. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Western yield high, says Eastern scientist By MICHAEL COUTURE The average barrel per acre yield of cranberries in the West and British Columbia impressed Dr. Chester Cross of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Exper- iment Station in a recent trip to those areas. DR. CROSS was particularly impressed with the yield in British Columbia, which amounts to 165 barrels per acre. Oddly enough, the growth of the berries in the province was initiated by three former Carver, Mass., residents who decided to move to British Columbia. On
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Western yield high, says Eastern scientist By MICHAEL COUTURE The average barrel per acre yield of cranberries in the West and British Columbia impressed Dr. Chester Cross of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Exper- iment Station in a recent trip to those areas. DR. CROSS was particularly impressed with the yield in British Columbia, which amounts to 165 barrels per acre. Oddly enough, the growth of the berries in the province was initiated by three former Carver, Mass., residents who decided to move to British Columbia. One, James Thomas, is still in the cranberry business and showed Dr. Cross some of the bogs. Dr. Cross said Thomas is slowly getting out of the business and going into blueberry growing, a more profi- table venture because of the 80 cents a quart sales price as compared to 20 cents for cran- berries. Despite the average yield ratio. Dr. Cross says, the good growers in the West can raise good crops but then so can the good growers in Massachusetts. "You can't go by the average all the time," he remarked. "I came back reassured that we in the busi- ness here can be competitive with those in the ; Dr. Cross says he knows a Middleboro, Mass., grower who has raised early blacks, dry picked to the amount of 2,930 barrels on 10 acres. ONE MAJOR FACTOR going for the Western growers, according to Dr. Cross, is the relatively mild, ramy cUmate that provides Uttle frost, thereby eUminating the constant need for sprinklers that growers experience in the Bay State. Moreover, the Western growers are sophisticated in protecting their bogs from frost, to the point of instaUing thermostats on the sprinklers, he said. Dr. Cross said the British Columbia bogs are still new in comparison to Eastern bogs, and, therefore, are not subjected to the heavy incidences of insects, fungus and diseases accumulated over the years in Massachusetts bogs. He added that the mistakes create
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