. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. AMERICAN CRANBERRY GROWER'S ANNUAL Wl The 106th annual winter meet- ing of the American Cranberry Growers Association was held at Mount Holly, New Jersey on Feb- ruary 13. President Caleb Cavileer presided over the all-day meeting. The morning session was given over to reports by scientists from Rut- gers University. After a buffet luncheon, a question and answer period on cranberry culture meth- ods was followed by a brief busin- ess session and election of new officers. Myron Flint of the New Jersey Crop Reporting Service gave th
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. AMERICAN CRANBERRY GROWER'S ANNUAL Wl The 106th annual winter meet- ing of the American Cranberry Growers Association was held at Mount Holly, New Jersey on Feb- ruary 13. President Caleb Cavileer presided over the all-day meeting. The morning session was given over to reports by scientists from Rut- gers University. After a buffet luncheon, a question and answer period on cranberry culture meth- ods was followed by a brief busin- ess session and election of new officers. Myron Flint of the New Jersey Crop Reporting Service gave the crop estimate for New Jersey and the United States. The nation's crop was 2,240,000 barrels of which New Jersey contributed 250,000 barrels. This was a new record for New Jersey despite an estimated loss of about 10,000 barrels in early autumn frosts. Walter Z. Fort, New Jersey Field Representative for the Cranberry Marketing Order, gave a short chronicle of the production of cranberries in New Jersey. The production of 250,000 barrels in 1974 was the greatest volume ever harvested in the more than 130-year history of cranberry growing in the state and was produced on only. EETING 3,200 acres. The previous record was in 1910 when 241,000 barrels were grown on 8,453 acres. The state has produced in excess of 200,000 barrels in only eight years, but has had this volume of berries in three of the past four years. While the production has been skyrocketing the acreage and num- ber of growers in the state has rapidly dwindled. In 1931, 305 growers produced 145,388 barrels on 10,733 acres which required 5,864 extra laborers at harvest time. In 1945 the acreage was down to 7,600 and 257 growers who produced only 49,000 barrels in a year of bad frosts. By 1955 the acreage was down to 3,600 and the production only 90,000 barrels. At present there are only 52 growers with 3,188 acres producing and 466 newly planted non-bearing acres. The yield per acre of 78 barrels is (Wisconsin-Michi
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