Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine, 1966-03

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BY AIR ? 

FRESH STRAWBERRIES 
HAVE JOINED THE JET AGE 

—witha drop in air shipment 
rates from 30 cents to 23 cents a 
pound last September. A big in-

crease in overseas air shipments 
is expected. In the first 10 
months of 1965, strawberry 
growers shipped over 13 freight 
carloads of fresh berries to 
Frankfort alone, almost seven 

times as much as in 1964. Air 
rates on other fruits dropped 
January first (American Fruit 
Grower). 

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the West Coast. They reportthey found the bogs very "clean" 
and the growers more than 
friendly in showing them around. 

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PURPLE ASTER IN 
WASHINGTON 

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following 
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L BK cranberry growers on February

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Now Unloading 1 Carload Redwood Flume Lumber sion Agent in Horticulture, South 
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If you have a problem with 
purple aster, treat them very 
Square Edge or can be matched OB order -Also soon with a mixture of 100 lbs. 

bulk casoron plus 20 lbs. bulk 
4x4 4x6 6x6 6x8 and 3x8 Timbers 2,4-D granular per acre. Asters 
J are sprouting now and it is easy 
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MSa vsCranberry 
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 
various fruits and vegetables 
being harvested and stored in 
bulk bins made of plywood and 
how these bins have been modi-
fled 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 th e 
agricultural climate' and commu-
nity of East Germany under Rus-
sian influence. 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 F or 
1966" in which he discussed 
weather factors influencing the 

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potential crop, management practices 
to promote maximum yield 
and some thoughts on water 

harvest. 

Frost Warnings

The Cape Cod Cranberry 

Growers Association is againsponsoring the telephone fr o s t 
warning service. Applications were 

mailed to all growers in early 
March. If a grower has not received 
an application, he should 
notify Mrs. Ruth Beaton, treasurer 
of the association, Jefferson 
Shores Road, Buzzards Bay, Mass. 
There is a spot on this year's application 
for a donation to the 
telephone answering s e r v i c e' 
which is also sponsored by the 
Association and is in operation 
during the frost season at the 
Cranberry Station. This is a very 
valuable part of the frost warning 
service and is particularly 
helpful when a grower may have 
missed the warning for various 
reasons. There is a message on 
the recorder every day during the 
frost season, whether a f r os t 
warning is sent or not. George 
Rounsville wishes t o r emi n d 
growers using the answering service 
that the' recorded message 
will not be available before 1:30 
in the afternoon or 8:30 in the 
evening. The frost pad for writing 
down the message has proved 

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UTILITY 

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to growers subscribing to the 
service. All applications an d 
payments should be returned by 
April 2 in order that the neces-

sary arrangements can be com-
pleted prior to the frost season. 

There were approximately 210 
subscribers last season, let's hope 
there will be an increase this 

season. 

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 
carefully read the notes at the 
top of each chart, there is a great 
amount of valuable information 

included in this section. 

Changes in the insect chart in-
dclude the addition of gypsy moth 
to the list of troublesome insects. 
This pest had been reduced to 
such small numbers that it was 

was

not considered a problem and 

removed from the chart years 
ago; now it is increasing an d 
could be a danger to bogs i n 
Plymouth County and Cape Cod. 
Diazinon, 3 pounds per acre, has 

been added for fireworms, cut-

Sales McCulloch Service 

CHAIN SAWS and BRUSH CUTTERS 

QUEEN B PORTABLE HEATERS 
MITE-LE PORTABLE

ALTERNATORS 

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, and Service Since 1956 

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 m o r e 
than one degre a day above normal 
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 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~theU. S. apple crop in 1965 


the U. S. crop in 1965 

Quality Qualit andServiceSince19Washington, New York, Michigan, 

BULLDOZERS LOADERS 

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YOUR BOG NEEDS


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FOUR 

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 c o n t e n t 
within 24 hours after picking. 

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Issue of March, 1966 -Vol. 30, No. I I 

Second Class Postage Paid at Wareham, MassachusettsPublished monthly at Wareham, Massachusetts. Subscriptions $4.00, 

FRESH FROM THE FIELDS 

M A S S A CH USET T 

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-

ceived 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, bringing 
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 cranberry 
area and was "eating" the 

snow. 

The 13th brought a day-long 
soaking rain, of from one to 21/2 
inches in the cranberry area,. 
total at the Cranberry Station, 

1.29 inches. This helped the 
crushingP drought situation to 
some extent, but did not make 

p 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 dustingof 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 
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South on the night of February 
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 another 
month with precipitation 
less than normal the total as recorded 
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 

The second month of the year 

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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.

day above the norm.

IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT Although the cranberry area 
in general probably got a little 
less rain than normal, Boston 

For frost co3ntrol and some other points reported 
.and irrigation. precipitation above normal, due 

. 

mostly to snow fall. And for 
these areas the precipitation for 
1966 was above average. 

March 1,Rain

ALL ALUMINUM March first started with beau-
IRRIGATION SYSTEMS |tiful warm weather, and for the 

night before and continuing into 
JohnsManville the morning there had been sub-

Plastic 

stantial rain. A total of .69 inches 
Fittings was recorded at the CranberryPipeand 
Station, thus getting March off 
to a good start in the field 

ENGINEERING of precipitation.

LARCHMONT VO 2-2550 Dr. C. E. Cross, director of

KLEXINGTONMASS. 

the Massachusetts Cranberry Experiment 
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

I SECTICIDES unusually warm, wiith a plus 
of 35 by the 5th. It was a typical 
March start with high winds, 

\u/ft'UPGINfDrEC at time gale force. There was a 
rain on

F\^ /UNulGIDES steady and beneficial 
the 4th and 5th. 

HERBICIDES NEW JERSEY 

Water Situation Better 

Cranberry reservoirs arel 
quickly filling up and most prop


erties now are near normal as a 
result of plentiful precipitation

AVAILABLE ON THE CAPE FROM 
during January and February. 

For the second straight month-

R. C. Mossman and only the fourth in the past 20 
months--there has been greater

Horticultural Sales than normal precipitation. The 
West Bridgewater, Mass. t o tal f or February was 4.33 

inches, which is 1.56 above the 
norm. 

Our total for January and 
February was 8.06 inches, almost 
Kerr.r-ce two inches more than normal. 
_ KMerr-McGee Chemical Corp. IMost of the precipitation during 

Region February fell as either gentle rain 

Northeast which melted down

WATERBUY, COvNN. or a snow 

WATERBURY, |rgradually, thus very little of the

CONN. 

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Frederick E.Gebhardt isSteeped

· ^^^^~voirs 

InKnowledge of Wisconsin 

Cranberry Growing 

Is a Member of Philanthropic and Pioneer Cranberry Growing 
Family-Operating 30 Acres at Black River Falls 

Bu CLARENCE J. HALL 

CF^~~~~ranb

~~erry Growing^Present Gabhardt Marsh 

half mile connected tworeer


vois fr a water s

for a water supply.
yrsThis 
was a small marsh of about 10 
ares now the ror of about 

acres, now the property of Hark-
ness and Sons, near Millston. 

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 51/ miles northeast 
of Warrens about 1878, which had 
grown to around 40 acres by1910. 

Following his death in 1882 
his widow, Susan H. and his 
eldest son, Frederick W. Geb-
hardt, carried on the bog activity. 
Frederick

Frederick W.W. was the father of

was the father of

the' present Frederick E. Geb-
hardt. The marsh Frederik E. 
now operates was built by his 
uncle, Herman J. in 1900, not 

In 1890 Frederick W. Gebhardts 

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 

fruitunder 

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 

far from the marsh owned byBlack 
Henry H. Gebhardt and family.
This marsh is now operated by
the Perry Creek Cranberry Com-


pany, John D. Roberts, president. iiii
Frederick Johann Gebhardt
was destined to spread his cran-iiiiiiiiiii:i


i 

berry growing influence htorugh 
three generations. He had nine '... 
children and in one way or 
another six sons and two daughters 
were involved in cranberry 
growing. 
The Gebhardts were of a philanthropic 
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 . 

The present Gebhardt marsh 
has 11 acres of Centennials, 33/4 
acres of Searles and 2212 acres 

of McFarlins. Twenty-four acres 
has all sand bottom, some of it 
built on peat and sand. Most of 
this bog was built by manual 
labor with wheelbarrows. 
Production has averaged about 
9 barrels per acre. 
Frederick E. has operated this 
bog since 1954. Since that time 
ations and improvements. He 
ha ar oes is ne 

sprinkler irrigation, the system 

gation C any of Sort 
Wi Company of Somerse4, 
Wcrs ne There are also 14 

John Bean Shur-
Rane," irrigation, installed by 

Badger State, Black River Falls. 
Water comes from Perry Creek, 

and Gebhardt uses an International-
Harvester engine UV* 549 
engine and a Berkeley pump. 

He is planning to put the remainder 
of his acreage under 
sprinklers this spring and to buy 
a second International engine. 

Rivr Fs. 

. 

operate's 41 miles southeast of A portion of the Gebhardt Marsh near Black River Falls. 
Black River Falls. (CRANBERRIES Photo) 
SEVEN 


On the present property there' pie Heart," for his injury and tions for grass, including wire 

is the comfortable Gebhardt home, heroic action in Korea. grass and weeds with good re-
and also a spacious two-story His Own History suits. 
cement block warehouse, 30 by It is a rather intriguing area Mr. Gebhardt was born Sep


120. Sorting is done by one of abrupt buttes arising from the tember 1, 1903, at Black River 
Bailey and one Hayden separator, generally flat countryside. Falls, but lived on his father's 
He harvests with three Dana-Gebhardt has used the weedi-cranberry marsh at Warrens until 

Getsinger harvesters; therenti ide Casoron and one section 1912. Then the family moved to 

also a berry drier acg. M.eb-where he treated the weeds and Millston then to Tomah. He
for fresh fruit packing. Mr. Geb-apeare to be gone attended grade and high school
hardt ships through Ocean Spray. Tomah.


He has some part-time' help Gebhardt has treated four sec-
and uses 12 to 15 at harvest time. In 1926 he moved to Mil-
He has been and is employing waukee and began employment


..........


Winnebago Indians with very for the Milwaukee Railroad. He 

pleasant relations. He understands continued this employment or 
that the last hand wet-raking in twenty-eight and one-half years, 

Wisconsin was done on his bogs doing clerical work. In 1954 his
by the Winnebagos in October uncle died and he came to Black


River Falls to take over the

1954. 

Along Highway 5 and 4 there operation of the marsh. 

are a number of Winnebago 29, 1935, he was
Indians living in modern, if A married to Charlotte S. Hass of


mostly small dwellings. Not too West Salem. Mrs. Gebhardt is a
far from the Gebhardt Miarsh is registered nurse and had worked
the site of the annual Indian Pow ?! at LaCrosse, Madison, and M.il-


awarded posthumously, the "Pur-(CRANBERRIES Photo) Suzanne, recently graduated from 

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Believed the last Indian Manual Water Rake 
(CRANBERRIES Photo) 

EIGHT 


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

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 

Frederick E. Gebhardt is a 
member of the Jackson Countyand Wisconsin historical society 
and has given articles before both 
on Wisconsin cranberry growing. 

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MASS. 1966 CROP 
IN EXCESS OF 800,000 

IN "REAL OF

PROBABILITY 

So Dr. Cross Tells February 

less than other years and also of 
a year ago. Considerable sanding 
on the ice has been accmplished, 

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 
rop for 1, by main 
ure o yoo g fro king

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 dryharvested. 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 manydifficulties 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. 
Yet we averaged 64.2 barrels per 

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 

games 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 todayhave 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. 

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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 conditions. 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 

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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 1965 crop was a 

"tribute" to the ability o 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

circumstance's" of the cranberry 
industry, big crops selling rapidly and at good prices. "The 
cranberry picture never

was 

brighter 
crop in 

and our 

fruit to 
mand." 

Cross 

than it is now, atotal 
1965 of 1,422,000 barrels 
sellers begging for more 
keep up with the de-

also went back to 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 

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fact that growers visiting theanuctue 
State Bog in the last few yearshad commented on fewer chem-trea 

and of a survey he is undertaking

as to where vines can be obtained 

and how much acreage is goingin. He said he had found onlyfour growers who had vines for 
sale and these were only Early 
Blacks. He suggested growers 
who wished to expand acreage 

. 

.. 

d aan 

one bog or a dozen

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, 
sportsmen and others who are 

"not truly informed of the neces-
sity of pest c'ontrol 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

hsair t ever the

would pointddhat since

out that 40 per cent 
of the crop on the State Bog last 
year was not placed on the market 
because of chemical experi-

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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.


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 standlby 

Early Black is still one of the 
bet as concerns color and pectin. 

Drs. Deubert 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 I Famine In-

after World 

II, and "Is Famine In-

Wear 
India," respectively.

evitable in not

these addresses did

While addresses did not

While these 
concern cranberries in any way, 
it was thought these talks might 
broaden the scope of the grow-

ers and they did prove very in-
terestingd 
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 

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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 eacha 
other to consume what availableature 
food there was. He said that in 
this respect, India was even worse 
off than over-crowded China..a 

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 

bogs (temperature

the inland (

t i b 
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 
winter, 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 
eary Ma 

2 inim 

of 19 degrees was 

recorded on a bog in Barnstable 

o a eodedog i a ae 
ge 
observed. 
On April 29th, 1960 a minimum 

temperature of 17 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 temperature 
of 12 degrees F. on this 
date, had a crop of nearly 80 barrels 
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 reported 
from a bog that had a 
temperature of 15 degrees F. 

The above temperatures as re


ported to the Cranberry Station 

from som few bogs in the cranberry 
growing area. It seems 
safe to assume that a great percentage 
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 being 
1961 when theMay 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 f a 

are not restored to normalcy be-
fore the coming frost season, it 
would greatly e n h a n c e t h e 

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' whoof many

fought bitterly

at hearing leadings 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 DeMarco was stated as having 

estimated a loss of at least 
96th ANNUAL WINTER MEETING 1,000 barrels as a result of black-

headed fireworm attack in 1964. 

The resurgence of these insects 
is probably connected with the 

d lop o resistance to

development of resistance to 
D.D.T. as well as the increasing 
tendency of growers to draw 
the winter flood earlier. The 
conventional Sparganothis-t i p worm 
treatment was shown to 
be a little bit too late for effective 
control of blackheaded 
fireworm. Cranberry girdler was 
considered to be building up 
much more rapidly on bogs 
which were not water harvested. 
Tt was also found to be less 
abundant on bogs which received 
regular ground sprays of 
sevin to control Sparganothis 
fruitworm. The more intensive 
use of honey bees on cranberry 
bogs in New Jersey was considered 
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 Department 
of Agriculture, gave a 
talk on how to judge a good 
beehive used for the pollination 
of cranberries. Matthenius urged 
closer cooperation with beekeep


to obtain maximum benefit

ers 
from hives and also to prevent 
excessive kill of bees through 
n use insecticides.

careless of 

Water Resources 

John M. Hunter, Associate Professor 
in Agricultural Policy at 

Rutgers University, gave a review 
of the' recent Symposium 
on Water Resources in New Jersey. 
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 insure 
an adequate supply of pure 
potable water for this and future 
generations. One of the 

Use of 
Elected 

The 96th 
ing of the 

"Hover--Craft" Among Discussions--Walter Z. Fort 
President of American Cranberry Growers Association 

Annual Winter Meet-
American Cranberry 


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 blo,3oms, 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 
methodsad installing L

B of R water con-
trol structures or trunks. An 
cinteresting stabilizing

method of 
dikes by the use of jute mesh 

and weeping lovegrass was dem-
onstrated. Kentucky 31 fescue 
nd sericea lespedeza have also 

been used as a plant cover on 
dams and dikes to prevent erosion 
TwoT Pests tirevsing 

Phil Marucci, of the Cranberry 

and Blueberry Research Lab, 

spoke on cranberry insects and 

cranberry pollination. He noted 
thct two old-time pests, cran-
berry girdler and blackhead fire-
worm, are making a comeback in 
New Jersey. The late Anthony 

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-
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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 

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generation, was developed by the 
Princeton University Department 
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which is cooperating with Dr. 
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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 without 
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 Federal 
Government and in the com


pulsory nature of the recently 
proposed legislation on agricultural 
labor. The New Jersey Farm 
Bureau was ably representing 
farmers on these issues. The appropriation 
of agricultural lands 
by the State and public utilities 
through arbitrary use of Eminent 
Domain was also of great concern 
to the agricultural interests 
of the State. A thorough revision 
of these Eminent Domain laws in 
New Jersey is being actively proposed 
by the New Jersey Farm 
Bureau. The agricultural interests 
are also behind the Governor 
in his proposal of a broad 
based tax in New Jersey to 
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AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT 

\ JOHN BEAN DIVISION 

® Lansing, Michigan 

SEVENTEEN 


Agricultural Convention favored 
a sales tax but would not actively 
oppose the governor on an in-
come tax. 

1966 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 Eek Treasurer 
Philip Ec. Maruci, Secretary 

Mr. Fort, Manager of Growers 
Cranberry Company, and well 
for his excellent photo-

ecland 
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 ol. 
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 

known g ofraphycranberries Pine 

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 Gib-
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. 

r 

B u ild New Pa t 

810 
At Middlebor 


New Project to Cost 19 
Million and Will Replace 
Plants at Onset and Hanson 

Middleboro, Massachusetts h a s 
now been definitely determined 
as the site of the new Ocean

upon 
Spray plant. The entire cost of 
the project 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 receiving 
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' 

improvements thew 
ipark, sewage 

$300,000 for at 

including water and 

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 

Continued on page 22 

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EIGHTEEN ... 


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cranberry sales, with juice adding 
to the usual demands. For another 
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NINETEEN 


Aquatic Club of Bordentown, the 
Ocean County and Burlington 4 4871 
County Boards of Agriculture, 
the New Jersey Farm Bu-IWisconsin Cranberry

and 
reau. He vcas a Charter and Life C or! G raU 

American Society of Engineers--Wisconsin Rapids, Wis 
Trenton Section. 

He was a recipient of many Phone 423-4871 
honors. In 1964 Ocean Spray 
erected a bronze placque as testi-i 
mony of his many contributions 

21. sin Rapids, Wis. 
of the NewCJersey IWisconsin Distributor i
the successAilt received

to In 1962 he 

on February~

Mr.BsagedIWison 

Enoch IF. Bills t 
The cranberry growers of 

r 

New Jersey lost a stalwart friend 
and benefacy tor in Enoch F. Bills 
on February 21. Mr. Bills, aged 

83, was a lifelong resident of 
Bordentown. He was marriend to 

the former Elizabeth Cowperth-

He was a civil engineer special-
izing in structural engineering 
1915,thi area,

whents in s using the trade 

operation. 
a citation from the Burlington 


Fortunately, Mr. was g

tion. we'll enough to

still alive and Bills be 

citation given to him by the 1966 

New Jersey Agricultural Convention. 
This citation, quoted below, 

is an indication of the worth to 
New Jersey cranberry growers 
of Enoch Bills, but it cannot be


gi t e o he deligt
charming and gentle person cran-


Bills.
"To recognize outstandiig con-
tributions. of. public service


for 

Y 

IN THE 
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SEE YOUR 

MILLER DEALER 

for 

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name ofEgypt tog Sweets. theIn 1930loptoward the betterment of Agri-

first 

h cranberry rocesing compay 
pmoneen 13by His amservicJersey, 

eva factoery for athiscongsidant andod

83,omy was purpose 
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

Massachusetts (A. D. akerpeace

Canners) led to

and Cranberry led to

and 

the foundation of Ocean Spray 

Cranberries, Inc. He was a di-

rector and manager of the New 
Jersey division until his retire-

ev raer, retained by the

were 

company as a consultant and 

advisor until his death. 

He was a member of the 
Masonic Order for over 50 years,, 
belonging to the t. oriah Lodge 

No. 28, A.F. and A.M. of Borden-
town, and the Scottish Rite and 
Crescent Temple of Trenton. He 

Temple' 
was a Charter Member and an 

Honorary Life Jember of the 
Kiwanis Club of Bordentown, the 

culture ad al Cnvetin 

the State Board of Agroi


culture since 1932 has designated MILLER PRODUCTS CO

EYOUR 

en and women who hae bere 
recommended by their colleagues 
for distinguished Service Cita-
tions. 

"To e awraural thnentio 

State. Agricultural. Convention,

citation serveslas

the following serves as

the following citation -o

puBlic commendation t of he 

public commendation of the 

bettciermient, and expresses the grat-

itude of the State Board in the 
name of all farmers. 

Charles Pratschler, President 

Agriculture 
ENOCH F. BILLS 

"Your longe career of service 

to New Jersey agriculture, par-

ticularly to your fellow cranberry 

groagers, has won wide acclaim.t 

Your lifetime dedication to the 

betterment of one of the oldest 

and most important crops is well 

and most crops is well 

known. As a grower, distributor, 

processor, engineer and p tant 

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generously of your skill and 
ingenuity. 

"This is a significant 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 unselfish 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 many 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 Wisconsin 
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 returns 
to growers. He said Ocean 

Spray could have sold 20,000 
barrels more fresh fruit last fall 
if this had been available. He 
spoke highly of the increasing 
sales of the new apple-cranberry 
product and of the ever-increasing 
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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Continued from Page 6 

precipitation was lost to runoff. 
Nine inches of snow fell in Febuary, 
which is almost 4 inche's 
more than generally occurs in 
this month. 

Oxygen Deficiency Problems 

The snow occurred after some 

r ath er 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 oxygen 
contents below 5 c.c. per liter 
on most of them and below 3 c.c. 
on a few. Growers were in a di-

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TWENTY-THREE 


an unusually heavy rainfall of 

2.26 inches occurred wvhich 
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. ItIt 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 

below thenortation 

W I S C O N S I N 

February a Se Saw 

February was a seesaw month 
weatherwise with cold and warm 
and cold and warm each of the 

four vweeks. 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 

Need a 

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 com-

in the far north. Pre-

remain^ 

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-
to be normal. Incidentally 

March came in like a friendly 

lion with temperatures in the 

forties. 
Mild Weather Break-Up 


The warm weather the second 

n 

READweek 

week along with the rain caused 
an early breakup of many creeks 

and rivers in the south half causing 
ice jams and extensive flooding 
in the lowlands. Widespread 
fog was also present the entire 
week. Lack of moisture and very 

co weather the third week of 

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 southern 
two thirds of the state compared 
to 12 to 36 inches in the 
nothern two thirds one year ago. 
Ice on the reservoirs was also 
only about two feet thick compared 
to last year's three foot 

depths. 
Some Vine Exposure 

ek he mweather the second 
of the month caused some 
vine exposure on shallow flooded 

Continued on page 28 

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AISSUE OF MARCH, 1966 Gi l

& dit'~ 30, No. 11

da 

ISSUVOL. 

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 investments 
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, maycontinue another year into its fifth consecu-
tive year, but the new sprinkler systemswill do much to offset this. 

An agricultural industry cannot heln 
being healthy when it can produce its 
record crop and sell this at satisfactory 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 

AZI 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 

E. MARUCCI
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. 

TWENTY-SEVEN 


Continued from page 24 

beds or recently sanded beds 
coupled with the rain. Exposed 
vines were reflowed prior to the' 
following severe cold and sanded 
beds were recapped. S a n d ing 

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. 

W A S H I N G T O N 

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-

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 cor-
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 Temperatues 

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 flurry 
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. 

The soil test project is continuing 
with several growers get-
ting surprising results and they 
are becoming convinced that they 
need to supply fertilizers in vari-n 
ous amounts to replenish their 

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bog soil. 

The program is to apply one
half of the recommended amount
needed, in April at the "popcorn"


stage, and the other half in
July.
Dr. Carl Johanson of the Wash-


ington State University is to 
speak to meetings of Grayland 
and Long Beach areas on March 
15th and 16th. His topic will be 

"Bee Population in regard to 
Cranberries." 
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SEARLES VINES


Stanley Jonak 

Weyerhauser, Wisconsin 
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Felker Bros. Mfg. Co. 

MARSHFIELD WISCONSIN 
Area 715 384-3121 

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IRRIGATION 
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STEVENS POINT 
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SERVING THE WISCONSIN GROWERS


FOR SALE OUR PRODUCTS 

SEARLES JUMBO 
HOWES, McFARLIN Strained Cranberry Sauce Spiced Cranberries 
Vines Whole Cranberry Sauce Cranberry Chilli Sauce 
for delivery in 1966 Cransweets Cranberry Bar-B-Q Sauce 
I "PR Ton CAD Diced Cransweets Cranberry Orange Relish$lOU Fon Cranberry Apple Cranberry Vinegar

uD.O.. Sauce 
Cranberry-Strawberry Preserves Cranberry Juice
Ben Lears $750 Ton Cranberry-Cherry Preserves Cran-Beri


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Sievens $1000 ToIIn Cranberry-Raspberry Preserves Cran-Puri
Cranberry-Rhubarb Preserves Cranberry Puree


6S i$1^ To ~Cranberry-Pineapple Preserves Cran-Vari 

INTERESTED Cranberry-Gooseberry Preserves Cran-Bake 
IN Sliced and Whole Maraschino Cranberries 
CASI Consumer Size and Bulk Fresh Cranberries

PURCHASING 

WISCONSIN

CRANBERRY Cranberry Products, Inc. 

PROPERTIES 

· *******I**, I It EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN 

Vernon Goldsworthy 1 

B.S. & M.S. 
University of Wisconsin
Cranberry Consultant


FCrbery onslant WISCONSIN HEADQUARTERS FOR
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, GRASS CLIPPERS WEED RHAP 20 SEVIN 
FERTILIZER SPREADERS 5 
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Tooth Pikers Hopkins Agricultural Chemical Co.

Retracto Tooth Pickers 
Dryers P. 0. BOX 584 MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53701
DISTR. of: g Phone: Area Code 608 257-1019
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This fellow knocked them silly on the battlefield, but he's 

a total loss at a tea party. 

At Ocean Spray we eat, sleep and live cranberries; 

in short, we're Cranberry specialists. 

For information about Cooperative Membership 

in Ocean Spray, 
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contact any Director or Staff member 
in your growing area.


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