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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6668port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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Cranberries Visits New Jersey's Researcli Center at Osweoo by DONALD CHARTIER One of the highlights of our recent visit to the New Jersey cranberry growing areas was a visit to the Blueberry-Cranberry Research Center at Oswego. This new facility, having been dedicated in August of 1965, is dedicated to the improvement of blueberry and cranberry cul- ture through research and to the dissemination of new re- search information. After a very short but very interesting visit with Mr. Phil Marucci, head of the Cranberry and Blueberry Research Lab in New Lisbon, we began, tape recorder in hand, our journey of about ten miles to the Os- wego site of the new research center. Phil carefully saw to it that we didn't miss a thing on our way to Oswego. He pointed out the Haynes and DeMarco bogs and filled us in on many interesting facts about the vast blueberry fields we passed along the way. As mentioned earlier, we had a portable tape recorder alcng with us, which proved to be in- valuable since we were often on the road between locations and could have been unable to make hand written notes. Phil and his assistant at the New Lisbon Lab, Harry Moulter kept us constantly on the move during our two-day visit, meet- ing bog owners and looking over cranberry and blueberry properties. As we turned off the main road onto a well-paved side road which was to lead to the research center we were im- pressed with the layout and location of the bogs adjacent to Lake Oswego. The bogs are located on the state-owned Wharton tract in Burlington County which rep- resents the approximate geo- graphical center of the blue- berry-cranberry industries in the state of New Jersey. Soils, chmate and water reserves in this area are considered among the best available in the state for the production of these crops. The facility was made pos- sible through a generous grant from the people of New Jersey and is a tribute to the leaders of these industries in recog- nition of their contribution of time, eft'ort and monies. The following is a trans- cript of the contents of the tapes which we made on our visit to Oswego. There are twenty bogs, each consisiting of a half acre with a dike road n.mning around them and also dividing each bog. Each bog has its own inlet and water can be regulated at bLUE.fctR.R.Y-^RANBtliaY R.ESUILCH aWTtR. • OSWt^O 3c A.i_e ZOO'-O
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