. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. wood, who previously had bought the so-called "Center Mill" from the T. T. Vaughan interests. This later mill had previously been on the Weweantic River at the "Old Forge Dam," a short distance northeast, in back of the present Holmes mill, which is adjacent to Carver Town Hall. Two mills had anciently been operated there, one on each side of the river and both by water power. Today the business of Jesse A. Holmes & Son is entirely operated by electricity, but this is power which the firm provides for itself
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. wood, who previously had bought the so-called "Center Mill" from the T. T. Vaughan interests. This later mill had previously been on the Weweantic River at the "Old Forge Dam," a short distance northeast, in back of the present Holmes mill, which is adjacent to Carver Town Hall. Two mills had anciently been operated there, one on each side of the river and both by water power. Today the business of Jesse A. Holmes & Son is entirely operated by electricity, but this is power which the firm provides for itself, from three Caterpillar diesel en- gines. The box mill is 140 ft. long, 60 ft. wide, and has modern box- making equipment. This mill is operated directly by its own diesel electric plant. Two saw mills are operated by direct belt drive from two other Caterpillar diesels. The older mill is the short log saw-mill, where most of the lumber for cranberry boxes is sawed. The new one is for long lumber entirely. This lumber is being used for both boxes and building purposes. The Holmes firm, in view of the trend toward use of fewer boxes because of the cellophane package, as a hedge to- ward the future, is even now ex- panding into a complete line of building lumber supplies and also new home construction, with plans ready to put up five homes of native pine in Middleboro for vet- eran preference under Veterans' Housing Administration. The firm is also making containers for other fruits, including apple boxes, but its "love" has been cranberry boxes, and it wants to continue faithful, unless the cellophane trend steps in too strongly. The entire plant has a capacity of about 300,000 boxes annually, both picking and shipping. At full operations about 50 are employed, these woi'kers consisting of about 30 at the mills and 20, including truckers, in the woods. This spring there was on hand a supply of near- ly 1,000,000 board feet, logs and lumber, all native white pine. Whit
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