. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Crowing ''Creeps" Across Line To New Hampshire Frank C. Hayes of Pelham Is To Set Natural Bog With Early Blacks — His Son Also Building Bog. By CLARE^XE J. HALL Cranberry vines have a foncness to creep and crawl along—that is, to expand. So does the cranberry industry. The industry is just about to creep over the state line from Massachusetts into New Hamp- shire. Work was started there this fall on a bog; in fact work was be- gun on two, but the properties be- longe to affiliated owners. Frank C. Hayes, who is an ov
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberry Crowing ''Creeps" Across Line To New Hampshire Frank C. Hayes of Pelham Is To Set Natural Bog With Early Blacks — His Son Also Building Bog. By CLARE^XE J. HALL Cranberry vines have a foncness to creep and crawl along—that is, to expand. So does the cranberry industry. The industry is just about to creep over the state line from Massachusetts into New Hamp- shire. Work was started there this fall on a bog; in fact work was be- gun on two, but the properties be- longe to affiliated owners. Frank C. Hayes, who is an over- seer in a mill at Lawrence, Mass., makes his home at Pelham, New Hampshire, which is just over the line from the Bay State. For years on and off he has harvested wild cranberries from some swamp land near his home. These wild berries were nice berries and he found a ready market for the ten or fifteen barrels he could get off, in the grocery stores of Lawrence. Most years, however, the frosts of the Granite State worked faster than he could and got a whole lot more of the berries than he did. The vines grow plentifully on a meadow of about 14 acres. Mr. Hayes decided to put this meadow of little value into real cranberry production. Of course he had heard about the cranberry bogs of Cape Cod and he went to the Cape. He received some expert advice, and his New Hampshire prospect has been looked over and said to be favorable. Of course there will be the usual difficulties and troubles of growing cranberries, but there seems no reason why they can't be grown in the farming community of Pelham, New Hampshire. Mr. Hayes, last fall, set to work hiring a bull dozer and gasoline shovel. The soil on the meadow is marl, overlaid with a little mud. The meadow ajoins Beaver Brook, a lively, pretty stream which runs for about forty miles from its source, Beaver Lake, near Derry,. FRANK C. HAYES — The level acres of his new New Hampshire Bog are shown behind him N. H., until it emp
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