. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SERVING THE WISCONSIN GROWERS (Continued from Page 18) extreme prolonged temperatures and with the lack of snow oxygen de- feciency should be no problem. As a precaution any water under the ice was removed before months end. The early freeze down enabled some marshes to start sanding operations prior to Christmas. Most marshes were planning to do some sanding. NEW JERSEY Weather Report — December The weather in December in the cranberry belt in New Jersey was unusually cold. The temperature averaged 30, which is colder than nor
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SERVING THE WISCONSIN GROWERS (Continued from Page 18) extreme prolonged temperatures and with the lack of snow oxygen de- feciency should be no problem. As a precaution any water under the ice was removed before months end. The early freeze down enabled some marshes to start sanding operations prior to Christmas. Most marshes were planning to do some sanding. NEW JERSEY Weather Report — December The weather in December in the cranberry belt in New Jersey was unusually cold. The temperature averaged 30, which is colder than normal. Rainfall totaled inches, which is just about normal. There were three light snowfalls but no accumulation as rain fol- lowed each one. Year, 1962 The year 1962 was considerably cooler than normal. Every single month of the year had below nor- mal average temperature excepting April, which was exactly normal. The average annual temperature was , which is colder than normal. This tied 1958 for the lowest average annual temperature ever recorded in the 33-year weather recording history at the lab. The extremes were 95 on May 9th and one below zero on February 11th. There was a paucity of 90 days dur- ing the year, there being only four SPRINKLER SYSTEMS PUMPS HIGH CAPACITY WELLS ROBERTS IRRIGATION SERVICE STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN in May, four in June, two in July, one in August and none in Septem- ber. This lack of extremely warm days made for a good quality cran- berry without the usual New Jer- sey "scald" condition. However, mosi growers thought that! the berries failed to develop good size under the cool conditions. RainfaU Up The total annual rainfall was inches, which is 6 inches more than normal. However we did have dry cool weather from the middle of May to the middle of June. Oxygen Ample On January 8, samples of the flood water, taken from 12 repre- sentative cranberry bogs in New Jersey, showed that the oxygen content was ample in all
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