. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 38. Cannery at Onset, Mass., one of three operated by Cranberry Canners, Inc. Cranberry Crowing In Massachusetts By HENRY J. FRANKLIN Reseai-ch Professor in charge of the Cranberry Station, East Wareham ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture for the photographs reproduced in Figures 5 and 6. also for Fitrure Ifi: to the American Cranberry Exchange for the photographs used in Figures 2. 3. 7. 9C, 30, 31. 34. as and 37: to Cranberry Canners. for the photographs
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fig. 38. Cannery at Onset, Mass., one of three operated by Cranberry Canners, Inc. Cranberry Crowing In Massachusetts By HENRY J. FRANKLIN Reseai-ch Professor in charge of the Cranberry Station, East Wareham ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture for the photographs reproduced in Figures 5 and 6. also for Fitrure Ifi: to the American Cranberry Exchange for the photographs used in Figures 2. 3. 7. 9C, 30, 31. 34. as and 37: to Cranberry Canners. for the photographs used in Figures 1 and 40 : and to the New Jersey Agricul- tural Evperiment Station for permission to use Figure 22. (Continued from last month) Marketing The fall opening price of cran- berries ranges from $ to $ a barrel according to conditions. The price sometimes has risen to over $30 a barrel in the winter. Over half the Cape crop is sold thi'ough a co-operative, the New England Cranberry Sales Com- pany with office at Middleboro, Mass. Other companies in Wiscon- sin and New Jersey, affiliated with the New England company in the American Cranbei'ry Exchange, with office at 90 West Broadway, New York City, handle most of the berries from those states. This organization is well managed and helps the trade greatly by ex- tensive advertising and by watch- ing the cranberry markets through- out the United States and Canada and distributing the berries as they are needed, so preventing gluts. It has central packing houses and experienced inspectors, and the berries it handles are tested for keeping quality in incu- bators and packed uniformly under different brands accoi'ding to their varieties and qualities. It estab- lishes opening prices, basing them on careful studies of conditions, and pools most of its fruit. It has fostered research which showed that cranberries have important healthful properties, and distrib- utes selected cranberry recipes g'i'atis. There are
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