. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 'Ernest takes momentary ease in one of the chairs by bog side. (Cranberries Photo) thirds Howes and one-third Early Blacks. The sand is not of the finest bog quality, in general, but iby opening new pits, there has so far been an adequate supply of reasonably good sand. The Middleboro Bog The Middleboro bog on the con- trary, has a good water supply and can be frost flowed. The original layout here was built by one Nathaniel Shurtleff and con- sisted of eight acres. It was pur- chased by Mr. Sampson and the late Robert C. Swift in
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 'Ernest takes momentary ease in one of the chairs by bog side. (Cranberries Photo) thirds Howes and one-third Early Blacks. The sand is not of the finest bog quality, in general, but iby opening new pits, there has so far been an adequate supply of reasonably good sand. The Middleboro Bog The Middleboro bog on the con- trary, has a good water supply and can be frost flowed. The original layout here was built by one Nathaniel Shurtleff and con- sisted of eight acres. It was pur- chased by Mr. Sampson and the late Robert C. Swift in 1923 and was then known as the Sampson & Swift bog. With subsequent pur- chases this Middleboro property was expanded to a 200 acre tract with 25 acres of bearing bog and some 25 to 50 acres suitable for bog development. It was acquired in the entirety by the Sampson interests about 1934 in an exchange of other bog property owned jointly with Mr. Swift. This bog like that at Beaver Dam is approximately two- thirds Howes the remainder Early Blacks except for about an acre of Black Veils. Flowage is by pump with gravity drainage into Eight a 12 acre resevoir with a 10 ft. head of water. E. Ernest Goddard H. Ernest Goddard was born in Plymouth, Mass. on May 27, 1927, attended Plymouth High School, leaving for the armed forces he served in the infantry, stationed at Fort Wheeler, Macon, Georgia. Brought up in a cranberry atmos- phere it was almost inevitable that he became a cranberry grower— of the third generation. "All I know is cranberries", he says. "I wanted to be a cranberry ; "He has been around bogs since he can remember," says Harrison. "He began to work for me as a little shaver. At one time he kept ?n account book, and in it are such notations as 'Daddy owes me 25 cents.' and 'Worked for Daddy to- day, 25 cents Paid'. "That was what I paid him 25 cents a day—when he was ; Ernest has a sister Jeanette (Mrs
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