Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6063port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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Showing the handsome brick and landscaped Atwood screenhouse. net, Mass., does the pruning and Atwood formerly screened the At- wood berries there, but this is no longer done, the fruit going to both the packing houses of Ocean Spray at Onset and at Hanson. Dave Does Own Frost Work Dave does his own frost work, assisted by "Bill" Young and Warren Pittsley. These men make up the only year-round crew now on the property with the exception of Ches- ter A. Churcihill, formerly chief of Wareham police, but now retired who comes in for work several days a week as a bookkeeper. The Atwood bogs have a rather elastic sanding iprogram, but there •is one. Most of the sanding is done with V-bottom trailers, with two-yard capacity, pulled by industrial trac- tors equipped with large rubber tires to lessen injury to the vines. "The apparatus doesn't seem to hurt the bogs too much," says Dave. With proper pruning we don't have to sand as often as we used to. Some- times some pieces have not been sanded for eight or nine years, but most pieces of bog get it much oftener. When we can we sand on the ice by trucks." The C. & L. Company of Acush- £ight raking for the Atwood bogs. The bogs are carefully fertihzed as needed. "I think the use of fer- tilizer depends entirely upon the individual bog," says Dave. "V/e fer- tiUze in the fall, also in the spring and in the summer when the bogs are "in the pink" that is in blossom. We use a lot of nitrogen and super- phosphate and not very much pot- ash." "We fertilize by straight-wing planes, a service provided by Ae- rial Spirayers, Inc. of Marshfield. We use la ground fertilizer rig for ground work, this being done also by the C. & L. Company." Weed control is mostly by petro- leum products, kerosene, Stoddard Solvent and in some cases fuel oil. Like every other good growers Dave realizes that timing is very important in weed work. "Timing is half the battle," he says. "You must get the weeds at the right time." For insect work David uses straight-winig airplanes, making good use of parithion. Fungicide work is also by air, with zineb or ferbam being applied, "I think the proper (CRANBERRIES Photo) use of fungicides is vsry important in cranberry work, especially on weaker bogs, that tend to have an inferior quality of fruit." Wafer Management Important W-'er management is another im- portant factor in the Atwood sched- ulo of cranberry cultivation. "I think this is ex'remely imp:rtant," young rlcredge dechres. "I think much harm is done sometimes by ex- cessive water and improper timing of putting it en." "Of course the use cf water is necessary on the nights when there is really a frost coming on. But, I think it is better to lose some sleep and stay up all night if necessary than to use water if it turns out not to have been necessary." says Dave. "Our bogs are rather easily flood- ed. When Mr. Atwood engineered the water c:ntrol he did an excellent job." David Eldredge was born in St. Luke's Hospital at Middleboro, Mass. adjacent to Wareham where his par- ents were living. He was born Au- gust 3, 1925. He spent his early life in Wareham and attended Wareham High School. Before being gi-aduated

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