. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Slalion (Field Notes by IRVING E. DEMORAIMVILLE extension cranberry specialist November was a cold month, averaging degrees a day below normal. Maximum temperature was 64" on the 3rd and minimum 16° on the 23rd. The only warrher-lhan average days occurred on the 3rd and 20th. Cooler than average days were the 4-6th, ll-12th, 14-19th, 21-25th and 29-30th. Precipitation totalled inches which is about 3-1/4 inches above normal. This is only the fourth largest November precipitation in our records but the
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Slalion (Field Notes by IRVING E. DEMORAIMVILLE extension cranberry specialist November was a cold month, averaging degrees a day below normal. Maximum temperature was 64" on the 3rd and minimum 16° on the 23rd. The only warrher-lhan average days occurred on the 3rd and 20th. Cooler than average days were the 4-6th, ll-12th, 14-19th, 21-25th and 29-30th. Precipitation totalled inches which is about 3-1/4 inches above normal. This is only the fourth largest November precipitation in our records but the largest since the record of inches was set in 1945. There were 13 days having measurable precipi- tation with inches on the 14- 15th as the biggest storm. We are now a monstrous 24 inches above our normal precipitation for the year to date and 32 inches above 1971. We have akeady broken our record for precipitation for any one year. Surprisingly, there was only 1/2 inch of snow considering the cold, wet conditions. Crop Report The official crop estimate re- leased by the New England Crop Reporting Service for November indicates that the Massachusetts crop is 800,000 barrels, down from the original estimate of 900,000 and over 250,000 barrels less than the 1971 record crop. There may be a slight adjustment of this total in later reports. The big culprit responsible for this huge drop in production was spring frosts, especially on the nights of May 25 and June 11. Aiding and abetting were excessive rain in late June, causing -some flooding at the hook stage and again in early Sep- tember causing some scalding of berries, also some oxygen defi- ciency, poor pollination weather and a holy terror of a fall frost season. For the other states, New Jersey is at 175,000 barrels, up 15,000 from earlier estimates, but much below last year. The Wisconsin crop is unchanged at 800,000 barrels which is a record for them, Wash- ington unchanged at 160,000 bar- rels and Oregon uncha
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