. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. A. T. MORRISON'S BOG One of the Most Active Men In the West Coast Cranberry ndustry Is A. T. Morrison M. KRANICK Mr. Morrison received his first horticultural experience engaging with his father in the growing of citrus nursery stock. Although, spending most of his life in the West, Mr. Morrison was born in Alabama in 1866. His parents moved to Missouri in 1867, and to Rogue River valley in Oregon in 1877, and after nine years there the family went to San Diego. It was in 1906 that Mr. Morrison himself came back to Oregon, settling
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. A. T. MORRISON'S BOG One of the Most Active Men In the West Coast Cranberry ndustry Is A. T. Morrison M. KRANICK Mr. Morrison received his first horticultural experience engaging with his father in the growing of citrus nursery stock. Although, spending most of his life in the West, Mr. Morrison was born in Alabama in 1866. His parents moved to Missouri in 1867, and to Rogue River valley in Oregon in 1877, and after nine years there the family went to San Diego. It was in 1906 that Mr. Morrison himself came back to Oregon, settling- in Coquille, the county seat of Coos County. There he en- gaged in business and took an ac- tive interest in civic affairs. He organized the first Good Roads As- sociation in Southwest Oregon, and was the first president of the asso- ciation. This was in 1912. He served the city of Coquille as Mayoi for two terms and was a member of the school board there for 11 years. Re- tiring from business in 1922, he was probation officer for Coos County for 11 years. In 1926 he bought 80 acrej of land about three miles east of the town of Bandon, in one of the lead- By ETHEL One of the most active men in the West Coast cranberry industry is A. T. Moi-rison, who is and has been president of the Coos County Cranberry Cooperative since it was organized eight years ago in 1931. The Coos cooperative is made up of about 30 growers in and around Bandon, Oregon. Since the Cooperative was incor- porated in 1933 Mr. Morrison has done much toward organizing the marketing of the crop in his sec- tion and has also taken interest in the developing of blueberries and raspberries. Mr. Morrison first became a cranberry grower in 1927 when in April, a three acre bog was planted to McFarlin vines. Previous to that he had had experience in fruit growing. In 1896 he was engaged as superintendent of a 500 acre farm that is now all in the city of San Diego, California. On this farm there were 70 acres of lemo
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