. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FRESH FROM THE FIELDS By C J. H. Mass Crop The prospect for May Drop the Massachusetts' To 260,000 cranberry crop, it is believed at the present writing from information received from reliable sources, is certainly not more than 275,000 barrels and possibly as low as 260,000 barrels. The New England crop reporting service, in a news release dated October 12, has re- duced its estimate from 370,000 barrels as of September 1 to 300,- 000 barrels. This certainly means a very small crop for Massachu- setts, which last year harvested th
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FRESH FROM THE FIELDS By C J. H. Mass Crop The prospect for May Drop the Massachusetts' To 260,000 cranberry crop, it is believed at the present writing from information received from reliable sources, is certainly not more than 275,000 barrels and possibly as low as 260,000 barrels. The New England crop reporting service, in a news release dated October 12, has re- duced its estimate from 370,000 barrels as of September 1 to 300,- 000 barrels. This certainly means a very small crop for Massachu- setts, which last year harvested the record crop of 565,000 barrels. The ten-year average, from 1927- 1936, has been for 389,000 barrels. Picking is now well over. Price Is As a consequence Advancing of the extreme shortage of ber- ries, the price has now advanced from the opening price of $ a box, or $ a barrel, to $ and $ a box, or $ and $ a barrel. At this price there is a good demand. Ex»ct rail shipments to date are still uncertain becapse of the confused state of affairs due to the tidai wave and hurricane which struck the Cape on Sept. 21. There has been no rail service south of Wareham since that time, so prob- ably a considerable quantity of berries has been trucked off Cane Cod proper, many of which would have normally gone by rail and record of which would have been kept. However, it is very prob- able that the number of barrels which have been sent to market is substantially that of last year at the corresponding date, which is something more than 400 cars. There is a tendency on the part of many growers to hold back ship- ment this fall in anticipation of still higher prices. No Great The hurricane Hurricane and tidal wave Losses on Cape which struck most severely in the cranberry section around Wareham and Buzzards Bay, did not do any material damage to the crop as a whole. This does not mean, however, that a few individual growers did not lose heavily. Some bogs were und
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