. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. eontinuous'y interested in cran- berry growing since he graduated from college in 1939, is the grand- son of Joseph J. White, leader and a foremost organizer of the cran- berry industry of the past century, and the nephew of Miss Elizabeth C. White, of Whitesbog, whose fame in blueberry culture in par- ticular and in New Jersey cranber- ry growing is widespread. Mr. Darlington at 27 is, as he himself says, "not very far along in life yet," but his "story" so far in his own words is: "I was born February 2,
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. eontinuous'y interested in cran- berry growing since he graduated from college in 1939, is the grand- son of Joseph J. White, leader and a foremost organizer of the cran- berry industry of the past century, and the nephew of Miss Elizabeth C. White, of Whitesbog, whose fame in blueberry culture in par- ticular and in New Jersey cranber- ry growing is widespread. Mr. Darlington at 27 is, as he himself says, "not very far along in life yet," but his "story" so far in his own words is: "I was born February 2, 1917, in Philadelphia and lived with my parents in Lansdown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia unti' I graduated from' the William Penn Charter school in 1935. From that time on I became a true New Jerseyite, working at Whitesbog during the summer vacations and attending Rutgers University the rest of the year. "In the spring of '39 I graduated from Rutgers and spent that sum- mer and fall in Massachusetts to get a good start in this "serious" business of raising cranberries. Most of the time I was visiting bogs from one end of the state to the other with "Joe" Kelley. It's too bad I couldn't have been sev- eral places at once so I wouldn't have had to miss so many of the interesting things which were al- ways going on at the State Bog and elsewhere. I did manage to make many friends and get some realization of what there is to ^earn in the cranberry industry and how short one man's lifetime is for picking up that information. "Since my stay in Massachusetts I have been working for J. J. White, Inc., at Whitesbog. Last summer, however, I got that urge that sooner or later comes to ev- erybody interested in the cranberry industry, namely to have a bog of my own, with the result that I have two places to work now, instead of ; New Jersey has in the past few years suffered a regrettable de- cline in production of cranberries, due to severity of t
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