. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 'HHr y^l ^^^^H ^^^^H ^^^^^H 'II ^ 1 ^ ^ J/l mki < ^ ⢠^ - . - smasm^ . ym â IM '^^3^1 amemsm li w A SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE: L. to r., Fred Mahn, New Jersey grower; Dr. James Tillotson, director of research and development, Ocean Spray; Frank Easter, Soil Conservation Service specialist, state of Washington. (Photos by Robert Fitch) WATER CONSERVATION . . (continued from page 3) first time last year. John C. Decas of the Decas Cranberry Co. was the dinner Tours were made of the Harju Bros., Clark Griffith and Makep
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 'HHr y^l ^^^^H ^^^^H ^^^^^H 'II ^ 1 ^ ^ J/l mki < ^ ⢠^ - . - smasm^ . ym â IM '^^3^1 amemsm li w A SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE: L. to r., Fred Mahn, New Jersey grower; Dr. James Tillotson, director of research and development, Ocean Spray; Frank Easter, Soil Conservation Service specialist, state of Washington. (Photos by Robert Fitch) WATER CONSERVATION . . (continued from page 3) first time last year. John C. Decas of the Decas Cranberry Co. was the dinner Tours were made of the Harju Bros., Clark Griffith and Makepeace bogs and the Middleboro Ocean Spray plant. Among the speakers, on a variety of subjects ranging from production and harvest technology to integrated pest management to the costs and returns of cranberrying' to methods of applying water and regulations and legislation affecting water use were Lee Davis, Rex Tracy, Bob Light, Mike Sikora, Jere Downing, Irving Demoranville, John Meader, Bernard Morzuch, Gene Mills, Charles Brodel, Sherrie Roberts, Lloyd Thomas, Dick Mclntyre, Fred Mahn, Obie Ashford, Frank Easter, Gylan Dickey, Joe Cooney, Ben Gilmore, Ron Gronwald, Jack Tibbetts, Carl Gustafson, George Andruk, Thomas 10 Williams, Jay Slattery. Papers presented at the conference will be given in future issues of CRAN- BERRIES. Below is the paper, "National Engineering Policy on Irrigation," given by Lloyd Thomas, head of the engineer- ing staff. New England National Technical Center, Soil Conservation Service. Agriculture is far and away the nation's biggest water consumer, accounting for 83 percent of the total water use. Like other water consumers, agriculture intends to use more water each year, although this may not be possible. America's ground water resources are far greater than the total capacity of all our lakes and reservoirs, including the Great Lakes. The ground water volume is equivalent to about 34 years of surface runoff. Ground water accounts for
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