. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Walker Interests Among Best in Nova Scotia Fred C, Walker of Auburn, Nova Scotia is a grower in his own right, in partnership with Donald, son of Herbert Oyler for whom he is fore- man. He is an experienced grower and has visited the Massachusetts cranberry area. He has two pieces of bog, four and three acres of his own and the Walker-Oyler bog at Auburn is one of ten acres. This is one of the bettei--kept properties in the Cana- dian province, and in fact all of the Walker-interest bogs are good, con- sistent producers. He has pro
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Walker Interests Among Best in Nova Scotia Fred C, Walker of Auburn, Nova Scotia is a grower in his own right, in partnership with Donald, son of Herbert Oyler for whom he is fore- man. He is an experienced grower and has visited the Massachusetts cranberry area. He has two pieces of bog, four and three acres of his own and the Walker-Oyler bog at Auburn is one of ten acres. This is one of the bettei--kept properties in the Cana- dian province, and in fact all of the Walker-interest bogs are good, con- sistent producers. He has pro- duced 100 barrels to the acre on his four-acre bog. The average is 40 to 60 barrels. Vines are natives. Mr. Walker is a thorough con- vert to sprinkler systems for bog- frost prote'Jtion. The Walker-Oy- ler property, a neat, rectangular piece was equipped with this pro- tection in 1942 at a cost of about $10,000. Since that time not a berry has been lost by frost, as the system gives wonderful protection, Mr. Walker avers. There are 27 heads, but another 10 could be added advantageously. The heads are Skinner system and the bog was systematically laid out by blueprint at the time of the in- stallation. Water supply is from a brook a- bout 700 feet above the bog into a resevoir. There is a 75 gallon a minute pump for winter flowage. On the four-acre bog of Mr. Walk- er a pump supplies water from the Annapolis river for frost and win- ter flowage. Having about the same problems as growers in Massachusetts, Mr. Walker has some fireworm which he controls by straight DDT, and also gets very good control of the fruitworm. He has had some diffi- culty with false blossom, but is gradually getting rid of this. The whirling sprinkler heads are set in play automatically. They go on when temperature reaches 32 degrees. The system is all elec- trically controlled. Twelve ' If* s1" .'.. FRED C. WALKER Illustrated Talk By Walt Fort Walt Fort, general manager of Growers' Cranberry Compa
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