. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. cipal reasons for the decline in Massachusetts and New Jersey was that although there was good bloom the prolonged rainy periods resulted in something less than a good set. Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the Cranberry Experiment Station of the University of Massachusetts, where the meeting was held, re- ported on the activities and devel- opments at the facility, and also had some pertinent remarks con- cerning the attitude of the ecologists and the public toward pesticides. He said that the DDT kill is vastly overstated, that i
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. cipal reasons for the decline in Massachusetts and New Jersey was that although there was good bloom the prolonged rainy periods resulted in something less than a good set. Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the Cranberry Experiment Station of the University of Massachusetts, where the meeting was held, re- ported on the activities and devel- opments at the facility, and also had some pertinent remarks con- cerning the attitude of the ecologists and the public toward pesticides. He said that the DDT kill is vastly overstated, that insecticides have been blamed for things they never caused, and that the alleged build-up of DDT in river estuaries and oceans is "a lot of ; Dr. Cross said that new scientific testing equipment recently obtained has made possible proof of the above assertions. He said that through data accumulation, "we have given good reason why we think environment is not being hurt by use of ; He said the tests made of 160 water areas in Southeastern Massa- chusetts; on Cape Cod and in Ply- mouth County shcJwed that there was less than 10 parts per trillion of DDT and the same with dieldrin, one of the pesticides used by cran- berry growers. Reference was also made by Dr. Cross to the defoliation and damage being caused by the gypsy moth. He observed that when the areas were sprayed with DDT back in the 1940s, the moths were eliminated for many years-not just one year. lobbying of such organizations as the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, who seem to have unlim- ited funds, and possess a lot of power. What can we do about it? It is time we got together in ag- riculture. It is time the Farm Bu- reau members stopped giving their information just to their own mem- bers. Our children are being edu- cated today in this environmental frenzy we are going through. These were some of the other statements made by Dr. Fisher. "What can we do about it? The
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