. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Tomlinson (Continued from Page 11) showed that there were 1313 grow- ers of cranberries, owning and op- erating 4,331 acres of bogs, or acres per grower. Ten years lat- er, the number of growers was reduced to 655, operating on'y 3,500 acres of bogs, or an average of acres per grower. Thus, in the short space of ten years, 658 or just 50% of the growers went out of business. Another trend which is quite noticeable is that very few young people seem to have elected cranberry growing as a vocation, and if this continues to be
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Tomlinson (Continued from Page 11) showed that there were 1313 grow- ers of cranberries, owning and op- erating 4,331 acres of bogs, or acres per grower. Ten years lat- er, the number of growers was reduced to 655, operating on'y 3,500 acres of bogs, or an average of acres per grower. Thus, in the short space of ten years, 658 or just 50% of the growers went out of business. Another trend which is quite noticeable is that very few young people seem to have elected cranberry growing as a vocation, and if this continues to be the case our present bogs will continue to be sold for merg- ing with larger operating units or they will go out of production al- together. Of the two factors named, I consider the lack of in- terest by young peop'e by far the more serious. No industry can re- main static—it must either forge ahead and develop prosperously, or it must decline. Some of you may be wondering if I have an explanation as to why more young people are not becom- ing cranberry growers. Well, I do have an opinion on the matter, and here it is. I have observed no strong sense of civic pride throughout the county in regard to the cranberry industry. There- fore, the young people are not ex- posed to the idea of regarding cranberry growing as a desirable vocation. Sometimes I fear they are too interested primarily in looking for jobs requiring less manual effort, and too, perhaps there are still those who are fool- ish enough to believe that if a boy is bright and gets along well with his school work, farming or any branch of it is not for him. Re- gardless of what opinion one may have in regard to scho'astic abil- ity, I maintain that to be success- ful, the modern farmer, and this includes cranberry growers, needs as much education and as much training as any vocation that can be mentioned, and so, folks, in conclusion, I would like to say that the future of our Cape Cod cranberry industry is entirel
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