. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. itinerant farm laborers and who werebroughtin from Philadelphia. While the Lee family had not expected a commercially viable crop in 1986, the members had looked forward to the first harv- est as an indicator of what future crops of the Crowley would be like as to quantity and quality. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had something to say at this point—and it wasn Y nice. In the last few days of July, a series of violent thunderstorms swept through the Chatsworth region. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in sud- den, torrential downpours. Lo
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. itinerant farm laborers and who werebroughtin from Philadelphia. While the Lee family had not expected a commercially viable crop in 1986, the members had looked forward to the first harv- est as an indicator of what future crops of the Crowley would be like as to quantity and quality. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had something to say at this point—and it wasn Y nice. In the last few days of July, a series of violent thunderstorms swept through the Chatsworth region. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in sud- den, torrential downpours. Local flooding occurred, but the real damage came from a squall line of vicious hailstorms, with ice pellets as large as mar- bles. Traffic on Route 563 came to a halt as frightened drivers pulled their vehicles onto the shoulders to await the end of the rapid fire drumming from the skies. Several windshields were cracked. What the hailstorms did to scattered cranberry fields was yet another grim story. Count- less immature green berries had been knocked to the ground. Those that were left on the vines in the affected fields were severely impact damaged. To help prevent the spread of fungal disease, the Lee's made Paul's Machine &T00I COMPLETE MACHINE SHOP SERVICE Specializing in Building & Repair of Cranberry [Equipment WARRENS WI 54666 (608)378-4511. FORMER CAMBODIAN REFUGEES employed as itineran farm workers planted the new Lee Brothers bog in New Jer sey. (CRANBERRIES photo by Cornelius Hogenbirk. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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