. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. pany, Waroliam and Plymouth; (' >t L Equipment Company, Acush- rict; Richmond's Automotive Serv- ice, Middleboro; Charles W. Harris Co., North Dighton; Staplin;;; Ma- chine Company, Rockaway, N. J.; Virilium Corporation, Medway; Hoptu Sales and Service, Fall River; Hayden Separator Company, Wareham: Davis Tractor Company, llnston; Eastern ' Ex- rliange, Springfield. Members of the general commit- tee were Dr. Frederick B. Chand- ler, of the Experiment Station, ohairman; being assisted by Ferris C. Waite of NCA, Ralph Tha
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. pany, Waroliam and Plymouth; (' >t L Equipment Company, Acush- rict; Richmond's Automotive Serv- ice, Middleboro; Charles W. Harris Co., North Dighton; Staplin;;; Ma- chine Company, Rockaway, N. J.; Virilium Corporation, Medway; Hoptu Sales and Service, Fall River; Hayden Separator Company, Wareham: Davis Tractor Company, llnston; Eastern ' Ex- rliange, Springfield. Members of the general commit- tee were Dr. Frederick B. Chand- ler, of the Experiment Station, ohairman; being assisted by Ferris C. Waite of NCA, Ralph Thacher, ( lester Robbins, Mr. Beattie and Dr. Chester E. C.'oss, director of the Mass. Station. The entertainment committee in- cluded Robert C. Hammond and Raymond Morse. The supper was prepared and served by members of the WSCB of the Warehan. Metho- dist Church. Every Day is "Cranberry Day" In connection with the meeting Walter E. Piper of the Massachu- setts Department of Agi'iculture ssued a paper, excerps from which follow. He said this, and every day is "Canrberry ; "Truly," he said, Wareham can be called the 'heart' of the 'Cranberry Cape.' " He con- tinued, "Cranberries go deep into root and fibre of the Cape. Few agricultural crops can equal and none can exceed cranberries in their long attachment to a particu- lar area. These led berries have been growing on the 'Cranberry Cape' since man knows not when. They go back to pre-pilgrim, pre- Norsenien days and pre-anything else of which man can conceive in history, tradition or ; He referred to the world's first cranberry bog made by Henry Hall of Dennis around 1816. "It is pleasant to think of the observations Henry Hall may have made" he said. "To imagine his thoughts and speculations, probably very modest ones, as he considei'ed the potentialities in cranberry ; He noted that only last sumer while he was walking across the land at Provin
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