The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-08-25
Midsummer Meeting of Cranberry
Growers

olOWCISs
d The American Cranberry Growers A.
a ISOLATION held its usual midsummer cor
: vention on Saturday. The place selecte
! this year was the bog of Joseph J. White
e well known as the most extensive an
t complete plant of its kind in tn
: country. There was large attendant
< of prominent cranberry growers as wei
: as of men who are interested in tn
!. production and protection of the fruit.
|, Frank S. Chambers, son-in-law of MI
0 White, delivered the address of welcom
Y in which he referred to the great progress
that had taken place in the cranberr,
business during the last several years
5 He extended the freedom of the bogs t,
the visitors and hoped they would all b,
pleased and instructed by what they
: would see and hear. c. Fowler Cline
mayor of Wenonah, spoke in answer tt
Mr.. Chambers welcome, after which E
: ID. Durell, Of Woodbury., president of the
Association, delivered an address, His
subject was Harvesting cranberries-
: the best up-to-date method" He began
his address by saying that it takes the
} earth the same number of DAYS to make
! Its revolution around the sun as it did
, Three quarters of century ago. Then it
was incumbent upon the farmer and the
head of every household to provide a
dinner for every day, but there must be
an especial feast known as harvest din
ner, which implied harvest day on
winch the farmer would employ sufficient
help to cut and put in shock all of his
crop OF grain, the work being done
mostly with sickle. But that day has
passed and no one expects the farmer to
harvest his entire crop in day, nor do
we near of the sickle being used ex-
cluslvely, if at all. With all the changes
that nave taken place in farming there
necessarily have come changes in harvest
ing cranberries. While the motor reaper
nad become one of the most useful adj
Juncts OF the farm, nobody had vet in
vented motor cranberry picker. In
the mind of the speaker the best method
OF picking berries was by the scoop. He
/ gave several reasons for this idea. With
the adoption of the scoop there would
come other things to be considered,
among them the preservation of the
vines, the best scoop to be used, the
management of the scoopers and other
questions bearing upon the subject. His
talk, however, was on the best up-to-date
method OF harvesting berries and this he
oellved to be the scooping system.
"A. ). Rider, OF Hammonton, secretary
of the Association, read his report and
crop forecast. He said that so crop re
ports from New Jersey and Long Island
showed an aggregate crop, in 1913, of
lf6, Io3 bushels, and an estimated crop
for the present year, of 243, 40 bushels,
an increase of 374 per cent over 1913. He
thought the outlook was more favorable
this year than it had been for a long
time. There had not been SO much for
the grower to contend with. either be-
cause the pests and other evils had de-
creased or the growers had discovered
how to contend with them.
DR.. }. g. Lipman, director of the New
Jersey State Experiment Station, fol-
lowed Mr.. Rider, and he took up the
subject of pests that annoy the cram
berry grower. He had tried to get the
New Jersey Legislature to put in the ap-
preparation bill the sum of $4,000 for
cranberry work, but was not successful.
There was need of the cranberry growers
getting together and working with the
state experiment station to provide for
permanency of experiments that must
undoubtedly result to the benefit of
those most interested in this verv i'm
portant crop.
DIR. j. L. Headlee, also of the State
Experiment Station, spoke on the insect
problem. He believed very good idea
would be to employ man to find out
in advance what is necessary to keep
a bog free from pests. He should be one
acquainted with all sorts of insect pests.
At least IS per cent. of the injury to
boys is done before the grower knows it
has occurred. This can be eliminated.
In several cases of other crops the
speaker had secured beneficial results bv
the method he was advocating and he
knew 1t could be done in this instance
ii. b Scammell, of the U. S. Depart
ment OF Agriculture, had given especial
attention to pests of all kinds, and par
ticularly those which infest the cram
10 haI.
was as good way as any to get rid of
many of the worms that do SO much
damage to the boys. He told how he
would flood boys. Water does not kill
the worms and larvae unless it is applied
systematically and with careful calcula-
ton. 1t should be allowed to remain on
the boys at least "a hours and then. after
a short period, refiooding should be re-
sorted to. The speaker had found that
water judiciously applied did more to ex-
terminate worms than any poison or in
secticide that had been suggested.
Secretary Rider alluded toexperiments
that had been tried on ground that had
appeared to have outlived it's usefulness
as cranberry bog. He recently walked
over piece of land that was, twenty
years ago, one of the finest cram
berry bogs in the neighborhood It'll
grew 300 bushels of cranberries to the
acre. Today it is producing peaches that
are netting $1,000 per acre. Another bog
he knew of was now a thriving alfalfa
field
Frank S. Chambers, member of the
legislative committee, made a report in
which he paid especial attention to the
subject of child labor. He alluded to the
articles that had been published in
magazine showing that children were
working on boys when they should be
engaged in play or at school. The sub
jects of the magazine articles had all
been investigated and there had been
found that there was no foundation for
them and that they were the result of
false impressions being conveyed to the
writer's who did not look sufficiently into
the conditions that were presented to
them. Efforts will be made to get some
of the writers to visit the boys during
the picking season and properly inform
themselves upon the true condition of
affairs.
Luncheon was served in the large
StOrehOuSe on the bog and then there