. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FORKIGN VISITORS—C. D. Hammond, left, Wisconsin Cran- berry Sales company, explains cranberry culture to four Dutch ag-ricultural specialists at the Biron Cranberry company marsh during a tour Monday. The visitors are, left to right after Hammond, Jan D. Gerritsen, Wilhelmus de Groot, Adriaan van Oosten and Miss Hester G. Kronenberg. The four are touring the United States to study production, harvesting and marketing of small fruit crops. (Tribune Staff Photo) Dutch Visitors Study Cranberry Marsh Operations Around Wisconsin Rapids
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FORKIGN VISITORS—C. D. Hammond, left, Wisconsin Cran- berry Sales company, explains cranberry culture to four Dutch ag-ricultural specialists at the Biron Cranberry company marsh during a tour Monday. The visitors are, left to right after Hammond, Jan D. Gerritsen, Wilhelmus de Groot, Adriaan van Oosten and Miss Hester G. Kronenberg. The four are touring the United States to study production, harvesting and marketing of small fruit crops. (Tribune Staff Photo) Dutch Visitors Study Cranberry Marsh Operations Around Wisconsin Rapids Four Dutch agricultural experts toured southern Wood County, Wisconsin in mid-July visiting- cranberry marshes. They were es- corted by "Del" Hammond, Wis- consin Cranberry Sales Company, and DeVerne Mathison, Wood County Extension Service, and Martion Hoenveld of Vesper. The four from the Netherlands were Welhelmus de Groot, Bred; Jan D. Gerritsen, Gelderntalsen; Adrian van Oosten, Kapelle-Bie- zelinge and Miss Hester G. Kron- enberg, Wageningan. They were interested in small fruits, including strawberries, respberries, blue ber- ries. They were much impressed with the large-scale application of insecticides to the cranberry. marshes by airplane and ground sprayers and with chemical weed control. They studied harvesting of small fruit, production and marketing data, plant disease control meth- Twelvp ods, fertilizing soil preparation, processing of small fruits, qaulity control methods and shipping. They were spending two and one-half months in a swing through the northern United States on a technical assistance trip arranged; by the Economic Cooperative Administration, the United States Department of Agri- culture and the U. S. land-grant universities. There is some cranberry pro- duction in Holland, although total planting's do not exceed one hun- dred acres. Production of small fruit in Hol- land, a number of the group said is mostly in the hands of about 20,000
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