. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Results With A Fermate As A Cranberry Fungicide In 1945 By R. B. WILCOX Associate Pathologist Division of Fruit and Veg:etable Crops and Diseases of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, Agricul- tural Research Administration, U. S. De- partment of Agriculture. (Editor's Note:—The following is re- printed from the Proceedings of the American Cranberry Growers' Associ- ation). R. B. WILCOX Associate Pathologist Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricul- tural Engin
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Results With A Fermate As A Cranberry Fungicide In 1945 By R. B. WILCOX Associate Pathologist Division of Fruit and Veg:etable Crops and Diseases of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, Agricul- tural Research Administration, U. S. De- partment of Agriculture. (Editor's Note:—The following is re- printed from the Proceedings of the American Cranberry Growers' Associ- ation). R. B. WILCOX Associate Pathologist Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricul- tural Engineering, Agricultural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The organic fungicide, ferric cimethyl dithiocarbamate, market- ed commercially as Fermate, was used experimentally in New Jer- sey during the seasons of 1943 and 1944 with most encouraging re- sults, giving more effective control of cranberry fruit rots than did bordeaux mixture. A number of New Jersey growers also tried Fermate in comparison with bor- deaux on a moderate commercial scale in 1944; some results were excellent; there were no unfavor- able reports, but at several loca- tions there was so little rot that no conclusions could be drawn. In Massachusetts experiments, Bergman reported that Fermate showed no superiority over bor- deaux in 1944 and, according to correspondence and reports of Hen- ry F. Bain, the experimental use of Fermate in Wisconsin that year resulted in some damage. These divergent results were confusing. The season of 1945 in New Jer- sey were exceptionally favorable for fungus infection of cranber- ries. In July, a critical time for infection, the rainfall at Pember- ton amounted to more than 11 inches. During the 4 months from May through August, precipitation was recorded on nearly one-half of the days, and was distributed with some uniformity throughout the period. These frequent rains in- terfered seriously with spraying operations. Moreover, the spring of 1945 wa
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