. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ter room, pickle room, lime room d finally salt roomâlow, square oden boxes open to the sky if the ather was pleasant, the sun ning the brine into salt, hooded th movable covers if the day was udy or rainy. They, with the idery windmills to pump up the ne through troughs, were an !scapable part of the landscape len cranberry growing was be- ming on Cape Cod. And as the t industry declined and the cran- rry industry grew, their loca- ns were replaced by cranberry les. It was due chiefly to the 'entiveness of a kinsman of El- ah (Joh
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ter room, pickle room, lime room d finally salt roomâlow, square oden boxes open to the sky if the ather was pleasant, the sun ning the brine into salt, hooded th movable covers if the day was udy or rainy. They, with the idery windmills to pump up the ne through troughs, were an !scapable part of the landscape len cranberry growing was be- ming on Cape Cod. And as the t industry declined and the cran- rry industry grew, their loca- ns were replaced by cranberry les. It was due chiefly to the 'entiveness of a kinsman of El- ah (John Sears) who in 1799 tained a patent for the process making salt by solar evapor- on), that this industry flour- led. Henry Hall, Elkanah Sears d many another early Cape cran- rry grower was likewise a mak- of salt from the sea. Many a jht their slumbers, after work- ; at cranberry growing during i day, may have been disturbed len they had to close the covers ainst a sudden rain. "The best soil lies on the Bay, and near Quivet and Suet !cks", wrote Dr. Freeman, "and th few other exceptions the soil light and sandy". The bay side Dennis had few large trees, or ;es of any kind, except "a little lite oak, some red and black oaks, t principally pitch pines. Thor- u fifty years later called Dennis rren and bleak. "Sufficient but- p is made, more onions are own than may be consumed. . ere are several small orchards lich do not do well. .. there are ims and plenty of eels. Bilious d nervous disorders are the most mmon ; Attire of the Pioneers No locomotive whistle was to »il over the marshes or echo from e sand dunes for nearly half a ntury. Mail came infrequently â packet or stage. With the be- nning of the century stages were St beginning to roll their tedious jy and the little packets were St beginning to sail with some gree of regularity from the Cape Uages. If one of these men of ennis of that day had gone up to Dston, dressed for
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