. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ^. NEW JERSEY Nature's law of normalization was at work in February in the cranberry belt of New jersey. To balance out the balmy weather in January, extremely severe weather occurred. Three below zero days were recorded in February — 3 below on the 8th, 5 below on the 9th and 7 below on the 13th. Tempera- tures of this extreme are un- usual but not rare in this state; they have occurred in 19 of the 39 years of weather recording at the Cranberry & Blueberry Laboratory at New Lisbon. A total of .54 below zero days have been rec
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ^. NEW JERSEY Nature's law of normalization was at work in February in the cranberry belt of New jersey. To balance out the balmy weather in January, extremely severe weather occurred. Three below zero days were recorded in February — 3 below on the 8th, 5 below on the 9th and 7 below on the 13th. Tempera- tures of this extreme are un- usual but not rare in this state; they have occurred in 19 of the 39 years of weather recording at the Cranberry & Blueberry Laboratory at New Lisbon. A total of .54 below zero days have been recorded here, an average of less than such days per year. The three such days this past month marks only the fifth time that 3 or more days of below zero temperatures hap- pened in a single month. The record is 7 days in February of 1934. Illilllllllllllllllllll!lllllllll!llllllllllli;illlllllllllll!lllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^^^ TO BUILD Sectionalizing DIKES for Wafer Pkk'mg GET A RAILROAD Seelrufant 15 Frank St. Middleboro Mar. 1 The temperature for the month averaged °F or about ° below normfil. It was the sixth coldest February recorded at the laboratory. Rain or snow occurred on 12 days during the month. Snow- fall was exceptionally heavy. A total of inches was re- corded, making it the 2nd heavi. est to occur here in February. The largest snowfall of the month was on Feb, 7th. The total snowfall this year is now 31 inches or just about twice the normal amount and about the sixth heaviest on record here. Precipitation converted to rainfall totalled inches in February, just .06 inches above normal. Ice thickness of more than six inches with a heavy cover of snow over it caused rapid depletion of the oxygen supply in the flood water on cranberry boj^s. The following oxygen de- ficiency warning was issued by the Cranberry & Blueberry Lab- oratory on Feb. 21st: "Damage to next year's cranberry crop from oxygen deficiency is a
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