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10. Winterkilling was se\ere and extensive on the bogs in the winter of 1923- 

 24, reducing the 1924 crop fully 20 per cent. Water supplies were low during the 

 fall and winter. 



11. There was severe and widespread winterkilling on cranberry bogs in 

 December 1934. It was estimated that this reduced the 1935 crop 20 per cent. 

 Water supplies for flooding were very low early in the winter. 



12. Very widespread and severe winterkilling in January reduced the 1940 

 cranberry crop probably 20 per cent. Water supplies for flooding were scanty 

 early in the winter. 



13. Dry bogs winterkilled severely everywhere in the winter of 1940-41, the 



1941 crop prospect being reduced perhaps 7 per cent. Water supplies for other 

 bogs were fairly abundant early in the winter. 



14. There was extensive winterkilling in the winter of 1941-42, cutting the 



1942 crop 10 per cent. Ponds and streams were \'ery low early in the winter. 



New Jersey 



1. Extensive winterkilling occurred on the New Jersey bogs in the winter of 

 1874-75, destroying about three-fourths of the prospective crop on the exposed 

 areas. 



2. There was severe and extensive winterkilling on the New Jersey bogs in 

 the winter of 1900-1901, though some of the injury ascribed to this may have 

 been caused by the drouth of the previous summer. Water was scarce all winter. 



3. Extensive winterkilling occurred in the winter of 1903-04, reducing the 

 1904 cranberry crop 25 per cent. 



4. There was extensive winterkilling of cranberries in the winter of 1904-05 



5. There was considerable winterkilling on the bogs in the winter of 1917-18. 



6. Extensive winterkilling occurred on the bogs in the winter of 1939^0. As 

 water supplies were low, many bogs were not flooded till February. 



Wisconsin 



1. Severe and widespread winterkilling occurred on the Wisconsin bogs in the 

 winter of 1891-92. Water supplies were low in the late fall and winter. 



2. Winterkilling on the bogs was severe in the winter of 1893-94. Water 

 supplies were low during the late fall and winter. 



3. There was great loss from winterkilling on the bogs in the winter of 1894-95. 

 Water supplies were extremely low during the fall and winter and there was little 

 snow. 



4. Rather extensive winterkilling occurred in the winter of 1900-1901. 



5. Serious winterkilling occurred on the bogs in the winter of 1910-11. Water 

 supplies were low during the late fall and winter and there was little snow. 



6. There was considerable winterkilling on the bogs in the winter of 1922-23. 

 Water supplies were scanty in the fall and throughout the winter. 



7. Serious and widespread winterkilling occurred in the winter of 1930-31, 

 reducing the 1931 cranberry crop prospect 20 per cent. Water supplies were 

 very low in the fall and early winter. 



8. Very severe and extensive winterkilling occurred in late November or 

 early December 1932, in both the Mather and the Cranmoor districts. It affected 

 probably 60 per cent of the cranberry acreage of the State and seriously curtailed 

 the 1933 crop. Because of drouth, many growers lacked water for winter flood- 

 ing and most of those who had it failed to flood early enough. 



9. There was general and very destructive winterkilling on the bogs in the 

 Mather district in the winter of 1933-34. The vines had only partly recovered 

 from the injury of the winter before and this second winterkilling put large areas 

 out of production for two or three years. Part of this acreage never recovered 

 and was abandoned. The Cranmoor district would have suffered the same fate 

 had it not, in the fall of 1933, put through a ditch to take Wcter from the Wis- 

 consin River. Twenty per cent of the cranberry acreage of the State was reduced 

 to complete nonproduction in 1934 by the winterkilling. Rainfall was light and 

 water supplies extremely low during the fall and winter and there was little snow. 



