Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio5860port (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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rmi" Airplane dusting was first tried in 1835, and toda from airplanes and helicopters protect cranberry bogs This disease, for several years now, in Massachusetts and New Jersey has been fairly well con- trolled. This was broug'ht about by Dr. Franklin's research, prov- 1 ing' the carrier of the false blos- som disease was the blunt nose leaf hopper. . In 1931, Dr. E. A. Richmond who who was employed by the Crop Protection Institute in coopera- tion with the East Wareham Ex- perimental Station, conducted tests using a mixture of dust to control insect infestation. Similar dusting experiments were carried on as early as 1921 in Massachu- setts with horse-drawn vehicles. However, at that time it did not pi'ove successful. The use of a dust mixture, rather than a spray insecticid'C control enaibled the Massachusetts and New Jersey growers to control the blunt nose leaf hopper carrying the disease, because they were able to dust in full bloom, when all of the leaf hoppers had hatched. In 1935 airplane dusting was tested extensively with over 100 acres of cranberry bogs being treated. Today during the grow- ing season, helicopters and planes are a familiar sight, dusting, spraying and fertilizing bogs in most areas. Also in 1931, Dr. William Sawy- er v/as employed, temporarily, on funds provided by the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association, to find ways and means of controll- ing craniberry bog weeds, using chemical weed killers. (Kerosene and distillate were used on Wash- ington bogs as early as 1926.) He carried on this experimental work until 1938 Avhen it was taken over ty Dr. Chester E. Cross, now in charge of the East Wareham Ex- pjlimental Station. With more acreage being planted in Wiscon- sin and the West Coast, increased production per acre in Nev/ Jersey and Massachusetts, it requires no foresight to predict a 1,500,000 barrel crop in the near future. The changes that the cranber- ry industry has undergone in re- cent years are making it no longer feasible to farm much of the y, dust sprayed against insects. ^â . - ' "'-.i'i marginal land which in the past, ,i even at its best, was unable tOvi supply the grower witn the bare necessities of life. . â The cranberry grower and Ms â marketing agent, because of in-^ creased competition in all lines of food, should give more :; thorough consideration â to con-^--- sumer demand, resulting in a more adequate supply of good quality cranbei-ry products. - (ADVT.) r i ERS ISTRIBUTORS ^'ROCESSORS SUPPORT YOUR Cranberry Institute AND IT WILL SUPPORT YOU Seventeen

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