. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. chemicals must be registered before they can be used even on your own bogs and rules must be carefully followed. He also made mention of the fact that the labs which enforce these rules are now using very sophisticated methods of check- ing. They are also using new methods of clearing chemicals for use on bogs. The Experi- ment Station has a program of basic and applied research and tbey want to know, and the USDA insists on knowing what happens to chemicals after they are used. The station teams are working to find the answers to
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. chemicals must be registered before they can be used even on your own bogs and rules must be carefully followed. He also made mention of the fact that the labs which enforce these rules are now using very sophisticated methods of check- ing. They are also using new methods of clearing chemicals for use on bogs. The Experi- ment Station has a program of basic and applied research and tbey want to know, and the USDA insists on knowing what happens to chemicals after they are used. The station teams are working to find the answers to these and other problems. Dr. Cross began mentioning the work being conducted by members of his staff. He started by mentioning the work Bill Tomlinson was doing with the fruitworm. Bill has had black light traps on the bogs day and night and has been analyzing the insects caught in these traps. One question he has been try- ing to answer is the life cycle of the fruitworm. Bill has suc- ceeded in getting fruitworm miller to mate in captivity and the female to lay eggs in cap- tivity in season. If something could be found to develop out of season, a control could prob- ably be developed and there would no longer be a need for poisonous insecticides. It would be nice to be able to eliminate some of the insecticides since they are more dangerous than seems necessary and are hard to handle. The work being done by Stan Norton in trying to develop a better method of dry harvesting was the next topic touched upon by Dr. Cross. A long- time problem of Massachusetts cranberry growers has been tbe number of berries lost in dry harvesting. In other states water harvesting has eliminated this problem. Water harvesting is sure to come to Massachusetts and, in the meantime Stan is working on a dry picking ma- chine which will do the job efficiently and with as little loss to the crop as possible. He is also working on another problem — labor. The use of laborers to lift 35-40 pound boxes
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