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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio5558port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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Exhibition of equii)meiit, old and new iniiii-teil j^i "W fi.-, .it l',(la\illi' and here is shown looking over a Western (left) and Darlington pickers is M. E. Johnstcn cf the Bahamas, director of a group of 80 laborers from that British possession to assist local help in harvesting. England-born, Mr. Johnston has spent five years in the islands and several in New York. This particular group came to Cape Cod directly from Minnesota, where the men were engaged in the corn harvest. (Cranberries Photo) like cranberry bogs except many bogs do not have a one percent slope or it is in the wrong direct- ion. In the apple orchard it was necessary to put in some manholes to connect the different lines and for irrigation. The cranberry grower is fortunate in that he does not have the principal cost or maintanence of manholes. "Orangeburg" has been used by some growers for drainage of cj-anberry bogs and could be used more extensively. Mr. Fitzgerald, the orchardist mentioned in the Fami Journal story, found the roots in the wet section were very shallow and it was necessary to irrigate that part of the orchard which had been drained. In general this will be true for cranberry growers. How ever, if the drainage is done early in the season it may be that cran- berry roots will grow enough to keep the vines supplied with moist- ure. All growers who used plas- tic tubing in the spring of 1955 were able to grow good vines with- out any "drying up" in the hot season. It has now been shown that plastic tubing and "Orangeburg" pipes are excellent for drainage and irrigation and cranberry grow- ers should use one or both of these to improve drainage, irrigation, yield of fruit, and quality of fruit. Cuts Mass. Crop October Estimate Cranberry production for Mas- sachusetts was cut in the USDA October 13th estimate from pre- liminary forecast of 610,000 bar- rels to 560,000. Report stated, "With harvesting about two-thirds completed on October 1 the effects of the flooding rains accompanying hurricanes "Connie" and "Diane" could be more fully appraised than on September 1 and the Massachu- setts cranberry crop is now foi'e- cast at 560,000. Production last season totalled 590,000 while the 10-year average production is 510,- 700 barrels. More berries than usual are being culled out because of soft-rot caused by sun-scalding and too much standing water. September weather was generally favorable for harvesting as rains and flooding for frosts did not interfere seriously with harvest operations on most bogs. Berries are only medium in size but, after screening for soft berries, are expected to have good keeping quality." The New Jersey crop is still estimated at 96,000 barrels, 10 percent above 1954 and 17 percent above average. Wisconsin is esti- mated the same as preliminary, 315,000, "berries of good quality and expected to keep well." Wash- ington is upped from 58,200 to 65,400, while Oregon remains sta- tionary at 32,500. Report says harvest on the West Coast is at least two weeks later than usual and quality is good but berries are smaller than usual. Fifteen

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