolis with more plants lo-

cated in Indiana than any other 
state. There is a Stokely plant in 
every one of the principal cran-
berry growing states with the ex-
ception of Oregon. All Stokely 
plants are located close to farms 
from which fast trucks carry the 
fresh garden produce. 

Other products than cranberries 

grown adjacent to the Cape, such 
as beans of various varieties will 
be canned at New Bedford, it is 
planned. 

It would be difficult to name a 

vegetable product which Stokely 

does not can-corn, beets, peas, 

tomatoes, asparagus, sauerkraut

'a.~~ efto

pumpkins, and many fruits and 

soup, 53 items in all. Hominy is 

canned, which is becoming popular 

in northern states as well as in the 

South. Some time ago Stokely ac-

quired the old established Van 

Camp Company and Van Camp's 

famous Pork and Beans is one of 

the products packed at New Bed-

ford. 

Stokely has been canning cran-
berries in a rather small way for 
a decade. Cranberry sauce was first 
put out by Stokely in 1929 at their 
Cumberland plant in Wisconsin. 
Cumberland is about 100 miles 

northwest of Wisconsin Rapids, the 
cranberry center of that state. The 
berries canned then were naturally 
Wisconsin grown. Three years 
later in 1932 Stokely moved its 

cranberry operations to one of its 
plants located at Rehoboth Beach, 
Delaware, where cranberries from 
nearby New Jersey and also Cape 
Cod were processed. 

Now Stokely has its plant near 
Cape Cod and is of course putting 
up the famed Cape Cod fruit. 

Although the exact number of 

Fresh from the Fields 

(Continued from Page 3) 

safe 
to say that most of the Washington 
bogs will be under sprinkler 
irrigation within the next few 
years. Since most of the Wash


ington bogs cannot be flooded for 
frost control the sprinkler system 
will eliminate the necessity of installing 
other devices in frost 
protection 

About 40 New Approximately 

Acres For 40 acres of 

Washington new bog will 

be planted in 
Washington this year. Some of 
this is in the section known as 

s a nw development and has just 
been made available during the 
past year. This new bog is located 

wtn a fou sprotection r a

and water for frost and 
irrigation is thus available without 
excessive cost. 

Wisconsin Has Sanding a s 

Cold January-gone on in 

Sanding Done Wisconsin this 

winter work. The weathe

usual weather 

has been cold and some 20 degrees 
below have been reported. There 
has not been a great deal of snow

hamper work, and the weather 

aun y warm to the

was unusually warm up to the 

first of the year. Most marshes 
in the Wisconsin Rapids area went 
into the winter flood with plenty

of water supplies, but there was 

not so much in the Tomah-Mather 
section. 

Market Dullin There was not 
Jan., Few too much mar-
Berries Left ket activity in 

January f or

what few beries remain. However, 
the market has lately been 
showing a little activity and the 
New England Cranberry Sales 
holdiany believes that all its 

holdings will be distributed' and 

consumed during February. 

Seven 


cases of cranberries canned last 

fall is not known, "several thous-

ands of barrels" were made into 

sauce. About 150 persons were 

employed at the peak of the can-

ning season. So far Stokely is put-

ting out only a strained sauce. They 

expect to increase their volume of 

sauce next and in coming years. 

The bulk of their sauce is sold 
under the label, "Stokely's Finest", 
two other trade names being "Ex-
quisite" and "Fame". Labels carry 
the seal of approval of Good-
Housekeeping Magazine, and on the 
back of the labels around the cans 
there are "table-tested" receipts 
for the use of the sauce. 

For the past decade or so Stokely 
has been a national advertiser with 
full page ads in such magazines as 
"Woman's Home Companion", 
"Good Housekeeping", the "Ladies 
Home Journal", and "Life". 

Cranberry sauce has not been 
advertised as a single item in this 
way by Stokely yet, but will be, 
which means there will be one more 
agency to help in stimulating the 
appetites of the nation for more 
cranberries. Their advertisements 
have shown cranberry sauce along 
with other items. 

Annual Report of 

Dr. Henry J. Franklin 

(Continued from inside front cover) 

to 2/2 feet tall are killed readily 
at any time during the summer 
with half a pint of kerosene poured

about the base and a pint kills

about the base and a kills 
bushes up to 6 feet tall, these 

was very harmful to them in July 
and August. 

6. Ferrous sulphate mixed 9 to 
1 with sodium chloride and placed 
in single large handfuls at the 
bases of royal and cinnamon ferns 
(Osmunda) completely eradicated 
them with less injury to cranberry 
vines than that caused by controls 
previously advocated. 
7. One and a half pounds of 
sodium arsenate in 100 gallons of 
water applied lightly early in Aug-
ust was very effective in eradicating 
partridge pea and false pimp-
ernel. 

8. July applications showed that 
3,200 gallons of ocean water an 
acre is necessary to completely de-
stroy haircap moss. The moss 
showed no recovery 21/2 months 
after this treatment. The cranberry 
vines were not harmed by it. No 
bog flooded by the tide of the Sep-
tember, 1938 hurricane had any 
living haircap moss in 1939. 
9. The conclusion of last year 
that a fine spray of 100 pounds of 
sodium chloride in 100 gallons of 
water is safe to use in treating 
the wild bean (Apios) if less than 
200 gallons to the acre is applied 
was confirmed. Injury to the cran-
berry vines from this spray has al-
ways been due to the use of exces-
sive amounts rather than to concentration. 
The nozzles must be held 
high enough to prevent driving too 
much of the material into thick 
foliage.

10 A 1 tes o e-and

.T10. •i-J 100 of pulver-

About tests 
ized and grandular cyanamid were

made on 42 kinds of bog weeds. 

obtained unless some form of ar


tificial heat is placed under the ma


chine and the warmed air allowed 

to circulate. 

Editor's Note: A wind machine, similar 

in principal to those on the West Coast,

has been set up and experimentally used 

at the State Experiment Bog at East 

arehamouss th eing the first to 

C C

Cape Cod ranberry

Growers' Association 

Holds Special Meeting 

(Continued from Page 4) 

Prof. Sievers, director of the 
State College at Amherst, and 
James Dayton, county agent at 
large, also of Amherst, and J. T. 
Brown of Brockton, Plymouth 

County agent, were also speakers. 
Mr. Brown invited growers to be 
present at the supper and meetings 
to be held at Rochester, Feb. 27, 
and at Kingston, Feb. 29. These 
meetings are being sponsored by 
the association and by the county 
extension service and are to a 
large extent to form cranberry 
clubs in Plymouth county similar 
to those in Barnstable county. 

This is, perhaps, the first time a 
special mid-winter meeting has 
been held and its interest was 
proven by the large attendance. 

Blueberry Culture 

(Continued from Page 6) 

were as follows: (1) all large trees 

e 

second growth shading the 

o .saigt
blueberries were removed, (2) the 

b s

bushes were pruned, (3) fertilizer 
was applied. The pruning varied 
from removing a quarter of the 
bush to cutting it wholly to the 
ground. The fertilizers used were: 
nitrate of soda, ammonium sulfate, 
rFigheFrcalurec , yanamid, 4-8-4, and

,rea 
nitrophoska. Different combinations 
of ferilizers and pruning were tried. 

The following results were observed: 


1. Removal of other vegetation 
increased the growth of the blueberry 
bushes. 
2. Pruning, where not excessive, 
increased growth and yield. Removal 
of more than a quarter of 
the bush was too severe. Bushes 
cut to the ground yielded a few 
berries the third year thereafter 
but produced no commercial crop 
till the fourth year. 
W.herever the weeds were killed the

shrubs, like the coarse bramble, 
being very root tender to this oil. 
The foliage of the treated bushes 
remains green from 2 to 4 weeks 
and then suddenly turns brown and 
dry; the coarse bramble is apt to 

stay green for a month after the 
treatment and may even bloom be-
fore it dies. The small bushes may 
be killed by spraying the tops with 
kerosene, but large ones are not 
much affected by such spraying 
even when it is heavy. 

5. Ferric sulphate, 2400 pounds 
to an acre, eradicated sensitive 
(Onoclea) and feather (Dryopteris) 
ferns completely and 95 per cent 
of horsetail (Equisetum). It did not 
injure the cranberry vines much 
early and late in the season but 
Eight 

cranberry vines suffered also. 

Artificial Wind Machines 

In n 
F 

(Continued from Page 2) 
the country, but has occurred in 
Washington as late as July 9. 

The principle of this method of 
frost protection is not to warm the 
air but merely to circulate it. On 
many cold mornings the air will 
gather in layers of warm and cold. 
The wind machine will circulate the 
air producing an average tempera-
ture all over the bog, which may 
be several degrees higher than that 
at the coldest point. When all of 
the air is cold, no results can be 


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3. Fertilization increased the 
growth and yield of the bushes. 
These increases seemed to be due 
to nitrogen rather than to any 
other fertilizer element. 

4. A combination of fertilization 
and pruning was much better than 
either alone. 
5. The increase in production on 
the fertilized plots was due mostly 
to an increase in the number of 
berries per bush. It was impossible 
to obtain satisfactory comparative 
yield records under the conditions 
of the experiments. The bushes 
varied both in size and number per 
acre. Although the pickers were 
assigned to different parts of the 

field, they picked in the fertilized 
plots whenever possible, with or 
without permission. This is very 
good evidence of the better picking 
found there, 

6. The berries on the fertilized 
plots tended to be larger, but the 
size of wild berries varies greatly 
and cannot be increased beyond 
limits set by inheritance. 
7. Fertilized bushes had a 
marked tendency toward annual 
bearing, unfertilized bushes towards 
biennial bearing, 
8. The berries on the fertilized 
plots were firmer during dry per-
.I___ 

iods than those on unfertilized 
areas. 

9. A terminal shoot growth of 
about ten inches was most favor-
able. Any increase in length up to 
ten inches increased yield. Longer 
shoots were apt to be too vegetative 
for maximum production. 

These observations are the basi:, 
for the following improvement pro-
gram: 

First, remove all trees and bushes 
tall enough to shade the blue-
berries. This will often supply the 
winter's wood, thus making the la-
bor serve a double purpose. If 
valuable timber trees are present, 
the owner must choose between 

blueberries and timber. The mow-
ing of low bushes growing with the 
blueberries helps also. 

Second, prune the blueberry 
bushes in winter or early spring 
before growth starts. Take out all 
dead wood first, then some of the 
oldest stems, cutting them off four 

or five inches from the ground. This 

can be done best with long-handled 

lopping shears. 

Third, fertilize the bushes. Apply 

200 pounds of nitrate of soda per 

acre, or some other nitrogenous 

fertilizer at a rate to give a like 
amount of nitrogen. 

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We Have Listings of 
Cranberry Bogs, Large and Small 

FOR SALE 
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WILDA HANEY 

arehamas Blosachusetts 

Extensive Experience in
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At Screenhouses, Bogs and 

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~ Means 

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WAREHAM, MASS. Tel. 626 

Fourth, select and tag the more 
productive bushes and give them 
special attention. 

ARE YOU AWARE OF 
THE FACT .. 

THAT in 1939 nearly 6,000,000 
farmers participated in soil con


servation through the AAA 
THAT cheese is now being retailed 
in cans and that in 1939 nearly a 

million pounds was marketed in 
this new way .... THAT the 
United States Department of Agriculture 
has arranged to get the 
most complete census on bee


keeping to obtain information 
about the supply of honey .. 
THAT the U. S. Department of 

Agriculture gathers statistics on 
26 kinds of vegetables; the U. S. 

D. A. Seed Service recognizes 47; 
a leading seed firm lists about 80 
different kinds of vegetables, but 
of all vegetables grown in this 
country the first and most important 
one is the potato .... THAT 
the Ozark territory has become 
one of the largest strawberry producing 
regions in America, some 
2,000 carloads being shipped ... 

THE COLLEY CRANBERRY
COMPANY


Packers and Distributors of 

CAPE COD CRANBERRIES 

Plymouth Massachusetts 

We again quote from 

"Using Your Fruit and Vegetable Co-op." 

by A. W. McKay 

"In the marketing of fruits and vegetables, successful associations have 

consistently given their attention to the job which they were set up to perform, 

that is, the marketing of the products of their members. 

"The greatest success in the cooperative marketing of fruits and vegetables 
has come through the coordination of the work of several associations if these 

* * * * * handle similar commodities. There are many services which a local association 
can perform, but it has been found that for the most effective work in 
marketing * * * * several associations working together through a federation 
can accomplish more than any one of them alone." 

The Massachusetts cranberry cooperative has been affiliated with 
cooperative organizations in New Jersey and in Wisconsin since it was 
incorporated in 1907. 

New England Cranberry Sales Company 

9 Station Street -Middleboro, Mass. 


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