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Ii Plastic netting for suction boxes 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. ISSN: 0011-0787 primarymeans of support for 40 years. Story begins on page 7. Postmaster, send Form 3749 to: (MassachusettsWildlife photo by Dan McGuinness.) CRANBERRIES P.O. BOX 858 SOUTH CARVER, MA 02366 Plymouth Copters, Ltd. fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides applied to grower's specifications - MudLifting CranberryLifting MatsAvailable \ I Agricultural Applications * Lift Work * Executive Charters * Aerial Photography, Including Infrared Bill Chamberlain Plymouth Airport (508) 746-6030 Box 3446 Plymouth, MA 02361 Page 6 CRANBERRIES June 1991 Fruitrot. No threat. It's hard enough to bring in a good cranberry crop without the threat of fruit rot diseases. That's why cranberry growers are turning to a better way to control fruit rot. Bravo 720. Bravo delivers consistent, first-rate control of all the major fruit rot diseases that threaten cranberries. Plus leaf and twig blight (Lophodermium), too. And that's backed by more than eight years of testing which show that Bravo 720 is more effective on fruit rot diseases than all other fungicides. What's more, Bravo won't adversely affect fruit color. And remember, you can apply Bravo with con ventional spray equipment or through sprinkler irrigation. The advanced flowable formulation of Bravo 720 is easy to handle, easy to mix. So, this season, use Bravo 720 to protect your cranberry crop from fruit rot diseases. Just make your first spray at early bloom and stick to a regular 10-to 14-day schedule. End the threat of these fruit rot diseases and bring in a bigger yield come harvest. Bravo. Because you give it all you've got. ; ISK Biotech Corporation, 5966 Heisley Road, P.O. Box 8000, Mentor, OH 44061-8000. Always follow label directions carefully when using agricultural Bn~~~~~~~~ 720. /z~chemicals, LEITER TO THE EDITOR Wisconsin weeder made from file to grip weeds. Benefits of bloom fungicide applications can outweigh the risks BAILEYPUMPS In the "Cranberry Pest Management in Wisconsin 1991 Revisions" article published in the CRANBERRIES May 1991 issue, recommendations for fruit rot control fungicide timing have stirred concerns from growers in other growing areas regarding harmful effects of chlorothalonil (BRAVO products) on bloom. I would like to reemphasize that these recommendations are for Wisconsin only. The fungicide timing reported in the article is appropriate only for the low disease pressure and environmental conditions commonly * The original open centrifugal encountered in Wisconsin. pump used extensively by cran- As far as flower injury, resulting in lower yields, with berry growers for irrigation and drainage for more than 70 years. chlorothalonil applications made during bloom, five years of g research in several growing regions have shown that injury is not a | Capacity from 2,000 to 16,000 common occurrence. When injury was observed following a G.P.M. chlorothalonil application, adverse environmental and application conditions were often implicated as contributing factors. Application | Casing Type: Stock sizes 10", 14" 16" and 20". conditions to avoid include: very high temperatures during or 14 and following applications; high application rates in conjunction with low | Less expensive type for lower water gallonage; and water stress conditions. lifts, without casing. Stock sizes Over the last two years, ISK.Biotech Co. (formerly Fermenta 6, 9", 12" and 17". Plant Protection) has been conducting studies in Wisconsin to address the issue of potential crop injury with bloom applications and to determine which factors are at fault. These studies did not ELECTRONIC DIGITAL demonstrate the injury observed in research conducted by Dr. METERS Jeffers. The application of any pesticide to any crop can pose a crop injury risk. However, management practices should be looked at as a balance between risks and benefits of implementation. In areas where fruit rot disease pressure is high, the benefits of bloom fungicide applications are great and often out weight the risks. Reasonable steps should always be taken to minimize the potential Announcing new improved com puter modules. Now featuring for pesticide phytotoxicity. field replaceable batteries and ___I_____ _____ Chuck Kusek moisture proof encapsulation to _ ~ Crop Protection Specialist -Pathology greatly enhance quality and A 4-tine weeder used in Massachusetts, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. r where the weeds are large. reliability. Readers are encouraged to respond to CRANBERRIES articles, and offer views and analysis of cranberry industry trends and issues. Write to:r Carolyn Gilmore, Editor Lakeview St. CRANBERRIES, P.O. Box 858 I|= South Carver, MA 02366 South Carver, MA 02366 (508) 866-9371 (508) 866-4052 (answeringmachine) [FAX: (508) 866-2970] A New Jersey weeder CRANBERRIES June 1991 Page 7 ..2.. ... ................... s.u nnie and s it walkedgillstha tI've mosthe ............. .;......... i....observed i ;.. thseem doing what I call hey ...;.. i................. ;D:.:'... "head..catching." I've only s eenone >A-l~l·; lllll i.2it t·hadF,,' ,., , . 4~.Jr^J^~~~~:nui , ff i.U. i>>. j>a^ l!illll:l;^j"·ac w^-0 ^ ^yl ^tre0^+0d0.0000-'^0$04X·w0+; 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- Etie ingtrte 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 Bil cbyah. l dmand (Massachusetts Wildlife photo by Bill Byne) 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. 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Waste Land Court surveys. * Water supply. and disposal systems. * Wetlands boundaries. · Sanitary sewer pumping facilities. * Plot plans. · Irrigation and flood control. · Storm water management * Pumping facilities. systems. • Land reclamation and · Water supply and distribution O soil conservation. systems. * Construction bid document · Waterfront structures. preparation. * * Construction coordination and Environmental studies. · Percolation tests. control. · Subsurface sewage disposal * Contract selection and systems. *Waterways licenses. negotiation. * Site plans. *· Aerial photography. · Wetland filings. · Wetlands filings. · Wetlands restoration. · Construction supervision. · Legal descriptions of land. · Construction management. · Earth removal permits. 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- 6) Check ^~~~~~~~~~6)Check |~^ness isbad enough. Don't ~:[i make matters worse by not 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 Percent Percent Percent Weight ^^Farm MARKW SYLV I Treatment fieldu.^ rot. foragerot. total r(ot p.qrrv g ^11^ •Cape Cod & the Islands Agent 1 29 a o. 8 a 3.8 a 1.15 1 Family 41 Iyanough Rd./Rte. 28 2 6.4 ab 1.8 a 8.2 ab 1.09 3 4.3 a 0.7 a 5.o a 1.18 Insurance Companies HyannisMA 02601 | 43 5.41.79ab a 7.6 ab 1.01. l® l^ |I15 (508) 775-7131 5 2.7 a 1.5 a 4.2 a 1.15 (0 _6 7 ._3 b O 9 a 8.2 b 1.44 A Farm Bureau Insurance Service 1 (800) 675-7131 Page 12 CRANBERRIESJunte 1991 Kenneth Olson Charles R. Nelson, CLU New York Life New York Life P.O. Box 100 3610 Oakwood Mall Drive Black River Falls, WI 54615 Eau Claire, WI 54701 Bus. (715) 284-5168 Bus. (715) 834-4174 Family estate planning has been very important to cranberry growers in recent years. 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 with growers in Wisconsin as well as in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Thanks to their friends in Cranberryland, they are both members of the company's Chairman's Council, which represents the top 250 agents from a total agency force of 11,000. Thermo Water Management Inc. Engineering & Scientific Services for CranberryGrowers Upland Bog/Water Supply Design *Wetlands Permitting Services /. 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Grove Street Contact: Jeff Rose Toms River, NJ 08753 Middleboro, MA 02346 (formerly with the USDA/SCS) Contact: Don Flett Contact: Lisa Hendrickson (508) 947-3514 (201) 349-3121 (508) 946-4488 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 Page 14 CRANBERRIES June 1991 Irrigation Equipment DesignedEspecially for the Cranberry Industry WEMCO -Water Harvest Pump SPRINKLERS -RainBird -Nelson PUMPS -Berkeley -Cornell-Gorman -WeatherTec -Western Rupp -Gould -Myers -Brass Impact Sprinklers Electric -Engine Drivers WEBSTER QUICK COUPLERS LOW LIFT PUMPS w/RISERS -Proven! $ To save $ on your irrigation products, call us collect for prices. A Most Complete Inventory of Irrigation Accessories \ xrIRRIGATION / SNOWMAKING ': .. ... ...Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 (617) 862-2550 Ii! : . ::~:i:: Larchmont Lane -" ii P.O. . 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Hammond noted, with some irony, that "the by-pass canal project, will when completed, provide for better management of flood waters, as well as improve surface water quality by eliminating the potential for contamin- ation of surface water by agricultural chemicals. Even with these environ- mental pluses this project has been unreasonably delayed. ." 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 X~LR ^^~ ~ 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 3rd. DEVRINOL 10G * EVITAL * GUTHION /~ John Lawlor, an Ocean Spray spokes- DIAZINON 14G * PARATHION * ETHREL man, said it would be later in the week before officials could enter the facility Cole / Grower Service and accurately determine the extent of the damage. 537 Atlas Ave., P.O. Box 721 1, Madison, WI 53707 "We have approximately five million (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 SMALL BOG RENOVATIONS SANDING fruit. The cause of the fire is under inves- C~ _tigation. In addition to cranberries, the Servirz~~g.Cape^~ fire also destroyed surplus butter and cheese as well as other retail foods such Serving Cape Cod 227 Pine St., W. Barnstable, Ma. 02668 as meat and produce. The butter, in fact, hampered fire fighting efforts by fueling Jft k~^' k^.^^ |S^^^~~the conflagration. Steady weekend rains added to the problems while crews worked to block the flow of a potentially Phone 3 2-6018 environmentally dangerous mixture of melted butter, lard and cheese from reaching nearby Starkweather Creek and Lake Monona, according to published reports. Ocean Spray stores frozen cran berries at five other facilities in the upper Midwest and at other facilities nationwide. The frozen fruit is used for ^ ^Grave^ l &t l aSand juices and other processed products. 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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. 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If you dig (508) 747-3033 down under the mud when a pond has Call Now For More dried up, you will often find them piled Information! up on top of one another, waiting for 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 CranberryProprty normally fighting's over and done with ranberry until next spring. But here were these Propery Appraisals two, trying to maybe finally settle once ^^* * * * * * |and for all, what perhaps they couldn't 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 . Pin had tell-tale white blotches on the backs Lawrence W. Pink of their necks: the scars of recent battle. Old Cordwood Path Duxbury, MA 02332 TIlE WATER CANT BE TOO DEEP IF ONE (617) 934-6076 |snapper is going to kill the other. The snapper on top holds the other snap- per's head under the water along with his own. Every once in a while he lets The both their heads come up toward the surface-very carefully, very slowly. Just CHARLES W. HARRIS as soon as his own nostrils clear the Company surface, he stops. He breathes a while, 451t AOld Som then he pushes both their heads back 451 Old Somerset Avenuee th Dghtn 0276 down under again, and keeps repeating Ma NPhone (5089 824-5607 until the other drowns. I think the n |this PoE (508824most snappers I've found in one dayAMES like that was three or four, in a swamp Antisyphon Devices in New Jersey. Every time, every time RAINBIRD without exception, that I've found a Sprinklers fresh-killed snapper, I've found another HALE big snapper right away. 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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. 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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 |
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Transcript | THE NATIONAL CRANBERRY MAGAZINE /4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: Vol. 55, No. 6 Est. 1936 June 1991 The king of turtle hunters on the king of turtles :i:~~~~~~~~~~~4 Bay State farmers seek legislative protection from regulators AMillions of pounds of cranberries lost to IMadison fire 1>~~~~~~~~~~~~~F C JACK pOTTER POTTER CRANBERRY C RR2 BOX 16 WARRENS WI 54666 BioSafe -N Effective, natural control for root weevil and cranberrygirdler larvae BioSafe-N kills root weevils .I control of root weevils are and girdler larvae before ' l mid-April through May they complete their cycle /B and again mid-September of destruction. It is the only through October. For con- effective larvicide available . ^ trol of cranberry girdler, against black vine weevil, apply BioSafe-N mid-July strawberry root weevil, and Black Vine Weevil through September. cranberry girdler. 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Ii Plastic netting for suction boxes 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. ISSN: 0011-0787 primarymeans of support for 40 years. Story begins on page 7. Postmaster, send Form 3749 to: (MassachusettsWildlife photo by Dan McGuinness.) CRANBERRIES P.O. BOX 858 SOUTH CARVER, MA 02366 Plymouth Copters, Ltd. fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides applied to grower's specifications - MudLifting CranberryLifting MatsAvailable \ I Agricultural Applications * Lift Work * Executive Charters * Aerial Photography, Including Infrared Bill Chamberlain Plymouth Airport (508) 746-6030 Box 3446 Plymouth, MA 02361 Page 6 CRANBERRIES June 1991 Fruitrot. No threat. It's hard enough to bring in a good cranberry crop without the threat of fruit rot diseases. That's why cranberry growers are turning to a better way to control fruit rot. Bravo 720. Bravo delivers consistent, first-rate control of all the major fruit rot diseases that threaten cranberries. Plus leaf and twig blight (Lophodermium), too. And that's backed by more than eight years of testing which show that Bravo 720 is more effective on fruit rot diseases than all other fungicides. What's more, Bravo won't adversely affect fruit color. And remember, you can apply Bravo with con ventional spray equipment or through sprinkler irrigation. The advanced flowable formulation of Bravo 720 is easy to handle, easy to mix. So, this season, use Bravo 720 to protect your cranberry crop from fruit rot diseases. Just make your first spray at early bloom and stick to a regular 10-to 14-day schedule. End the threat of these fruit rot diseases and bring in a bigger yield come harvest. Bravo. Because you give it all you've got. ; ISK Biotech Corporation, 5966 Heisley Road, P.O. Box 8000, Mentor, OH 44061-8000. Always follow label directions carefully when using agricultural Bn~~~~~~~~ 720. /z~chemicals, LEITER TO THE EDITOR Wisconsin weeder made from file to grip weeds. Benefits of bloom fungicide applications can outweigh the risks BAILEYPUMPS In the "Cranberry Pest Management in Wisconsin 1991 Revisions" article published in the CRANBERRIES May 1991 issue, recommendations for fruit rot control fungicide timing have stirred concerns from growers in other growing areas regarding harmful effects of chlorothalonil (BRAVO products) on bloom. I would like to reemphasize that these recommendations are for Wisconsin only. The fungicide timing reported in the article is appropriate only for the low disease pressure and environmental conditions commonly * The original open centrifugal encountered in Wisconsin. pump used extensively by cran- As far as flower injury, resulting in lower yields, with berry growers for irrigation and drainage for more than 70 years. chlorothalonil applications made during bloom, five years of g research in several growing regions have shown that injury is not a | Capacity from 2,000 to 16,000 common occurrence. When injury was observed following a G.P.M. chlorothalonil application, adverse environmental and application conditions were often implicated as contributing factors. Application | Casing Type: Stock sizes 10", 14" 16" and 20". conditions to avoid include: very high temperatures during or 14 and following applications; high application rates in conjunction with low | Less expensive type for lower water gallonage; and water stress conditions. lifts, without casing. Stock sizes Over the last two years, ISK.Biotech Co. (formerly Fermenta 6, 9", 12" and 17". Plant Protection) has been conducting studies in Wisconsin to address the issue of potential crop injury with bloom applications and to determine which factors are at fault. These studies did not ELECTRONIC DIGITAL demonstrate the injury observed in research conducted by Dr. METERS Jeffers. The application of any pesticide to any crop can pose a crop injury risk. However, management practices should be looked at as a balance between risks and benefits of implementation. In areas where fruit rot disease pressure is high, the benefits of bloom fungicide applications are great and often out weight the risks. Reasonable steps should always be taken to minimize the potential Announcing new improved com puter modules. Now featuring for pesticide phytotoxicity. field replaceable batteries and ___I_____ _____ Chuck Kusek moisture proof encapsulation to _ ~ Crop Protection Specialist -Pathology greatly enhance quality and A 4-tine weeder used in Massachusetts, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. r where the weeds are large. reliability. Readers are encouraged to respond to CRANBERRIES articles, and offer views and analysis of cranberry industry trends and issues. Write to:r Carolyn Gilmore, Editor Lakeview St. CRANBERRIES, P.O. Box 858 I|= South Carver, MA 02366 South Carver, MA 02366 (508) 866-9371 (508) 866-4052 (answeringmachine) [FAX: (508) 866-2970] A New Jersey weeder CRANBERRIES June 1991 Page 7 ..2.. ... ................... s.u nnie and s it walkedgillstha tI've mosthe ............. .;......... i....observed i ;.. thseem doing what I call hey ...;.. i................. ;D:.:'... "head..catching." I've only s eenone >A-l~l·; lllll i.2it t·hadF,,' ,., , . 4~.Jr^J^~~~~:nui , ff i.U. i>>. j>a^ l!illll:l;^j"·ac w^-0 ^ ^yl ^tre0^+0d0.0000-'^0$04X·w0+; 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- Etie ingtrte 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 Bil cbyah. l dmand (Massachusetts Wildlife photo by Bill Byne) 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.) Vines For Sal PILGRIMS STEVENS S BEN LEARS BERGMANS CROWLEYS 11280 Mellis Drive Richmond, B.C. Richmo nd,B.C. CALL: (604) 273-0777 CALL: (604) 273-0777 V6X1L7 Canada FAX (604) 273-7856 , VOLM BAG OMPANY, INC. BAG COMPANY IC 1804 EDISON ST. BOX B, ANTIGO, WIS. 54409-0116 P SUPPLYING AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS BRAVO -SEVIN -FUNGINEX -ORTHENE CASORON -GUTHION -DEVRINOL -PARATHION AND DELIVERING A COMPLETE LINE OF FERTILIZER WITH FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE!!! 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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- 6) Check ^~~~~~~~~~6)Check |~^ness isbad enough. Don't ~:[i make matters worse by not 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 Percent Percent Percent Weight ^^Farm MARKW SYLV I Treatment fieldu.^ rot. foragerot. total r(ot p.qrrv g ^11^ •Cape Cod & the Islands Agent 1 29 a o. 8 a 3.8 a 1.15 1 Family 41 Iyanough Rd./Rte. 28 2 6.4 ab 1.8 a 8.2 ab 1.09 3 4.3 a 0.7 a 5.o a 1.18 Insurance Companies HyannisMA 02601 | 43 5.41.79ab a 7.6 ab 1.01. l® l^ |I15 (508) 775-7131 5 2.7 a 1.5 a 4.2 a 1.15 (0 _6 7 ._3 b O 9 a 8.2 b 1.44 A Farm Bureau Insurance Service 1 (800) 675-7131 Page 12 CRANBERRIESJunte 1991 Kenneth Olson Charles R. Nelson, CLU New York Life New York Life P.O. Box 100 3610 Oakwood Mall Drive Black River Falls, WI 54615 Eau Claire, WI 54701 Bus. (715) 284-5168 Bus. (715) 834-4174 Family estate planning has been very important to cranberry growers in recent years. 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Grove Street Contact: Jeff Rose Toms River, NJ 08753 Middleboro, MA 02346 (formerly with the USDA/SCS) Contact: Don Flett Contact: Lisa Hendrickson (508) 947-3514 (201) 349-3121 (508) 946-4488 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 Page 14 CRANBERRIES June 1991 Irrigation Equipment DesignedEspecially for the Cranberry Industry WEMCO -Water Harvest Pump SPRINKLERS -RainBird -Nelson PUMPS -Berkeley -Cornell-Gorman -WeatherTec -Western Rupp -Gould -Myers -Brass Impact Sprinklers Electric -Engine Drivers WEBSTER QUICK COUPLERS LOW LIFT PUMPS w/RISERS -Proven! $ To save $ on your irrigation products, call us collect for prices. A Most Complete Inventory of Irrigation Accessories \ xrIRRIGATION / SNOWMAKING ': .. ... ...Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 (617) 862-2550 Ii! : . ::~:i:: Larchmont Lane -" ii P.O. . 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Hammond noted, with some irony, that "the by-pass canal project, will when completed, provide for better management of flood waters, as well as improve surface water quality by eliminating the potential for contamin- ation of surface water by agricultural chemicals. Even with these environ- mental pluses this project has been unreasonably delayed. ." 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 X~LR ^^~ ~ 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 3rd. DEVRINOL 10G * EVITAL * GUTHION /~ John Lawlor, an Ocean Spray spokes- DIAZINON 14G * PARATHION * ETHREL man, said it would be later in the week before officials could enter the facility Cole / Grower Service and accurately determine the extent of the damage. 537 Atlas Ave., P.O. Box 721 1, Madison, WI 53707 "We have approximately five million (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 SMALL BOG RENOVATIONS SANDING fruit. The cause of the fire is under inves- C~ _tigation. In addition to cranberries, the Servirz~~g.Cape^~ fire also destroyed surplus butter and cheese as well as other retail foods such Serving Cape Cod 227 Pine St., W. Barnstable, Ma. 02668 as meat and produce. The butter, in fact, hampered fire fighting efforts by fueling Jft k~^' k^.^^ |S^^^~~the conflagration. Steady weekend rains added to the problems while crews worked to block the flow of a potentially Phone 3 2-6018 environmentally dangerous mixture of melted butter, lard and cheese from reaching nearby Starkweather Creek and Lake Monona, according to published reports. Ocean Spray stores frozen cran berries at five other facilities in the upper Midwest and at other facilities nationwide. The frozen fruit is used for ^ ^Grave^ l &t l aSand juices and other processed products. 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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. puffed, "all he ever did was change the Next month: Basic theory. M DARMEX FOOD -GRADE NON -TOXIC LUBRICANTS For use where incidental food contact is possible. *Bearing Greases: NON-MELTING, WATERPROOF, LOW-TEMP, HIGH-TEMP. *Open Gear Grease: Extremely tacky, will not fling off. Gearbox Oils: Specially formulated to provide service, durability, and anti-wear protec yesterday , ^^ i p that industrial gearing requires. SAE 90 and SAE 140 viscosity respectively. General Lube Oils: AChoice of viscosities for a variety of applications including toolir cams, slides, ways, hydraulics, pumps, etc. DARMEX NON-TOXIClLUBRICAINITSaIlthouig manufacturedwith highlpurityUSDA is P.O. Box 223 Hingham, MA 02043 (617)740-4270 Northland has lease/purchase option on 2 marshes Northland Cranberries, Inc. has a lease and purchase option on two cranberry marshes in Jackson County near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Should Northland exercise its purchase option, the cost of the transaction will amount to some $3 million in cash, notes and Northland Cranberries common stock. The cranberry marshes include the 144-acre Crawford Creek, which has 55 vined acres and regulatory permits to plant another 10 acres. The undeveloped adjacent White Creek marsh is also part of the acquisition, a 150 acre parcel with permits for planting 30 acres in cranberries. 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We're large enough to serve you and yet. we offer personal- ized service which your business demands. Call us at 715- 284-5341 The Jackson County Bank. A name to count on throughout the years. I eAA^ A h A1.ADOUGLAS JACKSON COUNTY BANK Black Falls. Hixton. Merrillan. Taylor. WI54615 River Almi Center. Northland will operate Crawford Creek during the 1991 growing season as well as provide final site assessments and preliminary cranberry bed construction at White Creek. Northland expects to complete the purchase of both marshes within the coming year. The properties are being sold by White Creek Cranberry Corp. and Crawford Cranberry Co., Inc., owned by J.J. Normington, Peter Normington and Patricia Zieher, all of Black River Falls, and James Hewett, Floyd Hamus and Ronald Maurer of Marshfield, WI. All three cranberry companies are cooperative members of Ocean SprayInc. Cranberries, Inc. 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Box 1363 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 CUSTOM DESIGNED-ALL WEATHER-MULTI PURPOSE 313 761-5110 FAX 313 761-8659 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 For Growers Of All Sizes after they'd stopped feeding that year, For Chemical Applicators and Resellers For Handlers but were fighting up in the kind of HBI?t r Ismall, muddy, "warm" spring brook CLP^LQ?^ lo^ ~ where they'd be going to look for a place to lay up for the early winter. When they lay up for the winter you often find anywhere from half a dozen COMPUTER, INC. to twenty-five or more in one spot; U T R. Cnone of them fighting. (They also pile PO Box 1037, Plymouth MA 02360 up under drought conditions. If you dig (508) 747-3033 down under the mud when a pond has Call Now For More dried up, you will often find them piled Information! up on top of one another, waiting for 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 CranberryProprty normally fighting's over and done with ranberry until next spring. But here were these Propery Appraisals two, trying to maybe finally settle once ^^* * * * * * |and for all, what perhaps they couldn't 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 . Pin had tell-tale white blotches on the backs Lawrence W. Pink of their necks: the scars of recent battle. Old Cordwood Path Duxbury, MA 02332 TIlE WATER CANT BE TOO DEEP IF ONE (617) 934-6076 |snapper is going to kill the other. The snapper on top holds the other snap- per's head under the water along with his own. Every once in a while he lets The both their heads come up toward the surface-very carefully, very slowly. Just CHARLES W. HARRIS as soon as his own nostrils clear the Company surface, he stops. He breathes a while, 451t AOld Som then he pushes both their heads back 451 Old Somerset Avenuee th Dghtn 0276 down under again, and keeps repeating Ma NPhone (5089 824-5607 until the other drowns. I think the n |this PoE (508824most snappers I've found in one dayAMES like that was three or four, in a swamp Antisyphon Devices in New Jersey. Every time, every time RAINBIRD without exception, that I've found a Sprinklers fresh-killed snapper, I've found another HALE big snapper right away. Pumps A familiar tell-tale commotion on top Highest Quality Products of the water caught my eye one summer With Satisfaction Gurateed as I was crossing the Connecticut River near Northampton. I pulled over and watched two big snappers fighting and floating downstream with the current as 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. 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