. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station i Fiem Notes by IRVING E. OEMORANVILLE extension cranberry specialist Personals Drs. Robert Devlin and Robert Yaklich attended a meeting of the Northeastern Section of Plant Physi- ologists in Binghampton, New York from May 4-6. They presented a paper on increasing the uptake of certain herbicides in plants by pre- treating with growth hormone. Frost The spring frost season was late in arriving this year and there were only five frost warnings released through May. This compares with six for the same period
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station i Fiem Notes by IRVING E. OEMORANVILLE extension cranberry specialist Personals Drs. Robert Devlin and Robert Yaklich attended a meeting of the Northeastern Section of Plant Physi- ologists in Binghampton, New York from May 4-6. They presented a paper on increasing the uptake of certain herbicides in plants by pre- treating with growth hormone. Frost The spring frost season was late in arriving this year and there were only five frost warnings released through May. This compares with six for the same period in 1971, 14 in 1970, 25 in 1969 and 21 in 1968. These figures include both afternoon and evening warnings. A very cold, wet period, consisting of the entire month of April and the first three weeks of May kept frost conditions away from the area, but also made this the most backward spring in many years as far as plant development was concerned. How- ever, on May 25 the first frost warning was issued and it was a "stinger" with temperatures as low as 18 degrees on the bogs. It was cold everywhere, even in Nantucket, and came early in the evening soon after dark in some cases. There has been a fair amount of damage throughout the entire cranberry area-nearly everyone has some frosted spots. Weather May was cold for the first three weeks but the last week was quite [warm so that the month as a whole averaged only of a degree below normal. Maximum temperature was 77** on the 23rd and the minimum 35° on the 11th and 26th. Cool I periods occurred on 2-4th, 8-10th, 15th, 19-20th and 25th. Warmer than average days were 17-18th, 21st, 23rd and 30-31st. Rainfall totalled inches which is inches above normal. There was measurable precipitation on 11 days with inches on the 3-4th as the largest storm. We are now 4-3/4 inches above normal for the 5-month period and about 4-1/3 inches ahead of 1971. Maneb and Ferbam are recom- mended on the chart and DifoUtan has
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