. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Jim Misho, left and Paul Morse discuss their latest device which was recently placed on the market. Shown is the electronic thermometer. When the talents of an agricul- turalist and a professional mathe- matician are combined, something different is bound to come about. Take for example Paul Morse, of R. F. Morse and Son, Wareham, Massachusetts and Jim Misho, math- ematician for Raytheon. They are two cranberry growers and bog owners, one having 50 acres and the other three acres, who have an avocation of devising new methods in fr
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Jim Misho, left and Paul Morse discuss their latest device which was recently placed on the market. Shown is the electronic thermometer. When the talents of an agricul- turalist and a professional mathe- matician are combined, something different is bound to come about. Take for example Paul Morse, of R. F. Morse and Son, Wareham, Massachusetts and Jim Misho, math- ematician for Raytheon. They are two cranberry growers and bog owners, one having 50 acres and the other three acres, who have an avocation of devising new methods in frost control and warning, com- puterized bog management and automated bog operation. For the past two years they have been working on and testing out a temperature measuring device and an automatic frost warning alarm. Both of these systems are simple and inexpensive. They have been born out of the misery of long cold nights beside bogs waiting for the threatened frost. These units, the first of many ideas, have been tested and are presently on the market. They are now involved with the early stages of a more sophisticated radio controlled frost warning system for larger areas. Their next venture might be a device to measure the dissolved oxygen under the ice. Their greatest problem is to gather all the neces- sary components into a low-cost package, and this takes time. Jim and Paul are concerned aboii i bog management and just as most other growers, they have had their share of problems with "modern technology. They feel that a major step to overcome the particular con- ditions of any bog lies with the implementation of the computei. The many variables of a bog coulil be programmed into a computer. Story and Photographs by Bernard A. Mart Years ago the average farmer had the abihty to be Iris own computer, because methods were fairly simple and constant. However, with the introduction of more and more aids and a sophisticated system of fungicides,herbicides, fertilizers a
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