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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio4547port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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CRANBERRIES PHOTO cide to put into effect, with berries selling at the prices they have been. A firm believer in the va'ue of sand, as these bogs have been rested for the year, he is to give them good coats of sand. He has sanded considerably already, and prefers to do it directly on the vines. Ice sanding is not the rule in Jersey, as winters are usually too mild, but when ice is available he makes use of it. Last year he got 60 acres sanded by this meth- od. He holds it is better to do ice sanding than none at all. He is sanding more heavi'y (2 inches) than is ordinary Jersey custom in the past. As rapidly as the bogs are m improved shape from the "water cure," and from present sandings, he plans to be able to stick to a regular resanding program for all acreage, at least once in every five years. Sand is supplied from a single pit, and it means a haul of a mile and a half to the bogs. His supply is of good qua'ity, although most Jersey sand is finer than that preferred in Massachusetts or Wis- consin. One method he is using to com- THE BUDD HOMESTEAD, PEMBEETON bat the grass so common on Jer- sey bog is by using a grass clipper which is six feet wide and is car- ried by a man at each end, this being operated by an electric mo- tor from power generated in a truck on shore and carried out to the moving clipper by a cable. This is a device developed by Isaac Harrison (CRANBERRIES, Jan- uary, 1945). In mowing around the shore and on dikes, Mr. Budd uses horses, which is a sight not seen on many, if any, Massachusetts bogs. Dusts by Airplane Making sharp contrast to this practice which, though efficient, smacks of an earlier day, is Mr. Budd's intensive use of airplanes for dusting. He was the first to make extensive use of this thor- oughly modem method. No Mas- sachusetts growers now dust by air, although experiments were conducted severa" years ago. Mas- sachusetts bogs, with the more irregular shape and wooded "pockets" or bays, made the use more difficult. However, several larger growers of New Jersey have found the use of airplanes sufficiently practical and econom- ical to make it a regular practice. This year he dusted 28 acres with Fermate for control of fungi; 200 acres with pyrethrum for blunt-nosed 'eafhopper; and 200 with arsenate of lead for blossom worm. No one in Jersey with his posi- tion and background, is better qualified to obsex've the Jersey sit- uation with judgment and to base a sound opinion upon the future than Mr. Budd. And Mr. Budd does not minimize the seriousness of the combination of difficulties with which Jersey is faced. He has experienced these difficulties and so knows of them first hand. He admits that Jersey has a tough road to hoe to get production up again to where it may be consid- ered satisfactory. He considers ROBERT LENARI Real Esiator Reed Avenue - • Manotnet, Mass. Tel. Manomet 44-R Specializingr in the Purchase and Sale of Cranberry Properties

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