. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Please send copies of THE CRAN- BERRY CONNECTION, $ each. Name Address Zip Add $ for postage; Conn, residents add 7% sales tax. CRANBERRIES MAGAZINE P. O. Box 249, Cobalt, CT 06414 'S ROBERT NIEMI ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS HEAT, LIGHT and POWER WIRING • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL TEL. 295-1880 Robert Nicmi Ptnehurst Dr. Warcham, hazard made it possible to cultivate huge tracts of wetlands for the production of rice. Corn production per acre has increased from an average of 25 bushels 50 years ago to current y
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Please send copies of THE CRAN- BERRY CONNECTION, $ each. Name Address Zip Add $ for postage; Conn, residents add 7% sales tax. CRANBERRIES MAGAZINE P. O. Box 249, Cobalt, CT 06414 'S ROBERT NIEMI ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS HEAT, LIGHT and POWER WIRING • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL TEL. 295-1880 Robert Nicmi Ptnehurst Dr. Warcham, hazard made it possible to cultivate huge tracts of wetlands for the production of rice. Corn production per acre has increased from an average of 25 bushels 50 years ago to current yields averaging 100 bushels. Cran- berry production in Massachusetts averaged 40 barrels per acre in 1950 and is currently at 100 barrels. Similar increases have been achieved with most commodities grown in the At least part of this bounty comes from improved insect, weed and disease control, making possible the feeding of increasing millions of Americans and leaving enough left over to relieve hunger and starvation elsewhere m the world. MUCH HAS BEEN done in Mrs. Forrester's own state in the techniques of applying pesticides to the cranberry bogs to avoid harm to birds, bees and the aquatic environment. Many applications of insecticides and fungicides are made at dusk or after dark through sprinkler systems to avoid any direct spraying of birds and bees. Aircraft appUcations are made in early morning when wind velocity is less than 7 miles per hour. Drift problems have been sharply reduced by the abandonment of insecticide dusts. Granular herbicides do not drift onto neighbor's property. There is no suggestion in the writings of Mrs. Forrester that the cranberry industry has for decades been using flood waters and its expensive resanding practice in conjunction with pesticides (when occasion required) in an integrated pest control effort. Fewer farmers now provide all the food, feed and fiber needed by this great country. They constitute a small minority of this co
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