. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. BUYING PUBLIC SETS COMMODITY PRICES, MASS. GROWERS TOLD Supply Should Not Exceed Demand, Is Straight Talk From Food Experts at Meeting Sponsored by NCA General concensus of two five-man panel meetings sponsored by National Cranberry Association for Massachusetts growers April ISth, discussing marketing, appeared to be; "advertise cranberries more push cranbeiTies to the fullest extent, and in some way, limit the berries going into the market" to relieve the present depressed condi- tion. These sessions were at Hyannis at
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. BUYING PUBLIC SETS COMMODITY PRICES, MASS. GROWERS TOLD Supply Should Not Exceed Demand, Is Straight Talk From Food Experts at Meeting Sponsored by NCA General concensus of two five-man panel meetings sponsored by National Cranberry Association for Massachusetts growers April ISth, discussing marketing, appeared to be; "advertise cranberries more push cranbeiTies to the fullest extent, and in some way, limit the berries going into the market" to relieve the present depressed condi- tion. These sessions were at Hyannis at a noon luncheon and at Ware- ham Memorial town hall in the evening (dinner) with more than 300 present. A panel of three food experts pulled no punches in telling that food distributors were in business to make money and had found it diffi- cult to do so in selling cranberry products, which were higher priced than the most imiiortant competitive product—apple sauce—and that Ocean Spray was higher-priced than some "independent" brands. Panel consisted of Ernest H. together with the government Lang, president of the Kennedy Menke Company, New York, one of the largest food brokerage firm's in the country; Raymond Laurans, president of Roger Wil- liams Grocers, Providence, and member of Independent Grocers Association and Harold Slamp, head buyer and merchandiser of the American Stores of Philadel- phia fourth largest chain grocers in the country, plus Larry E. Proesch, who cordinates sales for NCA and Gordon Mann, NCA sales manager. Mr. Lang served as moderator. While none of the panelists di- rectly advocated the Federal Mar- keting Order for cranberries, at least two of the men, indirectly pointed out that it might be just the thing the industry needed at the moment to relieve it of the current severe trouble. Mr. Slamp, in answer to one of about a dozen prepared questions, started the discussion about mar- keting agreement, or an order, as is now being sought in W
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