. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FRED MAHN, left, and Jack Traino consolidated 10 ditches into one in order to improve water management at Sweetwater Bog. (CRANBERRIES photo by Elizabeth G. Carpenter) believe that long-term leasing is a good idea. In this instance, leasing has given them additional incentive to use "best management practices," consider possible installation of sprinkler irrigation and project the redevelopment of two additional Double Trouble bogs, Gowdy and Upper Hooper. Area naturalists welcome their efforts because native orchids are
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FRED MAHN, left, and Jack Traino consolidated 10 ditches into one in order to improve water management at Sweetwater Bog. (CRANBERRIES photo by Elizabeth G. Carpenter) believe that long-term leasing is a good idea. In this instance, leasing has given them additional incentive to use "best management practices," consider possible installation of sprinkler irrigation and project the redevelopment of two additional Double Trouble bogs, Gowdy and Upper Hooper. Area naturalists welcome their efforts because native orchids are reappearing in abundance adjacent to bogs where shad-bush and cinammon fern had become dominant. A recently approved herbicide has been an invaluable ally in Mahn's and Traino's efforts to control the infestation of red root, meadow beauty, braken fern, swamp maple, high bush blueberry and cedar which once overtook the bogs. Mahn says he and Traino were among the first growers in the area to use a weed wiper. Recalhng their initial weed wiper efforts, Mahn said: "We joined with Bill Haines (Haines & Haines cranberry growers, Chatsworth, ) and worked with Thompson's Welding Service, Pemberton, , in developing a wiper ; This year he and Traino made a further adaptation of that design, using the Moutler Method. Harry Moulter, recently retired assistant to PhU Marucci, extension special- ist in cranberry and blueberry culture, conceived the idea of returning excess solution to the supply tank with the use of electric fuel pumps so that there is no dripping onto cranberry vines. Now, with weeds well under control, aerial apphcation of fertilizer can be made to the three bogs. TWO VARIETIES of cranberry, Howes and Early Black, are grown at Double Trouble. Sweetwater Bog, which contains Howes, consistently has been the most productive. Today, a tight state budget could gnaw at the revitalization efforts at Double Trouble, just as muskrats had undermined th
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