134 MASS. EXPEEIMENT STATION BULLETIN 192. 



Resanding. 



The 1918 experience with two plots on the station bog that have not 

 been sanded since the fall of 1909 is shown in Table 14. The check areas 

 in each case were adjacent to and on different sides of the plot. The 

 berries were of the Early Black variety, and were picked and placed in 

 storage September 16. The fruit was stored in bushel crates, 8 bushels 

 being used in each case, and was examined December 17 to 19 by the 

 ' ' seven-sample ' ' method . 



The fruit from the plots kept distinctly better than that from their 

 checks in nearly every case, this result contradicting that of 1916 with 

 fruit from these areas.' These plots yielded as heavily on the average as 

 the surrounding bog until 1916.^ Table 15 shows that since 1915 their 

 average productiveness has fallen distinctly below that of their checks. 

 For the past three years the vines on these plots have been much thinner 

 than those of the surrounding bog. 



Table 14. — Sanding Plots in 1918. Effect of Resanding on Quantity 

 and Quality of Cranberries. 



Plots and Checks. 



Area 

 (Square 

 Rods). 



Resanded. 



Yields per 



Square Rod 



(Bushels). 



Percentage 

 of Berries 

 showing de- 

 cay at End 

 of Storage. 



V. . 



V (check 1), 



V (check 2), 



V (check 3), 



O, . 



O (check 1), 



O (check 2), 

 O (check 3), 



Not since November, 1909, 

 Spring of 1912, fall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 

 Spring of 1912, fall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 

 Spring of 1912, fall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 



Not since November, 1909, . 

 Fall of 1911, fall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 

 Fall of 1911, iall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 

 Fall of 1911, fall of 1914 and 



spring of 1917, 



1.59 

 2.33 

 2.56 

 2.22 

 1.39 

 2.11 

 1.72 

 2.03 



31.25 

 31.89 

 38.43 

 44.54 

 21.65 

 25.87 

 29.31 

 24.05 



Table 15. — Productiveness of Sanding Plots V and in 1916, 1917 and 



1918. 



1 Bui. No. 180, Mass. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1917, p. 219, Table 18. 



2 Bull. No. 168, Mass. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1916, p. 27, Table 15. 



