. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY STATION . . (continued from the preceding page) completely ineffective. The compound was apparently specific for the cranberry nutgrass and for nothing else. In no way could the manufac- turer pay the cost of development, find the answers to residue and environmental problems and pay the costs of EPA registration with any prospect of getting a return on the investment. The whole subject was dropped forthwith, and the Cranberry Station, Uke similar institutions elsewhere that are concerned with minor crops, went back to wo
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY STATION . . (continued from the preceding page) completely ineffective. The compound was apparently specific for the cranberry nutgrass and for nothing else. In no way could the manufac- turer pay the cost of development, find the answers to residue and environmental problems and pay the costs of EPA registration with any prospect of getting a return on the investment. The whole subject was dropped forthwith, and the Cranberry Station, Uke similar institutions elsewhere that are concerned with minor crops, went back to work with compounds and techniques used on major crops, where the future market is great enough to carry the increasingly heavy burdens of development and registration costs. So much for specific pest- icides for specific pests—it is feasible and possible only for the major food crops. ••osttoseoooooooooooeooo* DIRECTORY for Cranberry Growers #OOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOCOOOO# THIS WRITER SUSPECTS, however, that Mrs. Forrester learned about the "pesticide prediction" and the "pesticide myth" by reading in the Audubon literature. The writers about pesticides in the Audubon organizations have shown themselves to be eloquent in theory and weak in fact. A single illustration in con- firmation of the above must suffice. On page 3 of the Massa- chusetts Audubon Newsletter for May-June 1971, in paragraph 4, is found the following: "One such 'enemy,' the gypsy moth, has been frustrating man for more than a century. The knockout punch that man counted on was DDT-but it failed. In fact, biologists now say, it actually spread the gypsy moth, making it more ; This statement is simply not true. The 1949 spray on Cape Cod was so effective in eliminating the heavy population of gypsy moths that the USDA made immediate plans for the Plymouth County spray in 1950. I was living on Cape Cod when the DDT spray was apphed to the gypsy moth in 1949 and I was working
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