. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Sprinkled Experimental Acre, showing soil plots, pumphouse in background. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Two New Workers, Mass. Station - New Research Acre Two new workers and a new long-range research project are additions to activities at Massa- chusetts Cranberry Experiment Station, East Wareham. Assisting Dr. Bert Zuckerman, Station pathologist is John W. Coughlin, who will study nema- toids, mainly in cranberry soils. Walter Kentfield has been assigned to assist Prof. "Stan" Norton, en- gineering research specialist. An actual
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Sprinkled Experimental Acre, showing soil plots, pumphouse in background. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Two New Workers, Mass. Station - New Research Acre Two new workers and a new long-range research project are additions to activities at Massa- chusetts Cranberry Experiment Station, East Wareham. Assisting Dr. Bert Zuckerman, Station pathologist is John W. Coughlin, who will study nema- toids, mainly in cranberry soils. Walter Kentfield has been assigned to assist Prof. "Stan" Norton, en- gineering research specialist. An actual aci'e of the State Bog has been set aside for many ex- periments, includinf^ overhead sprinkler irrigation, frost control, draining and soil tests. Ditch water level in this acre is to be held at least two and a half feet below the bog floor and water put back through the sprinklers alone. Dr. F. B. Chandler, soil expert, will conduct tests on drainage and of known cranberry soils. The acre was designed and laid out by Norton. The irrigation system consists of Carlon plastic pipe, with two- inch mains, 300 feet long and three quarter inch laterals, 40 feet both ways. An innovation is that the plastic is buried in the bog bed, at a slope to provide for drainage. Risers, 12 inches in height, are from four to ten inches above the bog floor. Installation is designed to be permanent and there is nothing to interfere with ordinary bog operations, as in the layout of m?ny systems with piping above ground. Heads are Rain Bird, No. 20, and at present total 26. Each head is designed to throw 2^/4 gal- lons a minute, providing for an acre inch of water in about IV2 hours. Water source is a section ditch, over which a small pumphouse has been constructed with a Myers centrifigal pump powered by a Wisconsin gas engine. Thermo couples have been installed to ac- curately measure the eff^ect of sprinkling at various temperature ranges; involved would be the size of berries and of size of crop
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