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Anyone who has visited the Ocean Spray plant at Babcock, Wise, during the peak of harvest time, has seen the backup of trucks that often occurs there. There are times when there are more than 30 trucks waiting to dump. Sometimes these trucks
must wait more than six hours to dump.
To help overcome this problem, Ocean Spray has begun construc- tion on a new receiving plant. The new plant will be located on State Highway 21, 3.9 miles east of Interstate 90-94 near Tomah, Wise.
The new plant wiU be situated on about 145 acres of land. It will feature a 42,000 square foot building, pools larger and easier to clean than those at the present Babcock plant, a projected 1 ,500 barrels per hour capacity (and, hopefully, twice that), three hoists and three dump sites, and one scale.
Water will be drawn from two wells on the site, with additional water for pool refills held in a reservoir. Waste water will be held in a 20,000 square ' foot pool, with solid pool waste being landfilled on a 75 to 80 acre area on the site.
The newly designed pools should eliminate downtime for cleaning and one-way traffic around the plant should cut down on traffic jams.
Land clearing began last
COVER PHOTO MILLIONS of berries are dunked into pools at the Hiller Cranberry Co. Story begins on page 6. (CRANBERRIES photo by Carolyn Caldwell)
GARY PALOTTl, senior project manager, left, and Thomas F. Bleck, general contractor, go over the blueprint for the new receiving plant in Babcock, Wise. (CRANBERRIES photo by Dan Brockman)
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The cash value of the cranberry crop in Massachusetts grew immensely from 1980 through 1982, according to figures released by the USDA's New England Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
Cash receipts from the market- ing of cranberries amounted to $53,951,000 in 1982. The figure for 1981 was $48,638,000 and for 1980, $39,698,000.
Receipts from the 1983 crop are expected to exceed the 1982 figure by a goodly margin.
Crops accounted for 63 percent of farm marketing receipts, livestock, 37 percent. Cranberries accounted for 15 percent of total farm marketing receipts.
Farm marketing receipts for Massachusetts in 1982 amounted to $227,837,000, an increase from the previous two years.
Massachusetts ranks third among the five New England
states in farm receipts. Maine and Vermont are first and second.
Cash receipts for all of New England were $ 1 .6 billion in 1982, down 1 percent from the 1981 total.
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THE NA TIONA L CRA NBERR Y MAGAZINE
VOLUME 48-NO. 1
January 1984 Send correspondence to:
P.O. BOX 249 Cobalt CT 06414 (203) 342-4730
Bob Taylor, Publisher/Editor Carolyn Caldwell, Associate Editor
ADVISORS, CORRESPONDENTS
rviASSACHUSETTS— Irving E. Demoranville, Director, Cranberry Experiment Station.
NEW JERSEY— Philip E. Marucci, Cranberry and Blueberry Specialist, Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory, Chatsworth; Elizabeth G. Carpenter, Chatsworth.
NOVA SCOTIA— I. V. Hall, Botanist, Research station, Kentville.
OREGON— Arthur Poole, Coos County Extension Agent, Coquille.
WASHINGTON— Azmi Y. Shawa, Horticulturist and Extension Agent in Horticulture, Coastal Washington Research and Extension Unit, Long Beach.
WISCONSIN— Tod D. Planer, Farm r\/1anagement Agent, Wood County; Dan Brockman, Vesper.
CRANBERRIES is published monthly by the Taylor Publishing Co., Wellwyn Drive, Portland CT 06480. Second class postage is paid at the Portland, Conn., Post Office. Price istlO a year, $ 18 for two years, Jl a copy in the U.S.; $ 1 2 a year in Canada; $ 15 a year in all other countries. Copyright 1984 by Taylor Publishing. ISSN: 001 i-0787
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By CAROLYN CALDWELL
The Hiller Cranberry Co. processing plant in North Carver, Mass., has been Hterally swimming with cranberries these days. The
first step in processing wet berries is to dunk them in 8-foot deep pools.
This plant started handling water picked berries in 1973 and has processed them en masse since 1978.
From the berry pools, the fruit is conveyed up elevators for
processing. Three machines each handle 150 to 200 barrels an hour. Some 1 50,000 barrels go through the plant in the course of a season.
This plant also has a busy dry harvest screening area.
It's a lively place in the fall, ac truck after truck rolls in with wet and dry picked berries. Two shifts of employees work from 7 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. well into late fall handling the fruit.
BERRIES are raked toward the elevator, photo by Carolyn Caldwell)
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Massachusetts
By IRVING DEMORANVILLE
Dr. Charles Brodel, representing the Massachusetts Cranberry Experiment Station, attended the recent meeting of the Northeastern Regional IR-4 in Hampton, N.H. Chuck reported on current projects and future needs for pesticides by Massachusetts IR-4 food growers.
Dr. Robert Devlin attended the recent New England Agricultural Chemical Association meeting in Portland, Me.
Dr. Robert Devlin attended the Weed Control Round Table sponsored recently by Agway Inc. in Syracuse, N.Y.
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The harvest was at least 90 percent complete by the time of
this writing and it would appear that the Massachusetts crop will exceed the August estimate by perhaps as much as 10 percent.Probably there'll be a total of 1.4 million barrels, maybe even 1.45 million barrels.
Early Blacks were small in many bogs and the crop did not come up to expectations for many growers. How- ever, the Howes more than made up. Color was slow to develop for both Early Black and Howes but did improve for each variety toward the later part of the harvest.
Nova Scotia
By IVAN V. HALL
In mid-September, I had the good fortune to visit some of the marshes in Wisconsin. I wish to express thanks on behalf of myself and two colleagues to Dr. Malcolm N. Dana and the growers we visited for the information we received.
Washington
The Coastal Washington Research & Extension Unit of Long Beach notes that the color in the '83 cranberry crop was enhanced by cold nights and
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The University of Wisconsin/ Madison Department of Horticulture observes that ideal fall weather resulted in good late season berry sizing, with production reduced slightly by higher than normal fruitworm infestations.
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October temperature was very nearly normal, averaging 0.2 degrees below normal. It was the warmest October smce 1975. Maximum temperature was 78 degrees on the 3rd and minimum 27 degrees on the 31st. Warmer than average periods occurred from the 1st through 6th and 12th-14th. Cooler than normal days were the 10th, 16th, 19th-23rd. Cooler than normal days were the 10th, 16th, 19th-23rd, 25th-27th, 30th and 31st.
Rainfall totaled 4.31 inches, or 7/8 inch above normal, the first above normal since May. We recorded preci- pitation on seven days, with 1.62 inches on the 23rd- 24th as the great- est storm. We are just over 6 inches above normal for 1983 and just 5 inches ahead of 1982.
There were a total of 13 frost warnings issued on 10 days during the frost season, with the first on Oct. 10. The coldest period was toward the end of the month, with a range of 17 to 20 degrees on the 22nd and minimum of 14 degrees on the 29th and 12 degrees on the 30th. For comparison, this was the mildest fall in some years. There were 17 warnings in 1982, 20 in 1981, 28 in 1980 and 17 in 1979. I.E.D.
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The good weather of October continued through November. Harvesting operations consequently went well. Color was somewhat delayed as the warm nights of September were not conducive to color development.
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Question: Is the Crowley variety more susceptible to disease than McFarUn? How do you rate Stevens?
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Question: Is the Lophodermium infecting forest trees the same species infecting cranberries?
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QUESTION BOX . . .
(continued from page 14) L. hypophyllum) and both cause twig blight. Cranberry is the only known host for each.
It is doubtful that spores originating in the wooded areas adjacent to bogs are responsible for blighted areas. The disease is often fust observed at the edge of bogs. However, this is probably due to a more favorable (microclimate) environment for disease development at the edge than m the center of bogs where there is hkely to be better air circulation, etc.
Question: What does the fungus Guignardia mfect and what damage does It inflict on cranberries? I understand there is a "new" name. What is it and why the change?
Answer: The fungus Guignardia vaccinii (the name you are familiar with) was found to be the same as Botryosphaeria vaccinii and because the group (genus) Botryosphaeria was described as named before Guignardia, It (Botryosphaeria) is the correct name.
There are two separate spore stages in the life cycle of the fungus. Botryos- phaeria is the name given to the sexual (perfect stage) spore stage and Phyllos- ticta is the name of the asexual (miperfect) spore stage. The black, circular, pinpoint sized fruiting bodies of Phyllosticta appear on the lower surface of infected leaves. Often they are only on one-half of the leaf.
Recently, it was discovered that two different species of Phyllosticta attack cranberry. One species, P. vaccinii, was only present on samples from Massachusetts and New Jersey. This species causes severe fruit rot in the field (early rot), blossom blight, and stem and leaf blight. The second species, Phyllosticta elongata, is present in all growing areas, including the Pacific Northwest. This species causes less damage than P. vaccinii.
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Judges were Chiis Heyl of Hanson and Jim Dunleavy of Peabody, both of whom are professional chefs.
The contest, open to 10th, 11th and 1 2th grade students from the four cran- berry producing counties, Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth, is sponsored by the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association and funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Dairy Improvement Program.
The winning recipes will be included in a pamphlet with those by wirmers from the seventh annual "Make It Better with Cranberries" competition, held the first weekend of the festival.
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MICHELLE Allen, left, best of show winner, and Jeanne MacLellan, second place winner.
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By FREDRIKA A. BURROWS
No other fruit or berry is so representative of America and all she stands for as the native cran- berry. The Pilgrims found these little "waifs of the swampland" growing wild in the marshes when they stepped ashore at Truro on Cape Cod and again at Plymouth.
COLORFUL accounts of the first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 relate that cranberries were served along with wild turkey, succotash, squash and corn bread when the Pilgrim fathers and their Indian guests gathered around the long pineboard table.
Long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, how- ever, cranberries had been used as lifesaving food and medicine. In 1550, James White Norwood's diary makes reference to Indians using cranberries. In James Rosier's book. The Land of Virginia, printed in England in 1605, he tells of coming ashore and being presented with birch bark cups of these berries.
Roger Williams wrote A>r Into the Language in 1640, in which he described cranberries, calling them "bearberries" because bears ate them.
A charming folk story told on Cape Cod relates how cran- berries came to grow there. It seems that the Rev. Richard Bourne, a preacher and early settler on the Cape, had an argument with an Indian medicine man, presumably a religious argument regarding the powers of each. To prove his superiority, the angry medicine man cast a spell and mired Bourne's feet in sand so that he couldn't move.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE; Ms. Burrows, who resides in West Hyannisport, Mass.. has written considerably on both
cranberries and U.S. history. Her books include The Yankee Scrimshanders, Cannonballs and Cranberries and Windmills on Cape Cod and the Islands. She has had articles published in Yankee, Good Housekeeping, New Hampshire Profiles, New England Guide, Child Life, American Collector, Antiques Journal. Antiques Gazette and Hobbies. )
After much shouting and dickering, it was agreed that the minister would be freed if he could best his opponent in a battle of wits. In the ensuing 15 days, weighty problems and mind boggling questions and answers were exchanged, with neither man winning the battle.
During the time that he was trapped in the sand, goes the legend. Bourne was fed and kept alive by a white dove which placed a succulent red berry in his mouth from time to time.
The medicine man watched the dove's lifesaving ministration' but was unable to cast a spell to prevent them. Finally, exhausted from his own exertions and lack of food and water, the Indian fell to the ground and Bourne wa. set free.
On the frequent trips that the; dove made ministering to Bourne several berries fell to the ground. Finding root in the sand, they grew and multiplied. That was tie beginning of cranberries on Cape
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THE INDIANS used the tart marsh berries, which they called "sassamanesh," in various ways. Green berries, roasted and mashed into a poultice, they believed. Had the power to draw venom from a poisoned-arrow wound. Mixed with deer fat and meal, the ripe berries gave pemmican cakes flavor and appeal. Cooked with corn and beans, they became a favorite dish called "succotash."
Among the many lifesaving practices taught by the Indians to their new neighbors was the preservation and use of the wild fruits and berries growing so abundantly in the woods, fields and marshes. They showed the Pilgrims how to harvest, dry and store the native fruits, vegetables and nuts. Of course, among them was the wild cranberry. The Pilgrim Cook Book, appearing in 1663, described cranberry sauce.
In his 1672 book, New England Rarities Discovered, John Josselyn writes;
"Sauce for the Pilgrims-Cran- berry or Bearberry (because the Bears use much to feed upon them) is a small trayling plant that grows in salt marshes that are overgrown with moss. The berries are a pale yellow color, afterwards red, as big as a cherry, some perfectly round, others oval, all of them hollow with sour astringent taste; they are ripe in August and September. They are excellent against the Scurvy. They are also good to allay the fervor of Hoof-Diseases.
"The EngUsh and Indians use them much, boyling them with sugar for Sauce to eat with their meat; and it is a delicate sauce, especially with Roasted Mutton. Some make tarts with them as with Gooseberries."
On the auspicious occasion when Capt. Richard Cobb took his second wife, Mary Gorham, the daughter of Mayor Gorham of Yarmouth, and, also, to celebrate his election as represen- tative to the Convention of
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Assistance, he had a banquet at his home at which sauce made from wild cranberries was served with turkey. To commemorate the double event, a notch was carved in the beam of their home, which can still be seen.
CAPE COD cranberries were considered such a delicacy and so superior in quality and taste to the European species that the Colonists, in 1677, sent 10 barrels of cranberries, "along with two hogsheads of semp (cracked Indian corn) and 3,000 codfish," to King Charles II to appease him for the coining of the Pine Tree shilling.
As sugar, molasses and maple syrup became more readily avail- able, the Pilgrim and Puritan women, with their English tastes and preferences for preserved and stewed fruit, were soon inventing cranberry sauce, tarts, shrub and nog.
The recipe for a shrub was pubUshed in the "Compleat Cook's Guide" in 1683, which read: "Put a teacupfui of cran- berries into a cup of water and mash them. In the meantime, boil two quarts and a pint of water with one large spoonful of oatmeal and a very large bit of lemon. Then add the cran- berries and as much fine Lisbon sugar as shall leave a smart."
The health giving qualities of these marsh grown berries were
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In the opening of the West, scurvy was also a problem in the logging camps; cranberries, found growing wild, were added to the loggers' rations.
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Contrary to present-day belief, the English liked bright colors and, soon after building their homes and laying by provisions of food, were following the Indians' example of dying wool, yarn and pieces of cloth to be used for patchwork quilts with juices of red and yellow fruits and berries.
When Mary Ring died in Plymouth in 1633, her petticoat was auctioned off by her husband or 1 6 shillings because it was 'wondrously dyed" with cran- berries.
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Blueberries in Missouri
EDITOR'S NOTE: Because so many growers, particularly in New Jersey, grow blueberries as well as cranberries, and because both plants belong to the Vacciniiim family, we will run a piece on blueberries now and then.
By FRANCES JONES
Surely, an acre of heaven is planted to blueberries, where it's always dawn and misty cool. Soft, wet grass curves over the path on the way to berries hanging as big as grapes. Taste their dewy sweetness and satisfy a hunger that's been
there all year.
Such was my feeling on being introduced to blueberries, the wild coastal blueberries of Alaska. Alaska's commercial fishing season was over in late July and by then we had been at camp for two months without fresh fruit or vegetables. That's when blueberries came into their own, and, on those cool, foggy mornings, 1 would have challenged any bear-black, brown or grizzly -for my share.
That was Alaska. In Missouri, it's different.
JULY in Missouri is close to hell for hot and beats an old hen's dust bath for dry. Fog and dew die in the thought and cool doesn't exist. So when I heard that a Texan had moved here and gone into the blueberry business, I was sure he was addled. In my ignorance of blueberry culture, I assumed the ones I bought in pie filling and from the frozen food case were wild ones, and that they came from cool, damp forest clearings similar to the ones I'd known.
The Texans, Roy and Lou Fern Schoenhals, weren't addled; they were taking a
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chance on a new way to farm. Discouraged with wheat farming and wanting a change, they moved first to northwest Arkansas, where they met a number of growers farming some 5 50 acres of blue- berries. The change from wheat to blueberries looked good to them, especially with the Arkansas Blueberry Growers Association headquartered in Fayetteville ready to give them information and advice. They, like me, learned that blueberries tolerate heat if soil and water conditions are right, and if the roots are kept cool. The Schoenhals' began looking for blueberry land.
They needed sandy soil, slightly acid, and a reliable source of irrigation water. And they wanted a location on a hard surface road near a fairly large population center. They found everything they were looking for in 1 1 2 acres on Jenkins Creek in southwest Missouri.
The soil was naturally acid and sandy. (Sandy is a local euphemism for rocks.) There was an abundance of irrigation water
from spring fed Jenkins Creek. The land lay along Interstate 44, and, although the area is rural, there are approximately 100,000 urban residents within a 30 minute drive.
Eight of the 1 1 2 acres were planted with blueberries, 10 with strawberries, and the, up until now, more valuable bottom land was put into pasture for a beef cattle sideline.
SINCE successful blueberry culture depends on lots of water, but not standing water, Schoenhals terraced the rolling upland acres to slow rain water enough to be used by the plants when it's available, yet avoid too much moisture with its resultant root rot. The blueberries were set in hilled rows. A gallon of peat- moss was mixed with dirt from the hole when each plant was set, and a 4-inch mulch of sawdust w; laid over the rows to keep roots cool and to conserve moisture. A 10 foot grass strip was left between the rows.
The "drip" irrigation system Schoenhals installed puts on a gallon of water an hour, three
ROY Schoenhals and his Jenkins Creek Berry Farm. (CRANBERRIES photos by Frances Jones)
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drops at a time. A %-inch plastic pipe runs along each row with a water emitter at every plant, and on hot, dry days the blueberries take 5 gallons of water per plant. Water from the creek is screened at the intake and then triple- screened before it goes into the ■'/i-inch pipes in order to remove impurities which might clog emitters. After four screenings, the creek water is as clear as city tap water.
Preparing the land, buying 80,000 blueberry bushes and installing irrigation doesn't come cheap. Schoenhals invested $5,000 an acre before the first blueberry was picked. He expects a yield of seven tons an acre, all harvested by pick-your-own customers. With fresh blueberries at $3 to $4 a pint in local stores, it's not hard to imagine the attraction for a customer who saves money by picking berries in a clean, chiggerless field.
I ASKED Schoenhals if he was worried about having 56 tons of unpicked blueberries on hand, with no market.
"Listen," he said, "blueberry growers have had people cut fences, crawl over gai.es and plug roads with parked cars when they were trying to get at the berries. With that kind of demand, there's no trouble in selling the product!"
He added that the Arkansas Blueberry Growers Association guaranteed a market for surplus berries and had a mechanical picker available should he need it.
Although Schoenhals gets most of his help from the Arkansas Blueberry Growers, the University of Missouri Research Center at Mount Vernon is just 20 miles from the Schoenhals farm. The Research Center identifies Blueray and Bluecrop cultivars as most productive for this area. Schoenhals grows Blueray and Bluecrop and also Collins, Bluetta and Coville. The Research Center findings suggest that Bluetta and Coville tend to winter kill, but Schoenhals' plants 14
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Don 't rinse blueberries. Immediately after picking, pour 2 or 3 inches deep into a cardboard box— berries, leaves, stems and all— and freeze immediately. When berries are solidly frozen, shake box to break berries apart or rub between hands to separate berries. Shake berries vigorously, then let them roll down a terry cloth towel into a clean container.
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have all survived. He agrees that Blueray is the best producer. The cultivars are all highbush and ripen from mid-June to mid-July.
Raising blueberries isn't all roses. First of all, it takes steady
nerves to move 650 miles, trade endless fields for 8 acres on a hill, invest $40,000 and then wait three seasons for the crop. And some of Schoenhals' customers didn't wait for the crop. They drove out, dug up some plants, and made their own berry patch. That was an expensive nuisance but other things are chancier. Exact soil requirements aren't known for this area, and, the day 1 was there, Schoenhals was worried about some yellow leaves at the top of the plants. He thought they might indicate iron deficiency in the soil.
Drip irrigation is new to this part of the country and dealers are few and far between. Schoenhals had to move his sprinkling system from the strawberries to the blueberry field when the drip emitters didn't spread enough water during dry weather.
Changing from field crops to berry crops means adjusting to farming that demands more hand labor, and more intensive crop care. Comparing the labor requirements of wheat farming and berry culture, Schoenhals said: "Eight acres of blue- berries is equal to 500 acres of wheat in man hours."
Catering to customers who come to the farm calls for lots of extra farm grooming and the
necessity for meeting directly with the public, obligations which some farmers are not willing to accept.
NEVERTHELESS, the Schoenhals' are glad they made the move. Lou Fern, who worked right alongside her husband, put it this way: "Blueberries are a new crop for Missouri, but we think there's money to be made, and, after all, someone has to be first."
The Schoenhals' are living an ever-repeating story of American agriculture-that of making a new start, taking a new chance, trying a new style of farming in search of a more secure future.
As for me, I'm dreaming of some early July morning when it's cool and misty over on Jenkins Creek. If it ever is, look for me in the blueberries. It'll be the closest place to heaven there is around here.
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Don^t provoke a tough tax audit
EDITOR'S NOTE: CRAN- BERRIES is pleased to introduce veteran business writer Joseph Arkin to its readers. Arkin holds a BBA in accounting from St. John's University, an MBA in taxation from Pace College, is licensed by the State of New York as a CPA and is enrolled to practice before the Treasury Department. He has had more than 5,000 articles published in more than 1 ,000 newspapers and magazines.
By JOSEPH ARKIN
The Internal Revenue agent who is assigned to audit your return has undergone a vigorous training regimen in tax law plus a course or two in public relations.
UNLESS you find the unusual agent with a warped personality, you'll likely find that the agent assigned to audit your books is interested in completing his assigned task with a minimum of inconvenience.
If you take the positive attitude and graciously accept the fact of life that the Government has the right to audit your books, you'll be better off. Cooperation is the keynote, for nothing riles an agent more than having to deal with an obstinate taxpayer bent on obstructing the orderly conduct of the audit.
In discussions with IRS agents, we find that the biggest gripe they have is the stall.
"My accountant has my books and records and is too busy now to bring them over," is a favorite ploy.
What gain is there in such delaying tactics? Your business books must be- produced unless vou avail yourself of the right of
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pleading the Fifth Amendment (not available to corporate tax- payers) and force the Government to build its own case against you.
Of course, such a plea is invariably the tip-off that you've got something to hide and you can be sure that the audit will then be assigned to a team of special agents. If a material understate- ment of income is uncovered (25 percent or more), the case can be forwarded through channels with a recommendation for criminal prosecution in addition to civil penalties of 50 percent plus interest.
Thus, we find that a more prudent policy when an agent calls for an appointment is to make one within a reasonable time and to ask for a list of items to have ready. The list you eUcit could be a "tip-off of what areas the agent has been assigned to check. Or, you can refer the agent to your accountant and ask him to make arrangements for the audit. The audit can be held at your place of business or at the accountant's office if that is more convenient to you.
IT IS IRS policy to conduct "office audits" at the local IRS office, but where special conditions prevail (such as voluminous records or your need to remain at your premises), request can be made for the audit to be transferred to the Field Audit Section.
Aside from stalls, wnat else irks agents and puts them into a poor frame of mind, one likely to stir up resentment and possible adverse consequences?
The work space provided should be adequate, with sufficient desk space to lay out books and worksheets. There should be adequate lighting and
ventilation. A place should be provided which is sufficiently quiet to enable the agent to work efficiently.
Record keeping in a proper fashion is likely to produce a "favorable" response from the agent. If he or she asks for specific items to back up entries appearing in your books or on your tax returns, it is poor policy to dump a pile of papers onto the desk and say, "Mere, find what you are looking for!"
The agent can disallow the item in question and say that he could not find any substantiation in the j mess of papers you foisted on him. Thus, you'll have the burden of finding the item anyway at a later date, so why not put your papers into order prior to the audit? And, during the audit, you should volunteer to sort through the papers and produce the sought after items.
EVERY AGENT assigned to check tax returns is versed in the tax law as followed by the procedures of the IRS. In essence, IRS policy and recent court decisions (except U.S. Supreme Court) may be in confUct, but the agent must follow IRS policy. His/her role is to come up with the findings of "no change" or with an assessment of additional taxes.
Where you disagree, don't argui don't cuss out the agent or abuse him/her. Have your accountant call to argue fine points of law. You can refuse to sign the form consenting to the assessment of additional taxes and avail your- self of all the avenues open to argue against the proposed tax deficiency.
BUT, keep in mind that the agent doesn't write tax legislation, nor can he/she change IRS policy.
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Massachusetts
By IRVING DEMORANVILLE
Dr. Charles Brodel and Sherri Roberts of the Cranberry Experiment Station attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Detroit, Mich., from Nov. 28-Dec. 2.
Drs. Stan Karczmarczyk and Irena Zbiec returned to Poland in late October, ending a stay of nearly Vh years with us. They were excellent workers and we will certainly miss them.
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Unofficially, the Massachusetts crop appears to be a record and will surpass the 1982 crop by a considerable margin. Probably, it'll wind up to be a total of 1.400,000 barrels or more.
Art Poole, county extension agent, gave the Bandon (Ore.) Western World the following reason for the lower than anticipated yield last season:
"We had above normal temperatures after the New Year last winter. There- fore, the plants probably didn't go into complete dormancy. Without a sutTicient rest period during dormancy, the plant cannot properly form buds the following spring."
The 1983 harvest was up 13 percent
over last year, but, according to Wayne Scherer. national board member, that's mostly because 10 percent more acreage was planted.
Washington
By AZMI Y. SHAWA
All the indications led to the prospect of a good crop for harvest in 1983. Actual production was an upset for growers.
The 1983 crop is: Graylaud, 98,404 barrels; Long Beach, 25,676; Bandon, Ore., 73,145; British Columbia,
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The LTop in 1982. a poor year lor the West, was: Gra\ land. fi7.35 7; Long Beach. 25.676; Bandon. 63.05 1 : British Columbia. 144.699.
There were, perhaps, many extenuating eirciimstances: slow berry set twhieh led to small berries); weather conditions (unusual day and night temperatures, although the color was very good); early harvest (lor the Grayland area, about the last week m September).
Harvest was a slow process in the Long Beach area due to a shortage of water. It began the first week in October and ended in the middle of November.
* * * * The following meetings are scheduled:
Feb. 21. 7 p.m.- "Fungicide Research. Update," Dr. Peter Bristow , Associate Plant Pathologist. WWEWC, at North Willapa Harbor Grange, Grayland. Feb. 24, 7 p.m. -same speaker at CWREL. Long Beach,
.March 6, 7 p.m.- "Herbicide Research, Lpdate," A. Y. Shawa,
North Willapa Harbor Grange, Grayland.
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ONTESTANTS in the Cranberry Challenge were, 1. to r.: Sue DiMarzio, Mayflower Seafoods; Robert Folsom, Inn for All Seasons; Barbara Bilbo, Sandy Lane Restaurant; Joan Smoot, The Foxglove; Pat Vlarma, the Fairview; Steve Bilbo, Tinker's Dam; Dennis Shanks, La Maison de Notre Pere, and Betsy jay, Station One Restaurant.
Pie 'Wins dessert contest
The warm scent of battle-and rumptious desserts-filled the r at Cranberry World in ymouth, Mass., recently.
EVERYBODY was hushed, /aiting the judges' decision.
The occasion: The Plymouth ca Cranberry Challenge, hosted by I anberry World and featuring some ' southeastern Massachusetts' finest lUaurants in a head chef-to-head I ef competition for the most (lectable cranberry dessert recipe.
The winner: cranberry apple nlnut pie, created by Plymouth's i/n Station One restaurant. I Other entrants included chocolate (mberry mousse, cranberry napoleon,
inberry orange cream pie, cranberry
st, cranberry colada pie, cranberry
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Station One received a mmemorative plaque and $500, lich it donated to Cranberry Area spice.
Herbert Colcord, manager of •inberry World, described the nking challenge as "a chance to jlore new ideas in cranberry sine."
Judges were: George Opalenick,
chief instructor at Johnson & Wales College and president of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Culinary Federation; Michael Gallerani, assistant to the executive, Plymouth Board of Selectmen; Alan Etkins, food and
beverage director, Dunfey's Hyannis Hotel; Kirk Kenyon, chief instructor, Newbury College of Culinary Arts, and CoUn Stewart, editor, MPG Publications.
The admission free Cranberry World, a museum dedicated to the
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In a 10 inch unbaked pie shell, add:
6 large Cortland apples, peeled and sliced
2 cups coarsely chopped fresh
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3 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Toss all together in a large bowl to mix well.
Mbc separately:
3 tablespoons all purpose flour 3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
Crumble over the top of the
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weather watch
MASSACHUSETTS
November was a warm month, averaging 2.1 degrees a day above normal. Maximum temperature was 65 degrees on the 9th and minimum
27 degrees on the 14th. Warmer than average periods were 1-3, 9-1 1, 21, 22, 24 and 25. Cooler than average days were 13-15, 18,27, 28 and 30. Rainfall totaled 6.49 inches, nearly 2 inches above normal. This was the wettest November since 1975, but only the 10th wettest in our records. There was measurable rain on 12 days with 2.08 inches on the 15-16th as the greatest storm. We are 8 inches above normal through November and about 6-2/3 inches ahead of 1982 for the period.
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NOVA SCOTIA
After a long, dry summer and fall, the weather changed markedly. As of the end of November, we had no snow but we had a lot of rain. In fact, some parts of New Brunswick had record rainfall for November.
Growers had no problem in harvesting their cranberries this year. l.V.H.
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September precipitation total was 3.15 inches. October's was 4.92 inches
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(the 20 year average for October is 11.03). November brought the moist- ure that would have helped the October water harvest. There was a total of 20.22 inches, with 29 consecutive days of precipitation, the greatest being 2.18 inches on the 24th and the prior 24 hours, the reading having been taken at 8 a.m. on the 24th. There were several days with more than 1 inch: 1.30 on the 3rd, 1.71 on the 4th, 1.26 on the 15th, 1.81 on the 16th, 1.76 on the 17th. Several other days were just under the 1 inch mark.
The November precipitation total was a record for this area, including the readings back to 1945.
High temperature for September Aias 79 degrees on the 1st, with a ow of 30 degrees on the 28th. UctoDer Drought a cooling trend, with a high of 69 degrees on the 12th and a low of 30 degrees on the 1st, 15th and 16th. November temperatures ranged from 61 degrees on the 1st and 1 1th to 29 legrees on the 29th. The bog low 3f 26 degrees came on the 29th ilso. There were damaging winds on ;he 1 1th and 25th. The Grayland-
Hoquiam area experienced heavy wind damage on the 10th and 1 1th also.
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•RING PESTICIDES
ored pesticides should be ndoors and out of direct ht and, ideally, temperatures 1 be kept at 60 degrees F or
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Dting from Penick Pesticide
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;n a substance has separated •lolution, the mixture must be m order to redissolve the ate. Often, temperatures of ) degrees F must be reached nixing. There are various |ble methods of warming the
Many companies (u.se) illy heated warming areas or drum warmers, which are a electric blanket that wraps the drum. Hot water baths can ised and steam is sometimes to a burlap sack around the ever use an open flame."
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CORRECTION
A headlme in the last issue of CRANBERRIES read: "Plan New Babcock Plant."
Actually, the new Ocean Spray receiving plant is being built in Tomah, Wise, about 30 miles from Babcock. The present plant in Babcock and the new plant in Tomah
will now share the receipt of berries from Wisconsin's cranberry growing region.
NEW CAPE COD PREXY
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By FREDERICK POSS
With two cups of cranberries, one cup of sugar, half a cup of chopped wahiuts, half a pint of cream and a great big smile, Nodji Van Wychen whips up the freshest tasting cranberry nut pie imaginable!
"Freshness is the key ingre- dient for us because two-thirds of our crop goes to fresh fruit sales." she explained, while she, her husband, Jim, and I sat in the warm kitchen of the Van Wychens' Warrens, Wise, home.
While I busily sampled punch, bars, bread and other goodies made from cranberries, Nodji said; "We do include a recipe book for cooking and baking with cranberries with each gift box of fresh berries that we hand pack in our warehouse."
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The Van Wychen's explained their unique approach to merchandising on the way to their warehouse.
"For a marsh of only moderate size like ours," Jim told me, "we've found that over the years a fresh fruit crop is the most profitable way for us to go."
"OVER THE YEARS" for the marsh, by the way, means producing cranberries since 1905, in part with vines that are more than 100 years old and still going strong. Today, the four generation old family business, titled the Wetherby Cranberry Co. Inc., consists of Jim and Nodji Van Wychen, as well as Nodji's parents, Ted and Leona Olson. Together the two families
COVER PHOTO WORKERS busily sort berries at the Wetherby Cranberry Company in Warrens, Wise. The story of this family style corporation begins on this page. (CRANBERRIES photo by Frederick Poss)
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work more than 800 acres of marsh, including 45 acres of actual berry beds.
And do they work! As Jim and Nodji led me into the large pole building which serves as the warehouse and machine shed, Jim said: "We produce close to the state average of 150 barrels of berries per acre. Each barrel weighs 100 pounds." Immedi- ately, he set to work on a diesel motor in need of repair.
I was stOl calculating how many tons of fruit were harvested each year when Nodji led me to the packing area. "As soon as they are picked," she told me, "some of the small pie berries
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THE NA TIONA L CRA NBERR Y MAGAZINE
VOLUME 4S-N0. 3
March 1984 Send correspondence to:
P.O. BOX 249 Cobalt CT 06414 (203) 342-4730
Bob Taylor, Publisher/Editor Caf olyn Caldwell, Associate Editor
ADVISORS, CORRESPONDENTS
MASSACHUSETTS— Irving E. Demoranvllle, Director, Cranberry Experiment Station.
HE.V^ JERSEY— Philip E. MaruccI, Cranberry and Blueberry Specialist, Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory, Chatsworth; Elizabeth G. Carpenter, Chatsworth.
NOVA SCOTIA— I. V. Hail, Botanist, Research Station, Kentviiie.
OREGON— Arthur Poole, Coos County Extension Agent, Coquille.
WASHINGTON— Azmi Y. Shawa, Horticulturist and Extension Agent in Horticulture, Coastal Washington Research and Extension Unit, Long Beach.
WISCONSIN— Tod D. Planer, Farm Management Agent, Wood County; Dan Brockman, Vesper.
CRANBERRIES Is published monthly by the Taylor Publishing Co., Wellwyn Drive, Portland CT 06480. Second class postage is paid at the Portland, Conn., Post Office. Price Is $10 a year, $ 1 8 for two years, $ 1 a copy In the U.S.; $ 1 2 a year In Canada; $ 1 5 a year in all other countries. Copyright 1984 by Taylor Publishing. ISSN: 001 1-0787
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The Pinelands National Reserve, which was created in 1978 by an Act of Congress, encompasses the region in south-central New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens-a million acres of sand beneath a stubble of short pine trees and scrubby oaks, broken occasionally by the dark, wet green of cedar swamps. The area is inhabited by cranberry growers, i.niiiof-. s.'iiK- ot wlioni coinmule to jobs around the region, and some woodsmen who "work the cycle," hunting for deer and rabbits, trapping for furs, tonging for clams and oysters, making charcoal, or gathering moss or other plants.
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(continued from page 3) are sorted here by hand into bulk bins for processing into sauce and jell."
1 glanced at the chutes where 16 ounce bags were hand sealed at a rate of 40 to 60 bags per minute. My fingers began to ache when I realized that tons of fruit had to be sorted and packed, one pound at a time!
Moving up the assembly line to where the berries must bounce through a wooden frame to test their firmness, she contin- ued: "And last year I arranged the sale of several tons of small berries to the Christina Wine Cellars of La Crosse, Wise. They have a wine master who has
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TOP TO BOTTOM: 1. Jim and Nodji Van Wychen and their four children, Tanya, Kyra, Henry and Shana; 2. Nodji's parents, Ted and Leona Olson, enjoy a view of the marsh from the deck of their new home; 3. Ted Olson proves again that cranberry reservoirs provide excellent fishing for panfish, bass, and his favorite-northern pike. (CRANBERRIES photos by Frederick Poss)
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A SECTION of the 800 acre Wetherby marsh, which includes 45 acres of berry beds.
(CRANBERRIES photo by Frederick Poss)
created a brand new product for our crop; cranberry wine!"
Cranberries in the medium size range, Nodji explained, are sorted into 12 ounce bags for distribution to local grocery markets. The sorting becomes so hectic that even the Van Wychen children try to help out. Tanya, 10, and Kyra, 8, know all about quickly filling the plastic bags labeled "Wisconsin Cranberries." Only Shana, 5, and Henry, 3, are too young to do anything but add moral support and gulp down an occasional raw cranberry before it becomes part of the family cash crop.
The extra large, fancy grade cranberries are also hand sorted and then packed into 3 pound gift boxes sold to individuals and corporations for $3.95 plus shipping.
"SO WHEN DO you folks take time to breath?" I was about to ask, after watching all the hectic activity. Then I met Ted and Leona Olson and discovered
they were even busier than the young folks.
A healthy tan, a good physique, a strong grip hardly characterize all men in their seventies. But Ted Olson doesn't easily fit into any mold.
"Yes," he acknowledged, "1 do have a few outside activities besides working the marsh."
The few projects turned out to include being town chairman
of the city of Warrens and a member of the Monroe County Board.
And Ted's wife, Leona, her black hair and expressive face alive with energy, is an over- achiever too.
"1 love babysitting the kids," she said, as she smiled at the four little Van Wychen's, all munching down cranberry snacks. "And in my spare time I
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collect antiques for our new home. Ted and I have visited Australia, Alaska, the Scandinavian coun- tries—and had a ride on the Love Boat!"
"And, boy, does she ever collect!" her daughter added. It didn't take much coaxing for Leona to explain that, besides extensive samples of honey jars, salt and pepper shakers, dolls and cranberry glasses, there was something very special about her antiques.
"I've tried to collect and preserve the old types of equipment used in early times to harvest cranberries," Leona told me. "The berries were harvested with wooden-toothed rakes, for example, and I've tried to save pieces of that kind which show the history behind growing cranberries."
"And what about the winter months when you can't grow
anything but a beard in the cold snows of Wisconsin?" I inquired of Jim Van Wychen, now that he had finished with the diesel engine in the warehouse.
"This past year," Jim explained quietly, "I was state director of the National Association of Farm Analysis Specialists here in Wiscon- sin. In my spare time, I keep busy selling property and mortgage insurance and working on tax assessments for area businessmen."
And Nodji's spare time?
"I find a few minutes to teach C.C.C. classes at St. Andrew's Church in Warrens, teach the youth choir, be the general leader of the 4-H Club and be chairperson in charge of selecting a queen for the annual fall Cranberry Festival in Warrens," she said, almost faster than I could write notes.
THEN NODJI looked across at her sunburned, blond, curly headed husband sitting at the
kitchen table with the two smallest kids perched on his knee. She laughed a little, as if he might be reading her thoughts, and said, with a smile: "We never get into any fights around here . . you've got to see each other for awhile to be able to do that!" When I finally had finished scribbling my last notes, I found I was smiling, too . . . especially when I reached for another piece of pie!
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December was mild in F,;i<it Warehani. averaging 1 .4 degrees a day above normal. However, many other areas, including the Boston area, were colder than normal. Maximum temperature was 64 degrees on the 1 3th, not a record but close, and minimum temperature was 2 degrees on the 25 th. The period from the 23rd through the 27th was cold enough to have caused some winterkill in unprotected bogs. Warmer than average days were the 6th, 7th, 10th, 1 2th-16th, 22nd, 28th and 29th. Cooler than average periods were the Uth, 19th-21st, 24th- 27th and 30th-31st.
Precipitation totaled 4.47 inches or about % inch above normal. There was measurable precipitation on 12 days, with 1.04 inches on the 4th as the greatest storm. Snowfall totaled 5 inches, which is just average for us.
For the year 1983, our temperature averaged 0.9 degrees a day above average, our warmest year since 1975. Warmer than normal months were January, February, March, June, July, September, November and December. The only colder than normal month was May. This tied us for the eighth warmest year in our records. Maximum temperature for the year was 94 degrees on Aug. 20 and the minimum was minus 2 degrees on Jan. 19.
Precipitation for 1983 totaled 55.20 inches, which is about 8-1/3 inches above normal. This is about 8 inches more than in 1982. 1983 was the wettest year since 1974 and is eighth wettest in our records. Great- est single storm was from March 7 through 1 2 and gave us a total of 4.80 inches. The greatest 24 hour amount was 2.12 on April 24, closely followed by 2.08 on Nov. 16. Months with substantially above normal precipitation were February, March, April, October and November. Below normal months were June, July and September.
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temperatures during December. The mean for the month, minus 2 degrees C, was close to the 50 year average of minus 3.1. As of Jan. 5 we were in a mild spell and most of the snow was gone. Cranberry vines should be entering the winter in reasonably good condition.
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Gra Ang your tax preparer
By JOSEPH ARKIN, CPA, MBA
Business owners invariably have their personal tax returns prepared by their firm's accountant.
THIS is a good policy for this person knows best your individual situation and is acquainted with credits and deductions and carry-overs to which you are entitled. He will use the K-1 form he prepared for a partnership or S corpor- ation, whereas a different tax preparer might have misgivings because of the penalty provisions enacted as part of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibihty Act (TEFRA) of 1982.
Also, he'll know if you should report some miscellaneous income for the partial use of company owned assets, e.g.. a portion of company owned car expenses that went for personal use.
During the course of an audit. Revenue Agents are impressed favorably where it is shown that due care and diligence were used in the preparation of the return, albeit only the picking up of such an insignificant item as personal use of a company owned asset.
You wouldn't ordinarily keep your accountant to handle your firm's books unless you had confidence in his abilities. However, a clever auditor or statement preparer is not necessarily well versed in tax law.
If you use the services of a "Big 8" accounting firm, or a large local CPA firm, you'll likely have your personal return handled by a member of the firm's tax department, rather than by the same individual who handles your firm's regular work.
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important to estabhsh some guidelines in deciding just who is going to prepare your form 1040.
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1-Is the preparer well versed in tax law? You'll get some idea of this by asking questions as to what he is doing to keep current on the many changes in the law. Does he have a good tax Ubrary,
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You can't expect your tax preparer to know the thousands of sections of the Internal Revenue Code verbatim, but you should expect quick answers to reasonably easy questions, and signs of awareness where an item is complex and has to be researched.
2-You should seek that preparer who alerts you to items appearing in weekly or monthly tax publications which affect your business and personal transactions having a tax impact. Court decisions, revenue rulings, technical pronouncements, etc., are issued almost daily. Knowing these or being alerted to those affecting you can result in better tax planning of transactions and
resultant tax savings.
Planning is an important facet of tax return preparation. Many a transaction has resulted in dire tax consequences merely because the mode used was defective, and, with the same facts and situation, could have been structured to effect tax savings and withstand challenges by the IRS.
3-Some individuals hesitate to ask for an automatic extension to file returns and certainly balk at a second extension request where a specific reason has to be given. Why? They fear that the return will be singled out for scrutiny. Right or wrong (the IRS won't tip its hand like this), this is the thinking of many taxpayers and tax preparers alike.
Therefore, we come to the question of just how much time your tax preparer gives you to prepare your information prior to interview time, and, at interview time, how much time is allotted to eliciting the information to properly prepare your return?
After furnishing all of the information requested, just how long do you have to wait for the return to be completed? You
can't put a time span on how long it should take (whether manually prepared or computer prepared) but you'll know somehow when it is too long.
It is best to have enough time to review your return. Find any omissions? Items you forgot to mention?
If such items are uncovered, you'll want enough time to
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4-In addition to competency and promptness, you have every right to expect a measure of courtesy. You may want to discuss an item or volunteer more information, but, on the other hand, you shouldn't expect
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your tax preparer to drop every- thing and answer the telephone when in the midst of doing tax work.
Many errors in preparation can be attributed to distraction- answering the phone, seeing a visitor, etc., can all lead to losing one's trend of thought. You do yourself a favor (and a favor to his other clients) when you are willing to wait for a telephone call to be returned and don't insist on immediate telephone contact.
5-Returns should be double- checked before being considered final. Have all areas of doubt been researched? If available, has another member of the firm or staff checked arithmetic? Searched for obvious omissions? Etc.
6-You'd want a preparer who is reasonably ready for you when you come in for an interview. He/ she should have last year's return available, notes of last year affect- ing the current year's return and exhibit some knowledge of your specific problems by having given last year's copy a quick once-over.
Is there a capital loss carry-over? Is there a carry-over of investment credit? Changes in marital or dependency status?
7 -Computer generated returns are very neat and manually prepared returns which are typed are also very neat. But what about handwritten returns where the pressure of tax season work gives rise to some items being illegibly written? If the IRS initial checkers can't fathom handwritten schedules, the return is flagged for correspondence and possible extra scrutiny. Who needs this?
8-The axiom that you get what you pay for is never more true than in tax preparation.
You'll see ads of franchise tax preparers offering courses and jobs to just about anybody and every- body. Pass a three or four month course and you're a tax preparer. No accounting degree, no experience in the world of -business, no real experience in actually preparing tax returns are
usual credentials of these preparers. Is this what you are looking for? Decidedly NO.
You should want a fuUtime tax preparer, one who engages in year-round tax preparation (fiscal year returns, audits, etc.) and who preferably is a CPA or a tax attorney.
Sure you will pay more, but your tax preparer who possesses a degree in accounting, exhibits skills and special training in tax work, is worth the professional fee charged.
How much? Fees vary throughout the country but, depending on years of experience, expertise, etc., you can expect to pay from $50 to $75 an hour. You'll pay even more if yours is a complicated return requiring the service of the tax partner of a large local or national firm. It is often said that paying $50 more per return to an experienced preparer costs no more than paying $50 less per return to an inexperienced preparer. You are buying peace of mind and the more experienced preparer is likely to ferret out deductions that will more than cover the difference in fee.
9-Your tax preparer should be
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The degree of professionalism in this area can be a major factor in how the examination will be resolved.
You certainly don't want a hothead handling a tax audit. Abuse a Revenue Agent and that person will understandably strike back.
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By IRVING DEMORANVILLE
There seems to be no end to record crops for the cranberry.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Crop Reporting Service gives the 1 983 national crop total as 2,966,000 barrels.
That's about 1 percent over the 1982 total.
1982 topped the 1981 crop
total.
The 1983 Massachusetts crop is cited at 1 ,400,000 barrels.
This is a record for the state and about 9 percent above the 1982 crop.
The figure puts the Bay State in the cranberry growing lead.
Wisconsin is second, with 1,132,000 barrels, down about
1 1 percent.
New Jersey came up with 233,000 barrels, down more than 20 percent from last year.
The Northwest is up.
Washington hit 126,000 barrels, up 40 percent.
Oregon came in with 75,000 barrels. That's 1 5 percent over 1982.
CCCCA takes stand on safety
"We want it to be known that we are concerned about the environment and will insist that agricultural compounds be used in a proper and responsible manner."
So said George Andruk, president of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association, in a recent report on the organi- zation's activities.
Added Andruk: "It is better that we take the initiative before some regulatory agency forces it on us. We also want the public to be aware that we are concerned about everyone's safety."
THE CCCGA buildinj; needs sub- committee has concluded that that it
would not be economically feasible to enlarge the library at the Cranberry Experiment Station enough to accomodate growers at a single meeting. Station Director Irving E. Demoranville will schedule three dates for each program to overcome crowding at winter meetings.
For economic reasons, the CCCGA board has decided against the hiring of a parttime lobbyist. Legislative subcommittee members Doug Beaton.
COVER ILLUSTRATION THIS DETAIL is from the paint- ing. The Cranberry Harvest, Nantucket Island, done in 1880 by Eastman Johnson. The entire painting can be seen on pages 12 and 13.
Chris Makepeace, Dave McCarthy and Elton Ashley Jr. will devise a plan for the review of legislative bills.
Andruk saluted past president Dave Mann for his role in the passage of a bill requiring local assessors to use agricultural land values when assessing bogs. Mann will head a new subcommittee to meet with assesors. Other members are Clark Griffith, Marshall Severance and Dick Ward.
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MASSACIHUSEtTS— Irving E. Demoranville, Director, Cranberry Experiment Station.
NEW JERSEY— Philip E. Marucci, Cranberry and Blueberry Specialist, Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory, Chatsworth; Elizabeth G. Carpenter, Chatsworth.
NOVA SCOTIA— I. V. Hall, Botanist, Research Station, Kentville.
OREGON— Arthur Poole, Coos County Extension Agent, Coquille.
WASHINGTON— Azmi Y. Shawa, Horticulturist and Extension Agent in Horticulture, Coastal Washington Research and Extension Unit, Long Beach.
WISCONSIN— Tod D. Planer, Farm Management Agent, Wood County; Dan Brockman, Vesper; Joan E. Humphrey, Friendship.
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THE AUTHOR samples her cranberry banana bread.
ConSes^ons of a cranberry cook
By SUE BARANCIK
Back in the mid 1960's, when 1 was a young bride and squealcy new social worker, 1 spent my days attempting to help clients with their problems and my nights clipping recipes! While my husband burned the
midnight oil in our university town, I test cooked cakes and cookies, stews and souffles, pasta and pastry.
One of the recipes I came across in those early days of marriage was an unusual sounding bread called cranberry banana. Armed with the necessary ingredients, I set to work and was delighted with the results. The tart taste and bright red hue of the cranberries mingled
with the pale mellowness of mashed bananas in a most satisfying combination.
I brought one of my first loaves of this cakelike bread into my social work office and, with some trepidation, sliced it for afternoon coffee break. My rather taciturn, melancholic supervisor gingerly took a tiny bite.
"I'm not much of a sweets eater," he protested.
"Try," I implored.
Try he did. In minutes, the entire loaf was swooped up by olde stone face. Later that after- noon, he was heard to mutter . . . "if only my wife would bake."
I've been making this extremely tasty and quite attrac-
tive bread ever since. In those early years, I painstakingly cut every one of those little berries with a knife. This was admittedly a tedious task. Then, one day, I plopped them into my blender and, voila, the job was reduced to a couple of minutes. Today, we have food processors to do the job as well. I'm sure that you'll soon see the merits of adding cranberry banana bread to your recipe repertoire. A loaf of the bread looks beautiful on the holiday table. It also freezes well and makes a delightful holiday gift.
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Ml cup butter or margarine, softened I '^ cups granulated sugar
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2 cups sifted flour
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2/3 cup mashed ripe banana
IV-x cup cranberries, coarsely chopped
Vi cup chopped walnuts
1. In medium bowl, blend butter or margarine with sugar; add egg and beat until smooth.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda. Add to creamed mixture all at once, mi.xing with spoon just until all flour is
moistened.
3. Fold in bananas, cranberries and nuts. Pour into greased 9 by 5 by 3 inch pan. Bake one hour or until done at 350 degrees.
4. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.
5. Serve sliced the next day. Or freeze until needed.
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A soft, heavy snowfall prevented me from making the usual fast trip home from town. My errands had taken longer than 1 planned, and it was getting late.
Naturally, I was concerned about what the family was doing. I've always made it a point to be home at chore time.
But after I turned in at our farm, the snow-whitened land- scape began to answer the questions that had been accumulating in my mind.
The children had made it home from school, all right. Heavy tire tracks swerved where the school bus had skidded into the land, but then recovered a firm, reassuring course.
When I put the car away, I looked toward the garden to see if my husband and son had gone through yet to do the chicken chores.
They hadn't. The horse- nettled weeds, drooping under ridges of snow, blocked the way unmolested.
1 looked to the east, to the half acre our children use for a playground. Beyond it lies our hilly orchard and, farther on. the thicket that leads to the woods.
1 smiled then, for my inenfolks and our dog had left me a note in footprints. There was no mistaking it!
"Dear Mom: We'll be a little late for chores this evening. You see, with the new snow and all, we couldn't
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Inside the house, 7-year-old Louise greeted me with a hug of delight. "Look out the window. Mom. The snow has made all sorts of things in the bushes and trees! There are poodle dogs and an alligator ..."
Since chores were waiting, 1 supposed mealtime could wait, too. So I joined in the fun. "I can see birds in the snow," I told Louise, "and there's a fish!"
The sky began to brighten, over there where the day was going to bed. The clouds broke apart and took on after-sunset colors. We sat and picked out snow objects until dark blacked out our view.
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The chores were now under way, and it was time to start getting that good, hot supper!
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Pinelands climate: continuing challenge
By ELIZABETH CARPENTER
"1983 was one of the liottest and driest years I can recall," said Mike Flint, marketing analyst. New Jersey Crop Reporting Service.
Those attending the recent 116th annual winter meeting of the American Cranberry Growers Association hardly needed the reminder of the eight or nine scorching weeks that caused a decline in the state's cranberry crop.
Despite a 100 acre increase in New Jersey's overall cranberry production acreage, the 1983 crop was down 7 percent from August's projections. Final 1983 crop reporting figures showed New Jersey's 3,100 harvested acres yielded approximately 75.2 barrels per acre, for a total production of 233,000 barrels.
Flint concluded: "Irrigation helps but it can't offset the overall impact of hot, dry weather."
ELEVATION, or. more precisely, lack of it. increases the complexity of the region's weather picture. Keith Arneson, agricuhural meteorologist. Cook College. Rutgers University, told growers: "The Pinelands (the heart of the state's cranberry country) has a 1 70 day growing season, one of the shortest growing seasons in New Jersey." Cold air descends to the low lying bogs, accentuating the need for accurate frost watch protection throughout the year. Two weather related services that can help growers cope with nature include the firecn Sheet and Arnseon himself.
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DR. PAUL ECK, professor of horticulture. Cook College, Rutgers University, updated growers on his phosphorus fertilizer research. Over a five to six year period, positive response to phosphorus applications has resulted in vigorous upright growth on cranberry vines, Eck noted. He recommends a 1:2:1 ratio (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). However, he notes that it is difficult to increase available phosphorus in the predominantly sandy soil of the Pinelands because it leaches out quickly.
He added that he has never been able to get a response to potash in the region's Berryland soil, a soil type suitable for cranberries.
Eck's fertilizer source study verifies that slow release fertilizers, when applied in the spring and after harvest in the fall, prompt superior yields when compared to liquid fertihzer results. The region's highly permeable sandy soil reduces the efficiency of any liquid nutrient application.
DR. ERIC STONE, USDA plant breeder at the Blueberry/Cranberry Research Center, reviewed his ongoing research involving numerous . crosses within his cranberry germplasm collection. 1983 was the first year of fruiting for many of these crosses, giving him an opportunity to identify the most promising selections based on estimated yield per acre, grams per berry and percentage of plot coverage.
The search continues for an alternative to the Early Black variety, an early producer with good color although one whose small berry size leaves considerable room for improve- ment. Currently, a progeny of Ben Lear from open pollination looks particular- ly promising.
A SUCCESSFUL METHOD for controlling fairy ring on New Jersey bogs has yet to be discovered. Dr. Allan Stretch, USDA plant pathologist t the research center, said 8,000 ipunds of lime per acre applied in
the spring and fall failed to control the disease.
Stretch's fungicide application tests on new cranberry plantings continue to yield promising results and prove cost effective. Data shows that when leaf drop fungi are controlled, vine growth is enhanced. However, it appears that continued apphcations of fungi- cides reduce berry size and suppress coloration.
PHILIP E. MARUCCI, research professor of entomology and extension specialist in cranberry and blueberry culture, told growers that over 100,000 cranberry vines were propagated at the research center during the winter of 1983. Growers were again invited to participate in similar efforts in 1984. Cuttings from three varieties-Crowley, Cropper and no. 35-will again be used. Virtually 100 percent rooting can be anticipated with vertical insertion of the cuttings.
Marucci reviewed the capricious activity of honeybees on area cranberry bogs during the 1983 pollinating period.
"Honeybees will concentrate their efforts in areas where they can find the most food in the least amount of time," Marucci said.
Unfortunately, cranberry flowers, poor producers of nectar and pollen, are not that attractive to honeybees, and, when water is drawn early from bogs, they may be put into competition with other, more appealing blossoms found on bushes like huckleberry and inkberry. It also appears honeybees
concentrate where vines are open and they may become discouraged by dense vine growth stimulated by heavy fertilization, Marucci noted.
EDWARD V. LIPMAN, ACGA delegate to the state agricultural convention, told growers that computer use on the farm appeared to have brights prospects for the future and was a major topic at the state's 113th Farmers Week held last January.
Lipman expressed concern over the Farm Labor Laws Guide given to convention delegates. He urged growers to obtain copies of this guide in order to evaluate its impact on cranberry growers.
MARY ANN THOMPSON, member of the ACGA water legislation review committee, said the much discussed dam bill was conditionally vetoed by the Governor and would have to be reintroduced into both the state Senate and Assembly.
On a more positive note, she said, recently passed state trespass/vandalism legislation calls for increased fines for offenders and does not require growers to post bogs, dams or waterways.
Named as ACGA officers for 1984-85 were: William S. Haines Jr., president; WilUam Fox Jr., vice presi- dent; Dr. Paul Eck, treasurer; Phihp E. Marucci, secretary; Edward V. Lipman, ACGA delegate to the New Jersey Agricultural Convention, and Joseph Darlington, alternate convention delegate.
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The Cranberry Harvest, Nantucket Island, painted in 1880 by Eastman Joiinson, is part of the exhibition, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910. The exhibition, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opened there last year, then traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and is now at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. There are 1 10 paintings in the exhibition.
The Cranberry Harvest, Nantucket Island is part of the Putnam Foundation Collection at the Timken Art Gallery in San Diego, Calif.
Johnson was born in Lowell, Maine, educated in Boston, Germany, Holland and France, and, eventually, established a studio in New York City. A noted portraitist, among his sitters were Longfellow, Emerson and Hawthorne.
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In 1871 , Johnson built a summer home on Nantucket Island. The cranberry harvest became one of his subjects.
In her essay on Johnson and his work for the exhibition catalogue, Carol Troyen writes: "In Cranberry Hari'est (Johnson) invented for his New York patrons a mythic view of nature in which harvests are always bountiful, the sunshine soft and unceasing, the life close to the soil ennobling, and work on the land a satisfying, even pleasurable activity in which the whole community participates, from the old man who has brought his chair with him to the bogs, to the infant at far right being carried to his mother who stands at center, awaiting his arrival.
"Johnson's lyrical transformation of the Nantucket cranberry bogs-from muck and mire to a lush plain-makes light of work that was actually difficult and wearying."
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January was rather cool, averaging 1.6 degrees below normal. However, in the past 20 years, we have had many cooler than normal Januaries, so this one in '84 is about average from that pomt of view.
Maximum temperature was 52 degrees on the 27th and the minimum was minus 15 degrees on the 22nd. I know that our minimum temperature would not cause much concern tor our Wisconsin friends but for us it is cold. We tied this minimum in 1970 but must go back to 1942 to exceed it. Warmer than average days occurred on the 6th, 10th and 24th through 27th. Cooler than average days were the 2nd, 8th, 12th, 15-16th and 18th through 22nd.
Precipitation totaled 2.70 inches.
or 1.6 inches below normal. There was measurable precipitation on nine days, with 0.78 inches on the 1 1th and 0.77 inches on the 31st the great- est storms. Snowfall totaled 11.0 inches on five days, which is a little above average for us.
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The first few days of February were cold. However, a warming trend followed and most of our snow disappeared. Vines and flower beds were to become susceptible to winter injury in the next six weeks as dormancy had probably been broken.
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By IRVING DEMORANVILLE
Dr. Karl Deubert of the Cranberry Experiment Station attended the Northeastern Weed Science Society meeting at Baltimore, where he presented a paper.
Dr. Robert Devlin also attended the Weed Science meeting in Balti- more and presented two papers.
Dr. Karl Deubert met with representatives of the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich. Karl presented a seminar on residue analysis of brush killers used on power line rights of way.
Dr. Charles Brodel attended the national meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Detroit and presented a paper on the timing of
insecticide applications to control the cranberry fruitworm. He also met with Dr. Daniel Maher of Wisconsin and Dr. Carl Shanks of Washington to discuss progress in research projects and plans for the future.
Dr. Brodel and this author met with Jere Downing of Ocean Spray Cranberries in January to discuss current and future insecticide needs
in Massachusetts.
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Prof. John S. (Stan) Norton officially retired from the station on Jan. 31. Stan had been with us for over 26 years, or since July 1957.
He had worked on many projects over the years, but undoubtedly his most important contribution was the low-gallonage sprinkler systems which are in widespread use for frost protec- tion, irrigation and application of pesticides. There is no question that we would be raising much smaller crops than we have over the past 15 years without the sprinkler systems.
To note just a few other projects: temporary dikes, wick weed wipes, float Sander and vine lifters.
Stan has been a good friend to
the cranberry industry. In addition to his many official labors, he has been absolutely invaluable to the Cranberry Station in fixing our old and sometimes balky equipment, as well as constructing many items for our use that we didn't have to purchase at the expense of an arm or a leg. Are we ever going to miss this enormous contribution!
In addition, I personally will feel his leaving, as he was the most helpful and generous person 1 have ever known.
Stan will return for temporary duty in August, September and October 1984.
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1 aiiiil\ Radio Prosranimini: Inc. ot New York, which created and now produces the show . reports that "New Waves" represents the first nationally syndicated, commercial radio program tor 9 to 14 \ear olds and their parents. The pro^iram premiered on Feb. 19 and will air every Sunday on radio stations nationwide.
.McGavren Guild Radio, the program distributors, estimated that the initial target penetration would reach 65 percent ot the available national audience.
The magazine type show otYers children a combination of entertain- ment and information suited to their particular interests. It is being hosted by Fred Newman, who was named outstanding cable personality of the year for his work on "Livewire," a talk show for teenagers on the Nickelodeon cable television network.
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The president of Family Radio Programming, George Morency, said that "New Waves" was conceived as the result of extensive research and development supported by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, This foundation, which specializes in fund- ing media and communications projects, was one of the original underwriters of "Sesame Street," the acclaimed public broadcasting program for children.
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Through an assessment on growers in Washington and contributions, the Washington State Cranberry Commission funded seven research programs in 1983.
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They were: control of the black vine weevil; improvements to the Furford picking machine; control of weeds in existing bogs; speeding development of new bogs; control of weeds in new bogs; epidemiology and control of twig blight; enhancing color and keeping quality.
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Agricultural technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that it is particularly vulnerable to a shortfall of new talent enter- ing the field, a Du Pont Company executive said recently at a U.S. Department of Agriculture Challenge Forum.
Dale E. Wolf, group vice president-agricultural chemicals, told the forum that "technology is literally racing ahead in numerous fields today -fields ranging from herbicides, insecticides and fungicides to dramatic developments in plant strains and animal production."
At the same time, Dr. Wolf said that too few American students "recognize that there are dozens of careers in agriculture which will place them on the leading edge of major scientific developments." Dr. Wolf contrasted this opportunity with what he said was the popular conception that agricultural careers are "unreward- ing and intellectually dowdy."
As a result, Dr. Wolf said, "there is a very real danger that the bright promise of agriculture may be post- poned. We may be sidetracked simply because we cannot organize and train the necessary army of talented and highly trained scientists, technicians and managers."
The Du Pont executive joined representatives of government and academia in the forum called to address the growing shortage of qualified human resources in the agricultural industry.
To increase positive awareness of agriculture as a potential career choice among students. Dr. Wolf proposed that the industry establish "action committees" to present a truer picture of agricultural opportunities before its target audiences -high school students, faculty, guidance counselors and parents. He recommended that the industry consider recruiting teams, special programs for minority students, intern programs, school seminars and new communications programs as means of accomplishing this goal.
Dr. Wolf also praised recent actions by the USDA and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in this area. One example that he cited is USDA's "Agriculture in the Classroom" program. Started by
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Despite the manpower problem. Dr. Wolf said he remains optimistic. "After all," he said, "agriculture has met and mastered many problems during the past decades as it recorded productivity gains that are the envy of the world."
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Cranberrytnan MTins 13 year old court case
By JOAN HUMPHREY
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals recently rejected an appeal by a group of property owners who claimed that cranberry grower William Zawistowski Jr. of Stone Lake was polluting Lake Sissabagama.
The original suit was filed 1 3 years ago.
The property owners claimed that phosphorus used as fertilizer ended up in the lake, feeding algae growth.
The appeals panel said the assertions were based on eight year old fertilizer records. It also cited conflicting evidence on the amount of fertilizer used.
IRS MAKES NEW RULING ON FARM ESTATE TAXATION
The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation notes that the Internal Revenue Service now allows a farm estate to deduct the full indebtedness on special use valuation property, "providing the deceased farmer was personally liable on the mortgage."
Says the MFBF: "The new ruling is an important recognition that farming as a business has a very low return on capital."
It adds; "The intention of the i 'special use valuation' of farm real I estate was to encourage the continuity of family farming from one generation to the next, to prevent breakup for payment of taxes.
"In the past, IRS has stipulated that if a farmer chose special use valuation, the full value of the property was not 'included' in the gross estate. Because of this, the farmer could not deduct the full amount of a mortgage in computing the estate tax."
FARM POPULATION CONTINUES TO DECLINE
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the nation's farm population continues to decline. Between 1980 and 1982. there was a loss of 431,000 farm residents. Today 5.6 million
people-one out of every 41 Americans -live on farms.
The median age of the farm popu- lation is 35 years, compared to a national median age of 30.
CORRECTION
The article, "Storing Pesticides," in the February 1984 issue of CRAN- BERRIES, was based on material written by Charles F. Brodel, entomologist at the Cranberry Experi- ment Station. The piece mistakenly
cited director Irving E. Demoranville as the source.
PCA RESEARCH STUDY EXAMINES FARM TRENDS
Drought-tolerant crops, computer controlled machinery and increased use of crop residues as feed all will be part of farming in the 21st century, according to a study sponsored by the nation's Production Credit Associations.
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The Pinelands, N.J., Commission recently authorized legal action against the Defense Department if it fails to quickly clean up toxic contamination from the Fort Dix landfill.
The commission, which functions in the state's cranberry growing region, adopted a resolution approving legal action if it is found that the Army "is not pursuing the alleviation of the threat of contaminants emanating from the Fort Dix landfill in a timely and efficient manner." This complements action taken by Burlington County, which has recommended that the landfill be closed and that cleanup plans be developed immediately.
Toxic chemicals originating from the fort's landfill were recently found in a nearby test well. Three of the chemicals found in the test well-methylene chloride, chloroethanc and trichloroethane-have been identified as possible carcinogens. It is possible that the chemicals may have come from cleaning agents used at the base's machine shops and auto repair yard, says the agency.
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Also, recently, the State Legislature gave its final approval to legislation authorizing a state bank to promote the sale of Pinelands Development Credits.
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Editor's Note: Cranberry grower, butcher, baker or college professor, one day you'll be confronted with retirement. Dr. Harold Gluck (he holds doctorates in political philosophy and jurisprudence) is 78 and has pondered the subject ever since "retiring" 1 5 years ago from a magazine editing and writing post. He figures he's written about 10 million words in his lifetime, for magazines as diverse as Frets, Minia- ture and Doll Dealer, Physician 's Management and Soccer America (he bills himself as the "world's oldest living soccer player"). Gluck lives with his wife, Jeannette, 77, in the Bronx, N.Y. This is his first piece for CRANBERRIES.
By HAROLD GLUCK
Within a year, I would retire. That meant I would attend my "farewell" dinner. Hear speeches about how valuable 1 was to the establishment. Be given the usual farewell present. And my time card would be removed from under the clock. Another time card with someone else's name would be there. And he would carry on my work. Not in my way but in his way. Of course, like many others, 1 had thought about plans for the future. Such as taking a trip around the world. Buying a small country home. Doing some things 1 always wanted to do. And then my wife came up with an unexpected practical suggestion.
"WE HAVE met retired people. Don't you think it is time you talked to some of them? About problems involved in being retired?" Funny thing, but the question of "problems" had never been in my calculations before. Yet it seemed to me a very sensible concern. So below are oooooooooooooooo
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some of the things 1 learned from different people who had left the world of active employ- ment.
I HAD known Mike very well and he had retired a year previous- ly. We still saw each other from time to time.
"1 made one big mistake," he began. "And don't you make it. 1 was prepared for retirement. A lot of things 1 wanted to do and did. But my wife wasn't exactly prepared for my retirement. It bothered her a lot to have me around the house at first. And we had some fights over meaning- less things that suddenly became of vital importance. So she didn't want me around. 1 got up early in the morning. Went to the public main library. Took one topic and followed it through. I did that for two months. Then my wife decided she did want me around. We would do things together, such as going to the opera, taking short trips to the country, increasing our social life, and even doing some study- ing together. So check out your missus and you can avoid a lot of unpleasantness."
I HAD done Frank a very big favor. And before retirement he had made things clear to me. Any time 1 wanted anything
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I HADN'T seen Dave for a year. He was a police officer who had retired. We had been fishing partners over the years. 1 told him about my future retirement. Could he and his wife visit us? So they came to see us on a Friday evening. And 1 came right to the point of my invitation.
"How do you like retirement? I am going to retire soon. What can you tell me that might help me?"
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wanted to be a teacher. They gave him a special test. He took some courses in education. You know he has his bachelor's degree.
And now he is even taking some work towards his master's degree."
This came as a shocker to me. What then is retirement? From one job to another? Nothing doing. Right then and there I made myself an inward promise: not to go to any other job, regard- less of how tempting the offer may be.
WE HAD met Donald and his wife, Theresa, at the golf driving range. And we went there over the weekends during the past year. She worked for the phone company. And he worked for a big restaurant chain. Both had talked about retirement soon. So this trip to the range we were determined to wait and meet them, (continued on page 6)
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Any suggestion that the tundra swans destroying cranberry vines in New Jersey be shot is a sure guarantee for drawing return fire.
A lady in Mountain Lakes, N.J., wrote to Philip E. Marucci of the Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory in Chatsworth: "I used to look forward to using cranberries in a nut bread 1 would bake .... However, after reading that the cranberry farmers want a hunting season on swans, I have substituted raisins, prunes and dates for cranberries and will boy- cott aU cranberry products and will advise others to do the same .... Given a choice between cranberry farmers or swans, 1 easily opt for the swans."
I share with the lady a discomfiture over the mental picture of these alabaster beauties with six foot wingspreads tumbling to earth after being filled with lead.
But there is the grower's side of the story.
Grower William Haines III told Good Morning America that the swans are beautiful, "but then 1 saw pieces of vine floating in the bog." The swans have an appetite for red root and damage the vines while foraging for the weed.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended firing firecracker shells and floating red balloons to scare off the huge birds. Neither recommendation has worked.
To grower pleas for a hunting season, John P. Rogers, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Migratory Bird Management, has probably given the last word:
"There is a lot of public interest in swans. We would have to consider the public response to any proposal for a hunting season, and 1 suspect it would be negative."
So what to do? Obviously, things can't just be allowed to continue as they have been going.
Janet Jackson, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Audubon Society, has suggested thai perhaps the state could find a way to attract the birds to a state bird sanctuary in the cranberry growing region.
New Jersey correspondent Elizabeth Carpenter says it might be a good idea for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finance research aimed at discovering "a humane, scientific procedure for relocating these beautiful birds."
And how about you? Any ideas? If you have one, send it to CRANBERRIES, P.O. Box 249, Cobalt CT 06414, and we'll print it.
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MASSACHUSETTS— Irving E. Demoranville, Director, Cranberry Experiment Station.
NEV\/ JERSEY— Philip E. Marucci, Cranberry and Blueberry Specialist, Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory, Chatsworth; Elizabeth G. Carpenter, Chatsworth.
NOVA SCOTIA— I. V. Hall, Botanist, Research Station, Kentville.
OREGON— Arthur Poole, Coos County Extension Agent, Coquille.
W/ASHINGTON— Azmi Y. Shawa, Horticulturist and Extension Agent in Horticulture, Coastal Washington Research and Extension Unit, Long Beach.
WISCONSIN— Tod D. Planer, Farm Management Agent, Wood County: Dan Brockman, Vesper: Joan E. Humphrey, Friendship.
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RETIREMENT . . .
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And after we finished our two buckets of balls and rested on the bench, 1 told them the news. What were their retirement plans?
"I can retire now," explained Donald. "But Theresa has one year more to go. On our combined pension money we will have no financial problems. We are going to Florida. A community we have visited before. A lot of retired people live there. And the activities are sort of built around this age group. So we will play golf together, swim, be lazy on the beach, dance, see the country, and perhaps even register for some courses at the state college."
AND, FINALLY, for the highlights from some other people with whom we talked about retirement:
There was a female teacher who pointed out something very important— be certain you have good medical and hospital coverage. Check out whether you can continue your policies on your own after retirement. For hospital and medical costs could go up. (That was the
understatement of the year.) One man was very bitter. What had happened to his so-called friends at the plant? Out of the job-out of sight- no longer a friend. What kind of world was this? Felt deserted.
One man was devoting his time to volunteer activities at the local hospital. He pointed out that you just had to be busy doing something-or you could go nuts. And he seemed contented in what he was doing. Sort of got a satisfaction out of feeling he was really helping others-and not for money.
SO IN view of what we had learned from these people, my wife and I looked into the future, knowing we would have to make our plans and soon. What would we do?
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remain in bed as long as I cared. Let the rest of the world go off in a rush. Next, I would continue my sports activities. Among them, fishing, swimming, skiing, tennis, hiking and table tennis. I was very much interested in firearms. I'd do more shooting and perhaps
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I had been told I was tone deaf. I was determined to devote time each day to hitting the keys of our piano. I was multi-lingual. Wanted to learn at least another language and culture of the country concerned. See more shows and more operas.
And engage in volunteer activities. Pick at least one that I could do with my wife as sort of a partner. Continue our social life. We had no illusions about the people we had known while I was "on the job." Most of them would fade away. But we would
meet new people.
FIFTEEN years have passed since I retired. How did my expectations— based on what 1 had heard— meet the reality of my retirement? I have always enjoyed spending money for what you can call "the nice things of life." Not one person I had interviewed in those pre-retirement talks had contemplated the inflation of
today. Sure, it hit us. But we met it intelligently-at least that is what I think. We didn't give ourselves any poverty complex or engage in penny-pinching. We continued doing almost every- thing we had done with but a few
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the sport jacket I just bought for next year. And my wife does the same. She even comes back with shirts and ties for me from sales she attends.
We do not go away to hotels over weekends. We go during the week when the rate is lower and we find the service is better. One big change; We never thought much of the facilities for recrea- tion offered by the city, county or state. But now we use them to the fullest extent. We enjoyed a county pool— one of the finest in the state. And we located a delightful picnic park. For ice skating, we found two community setups. The party fishing boat is out for us. We use river, lake and beach fishing-all free, of course. We take picnic lunches with us. But for morale building, we still eat at least once or twice a week in a top restaurant.
We did try volunteer activities to keep ourselves busy. We took the first aid course, the advanced first aid course, and the instructor's course with the Red Cross. We told them we would teach for them— provided it would be as "a husband and wife team." This they agreed to and so we spent many a delightful evening teaching Red Cross courses.
I continued my ski patrol work for a number of years after retirement. This, too, was on a volunteer basis. And my wife sat in the first aid hut, ready to help any victim I brought in for treatment.
THERE WAS one unexpected change brought about by my retirement. It stemmed from our going to see an art exhibition. There I came across someone I hadn't seen since my youth. He
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We have also attended night adult courses, ranging from automobile mechanics to Russian. All in aU, I would say our expectations about retirement did jibe with the reality of it. I am very glad I spoke to people who had retired. They had a lot of suggestions to make. However, one warning: What might apply to a specific individual might not apply to a person with a different type of personality.
I AM sorry for my friends who put off retirement. Why? They talk about having more money in the pension fund if they work just "a little longer." I suspect they are really afraid of retirement. So long used to being in harness, they are scared of being very free. They are Uke the bird in the old story who escaped from its cage only to meet destruction.
We find we are intellectually alert. We enjoy the company of different kinds of people. During my retirement, two offers of employment came to me. Each was in a different field of activity. And the salary offer in each was tops. Each was a strong temptation to go back to work. Took some will power to turn them down. And I am glad I have continued in my-an my wife's— life of retirement.
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By CHARLES F. BRODELl
Assistant Professor Massachusetts Cranberry Station
The cranberry fruitworm, Acrobasis vacciiiii Riley, is an sconomically important pest on almost every bog in southeastern Massachusetts. Crop reductions of 5 to 25 percent can be expected unless insecticide applications are carefully timed 2 or 3 times each growing season. The selection of insect- icides approved for this use is rather limited. Some of the choices are highly toxic and very hazardous to the user. All have been on the market for more than 1 5 years.
The purpose of the 3- year study described herein was to test a range of more recently developed insecti- cides, several of which pose fewer hazards to the user and/or environment. The results are rather encouraging.
METHODS AND MATERIALS
Procedures. Field trials were conducted on uniformly vined sections of State Bog in East Wareham, Mass. The experi- mental design was a random- ized complete bloclc with 8 or 10 treatment plots. Plots of 15 X 7 ft were separated within blocks by 5-ft pathways and between blocks by 10 to 30-ft pathways. Two post-bloom insecticide applications were made with a 10-gallon, powered
The author is Research and E.xtension Entomologist at the U Mass Cranberry Experiment Station and IR-4 Liaison Representative for Massachusetts.
ground sprayer delivering about 0.6 gallons per minute at 50 lb per square inch. All treatments were diluted to the rate of 400 gaUons per acre, but control plots were left untreated. A spray disc (4/64 inch orifice) and long distance nozzle tip allowed the applications to simulate those achieved commercially with overhead sprinkler systems. DifolatanR was applied 2 or 3 times each year to prevent infection by fruit rot organisms. At harvest, berries from 5 randomly selected, square-ft areas within each plot were picked by hand and frozen. These were later inspected for injury by A. vaccinii.
Differences in the experi- mental conditions from one year to another are shown hi Table 1.
Insecticides tested. Represen- tatives of 4 different classes of
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