. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by J. RICHARD BEATTIE Extension Cranberry Specialist. The cranberry harvest began about September 6, which is a week to ten days earlier than last year. Weather conditions have been fav- orable for the harvest season with cool, clear days and nights, but with very few threats of frost to date (October 7). Temperatures for September were about normal, while those for the first week in October were running a little be- low normal. This is quite a con- trast compared to last year when picking be
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass. Cranberry Station and Field Notes by J. RICHARD BEATTIE Extension Cranberry Specialist. The cranberry harvest began about September 6, which is a week to ten days earlier than last year. Weather conditions have been fav- orable for the harvest season with cool, clear days and nights, but with very few threats of frost to date (October 7). Temperatures for September were about normal, while those for the first week in October were running a little be- low normal. This is quite a con- trast compared to last year when picking began late, and we exper- ienced high temperatures through most of the fall. High temper- atures are known to increase fun- gous activity in stored fruit. It certainly would be to our advant- age to have cool weather continue through the fall season. However, we hasten to add that it is hoped that frosts can be deferred until after harvest since water supplies are very critical in Massachusetts. A large pei'centage of growers lack frost protection or winter protec- tion for that matter, and many growers reported that they had only one frost flow in their res- ervoirs at the start of the picking season. Only one frost warning has been sent out up to October 7, as compared to seven warnings given out last year during the same period. Speaking of frost warnings, it has been necessary to make a change in the radio frost warning schedule. Because of a conflict in Sunday night programs, frost warnings, if any, will be broadcast Sunday evenings over Radio Sta- tion WBZ at rather than at The rest of the schedule re- mains unchanged. County agri- cultural agents have sent out a card notifying growers on their mailing list of the change. It will save the telephone distributors considerable time, and the Associ- ation many toll calls, if growers will notify the distributors as soon as they have finished picking. One of the highlights of Sep- tember for some of us here at the Cran
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