. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Club Discuss Quality Fruit Problems The first 1954 Cranberry Club meetings were held in Kingston, Mass., on Tuesday, Jan. 19 and at Rochester Grange Hall on Wednes- day, Jan. 20 using as their theme for both meetings "Quality ; The programs consisted of panel discussions by Frank J. Butler of the A. D. Makepeace Co., F. B. Chandler, Dr. Chester Cross and J. Richard Beattie all of the Experi- ment Station. "Water Management" was taken up by Frank J. Butler wherein he told of the late holding of th
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Club Discuss Quality Fruit Problems The first 1954 Cranberry Club meetings were held in Kingston, Mass., on Tuesday, Jan. 19 and at Rochester Grange Hall on Wednes- day, Jan. 20 using as their theme for both meetings "Quality ; The programs consisted of panel discussions by Frank J. Butler of the A. D. Makepeace Co., F. B. Chandler, Dr. Chester Cross and J. Richard Beattie all of the Experi- ment Station. "Water Management" was taken up by Frank J. Butler wherein he told of the late holding of the win- ter flood, a practice of the A. D. Makepeace Co. for thirty years. They now hold bogs two years late and one year early. The practice of late holding developed because of ijoor quality fruit which greatly increased the cost of screening. Mr. Butler said two disadvantages spoken of by most growers were re- duction in the size of crop and heavy vines. The Makepeace Co. has not had a reduction in crop on the late held water bogs. The heavy vines are controlled by pruning and sand- ing. These disadvantages can be overcome, he said. He gave six reasons for late holdings of the winter flood, namely (1) quality of fruit (2) usually little or no fruit worm, (3) less weeding, (4) fewer spring frosts, (5) reduced risk from summer dry weather, and (6) re- duced cost of fungicides and insec- ticides. There were two "don'ts": do not put on a June reflow or other reflow during the growing season if flood was held late and don't hold winter flood late the year after a grub flow. Dr. Chandler reviewed the liter- ature on the effect of fertilizer on the quality of fruits in general. From research which has been con- ducted in the last 25 years it ap- pears that fertilizer has less eff'eet on quality than cultural practices. He reviewed the cranberry litera- ature which indicates that the qual- ity of fruit is neither impaired nor improved with fertilizer particular- ly if phosp
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