. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. convictions as to what is right and what is wrong for the indus- try. , He is certain the industiy has , not begun to realize its limits and . that two or three times the quan- tity of cranberries now available can be grown and .successfully marketed—barring,, perhaps, an; inevitable "bad" rnarket year now and then. The hew phase of fruit shipment, that by air, inter- ests him in its possible adaptation to cranberries. He belie vej too much of the freshness of top qual- ity fruit is often lost to distant markets through s
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. convictions as to what is right and what is wrong for the indus- try. , He is certain the industiy has , not begun to realize its limits and . that two or three times the quan- tity of cranberries now available can be grown and .successfully marketed—barring,, perhaps, an; inevitable "bad" rnarket year now and then. The hew phase of fruit shipment, that by air, inter- ests him in its possible adaptation to cranberries. He belie vej too much of the freshness of top qual- ity fruit is often lost to distant markets through slow ' He would like to see this ne* mode! of produce transportation given; consideration when such transpor- tation—now being tried out on d few fruits and vegetables—is gen- erally available. He would like to see this gone into and figures pre- pared showing whether it would be practical or not from the cost standpoint, with tests whether such strictly fresh cranberries, maybe picked on the Cape one day and on the market in Caiifornia the next, would induce the consum- er to pay a premium price. Like almost every other grower, he is interested in the post-war pro- cessing of cranberries and . also deeply interested in what may de- velop for cranberries through quick freeze. From the cultural end of cran- berry growing, he is interested in the possibilities of sprinkler sys- tems for Massachusetts bogs. He expects he may give sprinklers a .trial himself on certain areas which he has already mentally . selected. He questions the value of .sprinklers indiscriminately used on whole big acreages, but be- . lieves they have major pjssibil- ities for the growers on certain bogs. Because of his experiences with varieties he would be definitely inclined to use Early B'aeks for resetting or building new bogs, at least "on the Cape", and by the Cape he would include the Ware- ham-Carver area. He is also in- terested in a patient way in a ber- ry which his fathe
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