. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture on Sept. 18-23 held its annual meeting in Massachusetts for the first time in the 63 year history of the organization. The group, representing 47 states, was taken on a tour of the cranberry industry on the 22nd. Chester Cross, Robert Devhn, Charles Brodel, John Norton and the author served as tour guides on the buses. Dr. Cross also attended the business meeting and banquet. At least some of the group will remember the cranberry trip, as we managed to'get two buses stuck
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture on Sept. 18-23 held its annual meeting in Massachusetts for the first time in the 63 year history of the organization. The group, representing 47 states, was taken on a tour of the cranberry industry on the 22nd. Chester Cross, Robert Devhn, Charles Brodel, John Norton and the author served as tour guides on the buses. Dr. Cross also attended the business meeting and banquet. At least some of the group will remember the cranberry trip, as we managed to'get two buses stuck in soft sand at a bog site. Dr. Robert Devlin of the Massachu- setts Cranberry Experiment Station attended the Plant Growth Regulator Group annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla., recently. Bob presented a research paper and chaired a section on growth regulator research. Prof. John S. Norton attended a joint meeting of the North Atlantic Region of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Canadian Society of Agri- cultural Engineers and the Agricul- tural Institute of Canadian Science Societies at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. There were sessions on energy conservation, irrigation, harvesting and storage. We were visited at the station recently by two well known cranberry research and extension workers. Dr. Donald Boone, pathol- ogist from the University of Wisconsin, attended the growers meeting and spent the week of Aug. 17 looking at some of our bogs, taking pictures and talking with the staff. We also had a nice visit on Aug. 24 from Arthur Poole of Oregon. Art is the extension agent from Coos County, which involves him heavily with cranberry growers. By CAROLYN CALDWELL Six busloads of members of the National Association of State Department of Agriculture toured the Makespeace, Decas and Crane- brook bogs. At Makespeace, the association members saw water picked berries being loaded by elevator-conveyor into trucks. The Cranebrook operation uses
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