. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRIES PHOTO MRS. MABELLE KELLEY eph E. Kelley, returned to Ware- ham, bringing his family back with him, and in 1913 Joe was given work as foreman at the station, being first under Carl B. Urann, who was then chief bog chairman. Joe's father was later bog foreman at the Station, also. Assisted Dr. Franklin with State Bog Assistant Kelley has helped Di. Frankhn operate the 12 acres of bog at the station, and has done his stint of watching and flooding the State Bog on frosty nights. This has been one angle of his work, whi e t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRIES PHOTO MRS. MABELLE KELLEY eph E. Kelley, returned to Ware- ham, bringing his family back with him, and in 1913 Joe was given work as foreman at the station, being first under Carl B. Urann, who was then chief bog chairman. Joe's father was later bog foreman at the Station, also. Assisted Dr. Franklin with State Bog Assistant Kelley has helped Di. Frankhn operate the 12 acres of bog at the station, and has done his stint of watching and flooding the State Bog on frosty nights. This has been one angle of his work, whi e the main feature, at least for some years now, has been in the nature of extension service on "technical" matters to the grow- ers. "I do whatever I can to save the time of Dr. Franklin", he says. "When growers call up or come to the station for assistance and ad- vice and I can give it, I go instead of Dr. Franklin. I fill in and help out everywhere I ; And over the period of the years many grow- ers have come to find Kelley's as- sistance very valuable, indeed. "When do you find time to take care of your own bogs?" was a very logical question to ask of Joe. And his answer is: "I don't. Not the way I would like ; He says he simp'y cannot spare the time to give his own bogs the attention they should be given. Cranberry Grower in Own Right Yet Joe owns about ten acres of cranberry bog, and somehow, de- spite lack of time, he manages to produce crops which average about 50 barrels to the acre. Which shows that in spite of his handicap of lack of time, Joe in his own right as a cranberry grower rates among the better Massachusetts producers. On one two-acre piece he has averaged 100 barrels per acre since it came into maturity, Joe wasn't able to become a bog owner until about a dozen years ago. He says he first thought it his duty to reserve his money to- ward sending his daughter to col- lege if she wanted to go. She did, a
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