. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. DURING THIS SUMMER'S EXTREME DROUGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS, growers with sprinkler systems used these with great success. Photo shows a 14-acre installation at the Atwood Bog of the Beaton Company, "Shoe- string" Road, Carver. The layout was engineered chiefly by "Bill" Stearns of the Beaton Company, Installation was by the Larchmont Engineering Company of Lexington, and is a solid-set alumimmi system. Sprinkler heads are Buckners, set 80 feet by 80. This is a low gallonage systems. Marketing Order Opens New Markets
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. DURING THIS SUMMER'S EXTREME DROUGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS, growers with sprinkler systems used these with great success. Photo shows a 14-acre installation at the Atwood Bog of the Beaton Company, "Shoe- string" Road, Carver. The layout was engineered chiefly by "Bill" Stearns of the Beaton Company, Installation was by the Larchmont Engineering Company of Lexington, and is a solid-set alumimmi system. Sprinkler heads are Buckners, set 80 feet by 80. This is a low gallonage systems. Marketing Order Opens New Markets For Ancient Crop California date growers are earn- ing more money these days by finding new uses and new markets for one of the world's oldest crops —dates, so reports the June issue of "Agricultural Marketing," publica" tion of the USDA agricultural and agricultural marketing service. "As the result of a research and development program sponsored by the date growers under a Federal marketing order a whole new family of date products is on the market, and export markets for California dates have been developed where none existed before. "The new date products have in- creased in annual sale to faioturers from about 700,000 poutids in the 1954-56 season to nearly 8 million pounds in the 1961-62 season. New export markets took more than 400,000 pounds of dates last year, and the research program is turn- ing up even more new products and important improvements in pro- cessing the dates themselves. "Date growers' returns had fallen below costs of production back in 1954, when the industry decided a marketing order offered them a Sixteen way to work together on their mar- keting ; Article goes to siay "restricted" portion of the crop could not be profitably sold as packaged dates in the U. S. market and were diver- ted to processing outlets, which would not compete with packaged dates. "What outlets might there be?
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