. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. bird population to help with the in- sect problem. He used to fertilizes with hand equipment, using a pelletized ferti- lizer, but now has a Hayden fertilizer spreader. His insect work, formerely done by bog sprayers is now by airplane, using the Wiggins heli- copter service. He has a mowing machine and his shores are well cleaned bacli for good ventilation and to keep weeds from spreading on the bog. He owns about ten acres and he keeps all the upland cleared away. For weeds he has used Stoddars Solvent and this past season tried
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. bird population to help with the in- sect problem. He used to fertilizes with hand equipment, using a pelletized ferti- lizer, but now has a Hayden fertilizer spreader. His insect work, formerely done by bog sprayers is now by airplane, using the Wiggins heli- copter service. He has a mowing machine and his shores are well cleaned bacli for good ventilation and to keep weeds from spreading on the bog. He owns about ten acres and he keeps all the upland cleared away. For weeds he has used Stoddars Solvent and this past season tried the weedicide Simazine. From all this it is apparent he does about everything a grower can do to get a good crop average every year. BracKett was uorn in a hospital in Hyannis, while his parents lived in Cotuit. He has been a life long resi- dent of Cotuit with the exception of about ten years away. Then he worked for the Pratt & Whitney Company at Hartford, Conn., in- cluding the war years in making experimental tests on airplane motors. He was graduated from Barnstable High School, in 1935, Cotuit bemg a village of the town of Barnstable. He also went to the Diesel Engi- neering School at Allston, near Bos- ton for two years and received a diploma. He is married to the former Alma Westberg, who was born in Switzer- land and is now manager of a school cafeteria at Cotuit. He has two daughters, Joyce, who is studying mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, and Cheryl, 17, who is a student at Barnstable High School. Tried Lingonberries in Europe In the summer of 1981 the whole family went to Sweden for the sum- mer. While there they saw and ate the native Lingonberry, which is the specie of cranberry, smaller in size and more bitter than the American cranberry and very much used in the northern countries of Europe. The Bracketts say the sauce is more bitter than that made from the American cranberry but good. Incidentally, Mrs. Brackett some- times finds
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