. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. REGIONAL NEWS NOTES MASSACHUSETTS By IRVING E. OEMORANVILLE Dr Joan Lasota attended the annual meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Ento- mological Society of America in Philadel- phia from Oct 5-8 Joan presented a paper and was moderator for a symposium Dr Karl Deuberl attended a conference on pesticides and groundwater in St. Paul, Minn . from Oct 15-17 Carolyn DeMoranville attended a train- ing session in Tarrytown, NY., given by Technicon Inc Oct 19-23 on the opera- tion of an auto-analyzer Dr. Robert Devlin attended the Agway
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. REGIONAL NEWS NOTES MASSACHUSETTS By IRVING E. OEMORANVILLE Dr Joan Lasota attended the annual meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Ento- mological Society of America in Philadel- phia from Oct 5-8 Joan presented a paper and was moderator for a symposium Dr Karl Deuberl attended a conference on pesticides and groundwater in St. Paul, Minn . from Oct 15-17 Carolyn DeMoranville attended a train- ing session in Tarrytown, NY., given by Technicon Inc Oct 19-23 on the opera- tion of an auto-analyzer Dr. Robert Devlin attended the Agway Weed Control Round Table in Syracuse, , Oct 20-22 Dr. Frank Caruso and Karen Rosenberg attended a meeting of the Northeast Div- ision of the American Phytopathological Society in Stowe, Vt . from Nov, 5-7 They both presented papers and Frank also chaired a symposium Unofficially, the Massachusetts crop appears to be somewhat larger than last year's; probably close to the August esti- mate of 1,800,000 barrels. Size on Early Black was small on some bogs, but not on all bogs, and color started out good early and was excellent overall. The Howes were outstanding in all respects. Quality was very good, except for much of the dry, harvested fruit, when bruised berries softened rapidly. There were a total of 18 frost warnings on 13 days following the frost season The first warning was on Aug 28. which hadn't happened this early in over 40 years For comparison, we issued 15 warnings in in 1984,13 in 1983, and 17 m 1982 WISCONSIN Elden J Stang of the University of Wis- consin/Madison reports in Wisconsin Cran Tips that the state crop for '86 can be summarized as good to excellent in terms of total yield and fruit quality " He adds. "Many growers reported yields varying substantially from bed to bed a possible carryover (biennial bearing) effect from high yields in 1985" Stang concludes Fortunately, uncon- trollable limiting factors, such as hail. were much le
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