. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. General view of Mass. State Bog, showing three dikes, dividiii uea into four neaih i.|ual ^n tidii (CKAXBERRIES Photo) Mass. State Bog Changed Into Four Experiment Sections Although An Acre And a Half Has Been Lost, Dr. Cross And Other Researchers Will Make Experiments Which Will Aid Entire Industry. Work on subdividing the Massachusetts .State Bog at East Wareham into four nearly equal sections is Hearing completion. Begun April 6th, the change will be completed this month. Total cost, according to Dr. Chester E. Cross, director o
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. General view of Mass. State Bog, showing three dikes, dividiii uea into four neaih i.|ual ^n tidii (CKAXBERRIES Photo) Mass. State Bog Changed Into Four Experiment Sections Although An Acre And a Half Has Been Lost, Dr. Cross And Other Researchers Will Make Experiments Which Will Aid Entire Industry. Work on subdividing the Massachusetts .State Bog at East Wareham into four nearly equal sections is Hearing completion. Begun April 6th, the change will be completed this month. Total cost, according to Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the Experiment Station, who planned the project and obtained approval and funds from Extension Service, University of Massachusetts will be approximately $7,500. The change-over will enable Dr. Cross and the other researchers at the Station to perform almost countless new experiments. The bog, set about two-third to are of steel, 36 inches in diameter. Early Blacks and the other third in Late Howes, had an area of 12 acres. This will be cut down by about an acre and a half due to three dikes, running the long way of the bog, from east to west. These dikes are 22 feet wide at the bottom and a good 12 at the top. They total 2,200 feet in all, the longest being that nearest the reservoir 900 feet, the next 700 and the third 600. Along the east side of the bog a canal has been dug, this being 5 feet wide at the bottom. Each of the four sections may be flowed quickly and drained fast. Metal culverts through the bog-end dike and ai'e for both intake and drain- age. For drainage two steel cul- verts are 4 feet in diameter at the upper end of the bog. One has sand bull-dozed around it and serves as a bridge. Grass seed has been planted on the dikes and canal sides to an- chor the sands and prevent wash. This is "Love" grass from the West and it forms many big tus- socks. Among the experiments now in mind are: flashflooding, trials with late water, leaving the vines out as m
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