. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by J. RICHARD BEATTIE Extension Cranberry Specialist. Personals Dr. Fred Chandler 'has returned to work on a Umited basis after being confined to his home for several weeks with illness. Fred is making satisfactory progress in. his recovery, according to his doctor, but is ad- vised to remain on a limited work schedule for a while. Dr. Bert Zuckerraan has returned from la very informative trip to Eu- rope where he presented a paper on his nematode investigations and also visited several agric
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by J. RICHARD BEATTIE Extension Cranberry Specialist. Personals Dr. Fred Chandler 'has returned to work on a Umited basis after being confined to his home for several weeks with illness. Fred is making satisfactory progress in. his recovery, according to his doctor, but is ad- vised to remain on a limited work schedule for a while. Dr. Bert Zuckerraan has returned from la very informative trip to Eu- rope where he presented a paper on his nematode investigations and also visited several agricultural experi- ment stations. Bert was in West Ber- lin briefly during the present crisis. We know the growers will be inter- ested in a report on his trip and view- ing his excellent kodlachromes at some future meeting. Prof. "Stan" Norton will be at- tending a four-day agricultunal engi- neering conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in late August. Crop Prospect General conditions in August have not been favorable to tihe Massachu- setts crop. Less than half an inch of rain has been recorded at the station for the first 20 days of the month. Fruibworm activity, while not epi- demic, has continued to take a per- centage of both early and late water fruit. Weeds are growing in profusion on many bogs and thrive under wea- ther conditions which are (adverse to cranberries. While the official crop estimate will not be released until August 22, when Mr. C. D. Stevens of the New England Crop Reporting Service presents his estimjate at the Annual Meeting of tihe Cape Cod Cran- berry Growers Association, onofficial "guesstimates" indicate a Massachu- setts crop under 500,000 barrels. At the present time (August 20) tihe current drought holds the key to the ultimate size of our crop. (Editors Note: There was heavy rain since this was written, eliminating further drought damages. This year's crop will be difficult to estimate in view of frost and possible drough
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