. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "My brother-in-law, Abijah Lu- cas, of Carver, had the most beau- tiful cranberry crops in 1841 and '42, but the June frosts of '43 and 44 killed the buds and blooms so that where in the previous years he had 200 bushels, he had not more than 2. Mr. Lucas has his cranberries in a rather dry bog meadow, and on low tillage land. Sand and water (the more mud- dy and dirty the better) is his best dressing. The size and qual- ity of the cultivated fruit much exceeds the wild. "I have been much acquainted with them (cranberries
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. "My brother-in-law, Abijah Lu- cas, of Carver, had the most beau- tiful cranberry crops in 1841 and '42, but the June frosts of '43 and 44 killed the buds and blooms so that where in the previous years he had 200 bushels, he had not more than 2. Mr. Lucas has his cranberries in a rather dry bog meadow, and on low tillage land. Sand and water (the more mud- dy and dirty the better) is his best dressing. The size and qual- ity of the cultivated fruit much exceeds the wild. "I have been much acquainted with them (cranberries) ever since my boyish days. We have mowed close and burnt to kill them out of our meadows and low lands". From considering cranberry vines as a nuisance and something to be destroyed Mr. Shurtleff has changed his opinion, it is evident, and he, at least, credits Mr. Lucas, and possi- bly others, perhaps, in the neighbor- hood, with cultivation. Town records show Mr. Lucas was born July 19, 1790, the son of Captain Abijah Lucas, one of Car- ver's prominent earlier citizens. He died May 2, 1849, so he did not have many years left in which to cultivate, if indeed, he actually cultivated in any true sense of the word. Growers of "the Old Regime" The late Henry S. Griffith, in his invaluable "History of Carver, Massachusetts", 1913, records that cranberries were earliest regarded as common property, as indeed they were, but he continued, "as their place in commerce was established, marsh owners looked more careful- ly after their property and glean- ing gradually disappeared. Flood- ing for winter protection and the annual mowing of grass constituted the only encouragement of the old school of ; He then added in a footnote that Banquets — Clam Bakes — Parties ANNOUNCING HOLMES & YOUNG CATERING SERVICE Carver, Mass. CRANBERRIES With Every Meal George E. Young Norman V. Holmes Tel. Midd. 5S7-R Tel. Carver 10-4 " D. Finn
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