. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Wisconsin's Production Increase Will Hold TOTAL PRODUCTION IN THOUSANDS OF BARRELS. YEAR MOVING AVERAGE 46 4 4 BARRELS PER ACRE 42' 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26' 24 22 20 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Wisconsin Work of L M. Rogers Is Contributing Factor By NEIL E. STEVENS In relation to Lawrence M. Rogers' work in Wisconsin, I have been repeatedly reminded of the best witticism ever attributed to Thomas Jefferson. On his ar- rival in Paris as representative of the United States to France, some- one is said to have r
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Wisconsin's Production Increase Will Hold TOTAL PRODUCTION IN THOUSANDS OF BARRELS. YEAR MOVING AVERAGE 46 4 4 BARRELS PER ACRE 42' 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26' 24 22 20 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Wisconsin Work of L M. Rogers Is Contributing Factor By NEIL E. STEVENS In relation to Lawrence M. Rogers' work in Wisconsin, I have been repeatedly reminded of the best witticism ever attributed to Thomas Jefferson. On his ar- rival in Paris as representative of the United States to France, some- one is said to have remarked, "You replace Dr. FrankUn, I ; Jefferson replied, "I succeed him; no one can replace ; As many of the readers of CRANBERRIES know, Lawrence Rogers served as cranberry spec- ialist for the Wisconsin Depart- ment of Agriculture from 1928 to 1936. Since that time I have spent what universities, somewhat mistakenly, refer to as my "vaca- tions" in the same position. Dur- ing this period I have been contin- ually and increasingly impressed with Rogers' efficiency in what is now called agricultural extension work, in the very best sense of the word. Of course, I knew Mr. Rogers very well during the fifteen sum- mers I spent on Cape Cod. I knew that he had been for some thirty years a successful bog manager. I knew also that two successful bog owners and many foremen had received their training under him. I knew that he had designed one of the most successful and widely used rake teeth on the Cape. He was the first man on the Cape to observe the value of late holding of the winter flowage as a means of reducing rot; kept one of the best sets of meteor- ological records, and was the first man to construct a screen-house in which the sorting is done inside a warm room, through which the berries move on belts too quickly to become seriously injured by warming. As a result of the hours in which we discussed cranberry problems, I had acquir
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