. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. Total Bog 1 dot=25 acres Full Flowage Protectiou 1 dot=25 acres Cranberries.^ Massachusetts produces about 60 per cent of the annual cranberry crop of the United States. Cranberries are grown on the bog or muck lands of Barnstable and Plymouth Counties. A few bogs are also to be found in Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Nantucket. The accompany- ing chart (Figure 15) shows the distribution of cranberry bogs by towns. Carver and Wareham, Rochester and Plj-mouth have the most bogs per unit of
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. Total Bog 1 dot=25 acres Full Flowage Protectiou 1 dot=25 acres Cranberries.^ Massachusetts produces about 60 per cent of the annual cranberry crop of the United States. Cranberries are grown on the bog or muck lands of Barnstable and Plymouth Counties. A few bogs are also to be found in Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Nantucket. The accompany- ing chart (Figure 15) shows the distribution of cranberry bogs by towns. Carver and Wareham, Rochester and Plj-mouth have the most bogs per unit of land area. Cranberrj' bogs range in size from one acre to 258 acres. The average size is acres and over 85 per cent of all holdings are less than 10 acres in size. However, out of 2149 holdings. 111 of 2,' acres or more contain almost half of the total bog acreage ^ Data on cranl)erries obtainert from ''Cranberry Acreage and Production in Massa- ; New England Crop Reporting Service, Boston, Massachusetts; -July, 19' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974
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