. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry station director replies to pesticide attacks By CHESTER E. CROSS Director, Massachusetts Cranberry Experiment Station Farmers who use pesticides are being severely crticized by the editor of a beekeepers' newsletter. Furthermore, the editor, Mrs. Ann Forrester, whose organ is the newsletter of the Massachu- setts Federation of Beekeepers Associations, is collecting signatures nationwide in an effort to get the Environmental Protect- ion Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration to require that all nearby abutters be
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry station director replies to pesticide attacks By CHESTER E. CROSS Director, Massachusetts Cranberry Experiment Station Farmers who use pesticides are being severely crticized by the editor of a beekeepers' newsletter. Furthermore, the editor, Mrs. Ann Forrester, whose organ is the newsletter of the Massachu- setts Federation of Beekeepers Associations, is collecting signatures nationwide in an effort to get the Environmental Protect- ion Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration to require that all nearby abutters be asked to approve each appli- cation of pesticide to a farmer's property. Mrs. Forrester makes many allegations about pesticide use in agriculture which are biased, inaccurate, emotional or false. CRANBERRY GROWERS will be interested in this quote from her recent addendum to the July 1980 newsletter: "The pesticide prediction (myth) envisaged the development of new pesticides and new appli- cation techniques so that every pest problem could be solved by a remedy specific to the insect in question, and having no harmful side effects .... and that we would have a pest-free planet by the year ; Mrs. Forrester cites no source for the above prediction, and it is hard to imagine any competent professor of agriculture or ento- mology being so sanguine about the future of pest control. Several years ago, the scientists at the Cranberry Station tested an experimental herbicide that proved very effective in controlling nutgrass, Cyperus dentatus Torr., a very common and troublesome weed in cranberry bogs. The compound did not have any measurable effect on the cranberry vines, COVER PHOTO MRS. CHARLENE LAWSON screens berries at the cranberry exhibit displayed at the 12-day long Eastern States Exposition held recently in Springfield, Mass. Thousands viewed the exhibit. Other photos on pages 8 and 9. (Photos by CRANBERRIES) flowers, or their production of cranberries It was a
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