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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio5355port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Hurricane Injury By F. B. Chandler The Cape region has just had its third and fourth hurricanes. A number of research workers have made observations following the first two storms and Dr. Bergman has made many salt determinations from previous storms. This article is to present some of the kinds of hurricane injury to cranberry bogs and to illustrate some of these with pictures taken inimediately after Hurricane "Carol". Also to give some indication of the salt contents of water on the bogs or in the ditches and reservoirs after this storm. The injury most generally dis- tributed yet causing the least damage for the grower and prob- ably the least decrease in the Mas- sachusetts crop is wind injury or knocking the berries off. Wind damage may be found on many to Cranberry Bogs bogs which did not receive water damage. Water damage to vines may be considered under a number of dif- ferent heads. The rush of water from the hurricanes wave may remove some of the berries and in a few cases the entire crop may be washed from the vines on part of a bog. In a few cases the rushing water may get under the roots and turn the cranberry sod upside down (see Figure 1). When water does mechanical dam- age it usually buries the vines with cranberry trash or sand from the dike (see Figures 2 and 3). Vines The above refers to the injury which usually occurs at the first of the flooding. There is a smothering of the vines if the water remains on too long, that is, over 36 hours. The points mentioned so far could be caused by water, fresh or salt, and Hiost people are interested in the effect of the salt water. The action of the salt may be considered as physiological and its effect may be expected to be related to its concentration. The water samples collected from bogs and bog ditches following the hurricane contained from well over one half of sea water to only about one- sixteenth of sea water, see Table. The great variation is due to the different amounts of fresh water mixed with salt water before it got to the bog. The real injury results from the salt absorbed by the plant. If the soil is wet, as it was since we had over an inch of rain previous to the tidal wave, the salt water will penetrate only slightly or not at all into the loot zone. Therefore it would be possible for very salty water to cover the bog and then drain off with very little entering the soil. From this is evident that the spots in the bogs that do not drain
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FIG. 1. The Smith Hammond Company Un&ei, Bog. The water luoliing ovei thia dike washed under the cranberry sod and rolled it over. Also note erosion near flume. Figure 3 was taken from this dike. (All photos by Dr. Chandler) Seven

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