. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Issue of January 1960 - Vol. 24 No. 9 Published monthly at The Courier Print Shop, Main St., Wareham, Massachusetts. Subscription $ per ye»r. Entered as second-class matter January 26, 1943, at the post-office at Wareham, Massachusetts, under the Act of March 3, 1878 FRESH FROM THE FIELDS Compiled by C J. H. MASSACHUSETTS December Good for '60 crop The month of December proved to be a mild one, and a good month for next year crop - if that is any encouragement. There was no se- vere cold or sharp freezing winds to bring a'bout
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Issue of January 1960 - Vol. 24 No. 9 Published monthly at The Courier Print Shop, Main St., Wareham, Massachusetts. Subscription $ per ye»r. Entered as second-class matter January 26, 1943, at the post-office at Wareham, Massachusetts, under the Act of March 3, 1878 FRESH FROM THE FIELDS Compiled by C J. H. MASSACHUSETTS December Good for '60 crop The month of December proved to be a mild one, and a good month for next year crop - if that is any encouragement. There was no se- vere cold or sharp freezing winds to bring a'bout winterkill condi- tions, nor any conditions conducive to oxygen deficiency. There was no heavy ice, or snow on ice. Water was barely frozen, just enough to permit a little skating after Christ- mas, there was no opportunity for ice sanding. Not even all bogs were floodsd by the end of December. Many were waiting, including the State Bog, for weather really to turn cold. Ground was not even frozen solid as January came in. Water was ample to flood. Precipitation Normal Precipitation was practically normal, average for the month fee- ing inches, while that attained at Cranberry Station was actually Of this 6^/4 inches was snow. At month's end the accumulation of plus degrees was 111, or more than 3 a day. Winter Came Real winter did not start until appropriately the first day of win- ter, December 22. To that point there ihad been an excess of tem- perature to 119 degrees. But the first day of winter brought a min- or blizzard, which was most severe on the Cape and deposited a blank- et of from 4 to 6 inches of snow over all the cranberry area. This was the first fall of any conse- quence, WASHINGTON Heavy Loss Production figures for Washing- ton are as follows; Grayland and North Beach, 69,356 barrels and Long Beach This made up a total of 100,377 barrels for Wash- ington, the largest, crop to date. These figures do not include the berries which were destroye
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