. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by CHESTER E. CROSS Director Crop In Early The Massachusetts cranberry har- vest is nearly completed as this is being written (Oct. 16). This is a remarkably early date to speak in such fashion, for it was just a year ago that because there were still so many growers with unpicked bogs, the frost warning service was con- tinued until Nov. 7 and several grow- ers were turning to water-harvesting as a last resort to get the crop in. How is this accounted for? A warm, sunny early summer gave us
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by CHESTER E. CROSS Director Crop In Early The Massachusetts cranberry har- vest is nearly completed as this is being written (Oct. 16). This is a remarkably early date to speak in such fashion, for it was just a year ago that because there were still so many growers with unpicked bogs, the frost warning service was con- tinued until Nov. 7 and several grow- ers were turning to water-harvesting as a last resort to get the crop in. How is this accounted for? A warm, sunny early summer gave us a fairly short, dry blooming period in which bee activity proceed- ed at top level day after day. Au- ' guest brought more than normal 'rainfall, and this was rather well ! distributed throughout the month. iCoupled with this is an important ipoint—on 22 days in August the temperature was subnormal, on 3 SUBSCRIPTIONS U. S. $ per year Foreign $ per year ADVERTISING Rates on Request Note: New rates effective with October issue. CRANBERRIES MAGAZINE Reaches EVERY knovm Cran- berry Grower in all grow- ing areas, plus individual sub- scribers in this country and foreign, mostly Canadian growers. Address: C. J. Hall Cranberries Magazine, P. O. Box 71, Wareham, Mass. 02571, Tels: 295-0027 Res. 295-9533 more it was normal, and on only 6 davs did temperatures rise above normal. Both temperature and rain- fall combined to ripen our crop early and well. By the 7th the harvest was under way. As so often happens, picking was halted by rain on the morning of September 13 and could not be generally resumed until September 24! Measurable rain fell at the Cran- berry Station on 15 days in Sept. and traces were noted on two others. All this only adds to the astonishing speed of harvest. There were only 9 or 10 picking days in Sept. October, Warm, Dry Again October is different again, with a return to dry summer weather. Only one-fifth of an inch of rain has fallen in the first 16
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