. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Double Trouble (Continued from last month) Associated with Mr. Crabbe are his two sons, Edward L. and Dan- iel McEwan, who in their own right are among the leaders in Jer- sey cranberry growing. Edward L. Crabbe is a graduate of Berk- shire School, Sheffield, Massachu- setts, and of Princeton University. Daniel is also a graduaate of Berk- shire and studied one year at Massachusetts Agricultural college as a special student, and, also as a special student he spent one year at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Double Trouble (Continued from last month) Associated with Mr. Crabbe are his two sons, Edward L. and Dan- iel McEwan, who in their own right are among the leaders in Jer- sey cranberry growing. Edward L. Crabbe is a graduate of Berk- shire School, Sheffield, Massachu- setts, and of Princeton University. Daniel is also a graduaate of Berk- shire and studied one year at Massachusetts Agricultural college as a special student, and, also as a special student he spent one year at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. On November 5, 1938, a griev- ous loss was suffered in the acci- dental death of his son, Birkbeck C. Crabbe, while he was on a pheas- ant hunting trip in Connecticut. B. C. Crabbe, at the time of his death at the age of 32 had become one of the foremost of the younger cranberry and blueberry growers of Jersey. He was then manager of the Magnolia Farm Blueberry Plantation at Magnolia, North Carolina. The grave of Birkbeck Crabbe is, as he wished, in an en- closure in the woods at Double Trouble. The Double Trouble Company has upon its stationery, "Growers of Cranberries and Blueberries" (Eatmor Cranberries and Tru-blu- Berries) and the growing of blue- berries is of considerable import- ance, as the Crabbes are among the biggest and most progressive in New Jersey, where blueberry culture originated and has become a business of some magnitude. The cultivation of blueberries as a summer cash crop is of far more importance to the Jersey cranberry Twelve DANIEL McEWAN CRABBE Lieutenant (j. g.) U. S. Navy men than in Massachusetts or Wisconsin. i The Double Trouble Com- \ pany has big plantings at Magnolia, North Carolina, and in Jersey at Toms River and New Lisbon. The past year the blueberry production of the Double Trouble Com- pany was 180,000 pints of the beautiful big blues. To the Crabbes of Toms River, as to everybody else, the war has brought the inevitable change
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