. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. sides being editor of THE FARM- ER he was secretary of the Mid- dlesex Agricultural Society, and a prominent agriculturalist of his home town, Concord, and was try- ing to raise cranberries himself, but in his garden. He had come to the Cape as principal speaker at Barnstable Fair. In that same year, Massachu- setts established by act of Legis- lature, a State Board of Agricul- ture and in his first report the following year Secretary Charles L. Flint devoted 18 pages to dis- cussion of cranberries. In a re- port in 1856, Mr. Flint
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. sides being editor of THE FARM- ER he was secretary of the Mid- dlesex Agricultural Society, and a prominent agriculturalist of his home town, Concord, and was try- ing to raise cranberries himself, but in his garden. He had come to the Cape as principal speaker at Barnstable Fair. In that same year, Massachu- setts established by act of Legis- lature, a State Board of Agricul- ture and in his first report the following year Secretary Charles L. Flint devoted 18 pages to dis- cussion of cranberries. In a re- port in 1856, Mr. Flint said he had visited more than 100 cranberry "plantations" in every part of the state, but he credited Cape Cod with growing the finest cranber- ries, although he did make the Cape share part of its honor with Cape Ann up in Essex County. This was because of a "particularly large, round, and black cranberry .... it might properly be called the 'Black Cranberry". He said his reports on cranberries had been quoted from "Maine to Geor- gia and had turned many to cran- berry ; Curtis and Hall on the Cape O. O. Holmes, in his New Jersey speech of 1883 (which was re- ferred to in an earlier chapter) said that Joseph H. Curtis, who had opened the business of Curtis & Company at Quincy Market in Boston in 1826 "and shortly after visited Cape Cod and bought the fruit of the early growers", as- sociated himself with Stacy Hall, who also had a stall in the market in 1853 for the buying of Cape Cod cranberries. The story is, these rival cranberry merchants had met on the train (then oper- ating as far as Sandwich) while each was on his way to the Cape bogs to buy fruit. Stacy Hall had been born at North Berwick, Maine, December 8, 1819, and as a boy worked, on his father's farm. While a youth he went to Boston, with only his carfare and a little more, obtained work on a farm in Roxbury owned by a Mr. Williams who operated a stall himself
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