Cranberries - The National Cranberry Magazine, 1991-06

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Vol. 55, No. 6 Est. 1936 June 1991 

The king of turtle hunters on 
the king of turtles 

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Bay State farmers seek 

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AMillions of pounds of 
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CRANBERRIES CONTENTS 

THE NATIONAL CRANBERRY MAGAZINE LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Benefits of bloom fungicide 6 
SEND CORRESPONDENCE TO: 

C ETO: applications can outweigh the risks by Chuck Kusek

EP. BORREPON

P.O. BOX 858 
SOUTH CARVER MA 02366 

(508)866-5055 COVER STORY: Observations on the SNAPPER by John J. Rogers 7
(508) 866-5055 
FAX #: (508) 866-2970 

PUBLISHER/EDITOR: CAROLYN GILMORE Two-year-old bed timing study by FrankL. Caruso 12 
ADVISORS & CORRESPONDENTS 

MASSACHUSES -Irving E. Demoranville, Director, Bay State farmers petition for legislative relief from regulators 14 

Cranberry Experiment Station.
NEW JERSEY -Phillip E. Marucci, Cranberry &
Blueberry Specialist, Buddtown; Fran Brooks, Medford.
NOVA SCOTIA -Robert A. Murray, Horticulturist, Berry Status of BMPS in NJ by FranBrooks 16
Crops, Research Station, Truro.
OREGON -Arthur Poole, Coos County Extension
Agent, Coquille. Ocean Spray to assess impact of fruit destroyed by fire 17
WASHINGTON -Azmi Y. Shawa, Horticulturist and


retired Director, Coastal Washington Research & 

Extension Unit, Long Beach. series lubrication and
WISCONSIN -Tod D.Planer, Wood County Agricultural SHOPTALK: A new series n lubrication theoy and practice 1
Agent; Teryl Roper, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension,
Madison; Fred Poss, Eau Claire.


CRANBERRIES is published monthly by Carolyn Northland has lease/purchase option on 2 marshes 19 

Gilmore, off Cranberry Rd. South Carver, MA 02366. 

Second class postage is paid at the South Carver, MA 
Post Office. Price is $18 a year, $33 for two years, $2.50 
a copy in the U.S.; $23 a year in Canada; $30 a year in COVER PHOTO: John J. Rogers is shown with the official world record 
all other countries. Back copies: $3.50, including snapper, weighing in at 67 pounds! Collecting snapping turtles has been his 

postage. Copyright 1991 by Cranberries Magazine.
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recommendations for fruit rot control fungicide timing have stirred 
concerns from growers in other growing areas regarding harmful 
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Observations on the SNAPPER 

by JohnJ. Rogers 

(The snapping turtle, a common sight on cranberry bog and 
marshland, is largely misunderstood by most. The following article 
by commercial snapping turtle collector John J. Rogers is full of 

amazing insights into the life habits and character of these 
prehistoric reptiles. CRANBERRIES is greatful to the author and to 

MassachusettsWildlife for permission to reprint this article first 
published in spring 1990. "I have my own interest in cranberry 
reservoirs," Rogers writes. "Usually they're good snapper ponds.") 

IAM NOTA SCIENTIST. ITRY TO LOOK AT requirements, but I'll also give some-

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niously at this big, slow-mov

curiously at this slow-moving 

-;-tank'sbig cannon could fire than the 

tank itself could move. 

Then suddenly, SNAP! He (about a 16 
pound male) hauled thewriggling

scoresunny

sunnie them catch. seen

I've evater seemingly ignoring ThI've

by the head, in his mouth. I find them

by the head, in his mouth. them

I 

snapping up minnows when I catch 
them, an tched in certain types of 
water, in their stomachs very often. 

arp minnows are the only sizethcarpe 

them try to catch adult carp lots of 
times, especially when the carp are 

spawning, but I have never seen them 
tank's ow vennon them catche

ca could fire 
minnows. The snapper will be walking 

on the bottom. As he walks along, his or 
her four paws "kick up" what looks like 
little clouds of "dust." Numerous 
minnows comesfollowimming over to dart 
into these "dust clouds" or hover in 
them, feeding on something. I guess 
they're eating little insects that would 
otherwise e buried safely in the mud. I 
don't know. I didn't catch any and 
examine their stomachs. They are no 
more afraid of this big, slow lumbering 
army tank than the sunnies were---or 
small tropiall fish are afraid of big, 
slow, lumbering snorkelers on the coral 
reefs. Certain minnows get too close, 
and then suddenly WHAM! The big 
cannon fires again. They're more 
accurate, from what I've seen, in their 
snapping underwater than they are out 
of it. I saw one down near Foxboro 
(Mass.) catch about a ten inch bullhead 
armfamilyright on the

ly as that bullhead, and 
others, fled before my canoe through 
clear, shallow water I'vet

was like he'd 

things scientifically, but I am not a thing else to:I'll swear Roger's Axiomby 
bscientist. was a professional snapping of Snapping Turtle Hunting: Most of 
turtle hunter for 25 years and a semi-the snappers, in most of the waters in 
professional one for 14 years before which they occur, spend most of their 

that. (Snapping turtle catcermight be atfu time sleeping. The are others, but I'm 

more accurate term, since the turtles 
had to be alive and unharmed or 
cleanly dressed (without the kind of 
blood clots you get from gun shot 
wounds, for example) when I sold 
them.) I don't pretend to have made any 
startling new discoveries about 
snapping turtles. Just some nersinteresting 
observations, 

My observations have mostly dobetoa 
with the behavior ofethe animals since, 
in order to be successful at what I do, I 
have had to (1) know what they're 
doing; (2) know where they'rvedoingfound 
and (3) be there when they're doing it. 
That about sums up my turtle hunting 

Page 8 CRANBERRIES June 1991 

not going to tell anybody what they are. 
Why should I rob you of the joy of 
discovery? 

What I've found out about what 
snappers eat is different from what I've 
heard and read more in the relative 
importance or proportions of different 
food items in their

diet, rather than in 
any new foods they hadn't been known 
to eat before. Unless it's seagulls or 
young mussels. I don't know that any 
one else has observed that. Or, how of 
all the gamefish, the pike-pickmrel 

arenk out about whatthe

only ones I've ever seen 
them catch or eat any number of. 
Unless sunnies and bluegills are 


gone out for a pass and just stopped iny 
a pocket between the zones and waited. 
Wasn't far from sullivan Stadium either. 

I haven't seen anything in the literature 
about how they kill prey---and 
sometimes each other---that describes 

what I've seen. I don't know of anyonewho has seen them kill each other. I 
have caught many hundreds of them 
fighting. Probably a w few

thousand 

now. But more on that later. I should 
say here that snails, insects, and small 
crustaceans adhering to, or living in the 
vegetation, form a much bigger part of 
their diet than most people realize. The 

next time you get one, every time youd 
clean one, examine its stomach. I 

watched one in front of me one day 
(with rush hour traffic on 495 going by 
in the background) lying about a foot or 
so down in the water, chomping on a 
mountain of yellowish-green algae like 

a kid working through a cotton candy 

mountain at a fair. There were a lot of 
snails and insects living in that algae---
little tiny bits of animal protein in the 

middle of a lot of cheaply grown green 
and yellow vegetation. Reminded me of 
eating in a Chinese restaurant. 

ISTARTED CATCHING SNAPPING 
turtles as a kid, as a way of making 
more money than my Uncle (under 
orders from my father, who "wanted to 
teach me the value of a dollar") was 
paying me for a day's work on his truck 
farm: one dollar. This was in 1948. I 
was nine when I caught my first 
snapping turtle. Caught and sold, that 
is. I caught a turtle in one of our marsh 
ponds and got a dollar for it---a whole 
day's pay for just one snapping turtle! I 
was stunned! The message was clear: 
snapping turtles were the way to go. 

As a "big time pro," I caught 28 or 29 
snappers out of our pond that first 
summer, and several more from a 
neighbor's pond about a mile away. I'd 
bring them back on my bicycle, one at a 
time. Not as much money, total, as 
"working on the muck," but a lot more 
exciting and interesting. They were 
truly big, dangerous game for me at that 
time. I sold them every summer after 
that, with the exception of two. 

Twenty-five years ago I started 

catching snappers full time for a living, 
such as it was. If I was in it just for the 
money I would have never kept on. 

They never did bring big money, except 
one year, and that was thanks only to a 
miscalculation on the part of the 
dealers. They thought the Japanese 

were going to come in heavy, now that 
they knew about snappers. The dealers 
paid up to a dollar a pound live weight 

for them in the scramble to be the one 
who has the most frozen turtle meat on 
hand when the rich Japanese buyer 
came to call. The Japanese never came, 

and none of those dealers would look at 
a snapping turtle for years afterward. I 

had no illusions after that of the 
snapping turtle market ever going up 
even if I quit catching them. It was the 

last of the dreams that failed. 

OVER THE YEARS I CAUGIIT AND SOLD 

somewhere between 86 and 87 
thousand snapping turtles of keeping 
size. By "keeping size" I mean at least 
about a twenty pound average weight. I 
caught them in every state in the 
Northeast and northern Midwest, and 
in Quebec and Ontario. My biggest 
areas were New York State, the New 
England states and Wisconsin. The 
best money I got (except for that one 
fluke year) was in the upper Midwest in 
the late 60's. I got twenty-five cents a 
pound, could sell them all alive, could 
sell all I caught, and gas was only 24.9 

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cents a gallon. Pick-up trucks, tires and 
canoes were priced accordingly. 
Everything's been downhill since. 

Snapper prices went up slightly, but my 
own expenses went way up. Moreover, I 
could no longer sell all I could catch. 
Worse, every year I had to dress more 
and more of the animals t get anybody 
to buy them "I'd like to handle them 
anymore," was something I heard more 

and more. 

THE GREAT HEYDAY OF "SNAPPERIN" 
was from the late 1800s through the 
early 1900s. Michigan alone was 
shipping out a hundred and twenty 
thousand pounds of snappers a year, or 
better. But those days are gone. The 
snapping turtle populations are greatly 
increasing, but the demand for 
snapping turtles is greatly decreasing. 
An old timer I know, one of my best 
customers whose family has been in the 
business for three generations, sums up 
the present snapping turtle market this 
way: "The old timers who used to eat 
them are dying off and there's no new 
breed of young people coming in to 
take their place. People just aren't 
much interested in them anymore. No 
matter how far inland you go, people 
are getting more stuff from the ocean 
now." 

CRANBERRIES June 1991 Page 9 


YOU CANT CLEAN ALL THE SNAPPERS 
out of a pond. Not for long anyway. 
Somewhere, on every warm night of the 
year, there are snapping turtles moving 
over land from one body of water to 
another. Who knows how many 
hundreds or thousands are on the move, 
crawling through the dark on a warm 
summer night: I've seen them many 

times. I know where to look for them. 
You find them working their way up 
little shallow streams not even deep 
enough to cover them, up little brooks 
and brooklets, up little tricklets not 
deep enough to wet your shin bones in, 
working up (and down) dry washes and 
gullies, over saddles in the hills, through 
the woods and even across open fields. 
And not always at night. 

ALITTLE SPRING BROOK RAN DOWN OFF 
a mountain into a good turtle river. 
One day some kids I know found a 60 
pound snapper making his way up this 
sub-shin bone tricklet, already on the 
edge of where it was turning into just 
seeps. he was probably heading toward 
a pond back up in the basin above the 
seep; not a very big pond, but a turtle 
pond. Why was he going there? Do 
turtles go to ponds they've never been to 
before? Yes, I think so, lots of times. In 
fact, I know so, because one year the 
ponds are new, empty ponds, and the 
next year, without my help, the turtles 
are already in there, staking out their 

claims. I've been to too many new 

ponds and found them all to be full to 
the brim with big adult snappers: turtles 
who could not, did not, have time to 
grow to that size in those few years. 
They came in already big. 

I can only guess at what it is that 
drives healthy adult snappers to seek out 
new waters. Maybe things get too 
crowded where they are, maybe they get 
driven out by larger, more dominant 
turtles, maybe they just have a craving 
for some exotic food that isn't available 
where they are. Sometimes though, I 
think it might be something else. Every 
old fighter gets to the point where he 
can't hold his own against the young 
ones anymore. Are some of these 
unusually big old males that people find 
heading across country toward little 
ponds back in the hills returning to the 
places they were born? Are they going 
there because they sense that their 

Page 140 CRANBERRIES June 1991


fighting days are over, and now, as they big snapper gets on top of another big 
think more of the sweet days of their male, grabs hold of his body with his 
youth, they want to go back to the old claws, gets a solid grip on the back of 
homestead to spend their last days in his neck near his head with his jaws, 
peace and die in their sleep, instead of and then holds the other snapper's head 
being drowned by another snapping under water long enough to drown him. 
turtle? I don't know. I do wonder, They fight everywhere, in deep water 
though. and shallow water, but they drown one 

My impression is that the male another only in shallow water. I've 
snappers, at least if they aren't in tide-seen them fighting maybe a few thou-
water, are territorial animals. (They sand times now. I catch easily over 200 
may be territorial in tidewater as well, males a year while they're actually 
but it's hard to tell because what you get engaged in fighting. I even have an 
in tidewater are a lot of snappers let-established routine, best-way-to 
ting themselves drift in and out long -handle-two-at-a-time, since one has to 
distances with the ingoing and out- be loose in the canoe while I bag the 
going tides.) Male snappers fight, and other. 
sometimes they'll kill each other. One (Pleaseturn to page 21.) 

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BAY STATE CRANBERRY DISEASE CONTROL Berry yields in this particular bed were low in the second 

year. Consequently, it is hard to make a lot of clear-cut 
Two-year-old bed timing study conclusions from the data. However, Trts 1and 5 gave the

^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ 5 ^ 

best field rot control. The highest amount of field rot 
FrankL. Caruso occurred in the check plots. There were no differences 
CranberyExperiment Station among the treatments in the control of storage rot. Trts 1 
University ofMassachusetts, East Wareham, MA and 5 also afforded the best total rot control. Of note is the 
reduction in berry size for all Bravo schedules as compared 
(Second of two articles.) to the check. Dr. Stephen Jeffers noted this in a 3-year study 

NEWLY PLANTED CRANBERRY BEDS OFTEN HAVE A in Wisconsin which he has recently published in the journal 
higher of fruit rot compared to the same Plant Disease. The yield effect was noted for mancozeb

degree 

(Dithane, Manzate, etc.) and captafol (Difolatan, which is no 
beds after they are well-established. In many new longer available for fruit rot control). Effects of Bravo on 
plantings the normal 10 to 14 day fungicide berry size have not usually been observed in our test plots, 
schedule does not control fruit rot at acceptable but it can occur. Because data were not conclusive in this 

levels. Although newly planted beds are not har-study, this will be repeated in 1991 in a 3-year bed planted 
levels.Although newly planted beds are not ar-with a more susceptible variety, such as Early Black or Ben 
vested for a crop during the first two to three Lear. 
years, a high rot incidence may result in a signi


ficant buildup of inoculum of some of the FOOTNOTES: The use of trade names does not imply recon-
rot-inducing fungi over time. mendation of a company's product, but since different 
formulations containing the same active ingredient are often 
produced by different companies, it was desirable to stipulate 

It is important to keep the level of this inoculum as low as the fomtulation which was tested Any materials nentioled

possitle. Consequently, these beds should be harvested to formulation was tested. mentioned 
possible. Consequently, these beds should be harvested to above which are not registered specifically for fruit rot control 

remove the fruit as if a normal detrashing operation were 
should not be used.

being performed. Fungicides should be applied to these beds The data and their conclusions are most appropriatefor 

as early as the first year they are planted. This will aid in the Massachusetts and New Jersey where frit rot is a serious 
reduction of inoculum, resulting in a quicker covering of the problem each growing season The results may not be directly 
Sbeds to e s applicablefor the other areas where cranberriesare grown, but

by healthier vinesd in 10 v 

Studies were conducted in 1990 to examine varied schedules 

which employed different intervals between treatments. Plots s ould e futd en i to "Trtgr
were established in a bed of Howes vines planted in 1989 by
the A.D. Makepeace Company in West Wareham. The
following schedules were employed: 
1) 5% bloom, 14 days later, 14 days later; total 3 applications If yo think it's hard living
2) 5% bloom, 7 days later, 7 days later; total 3 applicationsy lv g 
3) 5% bloom, 14 days later, 7 days later; total 3 applications witin your means, try living
4) 5% bloom, 7 days later, 14 days later; total 3 applications without them.
5) 5% bloom, 7 days later, 7 days later, 14 days later; total 4


applications A disabling injury or ill-
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matter

Bravo 720 (5.5 pt/A) was applied on June 25 (Trts 1-5; 5% m ake wiore by

being prepared with ade


bloom); July 2 (Trts 2, 4, 5; 50% bloom); July 9 (Trts 1-3, 5; quate disability coverage
25% bloom remaining); and July 16 (Trts 3, 4; 2% bloom Your Farm Family agent l li
remaining, 98% fruit set); and July 23 (Trts 1, 5; 100% can custom-tailor a Dis-
fruit set). Methodologies were the same as those employed in ability Income plan to ' l ) l
the previous studies. Berries were hand-picked for the entire protect your assets and
area of each replicate on September es, your


19, counted and pay your dailyexpens-

even cover 

evaluated for the presence or absence of field rot at two days spouse.
after harvest. There were not enough berries to do cup Don't gamble on the "jll 
counts; 100 berries were weighed for most of the replicates. future. Call your Farm i I 


The data can be seen in Table IV below: Family agent today. I ; 

TABLE IV 

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Ken and Chuck have been helping growers to develop plans which minimize income and


estate taxes, provide liquidity to pay estate taxes, and make it possible to pass the family
business on to the next generation while treating other family members fairly.


Chuck has represented New York life since 1969 and Ken since 1977. They do business 
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Bay State Farmers Petition for Legislative Relief from Regulations 

Definingnormalagriculturalpracticesgetsfavorable receptionfrom Ag Board 

MASSACHUSETIS AGRICULTURALISTS standing farm operations are being burden," Erickson said. "My rights were 
have no shortage of horror stories when challenged by local and state agencies, finally clarified by the Department's 

it comes to the whims of regulators creating confusion, frustration and in Legal Council, out of Boston, the day 
deciding what farming practices are some cases, costly delays," he wrote. before we were going to trial. It took 
allowed. On April 18, about 40 farmers "This bill would establish a uniform the Department nearly a year and a 

presented both oral and written definition of normal agricultural court suit to finally admit I had the right 
tesimonies before the Committee on practices for key commodities in to maintain and harvest my crop land." 
Natural Resources and Agriculture, Massachusetts. This will assist the 
chaired by Rep. Steven Angelo, in agricultural community in complying BENJAMIN A. GILMORE, GROWER AND 
support of a bill that would explain with the Wetlands Protection Act and consulting engineer, noted that the 
normal agricultural activities for local also reduce the confusion and DEP's "reasoned approach toward 
and state agencies. uncertainty that currently exists." regulation and permitting began to 

House bill number 4210, sponsored deteriorate during the mid and latter 
by Reps. John George Jr. and Robert Others Who Had Their Say part of the 1980's ... The process has 
Kraus proposes "to establish a uniform THIRD GENERATION CRANBERRY become so radicalized that even 
definition of normal maintenance or grower Richard Erickson told the NRA standard agricultural practices are now 

improvement of land in agricultural Committee that he had been fined by being considered as regulatable by the 

use." The proposed amendment to the the DEP "for cutting firewood on my Department, and the idea of 
Massachusetts Wetlands Act, Chapter land." He was also required to file a improvements in agricultural lands as 
131, Section 40, calls for establishing a notice to clarify which maintenance being exempt from the regulatory 
"farmland advisory committee" to be activities would be allowed in raising process is simply unacceptable to the 

appointed by the agricultural com-cranberries, Christmas trees, nursery Department."
missioner. The bill charges the stock and a home garden on his land.
committee with establishing standards "If I didn't file, I would be subject to ROBERT HAMMOND OF FULLER
of "normal maintenance or improve-a $25,000 a day fine," he said. "They Hammond Co., Inc. told the committee
ment of land in agricultural use" for would not even clarify that I had a right that "inappropriate interpretation of the


each commodity in the Bay State. to harvest my crops, make a living, and Wetlands Regulations" is threatening 

Committee membership would include provide for my family." He filed a suit the economic viability of agriculture.
the Commissioner of the Department of against the DEP to define his rights. His company has spent six years
Environmental Protection (or a "This cost me a needless financial seeking permits to build a surface water
designee); the Commissioner of the
Department of Food and Agriculture LAN AQU ITION IN TH 1990 :
(or a designee); a Cooperative TWO METHOPS
Extension Service representative; a
USDA Soil Conservation Service |( A) /_C'APFOACH /IV A PP0A


t7/-" I T| 7O 

representative and a farmer. The 
committee would be chaired by theDEP X /' /aI -FRO MI 
Commissioner (or the designee). HU lN/ | |p a )lO 

"It was given a favorable report out of J -\-p g{{ ^ !y
the Agricultural Committee," said . : , 
Jeffrey Carlson, executive director of the / " A 


/ 

Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' .. ' -
Association. "The bill is very much alive. ' ' -. |:< .> 
I think it had to do with everybody who-' 
came to give testimony. There were A./ =
about 40 farmers, most of whom were -— 


cranberry growers." _
The association recorded "strong B — --I -T 


support" of the bill in ,-
written testimony submitted by Carlson. | -,2I P J 
"Although the Wetlands Protection Act 
exempts 'work performed for the -
normal maintenance or improvement 1 -A--Lis 
of land in agricultural use,' many long


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Hammond noted, with some irony, 
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Inconsistent Interpretation of WPA 

DAVID GREW, A CRANBERRY GROWER 
in Yarmouth and Brewster described 
his interactions with the local conser-
vation commissions and the state DEP 
as "very costly and frustrating 
experiences." 

"Since 1989, I have received three 
separate enforcement orders from the 
commission," he said. "Each order 
states that specific activities I must 
perform to maintain my bog are not 
exempt from the Wetlands Protection 
Act. These activities include pumping of 
water, clearing of brush and trees, and 
bog rebuilding. The enforcement orders 
request that I notify them, in writing, 
prior to any chemical application with 
the stated threat that noncompliance 
will be reported to the Mass. Pesticide 
Bureau. I am a licensed pesticide 
applicator and comply with all 
regulations concerning any chemical 
application. Nowhere in the chemical 
application regulations is there a 
requirement of written notification of 
town boards prior to application." 

Five months following a site inspec- 
tion on his Brewster property last fall, 
he was notified there were violations 
of the Wetlands Protection Act on his 
property. 

"These alleged violations are the 
same activities performed at my 
Yarmouth bog that in 1983 the DEP 
cited as normal maintenance and 
improvement," Grew said. "These 
inconsistencies of these separate 
inspections by the same agency lead 
me to believe that more specific 
guidelines are needed to help these 
agencies understand the activities vital 
to cranberry agriculture." 

Restrain the Regulators 

PLYMOUTH CRANBERRY GROWER 
Evan Shulman told the committee this 
act was needed to "restrain the 
regulators so that the family owned 
cranberry farm, which does so much for 
the economy and scenic beauty of 
Massachusetts, can continue to do what 
it does best." 

His own experience with bureaucratic 
entanglement started with 
seeking permission to rennovate a one 
acre reservoir. 

"We also applied at that time to put 
a 100 yard length of farm road over 
part of our bog in order to keep our 
farm equipment off the public roads," 
he said. "We undertook to replace the 
wetlands so disturbed. These are small 
projects, all of which occur on our land 
and all of which are a normal part of 
farm maintenance. 

"When this project was last heard of, 
a Dianne Baritos of the DEP in 
Lakeville told us that we need to supply 

a plan of the area, with contours; we 

must delineate the wetlands and the 
100 year flood plain line. The plan must 
be prepared by a registered engineer. 
Further, we need a report from a 
certified wildlife biologist," Shulman 

said. "All this to reactivate a one acre 

reservoir? This isn't environmental 
protection, this is economic sabotage." 

GROWER THOMAS A. GELSTHORPE 
registered emphatic support of the bill 
which confirms "the legality of practices 
which have been respected by both law 
and custom since the dawn of history." 

Addressing the committee, he said, 
"When regulations empower local 
conservation commissions to harass a 
farmer for mowing, brushcutting, 
spraying and other routine operations, 
things have gone too far . . . What is 
sensible can hardly be discussed when 
farmers have their energies drained 
away by state power used mischievously 
by people in the thrall of a reactionary 
millenarian fantasy." 

Cons Corn in Turmoil 

SPEAKING FOR FARMERS IN PLYMOUTH 
County Farm Bureau, Jack Angley, 
president, speaking favorably for the 
bill said, "Not having well defined 
agricultural practices has even led to 
dissension among the ranks of various 
local commissions. 

ALSO SUPPORTING TIlE BILL WERE REP. 
Charles Decas, Sens. Erving Wall and 
Ned Kirby, Georgia Chamberlain, 

Rochester Conservation Commission, 

and Linda Rinta for the Plymouth 

County Conservation District. 

Plaagen CRANBERRIES J 1991une 


Ocean Spray to assess impact of 
WISCONSIN CRANBERRY fruit destroyed in fire 

HEADQUARTERS FOR Millions of pounds of cranberries 
w^SEVIN XLR COLBE /c were destroyed in a Madison, Wiscon-

Si~EVINI^ sU^ sin warehouse fire that broke out about

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before officials could enter the facility 

Cole / Grower Service and accurately determine the extent of 

the damage. 
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(608) 221-6204 or 1-800-362-8049 pounds of fruit stored in freezers at the 
Central Storage Warehouse where the 
fire occurred," Lawlor said. "By the 
middle of the week, we expect to know 
how much, if any, of the fruit can be 
saved."

saved."

J.A. JENKINS & SON CO. 
The fruit lost in the blaze, according 
Grovwer Service to Lawlor, iscovered by insurance. 

However, he said that the company will 
have to readjust its sales plans for the 
MOWING (ALL TYPES) DITCHING balance of the year to reflect the loss of 
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The cause of the fire is under inves-

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properly is the other half of the 
equation for good plant maintenance. 

For the next several months, we are 
going to take a look at lubrication 
theory and practice. Knowing the basics 
can help you to make wise choices 
based on sound knowledge. 

When I'm not doing much, I like to 
spend time tinkering around with 
antique cars. In my shop I just put the 
finishing touches of a new power plant

finishing touches of a new powser plant

those of jewels

f o orofnefor one hoseofjewels of yesterday, 
when in walks a mechanic friend of 
mine, telling me I should only use SAE 
30 nondetergent oil. That's because, he 
assures me, the babbitt used in the 
bearing surfaces requires old fashioned. 
oil. 
However, s th reom


e alesman 
mending a good grade (his grade) of 
multi-viscosity high detergent oil. 

"Not so," says the machine shop. 
"Withthat the engine won't operate at 

Page 18 CRANBERRIES June 1991 

the proper temperature for multigrades filter every so often." 
to lubricate properly." He would use To this very day I have yet to I 
single viscosity detergent oil 30 W in in my new engine, which still sit: 
summer and 20 W in winter. the workbench in a plastic bag. 

"They are all crazy," claims the expert to worry, for when we are finish 
of experts down the street. "You should this series, I'm sure I'll have the 
use Super Series III with Mystery Oil." answer. 

(He ought to know because he fixes fire NOTE: CRANBERIES is especi
engines and, besides, his uncle ran a thankful to Ray Covino andBob


car like that for 100,000 miles before it Tombergforprovidingresearcht)
needed an oil change.) "Yessir," he for this series.
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Should Northland exercise its 
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million in cash, notes and Northland 
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The cranberry marshes include the 
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CCI has ALL the |1 (Continuedfrompage 10.) 
11hasL Ate THEY FIGHT IN THE SPRING THE MOST,
software for the but they fight all during the time they 
cranberry industry. are active. I once caught two males 

fighting in mid-October, two weeks 
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HBI?t r Ismall, muddy, "warm" spring brook 
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place to lay up for the early winter. 
When they lay up for the winter you 
often find anywhere from half a dozen 
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the water to come back, rather than 
spaced out more evenly around the 
pond. I once stood in one spot in a 
^^^ICRANLAN^~IMD Idried up pond, less than an acre in size 
ff1 RII ISt-P l e and pulled up 32 snapping turtles 
S E VI S without having to move my feet!) So 
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ranberry until next spring. But here were these

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settle back out on the lake all summer 
Listings and Sales of long. They were almost exactly matched 
Cranberry Properties. for fighting weight, so maybe this had 
License # 68987 been a long ongoing thing with them. 
Not just the one on the bottom, but both 
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his own. Every once in a while he lets 
The both their heads come up toward the 
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Company surface, he stops. He breathes a while, 
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they fought. I got the binoculars out and 
watched to see how far they would go 

before one gave up and they broke off. 
They were almost out of sight around 
the next bend toward Chicopee before 
they quit fighting. 
I've never seen snappers kill each 
other in deep water. In deep water 
(anything over knee deep), they roll 
around, roll around, first one on top 

then the other, and with their long 
necks, great strength and flexibility of 
movement, it's too hard for one to keep 

the other one under long enough to 
drown him. They may sink to the bottom 

and continue to fight, but eventually 
they both have to break off and come up 
for air. 

SNAPPERS GROW FAST-FASTER THAN I 
or anybody I know of thought they did 
back when I first started catching them, 

marking them, then stocking them back 

in and watching to see how fast they 
would grow. In the better ponds I've got 
eight year old males who were already 
20 to 22 pounds; 10 and 12 year olds up 
in the low 30's. They they slow down 

after that. I've marked 5 pounders who 
were 12 pounders in two years. That's 
three and a half pounds a year! 

Male snappers grow much bigger 
than females: about two and a half 

times bigger. If your average female 
weighs 10 pounds, your average adult 
males will run 20 to 25 pounds. This is 
a little small, however, for most good 
snapper water. In most waters the 
females will average in the low to 
mid-teens and the males from the 

mid-twenties to the mid-thirties. The 
biggest males will run from the 
mid-thirties to about 50 pounds in the 

very best waters. Then you will get 
giants. Out of 86 or 87 thousand 
"keeping size" snappers, I've only 
caught eight that were over 60 pounds. 
All males. The three biggest were a 69 
pounder in the later sixties, a 72 
pounder in '71, and the world record I 
caught in 1988, who weighed in 
officially at 67 pounds, but weighed 68 

pounds, 6 ounces when I first caught 
him. I waited too long-five weeks-to 
weigh him in. 

TIIlE 72 AND 69 POUNDERS I MADE A BIG 
mistake on. I didn't know they would 

CRANBERRIES June 1991 Page 21 


have been world records. (The old 
record was 65 pounds, out of 
Minnesota.) I took those two and 
stocked them in other lakes where I 
thought they might be happier because 
I'd taken so many more turtles out of 
those waters. That was the big mistake. 
I never saw either one again. I hope 
they didn't get killed trying to make 
their way back home, or by a stronger 
male in the new lakes who was on his 
own turf. Now I never move old males 
or females because they don't stay put. 

THE THREE BIGGEST FEMALES I EVER 
caught were, first, two in the low thiries: 
one 32 pounds, and the other one 
about that. I forget exactly. The other 
one I took a picture of on the scale 
because she had to have been the world 
record female, far bigger than any of 
the others: 42 pounds! The lake she 
came out of produced two of the eight 
snappers I've caught over 60 pounds. 

A snapping turtle never gives up once1 
it takes a mind to do something. If you 
see one starting, aiming, to cross a 
highway, and you fear for its safety, 
don't pick it up and put it back where it 
was coming from. Carry it safely across 
the highway in the direction it wanted 
to go. Otherwise it's only going to turn 
around and start back across the 

g d and star

bac acoss te

highway again as soon as you leave. It 
might lie there muttering at you for 
interfering with the free exercise of its 
rights for awhile, but once it's satisfied 
you pesky meddlers are gone, it will be 
heading right back out toward those 
trucks again. it will even snap at them 
as they go by; even at the tires just 
before they crush it. 

I'VE SEEN SNAPPERS WIIOSE SHELLS 
were smashed by vehicles, and still they 
crawled across the road. They are very 
admirable animals. Their indomitable 
vitality and their never-say-die spirit has 
been one of the few inspirations inmy 
life. On the inside I've become to a 
large extent like them, because I 
personally like them so much. I will 
never change, either. You do get to be 
like the people you live with, and I've 
lived with the snappers longer than I've 
ever lived with any one human being. 

I'D LIKE TO OWN A FOUR WIIEEL DRIVE 
pick-up that, pound for pound, is as 

Page 22 CRANBERRIES June 1991 

tough as a snapper. Snappers are more survivors; winners in the struggle to 
than tank-tough. If the army had 60-ton survive. They were here when the 
tanks that were as tough as a snapper, dinosaurs were here, and I have no 
they sure wouldn't need too many of doubt they will still be here after we're 
them. They are not only tough, they're gone. 

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