. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Don't Get Out On A Limb Spray Chemicals are a boon to mankind, but to pro- tect yourself against public attack you must use them according to directions. (Excerpts from an article in the American Fruit Grower) The cranberry residue scare is now history and takes its place with the lead arsenic debacle on apples in the 1930's. (Editor's note; it is by no means history for the ci-anberry grower, but very much alive.) The hard learned lesson once again proves that the one who suffers most is the grow- er. Right or wrong it is his crop
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Don't Get Out On A Limb Spray Chemicals are a boon to mankind, but to pro- tect yourself against public attack you must use them according to directions. (Excerpts from an article in the American Fruit Grower) The cranberry residue scare is now history and takes its place with the lead arsenic debacle on apples in the 1930's. (Editor's note; it is by no means history for the ci-anberry grower, but very much alive.) The hard learned lesson once again proves that the one who suffers most is the grow- er. Right or wrong it is his crop which is confiscated, it is he who is admonished, it is he who must fight back against the power of the press and the federal govern- ment. In the cranberry case only a very few growers brought trouble to the whole industry through misuse of the weed killer amino triazole. This experience sends shivers down the backs of growers of other crops. Can the careless action of a few threaten the whole crop no matter who is involved in produc- ing it? (Editor's note; cranberry growers know this can happen.) The unfavorable publicity re- sulting from such a situation scares consumers and affects mar- ket demand. It also frightens other growers so that the use of a potentially useful and cost-sav- ing spray may be denied to them, either by their own fear or by regulatory action. The situation is further upset by the organized attack of two groups —wild life clubs and food faddists. A growing public opposition to spraying is being systematically fed by their voriferous leaders who are experts in the use of propaganda. They make capital of incidents like the cranberry scare. They successfully keep people stirred up despite a preponderance of evidence pointing to the impor- tance of sprays to safeguard our food crops, save our timber re- sources, protect us from insect- spread epidemics, and make it pos- sible to feed our growmg popula- tion. No less an unprejudiced auth- ority than the
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