. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. WHAT IS NEW?. The first planting of Selection 31. The committee of the Cape Cod CranbeiTy Growers' Association has distributed cranberry selection No. 31 to a number of cranberry growers. This selection appears to be very promising for Massachu- SOME "DOPE" ON FROST SPRINKLING IN WASHINGTON D. J. Crowley Oper- ations on West Coastâ Believes If All Bogs in Washington Had Systems, Ever^Green State Could Produce 100,000 Bbl. An- nually (Editor's Note: The following interesting article upon spi'inkler frost control
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. WHAT IS NEW?. The first planting of Selection 31. The committee of the Cape Cod CranbeiTy Growers' Association has distributed cranberry selection No. 31 to a number of cranberry growers. This selection appears to be very promising for Massachu- SOME "DOPE" ON FROST SPRINKLING IN WASHINGTON D. J. Crowley Oper- ations on West Coastâ Believes If All Bogs in Washington Had Systems, Ever^Green State Could Produce 100,000 Bbl. An- nually (Editor's Note: The following interesting article upon spi'inkler frost control and irrigation, was sent in by D. J. Crowley, director of Washington Cranberry-Blue- berry Laboratory, who really is the "father" of the intensive sprin- kler use on the West Coast cran- berry bogs. Dr. Crowley is refer- ring to the article in last month's issue, concei-ning the marsh of Myron and Wallace Ryder and par- ticularly the fact the leave ice on vines in the monring for the sun to thaw out.) After reading Mr. Ryder's arti- cle on Frost Control by Sprinkling on the Cape Cod Bogs, I was im- pressed by that fact that practices that prove very satisfactory in one part of the country may fall short of their goal in other areas. Be- cause of this, our experience with sprinklers both for frost and heat setts growers. Sixteen of the most promising selections of the 114 which have been grown in Massa- chusetts are also being tested in new locations. control may be of some interest. On May 31st a severe frost oc- ciir^d on the Washington bogs that killed all blossoms on bogs not protected by sprinklers, so western rrowers arc frost conscious at the pi-esent time. Even the sprinkled |i'>"s with hf-nvy vines got nipped ^I'r-hHv, duvin'r this freeze. ^yhile sprinklers for frost con- + ]n1 nn cranberry bogs is no long- ev new. just how the control is a(T(v4ed niav not be clear to all "â i( wni-s. First there is a little I'cat a'iderl because the wat
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