. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Severe Frost Damage in N. J. Severe late frosts in May have caused considerable damage to the cranberry crop in New Jersey. Temperatures were critically low y on twelve nights during the month; reading below 20°F. were recorded on the nights of May 7 and 24. This latter freeze, which was one of the most extreme ob- served by many old cranberry veterans for so late in the season, caused extensive killing of fruit buds. The effects were quite startling. Oak ti-ees' had their foliage com'pletely killed as high as 30 feet from the grou
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Severe Frost Damage in N. J. Severe late frosts in May have caused considerable damage to the cranberry crop in New Jersey. Temperatures were critically low y on twelve nights during the month; reading below 20°F. were recorded on the nights of May 7 and 24. This latter freeze, which was one of the most extreme ob- served by many old cranberry veterans for so late in the season, caused extensive killing of fruit buds. The effects were quite startling. Oak ti-ees' had their foliage com'pletely killed as high as 30 feet from the ground and, as a result, large tracts of oak present the appearance of having been subjected to forest fire. Some sections fo bogs flooded with 2 or 3 inches of water which did not completely cover the up- rights were damaged, despite the fact that they were covered with dense fog all night. Even bogs drawn as late as May 10 suffered some loss. Fruit buds, which were still tight or only slightly swelled and considered "hardened" by previous cold nights, were des- troyed in unflooded areas. Estimates of the loss to the Nt'w Jersey cranberry crop entailed in pll of the frosts in May run as high as 40 to 50 per cent. The prospects are for a very short crop and for quite a late one. Blueberries Hit Also Blueberry losses were also se- vere. In many fields over 50 per cent of the early varieties were destroyed. The late varieties, especially Jersey and Rubel which account for most of the acreage in New Jersey, came through without excessive loss in most fields. Losses were heavy in the Sheep Pen Hill and Chatsworth areas, moderate in the Magnolia and Weymouth area, and slight around Hammonton. Plantings referred to as "woods" fields, located in low sandy-peat regions of the Pine Ban-ens, were general- ly more affected than those planted to sandy loam soils. In a few cases irrigation set-ups al- most completely saved the crop. Coldest May TJie-month averaged °F.,
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