. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. D. J. CROWLEY much damage to the crop each year as were the three destructive ele- ments he first noted. Full-Time 1923 At the 1923 session of the Wash- ington State legislature an appro- pi'iation was made for investiga- tional work on cranberries and Crowley was sent to do this work after his graduation from Wash- ington College in 1923. For the first two years he did research work on various private bogs, but in 1924 Pacific County provided 13 acres of land on Pioneer Road at Long Beach to serve as an experiment station. Later t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. D. J. CROWLEY much damage to the crop each year as were the three destructive ele- ments he first noted. Full-Time 1923 At the 1923 session of the Wash- ington State legislature an appro- pi'iation was made for investiga- tional work on cranberries and Crowley was sent to do this work after his graduation from Wash- ington College in 1923. For the first two years he did research work on various private bogs, but in 1924 Pacific County provided 13 acres of land on Pioneer Road at Long Beach to serve as an experiment station. Later this property was deeded to the State and additional land was purchased so that the experiment station now contains 52 acres. Crowley went to Massachusetts and New Jersey in September of 1924 and made arrangements to get sev- eral Eastern varieties and blueberry cuttings which were later set out at the Station. As to improving cultural knowl- edge on the Pacific, Crowley, over the years developed spray programs which have greatly improved con- trol of fireworm and fruitworm, at one time two of the major insect pests. The practice of control is now about one tenth of what it formerly was, so much have con-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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