. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Moderator Brett, (standing) addresses audience while panel Vifaits, members being, left to right; Dr. Cross, Maurice Makepeace, Association President Frank Crandon, partly obscured by speaker Dr. Cole, Robert Hammond, Ralph Thacher and Kenneth Garside. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Cape Growers Hear Forecast Another 1,000,000 Bbl. Crop Likely About 200 Hear Dr. Cross So Predict at Spring Meeting Of Growers Association—• Alden C. Brett Moderates Panel on Berry Marketing And Handling. Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association had perfect weather
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Moderator Brett, (standing) addresses audience while panel Vifaits, members being, left to right; Dr. Cross, Maurice Makepeace, Association President Frank Crandon, partly obscured by speaker Dr. Cole, Robert Hammond, Ralph Thacher and Kenneth Garside. (CRANBERRIES Photo) Cape Growers Hear Forecast Another 1,000,000 Bbl. Crop Likely About 200 Hear Dr. Cross So Predict at Spring Meeting Of Growers Association—• Alden C. Brett Moderates Panel on Berry Marketing And Handling. Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association had perfect weather for the annual spring meeting, April 22, and nearly 200 attended this all-day ^affair at Memorial Town Hall, Wareham. A feature turned out to be a forecast (printed in full elsewhere) by Dr. C. E. Cross, director Massachusetts Ex- periment Station that again a mil- lion-barrel crop was a likely pros- pect. In a question period. Cross stuck to his guns, when "Gibby" Beaton, of the J. J. Beaton Com- pany, an experienced grower, and secretary of the association, re- ferred to the old cranberry rule of thumb that big crops do not us- ually succeed each other. The usual intriguing exhibition of craberry equipment and sup- plies, shown outside the town hall and in the basement drew much interest. This opened at 9 a. m. At noon a buffet lunch was served by the Mom's and Dad Club, fol- lowed by a brief business meeting. Main program of the day was a panel discussion on "Basic Prin- ciples in the Handling and Market- ing of the Cranberry ; This was moderated by Alden C. Brett, a trustee of the University of Mas- sachusetts, a business executive and a grower. Frank A. Crandon, Acushnet, elected president last August, conducting the meeting. Preceding the panel session, Walter E. Piper, Mass. Dept. of Agriculture, told growers they were meeting in a "time of ; "Cranberry growers come to- gether today at a time when dras- tic realignment
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