Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-01-12

Of CRANBERRY
GROWERS MEET
Fine Meeting at the City Hall on Tues
day-Whole State Represented.

Some fifty people, including repre-
sentatives from all the important Gran.
berry growing sections of the state
met at the City Hall Monday evening
and Tuesday at the Annual Meeting
of the State Cranberry Growers Asso-
citation. Monday evening was given
over to an interesting and instructive
lecture by Professor Vaughn of the
State Experimental Station, on the re-
suits of experiments with various me-
thods and devices for the use of cram
berry growers.
! Tuesday morning was largely given
to discussion of the various problems
| OF cranberry growers relative to III
sect pests, frosts, and water conditions.
Some growers from the Mather, Gran
| moor and other districts where the
1921 crop was very light were called
upon to tell what they considered to
be the chief cause of the. failure. The
general opinion was that there had
been some slight damage by fruit
worm, more damage by frost late in
the spring and most damage by the
extreme dry hot weather of the mid
die part of the growing season.
Growers from the north part OF the
state, from Phillips, Beaver Brook and
other bogs which produced well the
past season were asked to what they
attributed their success. Their ans
wers indicated the success of a novel
method of treating for fruit-worm as
one factor, the cool clear water used
for flooding as another, since it low
cred the temperature somewhat, as a
second, and as the third and most pow
erful factor, perhaps, the fact of a
good rain in the middle of the season
which the growers of the central dis
tricts did not get.
Officers Elected
Shortly before noon, as some of the
visitors were to go home on the noon
train, the election of officers was call
ed.
Mr.. Andrew Searls, who has long
served as President of the organiza-
E,tion, stated that he was not to be re-
garded as candidate for the place.
Charles Lewis of Beaver Brook was
unanimously elected to succeed him.
Captain Guy Nash was unanimously
reelected president, and Mrs. S..
N. Whittlesey of Cranmoor was re-
elected Secretary, a place which she
has efficiently filled for a considerable
period of years. NJ. O. Potter was
named to continue as member of the
Executive Committee.
After the election Miss Hyck of
M1nong, Wis, prominent grower in
the new section of the state, read a
Ipaper on the success of her experiment
with a food treatment for fruit-worm
IN August. She selected a cloudy day.
tins year 1t was the ninth of August)
and put the water on the marsh allow
ing 1t to stand for sc hours, then drain
ed it off. The fruit-worms had been
killed entirely by this treatment, it
was found The essential of this treat
ment was thought during the discus
sion, to be that it be on a cool day to
Iprevent scalding of vines and berries.
and that it remain on at least 35 or 36
hours to make sure of destroying all
of the worms
President Searls told Of his success
this past season and gave in detail the
methods by which it was achieved. C.
l.. Lewis spoke of the benefits of care
fui pruning each year to promote the
growth of new uprights and to stin-
ulate the development of more fruit
buds.
| In the afternoon A. E. Bennett of
the Cranr1oor district gave a talk on
the water supply in the older districts
and on methods by which more de-
pendable supply might be secured. He
was followed by Mr.. II. II. Gebhardt
of River Falls who spoke on the va
rieties Of berries raised in Wisconsin
He declared in favor of making new
lplantings from native stock which has
become accli1lrated and whose char
acteristics have been crystallized by
development under local conditions.
Guy Nash read a paper on the Sec
Iond Year Development on Biron Bog
While the extremely dry season this
past year and some difficulties VIII
machinery had hindered the work this
year, he said, still he was optimistic
as to the outlook for the future ane
felt that things would come out fnel,
on this new marsh.
| A paper by 0. G. Malde of Tonaah or
the Landmarks of the 1921 Season. hae
not reached the Secretary Tuesday af
iternoon and was necessarily omitted
from the program. The remaining time
twas taken up with discussions of re
building of bogs by plowing and re
planting, which vas advocated b,
Isome. Others favored the use of tn,
water cure to rid marshes of gra sse.
and to fertilize them, but it was con
Iceded that plowing under and floodins
! for season is necessary in case O,
! the ground being over-run with brusl
or slough grass. The oldar ar,5 ,..o,