. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. variety of Centennials, 30 of Late Howes; there are about a dozen acres of Croppers, a big beautiful berry of good color a good deal like an Early Black. There are no native Jersey vines left in the DeMarco bogs. When the bogs were bought back in 1941 by JVIr. DetMarco there were only about 130 acres and now the property has grown to the present 500, with as much expansion as the water supply will permit, and as fast as market conditions justify. All bogs are flowed by gravity, no putmps at all being necessary. The frost season is
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. variety of Centennials, 30 of Late Howes; there are about a dozen acres of Croppers, a big beautiful berry of good color a good deal like an Early Black. There are no native Jersey vines left in the DeMarco bogs. When the bogs were bought back in 1941 by JVIr. DetMarco there were only about 130 acres and now the property has grown to the present 500, with as much expansion as the water supply will permit, and as fast as market conditions justify. All bogs are flowed by gravity, no putmps at all being necessary. The frost season is one of about six â weeks with water going off by May 10th. Earl does the frost flowing alone except on bad nights when Mr. De- Marco comes up to help out. There are 75 to 100 wooden "trunks" to care for. In Massachusetts they would be called flumes. In New Jer- sey they also "pull a 'board," or put in a board," rather than "p^ull Qr put in a plank" in Massachusetts par- lance. The "trunks" are also known as gates which is a rather general term throughout the cranberry in- dustry. Ml bogs are sprayed for rot using ground sprayers, a Bean machine with a 54 foot Wisconsin type boom. A very large quantity of Ferbam IS put on each year in four appli- cations to control the rot situation. Insecticides, Parathion and DDT are applied by straight-wing airplane service supplied by the Down^Town Aenal Crop Service. Earl In Charge Eighteen men are kept busy during the growing season with Earl in charge of the gang. Sixty-five men do the harvest work, all being Puerto Ricans. Like most Jersey growers DeMarco provides his own housing. There is a battery of 7 Darlington pickers. There is an extensive fertilization program. There are sorting- and warehouses large one story buildings being made of stucco ever cinder block. There are about a dozen Hayden Cranberry Separators. There are about 18 women sorters, mostly wo- men Who live in town. &
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