. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass, Man, Wm. B. Stearns, Jr., Says He Is, And Is ''Deep In The Cranberry Business'' Interested in about 156 acres of Bog — Gets much Better than Massachusetts Average Production — Believes in Ade- quate Fertilizing, Use of Sprinklers and Proper Drainage. Is graduate of G. I. Cranberry School. by CLARENCE J. HALL much about icranberries from his bog The problem of William B. Steams, Jr., a younger full-time Massachu- setts grower was that Of bringing ba:ck old bogs without rebuilding. Re- building is expensiijve. That he is succee
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Mass, Man, Wm. B. Stearns, Jr., Says He Is, And Is ''Deep In The Cranberry Business'' Interested in about 156 acres of Bog — Gets much Better than Massachusetts Average Production — Believes in Ade- quate Fertilizing, Use of Sprinklers and Proper Drainage. Is graduate of G. I. Cranberry School. by CLARENCE J. HALL much about icranberries from his bog The problem of William B. Steams, Jr., a younger full-time Massachu- setts grower was that Of bringing ba:ck old bogs without rebuilding. Re- building is expensiijve. That he is succeeding is pnoven by his produc- tion record of the past few years which is well above the Massachu- setts average of about 47 barrels per acre. Steams owns himself or with others, and manages no less than six bogs which are scattered over considerable territory in his home town lof Ply- mouth and Carver. "It is my philo- sophy that you have got to get bet- ter iproduction per acre to survive in these years of relatively lower cran- Iberry prices," he says. "If you can't do this yiou can't make a go of cran- iberry igrowing. He Ibelieves strongly in several fac- tors which to him are fundamentals. These are adequate fertilizing, the ijse of sprinMers and proper drain- ing. To this could be added the steady use of Western Pickers, which he is convinced by experience do a good pruning job and also in the use of as much electrical equipment for pump- ing and other uses as is possible. 'He has been a cranberry grower (for the past 11 years, but had no fam- ily background of cranberry growing or early experience. At the time he bought his first bog prices were high- er up to $ a barrel, and he says he was fascinated by the business. Attended G. I. Cranberry School His early entry into cranberry growing was from working for George Briggs of Plymouth and under his foreman, Frank Griswold, from whom lie says he learned the principle of good cranberry growing. He al
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