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SERVING A $40,000,000 A YEAR INDUSTRY ' ,,,N-10tAL CRANBERRY t4A6A 40~I3i:ii~i~~~iiii:':Cents ::::i::,~i MARC 196 NEW JERSEY WVISCONSIN WASHINGTON FREDERICK E. GEBHARDT, 'Wisconsin Grower of Pioneering Family. (CRANBERRIES Photo) DIRECTORY For CRANBERRY GROWERS ______________ OVER TIEc NO TAXES _ __ 43 YEARS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED ,^ OF SERVICE I Federal Paper Board Fotation Tires For he A Soft Wet Sandy Soil CHARLES W.HARRIS Company, Inc. Airplane and other flotation tires Company 970 Fellsway many different sizes -15", 16", Uopany M970dford, Mswayss. 20, etc. 451 Old Somerset Avenue Tel. EXport 5-5305 1050 X 16 North Dighton, Mass. NEW Smooth Tread Phone 824-5607 Extremely Flexible Manufacturers Rec. Air Pressure 8 lbs. A M E S Sponge Rubber will31" nothi. $ i37.50 Irrigation Systems of hurt cranberries. 12" wide-Tire & Tube Write or Call for sizes not listed RAIN BIRD Folding Cartons Send check or money order for Sprinklers and 25%-balance c.o.d. freight collect HIGHEST QUALITY and"~ ~ Tel. (617) 889-2035-889-2078 PRODUCTS Displays Gans Surplus Tire Co. WITH SATISFACTION 1000 -Dept. C -Broadway, GUARANTEED Chelsea, Massachusetts EQUIPMENT Electricity -key to progress HAYDEN In industry as well as the home, -SEPARATOR electricity has been a vital key to progress. It is now and will continue \ WAREHAM, MASS. to be in the future,, readily available Irrigation Systems wherever and whenever it is needed. -- PUMPS ^ 1PLYMOUTH COUNTY ELECTRIC COMPANY SEPARATORS BLOWERS MARSHFIELD WAREHAM ^/^ ~PLYMOUTH I \ Oh UTM_T,\ -,MT.,SCREENHOUSE EQUIPMENT rm : - =--___j DARLINGTON _________________— ——— , PICKING MACHINES The National Bank of Wareham PICKING MACHIES for Cranberry Men Extensive Experience in Convenientrv located ELECTRICAL WORK ALFRED FAPPI At Screenhouses, Bogs and Pumps Means Satisfaction Funds always available for sound loans .WAREHAM, MASS Tel. CY 5.2000 Complete Banking Service SUBSCRIBE TO ' CRANBERRIES Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. HOW ABOUT CRANBERRIES 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). YOUR DISTRIBUTOR WILLIAMSTOWN IRRIGATION • INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER TRACTORS •. ;: HOMELITE CHAIN SAWS WISCONSIN MEN VISIT WEST COAST "Bob" A. Gottschalk, Donald and Wayne Duckart, Debs Olson, George Dana and Harold Roberts, all of Wisconsin have been visiting the West Coast. They reportthey found the bogs very "clean" and the growers more than friendly in showing them around. — DO Ef BD^JT A B P OK E B R 0 K E R REAL ESTATE OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 3 3 Years Selling Cranberry Properties • LISTINGS WANTED 500 Second-Hand Picking Boxes for Sale THEO TH1OMAS MAIN STREET ______SP R INKIBLERNORTH CARVER, MASS. : \ FARM SUPPLIES FARM SUPPLIES Walter E. Tripp & Sons, Inc D r_ Until you have seen the B I LGJ RAM MAIN STREET ^AIN bIKEET GARAGE Carver, Mass. 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Telephone 295-3530 SHARON BOX COMPANY, INC. SHARON. MASSACHUSETTS PERSONAL ESTABLISHED 1856 Ralph Sampson and Charlie We Will Buy Your White Pine Logs Goldsworthy of Cranberry Pro- Either Standing or Cut ducts, Inc. of Eagle River, Wis • Highest Prices Paid consin have been on a business Sawmill located at North Carver, Mass. trip to the West Coast with stops Office Phones: Sharon, SU 4-2011 Carver UN 6-2234 in L. A. and San Francisco. PURPLE ASTER IN WASHINGTON (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following oft a& A notice was sent to Washington L BK cranberry growers on February K VT 28th by Azmi Y. Shawa, Exten- Now Unloading 1 Carload Redwood Flume Lumber sion Agent in Horticulture, South 2x4 2x6 2x8 2x10 Bend, Washington.) 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 Our Middleboro yard has been closed as a retail yard. to kl tmting t i stg e. s ^ .^,^ -BT ^ ~The arayokill themiathi nowe Our complete stock of Redwood will be at our East The area you will treat now Freetown yard on and after April 1st. Complete milling ca information given herein facilities available. PHONE is for educational purposes only. PHONE811-947-2300 Reference to commercial prod763- 8811 --947-2300 ucts or trade names is made wit'II that dis- E. W.GOOOO!,,,ISIS LUMBER Co., Inc. the understanding no crimination is intended and no End of Cambridge Street (Off Route 44) Middleboro, Mass. endorsement by the Cooperative __________j ~~~Extension Service is implied. TWO 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 es _ L. EQUIPMENT CO 1209 MAIN STREET ACUSHNET, MASS. Cranberry Bog Service PRUNING RAKING Machinery Sales PRUNERS RAKES FERTILIZING WEED TRIMMING POWER WHEELBARROWS WEED TRIMMERS FERTILIZER SPREADERS-Large and Small 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 CHOICE OF IRRIGATION SUCTION EQUIPMENT UTILITY WRITE: For Further Information Call... F. P. CRANDON ROckwell 3-5526 C. J. TRIPP WYman 5-2013v THREE 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 SANDVICIX SCYTHES and ALUMINUM SNATHES LANCASTER PUMPS Pipe Cut and Threaded up to 4" CARVER SUPPLY CO. CENTER CARVER, MASS. Tel. 866-4480 , 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 CRANES TRUCKS EQUIPPED TO HANDLE YOUR BOG NEEDS LOUIS LECONTE P & L CO. 0 ~~~~~P&L CO. CARVER, MASS. 866-4402 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. Farm Credit Service Box 7, Taunton, Mass., 02781 Tel. 617 824-7578 4 Production Credit Loans Land Bank Mortgages 0 Office-362. Route 44 CV RAYNHAM, MASS. Warren R. Arnold, Manager 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 Q2 = AGENT FOR WIGGINS AIRWAYS A T V Post Oftice. Foreign, $5.00 per year. Compiled by C.J.H 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 BOG SERVICE U L aA HAND SPRAYERS -TOOLS -POWER EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZED BRIGGS AND STRATTON SERVICE CENTER R. F M OR. i Si I E M ERJ J~ iON IfC ||Cranberry Highway West Wareham, Mass. CY 5-1553 FIVE 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. Continued on page 23 Slx 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 Wo110N,C,t ui # # te iswa ...............:,·:''Fi:6 ue. .. ................. w si i li':1 · ::·:::·::::·:::::j rauatdro :::::i~~~~~~~~~~::.................. wa. r -.. " r ......................e nl y de.....os..humou..N.ly,........,......... ...... .............. e i~~i~~~~iiclii':ijiii~~~~~~~iiiii..... ....... ::ie ::S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~............: :X..; :.-.,,".:,. ............ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~..."." .-,, ... ....--:: :. ..... ... ~~~~~F~~~~~~~~i~~~~~~~~·Ba~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[~~~~~~~~[ .... ..................... ............ ...... ... .. .. ... . ...... .... ..................... CZ'1GHT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.. ............... .......... 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. ^A^Q 10AA r \ 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. further the aims of the growers Meetings of Massachusetts ~~~~~~~~~~~~in that asure "I think it is within the range of probability that the Massachu- setts 1966 cranbery crop will be in excess of 800,000 barrels," Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- ment Station told growers attend- ing the February meetings of the three cranberry clubs, South Shore at Kingston, February 15th, Southeastern at Rochester Grange Hall, the 16th, and Cape Cod at Barnstable February 17th. He said his main reason for this was the excessive sunshine hours in 1965, due to the drought 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 * AGRICO granular fertilizer drills easier... stays Now A£ GRICO@ free-flowing without bridging... meets today's needs for fast, accurate drilling and spreading. 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COLUMBUS, OHIO POWER-MOVE 98104 0 95696 0 43207 HAND-MOVE 532 First Ave. South PO Box 449-Hwy. 99W 3300 Lockbourne Rd. Foreign Sales -Irrigation & Industrial Development Corp. 260 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016 TEN 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 .><,o<. J b tt n e a n 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- You'll apply granular herbicide uniformly with a GANDY Cranberry Special Broadcast Granular Applicator! And you'll do iteasily easier than you other way. do can possibly it any In fact, many growers say this is the only waycnnesota Mi you ca treat your bogs uniformlyRATE There are plenty APPLICATO of reasons why. There is only one precision cam gauge. You get the same given hopper opening size for a given gauge setting--once, twice, a thousand times or more! In addition, all openings are always exactly alike at any setting. (Because hopper bottom and slide are punched as a mated pair and never separated during manufacture.) You see QUALITY everytime you look at this rig. Patented Flo-Control five-bladed __1959 rotor shuts off flow when you stop. Patented Rooster Wheel (R) L Drive powers it. Weather tight lid on hopper has double locks. Marker attachment available. mehntation." Write Gandy Co., 13 Gand- Cross said that experimenting rud Road, Owatonna, Minn., would continue to-be done of for information on the Cranprivate bogs by the Station Staff,ber Spca Aplat,but that any fruit raised on these berry Special Applicator, plots would not become the pro-and name of nearest dealer. Mperty of the growers but would OwatonnaMinnesota be harvested and handled by the ~____~~_ SINCE1936...WORLD'S MOSTACCURATE APPLICATORS ELEVEN 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 TWELVE 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. WHEN IT OOMES TO FROST PRO TECTION REMEMBER THESE 4 IMPORTANT POI N TS WIND ABOUT FMC WIND MACHINES 1. THEY REDUCE LABOR COST One man can efficiently operate one or several wind machines. FMC wind machines save the labor cost of a whole crew required for flooding. 2. THEY GIVE IMMEDIATE PROTECTION Switch on the motor andiiiii within 3 to 5 minutes, the mpnsarshis receiving effective frost protection. FMC machines have an enviable record for ??:?? operating reliability too. .. .. .................................................... 3. THEY ELIMINATE FLOODING Water shortages, water damage to fruit, drainage difficulty all dictate against flooding. The FMC wind machine protects by drawing warm air from above and mixing it with cold ground air. Not one drop of water is involved. i 4. THEY PROMOTE BETTER FRUIT YIELD AND QUALITYFlood water may damage fruit, wash away pollen, inhibit vig- I l orous growth. Also, flood water can carry in weed seeds. FMC wind machines eliminate these time and profit consuming drawbacks. Make your own investigation. FMC Wind Machines have a proven record of successful frost protection in cranberry marshes. The savings they can effect in one or two seasons will more than justify your investment. Fill in the coupon and mail it today. We'll see that you have complete information by return mail. ................. FMC CORPORATION, FLORIDA DIVISION FAIRWAY AVENUE, LAKELAND, FLORIDA D]Please send me sales literature on Tropic Breeze Wind Machines II Please have sales engineer contact me NA TITLE_________ ADDRESS (RFD) _ZONE, _TY STATE_ THIRTEEN 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- vest. New Chemical Charles M. Mainland, of the ,_ __- Irriate more acreage for less mone! A^l I IA^ .m t TITA BN^ im TA H . Irrigation Pumping Unit -... IITOIwa^ V A ROBYS |iiii- P A completely new irrigation unit capable of heads up to 300 ft. (130PSI), or capacities up to 2600 GPM on a 10-foot suction lift I ROBY'S PROPANE GAS, INC. Carver West Wareham 866-4545 295-3737 1Massachusetts FOURTEEN We Irrigate Fruits & Vegetables Anywhere In The Free World Most of our systems are engineered, financed and installed within 36 hours of the time you phone. * Distributors 26 national lines Irrigation Equipment, Supplies: Hale, Jaeger, Marlow, Rain Bird, Buckner, Skinner, Ames, Gorman-Rupp, Speedloc, Alcoa Tubing, Tico, Champion, Rain Control, Ireco, Shure-Rain, CMC, Ravit, Mathieson, Pierce, Valley, Perfection, Flexo-Seal, Wade' Rain, Gould, Myers and Geehn. Williamstown president, David DeGraff, D DeGraff with part of the half million and rental plans also available. Wshomswncoprepsinter.Ao Easy financing through Alcoa. Reconditioned equipment feet of aluminum pipe available at Williamstown. This equipment can double as a frost control unit effec-FROST CONTROL . tive at temperatures as low as 18°. FIFTEEN plans entailed piping the ground water of South Jersey to the more populated northern region of the State. This method would probably adversely affect the water supply of New Jersey cranberry growers. He felt that this plan was not at present eco- nomically feasible and that it would be resorted to only if the several reservoir plans for the North Jersey area did not work out. A detailed report of the Rutgers Water Symposium was being published and would be sent to each cranberry grower in the State. That Hover Craft Dr. Allan W. Stretch, Plant Pathologist, U. S. D. A. and Rut- gers University, showed a movie on the application of fungicides with a Hover-craft. This inter- esting equipment, which looks as though it belongs to the next generation, was developed by the Princeton University Department of Aeronautical Engineering which is cooperating with Dr. Stretch in tests to determine the practicability of applying fun- _ 9n gicides on cranberries. The re- suits obtained, as evidenced by data presented by Dr. Stretch, in- dicates that this machine may have a use in agriculture. Frost Warning Fee to be Raised In a business session the re- port of the Frost Committee was given by Co-Chairmen Isaiah Haines and Joseph Palmer. There were 29 frost calls in the spring of 1965 and 33 in the fall. An analysis of the accuracy of the predicitions of the spring frost calls indicated that the evening forecasts were correct to within 6° in 65% of the warnings. The 24-hour outlook, however, was accurate to the same degree in only 46% of the forecasts. A unanimous vote of thanks was given by the membership to the Frost Committee and the Weather Bureau for their service to grow- ers in providing frost control in- formation. It was unanimously agreed to give the Committee authority to raise the frost fee as high as is necessary to meet the expenses of the teletype and answering services. Committee members serve voluntarily 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 eliminate the undue pressure on land owners and farmers. The ........ : ! X...................,., '.' . _ 1 399" °$100 Down-Balance Due October 31 CARLSON MFG I • 2500 lb. Capacity * 35 Picking Boxes * 35 Picking Bags I Platform Area: 48 x 78 inches. * Engine-4 h.p. Briggs & Stratton with Reduction Unit. Tires-800:6 -10 inches wide -18 inches diameter -1000 lbs. capacity per tire with only 20 lbs. of air pressure. Frame-2/4" square tubing I/s" wall thickness. Axles-1" round cold roll. Tiller-operated tricycle arrangement for ease I Unit is shown backing up a 5' incline on one of our 16' ramps that can be erected by one man. i | Average load by bog operators is 25 boxes. ^ 1 XTEEN T B£/EAN/ solid set bog irrigation systems John Bean Shur-Rane solid set bog systems are ideally suited to meet the needs of anycranberry grower. Minimum gallonage. Special 1Y" or 2" solid set couplers for use withlightweight, low-cost aluminum tubing. Easy, twist-of-the-wrist coupling action. Wide,flat footpads keep sprinklers upright. Also available: conventional portable systems and Sequa-Matic automatic sequencing systems for crops and lawns. see your authorized shur-rane distributor or write factory for information MASSACHUSETTS NEW YORK WISCONSIN Hayden Separator Company W. E. Haviland, Inc. D Wareham, Massachusetts Highland, New York David Slinger Randolph, Wisconsin Roman R. Skibiski Sunderland, Massachusetts Tryac Truck &Equipment Riverhead, Long Island, New York Kinnamon Saw &Mower Supply Co. Baraboo, Wisconsin NEW ,JERSEY NOVA SCOTIA Reinders Brothers, Inc. C. H. Roberson, Inc. R. W. DeWolfe, Ltd. Elm Grove, Wisconsin Freehold, New Jersey Wolfville, Nova Scotia & Heightstown, N.J. ounncJohn N.J. D. Roberds RHODE ISLAND (CAPE COD) Black River Falls, Wisconsin Parkhurst Farm &Garden Supply Darbco, Inc. Hammonton, New Jersey Providence, Rhode Island 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 1:· SPRINKLER SYSTEMS ARE OUR BUSINESS Metal or plastic systems are available. + The many features of the Ames systems save you dollars and patience. The that we design we guarantee. In 1966 we will feature sprinkler systems The faster revolving + + the Rainbird Model 14070 in frost control systems. a> feature of this sprinkler will give the best ice on the bog. + :: We have for you to use in a sprinkler system for frost control or irrigation 4 *· . .on ... aluminum pipe for main line or laterals; Johns- your bog Ames .1¥ Manville 80 pound test plastic pipe for laterals; Rainbird Model 14080 ,> sprinklers; special for frost protection-Hale and Marlow engine driven 4. pumps, either gasoline or LP gas; Gould's electric driven pump. '+ 'We will design and quote on a complete system or any part. As a distribu-: :: tor we have available the quantities you need when you need them. . '+ Give us a try. ::+t· ~ CHARLES W. HARRIS CO., INC. + 4.4 451 OLD SOMERSET AVENUE : -NORTH DIGHTON, MASS. 02764 : . ' Area Code 617 824-5607 · " EIGHTEEN ... Here's to ajuicy year for cranberries. Chloro IPC Herbicide can help you make ittwo inarow. 1965 was the best year ever for cranberry sales, with juice adding to the usual demands. For another banner production year, protect your new crop from spring weed competition with dependable Chloro IPC Herbicide. This selective weed killer from PPG Chem- icals controls a long list of annual grasses and some broadleaved weeds (see below), with a broad margin of tolerance to dormant cranberry plants. The 20% gran- ules can be applied to dormant established cranberries before bud break, using air or ground equip- ment. Chloro IPC breaks down over. For details, check your local extension service or write Department 6625, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, ChemicalDivision, One Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222. Chloro IPC Controls Annual Bluegrass · Bentgrass Bluejoint Grass Dodder Horsetail Loosestrife Rushes (Juncus)-Sickle Grass Turkeyfoot Grass Velvetgrass (Massachusetts recommendations also include haircap moss, sorrel, hairy panic grass, e - corn grass, barnyard grass, completely as temperatures rise, crabgrass, tearthumb, fireweed lo I to eliminate build-up or carry-and mudrush.) 1 plog 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEE YOUR MILLER DEALER for C A S R N 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. 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THOMPSON-HAYWARD CHEMICAL COMPANY P.O. Box 2383, Kansas City, Kansas 66110 -,TWENTY-ON E 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. 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Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Milton Hamm and Mrs. Emery Jagodzinski, both of Wis- consin Rapids; three sons, Clarence, John and Robert, all of Tomah; a brother, Albert Herms, RAINBIRD SPRINKLER HEADS FLEX-O-SEAL IRRIGATION PIPE Aluminum and light weight steel irrigation pipe in all conventional lengths and diameters. Rainbird sprinkler heads for any bog setup. Wisconsin Rapids, and four sisters, Mrs. Otto Schacht, Marin ette; Mrs. Arthur Murray, Nekoosa; Mrs. John Ostruske and Mrs. Caroline Voight. FRESH FROM THE FIELDS 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- VEG-ACRE FARMS Forestdale, Cape Cod, Tel. 428-671 9 Mass. FretdaeCpe,Mass. to what to do about thislemma as problem as most did not have enough water to reflow. Fortu (Supplying irrigation equipment to growers since 1944) nately, on the 13th of February, very popular and will be mailed PILGRIM SAND & GRAVEL Producers of SAND GRAVEL -CRUSHED STONE For Sand and Service that Satisfy . . . Call Pilgrim BOG SAND A SPECIALTY The newest and most modern plant Telephones serving South Shore and Cape Cod. 585-3355 -585-3366 -585-3377 PLYMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS 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 FINE, VINE LOAN? PCA has the finest, on vines or on your other needs for the coming year. ~Money when you need it is the PCA creed for cranberry growers. Advan · : ^~tages to you growers are many. PCA fieldmen understand your operations .. understand why you need low cost money to expand, sand, vine, put in sprinklers, repair or replace equipment and finance your harvest. So starting with vines, everything will be fine when you visit your PCA office. PCA simple interest loans are the berries. Find out for yourself this week! PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS 4 -MAUSTON WAUSAU BARRON ANTIGO TOMAH RICE LAKE LUCK MARSHFIELD LADYSMITH MEDFORD STEVENS POINT BLACK RIVER FALLS TWENTY-FO U Ri wU [no i~~~~~~bg Things look pretty good for the climb. We've got products that are tops. A fine name in Dean's Indian Trail. A lot of ambition. And a willingness to try new To a grower this is important. With Dean's Indian Trail you get an advance on your crop at the be ginning of harvest. And, at your ........... option, the balance shortly after delivery. And there's this most important factor in our program for growers. It links you with a large, well-known, respected company with strong advertising and merchandising programs that sell cranberry products. And more each year. 'ih~ Dean's Indian Trail... iithe big new name in the i.cranberry business. P.O0. Box 710 Wisconsin Rapids ·Wisconsin 54494 TWENTY-FIVE Mali, 0 0 -: c to > ''" i> LG•~~~~~~~~~~~~~t r0 U U 0 *' 0T 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 SUBSCRIPTIONS, $4.00 Per Year FOREIGN, $5.00 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 HAIL INSU RANCE CRANBERRIES on CRANBERRIES for WISCONSIN GROWERS FULL COVERAGE Ask about our Deferred Premium Plan LOW COST and PROMPT SERVICE INSURE YOUR 1966 INCOME NOW Call our LOCAL AGENT or write URJ RURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 801 W. Badger Road, Madison, Wis. TWENTY-EIGHT 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. 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SPRAY BOOMS , GRASS CLIPPERS WEED RHAP 20 SEVIN FERTILIZER SPREADERS 5 :Goetsingerns 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 VEE BELTS and PULLEYS- SPROCKETS and BEARINGS ROLLER CHAINS : -- CONVEYOR BELTING STEEL YOU Are Reading This Ad- Others Will Read Yours in READ CRANBERRIES CRANBERRIES UNION CFRANBEiRRY CO0 WARRmES ISCOONS IN SPECIALIST 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, - contact any Director or Staff member in your growing area. CRAN BERRIES, I NC. 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Title | Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine, 1966-03 |
Subject | Cranberries - The Magazine; |
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Date Digitized | 2000-11-15 |
Coverage-Spatial | Cape Cod; New Jersey; Wisconsin; Oregon; Washington; Canada |
Coverage-Temporal | 1960-1969; |
Creator | Bob Taylor; Carolyn Gilmore; Carolyn Laban; Irving Demoranville; Phillip E. Marucci; Elizabeth G. Carpenter; I. V. Hall; Arthur Poole; Azmi Y. Shawa, Tod D. Planer; Dan Brockman; Joan E. Humphrey |
Date | 1966-03 |
Date Last Updated | 2008-11-10 |
Language | English |
Relation | Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine, Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine |
Description | The magazine entitled, “Cranberries – The National Cranberry Magazine,” describes grower information, regional news, and developments in the cranberry industry in the United States and Canada. |
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Publisher | Clarence J. Hall |
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Rights | 2008 Wetherby Cranberry Library |
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Coverage-Spatial | Warrens, Wisconsin |
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Language | English |
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Transcript | SERVING A $40,000,000 A YEAR INDUSTRY ' ,,,N-10tAL CRANBERRY t4A6A 40~I3i:ii~i~~~iiii:':Cents ::::i::,~i MARC 196 NEW JERSEY WVISCONSIN WASHINGTON FREDERICK E. GEBHARDT, 'Wisconsin Grower of Pioneering Family. (CRANBERRIES Photo) DIRECTORY For CRANBERRY GROWERS ______________ OVER TIEc NO TAXES _ __ 43 YEARS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED ,^ OF SERVICE I Federal Paper Board Fotation Tires For he A Soft Wet Sandy Soil CHARLES W.HARRIS Company, Inc. Airplane and other flotation tires Company 970 Fellsway many different sizes -15", 16", Uopany M970dford, Mswayss. 20, etc. 451 Old Somerset Avenue Tel. EXport 5-5305 1050 X 16 North Dighton, Mass. NEW Smooth Tread Phone 824-5607 Extremely Flexible Manufacturers Rec. Air Pressure 8 lbs. A M E S Sponge Rubber will31" nothi. $ i37.50 Irrigation Systems of hurt cranberries. 12" wide-Tire & Tube Write or Call for sizes not listed RAIN BIRD Folding Cartons Send check or money order for Sprinklers and 25%-balance c.o.d. freight collect HIGHEST QUALITY and"~ ~ Tel. (617) 889-2035-889-2078 PRODUCTS Displays Gans Surplus Tire Co. WITH SATISFACTION 1000 -Dept. C -Broadway, GUARANTEED Chelsea, Massachusetts EQUIPMENT Electricity -key to progress HAYDEN In industry as well as the home, -SEPARATOR electricity has been a vital key to progress. It is now and will continue \ WAREHAM, MASS. to be in the future,, readily available Irrigation Systems wherever and whenever it is needed. -- PUMPS ^ 1PLYMOUTH COUNTY ELECTRIC COMPANY SEPARATORS BLOWERS MARSHFIELD WAREHAM ^/^ ~PLYMOUTH I \ Oh UTM_T,\ -,MT.,SCREENHOUSE EQUIPMENT rm : - =--___j DARLINGTON _________________— ——— , PICKING MACHINES The National Bank of Wareham PICKING MACHIES for Cranberry Men Extensive Experience in Convenientrv located ELECTRICAL WORK ALFRED FAPPI At Screenhouses, Bogs and Pumps Means Satisfaction Funds always available for sound loans .WAREHAM, MASS Tel. CY 5.2000 Complete Banking Service SUBSCRIBE TO ' CRANBERRIES Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. HOW ABOUT CRANBERRIES 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). YOUR DISTRIBUTOR WILLIAMSTOWN IRRIGATION • INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER TRACTORS •. ;: HOMELITE CHAIN SAWS WISCONSIN MEN VISIT WEST COAST "Bob" A. Gottschalk, Donald and Wayne Duckart, Debs Olson, George Dana and Harold Roberts, all of Wisconsin have been visiting the West Coast. They reportthey found the bogs very "clean" and the growers more than friendly in showing them around. — DO Ef BD^JT A B P OK E B R 0 K E R REAL ESTATE OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 3 3 Years Selling Cranberry Properties • LISTINGS WANTED 500 Second-Hand Picking Boxes for Sale THEO TH1OMAS MAIN STREET ______SP R INKIBLERNORTH CARVER, MASS. : \ FARM SUPPLIES FARM SUPPLIES Walter E. Tripp & Sons, Inc D r_ Until you have seen the B I LGJ RAM MAIN STREET ^AIN bIKEET GARAGE Carver, Mass. Tel. 866-4582 _____ _____ ____ ____DONE -_______________________ 632 Main St. Acushnet, Mass. WYman 5-0422 »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»^^ Brewer Wareham Savings 40 Broad Street, Tel. UNion 6-3351 _ _ „ ,, Western PICK'S Sates, Parts and Repairs Authorized Agent ORDER NOW E. BRALEY & SON MACHINE SHOP 78 Gibbs Avenue Wareham, Mass. HAVE YOUR REPAIRS NOW & Lord Boston, Mass. INSURANCE Bank CONVERSE HILL CHARLES M. CUTLER WAREHAM and FALMOUTH WILLIAM B. PLUMBER VINCENT M. WILSON EDWARD H. LEARNARD JOHN.B. CECIL, Jr Savings Accounts HORACE H. SOULE ROBERT C. BIELASKI Loans on Real Estate Safe Deposit Boxes to Rentc • L n i r&i -i • Serving the People of New England Phone CYpress 5-3800 Since 1859 KImball 8-3000 ONE SHAWMUT GLASS (^ua CONTAINERS, INC. Representing R~~epairs on all makes Representing ^ i ^ KNOX GLASS, INC. Specializing in Chrysler-built cars Chrysler -Plymouth 25 EAST STREET Valiant and Simca SALES and SERVICE CAMBRIDGE 41, MASS. _____ Robt. W.Savary, Inc. East Wareham, Mass. Telephone 295-3530 SHARON BOX COMPANY, INC. SHARON. MASSACHUSETTS PERSONAL ESTABLISHED 1856 Ralph Sampson and Charlie We Will Buy Your White Pine Logs Goldsworthy of Cranberry Pro- Either Standing or Cut ducts, Inc. of Eagle River, Wis • Highest Prices Paid consin have been on a business Sawmill located at North Carver, Mass. trip to the West Coast with stops Office Phones: Sharon, SU 4-2011 Carver UN 6-2234 in L. A. and San Francisco. PURPLE ASTER IN WASHINGTON (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following oft a& A notice was sent to Washington L BK cranberry growers on February K VT 28th by Azmi Y. Shawa, Exten- Now Unloading 1 Carload Redwood Flume Lumber sion Agent in Horticulture, South 2x4 2x6 2x8 2x10 Bend, Washington.) 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 Our Middleboro yard has been closed as a retail yard. to kl tmting t i stg e. s ^ .^,^ -BT ^ ~The arayokill themiathi nowe Our complete stock of Redwood will be at our East The area you will treat now Freetown yard on and after April 1st. Complete milling ca information given herein facilities available. PHONE is for educational purposes only. PHONE811-947-2300 Reference to commercial prod763- 8811 --947-2300 ucts or trade names is made wit'II that dis- E. W.GOOOO!,,,ISIS LUMBER Co., Inc. the understanding no crimination is intended and no End of Cambridge Street (Off Route 44) Middleboro, Mass. endorsement by the Cooperative __________j ~~~Extension Service is implied. TWO 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 es _ L. EQUIPMENT CO 1209 MAIN STREET ACUSHNET, MASS. Cranberry Bog Service PRUNING RAKING Machinery Sales PRUNERS RAKES FERTILIZING WEED TRIMMING POWER WHEELBARROWS WEED TRIMMERS FERTILIZER SPREADERS-Large and Small 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 CHOICE OF IRRIGATION SUCTION EQUIPMENT UTILITY WRITE: For Further Information Call... F. P. CRANDON ROckwell 3-5526 C. J. TRIPP WYman 5-2013v THREE 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 SANDVICIX SCYTHES and ALUMINUM SNATHES LANCASTER PUMPS Pipe Cut and Threaded up to 4" CARVER SUPPLY CO. CENTER CARVER, MASS. Tel. 866-4480 , 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 CRANES TRUCKS EQUIPPED TO HANDLE YOUR BOG NEEDS LOUIS LECONTE P & L CO. 0 ~~~~~P&L CO. CARVER, MASS. 866-4402 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. Farm Credit Service Box 7, Taunton, Mass., 02781 Tel. 617 824-7578 4 Production Credit Loans Land Bank Mortgages 0 Office-362. Route 44 CV RAYNHAM, MASS. Warren R. Arnold, Manager 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 Q2 = AGENT FOR WIGGINS AIRWAYS A T V Post Oftice. Foreign, $5.00 per year. Compiled by C.J.H 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 BOG SERVICE U L aA HAND SPRAYERS -TOOLS -POWER EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZED BRIGGS AND STRATTON SERVICE CENTER R. F M OR. i Si I E M ERJ J~ iON IfC ||Cranberry Highway West Wareham, Mass. CY 5-1553 FIVE 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. Continued on page 23 Slx 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 Wo110N,C,t ui # # te iswa ...............:,·:''Fi:6 ue. .. ................. w si i li':1 · ::·:::·::::·:::::j rauatdro :::::i~~~~~~~~~~::.................. wa. r -.. " r ......................e nl y de.....os..humou..N.ly,........,......... ...... .............. e i~~i~~~~iiclii':ijiii~~~~~~~iiiii..... ....... ::ie ::S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~............: :X..; :.-.,".:,. ............ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~..."." .-,, ... ....--:: :. ..... ... ~~~~~F~~~~~~~~i~~~~~~~~·Ba~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[~~~~~~~~[ .... ..................... ............ ...... ... .. .. ... . ...... .... ..................... CZ'1GHT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.. ............... .......... 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. ^A^Q 10AA r \ 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. further the aims of the growers Meetings of Massachusetts ~~~~~~~~~~~~in that asure "I think it is within the range of probability that the Massachu- setts 1966 cranbery crop will be in excess of 800,000 barrels" Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- ment Station told growers attend- ing the February meetings of the three cranberry clubs, South Shore at Kingston, February 15th, Southeastern at Rochester Grange Hall, the 16th, and Cape Cod at Barnstable February 17th. He said his main reason for this was the excessive sunshine hours in 1965, due to the drought 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 * AGRICO granular fertilizer drills easier... stays Now A£ GRICO@ free-flowing without bridging... meets today's needs for fast, accurate drilling and spreading. 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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 .><,o<. J b tt n e a n 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- You'll apply granular herbicide uniformly with a GANDY Cranberry Special Broadcast Granular Applicator! And you'll do iteasily easier than you other way. do can possibly it any In fact, many growers say this is the only waycnnesota Mi you ca treat your bogs uniformlyRATE There are plenty APPLICATO of reasons why. There is only one precision cam gauge. You get the same given hopper opening size for a given gauge setting--once, twice, a thousand times or more! 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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 TWELVE 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. WHEN IT OOMES TO FROST PRO TECTION REMEMBER THESE 4 IMPORTANT POI N TS WIND ABOUT FMC WIND MACHINES 1. THEY REDUCE LABOR COST One man can efficiently operate one or several wind machines. FMC wind machines save the labor cost of a whole crew required for flooding. 2. THEY GIVE IMMEDIATE PROTECTION Switch on the motor andiiiii within 3 to 5 minutes, the mpnsarshis receiving effective frost protection. FMC machines have an enviable record for ??:?? operating reliability too. .. .. .................................................... 3. THEY ELIMINATE FLOODING Water shortages, water damage to fruit, drainage difficulty all dictate against flooding. The FMC wind machine protects by drawing warm air from above and mixing it with cold ground air. Not one drop of water is involved. i 4. THEY PROMOTE BETTER FRUIT YIELD AND QUALITYFlood water may damage fruit, wash away pollen, inhibit vig- I l orous growth. Also, flood water can carry in weed seeds. FMC wind machines eliminate these time and profit consuming drawbacks. Make your own investigation. FMC Wind Machines have a proven record of successful frost protection in cranberry marshes. The savings they can effect in one or two seasons will more than justify your investment. Fill in the coupon and mail it today. We'll see that you have complete information by return mail. ................. FMC CORPORATION, FLORIDA DIVISION FAIRWAY AVENUE, LAKELAND, FLORIDA D]Please send me sales literature on Tropic Breeze Wind Machines II Please have sales engineer contact me NA TITLE_________ ADDRESS (RFD) _ZONE, _TY STATE_ THIRTEEN 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- vest. New Chemical Charles M. 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Reconditioned equipment feet of aluminum pipe available at Williamstown. This equipment can double as a frost control unit effec-FROST CONTROL . tive at temperatures as low as 18°. FIFTEEN plans entailed piping the ground water of South Jersey to the more populated northern region of the State. This method would probably adversely affect the water supply of New Jersey cranberry growers. He felt that this plan was not at present eco- nomically feasible and that it would be resorted to only if the several reservoir plans for the North Jersey area did not work out. A detailed report of the Rutgers Water Symposium was being published and would be sent to each cranberry grower in the State. That Hover Craft Dr. Allan W. Stretch, Plant Pathologist, U. S. D. A. and Rut- gers University, showed a movie on the application of fungicides with a Hover-craft. This inter- esting equipment, which looks as though it belongs to the next generation, was developed by the Princeton University Department of Aeronautical Engineering which is cooperating with Dr. Stretch in tests to determine the practicability of applying fun- _ 9n gicides on cranberries. The re- suits obtained, as evidenced by data presented by Dr. Stretch, in- dicates that this machine may have a use in agriculture. Frost Warning Fee to be Raised In a business session the re- port of the Frost Committee was given by Co-Chairmen Isaiah Haines and Joseph Palmer. There were 29 frost calls in the spring of 1965 and 33 in the fall. An analysis of the accuracy of the predicitions of the spring frost calls indicated that the evening forecasts were correct to within 6° in 65% of the warnings. The 24-hour outlook, however, was accurate to the same degree in only 46% of the forecasts. A unanimous vote of thanks was given by the membership to the Frost Committee and the Weather Bureau for their service to grow- ers in providing frost control in- formation. It was unanimously agreed to give the Committee authority to raise the frost fee as high as is necessary to meet the expenses of the teletype and answering services. Committee members serve voluntarily 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 eliminate the undue pressure on land owners and farmers. The ........ : ! X...................,., '.' . _ 1 399" °$100 Down-Balance Due October 31 CARLSON MFG I • 2500 lb. Capacity * 35 Picking Boxes * 35 Picking Bags I Platform Area: 48 x 78 inches. * Engine-4 h.p. Briggs & Stratton with Reduction Unit. Tires-800:6 -10 inches wide -18 inches diameter -1000 lbs. capacity per tire with only 20 lbs. of air pressure. Frame-2/4" square tubing I/s" wall thickness. Axles-1" round cold roll. Tiller-operated tricycle arrangement for ease I Unit is shown backing up a 5' incline on one of our 16' ramps that can be erected by one man. i | Average load by bog operators is 25 boxes. ^ 1 XTEEN T B£/EAN/ solid set bog irrigation systems John Bean Shur-Rane solid set bog systems are ideally suited to meet the needs of anycranberry grower. Minimum gallonage. Special 1Y" or 2" solid set couplers for use withlightweight, low-cost aluminum tubing. Easy, twist-of-the-wrist coupling action. Wide,flat footpads keep sprinklers upright. Also available: conventional portable systems and Sequa-Matic automatic sequencing systems for crops and lawns. see your authorized shur-rane distributor or write factory for information MASSACHUSETTS NEW YORK WISCONSIN Hayden Separator Company W. E. Haviland, Inc. D Wareham, Massachusetts Highland, New York David Slinger Randolph, Wisconsin Roman R. Skibiski Sunderland, Massachusetts Tryac Truck &Equipment Riverhead, Long Island, New York Kinnamon Saw &Mower Supply Co. Baraboo, Wisconsin NEW ,JERSEY NOVA SCOTIA Reinders Brothers, Inc. C. H. Roberson, Inc. R. W. DeWolfe, Ltd. Elm Grove, Wisconsin Freehold, New Jersey Wolfville, Nova Scotia & Heightstown, N.J. ounncJohn N.J. D. Roberds RHODE ISLAND (CAPE COD) Black River Falls, Wisconsin Parkhurst Farm &Garden Supply Darbco, Inc. Hammonton, New Jersey Providence, Rhode Island 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 1:· SPRINKLER SYSTEMS ARE OUR BUSINESS Metal or plastic systems are available. + The many features of the Ames systems save you dollars and patience. The that we design we guarantee. In 1966 we will feature sprinkler systems The faster revolving + + the Rainbird Model 14070 in frost control systems. a> feature of this sprinkler will give the best ice on the bog. + :: We have for you to use in a sprinkler system for frost control or irrigation 4 *· . .on ... aluminum pipe for main line or laterals; Johns- your bog Ames .1¥ Manville 80 pound test plastic pipe for laterals; Rainbird Model 14080 ,> sprinklers; special for frost protection-Hale and Marlow engine driven 4. pumps, either gasoline or LP gas; Gould's electric driven pump. '+ 'We will design and quote on a complete system or any part. As a distribu-: :: tor we have available the quantities you need when you need them. . '+ Give us a try. ::+t· ~ CHARLES W. HARRIS CO., INC. + 4.4 451 OLD SOMERSET AVENUE : -NORTH DIGHTON, MASS. 02764 : . ' Area Code 617 824-5607 · " EIGHTEEN ... Here's to ajuicy year for cranberries. Chloro IPC Herbicide can help you make ittwo inarow. 1965 was the best year ever for cranberry sales, with juice adding to the usual demands. For another banner production year, protect your new crop from spring weed competition with dependable Chloro IPC Herbicide. This selective weed killer from PPG Chem- icals controls a long list of annual grasses and some broadleaved weeds (see below), with a broad margin of tolerance to dormant cranberry plants. The 20% gran- ules can be applied to dormant established cranberries before bud break, using air or ground equip- ment. Chloro IPC breaks down over. For details, check your local extension service or write Department 6625, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, ChemicalDivision, One Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222. Chloro IPC Controls Annual Bluegrass · Bentgrass Bluejoint Grass Dodder Horsetail Loosestrife Rushes (Juncus)-Sickle Grass Turkeyfoot Grass Velvetgrass (Massachusetts recommendations also include haircap moss, sorrel, hairy panic grass, e - corn grass, barnyard grass, completely as temperatures rise, crabgrass, tearthumb, fireweed lo I to eliminate build-up or carry-and mudrush.) 1 plog 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEE YOUR MILLER DEALER for C A S R N 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 7737 N. E. Killingsworth Portland 18, Oregon w o rth WestWareham IS AVAILABLE IN MASSACHUSETTS from F M Vest VVareham - Tel. 295-1553 manager you have contributed par-_from b i springweed problems L It dn Ica ic^ "-'A Here's an unbeatable way to Wipe out cranberry-choking weeds this Spring. Use CASORON herbicide CASORONcG-4 granules elimayc ingate ex- pensive, time-consuming hand or mechanical weeding in your bogs. CASORON kills weeds before they spring up .to rob your cranberrieseofsavailable sup .to rob yoisturecranberries of avaluable nutrients. Controls perennial and certain annual weeds and grasses. Yet CASORON isthe one safe herbicide. YetCASORON istheones rbicide. afehe CASORONcontrolsheavy, crop-choking stands of weeds but is also economical for use when only a few weeds are present. w ·i P-O Bo 429'' W . g d eW t P C U ^ n flfll qielWi"eU tsa oa rgaHigwrite DICHLOBENIL WEED & GRASS KILLER . a research discovery of N.V.Philips-Duphar and a product development of ThompsonHayward Chemical Box Remember there's no other chemical quite likeCASORON. It'sa total programagainst weeds... but safe enough to use on growing plants and non-irritating to you. intouch with yours neart right linow. Geted in.toucAsk him abounearest CASORON, oeristed Thompson-Hayward direct. - Supplies of Casoron and additional information are available from: Wisconsin Cranberry Consultant Serv ice, P.O. 429, sconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; Miller Products Co., 7737 N. E. Killingsworth, Portland, Oregon; R.F. Morse & Son, Inc., Cranberry Highway, West Wareham, Massachusetts; Parkhurst Farm and GardenSupply, 301 Whitehorse Pike, Hammonton, New Jersey. THOMPSON-HAYWARD CHEMICAL COMPANY P.O. Box 2383, Kansas City, Kansas 66110 -,TWENTY-ON E 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. 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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- VEG-ACRE FARMS Forestdale, Cape Cod, Tel. 428-671 9 Mass. FretdaeCpe,Mass. to what to do about thislemma as problem as most did not have enough water to reflow. Fortu (Supplying irrigation equipment to growers since 1944) nately, on the 13th of February, very popular and will be mailed PILGRIM SAND & GRAVEL Producers of SAND GRAVEL -CRUSHED STONE For Sand and Service that Satisfy . . . Call Pilgrim BOG SAND A SPECIALTY The newest and most modern plant Telephones serving South Shore and Cape Cod. 585-3355 -585-3366 -585-3377 PLYMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS 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. 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We've got products that are tops. A fine name in Dean's Indian Trail. A lot of ambition. And a willingness to try new To a grower this is important. With Dean's Indian Trail you get an advance on your crop at the be ginning of harvest. And, at your ........... option, the balance shortly after delivery. And there's this most important factor in our program for growers. It links you with a large, well-known, respected company with strong advertising and merchandising programs that sell cranberry products. And more each year. 'ih~ Dean's Indian Trail... iithe big new name in the i.cranberry business. P.O0. Box 710 Wisconsin Rapids ·Wisconsin 54494 TWENTY-FIVE Mali, 0 0 -: c to > ''" i> LG•~~~~~~~~~~~~~t r0 U U 0 *' 0T 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 SUBSCRIPTIONS, $4.00 Per Year FOREIGN, $5.00 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 HAIL INSU RANCE CRANBERRIES on CRANBERRIES for WISCONSIN GROWERS FULL COVERAGE Ask about our Deferred Premium Plan LOW COST and PROMPT SERVICE INSURE YOUR 1966 INCOME NOW Call our LOCAL AGENT or write URJ RURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 801 W. Badger Road, Madison, Wis. TWENTY-EIGHT 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. 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