. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. MASS. STATION EXHIBIT WAS EDUCATIONAL The Cranberry Station exhibits at the Cape Cod Cranberry Grow- ers' spring meeting were very edu- cational. Drainage through peat was demonstrated with two sam- ples, both having been set up for about a month. The tubes were four feet long, over an inch in dia- meter, set with a two percent grade and a slight head of water. No water had passed through the poor draining peat during the month and only a small amount through the good draining peat in compari- son to sand. One tube set up with sand
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. MASS. STATION EXHIBIT WAS EDUCATIONAL The Cranberry Station exhibits at the Cape Cod Cranberry Grow- ers' spring meeting were very edu- cational. Drainage through peat was demonstrated with two sam- ples, both having been set up for about a month. The tubes were four feet long, over an inch in dia- meter, set with a two percent grade and a slight head of water. No water had passed through the poor draining peat during the month and only a small amount through the good draining peat in compari- son to sand. One tube set up with sand as it comes from the pit had about a half ounce of water pass through it during the demonstra- tion. Another tube set up with the same type of sand minus the fine material had ten ounces or twenty times as much go through during the same period of time. Land tile and perforated plastic tubing were on display as materials to be used to improve drainage. A large number of colored slides in an automatic projector illus- trated very well many of the in- sects which damage the cranberry crop. Some of the new fertilizer ma- terials were on display. Of those exhibited urea, solution 32 and the ammonium, phosphates have partic- ular promise as they may be used with some of the insecticides. Pressed weeds and potted fresh specimens were displayed well lab- elled with the common name and the best treatment to control them. Several of the selections of cran- berries which have promise for Massachusetts were on display. Two of these "screened out" about the middle of March had three times as many firm berries as Early Blacks and Howes. A model bin storage demon- strated the use of a bin to store cranberries. This method of stor- age permits the removal of field heat very economically. While bin storage offers a lumber saving over box storage, it presents the great- est saving to growers using the picking machines as the berries may be poured directly into the bins. The movement
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