. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY STATION . . (continued from page 4) returning to Barnstable and Plymouth counties. To say that DDT "faUed" or that "it actually spread the gypsy moth" is a distortion of the truth which, despite my criticism to the executive vice president of the Society, was never corrected. AGAIN IN HER addendum, Mrs. Forrester writes of "the fantastic growth in the use and misuse of pest- icides and herbicides (emphasis added)." Food production professionals agree that a sizeable increase in use of pestici
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY STATION . . (continued from page 4) returning to Barnstable and Plymouth counties. To say that DDT "faUed" or that "it actually spread the gypsy moth" is a distortion of the truth which, despite my criticism to the executive vice president of the Society, was never corrected. AGAIN IN HER addendum, Mrs. Forrester writes of "the fantastic growth in the use and misuse of pest- icides and herbicides (emphasis added)." Food production professionals agree that a sizeable increase in use of pesticides has occurred, but misuse is another matter. Enormous energies have been expended in testing new compounds and in providing data necessary for registration and safe use. Further, the EPA and USDA, in cooperation with the experiment stations and the extension services, have conducted the grower training and certification programs in all states to insure against misuse of registered pesticides. What evidence, if any, does Mrs. Forrester have for the assertion of a fantastic growth in "misuse" of pesticides? Or is she merely writing about her preconceived notions? Mrs. Forrester develops her theme for a "fantastic" growth in pesticide use by claiming that 200,000 lbs. of pesticides were produced in the in 1950. From this small beginning, she shows an increase to million lbs. in 1978. She cites no source for these figures, but of course the lower the figure for 1950, the greater will be the annual percentage increase to that of 1978. It can be shown with a high degree of accuracy that two herbicides used on cranberry bogs in Massachusetts alone in 1950 could account for all the 200,000 lbs. of pesticides produced in the that year. Obviously her figure for national usage in 1950 is spurious. One of the two herbicides mentioned above is ferrous sulfate which was, and stUl is, used to control ferns and mosses in cranberry bogs. Mrs. Forrester frequ
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