. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. fjD. WKHINBTIHI fS^* ^: KEW JEISEY ^ il It was the driest February in thirty-nine years in the cranberry beh of New Jersey last month. It was the driest February in thirty-nine years in the cranberry belt of New Jersey last month. Precipitation totaled only inches or about inches less than normal. Two coastal storms barely brushed by leaving light 'dustings" of snow; one inch on the 10th and one-half inch on the 21st. The year is starting off dry as both January and February have been below normal in precipitation, w
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. fjD. WKHINBTIHI fS^* ^: KEW JEISEY ^ il It was the driest February in thirty-nine years in the cranberry beh of New Jersey last month. It was the driest February in thirty-nine years in the cranberry belt of New Jersey last month. Precipitation totaled only inches or about inches less than normal. Two coastal storms barely brushed by leaving light 'dustings" of snow; one inch on the 10th and one-half inch on the 21st. The year is starting off dry as both January and February have been below normal in precipitation, with an accumulated deficiency of inches. However, the "mini- drought" was ended by a storm on February 29th and March 1st, which deposited four and one-half inches of snow mixed with rain. This, con- verted to rain, gave 1,38 inches. Only .31 of this was recorded in n February. This storm was accom- panied by high winds gusting to about forty miles per hour and it caused considerable damage and Farm Credit Service Box 7, Taunton, Mass. 02781 Tel. 617 824-7578 hardship throughout Burlington County as power lines were felled. The temperature for the second consecutive month was much below normal. The average daily tempera- ture for February was degrees F, about five degrees colder than normal. Extremes were 51 degrees on February 2nd and 4 degrees on the 21st and 22nd. The extremely cold and windy weather is causing some damage to fruit buds on high edges of bogs where the vines are not properly flooded. On bog number five (State bogs at Oswego) which is kept unflooded, samples on February 21st revealed that five per cent of the fruit buds had already been destroyed. Oxygen conditions in the flood water of bogs did not become critical during the month. Mr, and Mrs. D. J. Crowley entertained Mrs. H. F. Bain of Waynesville, North Carolina. Mrs. Bain and the late Mr. Bain Uved in Washington state some forty-two years ago, when he was associated with USDA, working
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